Students investigate the role memorials and monuments play in expressing a society’s values and shaping its memory by studying existing memorials and then designing their own.
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Race in US History
After Charlottesville: Public Memory and the Contested Meaning of Monuments
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Genocide & Mass Violence
American Responses to the Armenian Genocide
Students study two US responses, one diplomatic and one humanitarian, to the human rights violations that occurred during the Armenian Genocide.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Analyzing Historical Evidence
Students explore the ways in which historical evidence has been used to construct a narrative of the Armenian Genocide
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Holocaust
Analyzing Nazi Propaganda
Students define propaganda and practice an image-analysis activity on a piece of propaganda from Nazi Germany.
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Holocaust
Analyzing and Creating Memorials
Students learn about several Holocaust memorials around the world in preparation to design their own memorial.
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Holocaust
Analyzing the Effects of World War I
Students use maps of the world before and after World War I to make inferences and predictions about the ways the war changed the world.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Bearing Witness to the Nanjing Atrocities
Students confront the enormity of the crimes committed during the Nanjing atrocities by listening to survivor testimony.
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Global Immigration
Becoming American: Exploring Names and Identities
Students explore the link between name and identity in their own lives and those of their classmates.
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Global Immigration
Becoming American: Immigration Experiences
Students study the unique and common challenges immigrants to the United States in the late 1800s faced and question what it means to become an American.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Blending In and Standing Out
Students use an excerpt from Sarfraz Manzoor memoir to reflect on identity, belonging, and wanting to feel invisible.
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Race in US History
Breaking The Racial Barriers
Students learn about soul band Booker T. and the M.G.'s and explore what it meant to be a racially integrated group in a time of segregation.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Building a "Toolbox for Difference"
Students create a tangible "toolbox" equipped with tools to help them make a difference in their community and world.
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