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Walt Whitman's Election Day Curriculum Guide for Teachers
This guide offers a lesson plan and resources for teaching Whitman's "Election Day: November, 1884."

VoteThatJawn
Sep 9, 202013 min read


What’s Your Jawn?: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Interview-Based Writing
Learn how to write a blog for VoteThatJawn.com on your voting "jawn" — that issue that ignites a fire in you drives you to the polls.

VoteThatJawn
Aug 30, 20205 min read


A Brand New (Virtual) Community
Youth power and passion.
With these words, signed together in American Sign Language on the first pandemic-driven Zoom call...

VoteThatJawn
Jul 30, 20202 min read


Philly Youth Vote (Online) Registration House Party!
You’re Invited! Ft. DJ Jazzy Jeff, LGP Qua, DJ Diamond Kuts, Bobby Flowers, Aijee Evans, and DJ Sophia Vote that Jawn Philly House Party...

VoteThatJawn
May 13, 20201 min read


First Lady of Jazz Guitar Recalls her Philly Youth, the Folks who Helped, and Why She #VotesThatJawn
Monnette Sudler never skips a vote. Never will. But as a kid, Sudler says, she wasn’t into politics. For her, it was all music.

VoteThatJawn
May 11, 20203 min read


OUR VOTES, OUR LIVES
The Point Was, Voices of Young Activists Can, and Should Matter By David Bradley "When adults came to Selma, Selma had already been...

VoteThatJawn
May 5, 20203 min read


Step-By-Step Guide for Philly Youth Voters During COVID-19
The coronavirus has disrupted our way of life, and our elections. But you can still vote! Review this guide for tips on...

VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20202 min read


First Land of the Free?
Wyoming: An Unsung Champion of The Women’s Suffrage Movement By Tanner Probst Although we often think of the drive for equality as a...

VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20203 min read


Calm About It: Women Exercised their Voting Rights Before the 19th Amendment
By Tanner Probst Women may have won the right to vote in 1920, but some voted decades before it was legal. The women’s suffrage movement...

VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20203 min read


Interactive Constitution Project
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for...

VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20201 min read


We the People Learn to Interpret the Constitution
By Tanner Probst "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic...

VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20202 min read


I Will Vote
By Blake Kiernan “The only thing that matters more than our health and safety is the freedom to choose how we are governed.” The above...

VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20203 min read


Voting History: The 15th Amendment
By Tanner Probst “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State...

VoteThatJawn
May 4, 20203 min read


Why Music on a Youth Voting Site?
Because music is a gateway to the things that matter to you. What matters to us is what motivates us to vote. Hill-Freeman Music Director...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 18, 20201 min read


#VOTETHATJAWN 2020
Think, for a moment, about the fanfare that comes with life’s milestones: marriage, birth, quinceañera, driving, graduation… and so on.

VoteThatJawn
Apr 18, 20205 min read


There Is No Planet B
Earth is the only known habitable planet. A gassy envelope mostly of oxygen and nitrogen extends 300 miles above our surface.

VoteThatJawn
Apr 18, 20203 min read


Water, Climate Crisis, and Future of Philadelphia
By Swati Hegde, Ph.D. The Water Center, University of Pennsylvania A clean and safe water supply along with effectively managed...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 14, 20204 min read


Vote for Climate Justice!
By Samira Mehta Long, slimy, black bugs,—dozens—swam across the water’s surface in a white, plastic bucket. A woman bent over it and...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 14, 20203 min read


The Pandemic Can’t Stop Us: Youth Vote Initiatives Go Virtual
By Sophie Burkholder The way we vote is about to be turned upside down. Fears of the coronavirus pandemic have prompted fears of...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 14, 20203 min read


A Talk, a Book, then a Movie Becomes a Movement to Bend the Moral Arc of Justice
“Just Mercy” tells the story of Bryan Stevenson, a criminal justice lawyer who moves to Alabama to represent wrongly convicted...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 6, 20205 min read


At Music, I Suck … or Used To
By Giovanna Cicalese When I was younger, I listened to all kinds of music on the radio, mostly guided by my dad, a drummer. I played...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20202 min read


The Escobar Brothers Podcast
By Lorene Cary Special thanks to the Escobar family: three talented young musicians who live with their parents in suburban Philadelphia....

VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20201 min read


You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But . . .
By Lorene Cary I wanted to play trumpet. Blow blow hard! A kid who had asthma, whose breathing sometimes felt like sucking air through a...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 3, 20202 min read


My Place, All Over the Place
By Jada Orr When I was younger I had a lot of unorthodox idols in the music industry. I enjoyed singers with dark and gritty sounds and...

VoteThatJawn
Apr 2, 20201 min read
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