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Sample Choosing to Participate Toolbox Project and Assignments
This sample CTP assignments comes from members of the Facing History Partner Schools Network.
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Letter to Students (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
Share this letter with students as a way to introduce them to the Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective course.
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Letter to Students (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective) (en español)
Share this letter with students as a way to introduce them to the Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective course. This resource is in Spanish.
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Letter to Parents and Guardians (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
Share this letter with parents and guardians as a way to inform them about the Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective course.
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Letter to Parents and Guardians (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective) (en español)
Share this letter with parents and guardians as a way to inform them about the Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective course. This resource is in Spanish.
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Dr. Hong Zheng Reflects on his Earliest Memories of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Dr. Hong Zheng reflects on his earliest memory as a five year old during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Japanese airplanes dropped bombs around his village, forcing his family to seek shelter in an air raid shelter.
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Dehumanizing the Enemy
Scholar James Edward Waller discusses how perpetrators of atrocities dehumanize their victims.
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Discussing the Video A Class Divided
Students use these questions to guide their viewing of a video about a classroom experiment about discrimination.
"I Knew I Had to Give Him the Talk"
Mamie Till-Mobley shares an account of "the talk" she had with her son Emmett Till shortly before he journeyed from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.
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"I Knew I Had to Give Him the Talk" (en español)
Mamie Till-Mobley shares an account of "the talk" she had with her son Emmett Till shortly before he journeyed from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955. This resource is in Spanish.
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Viewing Guide: The Murder of Emmett Till
Students use this handout to take notes while they watch a clip from the PBS documentary The Murder of Emmett Till.
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