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INTRODUCTION: This lesson plan incorporates the film and POV website resources of Patti Smith: Dream of Life, an intimate portrait of legendary rocker, poet and artist Patti Smith. Since Smith has associated and collaborated with a number of influential poets, musicians and other cultural artists, students can use these resources to create timelines that show how artists are affected by the time periods in which they live. POV documentaries can be recorded off-the-air and used for educational purposes for up to one year from their initial broadcast. In addition, POV offers a lending library of DVDs and VHS tapes that you can borrow any time during the school year — FOR FREE! Get started by joining our Community Network. Please visit our Film Library to find other films suitable for classroom use. Note: This film has mature themes and contains profanity. If you plan to use the complete film in the classroom, we recommend that you record the program off-air or request the "broadcast version" of this film from the POV lending library. OBJECTIVES By the end of this lesson, students will: GRADE LEVELS: 6-12 SUBJECT AREAS: English/Language Arts, U.S. History, Civics, Art, Music MATERIALS: Method of showing the entire class online video clips and website resources ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED: Portions of two 50-minute class periods to kick off and wrap up the main activity, plus research time outside of class FILM CLIP Clip 1: "An Indictment of George W. Bush" (length 3:47) The clip starts at 1:08:18 with a view of the landscape passing outside the window of a moving train and ends at 1:12:05 with Patti at the microphone.
BACKGROUND Patti Smith is a rocker, poet and artist whose story is interwoven with many important modern cultural movements. Through her associations and collaborations with poets William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musicians Bob Dylan and Michael Stipe, she is a bridge between the Beat Generation, the punk movement and musicians of today. For more on Smith and those who inspired her work, see her biography and Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends on the POV website. Top of Page
ACTIVITY 1. Give students a few minutes to react in writing to the following quote: "I just love the work that people do. I always have. Nothing is more exciting than a new book or to uncover a new writer or see a great painting or a piece of architecture you haven't seen. It excites me — the work that people do. It's one of the great things about being alive — what our fellow man produces. It's not always that I want to possess the work myself, or cover the work myself. I bathe in it. I learn from it. I'm inspired by it. I might extend it or improvise on it. I think that all artists do this. And to be a part of this chain of being is beautiful. You celebrate and remember your ancestors, and you give and you become an ancestor yourself." 2. Ask each student to share what he or she has written with a partner, then invite a few students to read their written responses to the class. Discuss: 3. Explain that the quote comes from Patti Smith, a rocker, poet and artist who has known and collaborated with many influential thinkers, writers, artists and musicians throughout her life. 4. Give students a taste of Smith's music by playing a video of her performing a song she's written, such as "Grateful" or "Beneath the Southern Cross". 5. Explain to students that Smith got involved in music after doing a number of public readings of her poetry. At one point, she asked a friend to play guitar while she read her poems. Eventually they added more musicians and became a band. Smith's experimentation with her band pioneered the punk movement in New York City in the 1970s. All the while, Smith continued to write poetry and express herself in other creative ways. 6. Show students the Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends. Point out that Smith associated and collaborated with a number of artistic individuals who have contributed to American culture. 7. Divide the class into small groups. Instruct each group to create a timeline that features key moments in the careers of Smith and her friends. The timeline should also include historic events that took place in the United States around the same time. The timelines can be displayed on a wall, on a large roll of paper or using a free online timeline creator like xtimeline. 8. Give each group a specific individual or topic to research, such as: Artists Periods in U.S. History Students should conduct their research outside of class and return with brief descriptions of their people and their cultural contributions or concise summaries of events from their assigned time periods. 9. After an appropriate amount of time for your class to complete its research, ask each group to post its timeline. 10. Discuss:   ASSESSMENT SUGGESTIONS Students can be assessed on: Top of Page
EXTENSIONS & ADAPTATIONS         Top of Page
RESOURCES Biography: Patti Smith Billboard magazine provides information on Smith's artistic influences, from jazz to Beat poetry to playwright Sam Shepard. It specifically focuses on her major successes and how she paved the way for other women musicians. How to Analyze a Poem Using Annotations Educator Trent Lorcher shares some ideas for working with students to analyze poems. The Independent: "Patti Smith Rails Against Israel and U.S." This September 2006 article describes how Smith's songs "Without Chains" and "Qana" reflect her political concerns about Israeli and American foreign policy. Patti Smith Patti Smith's official website features a blog with her thoughts on various experiences, a schedule of appearances, performance clips, details on her political activity and more. Green Pages: "Patti Smith Reaffirms That People Have the Power" In this summer 2005 interview in the newspaper of the Green Party of New York State, Smith describes how she integrates her political views into her music. About.com: 20th Century History About.com features milestones in 20th-century history. Social Studies for Kids This website, created by former About.com writer David White, offers articles about 20th-century U.S. history for students and teachers. Lone Star College - Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: The 20th Century Reference librarians assembled timelines based on different periods in the 20th-century United States that offer information about the major events and trends of each decade. Top of Page
STANDARDS These standards are drawn from "Content Knowledge," a compilation of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 curriculum by McRel (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) Art Connections Standard 1: Understands connections among the various art forms and other disciplines. Arts and Communication
Standard 2: Critiques art works in terms of the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.
Standard 3: Uses critical and creative thinking in various arts and communication settings.
Standard 4: Understands ways in which the human experience is transmitted and reflected in the arts and communication.
Standard 5: Knows a range of works of art and communication from various historical and cultural periods.
Civics
Standard 14: Understands issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.
Standard 19: Understands what is meant by "the public agenda," how it is set, and how it is influenced by public opinion and the media.
Geography
Standard 10: Understands the nature and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Language Arts
Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
Music
Standard 7: Understands the relationship between music and history and culture.
U.S. History
Standard 31: Understands economic, social and cultural developments in the contemporary United States.
Visual Arts
Standard 4: Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cari Ladd, M.Ed., is an educational writer with a background in secondary education and media development. Previously, she served as PBS Interactive's director of education, overseeing the development of curricular resources tied to PBS programs, the PBS TeacherSource website (now PBS Teachers), and online teacher professional development services. She has also taught in Maryland and northern Virginia.

