Comprehension Readings

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10,000 Dresses
A.J. McElveen letter to the slaver Ziba B. Oakes 19 January, 1854
About Feeling Jewish
A Difficult Decision to Join the Military, Tosh Yasutake
An Unlikely Friendship
A Painter Named Kenedy
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
A Priceless Lesson in Humility
A War on the Peaceful
Be A Good Boy
Beyond the Barbed Wire
Familiar food turns a refuge into a home
Feelings About Being Placed in an Assembly Center, Masao Watanabe
Hearing About the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Akiko Kurose
Inspections
Julia Moves to the United States
My Name was Hussein
Old Joe and the Carpenter – An Appalachian Tale of Building Bridges
One Million Men and Me
Oyster Shucking Dunbar, Louisiana
Peace Begins With You
Rose Blanche
Small Truths – The Immigration Experience Through the Eyes of Children
The Breadwinner
The First Coconut Tree
The Negro Motorist Green Book
We Live By What We See at Night
Yaki’s Mural

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I hope you enjoy the readings. Ms. Julie