The U.S.A. is a dynamic and diverse country!
What do you know about it?
What would you like to know?
You may be able to find it here!
Hello! I am a teacher, yet I never seem to stop learning. I want to learn as much as I can about the many ways we humans live on our planet Earth! I was born in the United States of America, and I am an American citizen. I am also a citizen of the world.

I love to travel in my own country and in other countries. Wherever I go, I try to understand the cultures of the people I meet. When I return from traveling, I show pictures of the people I meet to my students in the United States to help them learn more about the world around them.

This website provides learning resources, photographs, and poems to introduce students and teachers from other countries to the United States. With knowledge about each others' cultures, I hope we can overcome fear and prejudice and forge positive and mutually beneficial relationships among people around the world. Enjoy your visit!

Contact Susan Cannon: cannon@ea1785.org with your new ideas for teaching about the United States and favorite Internet sites or resources.  I have checked each of the sites linked to these pages, both for content and availability.  Please use your discretion before using these links yourself.  I am an American educator with over 25 years of classroom experience in elementary and middle school.  My special fields of interest are moral, global, and peace education: developing teaching methods to help children to think, care, and act honorably and globally.  I teach history and English, as well as debate and other elective courses at The Episcopal Academy, a college preparatory independent school near Philadelphia, PA, in the United States.  I have also taught middle school students and teachers in China, in the cities of Yangzhou and Rugao in Jiangsu Province, and in Xinglong County in Hebei Province.

Visit my home page at Episcopal Academy to see my websites to help learn how to Teach Peace!, to learn about China Today!, websites of elementary school projects in Cannon 3rd Grade Archives, and other resources: http://www.ea1785.org/Eax_FacultyPage.aspx?euid=1000

“On a personal level, to learn about another great culture is to enrich one’s life, to understand one’s own country better, to feel more at home in the world, and indirectly to add to that reservoir of individual goodwill that, many generations from now, temper the cynical use of national power.” - Vikram Seth