High School
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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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Students learn about voter suppression and disenfranchisement in U.S. elections, and how people are mobilizing to combat it.
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In this lesson, students will watch, analyze, and conduct further research based on a Pulitzer Center webinar where infectious disease journalist Jon Cohen speaks on the path to a COVID-19 vaccine.
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In this lesson, students will analyze data showing that Black and brown people are over-represented in COVID-19 mortality statistics, investigate structural causes, and search for solutions.
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Lesson Plans
Analyzing the Exit of Private Prisons: Now What?
Students analyze text-based reporting and engage with what happens when communities decide to stop relying on private companies to run correctional institutions
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Lesson Plans
Growing Up Through the Cracks: Exploring Solutions to Child Poverty in Scotland and the United States
Students analyze solutions to end child poverty in Glasgow, Scotland and Allegheny County in the Southwest of Pennsylvania.
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A lesson plan for close reading and guided discussion of Bryan Stevenson's essay "Mass Incarceration," which traces the legacy of slavery in the contemporary criminal legal system.
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Students analyze reporting recounting a North Korean woman and her children's journey to a new life in South Korea, understand the factors that pushed her to flee, and encounter challenges she faced.
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Students explore the effects of climate change on the identities, homes, and livelihoods of communities living in the Great Lakes region.
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Students explore reporting about four Black Americans' decisions to 'repatriate' to Ghana, analyze their motivations, and make connections between Black History figures and current events.
![Red white and blue "I voted" stickers with American flag are on a spool of stickers placed on a voting booth platform. Image by Barbara Kalbfleisch. United States, undated.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/03-01-20/voting-stickers-usa.jpg.webp?h=8cb6e07d&itok=yjOezOtz "Red white and blue "I voted" stickers with American flag are on a spool of stickers placed on a voting booth platform. Image by Barbara Kalbfleisch. United States, undated.")
