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Part 2: How does culture influence and shape the American Dream?
Time: 85 minutes
Materials:
Step 1: Food for Thought
Culture noun: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~Christopher Reeve
You will have 35 minutes to complete this step. With your Dream Team:
FVHS Media Center
Step 2: Investigate
You will have 20 minutes to complete this step. Read five of the lyrics and/or poems listed below. Consider the following and record your responses on the graphic organizer:
LYRICS:
Dreamer by Supertramp
The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel
The American Dream from Miss Saigon
America from West Side Story
No Irish Need Apply by John F. Poole
American Dream by MKTO
The Impossible Dream by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion
Coming to America by Neil Diamond
Pink Houses by John Mellencamp
Take a Walk by Passion Pit
POEMS:
“Immigrants in Our Own Land” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
“America” by Tony Hoagland
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
“Learning to Love America” by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
“America” by Claude McKay
“Monuments” by Myra Sklarew
“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman
Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Do you know of a song, story, or poem that focuses on the diversity of the American Dream? Use it and share it! Add your resource to today's Dream Blog. Note: Be careful not to confuse patriotism for the American Dream.
Step 3: Discussion
As a class, we will spend 15 minutes discussing how culture and origin has shaped the American Dreams of others. We will also consider how life experiences are shaping our own American Dreams. What are the similarities and the differences? Take notes on your graphic organizer!
Step 4: Synthesize
During the next 15 minutes, synthesize the ideas that you have discovered today into a short statement that answers the essential question for this section. Record on your graphic organizer.
Essential Question: How does culture (ethnicity, age, and gender) influence and shape the American Dream?
Multigenre Chapter 2:
For this Chapter of your multigenre paper, you will pick one genre and create a piece that shares what you have learned about the impact of culture on the American Dream. Your goal is to convey how culture influences and shapes the American Dream. Refer to the notes on your graphic organizer and consider what you learned during today’s discussions. Support your opinion with readings from this section when appropriate. Use the MLA style for citations. See the Rubric for further details. Check the Assignment Board for the due date of this chapter.
When you have finished the activities in this section, proceed to Part 3.
Time: 85 minutes
Materials:
- Pen or pencil
- Graphic Organizer
- Internet Access and/or classroom copies of text
- Your Dream Team (3-4 students each)
Step 1: Food for Thought
Culture noun: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~Christopher Reeve
You will have 35 minutes to complete this step. With your Dream Team:
- Brainstorm ways that the American Dream might be different for diverse Americans.
- Consider how things like ethnicity, age, and gender impact an individual's definition of the American Dream?
- Record your ideas on the graphic organizer.
- Using the Media Center link below, each member of your team will locate one article related to cultural impacts on the American Dream.
- Create a citation and an annotated summary in EasyBib.
- Share it with your Dream Team.
FVHS Media Center
Step 2: Investigate
You will have 20 minutes to complete this step. Read five of the lyrics and/or poems listed below. Consider the following and record your responses on the graphic organizer:
- How does the author of the song/poem/memoir feel about the American Dream?
- How have cultural experiences shaped his/her American Dreams?
- WHY are there differences between dreams?
LYRICS:
Dreamer by Supertramp
The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel
The American Dream from Miss Saigon
America from West Side Story
No Irish Need Apply by John F. Poole
American Dream by MKTO
The Impossible Dream by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion
Coming to America by Neil Diamond
Pink Houses by John Mellencamp
Take a Walk by Passion Pit
POEMS:
“Immigrants in Our Own Land” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
“America” by Tony Hoagland
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
“Learning to Love America” by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
“America” by Claude McKay
“Monuments” by Myra Sklarew
“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman
Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Do you know of a song, story, or poem that focuses on the diversity of the American Dream? Use it and share it! Add your resource to today's Dream Blog. Note: Be careful not to confuse patriotism for the American Dream.
Step 3: Discussion
As a class, we will spend 15 minutes discussing how culture and origin has shaped the American Dreams of others. We will also consider how life experiences are shaping our own American Dreams. What are the similarities and the differences? Take notes on your graphic organizer!
Step 4: Synthesize
During the next 15 minutes, synthesize the ideas that you have discovered today into a short statement that answers the essential question for this section. Record on your graphic organizer.
Essential Question: How does culture (ethnicity, age, and gender) influence and shape the American Dream?
Multigenre Chapter 2:
For this Chapter of your multigenre paper, you will pick one genre and create a piece that shares what you have learned about the impact of culture on the American Dream. Your goal is to convey how culture influences and shapes the American Dream. Refer to the notes on your graphic organizer and consider what you learned during today’s discussions. Support your opinion with readings from this section when appropriate. Use the MLA style for citations. See the Rubric for further details. Check the Assignment Board for the due date of this chapter.
When you have finished the activities in this section, proceed to Part 3.