Unit 6: Memory is a Verb
Focus: activist art, collective memory, healing from trauma, legacy of the Dirty War, political cartoons, street art
Teacher Instructions
DW Unit 6 Memory is a Verb Instructions (w/Curriculum Introduction and Credits)
Student Activities
Lesson 1: Time to Move On
Lesson 2: Our Tragedies
Lesson 3A: Bicis
Aldo Rico, Carapintada
Lesson 3B: Cartas-Letters
Lesson 3C: Miquez Observation
Lesson 3D: Political Cartoon Study of Pope Francis
Extra Resources
Readings
H.I.J.O.S. Capital
Hijos e hijas por la identidad y la justicia contra el olvido y el silencio
Videos
Cautiva Trailer
Film about a 15-year-old girl who finds out that her parents are not really her biological parents Rotten Tomatoes
Children of the Disappeared on Vimeo
Photographs of the children of the disappeared are paired with poetry readings by Alicia Partnoy, a DW survivor
El Tiempo Suspendido – Trailer
One Woman’s Quest to Move On From Argentina’s Dirty War
“White Walls Say Nothing” Documentary – Official Trailer
Quotes
“Looking back would imply living in the past as if it were the present…and that’s something that I can’t wrap my head around. What’s done is done, the rest is up to you.”
LAURA BONAPARTE, EL TIEMPO SUSPENDIDO
“In response to the Dirty War, the environment of fear, and lack of free speech, street art,”became a public voice, and in the decades that followed, it has continued to be part of an activist culture of art.”
ALLISON MIER (2013)
Web Designers and Research Assistants
2019-present: Jason Hackett, Joshua Josephy-Zack, Mia Josephy-Zack
2020-present: Riyanshu Bam, Hanna Bloomquist, Ashley Duong, Samantha Esposito, Abigail Pawlowicz
Photography Contributions
Special thanks to Caitlin Daley, Branford High School, Class of 2016, for generously sharing photographs of the disappeared at the Museo de la Memoria, Plaza San Martin, Córdoba, Argentina. The Museo de la Memoria is the actual police building that was a clandestined centre for detention and torture during the Dirty War 1976-1983.