The following are texts used in English 8, time permitting:
BOOKS
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Girl with the White Flag by Toniko Higa
Fire from the Rock by Sharon Draper
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Diary of Anne Frank (dramatization) by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Thurgood Marshall
MLK up to 1958
http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086
The NAACP basic history- Look in folder below
Plessy vs. Ferguson:
http://www.infoplease.com/us/supreme-court/cases/ar29.html
Brown vs. the Board of Education:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_brown.html
13th and 14th Amendments
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_war_amendments.htm
Jim Crow is Watching: https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/texts/jim-crow-is-watching
"Facing A Mob"- Elizabeth Eckford article
"Integration at Central High"- Look in folder below
"The Fight for What's Right" Sylvia Mendez play found in Scope Dec. 2017/January 2018 issue
SHORT STORIES
"Fish Cheeks", "A Dare", "The Necklace", "Somebody's Fool", "Thank you M'am", "Treasure of Lemon Brown", Excerpts from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, "Story of an Hour", "Button, Button"
POETRY by Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Amanda Gorman
EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES
CommonLit, Teaching Tolerance, Newsela, Scope, Actively Learn