Students prepare to write an essay on theme by identifying and analysing the themes explored in the play.
Students prepare to write an essay on theme by identifying and analysing the themes explored in the play.
Students consider the importance of young people in democracy and analyze stories of civic participation using a ten-question framework.
Students navigate religious and political differences in a democracy by exploring poetry and listening to a podcast featuring interfaith leader Eboo Patel.
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.
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.
Using a role identifying activity, students analyze the various roles undertaken by a teenage partisan during the Holocaust.
By interpreting tapestries woven by Chilean women, students learn about protest, human rights, and civil society.
Students consider what the term civil society means by examining the relationship between government, business, and individuals in Chile.
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.
Students build a definition of participation and reflect on several episodes throughout history when young people chose to take a stand.
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?”.
Students explore the relationship between the individual and society by creating identity charts for a contemporary novelist, a children's book character, and themselves.