Students identify the ideals and values we share in common as a nation by watching a video clip from States Marine Corps veteran Tegan Griffith and analyzing a reading.
Students identify the ideals and values we share in common as a nation by watching a video clip from States Marine Corps veteran Tegan Griffith and analyzing a reading.
Students contemplate the challenges the Allies faced when seeking justice after the Holocaust through an interactive, discussion-based activity.
Students build a definition of “propaganda” by exploring various forms and mediums of Nazi propaganda.
Students reflect on their own experiences with “conformity” before reading firsthand accounts of German citizens who faced the decision of whether to pledge an oath to the Nazi party.
Students learn about the challenges Lemkin faced from the international legal community, including its lack of sufficient language to talk about crimes against humanity and civilization.
Students explore social inequality in the UK, discussing how an individual’s background can impact their opportunities before examining graphs that display social inequality and employment trends.
Students prepare for reading the play by considering the relationship between the individual and society, and by reflecting on identity. After discussing a poem about identity, they write their own.
Students broaden their understanding of the relationship between Scout and Calpurnia by pairing scenes from Harper Lee’s two novels with a historical account from a Southern domestic worker.
Students reflect on what "American" means to them and are introduced to the idea that the United States is the product of many individual voices and stories.
Students discover how a partisan unit developed its own ethical framework in the face of life-threatening situations.
Students explore the relationship between a free press and responsible citizenship by listening to interviews with journalists from the United States and South Africa.
Through a reading activity, students question whether people respond differently to the suffering of one versus the suffering of many.