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  • Kindergarten and Grade 1
    • For You Are a Kenyan Child

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    • Jamie's Journey

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    • Wangari's Trees of Peace

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    • One Hen

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  • Grades 2 and 3
    • Cows For America

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    • Of Thee I Sing

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    • A Story, A Story

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    • Cocoa Ice

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    • Jump

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    • My Rows and Piles of Coins

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    • The Talking Cloth

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  • Grades 4 and 5
    • Cendrillion

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    • Standing up for Civil Rights

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    • Expert Pack: Harlem Renaissance

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    • Happy Birthday Dr. King

      When ten-year old Jamal’s grandfather hears that the boy is in trouble for fighting to sit in the back of the bus, he tells Jamal about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement. Jamal responds with an idea for a skit for his school’s King Day assembly.

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    • My Brother Martin

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    • Sewed Up His Heart

      Dr. Daniel Hale Williams must make the decision to perform a heart operation that could save a patient’s life but could also condemn him in the eyes of the medical community. Although heart surgery was not accepted at the time, he confidently performed the surgery and saved the patient’s life.

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    • Toto

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    • Two Tickets to Freedom

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    • American Slave, American Hero

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    • Black Cowboy, Wild Horses

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    • Dear Mrs. Parks

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    • James Forten

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    • Satchmo’s Blues

      Young Louis Armstrong, “Satchmo,” longs to play the horn, but his family has no money for such things.  He was inspired to learn to play the coronet by listening to a local New Orleans jazz band.  He decides to earn the money himself by doing chores, running errands, and selling items. 

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    • Mae Jemison Space Scientist

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    • Mahalia Jackson

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    • My Great Grandmother's Gourd

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    • Our Song

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  • Grades 6 and 7
    • A Kind of Grace

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    • Jackie Robinson: Justice At Last

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    • John Henry

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    • The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay

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    • Expert Pack: Harlem Renaissance Artists

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    • Long Walk to Freedom

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    • Treasure of Lemon Brown

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  • Grades 8 and 9/10
    • A Letter to Harriet Tubman

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    • Harriet Tubman

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    • Mini-assessment for for “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes (pdf) ©

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    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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    • Mrs. Flowers

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    • Raymond's Run

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    • Fugitive Slaves Acts of 1793 and 1850

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    • What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

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    • Glory and Hope

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    • On Summer

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    • The Book of the Dead

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