A group of masked protesters, including members of Generation Z Myanmar, stand in a row holding banners and signs during a daytime demonstration advocating for Civil Disobedience, with flags and images visible in the background.

The Teaching of Civil Disobedience through Letters from Burma’s/Myanmar’s Generation Z | Education About Asia

This lesson plans highlights letters from Gen Z protesters participating the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in Burma, as well as an original story from a Bamar girl’s perspective that follows the past and present of Burma. These letters were gathered by the students who joined the movement and founded the non-government media-platform People’s Radio Myanmar, then developed the letters into a lesson plan that covers history, social studies, and language arts. It provides different ideas for class activities, including readings with writing exercises that can be done in a group or individually.

Lesson Plan