(Out)Laws & Justice: Kids on Writing & Performing

(Out)Laws & Justice is a non-profit organization that provides an interdisciplinary curriculum combining American history/social science and English language arts. Lisa Citron founded OLJ in 2000 in hope of creating a groundswell of change in attitudes about learning, violence, justice and honor. OLJ targets 8th-grade general education, shelter and ESL at-risk students. The program uses the strategies of educational drama to provide essential emotional investment and compelling entry point to academic content.
Students explore core American values of honor, justice, rugged individualism and the right of self-defense that formed public policy and individual behavior during 19th century westward expansion, and the legacy of those values in their own lives today. Students then dramatize what they learn in original plays that they write and perform. By unpacking the often invisible but dominant myths of the West students are able to confront and compare the contested grounds of the frontier, and the contested urban grounds where they live today.

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[jacey131]

oh my gosh....this vid has been out for like 3 yrs and i didnt know and IM IN IT! lol jajajajaja. omg i was so chuby back then!

[DraxtiPeri]

wow good job guys, hope your experiance was as fun as mine was, OLJ student 2008