Students analyze benchmarks developed by political scientists to measure the health of democracy in the United States.
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Justice & Human Rights
LGBTQ History and Why It Matters
Students learn about two millennia of LGBTQ history and reflect on how that history is represented in their textbooks and curricula.
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Holocaust
Learn the History Across Diaries: Jewish Councils and Jewish Police
Students draw on diary entries and historical documents to build an understanding of the complicated role Jewish councils and Jewish police played within Nazi-run ghettos.
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Holocaust
Learn the History: Deportations from the Łódź Ghetto in an Anonymous Girl’s Diary
Students learn about the Nazi's deportation of Jews from the Łódź ghetto through diary entries and historical documents.
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Holocaust
Learn the History: Final Days in Alice Ehrmann’s Diary
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.
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Holocaust
Learn the History: Propaganda in Dawid Rubinowicz’s and Moshe Flinker’s Diaries
Students examine Nazi propaganda through the personal accounts of two young men living in German-occupied Europe.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Making Rights Universal
Students analyse four rights in the UDHR and decide whether they are universal and enjoyed by all in the world today.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Many Voices, One National Identity
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.
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Race in US History
Memphis in 1968: The Sanitation Workers' Strike
Students learn about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and reflect on the the relationship between identity, dignity, and community membership.
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Holocaust
Music as a Survival Tool
Students broaden their understanding of resistance by exploring examples of music as spiritual and physical defiance to Nazi oppression.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Navigating Jewish American Identity
Students use the ideas of W.E.B Du Bois and historian David Kennedy to explore their own Jewish identities and consider how they coexist with their identities as Americans.
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Holocaust
Post-Viewing: Building a Toolbox against Hate
Students create a "toolbox" of the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to respond to and prevent hatred from taking hold in their communities.
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