Culture

"Human beings create, learn, share, and adapt to culture. The study of culture examines the socially transmitted belief\ values, institutions, behaviors, traditions and way of life of a group of people; it also encompasses other cultural attributes and products, such as language, literature, music, arts and artifacts, and foods. Students come to understand that human cultures exhibit both similarities and differences, and they learn to see themselves both as individuals and as members of a particular culture that shares similarities with other cultural groups, but is also distinctive. In a multicultural, democratic society and globally connected world, students need to understand the multiple perspectives that derive from different cultural vantage points."

Quoted from http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands.

Essential Question:
Is there a standard American culture that has been prevalent throughout modern history (the 19th and 20th century) or has our culture fluctuated with time and the influence of individual's in the country? How would you define the culture of the United States today?

Directions
Below you will find various primary sources that I have provided for you to help you to answer the essential question. Each source is provided digitally with a link to it's original website. To complete this unit, you must individually analyze each provided source using the APPARTS Template. You must also find four (4) more primary sources on your own and analyze them on the same paper as the provided sources. There are several online depositories of primary sources, a couple I recommend are http://digitalvaults.org and http://www.archives.gov. Be sure to put a link to your chosen primary sources on your APPARTS template so you can refer back to them when you are completing your blog post. As you are analyzing your sources, be sure to pay attention to what is //explicitly stated// (stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt) and what is //implied// (suggested but not directly expressed). This will help you to reach your best conclusions and answer the essential question.

Provided Sources
Levittown, the beginning of suburbs

Rock and Roll media type="custom" key="23700148"

Roaring 20's

Louis Armstrong media type="custom" key="23700512"

Jack Kerouac, Beatniks “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Japanese Internment Camps

80s Conservatism