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INTRODUCTION: This lesson plan incorporates the film and POV website resources of Patti Smith: Dream of Life, an intimate portrait of legendary rocker, poet and artist Patti Smith. Since Smith has associated and collaborated with a number of influential poets, musicians and other cultural artists, students can use these resources to create timelines that show how artists are affected by the time periods in which they live. POV documentaries can be recorded off-the-air and used for educational purposes for up to one year from their initial broadcast. In addition, POV offers a lending library of DVDs and VHS tapes that you can borrow any time during the school year — FOR FREE! Get started by joining our Community Network. Please visit our Film Library to find other films suitable for classroom use. Note: This film has mature themes and contains profanity. If you plan to use the complete film in the classroom, we recommend that you record the program off-air or request the "broadcast version" of this film from the POV lending library. OBJECTIVES By the end of this lesson, students will: GRADE LEVELS: 6-12 SUBJECT AREAS: English/Language Arts, U.S. History, Civics, Art, Music MATERIALS: Method of showing the entire class online video clips and website resources ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED: Portions of two 50-minute class periods to kick off and wrap up the main activity, plus research time outside of class FILM CLIP Clip 1: "An Indictment of George W. Bush" (length 3:47) The clip starts at 1:08:18 with a view of the landscape passing outside the window of a moving train and ends at 1:12:05 with Patti at the microphone.
BACKGROUND Patti Smith is a rocker, poet and artist whose story is interwoven with many important modern cultural movements. Through her associations and collaborations with poets William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musicians Bob Dylan and Michael Stipe, she is a bridge between the Beat Generation, the punk movement and musicians of today. For more on Smith and those who inspired her work, see her biography and Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends on the POV website. Top of Page
ACTIVITY 1. Give students a few minutes to react in writing to the following quote: "I just love the work that people do. I always have. Nothing is more exciting than a new book or to uncover a new writer or see a great painting or a piece of architecture you haven't seen. It excites me — the work that people do. It's one of the great things about being alive — what our fellow man produces. It's not always that I want to possess the work myself, or cover the work myself. I bathe in it. I learn from it. I'm inspired by it. I might extend it or improvise on it. I think that all artists do this. And to be a part of this chain of being is beautiful. You celebrate and remember your ancestors, and you give and you become an ancestor yourself." 2. Ask each student to share what he or she has written with a partner, then invite a few students to read their written responses to the class. Discuss: 3. Explain that the quote comes from Patti Smith, a rocker, poet and artist who has known and collaborated with many influential thinkers, writers, artists and musicians throughout her life. 4. Give students a taste of Smith's music by playing a video of her performing a song she's written, such as "Grateful" or "Beneath the Southern Cross". 5. Explain to students that Smith got involved in music after doing a number of public readings of her poetry. At one point, she asked a friend to play guitar while she read her poems. Eventually they added more musicians and became a band. Smith's experimentation with her band pioneered the punk movement in New York City in the 1970s. All the while, Smith continued to write poetry and express herself in other creative ways. 6. Show students the Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends. Point out that Smith associated and collaborated with a number of artistic individuals who have contributed to American culture. 