Focus: Current events, history overview of the Dirty War (DW), human rights, photography.
Teacher Instructions
DW Unit 1 Human Rights Instructions (w/Curriculum Introduction and Credits)
Student Activities
Activity 1: Photography Study: Ausencias by Gustavo Germano
- Ausencias
- BBC In Pictures: Absent Faces (with or without captions)
- Lists of photographers and links (Prison Photography)
- Recovering, Remembering Returning: “The Wailing of the Walls’ by Paula Luttringer
Activity 2: Introduction to Human Rights
Activity 3: Meet Víctor Basterra – Photographer…Survivor Filmed interview by Marc Rogers, writer for The Argentina Independent
Activity 4: The Road to Repression A, B – Readings on Background for the Dirty War
Activity 4 (cont.): The Road to Repression C
- Reading: Born in Blood and Fire by John Charles Chasteen (Chapter 9: Reaction)
- Imagining Argentina (2003) – Movie trailer starring Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, and Rubén Blades (directed by Christopher Hampton)