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Teaching Units
What makes Art of English Teaching Units Unique?
- Each unit has an end unit literacy project, test and vocabulary list.
- Each unit covers a specific historical period in American history.
- Each unit averages 36-48 pages appropriate for 10-week ESL courses.
- Each unit includes exercises in reading, essay/paragraph writing, grammar, comprehension, pronunciation, word/ sentence structure, improvisation, “talking circle” discussion, singing in English, interpreting artwork, historic first hand accounts and so much more...
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UNIT ONE: Pre-Columbus
Those Who Were Here Before |
| A historic-cultural look at the lifestyles and customs of North America’s Indigenous people. Details |
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UNIT TWO: 1492-1692
Conquerors and Colonists |
Columbus’s log, colonists from Virginia &
Massachussetts accounts of early settlers. Details |
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UNIT THREE: 1692-1792
Idealists and Individualists |
| How the U.S. government was born and the great men who made it happen. *Answers to 40-50 questions found on the INS citizenship test covered in this unit. Details |
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UNIT FOUR: 1800-1850
From Life to Legend |
| The 13 original colonies expand west. Real-life legends from history, stories and songs. Details |
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UNIT FIVE: 1850-1900
Clash of Cultures |
| Slavery, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, native leaders as America changes dramatically. Details |
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UNIT SIX: 1776-present
We are all Immigrants |
| A socio-cultural history of U.S. immigration, personal accounts through the ages. Details |
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UNIT SEVEN: 1900-1950
America’s Century |
| The roots of who we are today: migration, industrialization, urbanization, conquest. Details |
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UNIT EIGHT: 1950-2000
The Culture of Cinema |
| Socio-cultural history through ten of the greatest motion pictures; two Award winners representing each decade. Details |
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