Contemporary Views: Voicing Injustice
This handout explores the voices of contemporary writer-activists and the social injustices they address.
WAR & ACTIVISM LESSON 1: HANDOUT 4
1 class period (45-60 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
- History and Social Studies
People > African American
People > Hispanic
People > LGBT
People > Native American
People > Other
People > Women
Place > The Americas
Place > Asia
Place > The Middle East
Themes > Civil Rights
Themes > Culture
Themes > Immigration/Migration
Themes > Politics and Citizenship
Themes > Religion
Themes > War and Foreign Policy
U.S. History
U.S. > Colonization and Settlement
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Biography
Genre > Essay
Genre > Novel
Place > American
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical analysis
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Visual art analysis
- ELA Reading: 1, 3, 5-6, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1
- HSS Reading: 1-2, 5-6, 8, 10
CONTINUE THIS LESSON
Complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign longer selections or the full texts of Gonzalez’s “Fight For Your Lives,” Erdrich’s “How To Stop a Black Snake,” Adichie’s “Now Is The Time To Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About,” Coates’s Between the World and Me, Yousafzai’s I Am Malala, Mock’s “How Society Shames Men Dating Trans Women & How This Affects Our Lives,” Solnit’s “Men Explain Things to Me,” and/or Satrapi’s Persepolis in advance, in place of handout excerpts.
- Reflection and concluding questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.