The Jackson Center encourages the use of local history as a starting point for students to understand how powerful they can become as they actively attempt to listen to the changes around them.
These audio clip transcriptions and photo prompts will be helpful for understanding the LAG-online lessons and to ground a classroom in the work of local history.
Explore the meaning and importance of community through a series of interactive creative activities including listening, drawing, discussion and movement.
Introduce art and the method of oral history and the importance of “active listening”. This practice is at the root of every good oral history interview. For ideas on how you incorporate oral history into curriculum, check out the “Project and Activity Ideas” section.
Explores poetry and music as a method for students to learn about themes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the goal to empower young people to leave their personal legacy.
At the Jackson Center our motto is “without the past you have no future”. This lesson encourages students to step into the past by getting familiar with oral histories and the way that these can still be relevant for their personal experiences today.
Chapel Hill is often referred to as a “Southern Part of Heaven”. While this is true for some, it excludes many. Through these lessons students explore how these concepts are manufactured and why they are important to question.
