Representing Life Stories Using Digital Tools Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will analyze activist women’s interviews to identify life events that shaped that person’s identity in order to build a timeline of the person’s life. Students will discuss these events in light of the historical events from the country of origin of the interviewee, as well as the history of women’s rights in that country. In the final assignment, students will use the timeline that they have created to build a digital interactive timeline using the open access tool Timeline JS.
How I Became an Activist Lesson Plan
In this lesson, the students reflect on how particular life experiences in women’s lives lead them to become activists and what a feminist activist practice means in different countries and sociohistorical contexts. The students start from their own background knowledge on activist practices and experiences to consider relations between activism and leadership, activism and community, and the impact that activism can have in broader society. The students work with activist women’s narratives to identify turning points in life and the relationship between personal and political lives in activist practice. In the final assignment, the students build on the work done during the lesson to build hands-on skills to create a social media campaign on a topic pertaining to the women’s movement and align to the International Women’s Day on March 8.