7. Divide the class into small groups. Instruct each group to create a timeline that features key moments in the careers of Smith and her friends. The timeline should also include historic events that took place in the United States around the same time. The timelines can be displayed on a wall, on a large roll of paper or using a free online timeline creator like xtimeline. 8. Give each group a specific individual or topic to research, such as: Artists Periods in U.S. History Students should conduct their research outside of class and return with brief descriptions of their people and their cultural contributions or concise summaries of events from their assigned time periods. 9. After an appropriate amount of time for your class to complete its research, ask each group to post its timeline. 10. Discuss:   ASSESSMENT SUGGESTIONS Students can be assessed on: Top of Page
EXTENSIONS & ADAPTATIONS         Top of Page
RESOURCES Biography: Patti Smith Billboard magazine provides information on Smith's artistic influences, from jazz to Beat poetry to playwright Sam Shepard. It specifically focuses on her major successes and how she paved the way for other women musicians. How to Analyze a Poem Using Annotations Educator Trent Lorcher shares some ideas for working with students to analyze poems. The Independent: "Patti Smith Rails Against Israel and U.S." This September 2006 article describes how Smith's songs "Without Chains" and "Qana" reflect her political concerns about Israeli and American foreign policy. Patti Smith Patti Smith's official website features a blog with her thoughts on various experiences, a schedule of appearances, performance clips, details on her political activity and more. Green Pages: "Patti Smith Reaffirms That People Have the Power" In this summer 2005 interview in the newspaper of the Green Party of New York State, Smith describes how she integrates her political views into her music. About.com: 20th Century History About.com features milestones in 20th-century history. Social Studies for Kids This website, created by former About.com writer David White, offers articles about 20th-century U.S. history for students and teachers. Lone Star College - Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: The 20th Century Reference librarians assembled timelines based on different periods in the 20th-century United States that offer information about the major events and trends of each decade. Top of Page
STANDARDS These standards are drawn from "Content Knowledge," a compilation of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 curriculum by McRel (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) Art Connections Standard 1: Understands connections among the various art forms and other disciplines. Arts and Communication
Standard 2: Critiques art works in terms of the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.
Standard 3: Uses critical and creative thinking in various arts and communication settings.
Standard 4: Understands ways in which the human experience is transmitted and reflected in the arts and communication.
Standard 5: Knows a range of works of art and communication from various historical and cultural periods.
Civics
Standard 14: Understands issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.
Standard 19: Understands what is meant by "the public agenda," how it is set, and how it is influenced by public opinion and the media.
Geography
Standard 10: Understands the nature and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Language Arts
Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
Music
Standard 7: Understands the relationship between music and history and culture.
U.S. History
Standard 31: Understands economic, social and cultural developments in the contemporary United States.
Visual Arts
Standard 4: Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Top of Page  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cari Ladd, M.Ed., is an educational writer with a background in secondary education and media development. Previously, she served as PBS Interactive's director of education, overseeing the development of curricular resources tied to PBS programs, the PBS TeacherSource website (now PBS Teachers), and online teacher professional development services. She has also taught in Maryland and northern Virginia.

