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Sandra Cisneros's short story "Eleven" from the collection "Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories" describes how a sweater can ruin a young girl's day. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Imperfect Me, My Superpowers, Flipped, The Jacket, Kira-Kira, Thank You, M'am, Pandora and the Whispering Box, Eleven, The Treasure of Lemon Brown, The Fun They Had

Have you ever wished you were older than you are? Sandra Cisneros' short story describes the eleventh birthday of a girl who just wants to be 102 years old, so she can tell Mrs. Price that the disgusting red sweater is not hers.

In his poem, Langston Hughes uses the image of a staircase to symbolize a difficult life that's still worth climbing. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 5's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Harlem Renaissance, The New Negro, To Usward, Lift Every Voice and Sing, On 'From the Dark Tower' , How It Feels to Be Colored Me, Sweat, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mother to Son, critical reviews