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Create a card for each book that includes a picture of the cover of the book and a brief summary

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Create a series of cards that are sub-topics under your issue. Put the cards under the appropriate books (a card may go under more than one--just duplicate it). For example, if the issue is substance abuse, possible sub topics might be legal and illegal drugs, alcohol, having parents who are addicts, getting treatment, etc.

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Create one list of vocabulary words students would need to be familiar with in order to read about these issues. Even if the word isn't in your book, it can help them to understand the words.

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Compile a list of people whose perspectives need to be considered to understand the issue. Keep your list general rather than specific, i.e. a professor rather than Dr. Seglem

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Compile a list of texts that could help teach the ideas in these books. Think about popular culture like songs, movies, and tv shows, as well as informative sites. Link to these texts.

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Create a list of meaningful projects that students could create in order to learn and share their learning around this issue

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The novel follows Jeff and his experiences after he wakes up in a psychiatric ward. It is revealed that he attempted to commit suicide, and the story follows him on his journey to heal and accept himself.

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- Denial/Acceptance of one's self
- Sexuality
- Forgiveness (Family)
- Healing methods

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Aza Holmes, a 16 year old girl has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). When her and her friends decide to take part in billionoire, Mr. Pickett's disappearance for a $100,000 reward, she finds herself beyond the borders of a detective case. She finds romance, she finds betrayal, and most importantly she struggles to find herself through her own narrative of acknowledging her importance in relation to her world of spiraling thoughts that consume her.

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The Hate U Give- Hunter Jackson & Carla Turner 

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The Hate U Give- Hunter Jackson & Carla Turner 

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Summary- Throughout the novel, the main character, Starr struggles with fitting into the two worlds in which she lives; her world at school and her world in the neighborhood in which she grew up. After a party which ends in gun violence, Starr gets a ride home with her childhood best friend, Khalil, and a tragedy occurs which hits close to home for Starr. Starr is forced to choose whether she would like to stand up for what she believes in (Justice For Khalil), or stay quiet in the face of adversity. Starr became a voice for Khalil and victims of gun violence and police brutality.

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This book recounts the night of a girl being shot by a police officer for no reason. The story follows the point of view of all of the different characters and shows the feelings they had. It discusses race, police brutality, and shows multiple sides to the same story.

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The Astonishing Color of After is about a girl named Leigh whose mother dies by suicide. Leigh's mother kept her past life in Taiwan a secret from her daughter so Leigh travels to Taiwan and meets her grandparents and family who she never met and uncovers secrets about why her mother struggled with mental health.

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American Street follows the story of Fabiola after she immigrates from Haiti to live with her aunt and cousins in Detroit. Unfortunately her mother is detained and she has to deal with culture shock on her own. She faces crossroads and difficult decisions in America,  but as she navigates teenage life, her ultimate goal is to be reunited with her mother.

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Refugee explores the journey of three different teens immigrating during 3 different time periods. Josef is 12 years old and his story takes place in 1938 in Nazi Germany. Isabel is 11 and her family has to leave Cuba in 1994 to escape Fidel Castro's ruling. Mahmoud is 12 and has to leave his home country to escape war in 2015. All three stories tell the challenges and hardships they faced while trying to reach safety.

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12 year old Jerome is wrongfully shot by a white police officer when playing in the park with a fake toy gun. The novel follows him through the afterlife as he roams around, getting different perspectives on his death. We meet the officer's daughter, Emmett Till, and many other victims of police brutality. The reader also gets to sympathize with his friends and family as they mourn him.

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This book takes place in 1947 during the Indian Partition, when India became independent of British rule and then breaks into India and Pakistan. The divide causes much tension between Hindus and Muslim and a lot of confusion for 12-year old Nisha who is half-Muslim and half-Hindu. The book is told through journal entries to her Mom, who died during childbirth, and recounts the journey for her family as they take the dangerous trek of leaving Pakistan to India.

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This novel is about a 17 year-old with an unspecified mental illness at the Berkshire Academy for Children with Exceptional Needs. Bo believes that this school is for kids with super-powers (his is time travel), and their therapist is meant to teach them to control their powers. When Bo's girlfriend commits suicide he begins to crack. He believes that he took Sophia to the past and accidentally left her there. This story follows Bo as he is trying to save Sophia, and his family and friends are trying to help him realize he's sick. Readers see inside the mind of someone struggling with mental illness and have to determine whether or not Bo's reliable, and we follow the journey as Bo struggles with coming to terms with reality.

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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green is about a 16 year old girl named Aza Holmes navigating life while dealing with OCD and intrusive thoughts. The plot is propelled by Aza and her best friend, Daisy, searching for clues about a missing billionaire in order to receive a one hundred thousand dollar reward. Along the way, Aza develops feelings for Davis, the son of the missing billionaire. However, the main aspect of the novel focuses on how Aza deals with her OCD.

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This book is through the eyes of a 17 year old girl with depression named Morgan. Throughout the story, Morgan discusses how race and her depression has an impact on her own life, her friends, and her family. She goes through a self discovering story where she participates in teen activities such as school dances, classes, and parties but explains how they impact her mental health.

