Faith Ringgold
Teacher Resource File

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[Biography] [Lesson Plans] [Ringgold's Art] [Bibliography] [Criticism]

Biography

Faith Ringgold
Her personal home page. Biography; a new story to read;
images; author visits and reproduction rights
Faith Ringgold
Authors Online Biography from Scholastic; includes
interview, biography & booklist
Faith Ringgold
From Random House

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Lesson Plans

Dinner at Aunt Connie's Student Projects
Grades K, 1, 2; Room 100; Buckman Elementary
My Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Student Projects
Dr. King Timeline; from Room 100; Buckman Elementary
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad
Lesson plan for her children's book; Grades K-3' From Information
Literacy Projects
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad
Grades 4-5; From Making Multicultural Connections Through Trade Books
Dinner at Aunt Connie's House
From Making Multicultural Connections
Tar Beach
Activity from Reading Rainbow
Faith Ringgold and Tar Beach
Grade level 3; lesson plan on the artist and her children's book
Tar Beach Lesson Plan #2
Grade 2; From Making Multicultural Connections.
Tar Beach Lesson Plan #1
Grade 2; From Making Multicultural Connections
Third Grade Visual Arts. Tar Beach
The Invisible Princess
Teaching ideas from Random House
Art Smart! A Third Grade Unit on the Visual Arts
Uses Ringgold's Tar Beach

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Ringgold's Art

Faith Ringgold : An American Woman Artist
Discussion of her art. By Suzanne Anela Procell. Towson State
Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts
Biography; analysis of her work
Contemporary Quilting : A Look at Artist Faith Ringgold
From Quilt Web Page by B. C. Nelson
A Gallery of Faith Ringgold's Art
From Lisa Boyd's page; University of Georgia

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Bibliography

Faith Ringgold Bibliography
Her children's books and videos

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Criticism

Book Review. The Invisible Princess
By Lela Olszewski from SF Site
Book Review. The Invisible Princess
By Angie Reagan, U. of Florida

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