Resource Library
Find compelling classroom resources, learn new teaching methods, meet standards, and make a difference in the lives of your students.
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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.
Holocaust and Human Behavior: A Facing History & Ourselves High School Elective Course
This curriculum is designed for Tennessee and Southeast educators teaching a high school elective course on the history of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide.
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We May Not Have Another Chance
Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz processes an experience she had in a slave labor camp through a poem and writing.
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What Do We Do with a Difference?
A poem by James Berry invites us to question the ways we as individuals and societies react to difference.
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What Do We Do with a Difference? (en español)
A poem by James Berry invites us to question the ways we as individuals and societies react to difference. This resource is in Spanish.
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The Power of Propaganda
In this classroom video, a high school class prepares to read Elie Wiesel’s Night.
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Two-Column Note-Taking
In this classroom video, the teacher uses the Two-Column Note-Taking strategy with his students to help them organize their thoughts and emotional responses as they listen to recorded survivor testimony.
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Gallery Walk
This classroom video shows a high school class using the Gallery Walk strategy to consider images of monuments and memorials before embarking on an "Action Project."
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Graffiti Boards
This classroom video shows a high school class using the Graffiti Board strategy as a brainstorming tool in preparation for their "Action Project."
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The Range of Human Behavior Vocabulary Terms (en español)
In Spanish, Students predict the definitions of perpetrator, victim, bystander, and upstander, using context clues. This resource is in Spanish.
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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.
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Teaching Night
This guide interweaves a literary analysis of Elie Wiesel’s powerful and poignant memoir with an exploration of the relevant historical context surrounding his experience during the Holocaust.
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