Students consider the importance of young people in democracy and analyze stories of civic participation using a ten-question framework.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Responding to Difference in Democracy
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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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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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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Democracy & Civic Engagement
The Audacity of a Vote: Susan B. Anthony’s Arrest
Students explore Susan B. Anthony's choice to vote illegally in the 1872 presidential election by analyzing her speech “Is It a Crime For Women to Vote?”.
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Holocaust
The Complexity of Identity
Students explore the relationship between the individual and society by creating identity charts for a contemporary novelist, a children's book character, and themselves.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
The Cost of Labour
Students explore the moral codes of the world of the play, before being introduced to the concept of a universe of obligation and participating in a debate on workers’ rights.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
The Impact of Identity
Students explore how identity impacts our responses to other people and events by examining a cartoon and analyzing an opinion poll from a week after Ferguson.
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