Students analyze the film as a work of art and consider how Spielberg’s artistic choices foster emotional engagement with Holocaust history.
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Viewing: Oskar Schindler and the Making of a Rescuer
Students consider how Schindler's evolution from collaborator to rescuer adds to their thinking about the importance of individual choices.
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Holocaust
Viewing: Watching Schindler’s List
Students experience a thoughtful viewing of Schindler's List by completing activities immediately before and after watching it that help them reflect and process reactions.
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Holocaust
Vitka Kempner: Identity and Resistance
Students consider how identity, and in particular how age and gender, shaped a partisan's actions.
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Holocaust
Watching Who Will Write Our History
Students view the film, analyze a primary source from the Oyneg Shabes archive, and consider why it matters who tells the stories of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Western Imperialism and Nation Building in Japan and China
Students are introduced to the history of Western imperialism in East Asia and its influence on the identities and ambitions of Japan and China.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
When Differences Matter
Students consider what happens when one aspect of our identity is privileged above others by society.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Why Little Things Are Big
Students reflect on the power of being labelled and use Jesús Colón’s essay to reflect on their own experiences of being misjudged.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Working Together to Realize Our Shared Ideals
Students use a strategy that promotes active listening and intellectual engagement to discuss film clips featuring baseball manager Joe Maddon and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu.
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Holocaust
Youth and the National Community
Students learn about the experiences of people in Nazi Germany through a variety of firsthand accounts and identify the range of choices that they faced.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Watchers of the Sky: Films and Activities
Propeller Films, in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, created a series of videos from the feature length film Watchers of the Sky. The series of films follows Raphael Lemkin, Benjamin Ferencz, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and the historical events that inspired them to take action against genocide. Use this resource with your students to explore the ongoing struggle to apply the rule of law to punish and prevent crimes of mass violence.
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