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Topic: Language Dissection during the Prohibition Era (You need to provide a rationale for having students investigate this era.) 
Rationale: Using texts around the Prohibition era, students will learn how language can be used as a rhetoric?? (awkward--recast) for political change, persuasion, and expression. 
 Ashley Keough &amp; Beverly Cummings 
 
 
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Texts: 
Context: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10200161-bootleg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bootleg: //Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition//</a> 
Fulcrum: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809372.Black_Duck" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Duck </a> 
Texture: 
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=952" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Songs from 1960 in Honor of Prohibition</a> 
Rationale: Students will be able to listen to secondary source accounts of musical expression during the prohibition 
 
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&amp;CISOBOX1=Prohibition&amp;CISOFIELD1=subjec&amp;CISOROOT=/voices&amp;t=s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Letters from Senators during Prohibition</a> 
Rationale: Students will use these letters to analyze language and how rhetoric of people in power are constructed [in writing]. 
 
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://followingpulitzer.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/poetry-friday-graham-isaac-and-prohibition/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Poem that Reveals Language of the Time</a>Rationale: This poem will provide students with the opportunity to analyze language of the Prohibition era and will give students a better understanding of peoples' views toward Prohibition.