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OCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> African American Journey From Africa to America Ancestry Slave Trade ... Black History Month Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806) Benjamin Banneker was probably the best-known black person in early United States history. He was an astronomer, farmer, mathematician, and surveyor. Banneker was born near Baltimore. His grandmother, an Englishwoman, taught him to read and write. For several winters, he attended a small school open to blacks and whites. There he developed a keen interest in mathematics and science. Later, while farming, Banneker pursued his mathematical studies and taught himself astronomy. In 1753, he completed a clock built entirely of wood, each gear carved by hand. His only models were a pocket watch and a picture of a clock. The clock kept almost perfect time for over 50 years. From 1791 to 1796, Banneker made all the astronomical and tide calculations and weather predictions for a yearly almanac. Banneker sent Jefferson a copy of his first almanac. With it he sent a letter calling for the abolition of slavery and a liberal attitude toward blacks. Banneker's skills impressed Jefferson. Jefferson sent a copy of the almanac to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris as evidence of the talent of blacks. Opponents of slavery in the United States and England also used the almanacs as evidence of the abilities of black people.

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Search Log In Here for Registered users to gain access to the servers and materials Username Password If you are a Parent of a student that attends the BBCS and do not have an account - click here to register for one. Featured Teacher: Lisa Brewer Teacher Grade 6 Current News Wednesday’s Backpack A weekly newsletter 3rd Grade Play “I Like Being Me” Parent Meeting Parent Meeting Graduation 2004 8th Grade graduation Student Candids - Click for full-size image Welcome to the BBCS Website Executive Director - Lenora Jennings BBCS Phone # : 617.497.7771 BBCS Fax # : 617.497.4223 Welcome to the Benjamin Banneker Charter School’s website. The Benjamin Banneker Charter School is an urban K - 8 Science and Technology School, committed to excellence in Education. We believe all students can excel as learners and citizens when provided a rich, supportive, and stimulating educational environment. The BBCS is the inspiration of concerned community leaders, parents, and educators, with the common vision and purpose of providing all Cambridge and local youth, regardless of race, culture, language or socioeconomic status with a high quality education. Some notes regarding the use of the website: 1) Clicking on the picture of Benjamin Banneker will take you back to the homepage from any other page in the website.

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Banneker (Benjamin) Special Ed. Center - Los Angeles, CA Back to Schools Data City: Los Angeles, CA Address: 14024 S. San Pedro St. District: Los Angeles Unified School Enrollment: 367 White students: 0.5% Black students: 44.1% Hispanic students: 54.2% Asian students: 0.8% Native American students: 0.3% Filipino students: 0.0% Pacific Islander students: 0.0% Multi-racial/other students: 0.0% White students: 2 Black students: 162 Native American students: 1 Filipino students: Hispanic students: 199 Pacific Islander students: Multi-racial/other students: Average class size KG: 9.75 Total number of teachers: 39 Teachers with full credentials: 24 Teachers with emergency credentials: 18 Teachers with waivers: 3 Nurses: 2 Kindergarten enrollment : 1st grade enrollment : 2nd grade enrollment : 3rd grade enrollment : 4th grade enrollment : 5th grade enrollment : 6th grade enrollment : 7th grade enrollment : 8th grade enrollment : 9th grade enrollment : 10th grade enrollment : 11th grade enrollment : 12th grade enrollment : Ungraded elementary enrollment : 156 Ungraded secondary enrollment : 211 Statistics about Banneker (Benjamin) Special Ed. Center in Los Angeles, CA

