The Color of Water or Angela's Ashes

The Color of Water or Angela's Ashes

• The Color of Water by James McBride - Audiobook available in the CHS library
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - Audiobook available in the CHS library(abridged, read by the author)

Poetry (choose 2)

• "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
• "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
• "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
• "Listening to Grown-Ups Quarreling" by Ruth Whitman
• "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

Short Fiction (choose 1 or 2)

• Chapter 25 from The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence

Multimedia

• "Grey Gardens" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• "Angela's Ashes" (film) - Available in the CHS library

The library also recommends:

Documentaries/Movies:

• "Surviving the Dust Bowl" from PBS/Ken Burns
• "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" from PBS
• "The Pursuit of Happyness"
• Victorian Slum House (BBC reality series where modern families try to live in an 1860's tenement house)

Short Videos:

Websites:

Articles:

• "Invisible Child" from New York Times (long article about a family living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter)
• "Frank McCourt Obituary" from the New York Times

Books:

• "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

Historical Nonfiction (choose 1)

• The Battle with the Slum by Jacob Riis

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

• "A Question of Class" by Dorothy Allison
• "Indian Education" PDF by Sherman Alexie
• "The Impact of Unemployment on Families" by Broman, Hamilton, and Hoffman
• "Salvation" by Langston Hughes