Resources

Click here to view CBS coverage of The Immortal Henrietta Lacks,.

Author, Rebecca Skloot's website.

The Henrietta Lacks Foundation is an organization founded by author, Rebecca Skloot to aid and retribute the family and descendants of Henrietta Lacks.

In 2010, John Hopkins magazine published this article about the spreading of Henrietta Lacks' cells.

Smithsonian magazine discusses the issue of "immortal cells"

Click here for a reader's guide

Click here for a list of discussion questions

For Instructors:

Instructors guide to teaching The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Project ideas

Example of socratic seminar

Literature discussion strategies

What would Henrietta Lacks have tweeted?

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Jeopardy

 

            

Last Updated: Aug. 22, 2010