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Presents a guide for teenagers on student activism, discussing organizing, reaching out to the community, and student rights. Also features stories about teens who are part of well-known movements, such as the March For Our Lives campaign, insights from student activists on the challenges of balancing school and activism, and lessons learned from earlier activists. Includes resources for student activists.
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When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's 'The Devil's Arithmetic' are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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Few would argue that students have the right to protest, but what forms of protest are acceptable? From the Vietnam War era to the more recent National School Walkout, students have used walkouts as a form of protest. Yet some teachers and administrators admonish such efforts because they waste precious class time and detract from learning. Others believe that, while peaceful protest is always the best first step, violence is an acceptable option...
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"Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver's long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips towards obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to stay with her. Getting to know them, Oliver tries...
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"From severe flooding in Louisiana to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to melting permafrost in Alaska, catastrophic climate events are occurring more frequently--and severely--than ever. And these events are having a direct impact on the lives (and futures) of young people and their families. In the ongoing landmark case Juliana vs. United States, twenty-one young plaintiffs claim that the government's support of the fossil-fuel industry is actively...
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After her parents become increasingly worried about her intense obsession about the end of the world, they send Amina to Gardner Academy where she meets a group of students with similar fears. Together, they form the Eucalyptus Society where they test each others survival skills. But soon the group is targeted by a mysterious stranger who is anonymously and publicly humiliating them. As secrets are revealed, Amina and her new friends begin to wonder...
13) Anger is a gift
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Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department...
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On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children - a shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, 10-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush...
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Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gun-violence in all communities, the student leaders of March for Our Lives have decided not to be paid as authors of the book....
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"This narrative tells the story of seven women and one man at the heart of a sit-in protesting decreased enrollment and hiring of African Americans at Swarthmore College and demanding a Black Studies curriculum. The book, written by the former students themselves, also includes autobiographical chapters, providing a unique cross-sectional view into the lives of young people during the Civil Rights era. For years the media and some in the school community...
17) Global warning
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Five seventh-graders concerned about climate change work with a retired lawyer and an activist grandmother to build an international movement to amend the United States Constitution, protecting humanity's right to live on a planet free of pollution and warming.
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Fifth period is hands down the best time of day in Connor U. Eubanks Middle School, because that's when Mr. Lewis teaches Jazz Lab. So his students are devastated when their beloved teacher quits abruptly. Once they make a connection between budget cuts and Mr. Lewis's disappearance, they hatch a plan: stop the cuts, save their class. Soon, they become an unlikely band of crusaders, and their quest quickly snowballs into something much bigger--a movement...
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A national teleconference from Gallaudet University on March 8, 1993, including a special presentation of "Deaf Mosaic" featuring the fifth anniversary of the 1988 student protest called DPN, deaf president now, which shut down Gallaudet University when a hearing president rather than a deaf president was selected. A panel discussion follows.
20) You have a voice
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A teacher encourages their students to speak up when they see or experience racism, because their voices can make a difference.