LESSON 3 · 🔒 PREMIUM

When Silence Becomes Complicity

The moral weight of choosing not to act

50 minutes RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.6, RI.9-10.6, W.9-10.1, SL.9-10.1
Learning Objectives

Students wrestle with the hardest question in justice work: what is your responsibility when you witness something wrong? Through a narrative about a bystander moment and an essay on the ethics of neutrality, students examine the spectrum between passive witness and active advocate — and what moves people across it.

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