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As you read Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B," Pat Mora's "Legal Alien," and Diane Burns' "Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question," learn this word list. These word lists support the reading of the following texts from SpringBoard English Textual Power, Level 5, Unit 1 "Voices of Modern Culture": poems, more poems, Funny in Farsi, monologues by Debbie Lamedman