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\nPoetry of Liberation\n

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\nHow do writers use words to protest injustice, challenge the status quo, and shape their own identities? Individuals watch and discuss a video, read author biographies, write poetry and journals, develop a slideshow, and complete a...\n
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\nModernism: American Literature 1914-1945\n

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\nWhat characterizes modern literature? The first few slides of this 31-slide PowerPoint discuss what sparked the change to Modernism and discuss some of the key figures of the time (like Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud). The 20s and 30s are...\n
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\nPrimary Sources and Protagonists: A Native American Literature Unit\n

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\nIntroduce your middle schoolers to the lives of past Native Americans. First, learners work together to put photographs in a sequence. Then, using their sequence, they create stories to share with the whole class. No matter how old your...\n
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\nNative American Literature\n

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\nIntroduce your class to the writing of the indigenous Americans and, even more well known, their story telling. An engaging presentation describes what kinds of texts would be included in the oral stories performed and some common...\n
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\nThe Crucible Journal Project\n

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\nWhile reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible, start or end each day with a journal activity. The project includes a list of prompts for each act of the play. Pupils choose a prompt every time they write and connect their own experiences to...\n
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\nAmerican Literature and the Civil War\n

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\nPupils prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes fourteen lessons from the American Literature, The Civil War and Its Aftermath: 1845-1880 series, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and...\n
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\nAmerican Literature Unit Two\n

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\nStudents prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes nineteen lessons from the American Literature, A New Nation: 1750-1850 series, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response...\n
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\nAmerican Literature, The Earliest Days\n

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\nStudents prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes eleven lessons from the American Literature, The Earliest Days: Prehistory to 1750 each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response...\n
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\nAmerican Literature Unit Four\n

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\nStudents prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes twelve lessons from the American Literature, Regionalism and Realism: 1865-1910 series, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and...\n
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\nThe Lost Generation Writers of the 1920's\n

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\nEleventh graders explore works of the Lost Generation writers of the 1920's. In this American literature lesson, 11th graders analyze provided selections from Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and then respond to a writing prompt...\n
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\nJewish Assimiliation in Contemporary American Literature\n

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\nStudents read a collection of stories and watch videos to learn about the Jewish assimilation in American literature. In this American literature lesson, students watch videos about Judaism, read stories from a contemporary Jewish...\n
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\nThe American Crisis, Number 1\n

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\nUse this presentation about Thomas Paine's The American Crisis series to guide any number of assignments. The slides provide instructions for a literary terms assignment, an open response journal entry, two research writing...\n
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\nThe Great Gatsby\n

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\nThe Great Gatsby has become one of the most iconic novels in American literature. An eBook allows readers to access the full text of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. With the original words and paragraph breaks intact, new...\n
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\n19th Century Lessons for 21st Century Lives\n

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\nThe words of Henry David Thoreau on Civil Disobedience seem particularly relevant today, as are his writings and those of other transcendental thinkers who ask what it mean to live deliberately and what are the responsibilities of...\n
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\nAmerican Literature Authors and Their Work\n

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\nStudents explore American literature authors. In this literature lesson plan, students review American literature authors and their main works.  Students then complete a worksheet matching the authors to their works.\n
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\nLesson 1: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury\n

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\nI love Faulkner, his experimental style and stream of consciousness are so exciting. Your learners can analyze William Faulkner and his novel, The Sound and the Fury by defining his place in American literary history and exploring...\n
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\nTranscendentalism and Romanticism in American Literature \n

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\nHow do transcendentalists believe you must learn about the world? Use this PowerPoint to define transcendentalism and explain reason and intuition. Social, political, and philosophical influences of this time are introduced, and a few...\n
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\nKindred\n

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\nThis first in a series of four resources is designed for instructors to use Octavia E. Butler's Kindred in their classes. The packet includes an overview of the unit, a day-to-day calendar, links to background articles, and reading...\n
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\nComing of Age Readings: Experiences in Korea and by Asians in America\n

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\nBring multi-cultural experiences and literature into your language arts class with this lesson. Here, young readers explore the points of view of first and second-generation Asian immigrants with a list of various fiction and nonfiction...\n
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\nWomen Writers and Dissent in 20th and 21st Century American Literature\n

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\nTenth graders read examples of writings by women authors showing their dissent. After completion of their reading, they brainstorm on why they believe female authors have criticized society. In groups, they use the Internet to research...\n
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\nAmerican Literature - The American Dream: Past, Present, and Future\n

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\nLearners are introduced to the ideas of the American Dream at the turn of the century. They present their ideas on the American Dream at the turn of the century through a person characterized in Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.\n
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\nJewish Assimilation In Contemporary American Literature\n

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\nStudents form groups to help each other read, analyze, and conduct research on important background information about Jews and their assimilation into modern American society. They write their own stories of assimilation.\n
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\n\"What is an American?\"\n

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\nEleventh graders ponder about what it means to be an \"American.\" They discuss the impact of an author's word choice and sentence structure on text. They identify some major themes and development of the Letters... Compose paragraphs and...\n
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\nCliffs Notes: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer \n

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\nA simple, standard, reading comprehension quiz for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. High schoolers answer multiple choice questions that test their ability to recall information about the plot and characters from Mark Twain's novel....\n
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