These three lessons by artist-educator Diana Greene are based on a Pulitzer Center NewsArts workshop for journalism students at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC. The workshop guided students in researching and creating a film that explores connections between Winston-Salem’s history of textile manufacturing and the growing global textiles industry. Students learned how to conduct in-depth research and interviews, visualize their research, write and record narrations, and collaborate with their classmates to order the short films into a larger narrative.
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Students learn about the history of globalization and how it impacts their lives. They will analyze how journalists visualize global stories and make connections between global and local issues.
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Students evaluate how visual images work in tandem with words to create stories and produce writing that pairs text with visuals to describe the story of textile manufacturing in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Lesson Plans
Weaving Connections Documentary Film: Prep (1 of 3)
Students learn about the global textiles industry using photography, texts, and interviews and evaluate the connections between the industry in 19th c America and modern Bangladesh.
