Escape Room Activity

Escape Room Activity  Introduction In this lesson, students will learn about the struggle of the Soviet Jews in the 1970s and the different ways in which they fought back against the oppressive regime that denied them the right to emigrate. This lesson was...

Social Action Reading and Discussion

 Introduction In this lesson, students will read and learn about the importance of social action and will think creatively to promote causes for which they see a need to take action.  Learning Objectives Students will: Read and analyze primary sources. Understand...

Profiles on Courage Research Project

Profiles on Courage  Introduction Students will research different personalities from the Soviet Jewry movement. They will determine what motivated them, what happened to them during and after the movement ended.  Learning Objectives At the end of the...

Putting It into Action

Putting It Into Action  Introduction This lesson introduces students to the idea of social action and prompts them to find their own form of activism. The students who formed the organization The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry saw a problem:  people were being...

Martin Luther King Day

Martin Luther King Day  Introduction Martin Luther King, Jr. is well known as a great civil rights leader birthday, with his birthday celebrated each year because he actually changed the world. But, how is he connected to the Refusenik movement? In this lesson,...
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