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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Letter to Students (UK)
Read aloud this letter with your class before you embark on the unit Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour.
![Photography for Facing History and Ourselves web site and publications.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2017_FH256005.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=fQbWKce6)
Colonising Poland (UK)
Learn about the Nazis’ plan to rearrange the population of Poland, which resulted in the displacement of more than a million ethnic Poles and Jews.
![An exhibit at a Berlin school persuades Germans to help colonize the Warthegau area of Poland. The exhibit says “The land calls you!,” and the painting shows a settler’s car passing by a Polish border sign that has been knocked down.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_ExhibitGermanysColonizationPoland_%20FH229464.jpg?h=83b6248d&itok=71GQUBqx)
An Inspector Calls USSR Poster
This poster was created for the 1945 world premiere of An Inspector Calls at the Leningrad Comedy Theatre in Moscow.
![Simple illustration of a silhouetted woman against a cityscape that is comprised of soot from chimneys](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/AIC_USSR_Poster_Medium_res.jpg?h=1d36513c&itok=K2rjuqQJ)
The Holocaust - Bearing Witness
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Use these slides to introduce students to the enormity of the crimes committed during the Holocaust and look closely at stories of a few individuals who were targeted by Nazi brutality.
![Jewish women and children walk toward gas chambers.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/GasChambers_FH229475_teaser.jpeg?h=2cea9ccb&itok=kOPay9PM)
The Holocaust - The Range of Responses
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Use these slides to help students deepen their examination of human behaviour during the Holocaust by analysing and discussing the range of choices available to individuals, groups, and nations.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)
The Danger of a Single Story (UK)
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie challenges us to consider the power of stories to influence identity, shape stereotypes, and build paths to empathy (Spanish available).
![Fragmented images of a human face.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Ch01_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=d2de68a6&itok=T0WiNJDv)
The Range of Human Behaviour Vocabulary Terms
Students predict the definitions of perpetrator, victim, bystander, and upstander, using context clues.
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Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 1
Have students read and annotate passages on the experiences of youth in Nazi Germany.
![Hitler Youth groups educated young people according to Nazi principles, and the encouraged comradeship and physical fitness through outdoor activities](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_HitlerYouthHiking_FH229449.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=PbrzWAsf)
Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 2
Have students read and annotate passages on the experiences of youth in Nazi Germany.
![Hitler Youth groups educated young people according to Nazi principles, and the encouraged comradeship and physical fitness through outdoor activities](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_HitlerYouthHiking_FH229449.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=PbrzWAsf)