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Courage in My Life (Sixth Grade)
Related Links:
Frequently Asked Questions about Leukemia
PBS History for Kids:
American Memory Time line: the Great Depression to World War II
Japan-Web: History and Culture for Kids
Authors:
- Terabithia.com, Katherine Patterson’s website
Jerry Spinelli‘s website
Lois Lowry‘s website
Gary Soto‘s website
Biography of Mildred D. Taylor
Biography of Yoko Kawashima Watkins
The Courage of My Convictions (Ninth Grade)
Related Links:
Photographs of the Ida B. Wells Housing Projects
Ghetto Life 101: includes audio for LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman’s original broadcast
Out of the Ghetto – a BBC Broadcasts update with LeAlan Jones from October 2008, 15 years after the original Ghetto Life documentary
Ghetto Life Grows Up, an interview with LeAlan Jones on his 30th birthday about the state of violence in Chicago’s South Side in 2009.
Obituary for August Wilson, New York Times
Troy Maxson: Heart, Heartbreak as Big as the World by Allison Keyes, All Things Considered. Originally aired on NPR on May 12, 2008
History and background information for the Negro League Baseball
Photographs and information about The Hill District, Pittsburgh
Recommended Reading:
- There are No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz (the book that inspired Our America)
- The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells
- Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, by Sudhir Venkatesh
- Negro League Baseball, by Ernest C. Withers
