Unit Seven: America’s Century

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