Students develop a contract establishing a reflective classroom community in preparation for their exploration of this unit's historical case study.
Students develop a contract establishing a reflective classroom community in preparation for their exploration of this unit's historical case study.
Students learn about the vibrant culture and diversity of Jewish life in Europe before the war and antisemitism's role in diminishing this richness.
Students analyze benchmarks developed by political scientists to measure the health of democracy in the United States.
Students learn about two millennia of LGBTQ history and reflect on how that history is represented in their textbooks and curricula.
Students draw on diary entries and historical documents to build an understanding of the complicated role Jewish councils and Jewish police played within Nazi-run ghettos.
Students learn about the Nazi's deportation of Jews from the Łódź ghetto through diary entries and historical documents.
By reading diary entries from a survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, students consider the complex emotional state of survivors in the final days of the war.
Students examine Nazi propaganda through the personal accounts of two young men living in German-occupied Europe.
Students explore the connection between literature, imagination, and democracy by engaging with the work of acclaimed author Azar Nafisi.
Students analyse four rights in the UDHR and decide whether they are universal and enjoyed by all in the world today.
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 learn about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and reflect on the the relationship between identity, dignity, and community membership.