The American Dream

Discussion Starters

High Int
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12

Students read about “The American Dream” and discuss how they would define it. This lesson includes punctuation practice using apostrophes with words ending in -s.

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Focus

topic-based
4-skills
immigration
employment
money
possessive punctuation
interpretive
productive
interactive

Vocabulary

from rags to riches
epic
origin
foundation
in pursuit of
claim
put food on the table
necessity
materialistic
do whatever it takes
corrupt
foreign affairs
A spinning paper plane
A spinning paper plane