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Lesson Plans
Evaluating Turkey: What Makes a Country “Free”?
Students evaluate the status of freedom in Turkey using Freedom House criteria, and consider how freedom may be defined at home and around the world.
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Lesson Plans
'Our Democracy' Curricular Materials
Award-winning documentary photographer Andrea Bruce wants Americans to examine what democracy looks like in their local communities and everyday lives. Our Democracy is her 2-year, open study of...
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A project-based unit that engage students in the production of their own citizen journalism for Andrea Bruce's Our Democracy project.
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Engage students in a dialogue about democracy with photojournalist Andrea Bruce and members of a re-entry program in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Students will evaluate how communities rely on their ecosystems for survival and climate change's impact on their ability to do so by examining the Meitei people's relationship to Loktak Lake.
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This lesson explores how film is used to tell the stories of young ballerinas in Brazil’s favelas, resulting in art and/or research projects examining resilience.
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Lesson Plans
Six Tips for Strong Interviews
Students practice skills for preparing and conducting interviews for documentary films.
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Students evaluate how photojournalist Daniella Zalcman communicates interviews with blended photography in order to create their own blended portraits that communicate how their identities are...
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This resource describes methods for producing documentary filmmaking projects with students that make local connections to global issues by outlining the development of the film “Placing Identity.”
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/screen_shot_2018-11-16_at_5.18.40_pm.png.webp?h=717d0fcf&itok=1NDWIPhR "Screenshot from the film, "Placing Identity," which was produced by journalism students at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC. United States, 2018.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/screen_shot_2018-05-17_at_3.16.52_pm_0.png.webp?h=ea3dcbea&itok=wLo-4tiL "Students from R.J. Reynolds High School research and plan a segment of the film, "Placing Identity." Screenshot from "Placing Identity." United States, 2018.")
