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SUGGESTED WORKS UNIT 13: THE ROAD AHEAD
This unit investigates what it means to be an American today. The identity of Americans has evolved throughout the
centuries. Students will discuss how the American identity is unique to the 21st Century. Through the use of
multimedia, students will explore their own perceptions and connections to society. Students will explore literary eras
starting in the 1600’s and study how ideologies progress over time. Through the use of multimedia, students will
present their findings to the class resulting in a final discussion of what it means to be an American today.
LITERARY TEXT
Book:
Elements of Literature (Holt Rinehart Winston, 2005)
SUGGESTED WORKS UNIT 14: ENCOUNTERS AND FOUNDATIONS
This unit will provide students with a foundational understanding of thematic and skill-based topics that will build
upon skills learned during freshman and sophomore year. Through the study of Native American and Puritan cultures
and literature, students will discern each group’s beliefs and values. This unit will also introduce both rhetorical
analysis and Socratic Seminar skills, skills that will honed during the next two units.
LITERARY TEXTS:
Native American Culture
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Songs From This Earth on Turtle’s Back (Joseph Bruchac)
“Blind Curse” (Simon J. Ortiz)
“Busted Boy” (Simon J. Ortiz)
“Eagle Poem” (Joy Harjo)
“Guthrie Theater” (Gerald Vizenor)
“A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?-1904)” (Duane Niatum)
“Combing” (Gladys Cardiff)
“Indian Summer” (Diane Glancy)
“Almost Ashore” (Gerald Vizenor)
“Ah, Ah” (Joy Harjo)
“An Identity Crisis” (Garry Gottfriedson)
“Driving in Oklahoma” (Carter Revard)
“Night Travel” (Esther Belin)
“Home and the Homeless” (Elizabeth Woody)
“Last Snow” (Heid E. Erdrich)
“The Powwow at the End of the World” (Sherman Alexie)
Short Stories:
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Native American Myths of Creation (Internet)
Novels:
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Smoke Signals (Sherman Alexie)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Sherman Alexie)
Flight (Sherman Alexie)
Reservation Blues (Sherman Alexie)
Plays:
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Smoke Signals (Sherman Alexie)
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INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Books:
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Dee Brown)
Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian (Nancy
Oestreich Lurie)
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (Velma Wallis)
Historical Texts:
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Iroquois Constitution from Elements of Literature, (Holt Rinehart Winston, 2005) pp. 107-108
Position Statements:
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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Statement on the Use of Native American Images and Nicknames as
Sports Symbols (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights)
APA Resolution Recommending the Immediate Retirement of American Indian Mascots, Symbols,
Images, and Personalities by Schools, Colleges, Universities, Athletic Teams, and Organizations.
(American Psychological Association)
Speeches:
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Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805 (Red Jacket) from Lives of Celebrated American
Indians,1843 (Daniel Drake) pp. 283-287
Chief Joseph Surrender speech to General Nelson A. Miles, October 5, 1877 from
C. E. S. Wood, "Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce," The Century: a Popular Quarterly 28, no. 1 (May 1884):
p. 141.
Chief Seattle's 1854 Oration, October 29, 1887 (translated by Dr. Henry A. Smith) from the Seattle
Sunday Star
The Algonquian Confederacy Speech 1609 (Powhatan) from Biography and History of the Indians of
North America (Samuel Drake) 1834.
Big Elk, 29 July 1815 (translated into French by Louis Dorian and from French into English most likely
by Samuel Soloman) from The Missouri Gazette
Big Elk 4 February 1822 (translated by William Rodgers) from the Daily National Intelligencer
Essays:
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“Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”, 1969 (Vine Deloria Jr.) from Arizona and the West,
Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 1970), pp. 292-294
“I Hated Tonto (Still Do)” (Sherman Alexie) Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1998
“What Sacagawea Means To Me” (Sherman Alexie) Time Magazine, June 20, 2002
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Introduction to Reading American Indian Poetry (Annis Pratt Ph.D.)
