
Source: Ohio Reading Road Trip
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The Ohio Reading Road Trip video series from ThinkTV Dayton is an exciting literary journey across Ohio and through time. It takes students inside the novels, short stories, and poems of some of Ohio's most famous and beloved writers. In this video episode you learn about Paul Laurence Dunbar, the nationally acclaimed African American poet who was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872. Experience Dunbar's poems including light Victorian lyric poetry and entertaining poems in the Negro dialect. Also covered are many of his most famous and moving poems, written in standard English and dealing with racial issues.
Chapter 1 - Young Dunbar (Video)
Chapter 2 - Dunbar's Dialect Poetry (Video)
Chapter 3 - Mitch Capel reads Dunbar (Video)
Chapter 4 - Dunbar's Standard English Poetry (Video)
Chapter 5 - Dunbar's Short Life (Video)
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