Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
This strategy helps students synthesize and articulate the most important takeaways from a variety of resources containing information about a particular topic or theme.
Provide a creative way for students to engage with a text by transforming a line they find meaningful into a poem.
Help students identify and analyze the key characteristics of the three most common types of news articles.
Use this strategy to help students consider, compare, and analyze various perspectives on a complex topic.
Sociologist Nechama Tec explores the story of one woman, Stefa Dworek - a Polish Christian - and her motivation to shelter a Jewish woman during the Holocaust. If caught rescuing a Jew during this time, Stefa would have faced imprisonment or worse. Yet about 2 percent of the Polish Christian population chose to hide Jews in a nation known for its long history of antisemitism.
Two Jews meet with a Polish courier during the Grossaktion Warsaw in summer 1942, imploring him to tell the world what was happening to Jews.
Rapper Ruby Ibarra reflects on her Filipino-American experience and the role of language in this spoken-word poem.
Before your students explore the case study, you may want to try one or more of the following short suggested activities that introduce key themes and help develop a common language for discussions about bullying and ostracism.
This is an audio recording of President Lincoln's second inaugural address (March 4, 1865).
Listen to the introduction from day one of the UDHR Workshop.