Conflict, Consequences, and Context--Creating a Unit on "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"6/29/2020 by Ric Nudell, June 2020 I was introduced to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks when my wife, Aliza Ansell (one of the co-authors of this unit, along with Kristi Kaeppel) talked to me about reading it with her ABE students. When I became an ABE teacher, I borrowed Aliza’s work to teach parts of the book with my students.
When my students study a historical text, I like to ask if they can identify whose story we are hearing.
I ask my students to identify those differences, and ask what we might infer from them. Why have different narrators included different details? What might that tell us about the narrators, or about the story? I close the exercise by asking how what we just discussed might encourage us to do more critical thinking when we study history. The consequences of that convergence continue to manifest themselves today. Differences among those three groups across categories--like health outcomes, economic achievement, educational opportunity, incarceration, and voting rights--are rooted in the course of that convergence. The work to deliver inclusive civil rights and social justice matters. The outcome is not predetermined. Even the best actors in that work need broad support. In an 1862 letter to Horace Greeley, President Lincoln wrote:
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