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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 Elective Course
Get all of the teacher-facing content for the Facing History and Ourselves high school elective course in Google Doc or PDF format.
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Weimar Republic Images (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
Use these photos and fine art from the Weimar Era to have students complete an image-analysis activity.
![Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, was Germany’s first full-length talkie, a motion picture with sound as opposed to a silent film. The film follows the story of college professor who is undone by his attraction to Lola-Lola, a cabaret dancer played by German-American Marlene Dietrich. The film made Dietrich an international film star, and she continued her acting career in the United States.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image09_Medium_res.jpg?h=ac1fc4d9&itok=W2CNh6u-)
Building a Toolbox (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
This handout provides students with instructions for building a toolbox that reflects what they've learned about using the lessons of the past as a tool to guide responses to injustice.
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Evidence Logs (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
This handout provides a place where students can centralize and organize evidence specific to the elective course assessment prompt.
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Map the Internal World of an Upstander
Students use this handout to gather evidence that helps them understand a chosen civic actor’s thoughts, feelings, and motivations.
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Sample Choosing to Participate Toolbox Project and Assignments
This sample CTP assignments comes from members of the Facing History Partner Schools Network.
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Inquiry Blueprint | In Pursuit of Democracy and Freedom
This blueprint provides an at-a-glance view of the C-3 style inquiry In Pursuit of Democracy and Freedom.
![Students in a Facing History & Ourselves classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/Facing-History_SJLA_016.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=ndXyUvip)
Letter to Students (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
Share this letter with students as a way to introduce them to the Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective course.
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Letter to Parents and Guardians (Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective)
Share this letter with parents and guardians as a way to inform them about the Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior Elective course.
![A Facing History educator speaks to a classroom of parents](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/LosAngeles_Classroom_%202018_FH287237.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=aj9noxf1)
What Can Freedom Mean?
This handout prompts students to think about how different people in their lives may experience freedom.
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Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell (1945)
This series of paintings by Norman Rockwell was inspired by President FDR's 1941 speech outlining four basic human freedoms for a post-war world.
![Freedom of Speech depicts a young man who appears to be of the American working class, given his plain clothing over which he wears a plain, brown jacket. Protruding from a front pocket of the jacket is a folded document that appears to bear importance in the matter at hand.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/_Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536.jpg?h=d8bc2a9a&itok=uVZ_kjE_)