Students discover how art auctions have become competitive after reading an article from The New York Times. Students voice their opinions about specific examples of modern art and create trading cards based on their research of...

What characterizes modern literature? The first few slides of this 31-slide PowerPoint discuss what sparked the change to Modernism and discuss some of the key figures of the time (like Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud). The 20s and 30s are...

Students compare and contrast surrealist paintings to Alice in Wonderland.  In this literature activity, students examine surrealism paintings and apply those principles to Alice in Wonderland.  They explore how the...