The lessons in this unit explore oral history narratives from the men, women, and children working in California’s fields who grow and harvest the food many Americans eat every day.
These lessons use the powerful narratives from Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary to support teachers and students in forming a deeper understanding of solitary confinement, mass incarceration, and the criminal justice system.
These lesson plans provide students a point of entry for understanding economic systems from a human perspective, creating an opening for critical exploration of the ethical, moral, and legal issues connected to these systems.
This corresponding curriculum guides students in exploring themes of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification, all through a lens of listening to voices that have long been ignored.
These accompanying lesson plans allow students to examine intersectionality and gender bias as well as reproductive rights within the context of the U.S. criminal justice system.
These accompanying lesson plans bring home these realities in a personal and relatable way, allowing students to grapple with the human costs that lie at the heart of this pertinent contemporary issue.
This accompanying curriculum creates a flexible unit of study that allows students and teachers an opportunity to critically and creatively explore the day-to-day realities of Palestinians living under occupation, including the oft-ignored violations of human rights that occur daily.