Unit+1--Defining+America

=**Cultural Literacy - The U.S. Pledge**=

=**Continuation of American Values**= [|New York Times Lesson Plan]
 * (after "Where I'm From" and Charting personal values and American Values)**
 * (intelligence is always missing from the lists; this lesson addresses Anti-Intellectualism)**

=**de Crevecoeur--"What is an American"**=

=**Thoreau--Walden Excerpt**=

Virgin Mobile Cellphone Commercial for Analysis with Thoreau media type="file" key="Crazy Life--Virgin Mobile.mp4" width="113" height="60"

=**Henry--Speech to the Virginia Convention**= (more Patrick Henry Q's) Rhetorical Analysis of Speech (In-depth!) [|Dramatic Reading of Henry's Speech] media type="file" key="Henry Speech--Audio.mp3" width="240" height="20"Audio of Speech =**Emerson--Self-Reliance**=

=**Whitman--"I Hear America Singing" with Hughes--"I, Too"**=

=**Bradstreet--Upon the Burning of My House/To My Dear and Loving Husband**=

=**Longfellow--Psalm of Life**=

=**Equiano--Interesting Narrative**= Done in conjunction with reading Equiano and Douglass. Note - I changed this from the above instruction handout. Asks students to use both Equiano and Douglass in Sand. Paragraph

=**Franklin--Aphorisms**=

=**Douglass--Narrative of the Life...**= Rhetorical focus--only appropriate after students have been introduced to the rhetorical triangle including rhetorical appeals

=**FINAL SUMMATIVE PAPER**=
 * (USING PARAGRAPH AS A SANDWICH METHOD)**