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leap, and she was on dry land. She stepped over spongy leaves and moss, into the woods where the sparrows sang nesting songs in delicate relays. “Where are you?” Nokomis yelled again. “I found the tree!” “I’m coming,” Omakayas called back to her grandmother. It was spring, time to cut Birchbark. APPENDIX B 86 > OREGON ... | {
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you’ll be with Mr. and Mrs. Amos and their son, who’s twelve years old, that makes him just two years older than you, doesn’t it, Bud?” “Yes, ma’am.” She said, “I’m sure you’ll both be very happy.” Me and Jerry looked at each other. The woman said, “Now, now, boys, no need to look so glum, I know you don’t understand w... | {
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mud so much made it spread everywhere and the hot sun dried it onto their clothes and hair and homes. Over time, everything in the village had become the dull color of dried mud. One of the houses in this village was so small that its wood boards, held together by the roof, made one think of a bunch of matches tied wit... | {
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of their mothers Many sisters and brothers, APPENDIX B 88 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Like birds in their nest, Are ready for rest, And sport no more seen On the darkening green. Lazarus, Emma . “The New Colossus.... | {
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put up even money now with Casey at the bat. But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake; So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat, For there seemed but little chance of Casey ’s getting to the bat. APPENDIX B 89 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS ... | {
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up a muffled roar, Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore. “Kill him! Kill the umpire!” shouted some one on the stand; And it’s likely they’d have killed him had not Casey raised his hand. With a smile of Chr istian charity great Casey’s visage shone; He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the ... | {
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hopped sidewise to the wall To let a beetle pass. He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all abroad — They looked like frightened beads, I thought — He stirred his velvet head — Like one in danger; cautious, I offered him a crumb, And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home Than oars divide the ocean, Too s... | {
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goldlullaby. I’ll see you long and dark as tunnels, bright as rainbows, playful as chestnutwind. I’ll watch you, words, rise and dance and spin. I’ll say, say, say you in English, in Spanish, I’ll find you. Hold you. Toss you. I’m free too. I say yo soy libre , I am free free, free, free as confetti. APPENDIX B 92 > OR... | {
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the color of the sky to the sounds of the pond, to describe the scene. [RL.4.3] Students compare and contrast coming-of-age stories by Christopher Paul Curtis (Bud, Not Buddy) and Louise Erdrich (The Birchbark House) by identifying similar themes and examining the stories’ approach to the topic of growing up. [RL.5.9] ... | {
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like a little hill. The Hawaiian volcano is only 5½ miles high. Its base, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is just 124 miles wide. Each of the three other volcanoes in the Great Tharsis Bulge are over 10 miles high. They are named Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Ascraeus Mons. Media Text NASA’s illustrated fact sheet ... | {
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Lauber. Used by permission of Scholastic, Inc. Otfinoski, Steve. The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It .New York: Scholastic, 1996. (1996) APPENDIX B 94 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Tech... | {
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a machine that could cut perfect gear teeth. Brass replaced iron for clock making. Engravers, gilders, and enamellers decorated clock cases and dials. Glass-making shops made and cut glass. Woodworkers made clock cases. Excerpt from ABOUT TIME: A First Look at Time and Clocks by Bruce Koscielniak. Copyright © 2004 by B... | {
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Oregon. The time? We were in the 13 th century; let’s try the 14 th century for this visit. Life is easy for the Indians here in the Northwest near the great ocean. They are affluent (AF-flew-ent – it means “wealthy”) Americans. For them the world is bountiful: the rivers hold salmon and sturgeon; the ocean is full of ... | {
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children really learn how to read. This project in Spanish is called El Libro Compartido en Familia and enables parents to share the joy of books with their children. APPENDIX B 96 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects In s... | {
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one hind leg first, and then the front leg on the same side; then the other hind leg and the other front leg. When a horse walks, its body swings gently with each stride. When a horse trots, its legs move in pairs, left front leg with right hind leg, and right front leg with left hind leg. When a horse canters, the hin... | {
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kangaroo, for instance, gives birth to a baby as small as a lima bean. That’s what makes marsupials marsupials. Their babies are born so tiny that in order to survive they must live in a pouch on the mother’s tummy. The pouch is called a marsupium. (Don’t you wish you had one?) A baby marsupial lives hidden in the moth... | {
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spouted red-hot molten rock. In modern times, scientists began to st udy volcanoes. They still don’t know all the answers, but they know much about how a volcano works. Our planet is made up of many layers of rock. The top layers of solid rock are called the crust. Deep beneath the crust is the mantle, where it is so h... | {
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of the owners didn’t treat their players very well. Didn’t pay them enough or on time. That’s why we would jump from team to team. Other owners would offer us more money, and we would leave our teams and go play for them. We were some of the first unrestricted free agents. There were, however, a few owners who did know... | {
