poems about America

Born in 1819, Walt Whitman called himself "the people's poet" and celebrated that in lines about how "I Hear America Singing." Half a century later, Langston Hughes felt that this was not a complete picture of American diversity, so he responded with his own poem entitled "I, Too, Sing America."

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Cause Greater Than Self, The New Colossus, The Statue of Liberty Address, poems about America, America, America and I, What Is an American, Growing Up Asian in America, Let America Be America Again, The Four Freedoms, The Bill of Rights, What Is Freedom, Is the American Dream Still Possible, The Declaration of Independence, poems about immigrants, Money, A Raisin in the Sun, Who Burns, Roberto Acuna, Barack Obama, The Right to Fail