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Tennyson's poem commemorates a group of British soldiers who fought and died during the Crimean War. Due to a miscommunication from a commander, the British troops charged into an area that was well defended by Russian forces and suffered major casualties. Read the text here.

Born in Missouri in 1835, Mark Twain briefly fought for the Confederates during the Civil War. But when the Philippine-American War broke out, he wrote a short story that contrasts patriotic excitement with the horrors of war. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 3's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Media in a Democracy, Daily Me, The Newspaper Is Dying, Facebook Photos Sting, Abolish high school football, Facing Consequences, Time to raise the bar, New Michigan Graduation Requirements, Why I Hate Cell Phones, Editorial Cartoons, Let's Hear It for the Cheerleaders, Girl Moved to Tears, In Depth, but Shallowly, Advice to Youth, The War Prayer, Gambling in Schools, How to Poison the Earth

In the first volume of the popular The Land of Stories series, siblings Alex and Conner are magically transported into the world of fairy tales.