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This week's task asks you to choose from a variety of online syllabi and create a theme unit for any one thing.  The point here is to move you FAR away from thinking that a college curriculum, pedagogy, classroom, or syllabus rests on the readings that you assign.  In that kind of model, you assign some reading and students come to class to talk about it within the structural terms of the Socratic Method.  It is as white, masculinist, and western as you can be--- the talking heads model that incorporates no other aspects of ontology.  It is, after all called the Socratic Method... that ain't a metaphor and anti-racist pedagogies got no damn business locating its roots in an Ancient Greece pedagogy.  NO. DAMN. BUSINESS.

Another thing to keep in mind here is that you are also trying to give young people an opportunity to DO the things that they are studying/reading/watching.  In other words, you are setting up a hierarchy if students only read "critical theory" and "critical essays" but are never asked to produce that, never taught that they are co-producers of these things, not merely recipients.  Give students an ACTIVE LITERATE ROLE, not a passive one!

YOUR DIRECTIONS: Design 2-4 weeks of class where you do at least TWO of the following: 1) assign a piece of writing that goes beyond essayist/school prose; 2) offer a reading strategy like guiding questions, designated/targeted pages, and/or a jigsaw method; 3) end a unit with a multimodal project of some sort; 4) incorporate a dynamic group activity in class (explain it in the syllabus or unit plan as a way to prep students for it). 
Choose any one of the open syllabus projects that is listed below.  This is RR #12.  Here are your choices:
  1. http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com (Black Lives Matter Syllabus)
  2. Black Disabled Woman Syllabus: A Compilation (http://www.rampyourvoice.com/?p=2421)
  3. Disability Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Perspectives on Race, Disability, Law & Accountability--- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J1QaOHV4wNb2zM0VqOufyex1z4piJ9edPQPaI3Rk9Og/edit
  4. https://gisellepr.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/lemonade-syllabus.pdf (Lemonade Syllabus)
  5. https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/ (#StandingRockSyllabus)
  6. http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism (Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston)
  7. http://www.antiracistalliance.com/home.html (Anti-Racist Alliance: A Web-Based Curriculum on Whiteness)
  8. Teaching Abolition in the Classroom (https://www.edliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Complete-MPD150-Report-Companion-Curriculum-1.pdf)