America’s Century – Lessons with Final Review Quiz

The Teaching Unit for this course can be downloaded as a PDF file in the “Attachments” window. Upon course completion, you can take a Final Review Quiz, by clicking the “Take the Quiz” button. (You must subscribe to this course in order to take the quiz.)

1. Big City Images: New York, New York

  • James Welson Johnson “My City”: poetic devices, student work
  • New York City: Hopper, Hassam + early 20th century paintings
  • NY Arts Chronicle: Photography & paintings that tell a story
  • Photography – Riis: skyscraper builders, street urchins, etc.

2. Early popular music

  • East Side, West Side
  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame

3. World War I

  • Historic views
  • Patriotic songs (George M. Cohan)

4. Roaring Twenties

  • Migration of Negro
    • Harlem Renaissance poets
    • Art of Jacob Lawrence
  • Music of George Gershwin
  • Women get the Vote

5. The Great Depression

  • Photographs and drawings
  • Grapes of Wrath excerpt from book, movie guide

6. Mount Rushmore

7. FDR and the New Deal: Public Arts Projects

8. World War II

  • Historic views
  • Norman Rockwell’s Views of World War II
  • Literature from the time: Poem, excerpt from biography, account of Hiroshima bombing from student’s parent, humor in uniform.

9. DreamAmerica script: America through the eyes of Norman Rockwell

10. Words, Words.Words. Unit Seven Vocabulary List

  • Sentence building
  • Word Structure: Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes

Questions