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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.
Teaching An Inspector Calls
Use this unit to transform how you teach J.B. Priestley's play and support your students in becoming effective writers, critical thinkers, and socially responsible citizens, who excel in their GCSEs.
Holocaust and Human Behavior: A Facing History & Ourselves High School Elective Course
This curriculum is designed for Tennessee and Southeast educators teaching a high school elective course on the history of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide.
Journaling in a Reflective Classroom
In this classroom video, middle school students acclimate to using journals during the first week of school.
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human Behavior
This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Holocaust and Human Behavior with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
Tea and Consent
This video, promoted by Thames Valley Police, approaches the matter of consent by comparing it to accepting a cup of tea.
Brown Girl Dreaming
Through using free-verse poetry, the author shares her childhood memories of growing up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Sorry We Missed You Trailer
In this trailer for the film Sorry We Missed You, director Ken Loach highlights the devastating impacts of the gig economy.
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.
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.
A Letter to Teachers: This is Facing History
Margot Stern Strom, students and educators discuss Facing History’s story and impact.
Teaching Farewell to Manzanar
Use this guide to Jeanne Wakatsuki's memoir about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II to develop students' literacy skills and increase understanding of this history.