1. Unit Focus and Objectives:
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Unit Focus and Objectives:
Students consider the importance of leaving a legacy and the
ways that we can leave a legacy, through our language, our
families, or even our cells.
Students also explore the issue of ownership and ethics of medical research.
Student will explore and engage in the following topics using the
anchor and related texts: medical ethics and family legacy,
character influence on medical science, character development,
comparing and contrasting points of view.
Students will use and conduct research to build awareness about various diseases, viruses, and disabilities, which greatly impact the general public and the scientific community physically, emotional, and financially.
Get a few students to state the reason why they agree or disagree. Tell the students that at the end of the lesson, they will revisit this question to see if their opinion has change through the knowledge they have gain at the end of class.
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2. Bellwork: Words to Know:
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Bellwork: Words to Know:
What do these words mean?
Cultural preservation
Legacy
Heritage
Tradition
Artifacts
Humanity
Ownership
Ask the students within their groups to define these words. (5 min) Ask the students to share their definitions.
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Words to Know:
Cultural preservation – to keep a group of people’s way of life alive, intact, and free from decay.
Legacy - something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past.
Heritage - the traditions, achievements, beliefs, etc., that are part of the history of a group or nation.
Tradition - a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that has been used by the people in a particular group, family, or society.
Write down these definitions to have official definitions you can use in your paper. Read through the definition as the student write.
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Words to Know:
Artifacts - a simple object that was made by people in the past.
Humanity - the quality or state of being kind to other people or to animals.
Ownership – the state of being in control over something.
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5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
Consider the statement at the top of the slide, “The reason Henrietta’s cells were so precious was because they allowed scientists to perform experiments that would have been impossible with a living human.” The question that you want to keep in front of your brain is, “What was so special about Henrietta and her cells?”
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6. Consider the Following Position:
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Consider the Following Position:
Do you agree or disagree? Why?
David Korn, vice provost for research at Harvard
University, said, “I think people are morally
obligated to allow their bits and pieces to be used
to advance knowledge to help others. Since
everybody benefits, everybody can accept the
small risk of having their tissue scraps used in
research.”
Get a few students to state the reason why they agree or disagree. Tell the students that at the end of the lesson, they will revisit this question to see if their opinion has change through the knowledge they have gain at the end of class.
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7. What are ways we can leave behind our traditions, heritage and legacy?
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What are ways we can leave behind our traditions, heritage and legacy?
Ask the students, “What are ways we can leave behind our traditions, heritage and legacy?” Answer this question, after you have viewed this short clip. After the clip, get the students to share their answers.
The Lacks Family
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8. What are ways we can leave behind our traditions, heritage and legacy?
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What are ways we can leave behind our traditions, heritage and legacy?
Traditions such as festivals and holidays
Written communication such as medical records, letters and books
Artifacts such as pictures and family items
Oral communication such as oral stories and music
Memories
Show the students this slide. Let’s review some of our answers.
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9. What are ways we can leave behind our traditions, heritage and legacy?
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What are ways we can leave behind our traditions, heritage and legacy?
Show the students this slide. Let’s review some of our answers.
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10. Henrietta Lack’s Memory
In order to fully understand what Henrietta Lacks’ legacy has done for the world, we are going to watch this video. Before we watch this video, we review the focus questions on this handout you need to answer. This handout will assist your understanding of the background of Henrietta Lacks and her legacy. After the video, give the students 5 minutes to share with their groups. In addition, tell the students not to answer the personal questions in their groups.

11. The Argument: Who should have ownership of your body
The Argument: Who should have ownership of your body? We the people or the medical community?
Tell watch this video. Ask the students to answer the personal questions independently. Then give the students 3 minutes to share with a person outside of their group. Ask the students to share their personal opinions. This series of activities and videos should have helped you in the beginning stages of the development of a strong argument in cell ownership. Have students fill out an index card and revisit Korn’s perspective.

12. Henrietta Lack’s Cervical Cancer Cells
This is an explanation of cell reproduction.

13. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
Elie Wiesel from The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
The picture is a photo of Henrietta Lacks and her husband, David. “Henrietta’s Dance” provides an overview of Henrietta’s story. The prologue presents a similar overview, but also includes information about Rebecca Skloot and why she chose to write about Henrietta.
 photo: Henrietta and David Lacks, ca. 1945

14. Final Chapter
Where is the family now? Has the family and the scientific community reached an agreement that would satisfy both parties? Does the decision made seem fair?

15. Other Resources Seeking Henrietta
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Other Resources
Seeking Henrietta
Henrietta Lacks Family
Rebecca Skloot: The Story of HeLa
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