Author: CHS

Borden Deal
This was a story about a boy who grew up in a rural area his entire life and then his parents decided to move to the city. This is extremely hard for him because he is used to owning lots of land and planting crops and such. He makes friends and then decided to grow grass on the top of a building. The owner did not like this so he tore it apart and ran away.

Paul Laurence Dunbar
A young black boy loved horses a lot. His mother was sick and since he was black he the doactor would not help him unless if he had lots of money. So he went to race horses and ended up riding the horse that killed his father. He won the race and got enough money to help his mother. He never told her he rode the horse that killed his papa.

Kurt Vonnegut
This story was about a bunch of orphans during the War. There was one black boy everyone made fun of and sort of left out. He met a black soldier who he thought was his dad because it was the only other black man he ever saw. He made the soldier promise he would come back for him.

This story was about a group of boys who always played punch ball. The one boy they would never let play because he wasn’t good enough and they would have uneven teams. So the boy who is always left out and picked on finds another kid to play who happens to be worse than he is. So he is mean to the new kid and treats him like they used to treat him.

This was a Great Section on racism. Their were a variety of different types of racism. Not only to black people but also to people who aren’t skilled in certain areas.

This story was about a young African American female who qualified and won an art scholarship award. She was a very good artist and accepted in her school. When they found out she was black they didn’t give her the award.