High School
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Lesson Plans
Empowering students to shape pandemic budgets
Students investigate the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities in Chicago, identifying issues that matter to them, to participate in discussions about CPS budget allocations as an advocate...
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Students learn to identify perspectives and their implications by reading The Tempest, alongside other literary and journalistic texts, and analyzing themes of colonialism, xenophobia, and migration.
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Students examine news stories about youth displacement, and how youth respond with resilience and improve society. Students then script and film videos to capture personal connections to the stories.
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Which Way Home? Exploring the Relationship Between Migration and Identity Through Personal Narrative
Students explore definitions of home, how migration and media representation influence identity, and dispel stereotypes about migrants through close reading, analysis, and discussion.
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In this lesson, students will analyze a short film and consider how its subject uses art to challenge gender norms, then reflect on how they can challenge harmful norms in their own communities.
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Gender Related Issues are Underreported Stories
Students analyze underreported stories that center gender-based violence and explore different forms of writing to draw attention to global and local gender issues.
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'Race for the Vaccine' Curricular Resource
Students analyze a documentary film that depicts the vaccine development process, and captures how five teams of scientists raced against time to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Students explore clips from the PBS Series Extra Life to analyze the history and legacy of life-saving medical discoveries that have doubled human life expectancy in the last 100 years.
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Lesson Plans
"The Living Century" from The New York Times Magazine: Underreported stories of medical progress
Students examine factors, many of which have been underreported, that have led to the doubling of human life expectancy over the past century.
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Students will analyze reporting on climate change and its varying impacts on people and communities. Using diverse mediums of reporting, students will draw personal connections from global reporting.
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Teaching Guide: If God Is a Virus (Poems)
Reading guides and activities for a book of documentary poetry that interrogates the worlds of journalism, medicine, international aid, their ethics, and their intersections.
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Reproductive health, at home and abroad
Students will analyze global reporting on reproductive health and make local connections to those same issues at home.