Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Book Excerpts
This lesson focuses on making connections with the text including text to self, text to text, and text to world. It provides links to book excerpts from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and information...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Expository Writing
This lesson focuses on expository writing including definitions, terms, sample expository essays, sequencing events into chonological order, and links to information about how to write expository essays.
Oswego City School District
Regents Prep: Entertainment
Read about the impact of various forms of entertainment on the popular culture of the Jazz Age. The content is brief but informative.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Popular Culture, Making of African American Identity: V. 2
A sculpture, poster, poem, and a painting that challenge black stereotypes in the early-twentieth century. Links to these precursors to the Harlem Renaissance are provided at the top of the page.
Digital History
Digital History: Low Brow and Middle Brow Culture
A good overview of the popular culture in the Jazz Age. Read about the kinds of entertainment and literature enjoyed by the middle class in the 1920s.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Fads and Heroes
A time of fads and hero worship, the 1920s' entertainment didn't always make sense, but it was interesting. Find out about some of the fads of the time, and who became the heroes of popular culture. Take a brief quiz about the 1920s.
City University of New York
Chinese Cultural Studies: The Spirits of Chinese Religion, by Stephen F. Teiser
A detailed look at Chinese religion, organized into the following sections: "Confucianism," "Daoism," "Buddhism," "The Problem with Popular Religion," "Kinship and Bureaucracy," and "The Spirits of Chinese Religion."
Vassar College
Vasser College: 1896: Popular Amusements
This 1896, A Website of Political Cartoons site lists concerts, lectures, travelling shows, opera houses, circuses, and more as popular amusements during the Gilded Age
Other
For Many, One: Passing From Light to Dark
This scholarly article looks into the treatment of race and ethnicity in the 1920s and how they were handled in popular culture. Read about stereotypes of African Americans and immigrants from Asia and southern Europe and find out how...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Present at the Creation
A compilation of stories from National Public Radio about the creation of new and extraordinary objects, films, and artwork that have shaped and continue to shape American popular culture. Explore everything from the hamburger, to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Internet's Impact on Our Culture Collection
This collection of instructional videos analyzes how the internet has created a system for everyone to engag.
Other
Fifties Boulevard: Material Culture of the 50s
A repository of images of 1950s culture. Includes fashion, types of food, cars, home interiors, toys, and comics.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Serbian Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Serbian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mbeere
The Mbeere live in Embu District in the Eastern Province of Kenya, East Africa. The name "Mbeere" means "first," referring to their belief that they were the initial occupants of their territory. Aesthetics center on the verbal arts,...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Somalis
The Muslim Somalis of the Horn of Africa speak the Somali language and live in the Somali Democratic Republic (Somalia). There are also substantial numbers of Somalis in neighboring countries: the southern half of Djibouti, the eastern...
Vassar College
1896: Popular Medicine
A very interesting look at popular medicine in the late 19th century. Read about home remedies, door-to-door patent-medicine salesmen, painkillers, and advertisements for such remedies. Find links to political cartoons related to popular...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Popular Mexican Arts
This site has a curriculum unit for high school students on popular Mexican art. Provides four lesson plans, links, a bibliography, and even video suggestions.
Other
Museum of Florida History: Florida in the Popular Imagination
This rich visual exhibit celebrates Florida's diverse cultural and social history by showcasing artifacts from Florida's history collection. A history of the growth of the state's tourist industry is noteworthy.
Other
Museum of Florida History: Florida in the Popular Imagination
This rich visual exhibit celebrates Florida's diverse cultural and social history by showcasing artifacts from Florida's history collection. A history of the growth of the state's tourist industry is noteworthy.
Other
Fifties Web
Explore popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s. Learn about the cars, tv shows, music, fashion, pop history, slang, and celebrities of those eras.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Stairway to Heaven Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to make connections between literary texts and popular culture texts like song lyrics. After checking popular culture texts for literary elements, these elements are then examined in...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Land of Television
The advent of increased television programming helped create a national popular culture. Read about the many kinds of television programs offered in the 1950s.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Digital Studios Collection
Explore top selections from the PBS Digital Studios library. This content is edgy and engaging, educational and thought-provoking -- designed to grab your students' attention. Explore our collections curated towards design and...
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