Making Allies, Making Friends: A Curriculum for Making the Peace in Middle School

by Hugh Vasquez, M. Nell Myhand, Allan Creighton, Todos Institute

Overview

Designed for students in grades six to nine, this curriculum offers more than 30 innovative class sessions that address diversity (racial, ethnic, and sexual) and violence issues. Each session contains a warm-up exercise, theme information, value clarification, and an experience or activity. Journal writing, critical thinking about history textbooks, role-playing, storytelling, poetry/rap, photographs, illustrations, tables, and whole-school research projects are just some of the tools presented in this hands-on guide to defending against violence in middle school.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630268237
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	06/12/2003
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Hugh Vasquez is cofounder of the Todos Institute and a leader in developing multicultural youth programs. He was also a cast member in the award-winning film The Color of Fear.  

 M. Nell Myhand is program director at the Todos Institute. She coauthored the curriculum Young Women’s Lives and serves on the advisory boards of social justice and violence prevention organizations in the Bay Area.

Allan Creighton is a cofounder of the Oakland Men’s Project and coauthor of numerous violence prevention publications and curricula including Helping Teens Stop Violence and Making the Peace.

Founded in 1991, the Todos Institute provides trainings and workshops to organizations, schools and school districts, universities, and youth to meet the challenges of diversity and create environments where cross-cultural alliances are built. Todos’s work is used widely throughout the country and internationally. 

Editorial Reviews

Making Friends, Making Allies is an exciting new school-building, violence prevention curriculum from a team that has produced some of the most creative and innovative diversity curricula in the country. The easy-to-use exercises are well designed and come with detailed notes and suggestions for flexible presentation. The approach is powerful, effective, youth-friendly, and speaks to the issues that contemporary middle school students face living in a multicultural world. An excellent addition to the widely used Making the Peace curriculum set."

— Paul Kivel, violence prevention educator, coauthor of Helping Teens Stop Violence

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