Monday- August 31, 2009
Question: Who is the principal and vice
principal of Napier Elementary Enhanced
Option School?
Quote: The past is a ghost, the
future a dream, and all we ever
have is now.
– Bill Cosby
Fact: Napier Elementary was fresh started
this year which means we have some new
faculty and staff.
Tuesday- September 1, 2009
Question: What is your teacher’s name and
room number?
Quote: I don't know the key to
success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody.
– Bill Cosby
Fact: Napier Elementary is an enhanced
option school which means that we have
smaller class sizes and we get 45 extra
minutes to work on certain skills.
Wednesday- September 2, 2009
Question: Who is the school secretary, the
media specialist (librarian) and the reading
specialist at the school?
Quote: In order to succeed, your
desire for success should be
greater than your fear of failure.
– Bill Cosby
Fact: Napier Elementary has 38teachers in
the building.
Thursday- September 3, 2009
Question: What is the school address and
telephone number?
Quote: Parents are not interested in
justice, they're interested in peace
and quiet.
– Bill Cosby
Fact: J C Napier homes was named after
the Honorable James Carroll Napier. Write
two other facts about this great man.
Teacher read Aloud
James Carroll Napier, a 19th century
Nashville businessman and civil rights
leader, was born near Nashville,
Tennessee on June 9, 1845 to William
C. and Jane E. Napier who were both
free blacks. Napier attended a private
school for free black children in
Nashville and then in 1859 enrolled in
predominately black Wilberforce College
before transferring to integrated
Oberlin College.
Napier left Oberlin College in 1867 without a degree and returned to Nashville,
Tennessee. Drawn to opportunities available to him in the emerging
Reconstruction era, he served as the commissioner of refugees and abandoned
lands in Davidson County under the Freedmen’s bureau for a year. He then moved
to Washington, D.C. to become the first African American to hold the position of
State Department Clerk. Encouraged by John Mercer Langston, the Dean of the
Howard University Law School, Napier enrolled in Howard where he received a
Bachelor in Law (LL.B) in 1872. He moved back to Nashville to start his own
practice. There he married Nettie Langston, the only daughter of John Mercer
Langston, in 1878. They had one adopted daughter, Carrie Langston Napier.
James Napier worked as a lawyer and soon became a prominent Republican
politician known in both Washington and Nashville. He held patronage appointments
under Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur. Also, during the period from
1878 to 1885, he served on Nashville’s city council. Napier also served on the state
Republican Executive Committee for thirty-five years. In 1911, through
connections with Booker T. Washington, James Napier was appointed the Register
of the Treasury under President William Howard Taft, the highest governmental
position then available to African Americans. In 1913, he resigned that post to
protest President Woodrow Wilson’s institution of segregation practices among
federal employees in Washington.
The Napier family returned to Nashville. Napier retired from politics and devoted
his energies to business interests. James retired from politics and in 1903 became
an investor in the One Cent Savings Bank. Now a supporter of racial improvement
primarily through economic self-help and education, Napier had become and ardent
follower of Booker T. Washington. He often expressed his distaste for more
“aggressive” leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois. Napier joined Washington’s National
Negro Business League and became president of the organization succeeding
Booker T. Washington upon Washington’s death in 1915. James Carroll Napier died
on April 21, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Friday, September 4, 2009
1.-Read/Listen to Bill Cosby
Information
2.-Write 3 interesting facts about
him
3.-Practice Bill Cosby Quote
(born July 12, 1937, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) American comedian, actor, and producer, who played a major role in the
development of a more positive portrayal of blacks on television.
Teacher Read Aloud
Cosby left high school without earning his diploma and joined the U.S.
Navy in 1956. While enlisted he passed a high school equivalency exam,
and after his discharge he received an athletic scholarship to Temple
University in Philadelphia in 1961. During his sophomore year he left
Temple to entertain at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village, New York
City, where he began to establish a trademark comedic style characterized
by a friendly and accessible stage persona and a relaxed, carefully timed
delivery. During the 1960s Cosby toured major U.S. and Canadian cities,
commanding ever-higher performance fees. In 1965 he made his first
appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Cosby's first acting assignment, in the espionage series I Spy (1965–68),
made him the first black actor to perform in a starring dramatic role on
network television. His portrayal of a black secret agent won him three
Emmy Awards and helped to advance the status of African-Americans on
television. Cosby's subsequent projects for television included the series of
Bill Cosby Specials (1968–71, 1975), the situation comedy The Bill Cosby
Show (1969–71), the variety show The New Bill Cosby Show (1972–73),
and the successful cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–84, 1989).
He appeared in numerous commercials and on children's shows such as
Sesame Street and Electric Company; he also made several feature films,
which enjoyed limited success.
Cosby's most successful work, The Cosby Show, appeared on NBC from
1984 to 1992, becoming one of the most popular situation comedies in
television history. The Cosby Show depicted a stable, prosperous black
family—Cosby's character was a doctor and his wife a lawyer—and
avoided racial stereotypes. The show had broad cross-cultural appeal and
won several major awards. After the show ended he starred in the series
Cosby (1996–2000), in which his Cosby Show costar Phylicia Rashad
again played his wife.
Cosby was awarded a doctorate in education from the University of
Massachusetts in 1977 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame
in 1984. His comedy records earned him eight Grammy awards. In 1986 he
wrote the best-selling book Fatherhood. In 1997 Cosby's son, Ennis, was
shot and killed while changing a tire on a Los Angeles freeway; that same
year he and his wife, Camille, founded the Hello Friend/Ennis William
Cosby Foundation in their son's memory to fund teachers of students with
learning disabilities. Cosby was outspoken about the need for African
Americans to pursue higher education and to support their families. In 2008
he released the hip-hop album Cosby Narratives Vol. 1: State of
Emergency, which blended jazz, pop, and funk but shied away from the
profanity he said was typical of most hip-hop music.