Resource Theme: Identity
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 resource guide supports educators in teaching about the historical construction of race, the rise of pseudoscientific racism, and the impact of dehumanizing ideologies. It includes strategies, activities, and…
180-240 Minutes
Grades 6-12
This mini-unit explores the experiences of Jewish communities in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia before and during World War II and the Holocaust. Through primary sources, personal reflections, and…
120-180 Minutes
Grades 9-12
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
This lesson features excerpts from Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto. It is a portrait of an individual, Rywka Lipszyc, her strength, spirit,…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12
This lesson focuses on the role of eugenics in the discriminatory patterns behind immigration to the United States in the late 19th/early 20th century. Students will explore the push…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 7-12
Four interactive webquests that teach students why and how to resist antisemitism. Lessons can be taught individually or combined….
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-12
This lesson uses excerpts from the graphic novel A Bag of Marbles, to deepen understanding of identity, choice, and behavior during wartime. Students learn about the experience of two…
120-180 Minutes
Grades 9-12