Hate Crime

High School Students React to Not In Our Town: Light In The Darkness

Joe Lobozzo's class at Lakewood High School discuss the trailer of Light in the Darkness.

 Joe Lobozzo's class at Lakewood High School in Ohio discuss the trailer of Light in the Darkness.

Grade Level: 
High School

Bloomington United: Ready to Respond to Hate

As Indiana University students celebrate the holiday season, the sense of calm is shattered by a series of attacks against Jewish institutions. Bloomington United, a community group created in 1998 after a white supremacist spread hate and murder on campus, reaches out to IU students and helps heal new wounds.

This is the second segment in the PBS special, "Not In Our Town: Class Actions," which premiered nationally in Feb. 2012. For more information, visit http://www.niot.org/classactions.

Grade Level: 
High School

Toreros Take Action Against Hate at University of San Diego

After a rash of bias-motivated incidents and hate crimes at the University of San Diego, faculty, staff and student leaders have been grappling with how to respond.

After a rash of bias-motivated incidents and hate crimes at the University of San Diego, faculty, staff and student leaders have been grappling with how to respond.

Grade Level: 
High School

From Dialogue to Action: Bloomington Unity in the Community Responds to KKK Flyers

After Ku Klux Klan flyers blanket an Indiana University campus neighborhood, Rabbi Sue Silberberg leads Bloomington United as they plan a community response. This is a DVD extra from the PBS program, Not In Our Town: Class Actions. For more information on the film, visit niot.org/ClassActions
After Ku Klux Klan flyers blanket an Indiana University campus neighborhood, Rabbi Sue Silberberg leads Bloomington United as they plan a community response. This is a DVD extra from the PBS program, Not In Our Town: Class Actions. For more information on the film, visit niot.org/ClassActions
Grade Level: 
High School
Lesson Plans

Class Actions in the Classroom: A Compilation of Lesson Ideas

Grade Level: Middle School

Schools and college campuses are screening Not In Our Town: Class Actions across the country. Here we will compile ideas on how to use this PBS program in your classroom.

Thanks to Newcomers High School (Long Island City, NY) teacher Julie Mann and Lakewood High School (Lakewood, OH) teacher Joe Lobozzo for preparing these comprehensive materials. 

Pre-Screening Activities 

Lesson Plans

Class Actions Screening Questions, Part 2: Indiana

Grade Level: High School

Find previews and information about Class Actions at niot.org/ClassActions

Written by: Julie Mann, Newcomers High School teacher, and Joe Lobozzo, Lakewood High School teacher

Vocabulary:

Lesson Plans

Viewing Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness in your Classroom

Grade Level: High School

 

Educator Version: Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness (27 min)

Patchogue, NY after the murder of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero

This trailer features scenes from the Not In Our Town PBS special about how a community responds to the hate crime murder of an Ecuadorean immigrant by seven local high school students. (3 min 48 sec)

Not In Our Town: Light In The Darkness follows a community in crisis after the fatal attack of a local immigrant resident. Stunned by the violence, diverse community stakeholders openly confront the crime and the divisive atmosphere, and commit to ongoing actions to prevent future hate crimes and intolerance.

Grade Level: 
High School

Mosaic: No One Walks Alone

Art students at Patchogue-Medford High School wanted to do something ...

 After a series of anti-immigrant attacks by local teenagers ended with the hate crime killing of local immigrant Marcelo Lucero, art students at Patchogue-Medford High School wanted to do something positive for the Lucero family and spread a message of peace. Over the course of a year, students gathered after school to create We Are All United: No One Walks Alone, a mosaic dedicated to Marcelo Lucero.

Grade Level: 
High School

Joselo Lucero Visits Newcomers High School

The students of Newcomers High, a school for newly arrived immigrants, reached out to Joselo Lucero with letters of sympathy when his brother Marcelo was killed in 2008. Two years later, Joselo visits the school to speak to the students about what he learned from the loss of his brother, his experiences as an immigrant, and the difficult process of forgiveness.

The students of Newcomers High, a school  for newly arrived immigrants, reached out to Joselo Lucero with letters  of sympathy when his brother Marcelo was killed in 2008. Two years  later, Joselo visits the school to speak to the students about what he  learned from the loss of his brother, his experiences as an immigrant,  and the difficult process of forgiveness.

Grade Level: 
High School