Product Description
UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality
The film is streaming on Vimeo! If you would like to request a DVD of the film for educational use and/or community screenings, please email michael@videoproject.org.
For this powerful documentary film, we’ve created a Community Learning Guide. The Community Learning Guide is a new film-inspired resource featuring key sections to explore through the film. Each section can be used on its own or in collaboration with other key sections. The guide is flexible and appropriate for classroom use, community learning settings, homeschool learners, hybrid educational settings and independent exploration of the film. The guide includes robust background information and helpful facilitation guidelines to set the stage for a positive learning experience.
There are five key learning sections in the community learning guide. Each key section includes: a driving question, useful terms (when applicable), personal reflection, discussion questions, extension activities and additional resources. These sections can be used on their own or in conjunction with other sections in the guide.
The guide wraps with a #RaiseTheRoof Solutions Blueprint Builder and content-rich Appendices that include Case Studies, Further Context and a Glossary of Useful Terms.
Additionally, we’ve created a Google slideshow: Housing Inequality in the United States: A Brief History which can be used in conjunction with this guide or as a stand alone resource. The slideshow is also available as a PDF and can be previewed below. When you click Add to Cart, both the Community Learning Guide and PDF will be added to your cart.
Community Learning Guide
Facilitation Guidelines
Introduction to the Film
Letter from Director Colin Gray
Land Acknowledgement
Setting the Stage: Pre-Viewing Questions
Key Learning Sections:
1: Barriers to Affordable Housing
2: Economic and Social Costs of the Affordable Housing Crisis
3: Perceptions and Beliefs About Housing
4: The Value of Diverse Communities
5: Criminalization of Poverty/Neglect of the Poor
6: Looking Ahead: Hope and Possibilities
7: Solutions: What is Working and Known? What Can We Imagine and Do?
Preview Housing Inequality Brief History PDF