“Stereotypes in the Rose Parade”, (Robert Schmidt) Blue Corn Comics, Stereotype of the Month,
January 1, 2001
“The Indian Wars: The campaign against Indian nicknames and mascots” (S.L. Price) Sports Illustrated,
March 4, 2002
“Of Poll and Race Prejudice” (G. Richard King, et al.,) Trends
ART, MUSIC AND MED IA
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The Canary Effect, 2006 (YouTube) Documentary produced by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder
Woman on the stereotypes of Indians and the history of their portrayal in literature, film and the culture
In Whose Honor? July 15, 1997 (YouTube: originally aired on PBS as part of the POV series) by
filmmaker Jay Rosenstein on the controversy about Chief Illiniwek, the University of Illinois mascot.
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“Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war”, May 2010 (TED Talks) Photographic slide show and
presentation documenting the poverty of the Lakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and other
TED Talks related to Native Americans
“Proud to Be” January 27, 2014 (YouTube) (National Congress of American Indians) This was an antiRedskins advertisement which aired in seven cities in Game 2 of the NBA finals on June 10, 2014.
Smoke Signals, 1998 is an independent film directed and co-produced by Chris Eyre and with a
screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on the short story “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”
from his book, Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian),1959 (John Loudermilk) A song
recorded by various artists (e.g. Paul Revere and the Raiders 1971) about the removal of five tribes
throughout the 1830’s (Trail of Tears) on the heels of President Andrew Jackson’s key legislation, Indian
Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee were the last to be removed.
Images of stereotypical Indian sports mascots
Puritan Culture
LITERARY WORKS
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“Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10,1666” (Anne Bradstreet)
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Mary Rowlandson)
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Of Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS:
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Elements of Literature (Holt Rinehart Winston, 2005) pp. 1-19
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Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were (Leland Ryken)
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The Wordy Shipmates (Sarah Vowell)
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The Last Stand (Nathaniel Philbrick)
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Mayflower (Nathaniel Philbrick)
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“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Jonathan Edwards)
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“Puritans in the Work Place” from The World of John Winthrop (Mark Valeri)
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The Tryal of Bridget Bishop: A transcript of the Salem Witchcraft trials (Unknown Binding) (Donald R.
Daly)
ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah (PBS film: selected scenes)
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The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
SUGGESTED WORKS UNIT 15: FREE THINKER TO FREE SPIRIT
This unit will provide students with a foundational understanding of eighteenth and nineteenth century works that fit
into the Rational and Romantic eras. Through the study of fiction and informational texts, students will apply
rhetorical analysis strategies to better comprehend how the author uses language to create meaning, and they will
build upon their speaking and listening skills through the use of Socratic Seminar.
Age of Reason
LITERARY TEXTS
Book:
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Elements of Literature (Holt Rinehart Winston, 2005)
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INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Books:
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation (Cokie Roberts)
The Naked Constitution: What the Founders Said and Why it Still Matters (Adam Freedman)
A Patriot's Handbook : Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (Caroline
Kennedy)
Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
1776 (David McCullough)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)
Historical Documents:
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Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
The American Crisis, Number 1 (Thomas Paine)
The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton)
Transcript of the Joint Resolution of Congress, known as the Bill of Rights, ratified on December 15,
1791 (Congress of the United States)
Letter, Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson (Benjamin Banneker 2010 AP Language and
Composition Prompt)
ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA:
Art:
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Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emmanuel Leutze)
The Declaration of Independence (John Trumbull)
Spirit of ’76 (Archibald McNeal Willard)
Speeches:
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Presidential Debates
Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address, 2005 (Steve Jobs)
John Adams HBO series (effective speeches)
“Speech to the Virginia Convention”, 1775 (Patrick Henry)
Romantics/ Transcendentalists
LITERARY TEXTS
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
A River Runs Through It (Norman Maclean)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less (Ernest Callenbach)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Cheryl Strayed)
