Students analyze benchmarks developed by political scientists to measure the health of democracy in the United States.
Students analyze benchmarks developed by political scientists to measure the health of democracy in the United States.
Students learn about the violent pogroms of Kristallnacht by watching a short documentary and then reflecting on eyewitness testimonies.
Students are introduced to the Nazis’ idea of a “national community” and examine how the Nazis used the Nuremberg Laws to define who belonged.
Students explore the connection between literature, imagination, and democracy by engaging with the work of acclaimed author Azar Nafisi.
Students look at evidence of the changing demographics of the United States and analyze what it suggests about the complexity of the country’s national identity.
Students broaden their understanding of resistance by exploring examples of music as spiritual and physical defiance to Nazi oppression.
Students use the ideas of W.E.B Du Bois and historian David Kennedy to explore their own Jewish identities and consider how they coexist with their identities as Americans.
Students take on a comprehensive examination of the Nuremberg trials and evaluate how well the trials achieved justice.
Students discover how leaders like Sargent Shriver used public policy to fight poverty in the 1960s.
Students create a "toolbox" of the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to respond to and prevent hatred from taking hold in their communities.
Students begin to relate Schindler's List to the contemporary world by examining recent stories of racial hatred in Charlottesville and Germany.
Students are introduced to the history of ideas, events, and decisions that shaped the world of Schindler’s List.