Unit 1 - We the People

Handouts
- Unit plan
- chart - Defining American

Socratic Circle Discussions

   1. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
        - text - print and annotate
        - discussion questions - pdf version; Word version

    2. American "Dreams"
        - poems
        - "I Have a Dream" - text; audio
        - video clips
            * "Defining the American Dream" - nytimes.com
            * Consumerism: The Musical
            * Nike Ad: A Dream Deferred
            * "Deepening the American Dream - PBS
            * "Pink Houses" - John Mellencamp
            * Pursuit of Happyness
            * "What Happened to the American Dream" - ABC News

    3. As I Lay Dying
        - discussion questions - pdf version; Word version

    4. The American Voice
        - "What is an American?" - Harold Ickes (print and annotate)
        - "Emancipation Proclamation" - Abraham Lincoln
        - "I Hear America Singing" - Walt Whitman

    5. Balancing ethnicity & the American Voice
        - "The Myth of the Latin Woman" - Judith Ortiz Cofer
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    6. The Awakening
        - notes
        - discussion questions - pdf version
        - alternate discussion assignment

Unit 2 - Form a More Perfect Union

Handouts
- Unit plan

Socratic Circle Discussions

The Dangers of the Drive for Perfection (dystopias)
- "Harrison Bergeron" - Kurt Vonnegut
- "Carrie Buck's Daughter" - Stephen Jay Gould

Historical Visions for a Perfect Union
- "City Upon a Hill" - John Winthrop
- "Inaugural Address" - John F. Kennedy

How Human Nature Deals with Those That Are Imperfect
    - The Crucible - Arthur Miller
        - Historical Perspectives on Witchcraft
        - Gender Politics and Witchcraft
    - "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" - Bret Harte

The Individual's Response to an Imperfect Government
- "Civil Disobedience" - Henry David Thoreau
- "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Socratic Circle Discussions

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- discussion questions: pdf version; Word version

Responding to Unjust Laws
- "Speech at the Virginia Convention" - Patrick Henry
- "The Ballot or the Bullet" - Malcolm X

The Damage that Can Be Done
- "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- "A Rose for Emily" - William Faulkner

An Everchanging Landscape
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Internet Freedom