Georgetown University
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies: Who Are the Arabs?
In an effort to dispel myths and counter stereotypical images of Arabs, this downloadable PDF file explains the richness of and diversity in Arab societies, including Arab communities in America. The document also offers ideas for...
National Library of France
National Library of France: Marcel Proust: Writing and the Arts
A rich look at the influences on Marcel Proust's writing from the National Library of France. See how his interaction with art, artists, music, composers, and contemporary society developed his craft.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Contemporary Prose
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on postmodern prose; students will be reading a novel or play of their choosing from a list provided. They will be expected to reflect on the work through reflective journaling and a timed...
Other
Minnesota Historical Society: Becoming Minnesotan: Recent Immigration
The oral histories of five immigrant communities new to Minnesota-Asian Indian, Khmer, Hmong, Somali, and Tibetan-remind us that there is no single answer to questions about what it means to be an American. With associated maps,...
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Articles and Essays: On Edgar Allan Poe
Access articles, published lectures, and related papers on Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to literature. Collection features works that were written during Poe's lifetime as well as more contemporary pieces and includes analysis of both...
Other
New Museum G:class
The New Museum's global classroom (G:Class) connects high school students and teachers to contemporary art that explores global, cultural, and societal issues that affect their lives.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Heroes in Today's Society
This lesson allows students to examine traditional definitions of heroes and listen to contemporary songs about heroes to decide how they define a hero in today's society. This lesson was designed to be used at the beginning of twelfth...
Other
Korean American Historical Society
This site has articles, news, and resources from a Washington-state based nonprofit organization focused on Korean American history. Features links to a chronology of Korean American history, immigrant stories, biographies, and a...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Gamze Kati Gumus, "Disposable: Immigrant Bodies in Contemporary Politics"
This article focuses on the fate of immigrants and refugees during a time of political efforts to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the US. It focuses on the drowning of the Kurdi brothers.
Maine Historical Society
Maine Historical Society: Longfellow Amongst His Contemporaries: The Ship of State Dbq
Using a number of primary source documents, students will assess the validity of a claim. Practice for testing that includes DBQs, and for critical thinking, close reading skills.
British Library
British Library: Austen's Emma: Social Realism & the Novel
In the course of the novel's development, Jane Austen was a significant contributor to the emergence of the modern novel as we know it today. The review of Emma in the Quarterly Review (October 1815) makes clear to a modern audience how...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap World History: The World in Crisis, 1914 Present
AP World History learning module with interactive lessons and assignments on 20th Century events from 1914 to present.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Propaganda Techniques in Literature: Ads
For this online lesson, students are introduced to various propaganda techniques that have been used by the media and political candidates. Students explore the propaganda and the effect it has on contemporary society.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Health & Wellness: Reserve Communities
Here are a variety of lesson plans for both elementary and secondary school students, provided to help students assess the health and wellness of Aboriginal Cultures. One specific lesson looks at Reserve Communities in contemporary society.
Maine Historical Society
Maine Historical Society: Longfellow and the Jewish Cemetery at Newport
An exhibit about the Jewish cemetery in Longfellow's famous poem of the same name shows maps, photographs, and contemporary photographs.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Global America
Comprehensive teaching unit on globalization's influences on the political and social structure of America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Includes a look at how immigration has affected a changing America. Contains video and...
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Civil Rights Movement
Learning module with multi-media resources, including interactive timeline, video, photos and articles, from which students can explore the current Black Lives Matter movement and make connections to activism of the past and the role of...
Other
The Contemporary a Cappella Society: A Cappella Almanac
This website includes general information on a cappella music, as well has tips on how to get started in a cappella singing and how to arrange, perform, and record a cappella music. Read about world-wide a cappella events and check out...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing
Effective communication skills are critical for the present century. This unit plan stresses clear, persuasive communication that is meant to be shared with an audience beyond the classroom.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Factors of Production
This site gives an overview of economic factors of production (land, labor, capital). Gives detailed descriptions, and links to descriptions of words that might need clarification. Students can make connections as to how these relate to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Other
Sweet Briar College: Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
This site is the homepage of a speech data base sponsored by Swee Briar College. It includes links to speeches by influential women, mostly contemporary, but with a growing inclusion of speeches from as early as 1848. "Almost all of...
Trinity University
Trinity College: Times of Our Lives
A fascinating Trinity College site which addressed our use of time; there is a historical piece as well as contemporary uses of time in different societies. Those societies which place a high value on the symbol of "time" are compared to...
British Library
British Library: Austen's Persuasion: Status, Rank & Class
Through these activities, students will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of what gave Jane Austen's contemporaries status in their society; how important a person's rank and position in society was, and how knowing the...