MOVE Curriculum
“On A MOVE” is a 4-week high school curricular unit that uses materials from The MOVE Activist Archive to tell MOVE’s story before and beyond the May 13, 1985 bombing.
The curriculum was written by Tiferet Ani for and with The MOVE Activist Archive Curriculum Collective (which also includes Mike Africa Jr., Krystal Strong, Abby Reisman, Hannah Gann, Rabiyatu Jalloh, and Philadelphia teachers). “On A Move” was designed to be used in the School District of Philadelphia’s African American History Course and encompasses 20 lessons with a full lesson plan, class slides, learning materials, options to extend the lesson, and special considerations for the emotional impact of teaching and learning histories of racism and state violence.
The unit covers the following material:
Week 1
What was the context of MOVE in the Old Days?
Week 2
Why was MOVE attacked and bombed?
Week 3
How were and should wrongdoers be held accountable?
Week 4
How can we repair the injustices perpetrated against MOVE?
We understand teachers may not have a full month to engage students with this material. We also hope school and community educators as well as community spaces engaging in learning will find this material useful. We welcome you to modify these resources for the instructional time you have and to meet the needs and interests of your learning community.
Please make sure to use elements of the first two lessons to convey the goals, humanity, and daily life of MOVE members before their lives were impacted by police brutality and state oppression. Emphasize MOVE’s agency and the ways they resisted oppression throughout instruction and provide students with the opportunity to plan and take reparative action.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for this unit please contact Tiferet Ani at anitif@upenn.edu.
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