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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.
The Holocaust - The Range of Responses
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Use these slides to help students deepen their examination of human behaviour during the Holocaust by analysing and discussing the range of choices available to individuals, groups, and nations.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)
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.
![Aschrott Memorial Fountain](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Aschrott_Fountain_2012_FH229488.jpg?h=2bcabc6b&itok=BgrGV_Ft)
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.
![High school student in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/5-1-17FacH08212.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=gzBuRJcY)
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.
![Criminal proceedings before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg from 20.11.1945 to 1.10.1946 against leading persons prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against the peace and against the humanity.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-V01057-3%2C_NuI%CC%80%CB%86rnberger_Prozess%2C_Angeklagte_Medium_res.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=BXfLmrsX)
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.
![Image showing the destruction resulting from Kristallnacht.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Test223817_Original_Medium_res.jpg?h=c8d479ee&itok=g317b1wn)
The Lone Ranger
This image portrays the fictional Native American character, Tonto, in the 1930s radio show and 1970s television adaption, "The Lone Ranger."
![1950s film still from The Lone Ranger.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/LoneRanger_FH24271.jpg?h=c17ae58b&itok=H4AKnQtV)
Sewing Class at Shubenacadie Indian Residential School
Mi’kmaq girls are in a sewing class at Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia in 1929.
![Children in a classroom with a sewing machine on a table. A nun stands in the back of the classroom. Taken circa 1929.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Culture%26HumanRights_1929_Mi%27kmaqGirls_FH24277.png?h=844b9453&itok=krOusKdJ)
Students at Fort Simpson Residential School
Students at the Fort Simpson School in the Northwest Territories in 1922 hold up letters that spell “Goodbye.”
![Young boys in top hats and girls in dresses are standing in a line, each holding up a letter.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Culture_2022_FortSimpsonResidentialSchool_FH24276.png?h=89357a44&itok=wOAtV0Wg)
Sun Dance Ceremony
The annual Sun Dance ceremony at the Blood Indian Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta.
![Two men wearing feathered and beaded headwear and clothing celebrate the sundance.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1953_SunDanceCeremony_FH24267.png?h=1efa62dd&itok=EEYQ5zCt)
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Residential school survivor Joe George of the Tselei-Waututh First Nation (right) and elder Marie George embrace at a proceeding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2013.
![Two men hugging.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/61_TRC_Medium_res.jpg?h=5374600f&itok=iJaVO08f)