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Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Dell Press, 1963. Baldwin reflects on the contributions of countless African Americans who tackled the job of creating schools for the uneducated during Reconstruction. His work is about the African American experience of the 1950s and 60s.
Brooklyn Museum. Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2002. Jessica S. Sack was education curator at the Brooklyn Museum when this curriculum was created. She is now at the Yale Art Gallery and directed me to the unit "Women and Portraiture."
Fleischman, Paul, and Eric Beddows. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. These poems are the inspiration for the side-by-side poetry activity. Use them as examples to practice the side-by-side concept where two people read a poem sometimes taking turns and sometimes reading in unison.
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