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Read-alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

2/24/2020

 

Week of February 24, 2020
​TK, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade
Rotary Club Volunteers Help Us Wish Dr. Seuss a Happy Birthday

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Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904-September 24, 1991)
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You find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
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Rotary Four Way Test
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Working to end Polio worldwide

Week of February 24, 2020
TK

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Ten Apples Up On Top!
by Dr. Seuss writing as Theo. LeSieg
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A lion, tiger, and dog are balancing ten apples on their heads when two irritable bears start to chase them.
Activity Cat in the Hat coloring sheet 

Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020
​Kindergarten

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I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.
Activity Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020
​First Grade

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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss
Marco struggles to report truthfully to his father the events of his day, rather than embellish the dull sights in order to make for a more exciting tale. Published in 1937, this first book for children by Dr. Seuss was rejected by 27 publishers before being accepted by Vanguard Press.
Video 4-year-old on the importance of reading
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Activity Create your Dr. Seuss name Students experiment with their names to create their own pseudonyms: Doctor + Middle Name.
Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020
Second Grade

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Wild About Books, by Judy Sierra
In this celebration of the literary life, librarian Molly McGrew drives her bookmobile into the zoo, and then the fun begins! The animals draw close to listen to a Dr. Seuss story, and once they "learn all about this new something called reading," they try creating their very own stories.
Video 4-year-old on the importance of reading
Activity Create your Dr. Seuss name Students experiment with their names to create their own pseudonyms: Doctor + Middle Name and 
Abbreviation of First Name + Last Name spelled backwards.

Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020 - Third Grade
​Black History Month and Narrative Nonfiction

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Farm Boy circa 1940,
(top right). Library of Congress, Bound for Glory exhibit
Tenant Farmhouse, Poplar Grove Plantation, North Carolina
(bottom right). Library of Congress, Bound for Glory exhibit
Mr. Williams,
 by Karen Barbour
"I was good at making my rows straight." Born the same year as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. Williams lived simply, sometimes facing the harsh reality of racism in the South. This understated biography drives home that though most of us will not grow up to be famous, we can live our lives with dignity.

Week of February 24, 2020 - Fourth and Fifth Grade
California Young Reader Medal - Picture Book for Older Readers

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California Young Reader Medal About
Lillian's Right to Vote: a Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, by Jonah Winter
An elderly woman stands at the bottom of a steep hill, determined to walk to the top to cast her vote. As she climbs she recalls significant people and events that have led her to this day: her great-great-grandparents being sold at a slave auction, her great-grandpa picking cotton, her uncle failing unfair voting registration tests, her parents being deterred from the polls, cross burnings, civil rights marches, and, finally, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. An afterword details the story's inspiration -- African American Lillian Allen, who voted in 2008 at age 100 -- and notes how the 1965 Voting Rights Act has been diminished by a 2013 Supreme Court decision.

Read-alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

2/10/2020

 

Week of February 10, 2020 - TK - Happy Valentine's Day

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Set the Mood Happy Dog Music
​I Love Dogs! by Sue Stainton
Lazy dogs, crazy dogs, yappy dogs, happy dogs... and one very special dog.
Clifford's First Valentine's Day, by Norman Bridwell
Emily Elizabeth describes all the Valentine fun that she and Clifford had when he was just a tiny puppy in her pocket.

Never Too Little to Love, by Jeanne Willis
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How can a tiny mouse get the kiss he needs?

Activity Valentine lift-the-flap
At home activity Heart Mouse Paper Craft Instructions

Week of February 10, 2020 - Kindergarten - Happy Valentine's Day

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Set the Mood Whimsical Music
Mr. Tanen's Ties,
 by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
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The principal at Lynnhurst Elementary School is well known for his colorful and unusual ties, but his boss orders him to stop wearing them until he learns to love them too, and ties a knot of another sort.

