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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.
Journaling in a Reflective Classroom
In this classroom video, middle school students acclimate to using journals during the first week of school.
How Should We Remember?
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Use these slides to help students learn how to both respond to and design Holocaust memorials as they consider the impact that memorials and monuments have on the way we think about history.
Introducing the Unit
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Use these slides to help students prepare to study the unit by reading a letter and working together to create a classroom contract.
Justice and Judgement after the Holocaust
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Use these slides to help students grapple with the meaning of justice and the purpose of trials as they learn how the Allies responded to the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
Kristallnacht
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Use these slides to help students learn about the violent pogroms of Kristallnacht by watching a short documentary and then reflecting on eyewitness testimonies.
The Power of Propaganda
In this classroom video, a high school class prepares to read Elie Wiesel’s Night.
Making Rights Universal
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Use these slides to help students analyse four rights in the UDHR and decide whether they are universal and enjoyed by all in the world today.
Protesting Discrimination in Bristol
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Use these slides to help students use the historical case study of the Bristol Bus Boycott to examine strategies for bringing about change in our communities.
Public Art as Form of Participation
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Use these slides to help students analyse the Battle of Cable Street Mural and reflect on the role of public art to commemorate, educate, and build community.
Using Journals at the Beginning and End of a Lesson
In this classroom video, a high school history teacher uses journals with his students both at the beginning and end of a lesson on Reconstruction.
Race and Space
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Use these slides to help students examine the Nazi ideology of “race and space” and the role it played in Germany’s aggression toward other nations, groups, and individuals.