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Domestic Abuse
Emotional Abuse

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Coop and Jupiter have always been the best of friends. When Rae joins their friend group, things become more complicated. Coop has feelings for both Jupiter and Rae, Rae has feelings for both Coop and Jupiter, and Jupiter has feelings for both Rae and Coop. Jupiter has always identified as strictly lesbian, and Rae has always believed she was straight, so they both are questioning their sexualities throughout the whole book. They often feel the pressure to stick to their labels and are afraid of what others will think if they change their minds.

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-16-year-old, Suzette, has lived with her mom, “step-dad” and “step-brother”, Lionel. in LA. They’re an interracial, close-knit Jewish family. When Lionel has an unexpected violent manic episode linked to his bipolar disorder, Suzette’s parents send her off to Massachusetts to attend a private school for the next year. Suzette not only deals with the guilt of leaving her best friend and stepbrother alone in a dark time, but she struggles with her sexual identity.  Anyway, after her year away, Suzette comes home and knows that she is Bi. Meanwhile, Lionel asking a girl out on a date seems to be his first outlet that takes his mind off his disorder—this girl is non-other than Rafaela—who Suzette works with and has a crush on.  Suzette is simultaneously seeing Emil, who’s been a family friend forever because she always has Lionel’s best interest in mind. Suzette is constantly trying to protect Lionel and feels responsible for his happiness and well-being and it is draining.  He puts the burden on her of telling only her that he has stopped taking his vital medications and she values his trust so much she does not tell his parents. By the end Suzette comes to terms with her not only her sexuality but that Lionel is not her sole responsibility.

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(specifically blended interracial families)

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Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson

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Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson

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Brave Face is an autobiography following Shaun's teenage years as he finds his sexual identity as a gay man suffering from mental illness. Shaun enters his teenage years without ever knowing he was gay. Being gay was a label, and throughout his entire life being gay was never an option related to his identity because the media shows showed gays as promiscuous, drug addicted, AIDS infested people. Even when he comes out as gay, he still grapples with the label and his identity.

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Sub Topics (Astonishing Color of After) 

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Sub Topics (Astonishing Color of After) 

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- Being aware of mental health issues
- denial
- acceptance
- grief
- support
-secrets
- seeing beyond the surface
- stigma
- healing
- recovering

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Moss Jeffries' father was a victim of police brutality. As an African American man, Moss has a fear of police officers and worries they will do the same thing to him that they did to his dad. When his high school begins to strengthen their security, him and his friends decide they have had enough and have to fight back. This books deals with a lot of societal issues such as police brutality, minorities, LGBTQ, mental health, etc.

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Mari Turner has the "perfect" life on instagram. When social media and this new life she creates for herself pulls her from her cousin, she decides that she has to quit it all. She decides to hike the John Muir Trail that her cousin, Bri was supposed to do but cannot do now that she has passed away. She goes away in the hope to start to heal and truly discover who she is.

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The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up by Ari Satok

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The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up by Ari Satok

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This book is written through a bunch of different poems that tackle many problems and aspects of life that young adolescent middle schoolers face on a day to day basis. Some of these concepts are peer pressure, finding one's identity, growing up and transitioning as you get older, and many more different topics.

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Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

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Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

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This book is about a girl named Claudia and her best friend, Monday. Monday goes missing and Claudia is trying to find her, but no one believes that she is in danger. They say that she either ran away, is sick or is staying with her dad. Claudia has PTSD and cannot admit to herself that Monday has actually been killed by her abusive mother 2 years ago. While trying to juggle her dyslexia, bullying from her classmates and over protective parents, Claudia is also trying to heal from the trauma of losing her best friend.

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Racism
Mental Health
Bullying
Absent/ abusive parents

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Monday's
Monday's sister, April
Monday's mother
Claudia's parents
The police/ detectives
Claudia's
Teacher's

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This novel is about a teen boy named Ronney. Ronney is from a mixed race family that is known well for all the wrong reasons. Ronney;s dad attempted to kill himself and his mother is addicted to drugs. One day in his hometown, a local man travels to the town's exotic zoo and releases all of the animals from the cage then shoots himself. Riots erupt as a result of this. It is then Ronney's responsibility to protect himself and his younger sister from the animals and rioting people because his parents will not be around to help out their children.

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Immigration/ Emigrants/Migrants
Refugee
Partition
Displacement
Detainment
Asylum
Muslim
Creole
Hindu
Sikh
Borders
Prejudice
Culture Shock
Culture
Ethnicity and Race

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A child with absent parents
An absent parent
Police officer

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This story is about a 7th grader named Zoey. What makes Zoey different from most 7th graders is that she takes care of her family and goes to school. The book goes in depth with the life decisions and choices she has to make in order to help and provide for her family. Through this story Zoey's journey towards self confidence and potential is shown with the help of Mrs. R, Zoey's Social Studies teacher who will do anything to assist Zoey.

