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    Taking it to the Streets: A Year of Global Protests is a free Teaching with the News lesson that was created by the Choices Program at Brown University. It uses the Right Question Formulation Technique. I invite you to have a look and use it in your middle or high school classroom!

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    This is a great way to use the QFT with primary sources from around the globe!  This lesson could be used in so many different secondary classes: Civics, Government, U.S. History,and World History.

    The Choices Program slideshow of protests around the world is incredibly rich in visual resources, with each country set promoting a global understanding of the shared issues that can ignite protests. The QFT is also a perfect fit for this type of student inquiry. In addition, I think it will free students to follow their own lines of inquiry country by country.

    If a teacher wanted to build historical context around protests, they might pull in several resources already curated by TPS Teachers Network members. Most of the sets here in the TPS Teachers Network focus on historical protests in the United States, but if handled well, they could lead to a more global study of protests. Below are a few of the available albums built around protest themes: 

    Protests Over Time -   Teresa Paccassi  

    Protests and Protesters from the 20th through the 21st Century -   Joanna Yamashita  

    When Citizens Take to the Streets -   Cheryl Davis  

    A Place to Land (Primary Sources and Picture Books) -   Tom Bober  

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