Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
This strategy helps students synthesize and articulate the most important takeaways from a variety of resources containing information about a particular topic or theme.
Help students identify and analyze the key characteristics of the three most common types of news articles.
Use this strategy to help students consider, compare, and analyze various perspectives on a complex topic.
Three adults from different perspectives reflect on their experiences growing up in Germany under Hitler.
Sociologist Nechama Tec explores the story of one woman, Stefa Dworek - a Polish Christian - and her motivation to shelter a Jewish woman during the Holocaust. If caught rescuing a Jew during this time, Stefa would have faced imprisonment or worse. Yet about 2 percent of the Polish Christian population chose to hide Jews in a nation known for its long history of antisemitism.
Interfaith leader Eboo Patel talks about what it takes to build a healthy, religiously diverse democracy.
Political scientist John Carey discusses the importance of the rule of law in making democracy work.
Two Jews meet with a Polish courier during the Grossaktion Warsaw in summer 1942, imploring him to tell the world what was happening to Jews.
Before your students explore the case study, you may want to try one or more of the following short suggested activities that introduce key themes and help develop a common language for discussions about bullying and ostracism.
Have students analyze these examples of Nazi propaganda using the Crop It teaching strategy.
This is an audio recording of President Lincoln's second inaugural address (March 4, 1865).