A scholarly work (complete with teachers' resources and primary source compilations) regarding the background of the Nanjing Atrocities, the atrocities as history, the resulting International trial, and the differing memories that have developed.
Through poetry and testimony, Sonia Schreiber Weitz gives life to the millions of children, men and women who were murdered during the Holocaust. Sonia was 11 years old when her family and other Polish Jews were herded into ghettos and forced to live in treacherous conditions that often led to death. Of the 84 members of her family, Sonia and her sister Blanca were the sole survivors. To help cope with her emotions, Sonia turned to writing poetry at an early age. Today she teaches and lectures to adults and children about the Holocaust.
How is our identity shaped and reshaped by the circumstances we encounter? How do tragedy and trauma influence an individual’s identity and choices? Teaching “Night” interweaves a literary analysis of Elie Wiesel’s powerful and poignant memoir with an exploration of the relevant historical context that surrounded his experience during the Holocaust.
This resource further aligns our Choices in Little Rock unit with the Common Core State Standards through an argumentative writing assignment. Choices in Little Rock is a teaching unit that focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, and explores civic choices -- the decisions people make as citizens in a democracy. This supplement includes specific writing prompts and teaching strategies that ask students to use evidence as they craft a formal argumentative essay. In addition, the resource features effective writing strategies for the social studies classroom.
This resource connects our core work, Holocaust and Human Behavior, with writing prompts that align with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards. This supplementary guide includes specific writing prompts and teaching strategies that ask students to use evidence as they craft a formal argumentative essay. The resource features effective writing strategies for general use in the social studies or English classroom.
This guide provides engaging activities, teaching strategies, and recommended media to structure your students' reading of Melbe Patillo Beals' memoir about her experience as one of the Little Rock nine.
Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians combines the latest scholarship on the Armenian Genocide with an interdisciplinary approach to history, enabling students and teachers to make the essential connections between history and their own lives. By concentrating on the choices that individuals, groups, and nations made before, during, and after the genocide, readers have the opportunity to consider the dilemmas faced by the international community in the face of massive human rights violations. While focusing on the Armenian Genocide during World War I, the book considers the many legacies of the Armenian Genocide including Turkish denial and the struggle for the recognition of genocide as a "crime against humanity." The book can be integrated into courses dealing with multiple genocides, human rights, 19th century and World War I history, as well as US-international relations.
This resource on the Eugenics movement of the early 1900s will deepen students' understanding of the history of racism in the United States.
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: A Supplement to Civil Rights Historical Investigations is a resource that further aligns our Civil Rights Historical Investigations units with the Common Core State Standards through an argumentative writing assessment. The three Civil Rights Historical Investigation units require students to "do" history-to gather evidence from primary documents, use that evidence to make claims about the past, and then apply what they learn to their own lives today. This supplement includes specific writing prompts and teaching strategies that ask students to use this evidence to craft a formal argumentative essay about the civil rights movement. In addition, the resource features effective writing strategies for the social studies classroom.
Help students understand that their voices are integral to the story of the United States with six lesson plans that investigate individual and national identity.