This teaching material was developed by Casandra Silva Sibilin, York College. The assignment asks students to explore the CUNY 1969 website in search of philosophical and timeless issues and choose a page or primary source to analyze and represent with a visualization.
Author: Editorial Team
Read, Reflect, Question, Investigate and Write: A Two-Part Social Movement Assignment for Students of Cultural Anthropology
This teaching material was developed by Antonia M. Santangelo, York College. The assignment asks students to focus specifically on the events that occurred before and after students submitted the “18 Demands” to the Brooklyn College administration, write a reflective essay, and conduct an interview.
(Re)Mapping Monuments: Memory, Identity, and History
This teaching material was developed by Dr. Keisha Allan, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to create one or more visual social media posts to use monuments as the vehicle through which they create their own narratives about CUNY’s history of student activism.
Writing Project 1: CUNY 1969 OpEd
This teaching material was developed by Olivia Wood, The City College of New York. The assignment asks students to create a collective class newspaper responding to issues relating to City College and CUNY in conversation with real students and teachers from the past, using the CUNY 1969 Project.
Mid-Stakes “Checkpoint” Assignment
This teaching material was developed by Rebecca L. Salois, PhD, Baruch College. The assignment asks students create one or more visual social media posts to demonstrate their knowledge of the CUNY 1969 Project and the influence and/or impact it has had on today’s world.
Reimagining the Archive
This teaching material was developed by Dasharah Green, Baruch College & Lehman College. The assignment asks students to develop a critical framework for how to reimagine, rediscover, and engage with storytelling and build their own interpretations of history and archival material.
Sample Assignment Sequence for English 2150
This teaching material was developed by Mary Gryctko, PhD, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to engage in a series of individual and group activities leading up to building a final ‘call to action’ artifact.
Anti-racism and You
This teaching material was developed by Sharifa Hampton, Department of Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to create their own manifestos, inspired by the Five Demands.