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Millions of children in the US are unsupervised from when the bell rings till they arrive home or a parent gets off of work.  This period can last 30 or more minutes. During that 30 minutes students are alone and unsupervised and able to explore and experience the good, the bad, the ugly and the interesting with no one watching, well almost no one watching, their friends are there, their partner in crime, their friend to help clean up the mess or the whatever.

Jason Reynold’s book Look Both Ways captures the moment the bell rings and what happens as students begin their walk home. It is told in 10 blocks, these 10 blocks represent different socioeconomic areas around Lantier Middle School. In the book we see inside the lives of some students and what they are dealing with, overcoming and forced to endure.

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The Benefits of Being an Octopus Viewpoints

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The Benefits of Being an Octopus Viewpoints

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A child who had to grow up
caring teacher
struggling mother

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Activism
Microagressions
White Privilege
Power
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Bullying
Gun Violence

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Impromptu  - done without being planned, organized, or rehearsed.
Queasy - nauseated; feeling sick.

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- Depression
- Family relationships
- OCD/anxiety
- Friendships
- Self harm/death
- Therapy

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All That I Can Fix
The Benefits of Being An Octopus

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-Fitting in
-Body Image
-Friendship
-Family Relations
-Death

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All That I Can Fix

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- Perspective of self
- Perspective of society
- Perspective of professional help
- Perspective of family and friends

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Psychiatry- "medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders"

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Subtopics for The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up

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Subtopics for The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up

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-Peer Pressure
-Family
-Keeping Relationships

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- Thirteen Reasons Why (novel) by Jay Asher
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson (novel) by John Green
- All the Bright Places (novel) by Tamara Ireland Stone
- Anyone (song) by Demi Lovato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3aJ-3SEVU
- Atypical (show) on Netflix

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- A novel/research project on the different mental illnesses covered in novels
- Journal reflections covering feelings/reactions while reading
- Paired art/writing/reading community with those who have mental illness
- Poster/art creation advocating for mental health support

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Police Brutality
LGBTQ
Mental Health
Black Lives Matter

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- Intrusive
- C. Diff
- OCD/anxiety
- Telekinesis/Pyrokinesis

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- The person with the mental illness
- Family members
- Friends
- Therapists/doctors
- Teachers
- Society (norms)

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Brutality
Microagressions
Privilege
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Activists
Injustice
Thug Life

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Gun control
Community
Poverty
Domestic violence
Gentrification
PTSD

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Biracial People
Immigrants
People different religions

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-police
-other races outside white
-mental health survivors
-people struggling with mental health
-psychiatrist

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Divorce

Sickle Cell Anemia

Foster Care

Cancer

Bullying

OCD

Sexuality

Prison - to - School Pipeline

Abuse

Alzheimer’s

Body Order

Automobile Accidents

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- "Karma" AJR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1JwiXHwI4
- "Unwell" Matchbox 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziA88-n02k
- "Anxiety" Selena Gomez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33DvcjXA7M
- Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- It's Kind of a Funny Story
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
- A Beautiful Mind
- Love & Mercy

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- visuals; posters about awareness, map of the journey of mental health (using string)
- reflection or reaction journal students can complete as they read to document how the topics in the books make the students feel and how they react to it
-have students each research a different form of mental illness and make an infographic for them and then share it with the class

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Mental Health
Mental Illness
Sexuality
Sexual Orientation
Intersectionality
Homophobia
Bipolar Disorder
Bisexual
Pansexual
Gender Binary
Stereotype
Prejudice
Activism

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Police officer
A historian
An activist
A victim or family member/friend of the victim

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-Person of interest ( Person being labeled )
-Classmates / Peers
-Teachers
-Parents
-Therapist
-Doctor
-Bystanders
-Government Officials

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T.V show- Family of Five is a show about a family that has been split up because the parents had to go back to Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Five_(2020_TV_series)

Fresh Off The Boat
Esperanza Rising

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All That I Can Fix: Beautiful Boy
The Benefits of Being an Octopus: Nowhere Boy
Monday's Not Coming: With the Fire on High

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Articles on police brutality.
The Hate U Give, the movie.

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/01/11/police-views-public-views/ -Article with statistics on police brutality.

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Arlissa - We Won't Move (The Hate U Give Official Soundtrack)

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-The Hate U Give
-Good Boys
-The Social Network (movie)
-Cyberbullying (movie)

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-Have the students follow an immigrants story and reflect on it
-gallery walks
-Interview an immigrant

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-Don't Ask Don't Tell Documentation
-Defensive Marriage Act
-Love Simon
-Beautiful Thing (film)
-Fredy Mercury / Bohemian Rhapsody movie
-Lady Gaga
-Born This Way // Lady Gaga
-Fight Song //   Rachel Platten
-1-800-273-8255 // Logic
-Robin Williams

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POV Project where they take on the role of someone else.
Project where they compare the book with real cases of police brutality and injustices.
Interview

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Who Am I project/presentation

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-Personal Narrative on how one of these novels or themes personally effected them or how they can relate to them
-Research Paper on the statistics of the certain issues presented in each of the novels

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-Identity Text Project (Family Tree)
-Interview a Phycologist
-Interview a LGBTQ+ activist
-Create own Jubilee video