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Identity & Community: An Introduction to 6th Social S...

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This unit was developed for sixth grade social studies students in Memphis public schools. The content and teaching activities suggested in these ten lesson plans explore themes of identity and community, while helping students and teachers build a productive, safe learning environment. They are ...

11/13/2009
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Identity & Community Lesson 1: Who am I?

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"Who am I?" is a question we all ask at some time in our lives. It is an especially critical question for adolescents. As students study world history, they will explore how individuals and groups over time and across continents have answered questions about identity.

11/13/2009
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facinghistoryorg's document Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World has been made a featured document on Scribd. Congratulations!

Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging i...

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This resource book reflects the way that migration affects personal, group and national identity and offers educators and students the resources to examine this migration through methods of storytelling. It reveals experiences of immigrants from the individual to the collective through memoirs, j...

11/02/2009
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Choosing to Participate

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Choosing to Participate focuses on the civic choices — both large and small — people make about themselves and others in their community, nation, and world. As teachers and students explore the readings in this collection they will come to understand that choices people make may not seem importan...

10/22/2009
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Choosing to Participate

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Choosing to Participate focuses on the civic choices — both large and small — people make about themselves and others in their community, nation, and world. As teachers and students explore the readings in this collection they will come to understand that choices people make may not seem importan...

10/22/2009
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Teaching Red Scarf Girl

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Teaching Red Scarf Girl has been developed to help classrooms explore essential themes, including conformity, obedience, prejudice and justice. This study guide accompanies Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li Jiang’s engaging memoir which provides an insightful window into the first tumultuous years of the Cu...

10/22/2009
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Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain

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In a time when debates about national identity and integration have taken on increased urgency, Facing History and Ourselves introduces, Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain. It reveals experiences of newcomers and the dilemmas surrounding immigration—from the individual to the col...

09/10/2009
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A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement the Murder ...

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Lesson two deepen students understanding of the murder of Emmett Till by introducing aspects of the historical context that influenced the decisions made by individuals involved in this event.

06/15/2009
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Decision-Making Injustice Introduction

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Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.

05/26/2009

Introduction: What is Facing History and Ourselves?

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Our materials and pedagogy challenge students to confront moral dilemmas that arise in history and in their own lives, reflect upon choices made, and “choose to participate” in creating democratic communities.

05/26/2009

Introduction: Why Teach about the Holocaust and Human Beh...

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Facing History and Ourselves has helped educators around the world recognize the importance of teaching students about the events leading up to the Holocaust. While the context of Germany from 1920–1945 was certainly unique, in this history we can still find themes that are familiar to us today—th...

05/26/2009
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facinghistoryorg published:

Identity & Community Lesson 1: Who am I?

from facinghistoryorg in Books, Non-fiction

"Who am I?" is a question we all ask at some time in our lives. It is an especially critical question for adolescents. As students study world history, they will explore how individuals and groups over time and across continents have answered questions about identity.

05/14/2009
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facinghistoryorg uploaded a new revision for this document (#2) 11/13/2009

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facinghistoryorg uploaded a new revision for this document (#1) 11/13/2009

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facinghistoryorg published:

Identity & Community: An Introduction to 6th Social S...

from facinghistoryorg in Books, Non-fiction

This unit was developed for sixth grade social studies students in Memphis public schools. The content and teaching activities suggested in these ten lesson plans explore themes of identity and community, while helping students and teachers build a productive, safe learning environment. They are ...

05/14/2009
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facinghistoryorg uploaded a new revision for this document (#2) 11/13/2009

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facinghistoryorg uploaded a new revision for this document (#1) 11/13/2009

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Decision-Making_Injustice_Lesson 4

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While in Lesson 3 students explored how individuals define their own identities, in this lesson students consider how people are also defined by others. This lesson helps students understand the meaning of prejudice and stereotyping-concepts that are central to making sense of the historical cont...

05/05/2009
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Decision-Making_Injustice_Unit

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This curriculum is about more than the Holocaust. It's about the reading and the writing and the arithmetic of genocide, but it's also about such R's as rethinking, reflecting, and reasoning. It's about prejudice, discrimination and scapegoating; but it's also about human dignity, morality, law, ...

05/05/2009

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