Through a close reading of diary entries, students learn about the intellectual and cultural life of young people living in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust.
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Holocaust
Read and Reflect: News and Rumors in Ilya Gerber’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students learn about the spread of misinformation among Jews during the Holocaust caused by the Nazis’ control of information.
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Holocaust
Read and Reflect: Relationship with Rescuers in Otto Wolf’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students consider the complex relationships that surfaced between non-Jews and Jews living under German occupation.
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Holocaust
Read and Reflect: Survival in Alice Ehrmann’s Diary
Students read the personal reflections of two young Holocaust survivors on the cost of surviving and the responsibility to bear witness.
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Read and Reflect: Why Write? From an Anonymous Boy’s Diary
Students read an entry from the diary of an anonymous boy in the Łódź ghetto and reflect on what motived people to write during the Holocaust.
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Holocaust
Responding to a Refugee Crisis
Students think about the responsibilities of governments as they consider how countries around the world responded to the European Jews trying to escape Nazi Germany.
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Holocaust
Responding to the Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Students create a "found poem" drawing on words from the testimony of a survivor of the Holocaust.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Social Media and Ferguson
Students explore the role of social media in Ferguson, apply information verification strategies to social media posts, and develop strategies for becoming critical consumers and sharers of social media.
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Holocaust
Sonia Orbuch: Becoming a Partisan
Using a role identifying activity, students analyze the various roles undertaken by a teenage partisan during the Holocaust.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Standing Up to Hatred on Cable Street
Students study the Battle of Cable Street in London by examining testimonies of individuals who demonstrated against fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
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The Armenian Genocide
Survivor Testimony and the Legacy of Memory
Students deepen their thinking about memory and identity by reflecting on the stories of Holocaust and Armenian Genocide survivors and their descendants.
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Telling Our Histories
Students connect themes from the film to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's concept of “single stories," and then consider what it would take to tell more equitable and accurate narratives.
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