Process (Part 2)

Step Three: After completing your first news article, each journalist will choose a secondary assignment for their next big story (as before, the choice will be decided among the team members):

  • Black Lives Matter Movement
  • Native American Discrimination (Standing Rock)
  • Syria 
  • Burma

Step Four: You will investigate the provided leads on your story, synthesize the information, and produce a journalistic article providing in-depth news coverage for your audience. Also be sure to gather visual and auditory evidence (photographs, videos, interview clips, etc.) to include in the presentation you will compose with your team members.

Black Lives Matter Movement

http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/07/11/black-lives-matter-what-what-stands/86963292/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/10/in-an-era-of-black-lives-matter-protests-history-offers-a-powerful-lesson/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-fast-facts/

http://www.cbsnews.com/feature/george-zimmerman-trial-trayvon-martin-case/

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zimmerman1/zimmermanaccount.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/ferguson-missouri-town-under-siege-after-police-shooting.html?_r=1

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30190224

Native American Discrimination (Standing Rock)

http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/native.html

https://mic.com/articles/101804/this-is-what-modern-day-discrimination-against-native-americans-looks-like#.dUJrMkEfH

http://www.narf.org/our-work/promotion-human-rights/

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dakota-pipeline-protests/dakota-access-pipeline-what-s-behind-protests-n676801

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protest.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/dapl-dakota-sitting-rock-sioux/499178/

Syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/the-syria-conflicts-overlapping-agendas-and-competing-visions.html

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/meast/syria-civil-war-fast-facts/

http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/syrian-protests.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16979186

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/world/meast/syria-crisis-beginnings/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-is-it-so-difficult-for-syrian-refugees-to-get-into-the-us.html

http://www.cnn.com/specials/middleeast/syrian-refugees/index.html

http://endgenocide.org/conflict-areas/syria/

Burma

http://endgenocide.org/conflict-areas/burma/

https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/cases/burma

http://time.com/4089276/burma-rohingya-genocide-report-documentary/

http://www.cfr.org/burmamyanmar/genocide-burma/p38037

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/asia/myanmar-shan-rebels-civil-war/

https://www.hrw.org/asia/burma

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/myanmar/report-myanmar/

 

Step 5: Your final piece will be one of reflection, commentary, and connection. You will write about how the two events you investigated connect to Harper Lee’s novel, generate an opinion on how Lee’s novel is relevant to modern society, and consider what you personally took away from this project and what deeper meaning it might hold.