Journaling in a Reflective Classroom
In this classroom video, middle school students acclimate to using journals during the first week of school.
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How Should We Remember?
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Use these slides to help students learn how to both respond to and design Holocaust memorials as they consider the impact that memorials and monuments have on the way we think about history.
![Aschrott Memorial Fountain](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Aschrott_Fountain_2012_FH229488.jpg?h=2bcabc6b&itok=BgrGV_Ft)
Introducing the Unit
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Use these slides to help students prepare to study the unit by reading a letter and working together to create a classroom contract.
![High school student in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/5-1-17FacH08212.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=gzBuRJcY)
Justice and Judgement after the Holocaust
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Use these slides to help students grapple with the meaning of justice and the purpose of trials as they learn how the Allies responded to the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
![Criminal proceedings before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg from 20.11.1945 to 1.10.1946 against leading persons prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against the peace and against the humanity.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-V01057-3%2C_NuI%CC%80%CB%86rnberger_Prozess%2C_Angeklagte_Medium_res.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=BXfLmrsX)
Kristallnacht
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Use these slides to help students learn about the violent pogroms of Kristallnacht by watching a short documentary and then reflecting on eyewitness testimonies.
![Image showing the destruction resulting from Kristallnacht.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Test223817_Original_Medium_res.jpg?h=c8d479ee&itok=g317b1wn)
Part Four: Interracial Democracy
Scholars discuss how African Americans and whites initially worked together within Reconstruction governments.
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White Rose Resistance Group
Hans Scholl, Sophie School, and Christoph Probst conversing outdoors in 1942
Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942. They were members of the White Rose, a resistance group that condemned Nazism.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)
Protecting Democracy
A congressional representative argues that the federal government should have the power to prosecute individuals who commit intimidation.
![Cartoon showing violence and dead bodies at polling place with two men shaking hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/figure_178_Nast_vs_Greeley.png?h=a44ae31d&itok=5rVecj0T)
Protecting Democracy (en español)
A congressional representative argues that the federal government should have the power to prosecute individuals who commit intimidation.
![Cartoon showing violence and dead bodies at polling place with two men shaking hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/figure_178_Nast_vs_Greeley.png?h=a44ae31d&itok=5rVecj0T)
Analyzing the Causes of Klan Violence
This handout contains an iceberg diagram that helps students analyze the causes of violence by the Ku Klux Klan.
![Black and white photo of the house committee](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Civil_Rights_House_Committee_Investigating_KKK_2021_FH2177934.jpg?h=a9a611f7&itok=-pUVaIhR)
Analyzing the Causes of Klan Violence (en español)
In Spanish, this handout contains an iceberg diagram that helps students analyze the causes of violence by the Ku Klux Klan.
![Black and white photo of the house committee](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Civil_Rights_House_Committee_Investigating_KKK_2021_FH2177934.jpg?h=a9a611f7&itok=-pUVaIhR)