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Teaching Brown Girl Dreaming
Teach a unit on Jacqueline Woodson's coming-of-age memoir in verse that invites students to reflect on their own experiences and identities.
![A girl leans against a wall while reading a book.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/iStock-1209693972.jpg?h=7bbcb45e&itok=b5N9XQ_7)
Revenge
Reflect on the desire for revenge that many victorious troops held at the end of World War II.
![After American soldiers liberated Dachau in 1945, an inmate of the camp attacks a German soldier.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch10_Image01_Medium_res.jpg?h=d2de68a6&itok=kmBPzss-)
Hawaii’s Legacy of Colonialism
Use this timeline and article excerpt to help students understand Native Hawaiians' protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea.
![Demonstrators gather to block a road at the base of Mauna Kea](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/IndigenousRights_AP_19196579152982_full-res.jpg?h=b6580eb4&itok=Muc3hfzj)
Voting Rights in the United States
These three excerpted stories demonstrate how voting restrictions in the United States can impact various groups of people in different ways.
![General Election 2016, Voters in NY](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Midterm_Elections_high-res_AP_17307716664453_.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=_2pZdXA_)
Somewhere There is Still a Sun
Resilience shines throughout a boy's firsthand, present-tense account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust.
![Somewhere There Is Still a Sun Book Cover.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/somewhere-there-is-still-a-sun-cover.jpeg?h=ac700f86&itok=udqiCiRM)
Parallel Journeys
Alternating chapters contrast the wartime experiences of two young Germans—Helen Waterford, who was interned in a Nazi concentration camp, and Alfons Heck, a member of the Hitler Youth.
![Parallel Journeys Book Cover.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/parallel-journeys-cover.jpeg?h=91d5dbcf&itok=H_NmhUiP)
The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Read the perspectives of authors, ministers, scholars, and rabbis and consider the meaning and limitations of forgiveness, responsibility, and justice.
![After American soldiers liberated Dachau in 1945, an inmate of the camp attacks a German soldier.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch10_Image01_Medium_res.jpg?h=d2de68a6&itok=kmBPzss-)
Klaus Langer's Diary Entry on Kristallnacht, November 11, 1938
An entry from the diary of Klaus Langer from November 11, 1938, in which Langer describes his experiences during Kristallnacht.
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"You Get Proud by Practicing" Connection Questions
Students use this handout to analyze Laura Hershey's poem, "You Get Proud by Practicing".
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"You Get Proud by Practicing" Connection Questions (en español)
Students use this handout to analyze Laura Hershey's poem, "You Get Proud by Practicing".
This resource is in Spanish.
![Female students work on a written assignment.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/Los_Angeles_Summit_2018_FH287137.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=h61f5-df)
American Experience: America and the Holocaust
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This episode of The American Experience examines the role of the United States in the Holocaust, exploring such issues as American antisemitism and the deliberate suppression of information that European Jews were slated for genocide.
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