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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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UNIT NINE: present day
Write like Obama, Speak like Obama |
| Inspired by his book, “Dreams from My Father”. Obama's written and spoken words are used to model excellence in standard English and to connect us to modern history and American culture.Details |
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