Everything you need to understand or teach The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson.
Bill Bryson, who grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, says that someone had to be from Des Moines. He says people there either accept the fact that they'll marry a local girl and work at Firestone or they spend years moaning about the place and grow up to marry a local girl and work at Firestone. Bryson, a writer, decides to take a long circuitous journey through many of the states...
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Lesson Plans contain 121 pages of teaching material, including: