Americans+on+America+Packet

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In this page, you will find class handouts and some enrichment resources for the Americans on America packet.


 * NPR's "This I Believe" Essay and Podcast by Andrew Sullivan:** [|**"Life, LIberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"**]

//What values does this author hold? What hot-button and divisive issues does he allude to in his essay? What is your reaction to this essay--the language, the tone, the message?//


 * NPR's "This I Believe" Essay and Podcast by Colin Powell:** [|**"The America I Believe In"**]
 * NPR's "This I Believe" Essay and Podcast by Sudhir Venkatesh:** [|**"The True Measure of America's Freedom"**]


 * Prose Readings**

Below are the class instructions to the Declaration of Independence annotation Assignment, and a link to an online version of the document:



[|Text of the Declaration of Indepencence]

[|Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments"]

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 * Poetry**

Langston Hughes' Poem "Let America Be America Again"

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[|Link to YouTube Version of Poem]

[|Explication of Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"]


 * Current Events LInks/Modern Perspectives

[|Chicago Public School Student Protest]**