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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.
Every Day the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans
Former Jewish partisans reflect on women's participation in organized resistance groups during the Holocaust.
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Living and Surviving in the Partisans: Food
Former Jewish partisans describe their constant struggle for food.
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Living and Surviving in the Partisans: Winter and Night
Former Jewish partisans describe surviving harsh weather conditions while living in the forest resisting the Germans.
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Living and Surviving in the Partisans: Shelter
Former Jewish partisans describe the various ways they found shelter while avoiding detection by the Germans.
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Living and Surviving in the Partisans: Medicine
Former Jewish partisans recall the challenges of treating wounded and sick partisans.
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Combating Confirmation Bias
Reporters and media professionals give suggestions for how to avoid our own biases when we consume news.
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Civic Agency and the Pursuit of Democracy
This elective, designed for New York’s Seal of Civic Readiness, intertwines the history of US Reconstruction, current events, and civic participation.
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Working Definition of "Democracy"
This handout includes a four-square vocabulary diagram for the word democracy.
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Working Definition of "Democracy" (en español)
This handout includes a four-square vocabulary diagram for the word democracy.
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Excerpts from “Board of Education: Chinese Mother Letter”, Daily Alta California, 1885
Mary Tape, a Chinese American who fought in court for her children to go to school with white children, wrote this letter to the San Francisco Board of Education in 1885.
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