This teaching material was developed by Victoria Stratis, Baruch College. The assignment invites students to explore the Five Demands campaign at CUNY, anti-war protests across the country, and the fight for broader equality across higher education during this time.
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Mapping Rhetoric: Cross-Analyzing Protest Movements
This teaching material was developed by Eva Dunsky, School of Visual Arts. The assignment asks students to take up a position (i.e. administration, student activists, or counter protestors) across three different student protest movements, and teach their classmates about viewpoints within their position.
What’s Your Personal Lore?
This teaching material was developed by Isabel Ortiz, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to research their family or community history and contextualize their personal lore within a collective inheritance of 1960s and ’70s-era protest in the United States.
CUNY 1969 Project Assignment Sequence for ENG 2150
This teaching material was developed by Tania Nicolaou, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to engage with the CUNY 1969 Project, specifically using the CUNY Digital History Archive to explore storytelling, the implicit writing in everything we do, and the process of where writing happens.
Illustrating the CUNY 1969 Archive Through Poster Making
This teaching material was developed by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to interpret the archive and reflect on its relevance to contemporary social and political issues through the creation of both digital and physical posters.
A Media Studies Analysis of CUNY 1969 Project
This teaching material was developed by Rianne Subijanto, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to critically analyze CUNY 1969 from a media studies perspective exploring the centrality of media and communication in social movements.
Unveiling Intersectional Histories: Exploring the CUNY 1969 Archive
This teaching material was developed by Benjamin Gillespie, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to create brief presentations on the intersectional nature of identity through an historical lens while actively improving their public speaking and presentation skills.
Each One, Teach One: A Contemporary Perspective of the CUNY 1969 Protests
This teaching material was developed by Valerie Biwa, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to use the resources from the CUNY Digital History Archive, the CUNY 1969 Project, and the Five Demands documentary to create a video or vlog of their experience.
Social Annotation and Close-Reading with the SEEK Matters Literary Magazine
This teaching material was developed by Nicholas Devlin, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to use materials from the CUNY 1969 project to develop confidence with the conventions of close-reading (or rhetorical analysis) and annotation.
Creating a Blackout Poem Using Primary Documents from the “CUNY 1969” Website
This teaching material was developed by Dr. Rojo Robles, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to engage with historical primary documents of CUNY 1969 creatively by crafting a blackout poem that highlights themes, emotions, or significant moments related to the emergence of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at City College and beyond.