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same way for people. Look at this page. You may think you see words and pictures. Believe it or not, you don't. All you see is light bouncing off the page. How is this possible? The secret is in the rules of light. Light Rules APPENDIX B 99 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in ... | {
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image. Your eyes also have to bend light. Here's how. First, light hits your cornea. That's the clear covering on the front of your eyeball. The cornea refracts, or bends, light. And Action! Is your cornea super strong? No! Think about how light travels more slowly through water. The same thing happens in your cornea. ... | {
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of Telescopes There are many different types of telescopes, both optical and non-optical. Optical telescopes are designed to focus visible light. Non-optical telescopes are designed to detect kinds of electromagnetic radiation that are invisible to the human eye. These include radio waves, infrared radiation, X rays, u... | {
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Copyright © 2010. Grolier Online. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Scholastic Inc. Buckmaster, Henrietta. “Underground Railroad.” The New Book of Knowledge. New York: Scholastic, 2010. (2010) APPENDIX B 101 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Stud... | {
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Hall’s “Seeing Eye to Eye” to explain statements they make and ideas they infer regarding sight and light. [RI.5.1] Students determine the main idea of Colin A. Ronan’s “Telescopes” and create a summary by explaining how key details support his distinctions regarding different types of telescopes. [RI.4.2] APPENDIX B 1... | {
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it up at dinnertime.” They were soon ready, and the procession set out. Fortunately it was early, and they went through back streets, so few people saw them, and no one laughed at the queer party. A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a gr... | {
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And when they went away, leaving comfort b ehind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning. “That’s loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,” said Meg, as they... | {
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and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance —for he was ... | {
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brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before. Ben ranged up alongside of him. Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work. Ben said: “Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?” Tom wheeled suddenly and said: “Why, it’s you, Ben! I warn’t noticing.” “Say—I’m going in a -swimming, I am. Don’... | {
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be done.” “No— is that so? Oh come, now —lemme just try. Only just a little —I’d let YOU, if you was me, Tom.” “Ben, I’d like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly—well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn’t let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn’t let Sid. Now don’t you see how I’m fixed? If you was to tackle this fe... | {
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a key that wouldn’t unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass doorknob, a dog-collar —but no dog — the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash. He had had a nic... | {
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and Giroux, 1962. (1962) Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising . New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1973. (1973) From “Midwinter Day” He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running thro... | {
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white to the horizon’s brim. Will drew in a long, happy breath, silently rejoicing. Then, very faintly, he heard the music again, the same phrase. He swung round vainly searching for it in the air, as if he might see it somewhere like a flickering light. “Where are you?” Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings . New York: HarperCol... | {
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That was a sign the Stove King had returned to his place abov e our stove. After we had finished burning the old picture, we sat down to a lunch of meat pastries and dumplings. Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry . New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1976. (1976) From Chapter 9 “You were born blessed, boy, wi... | {
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keep doing what we gotta do, and we don’t give up. We can’t.” Hamilton, Virginia. “The People Could Fly.” The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales . New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1985. (1985) They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would walk ... | {
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whip over the slow ones to make them move faster. That whip was a slice-open cut of pain. So they did move faster. Had to. Paterson, Katherine. The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks . Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. New York: Lodestar Books, 1990. (1990) Long ago and far away in the Land of the Rising Sun, there lived to... | {
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upon. The lord ordered his servants to clear a narrow way through the undergrowth and place acorns along the path. When the drake came out of the water he saw the acorns. How pleased he was! He forgot to be cautious, thinking only of what a feast they would be to take home to his mate. Just as he was bending to pick up... | {
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when you’re all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you’re three, and that’s okay. That’s what I tell Mama when she’s sad and needs to cry. Maybe she’s feeling three. Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside th... | {
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among the piled fruits and the brimming wine cups; and bending close to look at it, everyone could see the words “To the fairest” traced o n its side. Then the three greatest of the goddesses each claimed that it was hers. Hera claimed it as wife to Zeus, the All-father, and queen of all the gods. Athene claimed that s... | {
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pill bottle, pours herself a glass of water, shakes out pill, swallows it, then reaches for the phone again, dials number nervously.] SOUND: Number being dialed on phone: Busy signal. MRS. STEVENSON. (A querulous, self-centered neurotic.) Oh —dear! (Slams down receiver, Dials OPERATOR.) [Scene: A spotlight, L. of side ... | {
