LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Dr. Scott Culclasure is the International Baccalaureate Coordinator at High Point Central High School. He received his National Board Certification in Late Adolescent/Young Adult Social Studies/History in 1999. He and media specialist Pat Adams-Caskie partnered in this project. As Library of Congress American Memory Fellows in 1998, they developed the web-based instructional unit, “‘Two Unreconciled Strivings’: African American Identity in the Gilded Age, 1877-1915.”

This project was created at NCCAT. LEARN NC provided the opportunity for us to integrate curriculum and technology.

Resources created by Scott Culclasure

“Picturing” America at the turn of the twentieth century
Students link together the literature and the history of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Questions guide students as they study visual documents. Students also read the teacher's choice of two widely anthologized short stories and an excerpt from a best-selling novel of the period. Two exercises will raise student awareness of the impact that visual images have on their lives: one that is based on internet advertising and a second that results in a student-produced scrapbook.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Scott Culclasure.