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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.
How Assimilation Changed My Identification with My Culture (En Español)
In Spanish, in this personal narrative Tiara McKinney reflects on feeling stuck between two places and cultures as she moves between her home country, the Bahamas, and her boarding school in New Jersey.
Introduction to Antisemitism, its Past and its Present
This overview helps students understand the long history of hatred and discrimination against Jews and how anti-Judaism was transformed in the nineteenth century into antisemitism.
Marian Turski: Auschwitz Memorial Speech
Holocaust survivor Marian Turski reflects on the dangers of bystanding in this speech excerpt.
“It’s a Courageous Thing to Do”
A student reflects on why it takes courage to wear a yarmulke or kippah.
Independent vs. Dependent Learner
This excerpt from Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond outlines four practices-areas of culturally responsive teaching.
How Anti-Semitism Rises on the Left and Right
An interview with David Nirenberg, the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, about antisemitism and the rise of anti-Jewish violence.
Kroger Shooting Suspect Tried to Enter Black Church Before Killing 2 in Kentucky, Police Say
This New York Times article reports on an attack that is being investigated as a hate crime.
Introducing Agency (Adapted Version)
Introduce your students to the concept of agency, and help them learn how to apply the concept in their own lives.
Beyond Classification
Explore three first person perspectives on stereotyping to understand how these prejudices can divide a society.
Talking About Religion
Eboo Patel reflects on how religion impacts his identity and a time in his past when he was a bystander.