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Connect, Extend, Challenge Chart
Our Connect, Extend, Challenge chart allows your students to connect prior knowledge and new information on a topic.
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Gender and Identity
Read the personal reflections of a mother whose young son has challenged her assumptions and expectations about gender identity.
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Gender and Identity (en español)
Read the personal reflections of a mother whose young son has challenged her assumptions and expectations about gender identity. This resource is in Spanish.
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Genre et identité
Lisez les réflexions personnelles d’une mère dont le jeune fils a remis en question ses hypothèses et ses attentes en matière d’identité de genre.
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Building Connections and Strengthening Community Project
This project gives students an opportunity to champion the stories of individuals and groups in their school community that they believe have been told in a limited way.
The Eye of the Beholder
Question society’s ideas about “beauty” and “normality” with this written adaptation of a provocative episode from the television series, The Twilight Zone.
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Rebecca Hamilton: Building a Permanent Anti-genocide Constituency
Rebecca Hamilton shares how she mobilized the Harvard community against genocide in Sudan.
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United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Crime of Genocide
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.
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Negotiating the Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide
Lemkin proved himself a relentless activist. He worked tirelessly as a lobbyist, a strategist, and an agitator, in order to establish the Genocide Convention with the help of the United Nations on December 9, 1948.
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International Law in the Age of Genocide
While Lemkin was able to convince diplomats at the United Nations to pass the Genocide Convention, his work was not complete upon his death. The job of lobbying governments across the world to ratify the convention was left to ordinary people.
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Fear
With his story of a childhood bully, Gary Soto challenges us to look more closely at what lies behind one's behavior.
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