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Nathaniel Philbrick)
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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (Aldo Leopold)
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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (Thich Nhat Hanh)
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Heart of a Warrior: 7 Ancient Secrets to a Great Life (James Langlas)
Short Stories
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“Rip Van Winkle” (Washington Irving)
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“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Washington Irving)
“The Birthmark” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“The Minister’s Black Veil” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“Rappaccini’s Daughter” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“The Pit and the Pendulum” (Edgar Allan Poe)
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Edgar Allan Poe)
“The Death of Leatherstocking” (excerpt from The Prairie) (James Fenimore Cooper)
Plays:
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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence)
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The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
The poetry of Walt Whitman
The poetry of Emily Dickinson
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Speeches:
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 1865 (Abraham Lincoln)
“On Nonviolent Resistance, 1925 (Mohandas Ghandi)
Essays:
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“Nature” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Self-Reliance” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Resistance to Civil Government” also known as “Civil Disobedience” (Henry David Thoreau)
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Articles:
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“Living With Less. A Lot Less” (Graham Hill) The New York Times, March 9, 2013
ART, MUSIC, AND MEDI A
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Sunset in the Yosemite Valley (Albert Bierstadt)
Landscape of a Valley in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (Thomas Cole)
Music:
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“Ants Marching” (Dave Matthews)
“Beautiful Day” (U2)
“Wide Open Spaces” (Dixie Chicks)
“Big Yellow Taxi” (Counting Crows)
“Hands” (Jewel)
"The Anthem” (Good Charlotte)
“Society” (Eddie Vedder)
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A River Runs Through It, 1992 (movie- PG)
Ray-Ban "Never Hide" campaign
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SUGGESTED WORKS UNIT 16: TELL IT HOW IT IS
This unit will provide students with an understanding of thematic and skills-based topics covering Realist literature and
research. Through the study of Realist works, students will discover that Realism was a reaction to Romanticism, and
the Realists strived to accurately portray ordinary people in various contexts, with an emphasis on character over plot.
Students will recognize the techniques authors use to accurately portray ordinary people and how these methods
contribute to the author’s message about individuals and society. Students will continue to analyze rhetorical devices
authors employ to create meaning as well as participate in Socratic Seminars to both further their understanding of
the readings and build upon their speaking and listening skills.
LITERARY TEXTS
Poems
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“War is Kind” (Stephen Crane)
“Oh Lord, Our Father” (Mark Twain)
Short Stories
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“To Build a Fire” (Jack London)
“A Mystery of Heroism” (Stephen Crane)
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (Bret Harte)
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (Ambrose Bierce)
“A Pair of Silk Stockings” (Kate Chopin)
“The Open Boat” (Stephen Crane)
“Harrison Bergeron” (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
“A White Heron” (Sarah Orne Jewett)
“The Man Without a Country” (Edward Everett Hale)
Novels
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Pudd'nhead Wilson (Mark Twain)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Mark Twain)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Endurance: Shipwreck and Survival on a Sea of Ice (Matt White)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom’s Children (Richard Wright)
Plays
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The Wind Done Gone (Alice Randall)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Books
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The Souls of Black Folk excerpts (W.E.B. Dubois)
On Jordan’s Stormy Bank (Andrew Waters)
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Essays
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“The Lowest Animal” (Mark Twain)
“What it Means to be an American” from A Man Without a Country (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
“Off for West Point” (The Boys' own library) [Upton Sinclair]—War Writing
“ The Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl” (Harriet A. Jacobs)
“The Most Remarkable Woman of this Age” (Harriet Tubman)
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Art
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“Nighthawks” (Edward Hopper)
“American Gothic” (Grant Wood)
Music
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“Peace of Mind” (Boston)
Media
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Mark Twain Tonight!, 1967 (YouTube) is a one-man play devised by Hal Holbrook, in which he portrays
Mark Twain giving a dramatic recitation selected from several of Twain’s writings.
This American Life episodes about Harper High School in Chicago, February 15, 2013 and February 22,
2013 (Chicago Public Radio and hosted by Ira Glass).