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Play . New York: Random House, 1956. (1956) # Poetry Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Paul Revere’s Ride.” (1861) Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend... | {
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Masses and moving shapes of shade, — Up the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill, Wrapped in sile... | {
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street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet; That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the... | {
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fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball. You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge ... | {
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and hear the bells; Rise up —for you the flag is flung —for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen ... | {
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my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’ He chortled in his joy. ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Navajo tradition. “Twelfth Song of Thunder.” The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony. Forgotten Books, 2008. (1... | {
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caught a little silver trout. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air. Though I am old with... | {
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And that has made all the difference. Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago.” Chicago Poems . New York: Henry Holt, 1916. (1916) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I belie... | {
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stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation. Hughes, Langston. “I, Too, Sing America.” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes . New York: Knopf, 1994. (1925) Neruda, Pablo. “The Book of Qu... | {
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carnegie library Mrs. Long always glad to see you The stereoscope always ready to show you faraway Places to dream about Mrs. Long asking what are you looking for today When I wanted Leaves of Grass or alfred north whitehead She would go to the big library uptown and I now know Hat in hand to ask to borrow so that I mi... | {
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B 120 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Students cite explicit textual evidence as well as draw inferences about the drake and the duck from Katherine Paterson’s The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks to support their analysis ... | {
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of composition. Writings of his were handed about, remarkable for the peculiar felicity of expression. Though a silent member in Congress, he was so prompt, frank, explicit, and decisive upon committees and in conversation, not even Samuel Adams was more so, that he soon seized upon my heart; and upon this occasion I g... | {
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the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Written by Himself .Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. (1845) The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street. As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. ... | {
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am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?” These words used to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console me with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free. I was now about twelve years old, and the thought of being a slave for life began... | {
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from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder. What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights. The reading of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery; but w... | {
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animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing... | {
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entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.” APPENDIX B 123 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman:... | {
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America . New York: Penguin, 1997. (1962) From pages 27 –28 I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches. But some New England towns don’t have bars, and church is only o... | {
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is conveyed through supporting ideas and developed over the course of the text. [RI.8.2] Students trace the line of argument in Winston Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” address to Parliament and evaluate his specific claims and opinions in the text , distinguishing which claims are supported by facts, reasons... | {
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125 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Isaacson, Phillip. A Short Walk through the Pyramids and through the World of Art . New York: Knopf, 1993. (1993) From Chapter 1 At Giza, a few miles north of Saqqara, sit three gre... | {
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& THROUGH THE WORLD OF ART by Philip M. Isaacson, copyright © 1993 by Philip M. Isaacson. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Any additional use of this text, such as for classroom use or curriculum development, requir... | {
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both Patrick and Catherine O’Leary worked, they were able to put a large addition on their cottage despite a lot size of just 25 by 100 feet. Interspersed in these residential areas were a variety of businesses —paint factories, lumberyards, distilleries, gasworks, mills, furniture manufacturers, warehouses, and coal d... | {
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Did he feel as if his dead brother where the rightful Vincent, the one who would remain perfect in his parents’ hearts, and that he was merely an unsatisfactory replacement? That might have been one of the reasons he spent so much of his life feeling like a lonely outsider, a s if he didn’t fit anywhere in the world. D... | {
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his thumb and hitchhike, swing onto moving freight trains, and hunker down with other traveling men in flophouses, hobo jungles, and Hoovervilles across Depression America. He moved restlessly from state to state, soaking up some songs: work songs, mountain and cowboy songs, sea chanteys, songs from the southern chain ... | {
