On this page we are assembling materials for a curricular unit for the high school level about “Art and Human Rights: The Disappeared in Latin America.”
This project represents a collaboration between Stephanie Wood of the Wired Humanities Projects and June Black of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, both at the University of Oregon. Funding is being provided by a Savage grant.
- Introduction (here we will provide our rationale, objectives, potential grade bands — high school grades, and targeted relevance for classes in art and social studies, world history, etc.)
- Common Core (here we will provide information about what standards this unit will meet)
- Materials
- Readings (required and recommended)
- Images (for building PowerPoints by teachers and for student projects)
- Ayotzinapa, Guerrero (additional images from one recent case in Mexico)
- Entry Questions and Enduring Ideas (some of these can be reinterated in the PPT, at the teacher’s discretion)
- PPT (an introduction that the teacher may use/modify to fit his/her needs, with images and brief texts)
- Exercises (in-class exercises, such as modeling an analysis of one or more images of art works)
- Student Projects (objectives, description of projects, guidelines about how to develop projects)
- for students who will create original works of art, individually or collectively
- for students who will assemble and analyze one or more works of art, perhaps doing a contrast/comparison of two works
- Rubric (for assessment — what achievements will the teacher be seeking in these projects?)
- Dissemination — ideas about how to get the word out that this is available