
Introduction
Schedule/Lesson Plans
Capstone Project Ideas
Essay Topics
Additional Resources
NCTE Standards
Credits
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Works Cited
Eig, Jonathan. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Margolick, David. Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. New York: Random House, 2005.
Ferris, Bill. “Meeting Ernest Gaines.” Humanities, July/August 1998.
Acknowledgements
David Kipen, NEA Director of National Reading Initiatives
Sarah Bainter Cunningham, PhD, NEA Director of Arts Education
Writers: Deborah S. Replogle with Molly Thomas-Hicks for the National Endowment for the Arts, with a preface by Dana Gioia
Series Editor: Molly Thomas-Hicks for the National Endowment for the Arts
Graphic Design: Fletcher Design/Washington, D.C.
