Lesson Plans
Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees From Central America Curriculum
While confronting the impacts of immigration policies and harsh realities of the day-to-day experiences of youth refugees, these lessons also highlight the role of hope, community, and resilience. The lessons are culturally relevant for students who have experienced migration, as well as students encountering these issues for the first time.
Six by Ten: Stories From Solitary Curriculum
These lessons use the powerful narratives from Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary to support teachers and students in forming a deeper understanding of solitary confinement, mass incarceration, and the criminal justice system.
Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-Au-Prince Curriculum
Using the powerful oral histories, these multidisciplinary lessons invite students to grapple with such topics as colonialism, poverty, government corruption, and the 2010 earthquake.
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation Curriculum
This accompanying curriculum creates a flexible unit of study that allows students and teachers an opportunity to critically and creatively explore the day-to-day realities of Palestinians living under occupation, including the oft-ignored violations of human rights that occur daily.
Advocacy • Cultural and Personal Identity • Economic Justice • Migration & Displacement • Political Oppression & Civil Rights
Displaced In Colombia
Displaced in Colombia is a multimedia project that brings together oral history and documentary photography to explore contemporary first-person stories of people impacted by the decades-long violence in Colombia.
Advocacy • Cultural and Personal Identity • Economic Justice • Migration & Displacement • Political Oppression & Civil Rights
Voices From the Storm Script
The play Voices from the Storm, adapted from the VOW oral history book, weaves together the true stories of Hurricane Katrina survivors.
Arts • Economic Justice • Environmental Justice • Migration & Displacement • Political Oppression & Civil Rights • Racial Justice
