Description

Designed for intermediate to advanced level learners, Rethinking America is a reading series that gets students to work with challenging, thought provoking, and ultimately illuminating issues drawn from authentic, cross-genre selections on everyday American life.

• Features

• Authentic readings from a wide variety of sources.
• Pairs of readings in each chapter offer different perspectives on a single topic and invite critical thinking, debate, analysis, and synthesis.
• Values clarification activities help students get below the surfaceof the issues. Students are led from an understanding of what happens in American culture to an understanding of how it affects them and how they feel about it.
• Extensive activities encourage students to process new cultural information. Interviews with Americans in the community as well as library and Internet research are suggested.
• Each chapter ends with a synthesis section designed to tie together the different readings in the chapter: Discussion and Debate, Writing Topics, On Your Own (personal follow-up/research).
• An almanac at the back of the book provides students with time lines, maps, population figures, and other information relevant to the specific readings and to American life in general.
• CNN video clips topically related to each unit theme stimulate writing activities and provide exciting springboards for further exploration of themes.
• Expanded extension activities encourage use of the Internet for further research and exploration.