Discussion Guide and Lesson Plans

This discussion guide aims to support critical dialogues and tools for deconstructing, and creating from, concepts presented in the documentary The Five Demands. Flexible and adaptable, the guide is appropriate for use by middle, high school, and college educators to enhance and complement existing curricula and classroom study and/or to support students in developing youth-led campaigns. The lesson plans can be used to support and deepen content areas such as U.S. History, Ethnic Studies, Civics, Sociology, Psychology, and English Language Arts. Multigenerational activists, educators and leaders might also use this guide as a resource in school-based clubs and organizations, after-school and social justice/youth development programs, and after screenings of the film.