The World and Its People, Florida Edition

Unit 1: The World

Literature Connections

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Without Commercials by Alice Walker
The Sand Castle by Alma Luz Villanueva
The Smallest Dragonboy by Anne McCaffrey
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth… by Arthur C. Clarke
The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Strawberries retold by Gayle Ross
Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Ankylosaurus by Jack Prelutsky
The Enchanted Raisin by Jacqueline Balcells
The Shark by John Ciardi
Dragon, Dragon by John Gardner
Birdfoot's Grampa by Joseph Bruchac
Racing the Great Bear retold by Joseph Bruchac
The Stone by Lloyd Alexander
The Black Walnut Tree by Mary Oliver
There Is No Word for Goodbye by Mary TallMountain
Hurricanes by Patricia Lauber
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Time to Talk / Fire and Ice / Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
Future Tense by Robert Lipsyte
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay
Miracles by Walt Whitman