Events & Community Programs
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The Lesson Plan is an affordable tool for classroom engagement.
Explore on your own or pair it with a Classroom Visit.
Engage your classroom with a full unit lesson plan for the documentary film and book, suitable for high school and college educators (and younger audiences with modification).
The ebook includes worksheets, activities, and a final project designed by professional educators with National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, National Council of English Teachers (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA) Standards for the English Language Arts in mind.
“The book and the film could be included as part of an English unit or course around memoir, creative nonfiction, nonfiction, or journalism/documentation. Combined with the film documentary, the book is ideal as a unit or part of a course around digital storytelling. Given its extensive references to Jim Crow, the Kerner Commission, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, other events and people relevant to the 1960s, and their direct impact on the current political climate in America, Through the Banks of the Red Cedar also makes an ideal text for a modern History or combined History/English unit or class.””
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If you are interested in an event at your educational institution, business, or in your community, please include the name of the venue, your location, dates, and budget as well as the audience size on the form to the right, and we'll do our best to accommodate your request.
Please note: We currently offer events for a fee. We are actively fundraising to make community activities more accessible to a broader audience. Please keep this in mind when you enter your budget in the form below. If you’d like to sponsor a community event in your area, or donate books to your local library or a school please let us know.