Students navigate religious and political differences in a democracy by exploring poetry and listening to a podcast featuring interfaith leader Eboo Patel.
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Justice & Human Rights
Responding to the Rohingya Crisis
Students place this ongoing crisis in historical context, view footage from a refugee camp, and reflect on survivor testimony.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Social Media and Ferguson
Students explore the role of social media in Ferguson, apply information verification strategies to social media posts, and develop strategies for becoming critical consumers and sharers of social media.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Social Systems and Individual Agency
Students identify the parts, people, and interactions of various social systems, thinking about what bearing they have on character choices and behaviour, before considering responses to injustice.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Speaking Up and Speaking Out
Students analyse a spoken word poem about bullying and consider how they might use their voices to call attention to injustice in their schools or communities.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Standing Up to Hatred on Cable Street
Students study the Battle of Cable Street in London by examining testimonies of individuals who demonstrated against fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
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Holocaust
Stereotypes and “Single Stories”
Students create working definitions of stereotype as they examine the human behavior of applying categories to people and things.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Stitching Truth: The Arpilleristas in Pinochet's Chile
By interpreting tapestries woven by Chilean women, students learn about protest, human rights, and civil society.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Stitching Truth: What is Civil Society?
Students consider what the term civil society means by examining the relationship between government, business, and individuals in Chile.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Taking Ownership of the Law
Students listen to a podcast about two enslaved people who successfully sued for their freedom and reflect on what these cases illuminate about democracy today.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Taking a Stand: Models of Civic Participation
Students build a definition of participation and reflect on several episodes throughout history when young people chose to take a stand.
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Holocaust
Telling Our Histories
Students connect themes from the film to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's concept of “single stories," and then consider what it would take to tell more equitable and accurate narratives.
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