The Kids are not the Threat

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.01.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Youth Protests: A History Of Resistance And The Generational Divide
  3. Rationale
  4. Background Knowledge & Content
  5. Teaching Strategies 
  6. Classroom Activities 
  7. Week 1: The Mirror: How Are We Seen?
  8. Week 2: The Spark: Who Resisted?
  9. Week 3: The Spark: Who Resisted?
  10. Week 4: The Megaphone: How Do We Speak?
  11. Week 5: The Megaphone: How Do We Speak?
  12. Week 6: The Showcase: Final Legacy
  13. Appendix On Implementing District Standards
  14. Annotated Bibliography
  15. Notes

The New Resistance: Protest through Performance

Shondra Cooper

Published September 2026

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Notes

  1. Earth, Wind & Fire. That’s the Way of the World.
  2. Read by 4th. “Literacy as Liberation: Black Reading Traditions Then & Now.”
  3. National Equity Project. “Culturally Responsive Teaching.”
  4. Willingham, Daniel T. “Ask the Cognitive Scientist: How Can Educators Teach Critical Thinking?”
  5. National Equity Project. “Culturally Responsive Teaching.”
  6. Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists.
  7. Hudson, Robert, and Robert Houston. Mighty Times: The Children’s March.
  8. Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists.
  9. Long, Michael. Kids on the March.
  10. Revesz, Rachael. “13-Year-Old Native American’s Petition to Stop Oil Pipeline Reaches 80,000 Signatures.”
  11. Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists.
  12. Dunn, Ashley, Constance McPhee, and Allison Rudnick. “Art, Protest, and Public Space - the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
  13. Auburn Gresham | Neighborhoods | Chicago by ‘L.’ In WTTW Chicago.
  14. Chicago Public Schools. “Details | Chicago Public Schools.”
  15. Gibbons, Emily. “How Teaching Latin Roots Strengthens Reading and Vocabulary.”
  16. “4 Different Learning Styles Explained: How to Help Students Learn Best.”
  17. Facing History & Ourselves. “K-W-L Charts.”
  18. Finley, Todd. “The Nuts and Bolts of Explicit Modeling.”
  19. Jones, Sarah. “Enhancing Critical Thinking With the Six Thinking Hats Technique.”

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