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Maya loved to perform. She started singing and dancing in nightclubs and changed her name to Maya Angelou. Maya came from her brother’s nickname for her, “my-a-sister.” Angelou came from her first husband’s name, Angelos . After Maya was cast in the opera Porgy and Bess , she traveled throughout Europe performing in the show. While on tour, she learned the languages of the countries she visited. Follow the maze to see which languages she learned.
GERMAN RUSSIAN ARABIC FANTI * GREEK
SPANISH ITALIAN ARABIC FANTI * FRENCH
* A West African language Standards Link: Behavioral Studies: Understand that people learn about each other in different ways.
Maya is one of six poets in U.S. history to read a poem at a presidential inauguration (the others being Robert Frost, Amanda Gorman, and Elizabeth Alexander). The poem Maya read is “On the Pulse of Morning.” Here is the last stanza. Can you replace the missing vowels?
JOURNALIST LANGUAGES CONDUCTOR
Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, and diagonally.
T W M
J D P C A G E D S
O R O N H P C P E
U O V E I S O A G
R R E A S E N I A
N O R I T L D N U
A T T R O R U E G
L I Y T R A C P N
I D X S Y C T R A
S E A R E P O I L
PERFORM POVERTY HISTORY POETRY EDITOR
R O F R E P
PULSE OPERA CAGED CAR TEXT PAIN ART
Source: america.gov
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Standards Link: Art: Know that ideas are used to communicate meaning.
© Vicki Whiting August 2026
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