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INTRODUCTION: This lesson plan incorporates the film and POV website resources of Patti Smith: Dream of Life, an intimate portrait of legendary rocker, poet and artist Patti Smith. Since Smith has associated and collaborated with a number of influential poets, musicians and other cultural artists, students can use these resources to create timelines that show how artists are affected by the time periods in which they live. POV documentaries can be recorded off-the-air and used for educational purposes for up to one year from their initial broadcast. In addition, POV offers a lending library of DVDs and VHS tapes that you can borrow any time during the school year — FOR FREE! Get started by joining our Community Network. Please visit our Film Library to find other films suitable for classroom use. Note: This film has mature themes and contains profanity. If you plan to use the complete film in the classroom, we recommend that you record the program off-air or request the "broadcast version" of this film from the POV lending library. OBJECTIVES By the end of this lesson, students will: GRADE LEVELS: 6-12 SUBJECT AREAS: English/Language Arts, U.S. History, Civics, Art, Music MATERIALS: Method of showing the entire class online video clips and website resources ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED: Portions of two 50-minute class periods to kick off and wrap up the main activity, plus research time outside of class FILM CLIP Clip 1: "An Indictment of George W. Bush" (length 3:47) The clip starts at 1:08:18 with a view of the landscape passing outside the window of a moving train and ends at 1:12:05 with Patti at the microphone.
BACKGROUND Patti Smith is a rocker, poet and artist whose story is interwoven with many important modern cultural movements. Through her associations and collaborations with poets William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musicians Bob Dylan and Michael Stipe, she is a bridge between the Beat Generation, the punk movement and musicians of today. For more on Smith and those who inspired her work, see her biography and Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends on the POV website. Top of Page
ACTIVITY 1. Give students a few minutes to react in writing to the following quote: "I just love the work that people do. I always have. Nothing is more exciting than a new book or to uncover a new writer or see a great painting or a piece of architecture you haven't seen. It excites me — the work that people do. It's one of the great things about being alive — what our fellow man produces. It's not always that I want to possess the work myself, or cover the work myself. I bathe in it. I learn from it. I'm inspired by it. I might extend it or improvise on it. I think that all artists do this. And to be a part of this chain of being is beautiful. You celebrate and remember your ancestors, and you give and you become an ancestor yourself." 2. Ask each student to share what he or she has written with a partner, then invite a few students to read their written responses to the class. Discuss: 3. Explain that the quote comes from Patti Smith, a rocker, poet and artist who has known and collaborated with many influential thinkers, writers, artists and musicians throughout her life. 4. Give students a taste of Smith's music by playing a video of her performing a song she's written, such as "Grateful" or "Beneath the Southern Cross". 5. Explain to students that Smith got involved in music after doing a number of public readings of her poetry. At one point, she asked a friend to play guitar while she read her poems. Eventually they added more musicians and became a band. Smith's experimentation with her band pioneered the punk movement in New York City in the 1970s. All the while, Smith continued to write poetry and express herself in other creative ways. 6. Show students the Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends. Point out that Smith associated and collaborated with a number of artistic individuals who have contributed to American culture. 7. Divide the class into small groups. Instruct each group to create a timeline that features key moments in the careers of Smith and her friends. The timeline should also include historic events that took place in the United States around the same time. The timelines can be displayed on a wall, on a large roll of paper or using a free online timeline creator like xtimeline. 8. Give each group a specific individual or topic to research, such as: Artists Periods in U.S. History Students should conduct their research outside of class and return with brief descriptions of their people and their cultural contributions or concise summaries of events from their assigned time periods. 9. After an appropriate amount of time for your class to complete its research, ask each group to post its timeline. 10. Discuss:   ASSESSMENT SUGGESTIONS Students can be assessed on: Top of Page
EXTENSIONS & ADAPTATIONS         Top of Page
RESOURCES Biography: Patti Smith Billboard magazine provides information on Smith's artistic influences, from jazz to Beat poetry to playwright Sam Shepard. It specifically focuses on her major successes and how she paved the way for other women musicians. How to Analyze a Poem Using Annotations Educator Trent Lorcher shares some ideas for working with students to analyze poems. The Independent: "Patti Smith Rails Against Israel and U.S." This September 2006 article describes how Smith's songs "Without Chains" and "Qana" reflect her political concerns about Israeli and American foreign policy. Patti Smith Patti Smith's official website features a blog with her thoughts on various experiences, a schedule of appearances, performance clips, details on her political activity and more. Green Pages: "Patti Smith Reaffirms That People Have the Power" In this summer 2005 interview in the newspaper of the Green Party of New York State, Smith describes how she integrates her political views into her music. About.com: 20th Century History About.com features milestones in 20th-century history. Social Studies for Kids This website, created by former About.com writer David White, offers articles about 20th-century U.S. history for students and teachers. Lone Star College - Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: The 20th Century Reference librarians assembled timelines based on different periods in the 20th-century United States that offer information about the major events and trends of each decade. Top of Page
STANDARDS These standards are drawn from "Content Knowledge," a compilation of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 curriculum by McRel (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) Art Connections Standard 1: Understands connections among the various art forms and other disciplines. Arts and Communication
Standard 2: Critiques art works in terms of the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.
Standard 3: Uses critical and creative thinking in various arts and communication settings.
Standard 4: Understands ways in which the human experience is transmitted and reflected in the arts and communication.
Standard 5: Knows a range of works of art and communication from various historical and cultural periods.
Civics
Standard 14: Understands issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.
Standard 19: Understands what is meant by "the public agenda," how it is set, and how it is influenced by public opinion and the media.
Geography
Standard 10: Understands the nature and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
Language Arts
Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
Music
Standard 7: Understands the relationship between music and history and culture.
U.S. History
Standard 31: Understands economic, social and cultural developments in the contemporary United States.
Visual Arts
Standard 4: Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cari Ladd, M.Ed., is an educational writer with a background in secondary education and media development. Previously, she served as PBS Interactive's director of education, overseeing the development of curricular resources tied to PBS programs, the PBS TeacherSource website (now PBS Teachers), and online teacher professional development services. She has also taught in Maryland and northern Virginia.

