https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-55847420
Andrea Hall is a Fire Captain, and the first African American woman to serve as a Fire Captain. She was invited to deliver the Pledge of Allegiance at the Inauguration of Joe Biden as President of America. This photo of Andrea went viral as people asked what she was doing and why.
What do you think she was doing with her hands?
Andrea signed the pledge as she spoke. She later explained; “Here I am sandwiched between J-Lo and Lady Gaga. And I’m thinking, ‘How do you make the pledge exciting on the heels of Lady Gaga?”
Andrea decided to use sign language to honour her late father who was deaf. Andrea says because she can communicate using sign language she is bilingual, and she wanted other people who used sign language, “to be able to receive that information in our native language.”
Andrea says she felt intense nervousness and was worried that she might forget what she had been saying. But she wanted her delivery to be “as inclusive as the pledge itself.”
“It was written for little children who were immigrants. And in some ways we are all immigrants. We’re a mishmash of people from all over and it’s a way to unify us, by speaking those 31 words.”
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What was the inauguration?
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What is the American pledge and where is it
used?
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“Sandwiched between J-Lo and Lady Gaga” what does
she mean?
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Why do you think Andrea decided to sign the
pledge?
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Andrea calls sign language a “native
language”; what does she mean by that?
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“We’re all immigrants” how can this be?
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How can saying 31 words unite people?
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Why is it significant that Andrea is the first
African American woman to serve as Fire captain? What does this show us about
history, ideas, and equality?
- What can we learn from Andrea?
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