SUGGESTED WORKS UNIT 17: THE AMERICAN IDENTITY
This unit will set the tone for second semester junior year’s exploration of the American Identity through the study of
both literature and informational texts from Modernism to World War II. Students will examine the disillusionment
associated with this time period in American history and discuss why people questioned the traditional “American
Dream” and its values. Research skills will be introduced through shorter assignments in preparation for a sustained
research project in Unit 18. The ability to read and synthesize information will also be introduced by having students
read and evaluate synthesis essay prompts.
LITERARY TEXTS
Poems
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (T.S. Eliot)
“Song of the Smoke” (W.E.B. DuBois)
“Amanda Barker” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Benjamin Pantier” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Reuben Pantier” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Emily Sparks” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Lucinda Matlock” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Minerva Jones” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Dr. Meyers” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Mrs. Meyers” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Butch Weldy” (Edgar Lee Masters)
“Richard Cory” (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
“Mending Wall” (Robert Frost)
“The Road Not Taken” (Robert Frost)
“Acquainted with the Night” (Robert Frost)
“The People, Yes” (Carl Sandburg)
“This is Just to Say” (William Carlos Williams)
“The Lynching” (Claude McKay)
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“If We Must Die” (Claude McKay)
“The White House” (Claude McKay)
“America” (Claude McKay)
“On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church” (Frank Horne)
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Langston Hughes)
“I, Too, Sing America” (Langston Hughes)
“A Dream Deferred” (Langston Hughes)
“Yet Do I Marvel” (Countee Cullen)
“Incident” (Countee Cullen)
“We Real Cool” (Gwendolyn Brooks)
“Martin Luther King, Jr.” (Gwendolyn Brooks)
Short Stories
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“Thank You for the Light” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” (Ernest Hemingway)
“Indian Camp” (Ernest Hemingway)
“The End of Something” (Ernest Hemingway)
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Ernest Hemingway)
“Soldier’s Home” (Ernest Hemingway)
“Winter Dreams” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Novels
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Black Boy (Richard Wright)
Ceremony (Leslie Marmom Silko)
Bodega Dreams (Ernesto Quiñonez)
Jake, Reinvented (Gordan Korman)
Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First 100 Years (Sarah and Elizabeth Delaney with Amy Hill
Hearth)
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Book:
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Hiroshima (John Hersey)
Speeches
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"American Dream Faces Harsh New Reality." American Dreams: Then and Now. National Public Radio.
29 May 2012. Radio.
“The Modern American Dream.” A Better Life: Creating the American Dream. National Public Radio.
2013. Radio.
"The American Dream." Atlanta. 4 July 1965. (Martin Luther King, Jr.) Address.
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
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“The Death of the American Dream” Newsweek Magazine (July, 2012)
“The Harlem Renaissance” Encyclopedia Britannica Online Edition. <www.school.eb.com>.
“Strivings of the Negro People” (W.E.B. Du Bois) Atlantic Monthly 80 (1897): 194-198.
“The End of White America” (Hua Hsu) Atlantic Monthly (January/February 2009)
“American Attitudes about Materialism, Consumption and the Environment." Linkages Virtual Policy
Dialog. Linkages Sustainable Consumption & Production Pr, 15 Aug. 1997. Web. 10 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.iisd.ca/consume/mer_5.html>.
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“Robert Samuelson: The American Dream’s empty promise." (Robert Samuelson)The Washington Post
23 Sept. 2012. Print.
"Homeownership and Wealth Accumulation.” (Robyn Webb-Williams) National Council of Negro Women
Newsletter Aug. 2006. Print.
"Obama's American Dream Agenda." (Dan Balz) The Washington Post. 2007. Print.
