“Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom" by Carole Boston Weatherford and Kadir Nelson is an amazing book.
With wonderful words and ingenious illustrations, it shares the story of the Underground Railroad and captures the courage of Harriet Tubman.
I was teaching the book to a small group of students and we took a "picture walk" through it’s pages.
We made predictions.
I asked, “What are we seeing and hearing in the story?”
A student raised his hand.
He looked at me through serious, sincere eyes,
"My Dad tried to make it to to the United States from Mexico. He had to hide in the desert. The police were trying to catch him. He was hungry but he found a stream and drank some water, like Harriet Tubman.”
I realized that the Moses story is still being lived out today, just as it was being lived out during the days of slavery in America, just as it was being lived out in the days of the people of Israel’s captivity in the land of Egypt.
My student was my Moses, leading me to the promised land through his eyes and with his life.
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