8th Grade Language Arts Humboldt, Iowa
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Unit 2 - Rural Settings in North America:  "It Happened in the Country"

In this unit, students will reflect on the settings of stories and events - from poems and short stories to novels and nonfiction.

Unit Vocabulary Words

hamlet
village
town
township
county
section
acre
homestead/Homestead Act
countryside
landscape
agrarian/agriculture
rustic
rural
country


Classroom Instructional Links

Setting Powerpoint

Artwork

Grant Wood - American Gothic (1930)
Parody #1
Parody #2
Parody #3
Grant Wood - Fall Plowing (1930)
Edward Hopper - Gas (1940)
Edward Hopper - Early Sunday Morning (1930)
Edward Hopper - Cape Cod Evening (1930)
Charles Freitag - website of artwork



RUral Literature Circle Book Survey link - click here

Websites

Tagxedo - World Cloud Builder
Passage from Walden
Homestead Act
American Cowboy History
Homestead Act Video
Homestead Act -  Westward Expansion
Cowboy Poem
Breaking into the USA - Mexico documentary video
Short  Dust Bowl documentary clip
Dust storm Disaster Slideshow to Woody Guthrie songs
Woody Guthrie - The Dustbowl Balladeer
True Grit - movie trailer (2010)
True Grit - movie trailer (1969)
Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888 overview
Winter of 1880's - Sioux City TV station story
Herding Cats video ad

Music Videos

"Big Green Tractor" - Jason Aldean

"Pretty Pink Tractor "- parody
"Christmas
 For Cowboys
"


"The Interstate 80 Song- Heywood Banks"
"Nightrider's Lament - Suzy Bogguss"
"Cowboy's Sweetheart" - Suzy Boggus
"Fly Over States" - Jason Aldean
"Rocky Mountain High" - John Denver
"Oklahoma" - musical"
"Amarillo Sky" - Jason Aldean
"Country Man" - Luke Bryan
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