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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.
Understanding Adolescents
This short reading will deepen your understanding of adolescence and prepare you to engage your students in conversations about becoming and belonging in the world.
How Assimilation Changed My Identification with My Culture
In this personal narrative, Tiara McKinney reflects on feeling stuck between two places and cultures as she moves between her home country, the Bahamas, and her boarding school in New Jersey.
Introducing Agency (Adapted Version)
Students use this reading to learn about the concept of individual and collective agency.
“A Jewish Adolescent Ponders her Identity (1939)” by Marie Abravanel
A teenage girl in Libya named Marie Abravanel reflects on her Jewish identity.
“Chameleon” from It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
In this personal narrative, comedian Trevor Noah shares experiences from his childhood in South Africa during the apartheid era.
I Am the Only American Indian
In this personal narrative, a young woman reflects on racial dynamics and feeling invisible in the school cafeteria.
I’ve Been Called Worse
In this personal narrative, a young person reflects on their experience as gender nonconforming (or gender creative) in middle school.