These suggested readings provide a range of perspectives on issues raised by the POV documentary Through the Night and allow for deeper engagement.

In this lesson, students will explore the intersection of gender inequality, racism and the constant economic precarity plaguing working class families.

This guide is an invitation to dialogue. It is based on a belief in the power of human connection and designed for people who want to use Through the Night to engage family, friends, classmates, colleagues, and communities. In contrast to initiatives that foster debates in which participants try to convince others that they are right, this document envisions conversations undertaken in a spirit of openness in which people try to understand one another and expand their thinking by sharing viewpoints and listening actively.

This lesson does not explicitly examine COVID-living relationships (though it is a possible focus for an extension lesson), but in its invitation to students to consider the relationships in their lives, they have the opportunity to think deeply about their current moment.

This lesson will challenge students to examine the dynamic between their external and internal selves and to take on one contained (yet immense) transformative journey.

This lesson invites and challenges students to place their own stories in relation to the shared stories of a larger community in a particular moment. In other words, they will explore the interrelation between their individual stories and “history;” and the nuances between the particular and universal.

With “Elaine is Almost” as inspiration, this lesson will introduce students to the art and ethics of the interview.

This lesson plan invites us to consider the following questions that are crucial for critically engaged students and citizens: What visions can we create, what hopes can we possess? How do we work with others to communicate the revolutionary urgencies of our time? How can we transform our concepts of citizen and country?

In this lesson, students will explore the different approaches to evolving religious/cultural practices and draw parallels between the work of Ruchie Freier and other women trailblazers.