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—slave or free. Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the Supreme Court, described the limitation: For a sense of the evolving nature of the Constitution, we need look no further than the first three words of the document’s preamble: ‘We the People.’ When the Founding Fathers used this phrase in 1787... | {
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that discriminated against blacks and kept them in their place as second-class citizens. People were separated by race from the moment they were born in segregated hospitals until the day they were buried in segregated cemeteries. Blacks and whites did not attend the same schools, worship in the same churches, eat in t... | {
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feet above ground. On the scaffolding wooden centerings like those used for the flying buttresses were installed. They would support the arched stone ribs until the mortar was APPENDIX B 129 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Sub... | {
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was vaulted. Mackay, Donald. The Building of Manhattan . New York: Harper & Row, 1987. (1987) Media Text Manhattan on the Web: History, a Web portal hosted by the New York Public Library: Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure . Illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner. Translated by Michae... | {
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five million etcetera. You can’t tell me that’s too complicated for you, can you? Peterson, Ivars and Nancy Henderson. Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. (2000) From “Trek 7, The Fractal Pond Race” From the meanderings of a pond’s edge to the branc hing of trees and the intricate... | {
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segment of the star, add a triangle one ninth the side of the original triangle. The new triangles will have sides 1 centimeter in length so divide each 3-centimeter segment into thirds, and use the middle third to form a new triangle. 4. Going one step farther, you create a shape that begins to resemble a snowflake. I... | {
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They stashed their bikes and then Jesse blasted in through the door, which was always left open since he can never hang on to keys, and went right to his PC, which was always on. He yelled a question to Eric about the new operating system. "We change them like cartons of milk," he explained. At the moment, he had NT 5,... | {
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of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. According to Wolle’s own description of the machine’s operation, “pieces of paper of suitable length are given out from a roll of the required width, cut off from the roll and otherwise suitably cut to the required shape, folded, their APPENDIX B 132 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR ... | {
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earthquakes, and floods. Materials include rocks, air, seawater, soils, and sediment. Physical geology further divides into more specific branches, each of which deals with its own part of Earth’s materials, landforms, and processes. Mineralogy and petrology investigate the composition and origin of minerals and rocks.... | {
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to bring or report the data back to Earth. APPENDIX B 133 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Numerous space probes have been launched since the former Soviet Union first fired Luna 1 toward the Moon in 1959. Probes have ... | {
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moving ahead with the first series of planetary probes, called Mariner. Mariner 2 first reached the planet Venus in 1962. Later Mariner spacecrafts flew by Mars in 1964 and 1969, providing detailed images of that planet. In 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. During its year in orbit, Mariner 9 '... | {
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have very little impact in some regions. APPENDIX B 134 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects The Inventory Review Committee, Cal-IPC staff, and volunteers drafted assessments for each plant based on the formal criteria sys... | {
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to the Constitution. [RH.6 –8.1] Students evaluate Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire to identify which aspects of the text (e.g., loaded language and the inclusion of particular facts ) reveal his purpose; presenting Chicago as a city that was “ready to burn.” * RH.6 –8.6] Students describe how Russell Freedman in his book F... | {
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heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home. But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove — the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all, the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return. Launch out on hi... | {
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me to follow you! Pity me! I am afraid you might fall headlong or thorns undeservedly scar your legs and I be a cause of grief to you! These are rough places you run through. Slow down, I ask you, check your flight, and I too will slow. At least enquire whom it is APPENDIX B 136 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR... | {
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or now, he has her fast, grazing her heels with his outstretched jaws, while she uncertain whether she is already caught, escaping his bite, spurts from the muzzle touching her. So the virgin and the god: he driven by desire, she by fear. He ran faster, Amor giving him wings, and allowed her no rest, hung on her fleein... | {
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Paea n had done: the laurel bowed her newly made branches, and seemed to shake her leafy crown like a head giving consent. Gogol, Nikolai. “The Nose.” Translated by Ronald Wilks. Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories. New York: Penguin, 1972. (1836) An extraordinarily strange thing happened in St. Petersburg on 25 March... | {
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was amazed to see something white the re. Ivan carefully picked at it with his knife, and felt it with his finger. ‘Quite thick,’ he said to himself. ‘What on earth can it be?’ He poked two fingers in and pulled out —a nose! He flopped back in his chair, and began rubbing his eyes and feeling around in the roll again. ... | {
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around here a minute longer!’ Ivan Yakovlevich was absolutely stunned. He thought and thought, but just didn’t know what to make of it. ‘I’m damned if I know what’s happened!’ he said at last, scratching the back of his ear. ‘I can’t say for certain if I came home drunk or not last ni ght. All I know is, it’s crazy. Af... | {
