Books—Records—Filmstrips
Composition-Models and Exercises
(Use lessons one through fifteen.)
Skills Box
(Particularly good for emphasizing predicate complements and good lessons on understanding phrases and clauses.)
Poetry Box
and
Collected Poems
by Langston HuGhes (Good samples of many different types of poems.)
Reading Materials:
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I. Short Stories
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Striving
(Fourteen stories including an excerpt from
Death Be Not Proud
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Getting It Together
(Thirty stories grade levels one to five.)
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A Piece of Steak
(Includes a recording of each story.)
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II. Novelettes
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Brooklyn Story
(Broken family brought together by tragedy.)
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Bill Peckett
(Black cowboy hero.)
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Black Comanche Boy
(Black boy raised by indians during slavery days.)
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III. Novels
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The Outsiders
(Reading levels should be between 2.6 and 5.0.)
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The Learning Tree
(If the class’ reading level is 5.4 and above this is an excellent book.)
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IV. Plays
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Teacher
,
Teacher and Other Plays
)
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Dino and Other Plays
) Both collections are easy to read.
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West Side Story
(Level four)
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Romeo and Juliet
(Level six)
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V. Biographies
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Mary McCloud Bethune
and
Gordon Parks
(With records.)
Doctor Martin Luther King
(Lots of pictures.)
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VI. Filmstrips
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From Hillhouse Librarian:
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1. Parts of Speech
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2. Parts of a Book
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3. Knowing your Library