About This Lesson
Teach about politics and civic engagement in the modern political and digital world with Navalny! This is great for classes on current events, civics, political science, digital literacy, and media literacy.
Navalny is a fly-on-the-wall documentary that is also a study of Alexei Navalny the man—a portrait of a leader intent on democratic reform who will not be cowed by anything, including his own poisoning. Explore the intersection of modern politics and digital literacy with this engaging political thriller.
The Navalny Learning Guide is designed to help individual learners, classroom teachers, homeschoolers, and higher ed and adult educators deepen your experience of the film and bring share this compelling documentary with your learning communities.
Key components of the guide include:
- Navalny and Putin (Current Events, World History, Russian History)
- Civic Engagement: Political Corruption, Nationalism, Leadership (Current Events, Civics, Government, Political Science)
- Data Tracking, State Surveillance, and the Role of Journalism (Data, Journalism, Civics, Current Events)
- Social Media, Censorship, and Propaganda (Journalism, Social Studies, Political Science)
- State-Sanctioned Assassinations and Political Prisoners (Social Studies, Government, Political Science)
- Power: What Is Power? Who Has Power? (Journalism, Social Studies, Government, Political Science, Current Events)
This learning guide is flexible. Key sections include a driving question, personal reflections, discussion questions, extension activities, additional resources and, in some cases, cross connections between sections. This makes the guide useful for classrooms, hybrid learning, homeschooling, community learning groups, after-school film clubs, university discussions and other settings.
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