In the Time of the ButterfliesText Overview

We will read Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies and related texts. The titles, authors, and locations of these texts are indicated in the Unit Text List. Unit Readers are available through Open Up Resources.

• Unit Text List

Core

• • In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010

• • “Dominicans, Haitians Remember Parsley Massacre,” Celeste Headlee, Julia Alvarez, and Edwidge Danticat, Tell Me More, National Public Radio, 2012
  • “‘El Jefe’ Portrait of a Dictator,” Bill Leonard, CBS News, 1961
  • “Parsley by Rita Dove,” Rita Dove, YouTube, 2012
  • “Remembering to Never Forget: Dominican Republic’s ‘Parsley Massacre’,” Mark Memmott, The Two Way, National Public Radio, 2012

• • “Dominican Republic (Document 305) U.S. Relations with the Dominican Republic,” Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, Public Domain, N DAT
  • “Parsley,” Rita Dove, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983
  • “When a Dictator Becomes Part of Your Family,” Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, The Atlantic Media Co., 2016
  • “When a Dictator Becomes Part of Your Family, Cont’d,” Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, The Atlantic Media Co., 2016

Optional

• • The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, 2014

Text Icons

The following text icons are used in the Text pages:

Unit Reader Texts

Digital Access Texts

Tradebook Texts

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.