Students will investigate the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice and explore possible solutions to racial profiling, implicit bias, and ways to address these issues in the police and justice systems.
Students will learn more about the death of Freddie Gray and the aftermath in Baltimore and the national conversation on race and policing. Students will analyze opinion pieces and then write their own argumentative essays with a specific point of view and evidence supporting their viewpoint.
Students will explore the history of school desegration 60+ years after Brown v. Board of Education.The unit is divided into six lessons and utlizes primary sources, discussion questions, and writing activities.
Students will focus on the killing of Michael Brown through the lens of race, privilege, and power and examine the various levels of racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
Students will investigate what constitutes non-violent resistance and how it relates to issues in the news, as well as explore both the purpose and results of non-violent resistance, both currently and historically.
Students will focus on the homocide of Renisha McBride, who was shot to death while seeking help after being in a car accident. Students will examine the role of self defense and racial profiling.
Students will gain background information on the history of voting rights and the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965. Additionally, students will focus on current issues in voiting rights and what can be done to ensure that all people have the ability to exercise their right to vote.
Students will analyze school integration within the broader context of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education. This unit is broken into four parts.
Students will explore what ableism is and the ways it manifests.
Students will explore what ageism is and the ways it mainfests in society, creating bias and discrimination in the workplace, housing, healthcare, etc. and perpetuating stereotypes that create injustice.
Students will explore the diference between the right to vote versus the ability to vote, and study the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Additionally, students will reflect on 20th century voting rights and explore how the past informs present issues in voting access.
Students will learn more about DREAMers/DACA recipients and explore what it means to be American and what rights that entails.