Throughout this course we will be exploring what it means to be American, what America values, and how these things have developed and changed since the beginning of our nation.

Answer the following questions:

1. What does America Value?

2. How do you know this is a value? What are you basing your answer on?

3. What does it mean to be American?


Next, watch the following video and answer the questions that follow.

4. What does Anand believe are the two Americas?

5. Do you agree with his analysis of America? Why or why not?

6. What categories would you place people in America in?

Read the blog post, What Does it Mean to Be American? Compare and contrast the answers of from 2014 and 1997?

7. What similarities do you see in the definitions of what it means to be an American?

8. What differences do you see?