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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.
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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.
How Should We Remember?
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Use these slides to help students learn how to both respond to and design Holocaust memorials as they consider the impact that memorials and monuments have on the way we think about history.
Introducing the Unit
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Use these slides to help students prepare to study the unit by reading a letter and working together to create a classroom contract.
Justice and Judgement after the Holocaust
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Use these slides to help students grapple with the meaning of justice and the purpose of trials as they learn how the Allies responded to the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
Kristallnacht
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Use these slides to help students learn about the violent pogroms of Kristallnacht by watching a short documentary and then reflecting on eyewitness testimonies.
The Power of Propaganda
In this classroom video, a high school class prepares to read Elie Wiesel’s Night.
A Range of Choices: In Action
In this classroom video, students read primary sources and discuss the roles that individuals have played in those historical cases.
A Range of Choices: Terminology
In this classroom video, students are introduced to the terminology of the roles individuals play (bystander, upstander, collaborator, victim, and perpetrator).
Socratic Seminar: Social Justice
In this classroom video, students participate in a Socratic seminar centered on the essential question, "How do our personal stories influence how we fight for justice?"
Supporting a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom
In this classroom video, social studies teacher Tareeq Rasheed teaches the lesson “The Choices the Leaders Made (Part II)” from the Choices in Little Rock unit.
Supporting Student Learning through Journaling
In this classroom video, social studies teacher Jenna Forton uses journaling to open a lesson on the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case.