About This Lesson
Teach current events, civics, political science, digital literacy, and media literacy with Navalny!
NAVALNY is a fly-on-the-wall documentary that is also a study of Navalny the man—a portrait of a leader intent on reform who will not be cowed by anything, including his own poisoning.
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 classroom settings, hybrid learning, homeschooling, community learning groups, after-school film clubs, university discussions and more. Key components of the guide include:
Facilitation GuidelinesOpen Letter from the Film TeamBiography of Alexei Anatolievich Navalny
Key Learning Sections:
- 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)