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Skip Navigation You Are Here ENC Home ENC Features Classroom Calendar Search the Site More Options Classroom Calendar By Category By Month ... Ask ENC Explore online lesson plans, student activities, and teacher learning tools. Find detailed information about thousands of materials for K-12 math and science. Read articles about inquiry, equity, and other key topics for educators and parents. Create your learning plan, read the standards, and find tips for getting grants. Benjamin Banneker (Grades 3-12) November 9 Issued in 1980, this U.S. postage stamp honors Benjamin Banneker. Benjamin Banneker, the great African American scientist, was born on November 9, 1731, on his family's farm in Maryland. Though his father was once a slave, Benjamin was born free to Robert and Mary Bannaky (later changed to Banneker). Banneker's grandmother* taught young Benjamin how to read and write using the Bible as his text. His only formal schooling took place in a one-room schoolhouse. The school, run by a Quaker, operated just during the winter. As he got older, Banneker could no longer attend school, even though the school year was a short one, because he needed to help his parents on their farm. But this didn't mean he stopped learning. In fact, learning was a lifetime preoccupation for Banneker. According to

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Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865 Narrative Resource Bank Teacher's Guide Benjamin Banneker Resource Bank Contents Benjamin Banneker author, scientist, mathematician, farmer, astronomer, publisher and urban planner was descended from enslaved Africans, an indentured English servant, and free men and women of color. His grandmother, Molly Welsh, was an English dairy maid who was falsely convicted of theft and indentured to a Maryland tobacco farmer. After working out her indenture, Welsh rented and farmed some land, eventually purchasing two African slaves whom she freed several years later. In violation of Maryland law, Welsh wed one of her former slaves, Bannke or Bannaka, said to be the son of a chief. Their daughter Mary also married an African a man from Guinea who had been enslaved, baptized as Robert, and freed who took Banneker as his surname upon their marriage. In 1731, they named their first child Benjamin. Young Benjamin grew up in Baltimore County, one of two hundred free blacks among a population of four thousand slaves and thirteen thousand whites. He was taught to read by his grandmother Molly, and briefly attended a one-room interracial school taught by a Quaker. He showed an early interest in mathematics and mechanics, preferring books to play. At the age of 22, having seen only two timepieces in his lifetime a sundial and a pocket watching Banneker constructed a striking clock almost entirely out of wood, based on his own drawings and calculations. The clock continued to run until it was destroyed in a fire forty years later.

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Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865 Narrative Resource Bank Teacher's Guide Historical Documents Benjamin Banneker's Almanac Resource Bank Contents click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features a woodcut portrait of the author, scientist, mathematician, farmer, astronomer, publisher and urban planner, at age 64. The unknown artist who created the portrait depicts Banneker in the Quaker garb he always wore, a simple dark jacket and white shirt although he was closely affiliated with Quakers, Banneker never became a member of the Religious Society of Friends. The 1795 Almanac was one of six, published annually from 1792 to 1797. In an era when books of any kind were a luxury found in few households, almanacs were common. They included scientific information, such as weather forecasts, tide tables, lunar and solar eclipses, and the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon; they were also infused with mild poems, proverbs, and other bits of general information. What made Banneker's Almanacs innovative aside from the fact that they were produced by a black man in an age when African Americans were considered incapable of scientific, mathematical or literary accomplishment was the inclusion of commentaries, literature, and fillers that had a political and humanitarian purpose.

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Jackson Creek Middle School American Heroes: Benjamin Banneker An American Hero What is the idea of an American hero? Is there just one idea that all people believe an American hero is? I believe there isn't just ONE type of an American hero. There have been MANY different types of American heroes throughout the history of the United States. It varies from people such as Martin Luther King Jr. to Michael Jordan to Black Hawk to Benjamin Banneker. Benjamin Banneker is just one of the many heroes we have had. Benjamin Banneker is a great example of an American hero. He overcame such problems as racism and discrimination. Living in Colonial America, he struggled with being a free African-American. Choosing to be a scientist at that time was very difficult, but he struggled to overcome the prejudices and setbacks of that time. Benjamin Banneker showed many people that African-Americans were not intellectually inferior to European-Americans. Thomas Jefferson pointed that out in a letter he wrote to Benjamin one time. Because of his dedication and struggles, he inspired many individuals to fight for what they believe is right. This shows that just one person CAN make a difference.

