Summary

This innovative curriculum book provides key materials, resources, and tools to help secondary educators prepare their students to be engaged citizens of their community, state, nation and world. Five complete units of instruction, based on West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives, provide meaningful lessons while being mindful of the transition from tangible text to more digital curricula:

• Rights of the Individual 
• Freedoms of the Individual 
• Responsibilities of the Individual 
• Beliefs Concerning Societal Conditions 
• Financial Literacy

Additional features of the curriculum include:

• 24 lessons that provide specific teaching and learning strategies.
• 4 culminating activities for enrichment opportunities. 
• A matrix illustrating the West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives covered.
• A matrix illustrating compliance with the National Council for the Social Studies Standards.
• A curriculum toolbox that provides over 70 engaging web sites to visit and explore.

Published by the Center for Democracy and Citizenship Education.
 

Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Letter to the Student
Matrix of the National Council for Social Studies Standards
Matrix of West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives
Curriculum Toolbox

• Digital Resources
• Civic Resources
• Financial Literacy Resources
• Geography Resources

Civic Education Introduction

• Lesson

Unit A: Rights of the Individual

• Lesson 1: Media Literacy: Bill of Rights
• Lesson 2: Creating Effective Citizens: Civic Resources
• Lesson 3: Global Community: Human Rights Resources Center
• Lesson 4: Civic Virtue: What Has Value?
• Lesson 5: Service Learning: Volunteering and Reflection
• Culminating Activity: Rights of the Individual

Unit B: Freedoms of the Individual

• Lesson 1: Media Literacy: The First Amendment
• Lesson 2: Creating Effective Citizens: Web Resources
• Lesson 3: Global Community: Skype
• Lesson 4: Civic Virtue: Digital Artistic Expression of Civic Heroes
• Lesson 5: Service Learning: Online Safety and Voting
• Culminating Activity: Freedoms of the Individual: WV Tech Steps

Unit C: Responsibilities of the Individual

• Lesson 1: Media Literacy: State Officials
• Lesson 2: Creating Effective Citizens: Facing History and Project Citizens
• Lesson 3: Global Community: Digiteen Project
• Lesson 4: Civic Virtue: The “Good” Leader
• Lesson 5: Service Learning: Service as Responsibility
• Culminating Activity: Cyber Bullying

Unit D: Beliefs Concerning Societal Conditions and Governmental Responsibilities

• Lesson 1: Media Literacy: The Constitution
• Lesson 2: Creating Effective Citizens
• Lesson 3: Global Community
• Lesson 4: Civic Virtue: Community Civic Virtue
• Lesson 5: Service Learning: Our Community
• Culminating Activity: Emerging Democracies

Unit E: Financial Literacy

• Lesson 1: Council for Economic Education
• Lesson 2: The Mint
• Lesson 3: National Financial Capability Challenge
• Lesson 4: iCivics

Author

Robert Waterson is an Assistant Professor at the College of Human Resources and Education at West Virginia University. His research areas include citizenship, human rights, history, democratic theory, and controversial public issues.

Summary

Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898–1920 examines the rise and fall of organized socialism in West Virginia through an exploration of the demographics of membership, oral interview material gathered in the 1960s from party members, and the collapse of the party in the wake of the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek coal-mining strike of 1912. The first local branch of the West Virginia Socialist Party was established in Wheeling in 1901, and by 1914 several thousand West Virginians were dues-paying members of local branches. By 1910 local Socialists began to elect candidates to office, and in 1912 more than 15,000 West Virginia voters cast their ballots for Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. The progress that West Virginia socialists achieved on the electoral front was a reflection of the party’s strategy of increasing class-consciousness by working with existing unions to build the power of the labor movement. The party appealed to a fairly broad cross section of wage earners, and its steady growth also owed much to the fact that many members of the middle class were attracted to the cause. Several factors combined to send the party into rapid decline, most importantly deep fissures between class and craft factions of the party and 1915 legislation making third party political participation difficult. Working Class Radicals offers insight into the various internal and external forces that doomed the party and serves as a cautionary tale to contemporary political leaders and organizers.

Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• INTRODUCTION
• I. THE ORIGINS OF WEST VIRGINIA SOCIALISM: 1898–1904
• II. THE GROWTH AND APPEAL OF THE WEST VIRGINIA SOCIALIST MOVEMENT: 1905–1911
• III. THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE WEST VIRGINIA WORKING CLASS LEADERSHIP TO THE APPEAL OF SOCIALISM
• IV. “WE HAD THE REVOLUTION” THE WEST VIRGINIA SOCIALIST PARTY AT ITS PEAK: 1912–1915
• V. THE DECLINE OF THE WEST VIRGINIA SOCIALIST PARTY: 1915–1920
• VI. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE DECLINE OF TRADE UNION STRENGTH FOR THE WEST VIRGINIA SOCIALIST PARTY
• CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX A: SOCIALIST – NON-SOCIALIST WORKING CLASS LEADERSHIP SAMPLE
• APPENDIX B: SOCIALIST VOTING PATTERNS IN WEST VIRGINIA
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Author

Frederick A. Barkey is professor emeritus, Marshall University, and founder of the West Virginia Labor History Association. 

Ken Fones-Wolf is professor of history and Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair, West Virginia University.

Reviews

“A catalyst inspiring additional research into West Virginia’s political past. A starting point for all current and future inquiry into West Virginia’s past and the history of socialism in the United States.”
Kevin T. Barksdale, assistant professor of history, Marshall University

Summary

Crum Trilogy, Part 3

In the third part of the Crum trilogy, Jesse hits the road and heads West, looking to experience something—anything—that will fulfill his intrinsic desires to escape, and to belong. He ends up in California, where he fools around, mischievously fighting and drinking, yet always narrowly escaping punishment. Soon enough, Jesse runs out of luck. He finds himself arrested and is condemned to serve out his sentence under the supervision of the United States Army. Suddenly Jesse Stone can no longer run. Suddenly Jesse Stone is a solider. Full of intense violence and cutting humor, this tale is the culminating confession of a young man who has wandered from a small town in West Virginia and back again in the hopes of finding his home.

Learn more about the Crum trilogy.
Visit Lee Maynard's website.

Contents

PROLOGUE

Part I
THE ROAD WEST

Part II
SCUMMER TRAINING

Part III
THE SCUMMERS

Author

Lee Maynard was born and raised in the ridges and mountains of West Virginia, an upbringing that darkens and shapes much of his writing. His work has appeared in such publications as Columbia Review of Literature, Kestrel, Reader’s Digest, The Saturday Review, Rider Magazine, Washington Post, Country America, and The Christian Science Monitor. Maynard gained public and literary attention for his depiction of adolescent life in a rural mining town in his first novel Crum and received a Literary Fellowship in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete Screaming with the Cannibals. Maynard serves as President and CEO of The Storehouse, an independently funded, nonprofit food pantry in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received the 2008 Turquoise Chalice Award in honor his dedication to this organization.

Read more about Lee Maynard here.
 

Reviews

"Behold the final record of Jesse Stone, pure fire and tow. You’ll look at these pages sideways. You’ll wish to hit somebody in the temple with your beer bottle. Or maybe you won’t. But if you listen to the roar of this book, if you truly hear the music of Lee Maynard -- a writer who marches to no drummer, different or otherwise -- you’ll get to where you need to go."
Glenn Taylor, a Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University and author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, a 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and The Marrowbone Marble Company

“Funny, rousing, big-hearted, engagingly kooky, and truly memorable.”
Lee K. Abbott, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio State University

“Lee Maynard is a genius.”
Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder

“A roadmap of a never-ending quest for that elusive place in the heart we call home.”
Chuck Kinder, author of Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life