Europe Slams Its Gates
A series on Europe’s controversial "pay-to-stay" effort to fight migration at its source.
View ArticleNuclear Security: Different Approaches with North Korea and China
Introduction:1. On the blank world map, identifyUnited StatesChinaNorth KoreaGhanaNigeriaIranPakistanSyria2. All of these countries produce or use highly enriched uranium (HEU). This material can be...
View ArticleMeet the Journalist: Emily Codik
A little-known story of survival during the Holocaust.
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Debate: Using Ankle Monitors to Track Immigrant Mothers in the U.S.
Objective:You will be able to will summarize the text and create an argument using details from the text.Warm Up:1) Your teacher will divide you into groups. Each group will be assigned to discuss one...
View ArticleMeet the Journalist: Richard Bernstein
Journalist Richard Bernstein traveled to Taiwan and Thailand to report on the growing influence of China around the world and in Southeast Asia.
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Taking and Selecting Pictures to Visualize Global Issues
Objective:Students will be able to evaluate how photojournalists select and use different kinds of photography to tell stories in order to evaluate how they might use photography to visualize an issue...
View ArticleMeet the Journalist: Ben Mauk
In the 1950s the Cold War forever changed the American southwest, as thousands of hopeful uranium prospectors took to the hills in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and beyond.
View ArticleMeet the Journalist: Ana P. Santos
Journalist Ana P. Santos reports from Qatar on how zina laws that criminalize unmarried sex target low-skilled migrant women and send them to prison—along with their babies.
View ArticleDeportation and the Cycle of Violence in El Salvador
Objectives:Students will be able to:cite textual evidence in order to identify causes of violence in El Salvador and the U.S.make logical inferences about people’s stances on deportation based on...
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The Paradise Papers: Understanding Offshore Activities
Objectives:Students will be able to:Define offshore entityArticulate the process by which offshore entities shelter foreign profits from taxationIdentify who is impacted positively and who is impacted...
View ArticleLand Rights and Eminent Domain on the United States-Mexico Border
Introduction:Who knows what eminent domain means? Explain for the class.Who do you think has the right to condemn land by eminent domain?If you own the land, what do you think your rights are?Do you...
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Standing Ground: Eminent Domain and Just Compensation Rights
Objectives:Students will be able to:cite evidence from a text and video to support their claims about when the use of eminent domain is justified and who does/does not tend to receive just compensation...
View ArticleDerechos a la tierra y expropiación en la frontera mexicana/estadounidense
Introducción:1. ¿Alguien sabe qué significa expropiación (o eminent domain)? Explícalo para la clase.2. ¿Quién tiene el derecho de expropiar tierra según esta ley?3. ¿Si fuera dueño/dueña de la tierra...
View ArticleMeet the Journalist: Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner spent three months in Morocco exploring the ways in which the country has become a moderate Islamic hub in the North Africa and to examine the contrast between image and reality.
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Expropiación y el derecho a compensación justa en la frontera
Objetivo:Estudiantes podrán:citar evidencia de un texto y video para apoyar afirmaciones sobre cuándo el uso de expropiación sea justificado y quién tiende a recibir/no recibir compensación justa por...
View ArticleMeet the Journalists: Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar
Texas Tribune reporters Kiah Collier and Julián Aguilar discuss how they reported "The Taking," an investigation into how the federal government seized private land on the Texas-Mexico border to build...
View ArticleMeet the Journalist: Gregory Scruggs
Gregory Scruggs, a U.S.-based journalist specializing in land and property rights, traveled to Antigua and Barbuda after Hurricane Irma. Watch to learn more.
View ArticleMeet the Journalists: Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico
As Venezuela’s social and economic crisis deepens, thousands of citizens are taking to the streets. Meanwhile, a quieter humanitarian one is unfolding as hunger and malnutrition spread.
View ArticlePress Freedom and Media Integrity in Morocco [15 minutes]
1. What is the media? Take 30 seconds to define the term to a partner.2. Read the following Dictionary.com definition as a class:[T]he means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers,...
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Weaving Connections Documentary Film: Prep
Warm Up:Brainstorm what images come to mind when you think of the following words and phases: FactoryTextiles FactoryCollapseToday’s lesson examines how two photojournalists use images to visualize the...
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