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This strategy uses reflection prompts to help students consider a complex or emotional topic through the lenses of head, heart, and ethics.

Students prepare for their study of the Holocaust by reflecting on the ways in which memory is an integral part of Jewish identity.

Students continue to explore the question “Who am I?” by examining the concept of dual or multiple identities and reflecting on their own identities as Jews.

Students learn about pre-war Jewish life and compare it with today’s diaspora in order to reflect on how modernity can impact tradition.

Students define the term resistance and then learn about the different ways that Jews resisted the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Students learn about universe of obligation, how individuals and nations define their responsibilities toward other people.   

Students consider what rights should belong to every human being on earth, create their own definition of a right, and learn about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Students examine the tensions that emerged between nations with different cultures, values, and systems of beliefs when drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and will then consider the consequences of a world that cannot agree on universal rights for all people. 

Students read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and discuss whether these rights are universal and enjoyed by individuals and groups in the world today. 

Students explore citizenship, power, and responsibility using the work of civic entrepreneur Eric Liu.

Students brainstorm different definitions of democracy and consider democracy's relationship to their own communities and cultures.

Students explore the importance of a free press to democracy through recorded conversations with journalists from the United States and South Africa.