Election 2020 #TeachFreedom–>Trump Syllabus K12
created & compiled by Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
with Alicia Moore, Ph.D. & Regina Lewis, Ph.D.
#DCPSWalkout @NotMyPresident Nov. 15, 2016. Photo by Allison Acosta.
Lesson Plans & Resources for Teaching During this New Age of Resistance (#TrumpSyllabusK12)
#TrumpSyllabusK12 is a compilation of lesson plans and resources written by and for K-12th grade teachers (and college educators) for teaching about the 2016 presidential campaign; about resistance and revolution; about white privilege and white supremacy; about state-sanctioned violence and sanctuary classrooms; about fake news and Facebook; and, about freedom and justice. It is designed to transform our classrooms into liberated nonsexist nonmisogynistic anti-racist anti-classist spaces without any boundaries or borders. It is meant to liberate and free our students by providing them with lesson plans to challenge them to become global critical thinkers. We invite you to join with us as we actively work to push back against the establishment of this New World Order and we draw our line in the sand and work to liberate and change the world, one student at a time.
The syllabus is divided into four sections: the opening section provides resources and tools to ground the classroom discussion; Section One: Examining Campaign 2016, includes lesson plans and resources that examine the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton (see Clinton Syllabus 1.0 for more information); Section Two: Politics in the “Post-Trump” Narrative, which includes lesson plans and resources that explore the ways that we can transform our classes into safe liberated spaces designed to openly discuss and address white privilege, race, and citizenship; and, Section Three: From Dr. King to President Trump: Examining History, Now & Then, which consists of lesson plans and resources provided by the National Visionary Leadership Project that explore and connect the work from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter to the current activist work against the Trump Administration.
Each lesson plan is presented in its entirety and includes Warm Up and Group Activities, Essential Questions and Objectives, Resources, an Essay or an Overview, and they connect directly to the Common Core Standards for Math, History, or Language Arts; and, to the National Council of Social Studies Standards.
Please note that lesson plans are still being accepted at griotonthego@gmail.com and are being added daily.
(ES=Elementary School; MS=Middle School; HS=High School)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RESOURCES & TOOLS TO GROUND THE DISCUSSION
1. America is a Divided Nation: Singing the Post-Trump Blues **NEW**
-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
2. Teaching After the Election of Trump **NEW**
-The Zinn Education Project
3. Opinion Editorial: “These Are Our First 100 Days, Too” **NEW**
-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
4. Resistance 101: A Lesson for Inauguration Day Teach-Ins and Beyond **NEW**
-Teaching for Change
5. 40 Acres, A Mule, & $50 Dollars: Making the Case for Reparations (A Baltimore Sun OpEd) **NEW**
-Conra Gist, Ph.D., and Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
6. Tips for Facilitating Classroom Discussions on Sensitive Topics
-Alicia Moore, Ph.D., and Molly Deshaies
SECTION ONE: EXAMINING CAMPAIGN 2016
7. The Electoral College vs The Popular Vote: Who Should Choose OUR President? (HS)
-Jocelyn Thomas
8. Exploring the (New) Political Climate (MS)
-Nadiera Young
9. Exploring the Reasons Why Trump Won (MS/HS)
-Gloria Ladson-Billings, Ph.D.
10. Exploring the Fake News Cycle (MS)
-Baba Ayinde Olumiji
11. Using Photographs to Explore Differing Political Perspectives (ES)
-Alicia Moore, Ph.D., and Angela Davis Johnson
12. Trump and Gender Bias, By the Numbers (HS)
-Kelly Cross Ph.D.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (POETRY):
13. Oya for President (to be read OutLoud)
-Alexis Pauline Gumbs
14. Mourning in America: A Black Woman’s Blues Song
-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
15. Songs in a Key Called Baltimore
-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
SECTION TWO: POLITICS IN THE “POST-TRUMP” NARRATIVE
16. Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Trump Election: What Do We Do Now? (MS/HS)
-Sarah Militz-Frielink and Isabel Nunez, Ph.D.
17. From “I Have A Dream” to “I Dream of a World”: Steps to Creating a Sanctuary Classroom (All Grades)
-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.
18. Hope, Action, & Freedom in the Times of Uncertainty (HS)
-Conra D. Gist,Ph.D., Angela Davis Johnson, & Tyson E.J. Marsh, Ph.D.
19. Writing White Privilege, Race, and Citizenship: Reading Angela Davis, Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, and Walt Whitman (HS)
-Ileana Jiménez
20. A Pedagogy of Resistance in the Struggle Against White Supremacist State-Sanctioned Violence* (MS/HS)
-Tyson E.J. Marsh, Ph.D.
21. Lessons in Black Feminist Criminology: Disrupting State and Sexualized Violence Against Women and Girls #GrabtheEmpowerment (HS)
-Nishaun T. Battle, Ph.D.
22. Giving Voice & Making Space: Dismantling the Education Industrial Complex in an Effort to Free Our Black Girls* (MS/HS)
-Aja Reynolds & Stephanie Hicks
23. Exploring the “Crisis” in Black Education from a Post-White Orientation* (MS/HS)
-Marcus Croom
24. The African American Saga: From Enslavement to Life in a Color-Blind Society (Or Racism Without Race)*(HS)
-Yolanda Abel, Ed.D., and LeRoy Johnson
25. #Evolution or Revolution: Exploring Social Media through Revelations of Familiarity* (HS)
-Kimberly Edwards-Underwood, Ph.D.
26. Replace Fear with Curiosity: Using Photographs and Poetry to Process Election 2016 (ES)
-Tracy Kent-Gload
27. #WeGotNext: Black Youth Activism and the Rise of #BlackLivesMatter* (HS/MS) **NEW**
-Sekou Franklin
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
28. Steps to Combating Anti-Muslim Bullying in Schools
-Mariam Durani, Ph.D.
29. #ClintonSyllabus 1.0
-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., Alicia Moore, Ph.D., Regina Lewis, Ph.D.
30. Book: Black Lives Matter (Special Reports)
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*The marked lesson plans above were originally published in the Association for the Study of African American Life & History’s Black History Bulletin and are reprinted here by permission of the authors.
SECTION THREE: FROM DR. KING TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: EXAMINING HISTORY, NOW & THEN
The following lesson plans and historiographies were originally published on the National Visionary Leadership Project’s website. They were written by Karsonya Wise Whitehead and are reprinted here with her permission.
Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead #blackmommyactivist 