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Biddy Mason's life began as an enslaved person. She had to walk 2000 miles to reach California, but once there, she gained her freedom. She became a successful nurse, midwife, and land owner, and left behind a legacy of caring and charity. This primary source reader integrates literacy and social studies content knowledge, and uses maps, letters, images, and photographs to engage students and develop their curiosity about the people and the world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 940L
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English
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Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. As a young woman studying art in Paris, she found inspiration in the works of Matisse and Gaugin to paint the people she knew best. Back in Philadelphia, the Harmon Foundation commissioned her to paint portraits of accomplished African-Americans. Her portraits still hang in Washington...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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"African American George Fletcher loved horses from an early age. When he unfairly lost the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up to a white man, the outraged audience declared him "people's champion"--Provided by publisher.
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In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second child, and make it his mission to help the museum become...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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1020L
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English
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"Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential and inspiring leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The minister and social activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968"--Provided by publisher.
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Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass relied on his own determination and ingenuity to carve a path to freedom. Once free, he dedicated his life to improving the lives of others and fighting for justice and equality. This inspirational Spanish biography uses primary sources to engage students in learning about the fascinating life of Frederick Douglass. Students will build their literacy skills as they are immersed in social studies content. Text...
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Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system, and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. This three-in-one omnibus edition of Frederick Douglass autobiographies provides the quintessential narrative of his life. 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or...
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2014
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English
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As a free African American living in the North in the 1800s, Charlotte Forten was luckier than most African Americans of her time. But she still faced segregation, limited opportunities, and the sharp barbs of racism. Through it all, Charlotte wrote down her experiences in a diary. Read her story, and learn about the pre-Civil War days from someone who lived it.
13) Deborah Sampson
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2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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How much do you know about Deborah Sampson? Find out the facts you need to know about this woman who fought in the Revolutionary War. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.
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2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Sojourner Truth was born to slaves. She had no choice. But when she grew to be a young mother herself, she ran away with her child looking for freedom. She used her voice to speak for all slaves wanting to be free.
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¿Cómo narrar la vida de Aldo Ferrer? ¿Cómo atrapar en unas cuantas páginas al hombre y el pasado en el que vivió, su preocupación por la realidad nacional y su compromiso para transformarla? Ferrer fue un personaje de su época, pero lo fue de un modo excepcional, su vida se entrelaza con las tramas de la historia argentina, latinoamericana y mundial desde la crisis económica de 1929 hasta las primeras décadas del siglo XXI.
En El enigma...
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Dans chaque société, nous trouvons des normes et des valeurs profondément ancrées qui guident nos comportements et nos interactions sociales. Cependant, au-delà de ces règles apparentes, se cachent des sujets sensibles, des sujets que l'on évite de discuter ouvertement, des sujets entourés de mystère et de silence. Ce sont les tabous des sociétés, ces interdits tacites qui suscitent à la fois fascination et appréhension.Bienvenue dans...
18) Bony at Bermagui
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On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word 'Bermagui'. "That's the place Zane Grey wrote about," remarked my son. "That's the place I'm looking for," I decided. And what a place! Oh, what a place. The air like wine and as cool as that in the green ferntree depths of the gully beside my mountain home! The surf everlastingly playing its music on the sand beach before the town, and the great rocky headland to seaward…
Arthur Upfield was Australia's...
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PARADISE ERASED
Chronicle of an Exile
Before the arrival of the notorious drug cartels, the Colombian coastal town of Santa Marta was an idyllic place blessed with natural wonders, a choice destination for cruise ships and steam boats loaded with visitors and adventurers from all over the Caribbean. This was the environment in which Miguel angel had aspired to grow up until a case of police brutality and the murder of a young British backpacker he...
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Joe Thompson was born in the small mining town of Minmi, north of Newcastle in 1889. This book follows his life there as a Pupil Teacher, to the Balmain area, where he played soccer for both Balmain and New South Wales, to a role as an instructor with the fledgling Royal Australian Navy. His marriage to Marjorie Roberts took them to Mudgee, where he continued teaching and began a family in 1921. Written by Joe's eldest son, Geoffrey Thompson, now...
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