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Jackson Creek Middle School American Heroes: Benjamin Banneker Important Facts Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731. He lived in the British colony of Maryland. His original name was Bannaky. His schoolmaster made him change his name to Banneker. Benjamin had three younger sisters. Benjamin Banneker's grandfather, Banneky, was a slave captured from Africa. His grandmother, Molly Welsh, was an indentured servant from England. His grandparents were one of the first interracial marriages. In 1681, laws were past which forbade interracial marriages. Because of this and other reasons, his grandparents lived a very quiet life on a small tobacco farm. They had four girls. Benjamin's mother was the oldest daughter, Mary. She married a free black named Robert. Robert had been a slave who was later freed. When Mary and Robert married, Robert took her last name of Banneky. Even though he lived in a time when it wasn't easy for African-Americans to be living, Molly taught Benjamin to read and write. He enjoyed mathematics and solving problems. After exhausting his grandmother's teaching skills, he was sent to one of the first integrated schools. Eventually, he taught himself about astronomy and advanced mathematics. He would borrow books from his neighbors and friends. His close friends, the Ellicot brothers, lent him most of their books.

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American Literature (1700-1800) Reason and Revolution Welcome to the Internett School Library Media Center (ISLMC). The ISLMC is a meta-site where teachers, librarians, parents and students can preview curriculum related materials. Please visit the ISLMC Home Page . You can search this site. Resources include history and criticism of the first flowering of American literature during the eighteenth century. Includes history, criticism, some lesson plans and works of individual writers. History and Criticism Henry Adams Benjamin Banneker William Byrd II ... Resources History and Criticism Student's History of American Literature Chapter 2. First half of the century includes Samuel Sewall, Mrs. Knight, Ebenezer Cook, William Byrd, and Jonathan Edwards. Student's History of American Literature Chapter 3. The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Knickerbocker Group; Washington Irving (1783-1859); James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851); William Cullen Bryant Romancing the Indian Comparison of the sentimentalizing and demonizing representations of American Indians in the works of James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain and other

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People Benjamin Banneker mathematician, astronomer, surveyor Born: Birthplace: Ellicott's Mills, Md. Benjamin Banneker has been called the first African American intellectual. Self-taught, after studying the inner workings of a friend's watch, he made one of wood that accurately kept time for more than 40 years. Banneker taught himself astronomy well enough to correctly predict a solar eclipse in 1789. From 1791 to 1802 he published the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris, which contained tide tables, future eclipses, and medicinal formulas. It is believed to be the first scientific book published by an African American. Also a surveyor and mathematician, Banneker was appointed by President George Washington to the District of Columbia Commission, which was responsible for the survey work that established the city's original boundaries. When the chairman of the committee, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, suddenly resigned and left, taking the plans with him, Banneker reproduced the plans from memory, saving valuable time. A staunch opponent of slavery, Banneker sent a copy of his first almanac to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to counter Jefferson's belief in the intellectual inferiority of blacks.

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS PUBLIC AFFAIRS FOUNDATION ... DONOR RELATIONS INDUSTRY CLUSTER CAREER CENTER PUBLICATIONS Banneker was "fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the color of the skin. "James McHenry, Secretary of War under President John Adams Benjamin Banneker A self taught mathematician and astronomer and probably the most accomplished black of America's Colonial period, Benjamin Banneker published the first scientific materials written by an African America; assisted in the historic survey that laid out the District of Columbia in 1790, and calculated the cycle of the 17-year locust, among other intellectual pursuits. As befitted the image of an 18th-century rationalist, Banneker was dedicated to exploring and applying natural law for the betterment of the human race. But he possessed an admirable social conscience as well; witness his proposal for the federal government office of a secretary of the peace, in which he strongly supported free public education, prohibition of capital punishment and abolition of the militia. In that now-famous letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1791, Banneker also attacked notions of black inferiority. Jefferson was so impressed with Banneker's arguments, and with an almanac for which Banneker had prepared computations of the positions of celestial bodies at regular intervals, that he told Banneker he considered it "a document to which your whole race had a right for its justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them."

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