TS
Topics
America: a Nation of Immigrants
Racial Issues
Violence
East/West
Topics
Texts/documents
for 2001 Oral Exam
Extra
Background
Reading/Viewing
Basic Concepts: the origin of the American Dream, the 1st wave of immigration, Puritan life in Massachussets, witchcraft trials, Mc Carthism
The American Myth - extract from "The Grandmothers" by Glenway Wescott
Extra Material given in class:xerox: The Growth of America, background to beginning of America, iconographic document (The Puritans), film on witchcraft trials in Europe.
Witchcraft
Hysteria in Salem
The
Crucible Project
Background
Information
Why
did Miller write the Crucible?
on
Arthur Miller
The
Crucible: Fact and Fiction
America's
Homepage (photos and links to the Pilgrim's World)
Provincetown-The
Pilgrims' First Landfall
Mayflower
Web Pages
Many
interesting links to Colonial period
An
American Thanksgiving
Recommended Films: The Witches of Salem, Guilty by Suspicion
America
A
Nation of Immigrants
Basic Concepts: the different waves of immigration, Ellis Island, the growth of a nation,The Chicanos, melting pot x salad bowl-mosaic
.
Extra Material given in class: iconographic documents (A Bridge in the Sky and Ways and Means)
An
American Tail Homepage 1
An American
Tail Homepage 2
Ellis
Island
Photographs
Immigration and Ellis Island
IMDB
(internet movie data base)
West
Side Story Homepage
IMDB
(internet movie data base)
Recommended
Films: America, West Side Story, The Birth of a Nation
Recommended Articles - Rights, and Wrongs, of Passage -article from Time Magazine January 22, 2001
Basic Concepts: how the USA grew, European X American concept of frontier, mobility (on the road), Manifest Destiny.
Guthrie
Extra Material given in class: iconographic documents (life on the frontier), Americana,
.
Extra Material given in class:
Gatsby
Links (project,themes,
the narrator, beginner's guide)
Recommended Films: The Great Gatsby