Activity: Necktie Craft

Week of February 10, 2020 - First Grade - Happy Valentine's Day

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Set the Mood Whimsical Music
​Yuck, a Love Story,
 by Don Gillmor 
​Austin has a hard time admitting he likes his new neighbor, Amy, but when her birthday comes he goes to fantastic lengths to get her an unexpected present.
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Small Talk "Kids on Valentine's Day: What's this Love Thing All About?" 
Activity Coloring sheet with yucky fluffy slime recipe

Week of February 10, 2020 - Second Grade - Happy Valentine's Day

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Set the Mood Classic Japanese Music
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 Zamami Island, Okinawa, Japan
Shiro in Love,
 by Wendy Tokuda
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Shiro started as an unwanted pup left in a garbage dump, but after he was rescued he became famous in Japan.
Set the Mood Classic Japanese Music

Activity Valentine's Day coloring sheet

​Week of February 10, 2020 - Third Grade - Happy Valentine's Day

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Set the Mood Classic Cuban music
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach, by Carmen Agra Deedy
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When her grandmother advises lovely cockroach Martina to spill coffee on suitors to see their true personality revealed, the beautiful cockroach is in for a surprise.
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Cockroaches: Public Enemy #1 Discovery Education Streaming Video (password protected)
Activity Cockroach coloring sheet

Week of February 10, 2020 - Fourth Grade - Celebrating Love

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Set the Mood Everly Brothers All I Have to Do is Dream, 1958 
The Case for Loving,
 by Selina Alko
Children these days would be shocked to know that before 1967 they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. This is the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who, in 1958, struggled with marriage laws. They fought the unfair laws and took their case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Celebrate the Supreme Court Ruling The Beatles All You Need is Love, 1967
Video NBC Nightly News Report: the Loving Case (aired 2012)

Week of February 10, 2020 - Fifth Grade - Valentine & Novel Study

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Set the Mood Whimsical Music
​XO, Ox: A Love Story,
by Adam Rex

A hapless ox and a graceful gazelle share an affectionate correspondence initiated by the ox that transforms as the conceited gazelle is won over by the ox's hopelessly romantic overtures.
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Schooled, by Gordon Korman
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Although he knows a lot about Zen Buddhism, nothing has prepared home schooled Capricorn Anderson for an A-list bully, a popular girl, and middle school politics. The shifting points of view capture a pitch-perfect "fish out of water" story.

Activity Journal responses to writing prompts will be written in cursive (link to chart). Why Writing by Hand Could Make You Smarter, by William R. Klemm, Ph.D., Psychology Today, posted March 14, 2013.

Read-alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

2/3/2020

 

Week of February 3, 2020 - TK & Kindergarten - 100th Day of School

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The Very Kind Rich Lady and Her One Hundred Dogs, by Chinlun Lee
The very kind rich lady cares for 100 lucky dogs!

Video Will Zero the Hero visit Grand View on the 100th Day?
Activity Dog name coloring sheet

Week of February 3, 2020 - First Grade
Black History is American History

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Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story, by Ruby Bridges
In 1960 Ruby Bridges became a pioneer in school integration at the age of six, when she was chosen to spend her first-grade year in what had formerly been an all-white elementary school.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet

Week of February 3, 2020 - Second Grade
​Black History is American History

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Video Rosa Parks Discovery Education (password protected)
Rosa Parks, by Lisbeth Kaiser
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A brief biography of Rosa Parks, African American civil rights activist.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet

Week of February 3, 2020 - Third Grade
​Black History is American History

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White Socks Only, by Evelyn Coleman
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi, and how her naive assumption about a sign earned her a whipping from an angry man.
The Other Side, by Jacqueline Woodson
Though a literal and figurative fence segregates a town, two girls find a way to overcome the separation and become playmates at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era and Freedom Summer.

Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet

Week of February 3, 2020 - Fourth Grade
​Black History is American History

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Light in the Darkness, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.

