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Environmental Justice in Chicago

Week ONE: View Films & Read one article

Week TWO: “Mid Quarter Presentation”,

Research a topic on your own and Poll some friends (see last five slides here for a “head’s up”. Details on D2L this week-end

Map Source: “Inequality in Chicago’s air”. The red, orange and yellow areas are most vulnerable to air pollution and are located primarily on the South and West sides of the city. The repercussions of environmental hazards on Chicago communities

These two weeks all travel will be with your fingertips and careful investigative work on social media, news sources, library articles and anywhere you can find resources. But first – lay the foundation with what I provide this week and then move into your own searches.

Week One Resources & Padlet Assignment

This week use PowerPoint or Google Slides to best combine image & explanatory text

Each slide: Use images / screenshots & photos from the web and social media displayed predominantly with text that explains your choices.

Two Films “How the Racial Wealth Gap was created (on YouTube, 30 min) and Struggles for Health and Environmental Justice in Chicago (on D2L, 50 min)

Article The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago: New Findings on the Lasting Toll of Predatory Housing Contracts

How the Racial Wealth Gap was created

I. Make your cover picture the issue that surprised you most in Struggles for Environmental Justice in Chicago

Choose 2-3 more additional slide screen shots - include text to explain your choices

II. Use at least one screenshot from “The House we Live in” (and two-three more if you need them)

(Explain why you picked them)

CONTRIBUTION TO THE HIVE MIND How many EJ issues can we compile together? Images with sources of at least two other EJ issues you encounter online, in Social Media and in the

news in Chicago in the last 20 years. Provide sources.

I. COVER PHOTO SCREENSHOT Issue that surprised you most in Struggles for Environmental Justice in Chicago

II. EJ FILM SCREENSHOTS A slide or two with additional topics you want to discuss from the film. Must include both

images and explanatory text.

III. WEALTH GAP FILM SCREENSHOTS One (or more) screenshots from “How the Racial Wealth Gap was created”. Must include

both images and explanatory text.

IV. RESEARCH FOR THE HIVE MIND Images of at least two other EJ issues you encounter online and in the news in Chicago in

the last 20 years.

V. SOURCES As usual – commenting and then go take the Completion Quiz

SUMMARY OF WHAT GOES ON YOUR PADLET THIS WEEK