University of Connecticut Early College Experience Workshop
December 12, 2014
Curriculum Introduction and Credits
Video: Images of Argentina’s rich culture, contrasted with the dark side of history from 1976-1983.
Created by Kathryn Cooke & Shilpa Rajbahak, Branford High School, Branford, CT, Class of 2015
Units
Unit 1 Human Rights
Focus: current events, human rights, history-overview of the Dirty War (DW), photography
Unit 2 Freedom
Focus: censorship, exile, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and literature
Unit 3 The Repressed and the Repressors
Focus: history, human rights, literature, politics, testimonials
Unit 4 Truth and Justice
Focus: history, politics, primary source documents
Unit 5 Crime Wave in the Southern Cone
Focus: declassified documents, international political affairs, political cartoon study
Unit 6 Memory is a Verb
Focus on concluding activities: activist art, collective memory, healing from trauma, legacy of the Dirty War, political cartoons, street art
Note to Teachers
Some resources may become inactive. If you need a resource and cannot access it, please email eweisenbach@branfordschools.org.
Web Designers and Research Assistants
Jason Hackett, Joshua Josephy-Zack, Mia Josephy-Zack
Branford High School, Class of 2020
Photography Contributions
Special thanks to Caitlin Daley, Branford High School, Class of 2016, for generously sharing photographs of the disappeared at the Museo de la Memoria, Plaza San Martín, Córdoba, Argentina. The Museo de la Memoria is the actual police building that was a clandestine centre for detention and torture during the dirty war 1976-1983.
La Plaza Virtual, New England 