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:Â Â
Common Core ELA and CASEL
Time:
45 minutes
