Arts Education and Hurricane KatrinaThe Alliance for a Media Literate America

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Arts Education and Hurricane KatrinaThe Alliance for a Media Literate America, an OII Arts Model grantee, has produced lessons and activities on "Bringing Hurricane Katrina into the Classroom" PDF (183KB). This resource document is designed for teachers to help students analyze, understand, and cope with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath and contains information on "the practice of journalism," editorial decision making," and "looking at language." [More-ALMLA] (Sept. 5) The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) (an OII-Teaching American History grantee partner) is providing humanities programming to organizations, museums, and other community groups throughout Louisiana, including a historical documents conservation project, which is giving guidance to conservators on the recovery and conservation of historical records and documents. These services are made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Another LEH project, Prime Time Family Reading Time, is one of many projects libraries across the country have undertaken to help displaced families living in shelters. [More-American Library Association] (Sept. 25)