Dying to Live - Writing Stories to Changes Minds

In this lesson, students will apply what they have learned about how stories change minds to plan, draft, edit and publish their own story to change people’s minds about the topic of organ and tissue donation. Students watch a short clip from Dying to Live that features the story of Woody and evaluate how their view of organ and tissue donation is affected. They use a range of questions to imagine a character and a setting, and apply their understanding of the dramatic arc to write their own story. Students publish their story and take steps to put their stories into the public domain so that they achieve their goal of changing people’s minds.