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Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Choices in Little Rock
This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align our Choices in Little Rock unit with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
![Students write at their desks.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-07/Chicago_Classroom_2019_FH2101681.jpeg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=pItuRsH2)
Teaching Warriors Don't Cry
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Use this guide to Melba Pattillo Beals' memoir about the desegregation of Little Rock High School to develop literacy skills and teach about the civil rights movement.
![Cover of Teaching Warriors Don't Cry.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/TeachingWarriorsDontCry_cvr.png?h=322b9e5d&itok=8Q-SsctW)
The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
This resource guides students through a deep exploration of the pivotal era of American history when a nation divided by slavery and war was challenged to rebuild.
![Book cover of American flag with faces over it.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Reconstruction_cover_large.jpg?h=51bee232&itok=yY8xN3AK)
I Promised I Would Tell
Survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz bears witness to the Holocaust through poetry and testimony in this powerful memoir.
![Cover of I Promised I Would Tell.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/IPromisedIWouldTell_cvr.png?h=857e4081&itok=wadmeIG-)
Chart Illustrating Nuremberg Laws
This chart was designed to help Germans determine their racial status as outlined by the 1935 Nuremberg Laws.
![Chart with depictions of men and women detailing the 1935 Nuremberg laws.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Chart%20Illustrating%20Nuremberg%20Laws.jpg?h=1925ac1e&itok=_8xNuY_q)
Boy Scouts Founder
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, inspects scouts in Britain in 1915.
![Men in uniforms surround a line of young Boy Scouts](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Boy%20Scouts%20Founder.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=Vs9dyWGw)
Book Burning in Berlin
Students contribute anti-German books to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning on May 10, 1933. About 40,000 people attended the event.
![Crowds of young men are adding books to a dumpster to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Book%20Burning%20in%20Berlin.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=y962Ef7g)
Bar Mitzvah at Zerrennerstrasse Synagogue
A bar mitzvah at the liberal Zerrennerstrasse synagogue in Pforzheim, Germany, 1936.
![Boy reads Torah while surrounded by adults during bar mitzvah](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Bar%20Mitzvah%20at%20Zerrennerstrasse%20Synagogue.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=9qzQhHYf)
Confiscation of Prisoners’ Belongings
These men were determined fit enough to perform hard labor. Their heads were shaved and their clothes replaced with prison uniforms.
![Men in prison uniform and shaved heads stand in line.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Confiscation%20of%20Prisoners%E2%80%99%20Belongings.jpg?h=8e8edc7c&itok=F4zP7Q1K)