Re-Creating the United States

Invitation by the "Listen Carefully" Group

DURING THESE SIX WEEKS, YOUR STUDENTS WILL:

• Respond to the founding documents included in the Creating the United States exhibition, by articulating the relevancy of these documents to their daily lives in the context of the 21st century.

• Participate in several NGB bridge building exercises that will prepare students to collaborate with each other and connect with their communities.

• Create a collaborative, multi-media, participatory installation combining two creative exercises in free speech and opinion polling:

             1. We The People

Your students will help create video portraits of their peers, teachers, community members, and Skirball education staff each describing the first time they felt their voices were heard and their opinion mattered, and answering additional relevant questions posed by your students.

             2. Fonts for Freedom

Your students will take to the streets with postcards inspired by a student designed Neighborhood Font,  asking their neighbors to share thoughts and opinions on key concepts in the founding documents and mail the postcards back to the Skirball.