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.
Author: Editorial Team
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.
Advocating For My Five Demands
This teaching material was developed by Judith Konamah, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to update the 5 demands to include what is relevant to their communities today and create a presentation on how they would go about advocating for these demands with the help of past advocates.
Corridos Digital Album: Latina Stories Told Through Song
This teaching material was developed by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to research and tell the story of a Latina figure, a conflict, or an event that involves social struggles affecting Latinas, draw from archives such as the CUNY 1969 project, and link the message of the corrido to present-day issues.
The Five Demands and Literacy Sponsorship
This teaching material was developed by L Torres, Queens College. The assignment asks students to learn about and critically reflect on The 5 Demands, the student-led takeover of CUNY in 1969 by taking personal inventory of movements that may have shaped their life, researching and analyzing specific goals of the 1969 movement and creating solid arguments/talking points for a revolutionary, in-class conversation in favor of equitable literacy sponsorship and educational spaces.
Liberatory Collaborative Visualizations: A Philosophical Exploration of “CUNY 1969”
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.
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.