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We are currently working with Little Rock Girl, 1957. Final projects are due 4/26, followed by presentations, and then we begin The Omnivore's Dilemma.  

From the Syllabus:

Literature: (Pieces are subject to change.) Selections from the NYS Grade 8 ELA Modules, include but are not limited to:

One Crazy Summer  Rita Williams-Garcia

Inside Out & Back Again Thanhha Lai

 “The Vietnam Wars”  Tod Olson

“Forgotten Ship: A Daring Rescue as Saigon Fell” by Joseph Shapiro and Sandra Bartlett

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 

“Those Winter Sundays,” Robert Hayden 

“Incident,” Countee Cullen  

“Solitude,” Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

“Equal Rights for Women,” Shirley Chisholm 

Excerpts from “Great Society,” Lyndon Johnson  

“Ain’t I a Woman?” Sojourner Truth  

To Kill a Mockingbird. Dir. Robert Mulligan. Perf. Gregory Peck. 1962. Film.

Carlotta Walls LaNier, A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

 Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court case.

 Alexandra Lutz, “Life in the South after the Civil War” (video)

14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Christian Bryant, “Video Overview: Plessy v. Ferguson” (video).

“Jim Crow Laws,” National Park Service

David Pilgrim, “What Was Jim Crow?”

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