Youth and Adolescence
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An American Love StoryThis study guide compliments the documentary, An American Love Story, a film that follows the everyday experiences of an interracial family who tries to figure out a way to overcome instances of racism. | Publication | 02/23/2008 - 18:23 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - A Student MovementUniversities have long been places where ideas, theories, and even long-held truths are scrutinized and often hotly debated with each side mustering proof in support of its position. Such debates are central to the work of a university-the advancement of knowledge and the search for truth. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 10:59 |
Antisemitism: The Power of Myth - Education in a DemocracyConversation, discussion, and debate are central not only to universities but also to democracies. Such exchanges depend on a free and independent press that takes its responsibilities seriously. They also depend on informed citizens willing to listen to and learn from one another. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 11:04 |
Charting Identity: Building Community in the Classroom
This outline
provides an introduction into the creation and interpretation of
identity charts, a core activity in many Facing History classrooms.
| Lesson Plan | 02/22/2008 - 19:28 |
Choices in Little RockChoices in Little Rock is a teaching unit that focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 - efforts that resulted in a crisis that historian Taylor Branch once described as "the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War. | Publication | 03/09/2008 - 13:31 |
Emmett Till Lesson 3: Connecting the History of Lynching to The MurderThis is the third in a series of four complementary lessons that accompany the documentary film, The Murder of Emmett Till. It can be used on its own, but works best when used with the other three lessons. | Lesson Plan | 02/24/2008 - 14:11 |
Emmett Till Lesson 4: Choosing to RememberThis is the fourth in a series of four complementary lessons that accompany the documentary film The Murder of Emmett Till. It can be used on its own, but works best when used with the other three lessons. | Lesson Plan | 02/24/2008 - 14:24 |
Engaging the Future: Call Me by My Real NameAccording to the BBC World Service there are 300,000 child soldiers fighting in conflicts around the world. Many of those children were recruited to fight when they were as young as ten years old. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 12:48 |
Engaging the Future: Learning From HateBefore 1975, Beirut, the capital of Lebanon was a thriving cosmopolitan city known to many as the "Riviera of the Middle East." The government, created after gaining independence from France in 1943, managed a delicate balance between its diverse population of Christians, Muslims, and a dwindling number of Jews. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 12:46 |
Engaging the Future: Listening to the OtherWhat do young people learn about each other when they grow up amidst violence and conflict? What does it take to move beyond the myth, mistrust, and misinformation that can become part of the cycle of conflict? In a climate of fear is it possible to see the world beyond the stark contrasts of "us against them" and "those that are with us versus those that against us?" And, if you are able to bring young people together for dialogue, how can their experiences be harnessed to create momentum for peace. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 12:50 |
