by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
This documentary film project by Heather Jurgenson, a 10th grade student at Uniontown, Kansas High School in 1996, began a beautiful story. Heather became friends with Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine and produced a video documentary. She, along with two...
by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
This performance was written and produced by Jeremy Johnston and David Foster. These two Uniontown High School students accompanied Heather Jurgenson on her trip to Little Rock. While interviewing Elizabeth Eckford, Jeremy asked if there were any white students who...
by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
Many more diversity projects preceded Life in a Jar. The Bill Moore project brought a motto of “walk on” to the classroom, as five students (David Foster, Trish Endicott, Cody Carey, Casey Sifers, and Randi Wiles) produced a drama performance on the civil...
by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
Uniontown High School students Travis Stewart, Melissa Query, and Hillary Jurgenson, developed a documentary film about the Leo Frank Case. These students produced this film in 2002-2003, as a diversity project in the social studies department with teacher Norm Conard...
by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
Four Uniontown students researched, wrote and performed a drama presentation, based on the Dorothea Lange photograph of the Migrant Mother during the Depression. Megan Stewart, Elizabeth Cambers, Megan Mann and Candace Lowry presented this production as a part of the...