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Poetry & Short Fiction


POETRY
  • “Ballad of Birmingham,” Dudley Randall (1963)                   
  • “Cross,” Langston Hughes (1926)
  • “Dream Deferred – Harlem,” Langston Hughes (1951)
  • “Incident,” Countee Cullen (c. 1925) 
  • “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward,” Gwendolyn Brooks (N.D.)
  • “We Real Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks (1960)
  • “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou (1978)
  • “Women’s Studies,” Robin Morgan

SHORT FICTION
  • “A Modest Proposal,” Jonathan Swift (1729)*
  • “Battle Royal,” from Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)*
  • “The Child by Tiger,” Thomas Wolfe (1937)*
  • “The Guest,” Albert Camus (1957)
  • “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson (1949): (9-12, 5.9)


NOTE: (*) Teachers should use discretion in selecting these works for middle school students because of the complex literary style, advanced reading level, and/or age-appropriateness of the content. Remember, teach only what you have read.

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