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PRODUCTION TEAM: Dolly Baker
STORYBOARD PAGE 1
PROJECT TITLE: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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GRAPHIC
Blank Screen (Pink),
Text
Book Cover
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VIDEO CLIP
IMAGE
Book cover
Blank Screen, Black,
Text: Title of Book
Blank Screen, Black,
Text: Join the journey
of Maya Angelou
Blank Screen, Black,
Text: Marguerite Ann
Johnson
NARRATION
This autobiographical
novel was written by
Maya Angelou
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Summertime
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Summertime
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Photo of Maya
Angelou
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AUDIO
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Born Marguerite Ann
Johnson on April 4,
1928.
Photo depicting
Vivian and Bailey
Johnson, Sr.
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Summertime
Her parents were
Vivian and Bailey
Johnson, Sr.
Photo depicting
Vivian and Maya
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Summertime
The relationship did
not last.
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Blank Screen, Black,
Text: Divorced and
Abandoned
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Summertime
Photo depicting
Bailey Jr and Maya
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Blank Screen, Black,
Text: Stumps,
Arkansas
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Summertime
Maya and Bailey
were sent to live with
their grandmother,
Ann Henderson
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Summertime
Photo Colored
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Deep in the south
were segregation
and Jim Crow Laws
were prevalent
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Blank Screen, Black,
Text: Racism,
Segregation, Jim Crow
Laws
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Summertime
Photo Bus Station
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Text: The Depression
Photo depicting
grocery store that
Anne Johnson owns
in Arkansas
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Text: Mr. Bailey
moves them back to
St. Louis
Text: Molested,
Raped, Murdered
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Photo St. Louis Arch
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Summertime
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Unexpectedly Mr.
Johnson moves Maya
and Bailey back to St.
Louis
The unthinkable
happens.
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Maya is molested
and raped by Mr.
Freeman.
Maya is molested
and raped by Mr.
Freeman.
Mr. Freeman is
murdered.
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Photo Map of
Arkansas
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Photo depicting
Bertha Flowers
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C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Text: Maya refuses to
speak!
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Photo Map of
California
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Text: A positive father
figure
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
The children are
moved back to
Stumps , Arkansas
Ms. Bertha Flowers
introduces Maya to
literature. William
Shakespeare is one
of her favorite
authors.
Maya regains her
voice by reading
aloud.
Her grandmother is
concerned about
their safety and takes
them to California to
live with Vivian.
Photo depicting
Vivian and Daddy
Clidell
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Text: Homeless at 15
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Text: Pregnant at 16
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Text: Graduates from
High School
Vivian has remarried
to Daddy Clidell.
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Maya spends the
summer with her
father, Bailey
Johnson, Sr.
She fights with his
girlfriend and finds
herself homeless and
living in a junkyard
Photo of a junkyard
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Photo of a streetcar
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Photo of Maya and
son, Clyde
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Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
Duke Ellington:
C Jam Blues
She returns to San
Francisco to become
the first black female
streetcar conductor
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Form this humble
beginning.
Photo of Maya with
James Baldwin
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
Photo of Maya’s
Record Miss Calypso
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
Photo of Maya with
Malcolm X
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
Photo of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
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Text: Poetic Justice
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
Listen to Maya
Angelou sing.
Photo with Oprah
Winfrey
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
Photo with President
Obama
Maya Angelou:
Miss Calypso
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Maya recites Still I
Rise