The Kids are not the Threat

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.01.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background And School Context
  4. Objectives
  5. Essential Questions
  6. Content
  7. Teaching Strategies
  8. Building Community Through A Social Contract
  9. Inquiry-based Learning
  10. Six Thinking Hats
  11. Reflective Writing And Collaborative Discussion
  12. Classroom Activities
  13. Annotated Bibliography
  14. Appendix On Implementing District Standards
  15. Reading And Media List
  16. Supplemental And Youth Voice Texts
  17. Notes

Lean on Me: Finding Voice, Honoring Difference, and Standing on Business

Debra D. Jenkins

Published September 2026

Tools for this Unit:

Reading And Media List

Core Texts

King, Martin Luther Jr. “Youth and Social Action.”

King, Martin Luther Jr. “Conscience and the Vietnam War.”

Zinn, Howard. “The New Abolitionists.”

Zinn, Howard. “Out of the Sit-Ins.”

Baker, Ella. “The Black Woman’s Role in the Civil Rights Struggle-The Long View.”

Davis, Angela Y. “Peace is a Sister’s Issue Too.”

Theoretical and Scholarly Frameworks

Ferguson, Roderick A. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Ferguson, Roderick A. The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012

Ferguson, Roderick A. We Demand: The University and Student Protests—Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.

Cohen, Cathy J. Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Kirshner, Ben. Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

Taft, Jessica K. Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

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