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Students work with lawmakers to enact change by creating photojournalism projects that illustrate how passing legislation will help them reach their dreams.
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Fighting Mortality
Students analyze global trends in mortality, investigate health disparities in Chicago, and leverage international initiatives to promote well-being in their own communities through civic action.
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Students explore cross-cultural solidarity in the context of social justice movements in America by examining a diverse range of historical and contemporary texts and craft reflections through daily...
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Preparing for Migration
Students explore a range of reporting on the theme of migration and then leverage research and interviewing skills to prepare for upcoming academic or vocational transitions.
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Students identify underreported news stories that challenge the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then develop solutions to a violation of the declaration in their own community.
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Listening to Immigrants’ Stories: Comparing the American Dream to the Reality Upon Arrival to the United States
Students evaluate a range of texts about immigrants traveling to the United States and then employ interviewing skills to capture stories about immigration from members of their own community
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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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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.
