As you watch this video, think about all we have learned regarding mass incarceration and racial inequities in the USA. What is familiar in Bryan Stevenson's talk? What is new?
Your assignment:
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Consider the following questions:
Where is the youth being housed/held?
What is the age of the offender? Connection to ACE points?
What was the offense?
What is the most interesting detail (visual or in the text) and why?
Below is a copy of the slideshow. You can view the presentation full screen as well by clicking in the lower right-hand corner:
Please feel free to use the embedded links in the document below to learn more about your topic:
The summer of 2020 is now being referred to as "a moment of racial reckoning". What have we as a country learned from the murder of George Floyd? Where did the #blacklivesmatter movement originate? An answer might be found in the tragic story of Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO. We will watch the following film in conjunction with a lesson on policing and media literacy:
To find the answers to our webquest, please visit: Illinois Report Card
Below are the class guesses. How well did we predict the numbers? What informed those predictions?
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https://www.nphm.org/programs/exhibits and video
Listen to the WBEZ interview about the exhibit with Lisa Yun Lee, executive director, National Public Housing Museum.
If you were not able to join us at the museum, please complete the following assignment:
Read then answer the questions:
Please complete #1-5 of the worksheet below BEFORE reading and annotating the article. Then complete the remaining questions based on your understanding of the article.
Download The_Rich_Are_Not_Who_We_Think_They_Are._And_Happiness_Is_Not_What_We_Think_It_Is_Either.pdf