Catlin Gabel

Financing the American Dream

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Unit	Essential Questions	Content	Skills and Processes	Assessment	Resources	Multicultural Dimension
Untitled	How do the course's texts illustrate the American ideals of personal liberty and success? What is the importance of money for successful pursuit of the American dream? *How do gender and race affect a successful pursuit of the American dream?	Understand development of American literature from 18th to 20th century Historical contexts of the texts *Use of cultural artifacts to generate discussion	Direct class discussion Develop critical abilities as readers Improve skills as writers of critical and creative prose Have a good time reading, viewing, and discussing the texts Prepare and present class meetings, both in collaborative groups and as individuals Apply principles of unguided peer reviewing and metacritical self-review for both content and style *Use techniques of active reading, class note-taking, and test-taking	midterm exam final exam fall semester research paper 2-3 analytical papers personal essay reading quizzes *collaborative one act play	Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography Edgar Allen Poe's The Gold Bug Thoreau's Walden Charles Chestnut's collected stories Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Henry James' Daisy Miller Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Edith Wharton's House of Mirth F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross	*selected texts provide opportunities for discussions of racial, class, and gender politics and how these affect the attainment of the American dream