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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.
Decision-Making in Times of Fear and Crisis
Help students analyze a reading about the choices made by a person or group during Kristallnacht.
The Range of Human Behavior Vocabulary Terms
Students predict the definitions of perpetrator, victim, bystander, and upstander, using context clues.
Notes on the Growth of Nazi Germany, 1933–1939
Help students follow along a mini-lecture about Nazi Germany's expansion in the 1930s.
Phases of the Holocaust
Help students understand the four major stages of the Holocaust according to scholar Doris Bergen.
Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 1
Have students read and annotate passages on the experiences of youth in Nazi Germany.
Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 2
Have students read and annotate passages on the experiences of youth in Nazi Germany.
Choices and Consequences
Help students be active listeners of their classmates' presentations about the choices individuals in Nazi Germany.
Say Something Sentence Starters
This handout helps students practice the Say Something teaching strategy as they read a text together in small groups.
Part Two: Defining Freedom
Scholars discuss the evolution of the definition of freedom for emancipated slaves after the Civil War.
Marketplace during Weimar's Hyperinflation
A woman takes a basket of banknotes to buy cabbage at a market during the 1923 hyperinflation in Weimar Germany.
Members of Sighet’s Jewish Community
Romanian Jews standing in front of a Synagogue before World War 2.