Trump Syllabus K12: Lesson Plans for Teaching During this New Age of Resistance (#TrumpSyllabusK12)

created & compiled by Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.

Lesson Plans 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



-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.

-The Zinn Education Project

-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.

-Teaching for Change

-Conra Gist, Ph.D., and Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.

-Alicia Moore, Ph.D., and Molly Deshaies

SECTION ONE: EXAMINING CAMPAIGN 2016

-Jocelyn Thomas

-Nadiera Young

-Gloria Ladson-Billings, Ph.D.

-Baba Ayinde Olumiji

-Alicia Moore, Ph.D., and Angela Davis Johnson

-Kelly Cross Ph.D.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (POETRY):

-Alexis Pauline Gumbs

-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.

-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.

SECTION TWO: POLITICS IN THE “POST-TRUMP” NARRATIVE

-Sarah Militz-Frielink and Isabel Nunez, Ph.D.

-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.

-Conra D. Gist,Ph.D., Angela Davis Johnson, & Tyson E.J. Marsh, Ph.D.

-Ileana Jiménez

-Tyson E.J. Marsh, Ph.D.

-Nishaun T. Battle, Ph.D.

-Aja Reynolds & Stephanie Hicks

-Marcus Croom

-Yolanda Abel, Ed.D., and LeRoy Johnson

-Kimberly Edwards-Underwood, Ph.D.

-Tracy Kent-Gload

-Sekou Franklin

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

-Mariam Durani, Ph.D.

-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., Alicia Moore, Ph.D., Regina Lewis, Ph.D.

–Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris

–Ralph W. Baker, Jr.

*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.