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![A group of high school students sit at desks in conversation.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-10/AdobeStock_254378868.jpg?itok=f6YAphey)
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 California Students
Share this letter with students as a way to introduce them to the Teaching the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide unit.
![Photo of two students studying](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/SL_190523_0563.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=NRWd9CQS)
Letter to California Parents and Guardians
Share this letter with parents and guardians to provide them with an overview of the Teaching the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide unit.
![A Facing History educator speaks to a classroom of parents](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/LosAngeles_Classroom_%202018_FH287237.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=aj9noxf1)
Why Study History?
Get students' initial opinions about the importance and impact of history with this warm up activity.
![Facing History and Ourselves Bullying Summit September 29th 2012 in Los Angeles CA](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/111_Bully_Summit%2C_2012%2C_LA%2C_116.jpg?h=265e640d&itok=TnPmRLpp)
Choosing Cruelty: The Psychology of Perpetrators
Social psychologist James Edward Waller describes the importance of studying perpetrator behavior.
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The Armenian Genocide Viewing Guide
Guide for students to take notes as they watch a film about the history of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
![A mural features an elderly woman with a piece of tape over her mouth with "1915" written on it.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/Armenian_Genocide_mural_card.jpg?h=707772c7&itok=teSTLdve)
Responses to the Armenian Genocide
Students read different accounts about how individuals and nations responded to the Armenian Genocide.
![Photo shows Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946), lawyer, businessman and United States ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-01/14648u_LOC.jpg?h=a467131d&itok=yY0dARw0)
Responding to Genocide Jigsaw
Students use this handout to complete a jigsaw activity about responses to the Armenian Genocide.
![Fleeing from death. An Armenian mother on the heights of the Taurus Mountains.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1915_mother_and_child_in_the_desert_Medium_res.jpg?h=fcb26060&itok=ExhdlGru)
Introduction to the Weimar Republic
Help students be active listeners of your mini-lecture on the Weimar Republic.
![Photo of magician from television presentation in the Weimar Republic.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-01/Weimar%20magician.jpeg?h=8e3c2332&itok=C96ZH1HD)
Weimar Republic Images
Use these photos and fine art from the Weimar Era to have students complete an image-analysis activity.
![Photo of magician from television presentation in the Weimar Republic.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-01/Weimar%20magician.jpeg?h=8e3c2332&itok=C96ZH1HD)
Education in the Weimar Republic
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life in the Weimar Republic.
![A crowd of women standing in line at a polling station in the Weimar Republic in 1919, the first year women were allowed to vote.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image12_Medium_res.jpg?h=7627bb82&itok=YljeUuli)
Hyperinflation and the Great Depression
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life in the Weimar Republic.
![A woman takes a basket of banknotes to buy cabbage at a market during the 1933 hyperinflation in Weimar Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image11_Medium_res.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=TikJcpxP)