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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.
Supporting Question 2: The Pursuit of Educational Justice in the 1960s and 1970s
Students explore the supporting question, “How did African American, Latinx, and Chinese American Bostonians envision educational justice for their children in the 1960s and 1970s?”
![Students are attentive in a seventh grade classroom on the first day of the school year at the Mary E. Curley School in Boston, Mass.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/GettyImages-630302546.jpg?h=16013371&itok=BOqVeA-V)
Supporting Question 3: Responding to Morgan v. Hennigan
Students explore the supporting question, “What impact did the 1974 decision in Morgan v. Hennigan have on Boston’s children and parents, and how did they respond?”
![Policemen standing guard while Black students attending South Boston High School climb into buses backed up close to the school's doors](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/AP750530072.jpg?h=6a83b953&itok=SHGjNnX2)
Supporting Question 4: Pursuing Educational Justice Today
Students explore the supporting question, “What does the pursuit of educational justice in Boston look like today?”
![Outside of the classroom view of students and teacher.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/5-1-17FacH07068.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=0r6yJiZ2)
Staging the Compelling Question
Students are introduced to the compelling question by annotating the question and completing an anticipation guide about educational justice.
![Kristina Vancil speaking to students in a Chicago classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/SL_190523_0534.jpg?h=a49d782d&itok=KUtAJGSJ)
Supporting Question 1: Defining Educational Justice
Students explore the supporting question, “How did African American, Latinx, and Chinese American Bostonians envision educational justice for their children in the 1960s and 1970s?”
![Youngsters signal from a window in Hyde Park High School on Monday, Sept. 23, 1974 in Boston a generally peaceful day in the city's attempts at school desegregation](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/AP7409231508.jpg?h=59fa23e0&itok=zIc8Ovgf)
The “Immigration Problem”
Learn about the restrictive immigration measures established in the United States throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Analysis & Reflection
Enhance your students’ understanding of our readings on civic participation with these follow-up questions and prompts.
![Agosin Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love Pg. 76](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/HHB_Chapter_12_Medium_res.jpg?h=0704619c&itok=WsQTWf0G)
The Last Chance for Justice
Learn about the trials of former Nazi perpetrators taking place in the 21st century and consider the motivation behind them and the challenges they pose.
![Photograph of Oskar Groning, a former SS member on trial in Germany in 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Former%20SS%20Member%20Oskar%20Groening.jpg?h=312fc7ac&itok=kcIwNaul)
Betraying the Youth
Former Nazi youth member Alfons Heck reflects on coming to terms with Germany’s role and his own part in the Holocaust.
![German soldiers are forced by the Allies after World War II to watch a film about the atrocities at German concentration camps.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch10_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=00d1719e&itok=fQRbS5ou)
The Business of Slave Labor
Learn about the use of slave labor by German companies and manufacturers during World War II.
![After American soldiers liberated Dachau in 1945, an inmate of the camp attacks a German soldier.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch10_Image01_Medium_res.jpg?h=d2de68a6&itok=kmBPzss-)
Choices that Define Us
Explore three stories of choices people made during World War II and consider their complexities, their impact, and what they can teach about human behavior.
![International Military Tribunal Nuremberg Chief American prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson delivers the opening speech of the American prosecution at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Prosecutor_Robert_Jackson_at_Nuremberg_Trials.jpg?h=3a805815&itok=wNPQgOGk)