Journey through time with Congressman John Lewis to meet leaders of social justice movements who were catalysts for Good Trouble and positive change.
Learning Objectives
SIGNIFICANT CONTEXT: Students will understand social justice movements across history.
SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT: Students will understand how to make meaningful choices to influence positive change.
HISTORICAL AWARENESS: Students will understand important social justice movements, the leaders, and the purpose behind them.
HEROIC CONTEXT: Students will research important person(s) across various social justice movements and their role within those movements.
At the end of this lesson:
- Students will understand the meaning of “Good Trouble” and how John Lewis and other leaders of social justice movements around the world have fomented social change through history.
- Students will understand how social justice movements around the world and through history connect to one another and have influenced each other.
- Students will understand how to display a sense of empathy and understanding for others as they explore the reasons for and causes of social justice movements.
External References
Teaching Tolerance – Social Justice Movements
National Museum of African American History and Culture
John Lewis – Get in Good Trouble
Social Justice Movement Resources – Smithsonian
Good Trouble – Minecraft World file
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