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Patti Smith: Lesson Plan: Historical Influences on Art and Artists

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INTRODUCTION: This lesson plan incorporates the film and POV website resources of Patti Smith: Dream of Life, an intimate portrait of legendary rocker, poet and artist Patti Smith. Since Smith has associated and collaborated with a number of influential poets, musicians and other cultural artists, students can use these resources to create timelines that show how artists are affected by the time periods in which they live.

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OBJECTIVES

By the end of this lesson, students will:

GRADE LEVELS: 6-12

SUBJECT AREAS: English/Language Arts, U.S. History, Civics, Art, Music

MATERIALS: Method of showing the entire class online video clips and website resources

ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED: Portions of two 50-minute class periods to kick off and wrap up the main activity, plus research time outside of class

FILM CLIP
Clip 1: "An Indictment of George W. Bush" (length 3:47)
The clip starts at 1:08:18 with a view of the landscape passing outside the window of a moving train and ends at 1:12:05 with Patti at the microphone.

BACKGROUND

Patti Smith is a rocker, poet and artist whose story is interwoven with many important modern cultural movements. Through her associations and collaborations with poets William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musicians Bob Dylan and Michael Stipe, she is a bridge between the Beat Generation, the punk movement and musicians of today. For more on Smith and those who inspired her work, see her biography and Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends on the POV website.

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ACTIVITY

1. Give students a few minutes to react in writing to the following quote:
"I just love the work that people do. I always have. Nothing is more exciting than a new book or to uncover a new writer or see a great painting or a piece of architecture you haven't seen. It excites me -- the work that people do. It's one of the great things about being alive -- what our fellow man produces. It's not always that I want to possess the work myself, or cover the work myself. I bathe in it. I learn from it. I'm inspired by it. I might extend it or improvise on it. I think that all artists do this. And to be a part of this chain of being is beautiful. You celebrate and remember your ancestors, and you give and you become an ancestor yourself."

