Maya Angelou Educational Posters, Books, Links for Learning
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - first memoir traces Maya Angelou's traumatic childhood in the small, rural, segregated community of Stamps, AR, during the 1930s. (1970)

Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou - picks up the story of her life after "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" when she is 17 years old, the mother of her son, Guy, and working as “a dancer, a cook (multiple times), a Madam, a waitress, and briefly as a prostitute”. (1974)

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou - describes Angelou's move into the adult world, and the white world, as she marries, enters show business, and tours Europe and Africa in Porgy and Bess. (1976)

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou - continues the account of her remarkable life from her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X. (1981)

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou - relates how she joins a “colony” of Black American expatriates in Ghana – only to discover no one ever goes home again. (1986)

A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou - deals with the turbulent years of 1964-68, as Angelou returns to America after her African sojourn and takes the reader into the heart of the civil rights movement. (2002)

Phenomenal Woman : Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou - One of the best loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this spiritual classic about being a woman, living well, the power of the word, the power of spirituality shape lives and to love. (1993)

Intimate Portrait : Maya Angelou - One of the best loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this spiritual classic about being a woman, living well, the power of he word, the power of spirituality to love and shape lives. (1999 video)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - TV movie based on Angelou's first autobiography. (1979 video)

How to Make an American Quilt - variety of encounters for Winona Ryder character with Grandma and her sewing circle (which includes Anne Bancroft, Kate Nelligan, and Maya Angelou, among others), who reminisce about men, love, and marriage. (1995 video)

Down in the Delta - directed by Maya Angelo, story of family moving to their ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta to escape the drug- and alcohol-ridden neighborhood. (1998 video)

Miss Calypso- Audio CD - Angelou's only sung album to date (1957 recording)

Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet (African American Biographies) - by Elaine Lisandrelli, Young Adult readers

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LINKS FOR LEARNING : MAYA ANGELOU

• Official Maya Angelou Web Site
• Greetings from Maya Angelou - Newspapers in Education (NIE)
• Interview with Maya Angelou - Scholastic Videos
• See Forever Foundation and Maya Angelou Schools
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (pdf) - unit from Core Knowledge using reading, writing, visual arts, and music traditions.