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American Civil Rights Movement and SarajevoCivic activism
Students build a more complex and deeper understanding about the Civil Rights’ Movement as well as the activists and their non-compliance/non-violence approach to halt the laws and people in positions...
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10, 11, 12 | |
Courageous People ProjectCivic activism
Students work on the questions of “what is an act of moral courage” and “what is required to act courageously”. They explore the past and the present to discover courageous... |
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 | |
The Together ProjectCivic activism
Students in Chicago, Berlin, and Skopje explored minorities in each of their cultures, and stereotypes about them. Students first tried to predict what life was like for the students in...
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8 | |
Beyond BoundariesCivic activism
The fourth and final unit I teach each year is entitled “A Nation Divided and Rebuilt.” The content begins with the events leading up to the American Civil War, moves...
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8 | |
How I used Survival in Sarajevo in a Greek schoolHistory
A cross-cultural project on how to use the story of La Benevolencija, and the film "Survival in Sarajevo" in Greek and Serbian schools. |
11 | |
Personal Choice and Community DynamicsHistory
In this 2015 Milton Wolf Prize winning lesson, students examine the extent to which individual choices shape community dynamics. By watching Survival in Sarajevo, examining images, engaging in group... |
10 | |
Homeland Projectother projects
This project will introduce you to editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, while letting you explore a social/historical issue. This issue affected many Jews in the 20th Century and is... |
University | |
Civil Society - Whose Job is it to Guarantee We All Live in One?History
This 2015 Milton Wolf Prize winning lesson is designed to introduce students to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and to help them realize the need for individual civic responsibility... |
8 | |
From "The Other" to Anotherother projects
Too often, individuals or groups are labelled as the Other. The other is someone outside the group, they are considered diffferent; they are not wanted; they are labelled and... |
8 | |
Cross-cultural projects: Holocaust and Civil Rightsother projects
This was an on-going, cross-cultural project consisting of several min- lessons taught over the course of the school year, designed and taught by Ilijan Kuzmanovic (Republika Srbska) and Jeff Renihan (US)... |
11 | |
Survival in Sarajevo —— La BenevolencijaHistory
Course lesson taught in: when filling in for absent colleagues (happening with high frequency —after all it’s Italy This lesson plan can be adapted to nearly every context and... |
9 | |
Lesson plan to "Teofila Silberring: So that Memory doesn't die"History
Subject : “We know ourselves only to the extent we have been tested” (W.Szymborska). Human attitudes towards different life situations. |
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A Meeting of Minds, Culture, and Penfriends!other projects
In this cross-cultural project with students in North Carolina and Slovakia, our students are paired with a penfriend based on shared interests. The NC students wrote letters, but penfriends will... |
8 |
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