1st Edition
Teaching Women's and Gender Studies Classroom Resources on Resistance, Representation, and Radical Hope (Grades 9-12)
Incorporate women’s and gender studies into your high school classroom using the powerful lesson plans in this book. The authors present seven units organized around four key concepts: Why WGST; Intersectionality; Motherland—History, Health, and Policy Change; and Artivism.
With thought questions for activating prior knowledge, teaching notes, reflection questions, reproducibles, and strategies, these units are ready to integrate purposefully into your existing classroom practice. Across various subject areas and interdisciplinary courses, these lessons help to fill a critical gap in the curriculum.
Through affirming, inclusive, and representative projects, this book offers actionable ways to encourage and support young people as they become changemakers for justice.
This book is part of a series on teaching Women’s and Gender Studies in the K-12 classroom. We encourage readers to also check out the middle school edition.
Support Material Acknowledgements Meet the Authors Introduction Positionality About this Book Concept 1: Why WGST? Unit 1—Feminist Theory—Introduction Unit 2—We Can All be Changemakers for Justice Extension Exercises for Concept 1 Concept 2: Intersectionality Unit 3—Matrices and Margin Unit 4 - The Personal is Political, The More of Complete Stories Extension Exercises for Concept 2 Concept 3: Motherland—History, Health, and Policy Change Unit 5: Policy Change Unit 6: Maternal Health Extension Exercises for Concept 3 Proseminar: Artivism Epilogue Glossary References
Biography
Kathryn Fishman-Weaver, PhD (she/her) is the Executive Director of Mizzou Academy. In addition to this book series, she is the author of four additional books in education, Wholehearted Teaching of Gifted Young Women (2018), When Your Child Learns Differently (2019), Brain-Based Learning with Gifted Students (2020), and Connected Classrooms, co-authored with Stephanie Walter (2022). She has lectured and led professional development sessions and conferences around the world.
Jill Clingan (she/her) is the Composition and Literature Lead Teacher for high school students in Mizzou Academy’s Dual Diploma program. This program supports high school students in Brazil who are earning both a Brazilian Ensino Médio diploma from their Brazilian school as well as a U.S. high school diploma from the University of Missouri. At Mizzou Academy, Jill has also authored two high school language arts courses, co-authored an interactive grammar resource, and serves as an administrative editor.
