Stand+Up+For+Your+Rights!+Activism+in+NYC

Adult leaders: Sandra & Ali = = ** Come and explore the vibrant spirit of NYC’s past as everyday people have stood up against unfair working conditions, dangerous tenement housing, and the unequal treatment of African Americans and women. Learn about the strategies activists have used in fighting for equal rights and ultimately helping this city become more democratic and socially just, while also exploring the delicious cuisines of NYC's neighborhoods. ** = =

Rensizzle Group: Stand Up For Your Rights: Activists in New York City

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__Monday: __ Aim__: Sweatshops & Labor Rights in NYC __ Agenda/Activities__: (15 min)
 * 1) Attendance & Icebreaker: Team Building Exercise
 * Game
 * Distribute Folders and paper

(15 min) (30 min) 3) Daily Journal #1 (7m) On Fighting for your beliefs: What issues are important to you? What do you care about? EXPLAIN
 * 1) Introduction to Museums: Gallery Walk
 * 2) Students respond to various questions written on large sheets of chart paper: CHART PAPER
 * What museums have you visited? Describe your visit in a few words.
 * What did you like about your museum visit?
 * What did you dislike about your visit?
 * 1) Students read each other’s responses
 * Students respond to question prompt
 * Pair/Share: Students share their responses/Active Listening
 * Women’s rights
 * Black lives matter/race/African American rights
 * Gender equality
 * poverty
 * LGBTQ rights/Marriage Equality
 * Stereotyping/judging by appearance

4) Discussion: What is activism? Create WEB/Types of Activism
 * Taking action on what you believe in
 * People standing up for themselves/others and their rights
 * protesting violent and non-violent
 * making sure that what you believe in happens
 * making sure our voices are heard

5) Definition: __Activism:__ the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.

Types: types:
 * He/She program - Equal pay for women - Emma Watson
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bus Boycotts for racial equality
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sadie Nash - leadership program for girls and womens rights
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activism for immigrants
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free the Nip
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#Bringcolorback - for activism for girls education
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Boycotts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">social media
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">protesting
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strikes/marches
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">educational programs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nonviolence
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">letter writing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">putting your voice behind a politician/law makers
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hunger strikes

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__10:00AM: Leave for Trip__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Trip to Tenement Museum (Leave 10:00 AM) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__-Sweatshop Workers Tour__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(11:30 AM-1:00PM)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Food Tour on Neighborhood Diversity: Vanessa’s Dumplings__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(1:00-2:00) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TRCS Return Time: 2:00-3:00__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Wrap-Up & Gallery Walk__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: What did you Learn From Today’s Exhibit? (10 min)

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<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Aim__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Activism in NYC History, A Historical Overview <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> that you found interesting? EXPLAIN. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> How did yesterday’s trip help you understand activism more?
 * 1) __Icebreaker__
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Journal #2__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: What is one thing that you learned yesterday


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Article & Discussion__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Triangle Shirt Factory-Read article


 * What legal changes did activists help inspire after the Triangle Shirt Factory Fire?
 * MANY changes: fire drills & unlocked outward-swinging doors, fire sprinklers, inspired a bill that limited hours to 54 hours without overtime; 8 new laws to the the labor code

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Activist Exhibit__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Trip to the City Museum of New York

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In notebook- Write down 2 facts from EACH stationWhat is the relationship between Margaret Sanger and Wonder Woman?

> __ > > <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Math Museum > Aim: Technology and Activism > Agenda: [|__http://www.rhokaustralia.org/#what-is__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> > <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__ > <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday: > <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aim: Working on the project (Group) & Presentations >
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the importance of Wonder Woman in the Suffrage Movement?[[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/I44fk6Sxy7UucPERpTwJBtzP3Joy0Xw9jlkzKbzcpIbGTXwt5W-v7y_pL1xJMSYm4NXixjfTQ5VFgEDDVsOHIg83wbVC0JxzcO3R0rv5vseI0WdYdLWm_a0824Skp_j9TMXtfyg8]][[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Wy05Bp9zYY05kDweIz6JihixwPeKbsmtp_GrkBKGKwoxGmnl-n0VvHnF8um1RyCSGAyzop943iKEt3eE9K6o-kwc6TL_VnO0oVzB7g7fV6sfyZSbzWeUT4pVYpgLlSwqi1e5BExH]]
 * 1) Ice breaker
 * 2) Trip to Math Museum: “Code-Breaking”
 * 3) Research and Discuss: “Random Hacks of Kindness” (see below )
 * 1) Final edits to project
 * 2) Group Presentation