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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.
Contextualizing a Found Poem
Students will apply the lessons they have learned about the intersecting histories of wartime North Africa and the Holocaust as they create an artifact that explains the context of the found poems they wrote in Lesson 3.
Staging the Compelling Question: Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
Students are introduced to the compelling question for the inquiry.
Supporting Question 1: Historical Context for Japanese American Incarceration
Students explore the supporting question “What conditions made the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II possible?”
Supporting Question 2: Japanese American Life in Incarceration Camps
Students explore the supporting question “What was life like for Japanese Americans during incarceration?”
Supporting Question 3: Japanese American Resistance during WWII
Students explore the supporting question “How did Japanese Americans resist their incarceration and assert their rights during World War II?”
Supporting Question 4: Reparations for Japanese American Incarceration
Students explore the supporting question "How has the legacy of World War II Japanese American incarceration inspired activism among Japanese Americans today?"
Summative Assessment & Taking Informed Action
Students culminate their arc of inquiry into the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII by completing a C3-aligned Summative Performance Task and Taking Informed Action.
Building a Toolbox for Racial Justice
Students use this handout to complete the Summative Assessment by applying the lessons they learned throughout the unit to create a toolbox for racial justice.
10 Questions Framework: Questions for the Past
Students apply the 10 Questions Framework to 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott.
Hawaii’s Legacy of Colonialism
Use this timeline and article excerpt to help students understand Native Hawaiians' protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea.
Introduction to the Jewish Partisans
Former Jewish partisans discuss the goals, challenges, and personal motives of the Jews who resisted the Germans.