About This Project
The Savannah Faith In Action Residency
In 2023, the City of Savannah invited proposals for a creative project spotlighting an underrepresented community. Applicants were encouraged to select communities defined by criteria that extended beyond traditional neighborhood boundaries. The call specified a year-long residency for the selected proposal in 2024. This website is the result of a key component of the chosen project team's proposal, Faith in Action: Perspectives on Savannah’s Interfaith Community.
Source Material
The project team produced and filmed interviews with historians, faith leaders, and engaged citizens over six different days spread throughout the year. The collection of interviews is accessible online from the City of Savannah Municipal Archives in both text transcript files and time-coded video links.
The video assets created are two-fold:
- Time-coded reference video files in universally compatible 1080p resolution MP4 format (available online)
- High-resolution 4K (UHD) original footage captured from two camera angles, ideal for derivative works (contact the Municipal Archives for more information)
A Teaching Resource
Although available to the general public, the project team developed this website to be an educational resource for 8th-grade teachers and students in Georgia. The City of Savannah requested that the project support appropriate social studies curricula as specified in the Georgia Department of Education's Standards of Excellence (SS8H2). Since 8th-grade students focus specifically on learning Georgia history, the passages and selections on this site's 'In The Beginning' section are designed to support them in integrating knowledge from their core curriculum while using critical thinking skills to deepen their understanding.
Additional content in the 'Faith In Action' and 'Common Ground' sections is also available for use in instruction. Of course, teachers of other grade levels may also find value in the material, and we encourage use of this site by anyone outside of the specific target audience, although a reading level above 8th grade is suggested. To assist teachers in assessing comprehension, the site offers content quizzes and proposed essay questions in both online and PDF printable formats.
Site Layout and Educational Goals
- After completing the readings and videos from the section titled 'In The Beginning', students should be able to describe the diverse faith landscape of the early Georgia colony and a few key faith-related events in Savannah’s history.
- Next, in the 'Faith In Action' section, teachers can help students explore the content on current and past social initiatives. These first two sections can be taught independently or together, as each stands on its own without requiring knowledge of the other.
- The third section, 'Common Ground', weaves a rich tapestry of selected comments from our interviews on Savannah's diverse and interrelated faith traditions. Students may use this additional information to inform their own analysis as they complete the material.
- Finally, the 'Teaching Resources' menu offers quizzes, essay questions, and additional reading suggestions.
More specific site usage instructions are available on our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
All original content generated by this project is housed in the City of Savannah Municipal Archives. It is protected by copyright law. Anyone wishing to reproduce, republish, or use the materials beyond private study, educational use and scholarship, or research must obtain written permission in advance from the Municipal Archives by submitting the Request for Permission to Reproduce/Publish, failure to do so may result in copyright infringement.
All material on this site, including the material derived from the original assets, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please contact the project team if you have questions about this license.
