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Please find below links to additional materials from our curriculum book, The Cure for IDK. The links are updated regularly, however, if you find a broken link, please report it to Catherine at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Link 1: A video of Patricia Smith reading “Building Nicole’s Mama” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybJARtVIXfA Link 2: A voice recording of Roger Bonair-Agard reading “How Do We Spell Freedom” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybJARtVIXfA Link 3: A video of Steve Colman reading “I Wanna Hear a Poem” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-jXDuqHEEk Link 4: A video of comedian Eddie Izzard talking about the word “Awesome” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6DxV-MkPgM Link 5: A video of a leaping shark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-t2ayKadD0 Link 6: A video of puns on figurative language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmuzQ3q-Dto Link 7: A music video for “Waterfalls” by TLC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4 Link 8: How to make an origami coin purse http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-coin-purse.html Link 9: “Little Feet” by Sandra Cisneros http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307429971&view=excerpt Link 10: “Argument Clinic” video by Monty Python http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM&feature=player_embedded Link 11: “Bullet Control” video with comedian Chris Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuX-nFmL0II Link 12: “The Lobster Rebellion” by Dave Barry http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/27/1680102/the-lobster-rebellion.html Link 13: A video of a slippery octopus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_Crhogu8c Link 14: “The Glass” by Sharon Olds http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ddmorris/poetry/poems.html#glass.html Link 15: Recording of the show Stomp Link 16: Videos from the “Make McCain Interesting Contest” on the Colbert Report: Dragonball Z: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2eDVgHLKJE Night of the living candidate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J9e-X2Buu0&feature=related He’s that old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apdd-IDptHg Link 17: Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit” and information on lynching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9FZMHNhJ80 lynching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching Link 18: Before-and-after photos of the battle of Gettysburg Photos of wartime: http://www.gettysburgboycott.com/id2.html Photos many years later, after the grass has gone to work: http://icor1348.com/Gettysburg.htm Link 19: Chapter from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/obrien_story.pdf Link 20: Video of Aladdin outside the Cave of Wonders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1jttsv_tE&feature=related Link 21: “Kiwi!”—an animated video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs Link 22: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson http://www.americanliterature.com/Jackson/SS/TheLottery.html Link 23: “The Origin of Love” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YO9FpWX57E Link 24: Photos and bio of Malcom X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_x Link 25: Clip from The Wire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYsVmA4fIg8 Link 26: Video of a ballet featuring dancers with amputated limbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLVRQCjh8c Link 27: Optical illusions and “Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith http://hubpages.com/hub/Two-Faces-or-a-Vase-10-Simple-but-Wonderful-Optical-Illusions |