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Students analyze news stories about the impacts of COVID-19 throughout the world, make connections to reporting, and compose community maps to document how their communities are impacted by COVID-19.
In this unit, students analyze connections among justice-oriented news stories from around the world while exploring the overlap between journalistic writing and personal narrative.
This conversation-based unit guides students in telling fuller truths about marginalized people's experiences and struggles for justice by centering stories of joy.
Students investigate how governments fund policing and how police use their budgets, and communicate facts and personal perspectives on police funding through digital zines.
Students analyze photo stories that explore injustices experienced by marginalized groups in the U.S. and develop their own photo stories that highlight injustice in their communities.
Students will use journalism sources to understand sickle cell disease, identify injustices that people with sickle cell face, and create art to bring awareness to the disease and related injustices.
This unit focuses on the power of both underreported news stories and poetry to tell a story and get to the emotional core of a justice issue.
Students distinguish among prejudice, racism, and systemic racism and analyze their manifestations in their lives, news stories, and the legal system.
Students use varied art and media forms to learn about and raise awareness of food (in)security issues around the world and in their own communities.
Students approach a variety of racial justice topics, connecting those topics to themselves and their communities through a lens of social-emotional learning.
Students examine how illustrations can enhance journalistic coverage, and how they can use journalism and art skills to amplify underreported social justice issues in their school and community.
Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
