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.
Category: Writing assignment
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.
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.
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.