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BelovedText Overview

In this unit, we will read the novel Beloved and related poetry and informational texts. The location of these texts is indicated in the Unit Text List.

Core

  • Tradebook
    • Beloved, Toni Morrison, Vintage Books, 2004
  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from “The Uncanny,” Sigmund Freud, Jeanette Laredo, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and powered by Press Books, 1919
    • “If We Must Die,” Claude McKay, Poetry Foundation, 1919
    • “Lady Button-Eyes,” Eugene Field, Poem in Google Book Form, 1984
    • “Runagate Runagate,” Robert Hayden, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1966
    • “The Gift to Sing,” James Weldon Johnson, The Cornhill Company, 1917
    • “The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why?,” Parul Sehgal, New York Times Books, 2018
    • “The Source of Self-Regard,” Toni Morrison, Vintage Books, 2020
    • “Who is Margaret Garner?,” Unknown, Ohio Memory, 2012
  • Digital Access
    • PBS NewsHour: “Toni Morrison on Capturing a Mother’s ‘Compulsion’ to Nurture in ‘Beloved’,” Toni Morrison, PBS, 1987

Optional

  • Unit Reader
    • “‘The Slave Mother, a Tale of Ohio,’ by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,” Hendley Badcock, Shenandoah, 1854

Text Icons

The following text icons are used in the Text pages:

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Multimedia Multimedia Texts

To find digital access texts on the Internet, complete the following steps:

  1. Locate the reference information for the text (text title, author, date of publication, and publisher) found on the Text page for a unit, section, or lesson.

  2. Highlight and copy the reference information.

  3. Paste the information into a search engine.

  4. The text will appear as one of the first search results.

  5. Verify the result by comparing the reference information on the website to the information on the Text page.