Literacy Timeline

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    My Life and Love Of Literature

    I grew to love African American literature as years went by because often as a child growing up I rarely found books I could culturally connect. By the time I reached high school there were a broader and more variety of multicultural books.
  • My Grandmother reads aloud Paul Lawence Dunbar

  • Phillip Hall Likes Me I Reckon, Maybe By Bette Greene

  • My Darling My Hamburger by Paul Zindell

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  • High School Classic - Sounder

  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

  • National Reading Conference in Orlando

  • Shame of the Nation By Kozol

  • A Teacher's Cry

  • Who Moved My Cheese

  • We The Purple

  • We Cant Teach What We Don't Know by Gary Howard

  • Professional Book - The World Is Flat

  • A Hope in the Unseen by Suskind

  • Copper Sun by Draper