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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Coming of Age: 13 B'nai Mitzvah Stories
This short story collection highlights the varied and diverse experiences of coming of age in the Jewish faith.
![Coming of Age Book Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/coming_of_age_cover.jpg?h=1b9aac2e&itok=sdqNvyQR)
Bio-Poem Examples
This reading contains 3 examples of a bio-poem, an 11-line poem describing a person.
![Bio-Poem Teaser](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-03/BioPoemsTeaser.png?h=d3d13267&itok=GOQxGTdu)
Chunking Worksheet: What is a Community?
Students use this worksheet to help them decode text and paraphrase key ideas using the chunking strategy.
What is a Law? What is a Custom?
Students use this Venn diagram handout to reflect on examples of laws, examples of customs, and examples of laws that are also customs.
Turning Us against Them
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig describes an encounter with hate propaganda at a French movie theatre months before the start of World War I.
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Changes at School under the Nazis
Kurt Klein, who emigrated from Walldorf, Germany, to the United States in 1937, recalls how Nazi policies and propaganda affected his life at school.
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Where I'm From Brainstorm
Use the handout below to help students create their very own “Where I’m From” poem.
Creating "We and They": Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses how and why humans create a “we and they” distinction.
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Positive-Negative Line Graph
Students practice character analysis by charting important events in the life of a character.
![Positive-Negative Line Graph Template Preview](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-12/PositiveNegativeLineGraph.png?h=d3d13267&itok=OSJc5xpy)
Character Map
This graphic organizer will help students create annotated illustrations of a fictional or historical character.
![Teaser of Character Map Document](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-12/CharacterMap.png?h=d3d13267&itok=6mMK20RJ)
Day of Learning 2013 - Binna Kandola: Diffusing Bias
Binna Kandola delivers a talk as part of the Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Other.”
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