World History: Journey Across Time

Unit 5: A Changing World

Literature Connections

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The Boy Who Lived with the Bears by Joseph Bruchac
Leyenda by Pat Mora
All Stories Are Anansi's retold by Harold Courlander
The End of the World by Jenny Leading Cloud
Aunt Millicent by Mary Steele
Racing the Great Bear by Joseph Bruchac
Loo-Wit by Wendy Rose
The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Spotted Eagle and Black Crow / The Siege of Courthouse Rock told by Jenny Leading Cloud
Chicoria / Coyote and Wasichu adapted by José Griego y Maestas and retold by Rudolfo A. Anaya/ Sioux Legend
The Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria; and many other cargoes of light by John Tagliabue
The Other Pioneers by Roberto Félix Salazar
Forgotten Language / New World
Chee's Daughter by Juanita Platero and Siyowin Miller
The Vision Quest told by Lame Deer
Delicious Death by Alma Luz Villanueva
Lullaby
Simile by N. Scott Momaday
Well I have Lost You; and I Lost You Fairly by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Making A Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye What We Believe
How the World Was Made retold by James Mooney
The Sky Tree retold by Joseph Bruchac
from The Iroquois Constitution by Dekanawida
from La Relación by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
Offer of Help by Canassatego
I Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Joseph
Let Us Examine the Facts by Corn Tassel
from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
Prayer to the Pacific
The Names of Women by Louise Erdrich
Magic Words translated by Edward Field
from the Popol Vuh: Creation Hymn translated by Ralph Nelson
The Night Face Up by Julio Cortázar, translated by Paul Blackburn
Fishing by Joy Harjo
Stop the Sun by Gary Paulsen
A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Happy Man's Shirt retold by Italo Calvino
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
Sonnet 239 by Michelangelo, translated by John Frederick Nims
from Homesick by Jean Fritz
from Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
The Kid Nobody Could Handle by Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Finding America by A. C. Greene
The United States vs. Susan B. Anthony by Margaret Truman
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
from Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry
from The Crisis, No. 1 by Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
To His Excellency, General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
Letter to Her Daughter from the New and Unfinished White House by Abigail Adams
Of Studies by Sir Francis Bacon
Sonnet 116 / Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 73 / Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun / Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare
On My First Son / Song: to Celia by Ben Jonson
from The Diary of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft