Teach with Facing History ELA Learning Experiences
Each of our learning experiences provides activities and resources to explore a core Facing History concept or theme while building key literacy skills.
Coming of Age in a Complex World: A Mini-Course for ELA Educators
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Registration for this event is now closed. Explore hands-on strategies to teach coming-of-age texts and literature, centering students’ identities and lived experiences as young adults.
28 Social-Emotional Learning Activities for the Classroom
Use these simple social-emotional learning activities to incorporate SEL in your lesson plans and classroom routines.
Teaching Strategies
Use our student-centered teaching strategies to strengthen your students’ literacy skills, nurture critical thinking, and build a respectful and collaborative classroom community.
Gay Life Under Nazi Rule: The Legacy of Paragraph 175
Students watch survivor testimony from the documentary Paragraph 175 and engage in purposeful reflection about the survivors’ important stories.
Nine YA Reading Recs for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Celebrate AAPI coming-of-age stories with this list of YA fiction and non-fiction titles curated by Facing History staff.
Expressing Diversity in Jewish Identity: Blending In and Standing Out
This two-day lesson uses the story of Purim as a frame to examine how Jews have preserved and protected their identities and culture in dominant societies by choosing when to blend in and when to stand out.
Borders & Belonging
This modular ELA collection for grades 7–12 invites students to explore the complicated world of belonging and the tangible and intangible borders that shape it.
Introducing Our New Borders & Belonging Collection
Explore our second thematic teaching collection created for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
Honoring Arab American Heritage, Stories, and Changemakers
Explore the history of Arab people in the United States and how they have shaped American culture and society.
Recap: Digging Deeper at Facing History's Immigration Summit
Facing History reflects on Identity, Membership, and Belonging: A Summit on Teaching Immigration.