Grade 8 Reading List: "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks

People who think they're cool usually are not. In her poem, Gwendolyn Brooks takes on the voice of pool players but actually draws a chalk outline around their lives.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni

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