Topic: Gender and Sexuality

lesson:
The Origins of Disco

Grades: High
Subjects: ELA, Ethnic Studies, General Music, Social Studies/History

What are the cultural, economic, and geographic origins of Disco and how has the genre been presented, remembered, and represented in popular culture?

lesson:
Bystander Intervention: Making Spaces Safer for Everyone

Grades: High
Subjects: Social Emotional Learning

What is Bystander Intervention and how does it make music spaces and other public gathering places more safe, accessible, and fun for everyone?

Student Edition:
Chicana Punk and the Chicano Movement

Grades: High
Subjects: Ethnic Studies, General Music, Social Studies/History

lesson:
Chicana Punk and the Chicano Movement

Grades: High
Subjects: Ethnic Studies, General Music, Social Studies/History

What is Chicana Punk, how does it relate to the Chicano Movement, and how did it transform the Punk music scene?

lesson:
Intersectionality and Punk Music in the 2020s

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Social Emotional Learning

What is intersectionality, and how do musicians in the Punk music scene navigate life at different intersections?

lesson:
Writing Personal Narratives and The Harlem Renaissance

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

How do Langston Hughes, Gladys Bentley, and Louis Armstrong effectively write personal narratives about living during the Harlem Renaissance?

lesson:
Second Wave: Women’s Rights and Music in the 1960s

Grades: High
Subjects: Social Studies/History

What was second-wave feminism, and how did music contribute to the movement?

Trace It Back:
Margo Price

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: General Music

lesson:
Dolores Huerta and The United Farm Workers Movement

Grades: Elementary 4-6, Middle
Subjects: Art/Design, Civics, ELA, Social Studies/History

Who is Dolores Huerta, what role did she play in the United Farm Workers movement, and how is she recognized today?

lesson:
The United Farm Workers Movement through Music and Poetry

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Civics, ELA, Ethnic Studies, Social Studies/History

Who is Dolores Huerta, what role did she play in the United Farm Workers movement, and how is she recognized today?

Student Edition:
Third-Wave Feminism: Women’s Rights and Music in the 1990s

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: General Music, Social Studies/History

Trace It Back:
Janelle Monáe

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

Trace It Back:
Betty Davis

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

lesson:
Women’s Perspectives in Country and Tejano Music

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Social Emotional Learning, Social Studies/History

How did female Country and Tejano artists approach the issues of feminism and Women’s Rights in the 20th and 21st century?

Trace It Back:
Tyler, The Creator

Trace It Back:
Prince

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

Trace It Back:
Big Freedia

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

Trace It Back:
Selena

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

lesson:
“Y’all Better Quiet Down”: Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ Pioneers

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Social Studies/History

How did Black and Latinx people in the LGBTQ+ community take initiative in the Stonewall Inn rebellions, Gay Liberation Movement, and in the preservation of LGBTQ+ history?

lesson:
The Journey to Marriage Equality in the United States

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies/History

How did same-sex marriage become legal in the United States?

lesson:
Art, Music, and the AIDS Epidemic

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Art/Design, Social Emotional Learning, Social Studies/History

How did the LGTBQ+ community creatively respond to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and protest government inaction in addressing the epidemic?

lesson:
“Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall”: The Stonewall Riots in the Fight for Equality

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies/History

What were the Stonewall Riots, and what role did they play in ongoing struggles for LGBTQ+ equality in the United States?

lesson:
Third Wave: Women’s Rights and Music in the 1990s

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Civics, General Music, Social Studies/History

What was Third Wave Feminism, why did it occur, and how did musicians address some of the movement’s demands?

lesson:
#BlackLivesMatter: Music in a Movement

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Social Studies/History

How have musicians responded to the Black Lives Matter movement?

lesson:
New Perspectives on The Great Gatsby’s Daisy Buchanan

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: ELA

Does Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful” help humanize Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby?

lesson:
Glam: The Return of the Teenager

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Studies/History

How was Glam Rock part of a new teenage culture in the 1970s?

lesson:
Soul Music and the New Femininity

Grades: High
Subjects: ELA, General Music, Social Studies/History

How did Aretha Franklin represent a new female voice in 1960s popular music?

lesson:
The Rise of Disco

Grades: High
Subjects: Art/Design, General Music, Social Studies/History

How did Disco relate to the sentiments and social movements of the 1970s?