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"The American Dream": In conjunction with a unit on Puritanism, students will define and illustrate their personal definition of "The American Dream" or their concept of the dream in general.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.

A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives: In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students select American authors to research. They create timelines and biopoems about their authors and then collaborate in teams to design and present a panel presentation where they role-play their authors. The final project requires each student to synthesize information about his or her author in an essay that will be posted online at the U.S. Literary Map Project website. Extension activities include writing a formal research paper and reading other works by the selected authors.
(Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

From Friedan forward—considering a feminist perspective: In this lesson that focuses on feminism, students are challenged to think about how opinions develop and change based on such things as age, experience, time, and place. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Giving voice to history: In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the period during World War II when U.S. government ordered more than 120,000 Japanese Americans to detainment camps. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 11 Social Studies, Theatre Arts Education, and English Language Arts); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Great Depression and the 1990s: Students will use the American Memory Project's American Life Histories and other government resources to explore the origins of the welfare state and will then evaluate the need for such programs in the present. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 Social Studies and English Language Arts); Provider: Library of Congress/American Memory Project

The Great Depression and the 1990s: Students gain a better understanding of why the government takes care of its people and how the U.S. welfare state started. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: Library of Congress/American Memory Project

Literary parodies: Exploring a writer's style through imitation: In this lesson, students analyze the features of a poet's work and then create their own poems based on the original model. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Making connections to myth and folktale: The many ways to “Rainy Mountain”: In this assignment, students write a three-voice narrative based on N. Scott Momaday’s structure in The Way to Rainy Mountain. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Mark Twain and American humor: Students examine structure and characterization in the short story and consider the significance of humor through a study of Mark Twain's “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Paying attention to technology: Writing technology autobiographies: Students brainstorm lists of their interactions with technology, map these interactions graphically, and then compose narratives of their most significant interactions with technology. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Reader response in Hypertext: Making personal connections to literature: In this lesson, students choose four quotations that inspire personal responses to a novel they have read and create a multi-genre project to express these feelings. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE