Week 1: Community Building (Where I’m From Poem) & Other Ice Breakers

Week 2: School to Prison Pipeline

• Introduction with a rap song; analysis of pop culture
• Briefly introduce the reality of the school-to-prison pipeline
• Show various clips of students who have been put in juvenile/detention centers (have a group discussion)
• Self-reflection and sharing of personal narrative about their own experiences – positive or negative – in the educational system (self expression through various art forms)
• Break up into groups and share what they have created

Week 3: Leadership, Non-Violence & Solidarity

• Address timeline of important events in communities of color left out in history books à Colonization of various communities of color
• Excerpts from X’s speech
• “Fight with your mind & not with your body”
• Ghandi, MLK, Malcolm X, Margaret Garner, Las Mujeres Libres, Phoolan Devi, Che, etc.
• School of the Americas
• Women & Men’s Leadership Development

Week 4: Hoodology and the Slave Master Psychology

• Sociological perspective of the hood through personal stories/narratives
• Addressing the lack of resources and support
• Hip-Hop Ideologies à Hyper-Masculinity à Misogyny, pregnancy rates, negative effects in the hood
• Critical analysis of Hip-hop culture & lyrics
• Free self from mental imprisonment
• Address propaganda of self-hatred
• Talk about capitalism and Marx

Week 5: Fearlessness & Artivism in our lives through Gordon Parks

• Cycle of Liberation

CULMINATION PROJECT

• Will Occur after a 2 week break on the end of Week 7
• The culmination project is a media presentation of "our" journey and where we all came from. Students will digitally shoot 30 images of their "journey" (think about: how you got where you are today, significant events, things you are passionate about, and your identity) and choose a song that best represents their images/slides. Students can also submit a spoken word piece, poetry, or a narration instead of a song. However, it needs to be in an MP3 file and is no longer than 3 min.
  
  

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