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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.
The Rise of the Nazi Party
Students examine how choices made by individuals and groups contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1920s and 1930s.
![The Parade of the Political Administrators in Nuremberg, Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_GermanPartyDay_%20FH229691.jpg?h=193b5c49&itok=QZdPclXH)
Survivor Testimony and the Legacy of Memory
Students deepen their thinking about memory and identity by reflecting on the stories of Holocaust and Armenian Genocide survivors and their descendants.
![portrait of Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Box4_071.jpg?h=7c23ac5b&itok=b--n8_01)
Gay Life Under Nazi Rule: The Legacy of Paragraph 175
Students watch survivor testimony from the documentary Paragraph 175 and engage in purposeful reflection about the survivors’ important stories.
![Nazi's standing outside of a building](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-05/1103.jpg?h=2a25a39c&itok=OZxbHBB3)
The Sharps’ Dilemmas
Students are introduced to upstanders Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife who undertook a rescue mission to help save Jews and refugees fleeing Nazi occupation.
![Martha and Waitstill Sharp wave to a crowd before leaving New York City for Europe. Martha wears a corsage of flowers on her coat and holds a bouquet of flowers in her left hand. Stamped in ink on verso: "Photo by William T. Hoff, New York Municipal Airport"](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/Martha_and_Waitstill_Sharp_waving_for_Web_or_Office_Use.jpg?h=a9a611f7&itok=ld5w1FcD)
Somewhere There is Still a Sun
Resilience shines throughout a boy's firsthand, present-tense account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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Parallel Journeys
Alternating chapters contrast the wartime experiences of two young Germans—Helen Waterford, who was interned in a Nazi concentration camp, and Alfons Heck, a member of the Hitler Youth.
![Parallel Journeys Book Cover.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/parallel-journeys-cover.jpeg?h=91d5dbcf&itok=H_NmhUiP)
Night
This work by Elie Wiesel reveals his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–45, at the height of the Holocaust.
![Book cover for Night.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/night_cover.jpeg?h=9a268611&itok=IQ-5ItC7)
The Sunflower
A dying Nazi begs absolution from a young Jewish man. Does the Jew have a moral obligation to forgive him?
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Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Holocaust and Human Behavior with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
![Common Core: Holocaust and Human Behavior Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/CommonCoreHHB_cvr.png?h=d0404c5b&itok=nWth6CTO)
Sacred Texts, Modern Questions
Designed for educators in Jewish settings, this resource connects biblical, rabbinic, and contemporary Jewish sources to moral questions of today.
![Sacred Texts, Modern Questions](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Sacred_Texts_Cover_Image.jpg?h=4df9f751&itok=TRVC6Qto)
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
This 23-lesson unit on the Holocaust and World War II asks students to reflect on the essential question, What does learning about the choices people made during the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazi Party, and the Holocaust teach us about the power and impact of our choices today?
![Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior Cover.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/TeachingHHB_cvr.png?h=e224772d&itok=CQ71PD0_)