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to pick it up and hide it in his pocket. Despair gripped him, especially as the streets were getting more and more crowded now as the shops and stalls began to open. He decided to make his way to St. Isaac’s Bridge and see if he could throw the nose into the River Neva without anyone seeing him. But here I am rather at... | {
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story but everyone laughed at it. My Lady Baroness, who weighed three hundred and fifty pounds, consequently was a person of no small consideration; and then she did the honors of the house with a dignity that commanded universal respect. Her daughter was about seventeen years of age, fresh-colored, comely, plump, and ... | {
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though he never had the courage to tell her so. He concluded that next to the happiness of being Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, the next was that of being Miss Cunegund, the next that of seeing her every day, and the last that of hearing the doctrine of Master Pangloss, the greatest philosopher of the whole province, an... | {
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of doors. The lovely Miss Cunegund fainted away, and, as soon as she came to herself, the Baroness boxed her ears. Thus a general consternation was spread over this most magnificent and most agreeable of all possible castles. Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons . Translated by Constance Garnett. New York: Dover, 1998. (18... | {
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in harness all his life, first in command of a brigade, and then of a division, and lived constantly in the provinces, where, by virtue of his rank, he played a fairly important part. Nikolai Petrovitch was born in the south of Russia like his elder brother, Pavel, of whom more hereafter. He was educated at home till h... | {
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mother's side, Ilya Kolyazin, an official of high rank. Their father returned to his division and his wife, and only rarely sent his sons large sheets of grey paper, scrawled over in a bold clerkly hand. At the bottom of these sheets stood in letters, enclosed carefully in scroll-work, the words, "Piotr Kirsanov, Gener... | {
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it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You’ll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how i t looks on it.” Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled. “Dell,” said he, “let’s put our Christmas pres... | {
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could barely cling. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, were waving helplessly before his eyes. "What's happened to me?" he thought. It was no dream. His room, a regular human room, only a little on the small side, lay quiet between the four familiar walls. Over the table, on which ... | {
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humility in front of the screen. “Could you see your way to sell us a loaf of bread, ma’am?” Mae said, “This ain’t a grocery store. We got bread to make san’widges.” “I know, ma’am.” His humility was insistent. “We need bread and there ain’t nothin’ for quite a piece, they say.” “‘F we sell bread we gonna run out.” Mae... | {
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“This here is a fifteen -cent l oaf.” The man put his hat back on his head. He answered with inflexible humility, “Won’t you—can’t you see your way to cut off ten cents’ worth?” Al said snarlingly, “Goddamn it, Mae. Give ‘em the loaf.” APPENDIX B 143 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Li... | {
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the copper cent carefully on the counter. The boys expelled their held breath softly. Mae held the big sticks out. Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 . New York: Ballantine, 1987. (1953) From Part 1: “The Hearth and the Salamander” It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things black... | {
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ever went away, as long as he remembered. Olsen, Tillie. “I Stand Here Ironing.” Tell Me a Riddle . New York: Dell, 1956. (1956) From “I Stand Here Ironing” I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron. “I wish you would manage the time to come in and talk with me about your ... | {
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villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back would never touch the ea... | {
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no patience with unsuccessful men. He had had no patience with his father. Unoka, for that was his father's name, had died ten years ago. In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, ca... | {
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Unoka loved it all, and he loved the first kites that returned with the dry season, and the children who sang songs of welcome to them. He would remember his own childhood, how he had often wandered around looking for a kite sailing leisurely against the blue sky. As soon as he found one he would sing with his whole be... | {
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settle an argument with a fist-fight, so we consulted Atticus. Our father said we were both right. APPENDIX B 146 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels . New York: Ballantine, 1996. (1975)... | {
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road. “Devious.” He laughed aloud. Fremantle stared an owlish stare. “Why, Colonel, bless your soul, there ain’t a devious bone in Robert Lee’s body, don’t you know that?” Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club . New York: Ballantine, 1989. (1989) From “Jing -Mei Woo: Two Kinds” My mother believed you could be anything you wanted... | {
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the Time of the Butterflies . Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1994. (1994) From Chapter 1: “Dedé 1994 and circa 1943” She remembers a clear moonlit night before the future began. They are sitting in the cool darkness under the anacahuita tree in the front yard, in the rockers, telling stories, drinking guanabana juice. Good fo... | {
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bottle. “Yes, for sure, our Dedé here is going to be the millionaire in the family.” Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief . New York: Knopf, 2005. (2005) From “The Flag” The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked amo... | {
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