The American Journey: Reconstruction to the Present

Unit/Prologue : Different Worlds Meet

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Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima by Walter Dean Myers
Anansi and His Visitor, Turtle by Edna Mason Kaula
Aunty Misery by Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Backwoods Boy by Russell Freedman
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Battleground by Elsie Singmaster
The Boy Who Lived with the Bears by Joseph Bruchac
from Brother Wolf by Jim Brandenburg
Chicoriaadapted by José Griego y Maestas and retold by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Coyote and WasichuSioux Legend
Creation by Shonto Begay
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury
The End of the World by Jenny Leading Cloud
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson
John HenryAnonymous
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Other Pioneers by Roberto Félix Salazar
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The People Could Flytold by Virginia Hamilton
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind by Mary Pope Osborne
The Toad and the Donkey by Toni Cade Bambara
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
from When Plague Strikes by James Cross Giblin
Wings by Jane Yolen