Lesson Nine: Activism Through Letter Writing
Objective
Students will write a letter to a community leader to educate and raise awareness about modern-day slavery.
Time Frame
Three 40-minute periods
Materials
- Peer edit sheet (from classroom teacher)
Procedure
1. Period One: Students will learn/review formal letter format. Students will select focus of what they want to write in the letter and to whom they want to write the letter.
2. Period Two: Students will write a draft of the letter. Students will peer-edit the letters.
3. Period Three: Students will write second-draft of letters. Send and hope for help in eradicating slavery!
Write to these leaders!
President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500 |
Maya Angelou
Wake Forest University
1834 Wake Forest Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27106 |
Secretary General Kofi Annan
U.N. Headquarters S-3800
New York, N.Y. 10017 |
Danny Glover
c/o Carrie Productions
41 Sutter Street, Suite 1648
San Francisco, CA 94104 |
Secretary Colin Powell
U.S. State Department
Washington, DC 20520 |
Whoopi Goldberg
555 Melrose Avenue, Suite 114
Los Angeles, CA 90038 |
Toni Morrison
African-American Studies Program
Princeton University
21 Prospect Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08544 |
Patricia Ireland
National Organization for Women
P.O. Box 96824
Washington, DC, 20090
|
Congressman Donald Payne
(D-NJ, former chair of the Cong. Black Caucus)
2209 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3010 |
Susan Sarandon
501 South Beverly Drive, Suite 300
Beverly Hills, CA 90212 |
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Rainbow-Push
930 East 50th St.
Chicago, IL 60615 |
Steven Spielberg
c/o Shoah Foundation
P.O. Box 3168
Los Angeles, CA 90078 |
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