Writing About US History Through Literature With IEW Semester 2 (Middle)

Part 2 of 2 - 16 week courses.  It is highly recommended that you have taken semester one of this course or semester one of another IEW themed based course)

While reading about history topics from pre-colonial to the civil rights movement, students will develop advanced writing skills such as thesis statements, MLA format, persuasive essays, research papers, and more.  

I have chosen books written by people of the culture or experts on the topics so that we can gain the best perspective of the historical events of the time. We will dive into hard topics and history.

"History is not a random sequence of events.  Everything affects, and is affected by, everything else.  This is never clear in the present.  Only time can sort out events.  It is then, in persepctive that patterns emerge." - William Manchester

Book:  Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
Week 17 - Unit 6 - All Black Towns
Week 18 - Unit 6 - All Black Towns
Book:  Coolies by Yin
Week 19 - Unit 6 - Chinese Exclusion Act
Book:  Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Week 20 - Unit 7 - Inventive Writing - Sugar and Beau have become like family.  How would you define family? 
Week 21 - Unit 7 cont...
Book:  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Week 22 - -Unit 7 - What makes an American Citizen?  
Week 23 - Unit 7 - “His father had said once that the hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and wrong but between what’s right and what’s best.” (p. 204)  What does this quote mean to you?  Analyze this quote using examples from history, current events, literature, or people that you know (including yourself). 
Week 24 - Unit 7 - continued... 
Week 25 - Unit 8 - Adding an introduction and conclusion to lessons 17 and 18
Book:  Hana's Suitcase:  The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery
Week 26 - Unit 8 - Essay - Holocaust Research Report 
Week 27 - Unit 8 - continued 
Book:  Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr and Ronald Himler
Week 28 - Unit 9 - Literary Review
Week 29 - continued
Book:   Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Week 30 - Unit 9 - Literary Review
Week 31 - Unit 9 - continued
Week 32 - Unit 9 - Character Analysis

*This course works through units 1-9 of the structural models of the IEW Syllabus.
*Each lesson gives a clear writing assignment with a detailed checklist of Structure and Style requirements.
Homework will be assigned weekly and should be uploaded to the classroom each week before class.