Words Set Me Free, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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A biography of the early life of Frederick Douglass, one of the first leaders of the antislavery movement. Discusses how he spent his childhood as a slave on a plantation, was sold at the age of eight to Hugh and Sophia Auld in Baltimore, and explains that learning to read was the key to his freedom.
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Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet

Week of February 3, 2020 - Fifth Grade
​Black History is American History

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Henry's Freedom Box, by Ellen Levine
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave (c1815-1897) escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate to Philadelphia.
Henry Climbs a Mountain, by D.B. Johnson

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), refused to pay taxes to a state that allowed slavery and was arrested in 1846. The endnote explains that Thoreau assisted slaves in fleeing to Canada, and that both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were inspired by Thoreau's writings about peaceful civil disobedience.
Video Greensboro Four Woolworth's Lunch Counter AwesomeStories.com February 1, 1960, four black college students sat a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. Their peaceful protest inspired other people to organize sit-ins throughout the South.
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
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Four young men who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at a "whites only" lunch counter.
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Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet

Read-alouds and Presentations Week-to-Week by Grade Level

1/13/2020

 

Week of January 13, 2020
​Hero in the Hallway Kindness Nominations

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Hero in the Hallway Kindness Nominations When we perform acts of kindness, we can make the world into the better place that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned. Students, teachers, and staff are invited to be on the look out for everyday heroes in the hallway performing kindnesses large and small and nominate them for recognition at the Kindness Assembly on February 5th. The nomination forms and collection box are in the library.

Week of January 13, 2020 - TK and Kindergarten
​Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, by Jean Marzollo
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Focuses on highlights and accomplishments to help the very young appreciate Dr. King. 
Activity MLK coloring sheet

Week of January 13, 2020 - First Grade
​Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, by Mir Tamim Ansary
Introduces Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
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Strictly No Elephants, by Lisa Mantchev
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Sweetly affirming, a boy and his unusual pet create a space where all are welcome.
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Activity MLK coloring sheet

Week of January 13, 2020 - Second Grade
​Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, by Mir Tamim Ansary
Introduces Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade, by Justin Roberts
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Sally McCabe is a very little girl who speaks out about the unkindness she sees, and people start to pay attention.
Activity MLK coloring sheet

Week of January 13, 2020 - Third Grade
​Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers, by Christine King Farris
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Growing up in the segregated South forced a very young Martin to learn a bitter lesson, and as a seven-year-old he embarked on a journey that would change the course of American history.
Video The Story of MLK by Kid President

Activity MLK coloring sheet

Week of January 13, 2020 - Fourth Grade
​Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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My Uncle Martin's Words for America, by Angela Farris Watkins
The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recounts her uncle's work to promote racial equality and introduces key events during the civil rights era, focusing on key tenets of King's philosophy: freedom, justice, brotherhood and nonviolence.
What a Wonderful World based on the song by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss Illustrations and lyrics introduce a song, first recorded in 1967 by Louis Armstrong, which celebrates the wonders of nature, loving friends, and the promise of the future in a baby's cry.
Video Louis Armstrong sings What a Wonderful World with spoken word introduction. 

Activity MLK coloring sheet and Wonderful World coloring sheet

Week of January 13, 2020 - Fifth Grade
​Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Famous Speech On August 28, 1963, the "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The March was partly intended to show support for civil rights legislation proposed June 11th by President John F. Kennedy.
Video I Have a Dream 
President Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act Kennedy did not live to see the civil rights dream come true. The Civil Rights Act was signed by President Johnson on July 2, 1964. It outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended racial segregation in schools, the workplace, and public facilities.
The Cart that Carried Martin, by Eve Bunting In an example of how focusing on a smaller element of a larger story can cut to the heart of its meaning, Eve Bunting tells the story of the cart borrowed from a junk store that carried the body of Martin Luther King, Jr. through the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, on the day of his funeral.

If Kids Ran the World, by Leo and Diane Dillon 
A tribute to peace and a celebration of diverse cultures, this last collaboration of the Dillons captures the wondrous joy of all people, and the unique beauty within each one of us that shines forth. 

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All You Need Is Love 
Activity All You Need is Love coloring sheet

Read-alouds and Presentations Week-to-Week by Grade Level

1/6/2020

 

Week of January 6, 2020 - TK
Happy Healthy New Year

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Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems
Gerald believes he is allergic to his best friend Piggie and is concerned that he will need to stay away from his pal forever.

Farm Flu, by Teresa Bateman
When the farm animals seem to catch the flu one after another, a young boy does his best to take care of them.

