What is culture?
What is American?
Where do you fit into the American culture?
· Archeology and Archetypes
Native Americans vs. Europeans (Creation Myths)
1492: The Conquest of Paradise: How to read a movie...
· Puritan America
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
· Research Project- Famous individuals shape the notion of “American”
· Revolutionary America- Franklin, Jefferson... excerpts from
text
1776
· America in chains- Frederick Douglass... excerpts from text Novel study: Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
· The Harlem Renaissance and The Roaring Twenties
Selected Poetry and Art, excerpts from text
A Lesson Before Dying, Earnest Gaines
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
· Modern America, the American Dream A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansburry
· Contemporary America, many voices
Multicultural selections, excerpts from text
Novel/play to be announced
Movies to be announced
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