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Step 3: Understanding Human Rights
Students work collaboratively to create a School Declaration of Human Rights Infographic.
![Uniformed high school students write at their desks.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/DSC08537.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=iu11BSxz)
Step 4: Choosing to Participate
Students have an opportunity to explore one issue in-depth and to create an action plan that inspires change in their schools or communities.
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Stereotypes and “Single Stories”
Students create working definitions of stereotype as they examine the human behavior of applying categories to people and things.
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Race and Space
Students examine the Nazi ideology of “race and space” and the role it played in Germany’s aggression toward other nations, groups, and individuals.
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Children’s Emigration Project
Students discover the complexities of Martha Sharp's rescue project by analyzing historical correspondences.
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Analyzing “Aha” Moments
Students identify pivotal moments when a central character learns something important about themselves, others, and their real or fictional world.
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Responses to the 1930s Refugee Crisis
Students activate their thinking around being an upstander and their responsibility toward others in light of the Sharps' mission work in Czechoslovakia.
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Toolbox for Care
This teaching strategy invites students to think about the “tools” they have access to that can help them take care of themselves and their community in the wake of traumatic news.
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Connecting the Past to the Present Using Oral History
This strategy helps students engage with oral histories in order to deepen their understanding of how past events impacted individuals and communities, and to gain new perspectives on the present.
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Asking Compelling Questions
Students engage in meaningful discussions with their peers about a text while using text-based evidence to support their thinking and making real-life connections to what they're reading.
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Create a Textual Lineage
Students consider the profound impact that the spoken and written word (as well as art and sound) can have on an individual’s identity and sense of self.
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