ABSTRACT
This chapter is to understand how rich common core multicultural texts are being used in the classroom to pose complicated questions in regard to peace, rights, racism and oppression. Children as young as 3rd and 4th grade historically have read limited texts and might not have faced the questions about race, segregation and oppression. The unofficial lessons that were situated within real lives and contexts that were created by dedicated critical activist educators are essential to explore. Teachers that are grounded in activist identities, in particular, engage their classrooms in unofficial spontaneous curriculums and are at the heart of the chapter. The chapter describes about the story of Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, and the life of Roberto Clemente. It talks about Saira, a teacher activist's efforts to not only engage her class with the reading, but to further create an unofficial lesson with it, makes her work counter hegemonic pedagogy of resistance in multiple ways.
