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Teen Movie Matinee: Akeelah and the Bee
February 22, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Eden Park Branch
Arts & Culture, Movies/Film, STEAM
Join us for a movie showing of KeKe Palmer's 2006 classic Akeelah and the Bee. Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of. First Akeelah has to overcome her insecurities, her distracting home life, and the knowledge that there is a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.
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February 22, 2025
3:00pm - 5:00pm
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East Baton Rouge Parish Library Eden Park
5131 Greenwell Springs Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, Room 2
Organization
Eden Park Branch
(225) 231-3240
Originally opened in 1981 as part of the Eden Park Community Center on Gus Young Avenue, now known as the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, the Eden Park Branch Library includes a covered...
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Marine City Middle School Teacher Kathy Carroll has been asking her class a question during this year’s Black History Month observance: “Who are you not to be your best?”
The line is taken from the 2006 film “Akeelah and The Bee.” In the movie, an 11-year-old black girl named Akeelah Anderson was asked this question as she struggled with her need to be like everyone else, instead of using her above-average intelligence to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
Carroll is incorporating the Black History theme into her sixth grade reading, language arts and social studies classes during the month of February and using it to challenge the students to follow in the footsteps of some of the men and women who have changed history for the better.
“I try to emphasize that all these people have made a positive contribution to the world,” she said. “I tell them, ‘You are the people who can do that.'”
Included in Carroll’s Black History Month curriculum is reader’s theatre, where students act out the young life of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the play, A Story from The Childhood of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Mack Lewis.
According to Carroll, the young King was a favorite pick for neighborhood
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