American Studies Assignments

1. Salem Webquest

2. Investigating The Catcher in the Rye

3. The Beats: Emerson and the Counter-Culture of the 1950s

4. The Romanticism Webquest: Music, Art, and Literature

5. American Portraits

6. Utopian Communities Comparing and Contrasting

7. Imagining the American West

8. The Grapes of Wrath Webquest

9. Microthemes

10. Civil War Journals

11 Literary Journals

12. Art Poetry

13. The Great Gatsby Magazine Project

14. Vietnam Protest Songs

15. Exploring the Harlem Renaissance through Literature, Music, and Art

16. New York Road Trip

17. Hard Boiled Detective Stories

18. Poetry of the Great War (World War I)

19. The Lost Generation

20. The Lost Generation Magazine Project

21. Short Stories and Poems

22. Baseball Trip

23. The Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt

24. The Gettysburg Address Socratic Dialogue

25. The Things They Carried Socratic Dialogue

26. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

27. The Vietnam Protest Webquests

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• American Studies
• Process of Composition
• Introduction to Short Fiction
• English III