Middle School
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A lesson plan for close reading and guided discussion of Nikole Hannah-Jones' essay, which provides the intellectual framework and introduction for The 1619 Project.
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Activities to Extend Student Engagement
Standards-aligned activities drawing from concepts in the essays, creative texts, photographs, and illustrations to engage students in creative and challenging ways.
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A lesson plan to guide analysis of a video introduction to Nikole Hannah-Jones and The 1619 Project.
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Students learn about voter suppression and disenfranchisement in U.S. elections, and how people are mobilizing to combat it.
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In this lesson, students will analyze data showing that Black and brown people are over-represented in COVID-19 mortality statistics, investigate structural causes, and search for solutions.
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Students explore images from the Everyday Africa, evaluate how images can inform a person's understanding of what a place looks like, and brainstorm images that they can compose to more accurately...
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Telling Stories with Photographs
Students explore images from Everyday Africa, and then practice planning images for a photography exhibition that aims to present everyday life in their communities.
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Practicing Photojournalism Skills
This is the third lesson in the Everyday DC unit, and it introduces students to photography techniques for use in their Everyday DC project.
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Captioning and Curating Photography
Students explore photography the Everyday Africa and Everyday DC projects to develop curation and caption-writing skills.
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Exploring Portraiture as a Storytelling Tool
Students practice conducting interviews and using them to illuminate portrait photographs that reflect underreported stories of everyday life in their communities.
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Students explore the Everyday Africa project, and then apply photography and curation techniques to compose photo stories that represent everyday life in their communities.
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This is the seventh and final lesson in the Everyday DC unit, where students conclude their work on Everyday DC by completing a final individual and collaborative project.