1. Barbara Strassman, Ewing Jersey, "Differentiated Instruction in the English Class: Content, Process, Product and Assessment," Theory into Practice 48, no 4 (2005): 358-359, www.jstor.org/stable/40016033
2. Anita Woolfolk, Educational Psychology (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001).
3. Robert Kimbrough, "Introduction," Norton Critical Edition of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. ed. Robert Kimbrough (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), X-XIII.
4. Kylene Beers, When Kids Can't Learn What Teachers Can Do (Portsmout: Heinemann, 2003).
5. Anita Woolfolk, Ibid.
6. Anita Woolfolk, Ibid.
7. Nell Duke, David P. Pearson, Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension (Newark: International Reading Association, 2002).
8. Kylene Beers, Ibid.
9. Anita Woolfolk, Ibid.
10. Kylene Beers. Ibid.
11. Paul George, "A Rationale for differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom," Theory Into Practice 44, no.3 (2005): 185-193, www.jstor.org/stable/3496997.
12. Edward E. Cummings, "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls," Literature and Composition, ed. Carol Jago et al. (Boston: Bedfors/St. Martin, 2011), 502.
13. Countee Cullen, "Heriatege," Ibid. 503.
14. Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill," Ibid. 508.
15. Kamu Brathwaite, "Ogun," Ibid. 515.
16. Sherman Alexie, "The Powwow at the End of the World," Ibid. 519.
17. Julia Alvarez, "First Muse," Ibid. 521.
18. Walt Whitman, "I Sit and Look Out," Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. Ed. Michael Moon (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 228.
19. Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing," Ibid. 12.
20. Rodney Koeneke, "Labor day," http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/247670
21. Derek Walcott, "Bleecker Street, Summer," http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/247976
22. You Tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5 TVqrtk6qp.
23. Vincanne Adams, Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013), 55-73.
24. Kathryn M. Dudley, The End of the Line (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994) 36-40.
25. Katherine S. Newman, Rampage. The Social Roots of school Shooting (New York: Basic Books, 2004) 3-46.