Students read personal essays that illuminate how the choices made by our families and previous generations influence who we are today.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Contemporary Antisemitism and Youth
Students reflect on present-day antisemitism encountered online and on college campuses, and explore examples of youth who are standing up to it.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Continuing Lemkin's Legacy: What Can We Do to Prevent and Stop Genocide?
Focusing on the crisis in Darfur, students examine what it means to pursue Lemkin’s mission to stop and prevent genocide in today's world.
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Holocaust
Creating Student Projects
Using a project-based learning approach, students produce a museum exhibition that displays the stories of different partisans.
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Justice & Human Rights
Creating a Better World
Students devise a creative way to present their plan for pursuing the dream of universal human rights today.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Defining Community: The Universe of Obligation
Through a discussion-based activity, students explore the concept of a "universe of obligation” and brainstorm examples of its influence in today's world.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Defining Democracy
Students brainstorm different definitions of democracy and consider democracy's relationship to their own communities and cultures.
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Race in US History
Defining Freedom
Students examine how freed people in the United States sought to define freedom after Emancipation.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Defining Human Rights
Students create a definition for a "right" in order to explore the challenges faced by the UN Commission on Human Rights to create an international framework of rights for all human beings.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Defining Our Obligations to Others
Students are introduced to the concept of universe of obligation to better understand how societies create "in" groups and "out" groups.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Denial and Free Speech
Students examine why and how some government officials have refused to acknowledge the crimes against the Armenians as acts of genocide.
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Race in US History
Discovering Identity
Students explore the relationship between identity, family, and race through filmmaker Lacey Schwartz's autobiograhical documentary about discovering her identity.
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