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"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
James Weldon Johnson

Abstract: The author celebrates the United States while also remembering the human price required to maintain freedom. This poem is recognized as the African-American National Hymn.

Source: (1900)


Lexile Level: TBD
       
Origin: American
       
Genre: Poetry, Florida
Reading Level: 10        Language: English        File name: 3626
Sunshine State Standards:
LA.A.1.4: The student uses the reading process effectively.

LA.D.1.4: The student understands the nature of language.

LA.E.2.4: The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.


Theme: the value of freedom
Reading Strategy: Comprehension (Decode, make connections to prior knowledge, think about and control what is being read)
 
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