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Pulitzer Center Update
'Fractured Lands' Wins the 2017 Marco Bastianelli Award
Pulitzer grantees Paolo Pellegrin and Scott Anderson win the 2017 Marco Bastianelli award for the...
July 6, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Detours Podcast Launches With Scott Anderson Interview
The first edition of Detours, a new podcast supported by the Pulitzer Center, launched with an...
June 8, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Eighth Graders Investigate Hope, Courage and Resilience in "Fractured Lands"
Teacher Faraz Chaudry describes how he used "Fractured Lands" to examine the unraveling of the...
February 20, 2017 -
Lesson Plans
Interpreting "Fractured Lands" through Geometric Art
This art lesson is an examination of the conflict in the Middle East. Students will learn about the basics of Islamic Art, and create their own artwork to contribute positively to this global crisis.
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Lesson Plans
Arab Spring Mini Unit and Final Assessment
This unit plan, designed for high school freshmen, analyzes the Arab Spring in the context of the French and Haitian revolutions.
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These lesson plans present close reading, writing, discussion, and hands-on activities that explore "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart," Scott Anderson's New York Times Magazine story.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Chicago High School Devotes Eight Weeks to "Fractured Lands"
A 9th grade teacher describes how exploring "Fractured Lands" provided her students with a much...
November 7, 2016 -
Lesson Plans
Fractured Lands Children's Book
After reading, discussing, analyzing and synthesizing "Fractured Lands", students will develop a children's book further exploring a character, region or event.
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This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/01-16-17/img_5110.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=vxjdvGcG "Holmes Middle School Global Awareness teacher Faraz Chaudry introduces "Fractured Lands" to students with exercises assessing students' background knowledge of the region. He and Information Literacy Specialist Tracy Crowley went on to design and facilitate an eight-week unit connected to the story. Image by Tracy Crowley. United States, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-07-16/fractured_lands_timeline_6th_pd_1.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=DaVjFFjI "Ninth-graders at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago present a completed timeline that compares events in the Middle East to highly publicized news stories in the U.S. over the course of the nearly two decades explored in Scott Anderson's "Fractured Lands." Students in World Studies classes at Whitney Young spent eight weeks processing Anderson's story through discussion and close-reading. Image by Anne-Michele Boyle. Chicago, 2016.")
