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Unit 9: Turbulent Decades

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A Minor Bird by Robert Frost
A Mother in Mannville by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Antaeus by Borden Deal
April Rain Song by Langston Hughes
Beware of the Dog by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, adapted by Richard R. George
Finding America by A.C. Greene
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
from Sound-Shadows of the New World by Ved Mehta
from The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg
in Just— by E.E. Cummings
Mother and Daughter by Gary Soto
old age sticks by E.E. Cummings
President Cleveland, Where Are You? by Robert Cormier
Sorrow Home and Sit-ins by Margaret Walker
Strong Men Weep by Benedict Cosgrove
The Anne Frank House: Amsterdam by Joan LaBombard
The Bat by Theodore Roethke
The Bird Like No Other by Dorothy West
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
the lesson of the moth by Don Marquis
The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot
The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber
The Old Demon by Pearl S. Buck
The Woman in the Snow by Patricia C. McKissack