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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.
Women in the Weimar Republic
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life in the Weimar Republic.
![Poster for Women's Day, March 8, 1914, demanding voting rights for women.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Frauentag_1914_Heraus_mit_dem_Frauenwahlrecht.jpg?h=3818de31&itok=CNoaJGZQ)
The Bubbling Cauldron
Have students demonstrate their understanding of the conflicts and tensions in the Weimar Republic by completing this graphic organizer.
![A woman takes a basket of banknotes to buy cabbage at a market during the 1933 hyperinflation in Weimar Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image11_Medium_res.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=TikJcpxP)
Classroom Experience Checklist
Ask students to reflect on their experiences as students in a classroom community as preparation for creating a classroom contract.
![Classroom Experience Checklist Document Preview](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-12/Classroom_Experience_Checklist.png?h=d3d13267&itok=hQTyECAa)
Sample Facing History Classroom Expectations
Help students get started creating their own classroom contract by responding to these sample expectations.
![Sample Classroom Expectations Document Preview](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-12/SampleFacingHistoryClassroomExpectations.png?h=d3d13267&itok=P4MI3kZf)
Japanese Woodblock Print, 1861
This Japanese print is titled “Foreigner and Wrestler at Yokohama." It depicts a sumo wrestler, representing Japan, confronting "foreign" opponents.
![Sumo wrestler throwing a foreigner at Yokohama.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Foreigner_and_Wrestler_at_Yokohama_1861.jpg?h=ce1ab32c&itok=qnw5To10)
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)
Partisan Life
Former Jewish partisan Sonia Orbuch explains how she perceived life among the partisans as a "good life."
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Power and Responsibility
Former Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman reflects on how he managed the responsibility of carrying firearms.
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Protecting Jews
Former Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman describes finding shelter for Jews who could not join the partisans' resistance efforts.
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Joining the Partisans
Former Jewish partisan Sonia Orbuch recalls the moment she and her family joined a group of Russian partisans.
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Joining the Resistance
Holocaust survivor Vera Laska describes her teenage experience as part of the resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
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