Prologue
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Yip Harburg
Creating Context
America on Easy Street • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: How Were People Affected?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- The Song (oral history)
- Yip Harburg/Studs Terkel
- General Douglas MacArthur Fires on Americans (article)
- Lee McCardell
- A One-Woman Crime Wave (short story)
- Richard Peck
- King of the Hoboes, Arvel Pearson (oral history)
- Errol Lincoln Uys
- Just Hanging On (article)
- From Opportunity Magazine
Cluster Two: What Was the New Deal?
Thinking Skill: Summarizing
- Americans Get a “New Deal” (article)
- Bruce Glassman
- Built to Last (article)
- Donald Dale Jackson
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dream? (short story)
- Jackie French Koller
- I Want You to Write to Me (article)
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Letters to the Roosevelts (letters)
- Anonymous
- Voices of Discontent (article)
- Gail B. Stewart
Cluster Three: How Tough Were the Times?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Digging In (memoir)
- Robert J. Hastings
- The Lesson (short story)
- Harry Mark Petrakis
- Black Sunday (oral history)
- From The Dirty Thirties, Thelma Bemount Campbell
- Debts (poem)
- Karen Hesse
- Migrant Mother (essay)
- Dorothea Lange
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Depression Days (poem)
- Pat Mora
- The Good Provider (short story)
- Marion Gross
- Upon the Waters (short story)
- Joanne Greenburg
- A Touch of Rue (oral history)
- Virginia Durr/Studs Terkel
