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Teaching Strategy: Found Poems
In this classroom video, a high school history teacher leads students in the construction of found poems based on their research about the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century in the United States.
Protesting Discrimination in Bristol
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Use these slides to help students use the historical case study of the Bristol Bus Boycott to examine strategies for bringing about change in our communities.
Think, Pair, Share
This classroom video shows the Think, Pair, Share strategy in action with high school students.
Two-Column Note-Taking
In this classroom video, the teacher uses the Two-Column Note-Taking strategy with his students to help them organize their thoughts and emotional responses as they listen to recorded survivor testimony.
Understanding We and They
In this classroom video, students discuss the idea of “we and they.” They reflect on the snap judgements they make about others and consider how others might make quick calculations about them.
Public Art as Form of Participation
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Use these slides to help students analyse the Battle of Cable Street Mural and reflect on the role of public art to commemorate, educate, and build community.
Using Survivor Testimony: Preparation
In this classroom video, students view, react to, and discuss first-person accounts of the Holocaust.
Race and Space
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Use these slides to help students examine the Nazi ideology of “race and space” and the role it played in Germany’s aggression toward other nations, groups, and individuals.
Socratic Seminar: Weimar Republic
In this classroom video, students participate in a Socratic seminar after reading Voices in the Dark, a first-person account of antisemitism experienced by a WWI veteran.
Responding to Difference
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Use these slides to help students explore a poem by James Berry about the ways we respond to difference and complete a creative assignment about their school or community.
The Rise of the Nazi Party
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Use these slides to help students examine how choices made by individuals and groups contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1920s and 1930s.