Resource Theme: Human Rights
This unit guide supports middle and high school educators in designing an English Language Arts unit that uses literature to engage students in exploring genocide, identity, and human rights….
180-240 Minutes
Grades 6-12
This lesson invites students to explore how communities remember the Holocaust and other genocides through memorials and monuments. By analyzing existing memorials and designing their own, students reflect on…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-12
The lessons in this unit increase students’ understanding of Jewish people and awareness that antisemitism did not end after the Holocaust, and provide them with opportunities to learn about…
180-240 Minutes
Grades 9-12
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny to explore how authoritarian regimes gain power and how individuals can protect democratic institutions. Through historical case studies, media…
120-180 Minutes
Grades 6-8
In this lesson, students explore how food, memory, and cultural preservation intersect in the aftermath of genocide. Using excerpts and recipes from Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love,…
60-120 Minutes
Grade 9-12, can be adapted for 8
Survivor: Aron’s Story is an award-winning hardcover illustrated graphic novel and history book based on the first hand Holocaust testimony of Aron, a young Jewish-Soviet boy from 1940s Odessa,…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-8. Extension activities for 9 - 12
Students learn about Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and children’s art during the Holocaust. A precursor to modern art therapy, Friedl used her art to help children hold on to hope. This…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 6-12