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FREE SISTERHOOD AGENDA GAMES! Download these games onto your computer for endless fun!
[For Windows operating systems only]
SisterGirl Treasure Hunt
Meet SisterGirl Ebony. Ebony is 10 years old. Her favorite activities are listening to music, going to the movies and reading Sisterhood Agenda magazine. Her favorite food is strawberry ice cream. Red and black are her favorite colors.
Ebony went on a trip to Africa with her parents. Ebony went exploring in Egypt and found a cave filled with treasures. Use the arrow keys to help Ebony collect the African treasures, but watch out for the scorpions! You can only get them when they turn blue from being afraid. Good luck!
http://www.sisterhoodagenda.com/Games/sistergirltreasure.exe
Hit the Ball!
Hit the balls as many times as you can with a click of your computer's mouse. You have to be FAST!
http://www.sisterhoodagenda.com/Games/sistergirlhittheball.exe
Can You Drive?
Test your driving skills: watch out for other cars and don't forget to get gas!
http://www.sisterhoodagenda.com/Games/sistergirlstreetracing.exe
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SisterGirls Are Careful on the Internet! |
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The Internet is a fun and amazing place to communicate with others and learn new things. Like all communities, there are also areas that are dangerous for young people.
This means you must be careful and know the dangers.
SAFETY TIPS:
- Never post your personal information, such as your cell number, address, the name of your school or school team.
- Be careful about posting identity-revealing photos and do not use sexually provocative photos.
- Report anyone you don’t know asking for personal information, photos or videos.
- Just because a website seems OK doesn’t mean that it is what it seems to be. Anyone-including creeps and criminals-can set up their own website.
- Don’t download anything unless it is from a trusted source.
- Stay away from chatrooms that discuss sex, cults and dangerous activities.
- You may want to get together with someone you met in a chatroom, but remember-people are not always who they seem to be. Never give out personal information and never arrange face-to-face meetings with someone you first meet in a chatroom unless your parents/guardians check it out first.
- Avoid private chatroom areas.
- Avoid harassment in chatrooms by using a name that doesn’t let people know that you are female.
- Be careful about replying to email from people you don’t know. Remember, the sender may not be who he or she seems to be.
- Posting information about friends could put them at risk, so do not do it.
- Remember what you post online is not private and anyone can see it.
Tell an adult if you get weird messages. Use the CyperTipline to report concerns, especially those that are sexual in nature: Reports may be made 24-hours per day, 7 days per week online at www.cybertipline.com or by calling 1-800-843-5678.
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SisterGirls Are Creative! |
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Sistas Around the World Are Cool! By Ayana
Sistas around the world are cool!
We are the sistas around the world.
We are unique and beautiful.
We come in different shapes and colors and sizes.
We love African music.
We dance to the music and follow the rhythm to our path.
We never stop.
We are nice and powerful and no one can stop us.
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SisterGirls Know How to Have Fun! |
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SisterGirls Love Themselves! |
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Affirmations
- I am worthy of love and respect.
- When I put my mind to it, I can do anything. I can be anything.
- Today, I am happy and thankful for everything that I have.
- I am smart, beautiful, different and totally fabulous.
- I love the skin I am in. It covers me from head to toe in beautiful shades of brown.
- I am a precious jewel to be loved and treasured.
- My hair, lips, and skin are the beautiful gifts of my ancestors.
- I accept myself unconditionally.
- I have the courage to be assertive.
- I accept and incorporate change in my life.
- I am open to learning new things.
- I am a beautiful Black sister, who only grows more beautiful with time.
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SisterGirls Know Their History and Heritage! |
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Test Your Knowledge of African American Women
Known as the “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, she was a slave who ran away to freedom, then helped as many as 300 enslaved Africans and African Americans escape to freedom Click image to find out.
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Known as the first African American woman to fly in space, she has her own technology development firm Click image to find out.
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After being kidnapped from West Africa as a child and taken to Boston on a slave ship, she was able to master many languages and became a poet Click image to find out.
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This author of The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and is an acclaimed storyteller Click image to find out.
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Purchase your own set of Knowledge Cards to learn about important African American women in history.
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Queen Hathshepsut
Queen Nzingha
Queen Cleopatra VII
Queen Amina of Zaria
Queen Makeda
Queen Yaa Asantewa
Queen Nefertari
Queen Tiye
Queen Nandi
Queen Amina
To Find more about African Queens: click here .
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SisterGirls Are Empowered! |
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Learning to love yourself is very important for good self-esteem. If you do not love and respect yourself, it is hard for others to love and respect you, too.
Focus on yourself without comparing yourself to others. Your self-worth and self-love does not come from how well else does a certain activity or task. This can decrease the amount of self-love we show ourselves. We all have certain talents that we can do better than others and others can do better than us. Do not let this discourage you. Focus on what YOU can do.
Practice loving yourself everyday:
- Focus on the positive.
- Compliment yourself.
- Take a compliment when someone gives it to you.
- Look in the mirror and tell yourself something good each day.
Memorize the Sisterhood Agenda Empowerment Principles
- Sisterhood
- Self-knowledge
- Self-development
- Self-esteem
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SisterGirls Are Cultural! |
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Jambo means “hello” in Swahili. Learn More!
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SisterGirls Support Each Other as Sisters! |
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Imani and Ayana: “We love Sisterhood Agenda!”
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Definitions from the Sisterhood Retreat for Girls |
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Sisterhood:
United in common cause for the common good, mutual acceptance, unbreakable bond, unconditional love, network of support, transcending obstacles, progressing through challenges, strength, understanding, our separate goals working as a team.
Self-definition:
Celebrating our diversity, what brings us joy, love; knowing, appreciating, understanding who we are as unique and powerful women of African descent; self-adjustment, knowng you’ve got the “right stuff,” accepting our differences and faults, achieving our best as a work in progress.
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Create a self-definition collage using old magazines to cut out words, ideas, and pictures that represent you. Be honest and be creative-it’s fun!
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SisterGirls Are Inspired!
If you always follow the crowd, you will never find your own way.
Lift up everything about you: your smile, your handshake, your talk, your walk. Act alive!
Grow the “I’m important attitude.”
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SisterGirls Celebrate Black History Everyday! |
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LIFT EV'RY VOICE AND SING
also known as "The Black National Anthem"
by James Weldon Johnson
Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring.
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise,
High as the list'ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might,
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee,
Shadowed beneath thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.
Questions for You:
- How does this song make you feel?
- What does “dark past” refer to?
- What is meant by “victory”?
- What year was this song written? Answer: 1900
- Not everyone things that this song should be the national anthem for African Americans. Is there another song that you think is a better choice? Why?
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