Many Voices
A Multicultural Reader: Collection Two
Genre
Selections
Lexile
Theme One: Families: Comfort and Conflict
Poem
Aunt by Al Young (1 page)
Short Story
*Two Kinds by Amy Tan (12 pages)
Poem
Piñon Nuts by Dixie Salazar (1.5 pages)
930
Short Story
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie (12.5 pages)
810
Memoir
Papi by Edwidge Danticat (9 pages)
1040
Poem
Home Training by Bruce A. Jacobs (3.5 pages)
Monologue
From Aliens in America by Sandra Tsing Loh (9.5 pages)
750
Memoir
About Russell by Rita Williams-Garcia (8.5 pages)
930
Poem
Family by Grace Paley (1 page)
Theme Two: Finding My Way
Poem
*Without Commercials by Alice Walker (3 pages)
Memoir
*I Want to Be Miss América by Julia Alvarez (5.5 pages)
1060
Memoir
From A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks (7.5 pages)
810
Poem
Sure You Can Ask Me A Personal Question by Diane Burns (1.5 pages)
Personal Essay
Roots: Random Thoughts on Random Hair by Tatsu Yamato (4.5 pages)
Poem
Wakoski’s Petunias by Diane Wakoski (1.5 pages)
Short Story
What Means Switch by Gish Jen (19.5 pages)
Poem
In Answer to Their Questions by Giovanna (Janet) Capone (4.5 pages)
Memoir
From The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (5.5 pages)
Poem
Style Is by Quincy Troupe (1 page)
1060
730
1060
Theme Three: Defining Moments
Monologue
Here’s Herbie by Mike Feder (5.5 pages)
1130
Autobiography
**From Black Boy by Richard Wright (8 pages)
1130
Poem
Blink Your Eyes by Sekou Sundiata (1.5 pages)
Memoir
*First Love by Judith Ortiz Cofer (6.5 pages)
1140
Poem
Suburban Indian Pride by Tahnahga (1 page)
Short Story
The Baddest Dog in Harlem by Walter Dean Myers (7.5 pages)
Poem
Innocent Traveler by Thom Tammaro (1 page)
Memoir
Beets by Tiffany Midge (8.5 pages)
1190
Short Story
The Lemon Tree Billiards House by Cedric Yamanaka (11 pages)
670
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Many Voices
A Multicultural Reader: Collection Two
Genre
Selections
Lexile
Theme Four: Between Two Worlds
Autobiography
From Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams (13 pages)
Poem
Coca-Cola and Coco Frío by Martín Espada (1 page)
Memoir
The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl by Elizabeth Wong (2.5 pages)
Poem
Rib Sandwich by William J. Harris (1 page)
Short Story
The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko (5 pages)
Poem
Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American by Dwight Okita (1.5 pages)
Short Story
*Why, You Reckon? by Langston Hughes (5.5 pages)
Poem
Home by Pauline Kaldas (1 page)
Short Story
To Each His Song by Bonnie Blake (12 pages)
Poem
White Lies by Natasha Trethewey (1 page)
Essay
Familiar Strangers by Ray Suárez (4 pages)
920
1100
980
880
670
1220
Theme Five: Person to Person
Short Story
Kwoon by Charles Johnson (13.5 pages)
1020
Memoir
*Like Mexicans by Gary Soto (4.5 pages)
900
Short Story
980
Essay
Sonia by E. R. Frank (11.5 pages)
Earth and I Gave
You Turquoise by N. Scott Momaday (1 page)
The Teacher Who Changed My Life by Nicholas Gage (4 pages)
1310
Short Story
The Eve of the Spirit Festival by Lan Samantha Chang (12 pages)
790
Poem
Poem
Two Guitars by Víctor Hernández Cruz (1 page)
Short Story
The Wooing of Ariadne by Harry Mark Petrakis (12.5 pages)
740
Theme Six: Outside Influences
Poem
Making It Stick by Lawson Fusao Inada (1 page)
Essay
Indians Are a People, Not Mascots by Fred Veilleux (9.5 pages)
Poem
democracy by W. R. Rodriguez (1.5 pages)
Short Story
The Fabulous Sinkhole by Jesús Salvador Treviño (25 pages)
Poem
Horns on Your Head by Hal Sirowitz (1 page)
Short Story
Adventures of an Indian Princess by Patricia Riley (5.5 pages)
1140
Essay
Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples (3.5 pages)
1170
Poem
On the Subway by Sharon Olds (1 page)
Memoir
A Double Impulse by James D. and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (6.5 pages)
1060
Newspaper Column
*Melting Pot by Anna Quindlen (2.5 pages)
*Common Core Exemplar Author
**Common Core Exemplar Text
1100
1450
1290
Common Core Alignment Overview:
Variety of genres and levels, including poetry and drama; short, complex selections for Close Reading; text dependent, higher
level thinking and discussion; exemplar authors and texts
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