Teaching American Studies

Engage! Watch Bill Maher “Michael Jackson is America” clip (available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efBKINY58Ho ) Primary Read Frederic...

Engage: The reading is Raymond Williams' Culture entry from Keywords, Anne Norton Smith's discussion of culture from 95 Theses, the ...

1. looks like all of us are using video clips (mine will be up shortly). Out of 8 classrooms since I started doing 100 only 3 have had the ...

Engage: Watch this clip of an interview with pastor Rick Warren (the guy who did the opening prayer at Obama's inauguration) talking...

Engage: Watch Fats Domino perform "Ain't That a Shame" in the 1956 film Shake, Rattle, and Rock!: Watch this clip of a cover o...

After working with Cheryl on the learning objectives for each unit, I revised my own unit to fit more easily into that structure. Here'...

Pete and Cheryl met to talk about how to build learning objectives into the units. In the second seminar meeting, we imagined that we would ...