Resource Common Core: CCSS.ELA.SL.8.1, 9-10.1, 11-12.1

Media Literacy: Analyzing Propaganda – the Holocaust as a Case Study

This lesson explores the connection between ideology and propaganda. Students learn about the history of antisemitism, and contemporary antisemitic tropes, designed to promote empathy and developing critical thinking. The…

180-240 Minutes

Grades 8-12

Teaching About Genocide

After defining the term genocide, this lesson provides four examples for comparative analysis: the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, and the Rwandan Genocide. Using artifacts and testimonies…

180-240 Minutes

Grades 9-12

Teaching About Resistance During the Holocaust with Primary Sources

Drawing from the archives of the Warsaw Ghetto, this lesson helps students grapple with the question of how we form a factual knowledge of history through analysis of primary…

120-180 Minutes

Grades 8-12

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