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Lesson Plans - Webquests
WebQuests
are Internet-based inquiry lesson models.
General
Background
American
Dreams: A Virtual Museum WebQuest
The Center for Technology in Education, Johns Hopkins University
cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/kajder/wqmain.html
The
American Dream
Salzburg Seminar Online
This unit, envisaged for six teaching sessions of 90 minutes, aims to promote
critical thinking in students using historical, sociological, literary and
audio-visual resources related to the concept of 'The American Dream'. The
students have already finished a unit on the theme of 'Immigration'. The
present unit focuses especially on the dream of Equality and the forces
that have come in the way of fulfilling this dream.
www.salzburgseminar.org/ASC/csacl/progs/efl/stn10.htm
History
The
American Dream of the Decades
Berrien County Intermediate School District, Educational Service Agency,
Michigan
www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bstpract/bpIII/038/038.PDF
Teachers'
Guide: The Gold Rush
Idaho State University
www.isu.edu/~trinmich/teacher.html
Civil
Services - Exploring the Lasting Impact of the Civil Rights Movement
The New York Times Learning Network and The Bank Street College of Education
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20020118friday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons
Interactive
Classroom "What Dr. Martin Luther King Means To Me"
Seattle Times
seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/classroom/index.html
Women
of the Century: American Heroes
DiscoverySchool.com
school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/teachertips/
Immigration
Immigration
Studies: The Integration of Immigrant Families in the United States
The Urban Institute
www.urban.org/pdfs/immig_integration.pdf
Immigrant
Education Issues
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, Columbia University
eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/pathways/immigrant_issues/
· Including: A Historical Look at U.S. Immigration Policy
www.missouri.edu/~socbrent/immigr.htm
From
Melting Pot to Centrifuge: Immigrants and American Politics
Online Article by Steven E. Schier, The Brookings Review, Winter 2002
www.brook.edu/press/review/winter2002/schier.htm
Immigration
- Stories of Yesterday and Today
Scholastic Online
teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/tguide.htm
Island
of Hope, Island of Tears
Teachers.net
www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1450.html
Ellis
Island: Through America's Gateway
International Channel
www.internationalchannel.com/education/ellis/
Ellis
Island Interactive Tour
Scholastic Online
teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/ellis/index.htm
Cultural and Political Diversity
Diversity
in a New America -- Charting the Changes
Online edition of Brookings Review, Winter 2002
http://www.brook.edu/press/review/winter2002/rauch.htm
Beyond
Census 2000: As a Nation, We are the World
Carnegie Reporter
www.carnegie.org/reporter/03/census/index.html
What's
Old Is New Again - A Web Exploration About Cultural Trends in the 20th Century
The New York Times Learning Network and the Bank Street College of Education
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20010426thursday.html
English
Learner's Baseball Primer: Classroom Hall of Fame
San Diego Unified School District's Triton Project (Technology Innovation
Challenge Grant)
projects.edtech.sandi.net/valencia/baseball/teacher.htm
Walk
A Mile in My Shoes - Multicultural Curriculum Resources
WMHT Educational Telecommunications, the Greater Capital Region Teacher
Center and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
www.wmht.org/trail/explor02.htm
The
Multicultural Pavillion
www.edchange.org/multicultural/
Literature
The
American Dream and Experience in Literature
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/5/83.05.01.x.html
American
Dream Songs
Online Poetry Classroom
www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/how/LessonPlan.cfm?prmLessonPlanID=13
F. Scott
Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
A&E Television Networks
www.aande.com/class/admin/study_guide/archives/aetv_guide.0074.html
Tennessee
Williams: Exploring the American Dream
American Master's Series, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/education/lesson10_overview.html
· Procedures for Teachers:
www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/education/lesson10_procedures.html
Media
Is All
Cinema Verité? - Exploring the Relationship Between Movies and Culture
The New York Times Learning Network and the Bank Street College of Education
in New York City
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20010326monday.html
The
American Dream at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Teacher Institute, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation
www.rockhall.com/programs/plans.asp
Ethnicity
& the American Dream on Television
Columbia University
www.columbia.edu/~asr41/Ethnicities.html
Commentary
/Articles
Full
Text Articles - Document Delivery Service for Teachers
General
Background
Hope
and American Politics. George Shulman
Raritan, Winter 2002, pp. 1-19 Full
text
Facing
2002.
America, January 7-14, 2002, pp. 3-4 Full
text
Public
Schools and the American Dream. Jennifer Hochschild
Dissent, Fall 2001, pp. 35-42 Full
text
Still
the Land of Opportunity? Isabel V. Sawhill
Public Interest, Spring 1999, pp. 3-17 Full
text
Immigration
Immigration's
Aftermath. Alejandro Portes
The American Prospect, April 8, 2002, pp. 35-37 Full
text
Cultural
and Political Diversity
Making
Sense of America. Christopher Clausen
Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2002, pp. 267-278
Full
text
Diversity
in a New America.
The Brookings Review, Winter 2002 Full
text
An All-American Melting Pot. John Fetto
American Demographics, July 2001, pp. 8-10 Full
text
Literature
American
Literature and America, 1925-2000. Sanford Pinsker
T he Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000, pp. 269-289 Full
text
Toni
Morrison's Jazz and the Racial Dreams of the American Writer. Michael Nowlin
American Literature, March 1999, pp. 151-174 Full
text
Media
Gilligan
vs. Homer Simpson. Nick Gillespie
Reason, February 2002, pp. 62-63 Full
text
Dreams
Are As American As Apple Pie. John Lloyd
New Statesman, August 13, 2001, pp. 12-13 Full
text
Americanophilia. George Watson
The American Scholar, Spring 2000, pp. 119-126
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