PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Making of Dead Man Walking (Classroom Content)
Go directly to two lesson plans developed by the producers of the PBS documentary "The Making of Dead Man Walking" about an opera based on the work of Helen Prejean. Use the lessons to help students examine how art and music can define...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Novel
These articles answer the following questions about novels between 1832-1880: From Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell to George Eliot, how did the writers of this period use fantasy, realism, sensationalism, and...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community and Memory, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
A story that defines community as a connection between the past and the present. This resource links to Henry Dumas's short story, "Ark of Bones" and reviews its social commentary as it applies to African American community.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Crime
These articles research the following questions related to the Victorian Age: Why was crime such a popular subject in 19th-century fiction? How did literature balance fear, social commentary, and entertainment? How were gruesome murders...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: The Metamorphosis
Through the study of various fictional works and literary criticism, students explore "magical realism." Students learn about the interconnectedness of texts over time and space as they study how authors transform source material....
British Library
British Library: Dickens's Hard Times: Industrialisation
In this activity, students will examine the working lives of those who produced goods in factories, towns, and cities and investigate the social and economic backdrop to Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times".
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sfmoma: Art Can Be a Messenger for Social Awareness
In this lesson plan students will look at the work of Diego Rivera and other artists. They will then create art to express their own viewpoint on a social issue.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Beyond Documentation: Art as Challenge and Commentary
Brief information explaining the use of art as commentary to lend the artist a voice to challenge social or national issues.
Other
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: H. C. Westermann Curriculum
Useful curriculm for introducing key sculpture and printmaking concepts focuses on the work of H. C. Westermann, whose work is often valued for its criticism of consumerism, militarism, and other social phenomena. Provides overviews and...
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Legacy Project
The Legacy Project houses the work of artists and writers who have made twentieth-century traumas and conflicts their subject. Visitors learn how artists construct art from memories of apartheid, wars, massacres, genocides, acts of...
Library of Congress
Loc: Cartoon America
includes political illustrations, gag cartoons, Online collection that includes comic strips, illustrations, animation, and caricature.
PBS
Pbs American Masters: Robert Rauschenberg: Reinventing Art
Studying the life and work of Robert Rauschenberg, we see a reflection of American culture. Click his name to a full biography and timeline.
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Corra Harris (1869 1935)
The "first female war correspondent to go abroad in World War I" is the focus of this article about her life and work. The site includes a list of suggested readings.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cross Curricular Art Lessons From Frontline/world
Three cross-curricular lessons that pair art projects with world issues related to propaganda, violence, and cross-border tourism.
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