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Twentieth Century American Fiction, Biography, and Autobiography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 85.03.02

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Literature and the Special Education Student: A Multi-Media Approach

Barbara Banquer and Amy Aledort

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Appendix A—Additional Materials

This is a list of additional selections of literature that could be used to develop lessons on adolescence, friendship, families, sexuality, self-concept, and racial issues. We have divided the list into three categories. In some cases the references fit into more than one category, and therefore may be repeated.

These are readings with corresponding films:

Hasberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun . Random House, New York, 1969.

Kata, Elizabeth. A Patch of Blue . Popular Library, New York, 1961.

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar . Harper and Row, New York, 1971.

Pomerance, Bernard. The Elephant Man . Grove Publishing, New York, 1979.

Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men . Penguin Books, New York, 1937.

The following books of short stories, poems, novels, biographies, and autobiographies are resources that deal with the themes and issues cited above.
Carver, Raymond. “A Small, Good Thing”, in Cathedral . Random House, New York, 1981.

Hughes, Langston. The Langston Hughes Reader . George Brazillen, Inc., New York, 1969.

Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes . Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1974.

Hughes, Langston. Something in Common and Other Short Stories . Hill and Wang, New York, 1963.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road . University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1984.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk . Turtle Island Foundation, Berkely, CA, 1985.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God . University of Illinois Press,-Urbana, 1978.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Warrior Woman: Memoir of a Girl Among Ghosts . Random House, Inc., New York 1975.

McCarthy, Mary. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1946.

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple . Simon and Schuster Inc., New York, 1982.

Walker, Alice. In Love and Trouble . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1967..

Walker, Alice. Meridian . Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York, 1976.

Walker, Alice. The Third Life of Grange Copeland . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1970.

Walker, Alice. You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Do wn. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1971.

Wideman, John. Damballah . Avon Books, New York, 1981.

The following is a list of autobiographies, essays, novels, and short stories that are grouped by author. They could be used with higher functioning classes if the teacher wanted to explore the connection between writers and their work.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road . University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1984. (Autobiography)

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God . University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1978. (Novel)

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1983. (Essays)

Walker, Alice. Meridian . Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York, 1976. (Novel)

Wideman, John. Brothers and Keepers . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1984. (Biography)

Wideman, John. Damballah . Avon Books, New York, 1981. (Novel)

Wright, Richard. Black Boy . Harper and Row, New York, 1937. (Autobiography)

Wright Richard. “Almos’ A Man” in The Best Sho rt Stories by Negro Writers , ed. Langston Hughes, Little, Brown an Company, Boston, 1967. (Short story)

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