ELA+Grade+9+Module+A

=Chicopee Comprehensive High School=

Extended Fiction Text

 * //To Kill a Mockingbird// by Harper Lee

Poetry (choose 2)

 * [|"Sympathy"] by Paul Laurence Dunbar
 * [|"Ballad of Birmingham"] by Dudley Randall
 * [|"Black and White"] by Three Dog Night (song lyrics) [|Video] with lyrics. [|Video], live performance.

Short Fiction

 * [|"Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy"] by Mark Twain

Multimedia (choose 2)

 * "To Kill a Mockingbird" (film) - [|Available in CHHS Library]
 * [|"Racism/Incident at Little Rock"] painting by Domingo Ulloa, 1957
 * [|"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"] (images, online)
 * [|"A Class Divided"] (PBS online documentary)

Historical Nonfiction

 * Transcripts from the [|Scottsboro Trials] PBS Documentary[| website]

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1)

 * [|"Interview with My Bully"] by Jennifer Miller
 * [|"Who was Jim Crow?"] by Dr. David Pilgrim (essay and photographs, online)