2. Ask each student to share what he or she has written with a partner, then invite a few students to read their written responses to the class. Discuss:

3. Explain that the quote comes from Patti Smith, a rocker, poet and artist who has known and collaborated with many influential thinkers, writers, artists and musicians throughout her life.

4. Give students a taste of Smith's music by playing a video of her performing a song she's written, such as "Grateful" or "Beneath the Southern Cross".

5. Explain to students that Smith got involved in music after doing a number of public readings of her poetry. At one point, she asked a friend to play guitar while she read her poems. Eventually they added more musicians and became a band. Smith's experimentation with her band pioneered the punk movement in New York City in the 1970s. All the while, Smith continued to write poetry and express herself in other creative ways.

6. Show students the Photo Gallery: Patti Smith with Family and Friends. Point out that Smith associated and collaborated with a number of artistic individuals who have contributed to American culture.

7. Divide the class into small groups. Instruct each group to create a timeline that features key moments in the careers of Smith and her friends. The timeline should also include historic events that took place in the United States around the same time. The timelines can be displayed on a wall, on a large roll of paper or using a free online timeline creator like xtimeline.

8. Give each group a specific individual or topic to research, such as:

Artists

Periods in U.S. History

Students should conduct their research outside of class and return with brief descriptions of their people and their cultural contributions or concise summaries of events from their assigned time periods.

9. After an appropriate amount of time for your class to complete its research, ask each group to post its timeline.

10. Discuss:

 

ASSESSMENT SUGGESTIONS
Students can be assessed on:

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EXTENSIONS & ADAPTATIONS

 

 

 

 

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RESOURCES

Biography: Patti Smith
Billboard magazine provides information on Smith's artistic influences, from jazz to Beat poetry to playwright Sam Shepard. It specifically focuses on her major successes and how she paved the way for other women musicians.

How to Analyze a Poem Using Annotations
Educator Trent Lorcher shares some ideas for working with students to analyze poems.

The Independent: "Patti Smith Rails Against Israel and U.S."
This September 2006 article describes how Smith's songs "Without Chains" and "Qana" reflect her political concerns about Israeli and American foreign policy.

Patti Smith
Patti Smith's official website features a blog with her thoughts on various experiences, a schedule of appearances, performance clips, details on her political activity and more.

Green Pages: "Patti Smith Reaffirms That People Have the Power"
In this summer 2005 interview in the newspaper of the Green Party of New York State, Smith describes how she integrates her political views into her music.

About.com: 20th Century History
About.com features milestones in 20th-century history.

Social Studies for Kids
This website, created by former About.com writer David White, offers articles about 20th-century U.S. history for students and teachers.

Lone Star College - Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: The 20th Century
Reference librarians assembled timelines based on different periods in the 20th-century United States that offer information about the major events and trends of each decade.

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STANDARDS
These standards are drawn from "Content Knowledge," a compilation of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 curriculum by McRel (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning)

Art Connections
Standard 1: Understands connections among the various art forms and other disciplines.

Arts and Communication

Standard 2: Critiques art works in terms of the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.

Standard 3: Uses critical and creative thinking in various arts and communication settings.

Standard 4: Understands ways in which the human experience is transmitted and reflected in the arts and communication.

Standard 5: Knows a range of works of art and communication from various historical and cultural periods.

Civics

Standard 14: Understands issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.

Standard 19: Understands what is meant by "the public agenda," how it is set, and how it is influenced by public opinion and the media.

Geography

Standard 10: Understands the nature and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.

Language Arts

Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process.

Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes.

Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.

Music

Standard 7: Understands the relationship between music and history and culture.

U.S. History

Standard 31: Understands economic, social and cultural developments in the contemporary United States.

Visual Arts

Standard 4: Understands the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cari Ladd, M.Ed., is an educational writer with a background in secondary education and media development. Previously, she served as PBS Interactive's director of education, overseeing the development of curricular resources tied to PBS programs, the PBS TeacherSource website (now PBS Teachers), and online teacher professional development services. She has also taught in Maryland and northern Virginia.