Session Themes
Challenge of Leadership: justice, courage, vulnerability, and integrity
Know Yourself: core values, purpose, responsibility and conviction, living a good life based on virtue
Community and Society: social good, community values, and social change
Power, Privilege, and Class: freedom, democracy, suppression, and oppression
Readings:
- “Dad to Son: ‘Live with Hands Unfolded…Release Your Gifts to the World’”
- “2008 Election Night Victory Speech,” Barack Obama
- “Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln
- “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass
- Hamiliton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
- “Moon Speech (Rice Stadium)”, John F. Kennedy
- “40th Anniversary of D-Day,” Ronald Reagan
- Innovator’s DNA, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen
- “Art of Conflict: Portraying American Indians, 1850-1900,” Hana Layson, Patricia Marroquin Norby
- “Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp,” Cindy Williams Gutierrez
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- “Piecing Me Together,” Renee Watson
- “We Are All Dreamers,” Pablo Stanley
Film:
- “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Adichie, TED, 2009
- “Hamilton’s America: Full Film,” PBS, 2016
- “Hidden Figures,” Theodore Melfi, 2017
- “13th,” Ava DuVernay, 2016
Music:
- Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording
- “Strange Fruit,” Nina Simone
- “The Blacker the Berry,” Kendrick Lamar
Session Themes
Challenge of Leadership: justice, courage, vulnerability, and integrity
Know Yourself: core values, purpose, responsibility and conviction, living a good life based on virtue
Community and Society: social good, community values, and social change
Power, Privilege, and Class: freedom, democracy, suppression, and oppression
Readings:
- “Dad to Son: ‘Live with Hands Unfolded…Release Your Gifts to the World’”
- “2008 Election Night Victory Speech,” Barack Obama
- “Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln
- “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass
- Hamiliton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
- “Moon Speech (Rice Stadium)”, John F. Kennedy
- “40th Anniversary of D-Day,” Ronald Reagan
- Innovator’s DNA, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen
- “Art of Conflict: Portraying American Indians, 1850-1900,” Hana Layson, Patricia Marroquin Norby
- “Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp,” Cindy Williams Gutierrez
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- “Piecing Me Together,” Renee Watson
- “We Are All Dreamers,” Pablo Stanley
Film:
- “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Adichie, TED, 2009
- “Hamilton’s America: Full Film,” PBS, 2016
- “Hidden Figures,” Theodore Melfi, 2017
- “13th,” Ava DuVernay, 2016
Music:
- Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording
- “Strange Fruit,” Nina Simone
- “The Blacker the Berry,” Kendrick Lamar