American Character Second Semester

American Character
Second Semester--Mrs. Haasakker

	Beginning of the Semester Stuff	Mrs. Haasakker's Class Expectations/Rules Community Involvement Project Proposal Community Involvement Paper Grading Rubric Helpful websites which list cultural events: Log Cabin Literary Center Calendar of Events Egyptian Theatre
	War Hawk Museum	Warhawk Museum Virtual Tour Press Archives Verteran's Archives Warhawk Museum Writing Assignment
	Of Mice and Men/The Great Depression	The Great Depression Read "Mass Exodus from the Plains" Read "The Migrant Experience" Read "Timeline of the Great Depression" Answer Study Guide Questions for these readings Read Steinbeck's "The Harvest Gypsies" Complete the Migrant Experience Writing Assignment *Of Mice and Men* Chapter Study Guides Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapters 5 & 6 Literary Elements Notes Student Survival Guide
	1940's/FDR	Flannery O'Connor FDR Speech Inaugural Speech Declaration of War
	WWII	Malamud Stafford John Hersey *Hiroshima* *Snow Falling on Cedars* Timeline for historical events in the novel Answer study guide questions for chapters 14-15
	Postmodernism	Postmodernism Notes
	Cold War Era	Updike
	Korean War	Lowell Warren Roethke
	McCarthyism	McCarthyism Arthur Miller The Crucible Study Guide Questions Act I Act II Act III Act IV
	1950's Poetry	Beat Generation Notes Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac
	Civil Right's Movement	Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X Black Like Me Rubric for Civil Rights Movement Diary
	Vietnam War	Tyler Alice Walker O'Brien
	Songs of Social Protest
	Watergate/Early 70's
	Contemporary Short Stories
	Contemporary Authors Project
	Tuesdays with Morrie

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