Journalism
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In this lesson, students analyze how journalists use interviews to research and tell under-reported stories. They then apply those tips to planning, conducting, and editing their own interviews.
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These activities model ways that students can apply writing, research, discussion, and visual arts skills to explorations of essays written by students for The 1857 Project.
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Lesson Plans
A Global Pandemic: Comparing, Contrasting, and Connecting to International Responses to COVID-19
In this lesson, students will analyze the challenges facing communities in Kenya and Hong Kong in stopping COVID-19 and compare their responses to other places' around the world.
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In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe underreported places, and practice the same skills in original writing.
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Lesson Plans
How to Tell Under-Reported Stories with Photography
In this lesson, students will analyze how photojournalists tell under-reported stories using photography and apply tips for doing so themselves from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists.
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In this lesson, students read and analyze reporting that investigates the relationship between climate change and migration using both data journalism and wrenching storytelling.
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In this lesson, students consider questions of identity and visibility by analyzing a documentary about an intersex woman from Zimbabwe seeking asylum in the U.S.
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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for each of the essays and creative works that compose The 1619 Project.
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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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Lesson Plans
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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Lesson Plans
Finding & analyzing underreported news stories: Critical thinking, text analysis and writing
Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities