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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.
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Ralph Yarl, Prejudice, and Gun Violence
This reading contains excerpts from two published reflections on the death of Ralph Yarl.
![KANSAS CITY, MO- APRIL 18: Protesters chant at a rally for Black teen Ralph Yarl in front of U.S. District Court on April 18, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-04/Rally%20for%20Ralph%20Yarl-Kansas%20City%20MO-2023%20%28FH2190247%29.jpg?h=a49d782d&itok=D_EEUE8c)
What Do We Do With a Variation? Question Sort
Help students analyze James Berry's poem "What Do We Do with a Variation?" by challenging them to sort and categorize its lines.
![Crowded city street](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-04/Crowded_City_Street_stockphoto_FH2171084.jpg?h=6d0b70e3&itok=OG49I69M)
What Do We Do With a Variation? Question Sort (en español)
Help students analyze James Berry's poem "What Do We Do with a Variation?" by challenging them to sort and categorize its lines. This resource is in Spanish.
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A Class Divided Viewing Guide
Guide students viewing of the documentary A Class Divided about a classroom experiment that examined difference and privilege.
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Student Activities: Responding to Recent Shootings and the Perils of Daily Life
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These student-facing slides contain activities designed to help students process feelings of insecurity in the face of the recent shootings of young people going about their daily lives.
![KANSAS CITY, MO- APRIL 18: Protesters chant at a rally for Black teen Ralph Yarl in front of U.S. District Court on April 18, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-04/Rally%20for%20Ralph%20Yarl-Kansas%20City%20MO-2023%20%28FH2190247%29.jpg?h=a49d782d&itok=D_EEUE8c)
In Search of Meaning
Consider why paramilitary groups such as the Freikorps formed in the aftermath of World War I in Germany.
![The Triadic Ballet was created by Oskar Schlemmer, a painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer who taught at the Bauhaus art school in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Schlemmer’s ballet represented the Bauhaus style–uncluttered, modern, and geometric.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_image06_Medium_res.jpg?h=ba1117de&itok=QZNmQtuq)
Enabling Dictatorship
Read the text of the Enabling Act, the law many historians argue was the legal basis for Hitler’s dictatorship in Nazi Germany.
![The Parade of the Political Administrators in Nuremberg, Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/HHB_Chapter_6_Medium_res.jpg?h=193b5c49&itok=W7_63aer)
Hitler's First Radio Address
Read the text of Hitler’s first speech to the German people as chancellor, in which he describes his vision for the future of Germany.
![Crackdown on Communists and Social Democrats: arrested in the SA-barracks on Friedrichstrasse, April, 1933](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/ART353299_Comp_Medium_res.jpg?h=b4b77820&itok=vny9EVPw)
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War Interviews-Rosemarie Feigl
Rosemarie Feigl describes her rescue from France as part of Martha Sharp’s group.
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Gallery Walk: Jewish Life before the War
This handout contains images and text related to Jewish life in pre-war North Africa.
![A large group of people walk through an alley in North Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/p198-In-the-maze-of-reeking-alleys.jpg?h=ff14878d&itok=f58MJbXs)
Notes for “Jewish Life before the War” Gallery Walk
Students use this handout to write down notes as they complete a Gallery Walk on Jewish life in pre-war North Africa.
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