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Students explore clips from the PBS Series Extra Life to analyze the history and legacy of life-saving medical discoveries that have doubled human life expectancy in the last 100 years.
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"The Living Century" from The New York Times Magazine: Underreported stories of medical progress
Students examine factors, many of which have been underreported, that have led to the doubling of human life expectancy over the past century.
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Teaching Guide: If God Is a Virus (Poems)
Reading guides and activities for a book of documentary poetry that interrogates the worlds of journalism, medicine, international aid, their ethics, and their intersections.
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"Navajo Times":The People's Newspaper
In this lesson, students consider principles of local reporting by analyzing a documentary about a newspaper serving the Navajo Nation. Students also practice their own reporting skills.
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Vote and Voice: A Pandemic Photojournalism Series
Students analyze news stories on the COVID-19 pandemic and practice photojournalism skills to compose photo stories on the impacts of the pandemic and elections in their communities.
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Sickle Cell Disease and Health Justice
Students will use journalism sources to understand sickle cell disease, identify injustices that people with sickle cell face, and create art to bring awareness to the disease and related injustices.
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Students approach a variety of racial justice topics, connecting those topics to themselves and their communities through a lens of social-emotional learning.
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This unit focuses on the power of both underreported news stories and poetry to tell a story and get to the emotional core of a justice issue.
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This unit explores how journalism can (dis)empower communities, and uses news stories to examine the roots and effects of injustice against Indigenous people in the Amazon and in students' own lives.
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This conversation-based unit guides students in telling fuller truths about marginalized people's experiences and struggles for justice by centering stories of joy.
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Evaluating "America's Medical Supply Crisis"
This viewing guide for the documentary "America’s Medical Supply Crisis” leads students in discussion, reflection, and projects that increase public awareness about the PPE shortage in the U.S.
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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for many of the 30+ essays and creative works that compose The 1857 Project.
