Classroom Clapback

Unit Essential Questions:1. How can food be used as a tool for both oppression and liberation? 2. How does our neighborhood influence the choices we make about our health? 3. What is the relationship between privilege, poverty,  and consumption? 4. How can we, as students, become involved in the food justice movement? 5. How does the history of systemic racism in America create food insecurity? 6. How do issues of land access impact food access both historically and presently? What's included?A

In this mini-unit, student's will examine themes and author's purpose through Wale's song "Sue Me" What's included in the unit? - Lyric analysis of the hip-hop song "Sue Me" - Music video analysis - Webquest of themes presented in the song and video. Topics include mass incarceration and the war on drugs, racial profiling, stop & frisk, COVID-19, colorism, white privilege, and black-on-black crime. - A podcast project where students using writing, speaking, and multimedia, to further explore

Students will explore protest by looking at the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement and compare and contrast these movements to the insurrection and breach on Capitol Hill on Jan 6, 2021. What's included in this digital interactive workbook: - Frayer Model Graphic Organizer - Vocabulary Picture Sort - See-Think-Wonder with Civil Rights Movement, BLM, and Capitol Hill breach images - "What's the Story Behind the Picture," video activity - Caption This! activity - Claim-Evid

Unit Essential Question:On July 3, 2020, during a summer of protest and uprising against systemic racism and police brutality, The New York Times released an article titled, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History.” This was just days after the hip-hop group Public Enemy alongside artist Nas, Black Thought, YG, Rapsody, and Jahi debuted a remix to the 1989 song, Fight the Power. Using the music video for this song, answer the question, “How does the Black Lives Matter Mov