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OVERVIEW
INTRODUCTORY / PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS
Video: San Francisco Intro to Facing History and Ourselves
Scope and Sequence / Pedagogical Triangle
HANDOUT: Pedagogical Triangle Viewing Guide
Curriculum Connections Document
Teaching Emotionally Challenging Content
HANDOUT: Levels of Questioning – Windows and Mirrors
HANDOUT: Analyzing Levers of Power
IDENTITY AND MEMBERSHIP
VIDEO: Danger of a Single Story
Jewish Life Before the War, Images
WE AND THEY
Reading 2.14: “From Religious Prejudice to Antisemitism
ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR I
VIDEO: Propaganda During World War I: An Appeal to You!
HANDOUT: World War I Map Analysis Organizer
THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
The Rise of the Nazis (1919-1934)
Creating a Constitutional Government
VIDEO: Facing History Scholar Reflections: Paul Bookbinder on The Weimar Republic
VIDEO: Hitler’s Rise to Power 1918-1933
HANDOUT: Close Viewing -Hitler’s Rise to Power
The Beginning of the Nazi Party
Antisemitism and Eugenices
VIDEO: Ancient Roots of Anti-Judaism
Antisemitism and Jewish Identity
The Myth of a Jewish Conspiracy
Who is to Blame for the Inflation?
Attitudes Toward Life and Death
Economics and Politics
Art and Culture
From Unrest to Peace and Prosperity
Visual Essay: Free Expression in the Weimar Republic
Youth and Belonging in the Weimar Republic
A WAR FOR RACE AND SPACE
VIDEO: Hitler’s Ideology – Race, Land, and Conquest
HANDOUT: Race and Space Reading Analysis Graphic Organizer
PRESERVING THE STORIES OF SURVIVORS
A Basic Feeling of Human Dignity
JUSTICE AFTER AND LEGACIES OF THE HOLOCAUST
VIDEO: Danger in Forgetting: Eyewitness to the Holocaust – Sonia Weitz
VIDEO: Benjamin Ferencz – Watcher of the Sky
Reading 10.1: “Revenge” (p. 554)
Reading 10.14: “The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness” (p. 591)
Acknowledging the Past to Shape the Present
CHOOSING TO PARTICIPATE
VIDEO: Tragedy into Hope: Students Rally to Memorialize the Lynching of Ell Persons