Thursday, December 11, 2008

12th Annonatation

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZbGoWR-wdPcC&pg=PT63&lpg=PT63&dq=people+inspired+by+Phillis+Wheatley&source=web&ots=fc4OVtMYOB&sig=YFe9zOPNrCkOgz3l5_bT7cQ5_B0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPT63,M1
This shows an article about how Phillis Wheatley inspired another poet to write "The Answer"

11th Annonatation

http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/02_03/BH/pw/pw.htm
This website tells & shows how Phillis Wheatley is the poetess of American Revolution

Tenth Annonatation


http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/2007/05/phyllis_wheatle.html

An accomplished African American woman of letters
First African American woman to earn a living from her writing
First woman writer encouraged and financed by a group of women (Mrs. Wheatley, Mary Wheatly, and Selina Hastings.)

Ninth Annoatation

http://pwes.dadeschools.net/

Information and picture about Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, in Miami, FL

Eighth Annotation

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri013.html


The gifted young black poet Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) was celebrated as "the extraordinary poetical genius" of colonial New England even before this compilation of her poems was published in September 1773.

Seventh Annotation

http://www.poemhunter.com/phillis-wheatley/
List of her poems that made history

Sixth Annotation

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aframerwriters/a/wheatley_poems.htm
This talks about her poem's analysis.

Fifth Annotation

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/philbio.htm
This website talks about her life and accomplishments

Monday, December 8, 2008

Fourth Annotation

http://www.philliswheatley.org/
This website talks about the Phillis Wheatley's Association.

Third Annotation

http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/wheatley.html
This website talks about where her first poem was published.

Second Annotation

http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0214_Phillis_Wheatley.html
Phillis Wheatley was the precursor of American Abolitionism. She helped try to abolish slavery.