How do we decode “hidden” bias and coded language in media and historical documents?
Where do we find the voices of everyday people when the official historical record has silenced them?
How do we prove a public narrative is false using historical modern evidence?
Focus: Experiencing artistic media as tools of narrative reclamation and selecting a final medium.
Standards: SL.7-8.1.D, RI.7-8.7
Summary: Scholars rotate through four hands-on creative labs, using a single historical source text to explore how different artistic media alter audience perception:
Poetry/Lyric Lab: Creating "Found/Blackout Poetry" from biased news text to isolate resistance hooks.
Visual Arts Lab: Sketching Counter-Iconography and symbols of Radical Joy directly onto archival photos using tracing/digital layers.
Drama Lab: Utilizing Augusto Boal’s Image Theater to sculpt physical "statues" of historical power dynamics and shift them into stances of agency.
Media Remix Lab: Scripting a live counter-voiceover or text-overlay on a 30-second news broadcast.
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