Find a Changemaker Working on Your Issue

Overview

Students will search for and study the work of successful human rights defenders who have championed a cause similar to or the same as the students’ issues of choice.

After this lesson, students will be able to...

  • identify a creative changemaker whose area of cause or use of medium match their own.
  • explain why the creative changemaker of they selected resonates with them.
  • make comparisons and find contrasts between their own work and those of others.
  • identify what makes a creative changemaker’s work effective.
  • Standards:  

    Common Core ELA and CASEL

  • Time:

    45 minutes