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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.
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.
![Two Black students write at their desks.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-07/Memphis_Classroom_2018_FH288851.jpeg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=B45APPri)
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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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)
The League of Nations
Analyze the goals and responsibilities of the League of Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
![Salle de la Reformation. The official opening of the League of Nations.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_1920_HalloftheReformation_FH2173576.jpeg?h=58406872&itok=-iYvygUH)
Negotiating Peace
Learn about the concessions that the Treaty of Versailles required from Germany after its defeat in World War I.
![German delegates talk in May 1919 during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in France.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2022_GermanDelegatesattheSigningoftheTreatyofVersailles_FH2173867.jpeg?h=c8a745b3&itok=ngFT6CP1)
People without Papers
Learn about the refugee crisis that developed in the immediate aftermath of World War I.
![Fleeing from death. An Armenian mother on the heights of the Taurus Mountains.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1915_mother_and_child_in_the_desert_Medium_res.jpg?h=fcb26060&itok=ExhdlGru)
Russia Quits the War
Learn about the relationship between World War I and Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
![A communist agitator speaks to Russian peasants.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image04_Medium_res.jpg?h=cb9047e7&itok=6OhQxget)
Self-Determination
Explore the concept of self-determination after World War I through excerpts from Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
![A British propaganda poster depicting the execution of Edith Cavell in 1915. Cavell was a British nurse working in Belgium during the German invasion. The Germans accused her of espionage.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image06_Medium_res.jpg?h=c4842d71&itok=VMxrc5Pm)