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• Social Networks and Games
  • Facebook:Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa)
  • Jeopardy! game: reader-generated online game
  • HeLa Forum: Share your story and join the conversation.
• Blogs
  • First Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins
  • Science Blogs: My Mother's Hairbrush and the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Adam Curtis's blog: The Undead Henrietta Lacks And Her Immortal Dynasty
• Videos
  • Henrietta Lack - CBS Sunday Morning
  • The Way of All Flesh Documentary -A 1997 BBC documentary about Henrietta Lacks.
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - Official Trailer
• Podcasts
  • Radiolab: Henrietta's Tumor
  • Fresh Air (NPR): 'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy
  • Talk of the Nation (NPR): Rebecca Skloot interview about 'Common Reads' College Programs and The Immortal Life

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Suggested Class Activities

A reminder: There are campus coordinators on each major campus to help you with this semester's activities and to give you information if you are considering hosting an event next semester. They are:
Jackie Scott at Catonsville: jscott@ccbcmd.edu
Michael Walsh at Dundalk: rwalsh@ccbcmd.edu
Carr Kizzier at Essex: ckizzier@ccbcmd.edu

Films

List of related films
All CCBC faculty are invited to borrow films related to the themes in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks from the CBC film library, maintained by Professor Pat Rennie prennie@ccbcmd.edu

Study Guides & Activities

• Liberal Arts Study Guide for Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Study and Lesson Guide
• Using the CBC in a Developmental Writing Course Power Point by Heather Harris
• Teacher's guide from Rebecca Skloot's web site.( PDF- 28 pages takes time to load.)
• Timeline: From 1889 when Johns Hopkins Hospital was founded to 2009 on gene patents.
• Cast of Characters - list the cast of characters in the book.
• Listen to the Radiolab segment on The Immortal Life featuring Rebecca Skloot and Deborah Lacks discussing Henrietta and her cells
• Perfect for classrooms! Check out this reader-generated online Jeopardy! game – you can play with up to 12 teams.
• Visit the special features page of this site for photos not included in the book, videos of HeLa cells dividing, the BBC documentary discussed in the book, and more.
• Read about Rebecca's writing process, her expectations for the book, and how she developed the book's structure (complete with photos of the index-card story board she used to organize the book), in this interview with Nieman Storyboard