Emily Dickinson – American poetry
Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody (1891) I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us--don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be [...]
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e e cummings – American poetry project
In Just- (1920) in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's [...]
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Br’er Rabbit takes a ride – American literature
Br'er Fox Everyone laughed at Br'er Rabbit This is a story about Br'er Rabbit and his enemy Br'er Fox. Well, after that story with the Tar Baby got around, the girls were all laughing [...]
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How Br’er Rabbit lost his tail – American literature
Br'er Rabbit and his tail Another Br'er Rabbit story This is a story about Br'er Rabbit. So one day in late fall, Br'er Rabbit was hopping down the dirt road and [...]
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Anne Bradstreet – American literature
Anne Bradstreet Who was Anne Bradstreet? Anne Bradstreet was the first person who published English poetry in North America. She sailed from England to America with her husband and her [...]
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Native American creation myths
Native American creation myths - A cross-legged man from Spiro Mound (modern Oklahoma), 900-1450 AD Where did Native people come from? Each group of people in North America had their own [...]
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Chinook creation myth – Native American religion
Chinook Thunderbird totem pole How were the first Chinook born? In the beginning, the first men came down from the sky. They were Thunderbird's children. Thunderbird laid eggs on Saddle [...]
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Cherokee creation myth – Native American religion
The Atlantic ocean Long ago, the earth was just a big island, floating in a bigger ocean. The earth was hanging from four cords coming down from the sky, which was made of [...]
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Early Cherokee language and stories
Cherokee statues from Etowah (now northern Georgia) Cherokee is part of a group of Iroquois languages. Before the Spanish conquered the Cherokee, the Cherokee people didn't use writing. But they told many [...]
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William Shakespeare – Plays – England
William Shakespeare Who was William Shakespeare? Little Shakespeare was born in England, in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1564 AD. His family was pretty well off, and he probably went to [...]
