About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW AND WHY SHOULD AMERICANS PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE GLOBAL RESURGENCE OF FASCISM? CAN HUMANISM COUNTER THE FASCIST IDEOLOGY?
Objectives: SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary source text on the topic of the ideologies and tactics of Populism, Fascism and Humanism with emphasis on building evidence-based reasoning skills necessary for the A.P. American Examination (Skill 2 – Comparison; Theme 7 – America In the World (WOR))
Citations: Rieman, Rob (2018) To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company
VIDEO:
Rob Rieman: Fascism & Our Society of Kitsch (5:01 mins)
BOOK REVIEW:
The Sickness of Our Time: Is It Populism or Fascism? By Damon Linker (Feb. 1, 2018)
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
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