Election Processing Community Circle
Lesson plan with the objective of the defriefing an election that has profound negative impact on communities of color.
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A Pulitzer-prize winning project focused on the history of slavery. Includes a few lesson plans and other curricular resources, and some are tied fairly closely to New York Times articles. Online: https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum
“Why I love a country that once betrayed me”
When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a “security” measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=LeBKBFAPwNc&feature=emb_logo
MiHistoria
One of the projects of Community Stories, funded by the California Humanities. “MiHistoria.net is a collaborative storytelling project that bears witness to the Latina experience, strengthens inter-generational ties, builds bridges of understanding between urban and rural women, and empowers Latinas to become the authors of our own stories.” Online: https://mihistoria.net/
Write Our Stories
Created for 2020 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, this covers a variety of topics and includes reading lists, spotlights on pioneers and trailblazers in the community, documentaries on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues, and Asian American food. Online: https://www.nbcnews.com/writeourstories
Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder
Includes lessons teaching students how to be their own (photo)journalists and tied to investigating current events/news/issues. Some examples are “Interview Analysis: How Can We Save Black and Brown Lives During a Pandemic?”, which looks at demographic data to understand the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, and “Exploring Media Representation and Bias in Photography” to teach youth…
Asian Americans
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