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Art/Photograph
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"Obama's American Dream Agenda." (Dan Balz) The Washington Post. 2007. (Photograph)
Music
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Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Duke Ellington
Cab Calloway
Count Basie
Fats Waller
Media
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Prohibition (Miniseries) by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (October 2, 2011 through October 4, 2011)
Episode 1: "A Nation of Drunkards"; Episode 2: "A Nation of Scofflaws”; Episode 3: "A Nation of
Hypocrites"
Surviving the Dust Bowl PBS documentary (11/15/2009)
Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life A&E Biography series (1998)
The Queen of Versailles (2012) Magnolia Pictures documentary by Lauren Greenfield
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer A&E Biography series (April 14, 1997)
Midnight in Paris (2011, PG-13) – film
SUGGESTED WORKS UNIT 18: CHALLENGING THE AMERICAN
IDENTITY
This unit will challenge students to read and analyze various literary and informational texts and media that reflect
seminal American conflicts during the 1950’s to 1970’s. Through analysis of such texts and media, students will
explore multiple American voices that questioned social and political norms of the time period. Students will create
their own qualified arguments on a controversial social conflict through a detailed research process of collecting and
analyzing valid printed and digital sources using MLA format.
LITERARY TEXTS
Poems
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“In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan” (Jan Barry)
“The Man He Killed” (Thomas Hardy)
“APO 96225” (Larry Rottman)
“For Cissy Shellabarger, R.N., Wherever You Are” (Larry Rottman)
“Hell No! I Aint Gonna Go!” (Matthew Jones & Elaine Lavon)
Sylvia Plath’s poems
Short Stories
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“On Patrol” by Ron Kovic
Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories (Joyce Carol Oates)
“Where are you going, Where have you been?” (Joyce Carol Oates)
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“A Good Man is Hard to Find” (Flannery O’Connor)
“A & P” (John Updike)
“The Lottery” (Shirley Jackson)
Novels
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The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Cat’s Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
Plays (Optional)
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Books
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In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Barbara Ransby)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (Malcolm X and Alex Haley)
Black Like Me (John Howard Griffin)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (compiled by Bernard Edelman)
War (Sebastian Junger)
Historical Texts
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“I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., 28 August 1963, (Martin Luther
King Jr.)
“Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy” at the Capital, Washington D.C., 20 January 1961
(John F. Kennedy) and other speeches
“Standing Tall” speech at Oxford Union Debate, at Oxford University, United Kingdom, 3 December
1964, (Malcom X)
"Writing Vietnam" President's Lecture at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 21 April 1999.
(Tim O’Brien)
"Peace Without Conquest" address at Johns Hopkins University 7 April 1965, (Lyndon B. Johnson) and
other speeches about the Vietnam War and/or public policies
The Status Seekers excerpts (Vance Packard)
Essays
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“The Feminine Mystique “ (Betty Friedan)
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
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“The Things They Carry” (Yuri Kozyrev, photographer) TIME , November 20, 2006
“The Vietnam in Me” (Tim O’Brien) The New York Times , October 2, 1994
“Rich Kids, Don’t Look Now, but Your Teenage Angst Is Showing” (Alessandra Stanley) The New York
Times, June 22, 2009 and columns and timely articles on “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and teenage
angst
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Art
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LIFE magazine (Vietnam War)
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“Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla 1968” (Eddie Adams)
“Napalm Girl” (Nick Ut)
LIFE covers – Communism (Part I and II)
“American Pie” (Don McLean)
“Goodnight Saigon” (Billy Joel)
“Fortunate Son” (Clearance Clearwater Revival)
“Born in the USA” (Bruce Springsteen)
“Masters of War” (Bob Dylan)
“Blowin’ in the Wind” (Joan Baez)
“I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” (Country Joe McDonald)
“For What It’s Worth” (Buffalo Springfield)
“Let’s Get Together” (Youngbloods)
“Peace Train” (Cat Stevens)
“Military Madness” (Graham Nash)
“Paint it Black” (The Rolling Stones)
“Give Peace a Chance” (John Lennon)
“Imagine” (John Lennon)
“War” (Edwin Starr)
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Lucille Ball – Finding Lucy (September 21, 2006) PBS: American Masters series
Making Sense of the Sixties (January 1991 start date) PBS TV miniseries
“Tupperware!” PBS American Experience Documentary
Tim O’Brien Speeches/Interviews (YouTube)
Pleasantville (movie – PG13)
Good Night and Good Luck (movie - PG)
Guilty by Suspicion (movie – PG13)
Cool Hand Luke (movie-PG)
The Graduate (movie-PG)
Dear America--Letters Home from Vietnam (Documentary- PG13)
SUGGESTED WOR
SUGGESTED WORKS UNIT 19: MY AMERICAN IDENTITY
During this unit, students will explore the narratives of a variety of Americans who have pursued the American Dream.
