High schoolers investigate what constitutes an "un-American" activity and why Soviet espionage was such an important issue in the 1940's and 1950's. Joseph McCarthy's impact on American anticommunism is examined in this lesson plan....

Students participate in a lesson plan that investigates post-modernism in American literature. They conduct the lesson plan with the help of reading "America" by Ginsberg to create context. Then students define the genre and the culture...