High School Curriculum

With support from the Washington  and Seattle Education Associations, the Labor Center was able to collaborate with five High School teachers to create curricula for High School classes from five chapters of the Workers' Rights Manual.

We are very grateful to Doug Edelstein, Mark Epstein, Helen Maynard, Jeffrey Morgen, and Jennifer Hall for working with us on this important project. You can download an introduction to the entire curriculum packet and the curricula for five of the chapters below.

• Introduction to High School Curricula (pdf)

Chapter One: Basic Workplace Rights, Wages, Hours, Breaks and Privacy at Work

• Basic Workplace Rights Lesson Plans
• Cloze reading - student assignment
• Cloze reading assignment answer key
• Sample Vocabulary List
• "You Be the Employment Counselor" sample letters
• Chapter One of the manual

Chapter Two: Health and Safety

• Health and Safety Lesson Plans
• Health and Safety Activity Packet
• Chapter Two of the manual

Chapter Five: Taking Time Off From Work

• Leave Lesson Plans
• Leave Mini-drama assignment
• Leave Mini-drama Scenarios
• Leave Mini-drama scoring guide
• Leave Mini-drama storyboard
• Leave Mini-drama note-taking guide
• The Human Right to Paid Sick Leave article
• Maternity Leave Around the World chart
• Chapter Five of the manual

Chapter Six: Discrimination

• Discrimination Lesson Plans
• Discrimination Cartoons
• Discrimination Cartoon Template
• Chalotta Bass and the California Eagle article
• Chapter Six of the manual

Chapter Eight: Young Workers, New Jobs

• Teen Workers Lesson Plans
• Teen Workers PowerPoint Presentation
• Chapter Eight of the manual