The students will then produce their own personal narratives that relate a life experience or experiences to their
own development of self.
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Books
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Stones to Schools (Greg Mortenson)
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream (Sampson Davis, George Jenkins,
Rameck Hunt, with Lisa Frazier Page)
Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo (Paula Huntley)
Bombay Smiles: The Trip that Changed My Life (Jaume Sanllorente, author; Gwendolyn Gout
Translator; Robert Dreesen; translator)
It Happened On the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace (Rye Barcott)
This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes (Marilyn Berger)
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (Conor Grennan)
Start Something That Matters (Blake Mycoskie)
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids (Alexandra Robbins)
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5: Where Will You Be Five Years from Today (Dan Zadra)
Everyday Heroes: 50 Americans Changing the World One Nonprofit at a Time (Katrina Fried, Paul
Mobley)
The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters (Andy Andrews)
Short Stories
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Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World (Rita
Golden Gelman)
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
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“The Business of Giving: TOMS Shoes.” (Mike Zimmerman) Success Magazine. 29 September 2009.
“What's the Word? We Can Help Feed the Hungry.” (Joe Heim) The Washington Post. 4 November
2007.
“Asian-Americans Gain Influence in Philanthropy.” (Kirk Semple,) The New York Times. 8 January
2013.
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“10 Tips for Writing the College Application Essay.” (Jeremy Hyman,) U.S. NEWS. 15 September
2010.
“March Madness: College Admissions.” ( Brian Harke) Huffington Post. 11 March 2013.
“Going Beyond Cliché: How to Write a Great College Essay.” (Amanda Christy Brown and Holly Epstein
Ojalvo) The New York Times. 14 October 2010.
How to Go to College Almost for Free (Ben Kaplan)
ART, MUSIC, AND MEDIA
Art/Photographs
 Everyday Heroes: 50 Americans Changing the World One Nonprofit at a Time (Katrina Fried, Paul
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Music
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“We are the World”, 1985 (USA for Africa)
“What a Wonderful World”, 1967 (Louis Armstrong)
“Heal the World”, 1991 (Michael Jackson)
“Man in the Mirror”, 1987 (Michael Jackson)
“Change the World”, 1997 (Eric Clapton)
“Winds of Change”, 1990 (The Scorpions)
“Imagine”, 1971 (John Lennon)
“Waiting on the World to Change”, 2006 (John Mayer)
“Where is the Love”, 2003 (Black Eyed Peas)
“Hope” 2004 (Twista featuring Faith Evans)
“You Gotta Be”, 1994 (Des’ree)
“Lean on Me” 1998 (Kirk Franklin)
“Rhythm Nation”, 1989 (Janet Jackson)
“The World's Greatest”, 2002 (R. Kelly)
“Beautiful Day”, 2000 (U2)
“That’s What Friends Are For” 1985 (Various Artists)
“Music of My Heart” 1999 (Gloria Estefan and ‘N Sync)
Media
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2011 <www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/toms-shoes-founder-blake-
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CNN Heroes: Everyday People Changing the World
<www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/index.html>
College Application: Tackling the Personal Essay ABC News –American Family
segment September 2, 2010 (George Stephanopoulos interviews Bari Norman)
<http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/college-application-tips-perfecting-collegepersonal-essay/story?id=11537356>
MOVIES
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Patch Adams, 1998 (movie-PG13)
Pay It Forward, 2000 (movie-PG13)
Freedom Writers, 2007 (movie-PG13)
Little Red Wagon, 2012 (movie-PG)
The Blind Side, 2009 (movie-PG13)
Prayers for Bobby, 2009 (TV Movie unrated, documentary)
Fly Away Home, 1996 (movie-PG)
Taking Chance, 2009 (TV movie)
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