American Dream DVD Series

The American Dream DVD series tells the history of immigration to the United States and the stories of prominent immigrant citizens and their outstanding contributions to America.  The series has won a Telly, the International Film and Video Silver Screen Award, an Accolade, and the Videographer Awards Award of Excellence.  The series was distributed to over 36,000 teachers and students in classrooms across the country in the February 2008 editions of Scholastic’s Upfront®, ScholasticAction®, and Choices® magazines.  The DVD series, which was created and produced by the Merage Foundation for the American Dream, in association with Dewey Obenchain Films, and in cooperation with Scholastic, provides young people with positive role models and inspires them to define and work toward their own American Dream.

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Click on the links below to view the American Dream DVDs and their accompanying educational materials.

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	An Introduction to The American Dream Experience
	Becoming an American: The Immigrant Experience Teacher's Guide
	Jack Rosenthal: From Palestine to Pulitzer Prize: A Courageous and Productive Journey Teacher's Guide
	Isabel Allende: Exile, Traveler, World-renowned Author, Foreigner, Immigrant, and American Teacher's Guide
	David Ho: From Taiwan to Time Magazine’s Man of the Year Teacher's Guide
	Orlando Patterson: From Jamaica to Harvard Sociologist, Author and Advisor to World Leaders Teacher's Guide
	Eduardo Najera: From Chihuahua to the basketball court, one of the first Mexican immigrants to play in the NBA Teacher's Guide
	Jenny Ming: Blazing Her Own Trail to Success Teacher's Guide
	The Merage Fellows: America's Bright Future Teacher's Guide
	The Mexican Immigration Experience This new DVD chronicles the history of immigration to the United States from Mexico beginning with the founding of Santa Fe and Los Angeles, through the Mexican-American War, the Mexican Revolution, the vaqueros, railroad workers, and braceros, Operation Wetback, Cesar Chavez, IRCA and NAFTA, to the present day. Teacher's Guide

If you represent a school or another community organization and would like to receive a FREE set of American Dream DVDs, please e-mail your complete contact information to kocampo@meragefoundations.com.