TPT is committed to creating impact-driven resources for educators and students, alike, and every local film produced is accompanied by free education materials housed on PBSLearningMedia.org. You can also stream Hope in the Struggle for free on the PBS App. organizations dedicated to civic engagement and civil rights. Students and teachers can use these links to continue their exploration beyond the lesson plans and get an even broader sense of how Dr. Johnson’s life and legacy link to larger historical and contemporary events and trends. Are there ways for folks who loved the documentary and lesson plans to learn more about the topics discussed? The lesson plans have lots of links to resources, such as the Smithsonian Museum, library archives, and lesson plans developed by non-profit
Can you tell us more about the education curriculum for the documentary that you helped co-create? The lesson plans for Hope in the Struggle are designed to provide educators with additional context for students to interact with the film’s intimate portrait of Josie R. Johnson’s life and legacy. Through discussion questions, supplemental readings and review of original historical documents, students will explore the ways Dr. Johnson, her contemporaries, and her predecessors found ways to advance justice and equality, both in Minnesota and across the USA.
What do you hope educators and learners will take from the resources you are sharing?
Dr. Johnson is a true ‘living legend’ whose career brought her into contact with numerous famous individuals, organizations, and events that teachers and students will likely have heard of before they watch the film. The mix of personal stories and testimonies from Dr. Johnson and her granddaughters bring these momentous historical figures and events into a more human-scaled framework, which I believe will help students see their own potential to make contributions to society, to work in community to make positive changes for the future.
7
TPT.org
Made with FlippingBook Ebook Creator