Advocates using folklore to help students build humanities skills and develop global perspectives. Provides an outline of topics and activities which should be an integral part of a folklore study and suggests using the humanities series developed by "Intercom" (see SO 506 865-871) as a curriculum guide. (Author/DB)

Presents people's experiences and perceptions of events in four lesson plans. Includes personal accounts of people moving westward, one family's decision to migrate to America, Lucy Stone and women's rights, and Langston Hughes' high school days. (CK)

Provides description, materials needed, and suggestions for the teacher for three classroom sessions and an extension of a unit studying individual portraits and photographs of early Americans and discussing possible characteristics of the people and their place in American history. (CK)

Four lessons discuss how industrialization altered individual lives and view it in the context of growing interdependence and change. Includes stories about foreign as well as American workers for comparative purposes. (Author/CK)