Humour and Dialect
The Disturber
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Oh, what shall I do? I am wholly upset;"
"Oh, what shall I do? I am wholly upset;"
Baby Pinky is sick and wakes up the whole household with his crying. They take her to the hospital to make her well again.
The author gives an account of a runaway slave who escapes his master’s beatings.
The author admires the ocean from Florida's Coast.
A nonsense nursery rhyme that closely resembles a jump rope rhyme.
The preface to the work.
"A bee that was searching for sweets one day"
The author remembers his childhood in the orange groves.
The description of the first and second cousins of chickens: ducks and geese. These are part of the barnyard friends that are playmates to the three children.
While in the presence of death, the characters of the story are confronted by a strange entity.
A child trudges up to bed.
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic’s way,
The poet reflects on the world at noon, while laying back and dozing.
A list and description of possible exercises that can be used to catch the attention of your students at the beginning of the school day.
Tommy Stubbins tells about his life in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh and his three friends, Joe, Matthew Mugg, and Luke.
A short story about a caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly.
Whitefoot becomes sad and uninterested in the things he once loved, but he can’t figure out why.
FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light
Du Bois explains and presents the Sorrow Songs of the olden days.
So bashful when I spied her
She died, — this was the way she died;
A child observes the many sites that adorn the Indian River.