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Bookcase Operation’s Curriculum

Purpose of the Curriculum:
•    Helps create opportunities for youth to acquire new skills in problem-solving, planning, estimating, and education that can be applied to the real world.
•    Instruct youth on leadership development, personal empowerment skills, and community service; coupled with applied skills training focused on job preparation and self- employment through entrepreneurship.
•    Helps youth realized their creative potential to enact change in the world and economically empowered themselves through education on videography, art, and other subjects.

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The Arts

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Unit 1: Acting

Goals:

  • Students will be familiar with multiple acting techniques

  • Students will be able to do improvisation.

Materials:

  • Paper

  • Pencil

Historical Figures and Contemporary Connections:

  • Konstantin Stanislavski

  • Sanford Meisner

  • Uta Hagen

  • Lee Strasberg

  • Stella Adler

Vocabulary:

  • Protagonist

  • Antagonist

  • Supporting Roles

  • Straight Parts

  • Character Parts

  • Characterization

  • “Cheat Out”

  • Improvisation

Assessment:

  • Skit - Students will create their own skits and acted it out using improvisation.

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Unit 2: Storytelling

Goals:

  • Students will be familiar with the Hero’s Journey

  • Students will be able to construct their own stories using the Hero’s Journey and other techniques.

Materials:

  • Paper

  • Pencil

Historical Figures and Contemporary Connections:

  • Joseph Campbell

  • Vladimir Propp

  • Brothers Grimm

  • Dan Harmon

Vocabulary:

  • Bildungsroman

  • Epiphany

  • Plot

  • Conflict

  • Climax

  • Hero's Journey

Assessment:

  • Hero’s Journey Skit – Students will create a skit using the hero journey.

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Unit 3: Videography and Filmmaking

Goals:

  • Students will be familiar with how to take video.

  • Students will be able to use video to tell a story.

Materials:

  • Paper

  • Pencil

  • Camera

  • Computer

Historical Figures and Contemporary Connections:

  • George Lucas

  • Lumiere Brothers

  • Georges Melies

  • Alfred Hitchcock

Vocabulary:

  • Director

  • Framing

  • Script

  • Voiceover

  • Prop

  • Framing

Assessment:

  • Narrative Video – Students will create a video or a series of videos that will tell a complete story.

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Unit 4: Drawing, Comics, and Animation

Goals:

  • Students will be familiar with drawing and other artistic subjects.

  • Students will be able to use different artistic methods to express themselves and communicate socially relevant messages.

Materials:

  • Paper

  • Pencil

  • Markers

  • Crayons

Historical Figures and Contemporary Connections:

  • Roy Lichtenstein

  • Stan Lee

  • Jack Kirby

  • Steve Ditko

Vocabulary:

  • Speech Bubble

  • Thought Bubble

  • Splash Panel

  • Thumbnail

  • Mock Up

  • Panel

Assessment:

  • Comic – Students will create a comic that will tell a socially relevant message or express something about themselves.

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Technology and Business

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Unit 1: Entrepreneurship

Goals:

  • Students will be familiar with how businesses are formed.

  • Students will be able to explain how different entrepreneurs were able to start their own businesses.

Materials:

  • Paper

  • Pencil

Historical Figures and Contemporary Connections:

  • Madam C. J. Walker

  • Bill Gates

  • Steve Jobs

  • Jeff Bezos

  • Henry Ford

Vocabulary:

  • Enterprise

  • Competition

  • Venture

  • Economics

  • Profit

  • Scarcity

  • Elastic

  • Equilibrium

Assessment:

  • Entrepreneurship Skit - Students will create their own skit showing how an entrepreneur start their own business.

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Unit 2: Marketing

Goals:

  • Students will be familiar with multiple marketing techniques.

  • Students will be able to market a product.

Materials:

  • Paper

  • Pencil

  • Camera

Historical Figures and Contemporary Connections:

  • Edward Bernays

  • Neil H. Borden

  • David Aaker

  • Clayton M. Christensen

  • Don E. Schultz

Vocabulary:

  • Demographics

  • Marketing Mix

  • Advertising

  • Public Relations

  • Profit

  • Publicity

  • Press Release

  • Public Relations

Assessment:

  • Commercial - Students will create their own commercial.

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Leadership and Character Development

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Unit 1: Leadership Development

Goals:

  • Students will be engaged in real world activity to create a more just and/or better society.

  • Students will be involved in community service and learned leadership skills.

  • Students will learned about leadership from a historical perspective and the strategies historical leaders used to enact change.

  • Students will develop a global perspective about issues of social problems in the world.

Materials:

  • Paper

  • Pencil

Historical Figures and Contemporary Connections:

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Rosa Parks

  • Malcolm X

Vocabulary:

  • Social Justice

  • Diversity

  • Activism

Assessment:

  • Community Project - Students will complete a community project that will help the community and/or create social change to improve society.

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