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Lesson Plans
The Migrant’s Experience
Students examine the question, “What is the migrant experience?” with the intention of demonstrating how international policies feed migration patterns that have a global effect.
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Lesson Plans
Creating Comics: Using Storyboards and Comics to Share Personal Migration Stories in the ESL Classroom
Students analyze underreported news stories of migration, evaluate connections to the reporting, and write a story that they will graphically illustrate as a comic style/storyboard.
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Students analyze press coverage of youth migration, then create projects that demonstrate their empathy for, and understanding of, youth migration at all stages of the journey to the U.S. border.
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Students examine the legacy of discrimination developed under European Imperialism and Enlightenment, and research disruptors in their own communities who have fought against exclusion and oppression.
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Students investigate global and local environmental issues and explore stories that celebrate activists. Then students create posters that highlight environmental issues in Chicago.
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Students explore stories of Muslim women celebrating identity and community and then leverage interviewing and portraiture skills to celebrate the range of identities in their classroom.
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Students will analyze underreported news stories about family migration. After learning the elements of a feature story, they will research and write articles about their own migration histories.
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Lesson Plans
Equity and COVID-19
Students analyze inequities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, develop digital literacy skills to make informed decisions about the vaccine, and then engage in civic action work to promote equity in...
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Lesson Plans
Empowering students to shape pandemic budgets
Students investigate the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities in Chicago, identifying issues that matter to them, to participate in discussions about CPS budget allocations as an advocate...
