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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.
CPS Letter to Parents and Guardians: The Reconstruction Era (Spanish)
Use this letter to inform parents and guardians about what their students will be experiencing in the weeks to come during their study of Reconstruction .
Timeline of Major Events in Japan, 1853–1919
Introduce students to nineteenth-century Japanese history and the country's response to Western imperialism.
![Vehicles of the Japanese Navy enter the port of Nanking, and thus support with their guns the arrival of tank regiments from the land side.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H30040%2C_Japanisch-Chinesischer_Krieg.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=QWqUzmfp)
CPS HHB Letter to Parents and Guardians
Use this letter to inform parents and guardians about what their students will be experiencing in the weeks to come during their study of Holocaust and Human Behavior.
CPS HHB Letter to Parents and Guardians (Spanish)
Use this letter to inform parents and guardians about what their students will be experiencing in the weeks to come during their study of Holocaust and Human Behavior.
Becoming American Study Guide
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This guide to accompany the film Becoming American helps students investigate identity and belonging through the stories of generations of Chinese immigrants in the United States and their paths to "becoming American."
![Cover of "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/BecomingAmerican_cvr.png?h=1db1c0b8&itok=WjablqqZ)
My Part of the Story: Exploring Identity in the United States
Get the print or PDF version of our unit designed to launch a course on US history, literature, or civics through an investigation of identity.
![Cover of "My Part of the Story."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/MyPartoftheStory_cvr.png?h=0a704eec&itok=6Rmy52as)
A Commandant’s View
Get insight into how a commander at a Nazi death camp viewed his victims and coped with his actions.
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A Commandant’s View (en español)
In Spanish, get insight into how a commander at a Nazi death camp viewed his victims and coped with his actions.
![SS guards portrait at Dachau Concentration Camp](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_SSGuardsPortraitAtDachau_%20FH220823.jpg?h=958cf23b&itok=19XN9g0g)
The Death Marches
Learn how the Germans tried to hide evidence of their mass murder toward the end of World War II by evacuating prisoners from camps.
![The start of the selection process, in front of the camp's entrance. Some prisoners who had already been at the camp a while assist in sorting the new arrivals.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_TheStartOfTheSelectionProcess_%20FH260049.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=jaQGDMjo)
The Difference between Knowing and Believing
Consider why some world leaders responded with disbelief to testimonies of the mass killings the Nazis were carrying out in Europe during World War II.
![Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped save more than 150 children during World War II.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_MarionPritchard_%20FH229480.jpg?h=22294cb3&itok=dlCxu8XS)
Teaching Enrique's Journey
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This guide provides activities and discussion questions for leading your students through a six-week reading of Enrique's Journey that explores themes of identity, belonging, and choices.
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