Be Who You Are! by Todd Parr
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Encourages kids to be proud of what makes them unique, where they come from, and how they express themselves and see the world.
Activity Todd Parr coloring sheet

Week of January 6, 2020 - Kindergarten
​Exploring Nonfiction

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Exploring Nonfiction Materials
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Review the differences between fiction and nonfiction. Engage students in a discussion about subjects they like to learn about. Explain that nonfiction books are organized by subject. Students tour the nonfiction side of the library.
Activity Fiction and nonfiction worksheet

Week of January 6, 2020 - First Grade
Sending Thank You Notes

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The Giant Hug, by Sandra Horning
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Owen sends a real hug to his Grandmother through the mail. Discuss that it would be OK to say no thank you to a hug and that if no thank you is said, then that request should be respected.
Video Mail Myself to You by Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) featured in a 2003 US Postal Service commercial. "
I'm a-gonna wrap myself in paper, I'm a-gonna daub myself with glue, stick some stamps on the top o' my head; I'm a-gonna mail myself to you. Oh, I'm a-gonna tie me in a little red string, I'm a-gonna tie blue ribbons too, climb up into my mailbox and I'm a-gonna mail myself to you."
Activity Using butcher paper, children will help each other trace the outline of their bodies.
At home extension 
Make a giant hug from wrapping paper.

Week of January 6, 2020 - Second Grade
Curriculum Connection - Heritage Project

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Activity Students turn and talk about what single item they would choose to take to start a new life in a new country.
Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel 
by Leslie Connor. The shovel a young immigrant brings to America spades gardens, clears snow, plants seeds, and exemplifies how choices follow us through life. Students will think about what choice they would make in similar circumstances, and how that choice might impact a lifetime.
Website Dan Yaccarino
Videos Book trailer 1 and book trailer 2

All the Way to America by Dan Yaccarino. In a tale that honors those who helped make us who we are, a little shovel is passed down through four generations of the author's family.
Activity Discussion questions 

Week of January 6, 2020 - Third Grade - Social/Emotional Wellness
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Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Doing the Right Thing

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The Busy Body Book, by Lizzy Rockwell
Presents a children's fitness guide that explains how the bones, muscles, heart, and lungs work to keep the body healthy and strong. MindUP
A Bike Like Sergio's, by Maribeth Boelts
Money is tight for Ruben's parents so the chances of him getting the bike he want's are slim until he finds a hundred dollar bill. Finders keepers? Or honesty is the best policy?
The Three Questions, by Jon J. Muth
Nikolai wants to be a good person so he seeks advice about three important questions: When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? A simple re-telling of a philosophical story by Leo Tolstoy. Symbolism: a r
ed kite floats through the pages, appearing, disappearing, and reappearing, but never mentioned in the text. Sometimes only the string in Nikolai's hand is seen, and sometimes only the kite itself with the string trailing down. It is not seen at all during his adventures at Leo's home, but he has brought it there.
​PBIS Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

Week of January 6, 2020 - Fourth Grade
Curriculum Connection - Social Justice Book Groups

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Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights, by Rob Sanders
Nonviolent protests play a major part in history and this alphabet book explains the many ways people can take a stand to bring about change.
​If You're Going to a March, by Martha Freeman
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Many of today's demonstrations have become peaceful, inter-generational outings and this book follows kids in four diverse families as they create signs to carry, travel to the event, listen to speakers, and march.

Week of January 6, 2020 - Fifth Grade
Social/Emotional Wellness - Having a Positive Outlook

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​Little Brown, by Marla Frazee
Little Brown the dog sits alone against a chain link fence. Is he cranky because the other dogs won't play with him, or will they not play with him because he is cranky? Though there is no satisfying ending, there is much room for discussion about optimism vs. pessimism and making the first move in compromise.
​Imagine, by Juan Felipe Herrera
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Born in California in 1948 the son of migrant workers, Juan endures hardships that make him a stronger person, such as having to walk to the nearest town for water and entering school not knowing the English language. He finds that words are a constant that make him happy and give him the freedom to create. Ultimately, he becomes the first Chicano Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2017), and in this brief autobiography he implores readers to "imagine what you could do."
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