WPHS Library: Progressive Era Reforms--Ms. Scopino

Podcast examples:

• The Hate U Give Author Angie Thomas on YA Fiction, Being Black in America and More
• Beyond #MeToo podcast

Website examples:

• Adobe Spark
• WordPress
• Weebly

Photo Essay: A series of photographs (and text) that tells a story and/or evokes an emotion (anger, sadness, fear, etc.)

• Child, Bride, Mother: Guatemala 
• National Geographic Photo Stories

Video: use the Padcaster and/or the green  screen room to create a video tutorial, movie, TED Talk, documentary etc.

 

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 Discover articles, images and primary sources on global history

Jane Addams and Hull House

Immigration Reform

• The U.S. Immigration Debate

DACA

• NPR: 5 Questions About DACA Answered

Juveniles in Jail

• Equal Justice Initiative: Children in Prison

Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives

Affordable Housing

• Affordable Housing is Out of Reach for Some
• Sisters' Quiet Life of Prayer Disrupted by Affordable Housing Fight

 Ida Tarbell’s The History of the Standard Oil Company

Corporate Mergers and Monopolies

• America's Monopolies are Holding Back the Economy
• The Case Against Google
• Is Facebook a Monopoly?
• The Monopoly-busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber and Facebook

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and the Meat Inspection Act (Food & Drug Act)

CBD

• CBD is Everywhere, bu scientists still don't know much about it

Factory Farming

• A Closer Look at Animals on Factory Farms
• Video: Animal Factories and the Abuse of Power- Wayne Pacelle at TEDxManhattan

Veganism/Vegetarianism

• The Vegan Society
• Promoting Vegan and Vegetarian Eating

GMOs

• GMOs: Facts About Genetically Modified Food
• Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs?

Clean Meat

• Science Fiction No More- Can Lab Grown Meat Feed- and Save- the World
• Lab Made Meat Could be the Next Food Revolution- Here's What it Tastes Like

Cosmetics

• The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
• Chemicals that should disappear from cosmetics
• Do you know what's in your cosmetics?
• Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder at Issue as U.S. subpoenas Company

Climate Change

• The Green New Deal
• The Green New Deal is Better Than Our Climate Nightmare

Opioid Crisis

• The Opioid Crisis Isn't White

Margaret Sanger and Birth Control

#MeToo movement

• Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
• #MeToo: A TImeline of Events
• Emma Thompson's Letter About Why She Won't Work With John Lasseter

Wage Gap/Unequal Pay

• Pay Equity and Discrimination

Reproductive Rights

• Birth Control Gets Caught Up in the Abortion Wars

Ida Wells and her writings about lynching of African Americans

Equal Justice Initiative

Booker T. Washington’s contributions to education, including the creation of Tuskegee Institute

W. E. B. Du Bois and the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the publication of The Crisis, and  Silent Protest (1917)

Black Lives Matter

• Black Lives Matter
• Column: As Country Listens to Florida Teens, Black Lives Matter Youths Feel Ignored
• We Need to Talk About Black Lives and Gun Violence After the Florida Shooting