May Day Curriculum Building Resources
Taxpayer funded Chicago Public Schools
Table of contents (click on the links below to jump to the content)
- Primary Sources and other resources for Teaching May Day, International Workers Day
- Activities and Curricula, historical fiction texts, resources on Lucy Parsons, primary sources, and more. Mainly upper-elementary and above levels. Includes information about the Haymarket affair, labor organizing more broadly, the 2006 May Day “day without an immigrant” mobilizations, and the 2025 may day mobilizations.
- Prek-2 Early Childhood Lessons
- A collection of several lessons and read-alouds for early childhood levels that explore May Day and connected themes.
- 3rd-5th Grade Level Unit Plan (with aligned standards)
- Introduces students to the labor movement, collective action, and the Haymarket Affair through discussion and research.
- Youth Organizing Against Authoritarianism Lesson
- A lesson to lead young people in interrogating what authoritarianism is and how young people have responded in the past and what they can do today.
- High School Level Lesson on May Day, Haymarket, and the current moment.
- A high school lesson to teach students about past May Day demonstrations and start a conversation based on our current moment.
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