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Xu bings a book from the sky 1988 chinese printmaker xu bing is a teacher at beijings prestigious central academy of fine arts and a respected practitioner of the official social realist style. It was 1957, the year sputnik raced across the appalachian sky. Although the boys are encouraged by a teacher, homers coal miner father wants him to stop the nonsense and join him in working at the mines. October sky this unit includes backgroundresource links, vocabulary, information about memoirs and socratic seminars, and assignments.
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