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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.
Action Project Planning Tool
Design your Choosing to Participate civic action project using this planning tool.
Facing History Hacks: Connecting Social Justice, History, and Technology
San Francisco Bay Area teens explore ways technology can be used for social justice and community engagement at Facing History’s first ever Civic Hackathon hosted by Brocade.
Power and Choices Anticipation Guide
Students decide if they agree or disagree with a set of statements about the different ways to make change.
The Range of Responses at Central High School
Students analyze how individuals in the memoir Warriors Don't Cry responded to the events surrounding desegregation.
Edwardian Context Task Sheet
This task sheet allows students to choose a creative writing exercise linked to Edwardian England: each choice outlines a different perspective, topic, format and audience.
Social Etiquette in Victorian England
This group of primary sources help students understand the class structures and social etiquette conventions of Victorian and Edwardian England.
Making Literary Inferences Grid
This grid helps students by breaking down the inferencing process: students combine what the text says with their background knowledge to make an inference.
Mr Birling’s Speeches Group Activity
The connection questions contained in this activity support students in analysing Mr Birling's key speeches, and thus enable them to better understand Priestley's portrayal of his character.
Civic Agency and the Pursuit of Democracy
This elective, designed for New York’s Seal of Civic Readiness, intertwines the history of US Reconstruction, current events, and civic participation.
Gerald Model Paragraph Sentence Sort
Give students this dissected paragraph and ask them to rearrange it into the correct order to help them think about how to effectively structure an analytical paragraph.