Choosing to Participate
This section focuses on how understanding the past can connect with the issues of today. Contemporary stories show how history is made every day by ordinary human beings. Students begin to understand that they also have the power to change the course of history through their own individual actions. They explore what it means to be a citizen in a democracy, to exercise ones rights and responsibilities in the service of a more humane and compassionate world.
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Choosing to Participate Study Guide This study guide is no longer available. Please visit the new Choosing to Participate Resource Book. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Eyes on the Prize Study Guide
Eyes on the Prize offers important lessons about the power of ordinary citizens to shape democracy. This study guide provides teachers with an invaluable resource that brings this landmark television documentary into the classroom and insures its legacy in the education of our students. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Memphis: Building Community Study Guide
Day in and day out, our morning newspapers and evening newscasts document the consequences of our failure to value one another. It is a failure of truly global proportions.
Memphis: Building Community recalls the voices of a few courageous individuals who tried to promote democracy by shattering the barriers that divide the people of Memphis and the nation. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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One World: Connecting Communities, Cultures, and Classrooms
Developed
through the support and vision of the NFL and NFLPA, and created by
Scholastic Inc. in collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves, One World: Connecting Communities, Cultures, and Classrooms is a 10-lesson program for educators and parents to use with their 4-6th
graders. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Participating in Democracy: Choosing to Make a Difference Study Guide
Participating in Democracy explores the challenges and possibilities of citizenship by highlighting the stories of four young Americans. Their work deepens and expands our understanding of the word citizen and helps us see good citizenship as a creative act - a work of the imagination. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Rescuers of the Holocaust: Boston Exhibit Study Guide
The rescuers acted at a time when most people saw themselves as helpless. Their action deepens our understanding of the ways one person can make a difference. They also expand our understanding of citizenship by helping us see good citizenship as a creative act - a work of the imagination. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Schindler's List Study Guide
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Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Twilight, Los Angeles Study Guide
Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles directed by Marc Levin examines the event from a variety of perspectives. She has collected fragments of monologues that both invite and provoke conversation. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Twilight, Los Angeles (Espanol) Study Guide
El film, dirigido por Marc Levin y basado en la obra teatral de Anna Deveare Smith, examina el evento desde varias perspectives. Utiliza los fragmentos de conversación recogidos por ella para fomentar el diálogo sobre las razas, el poder, la verdad y la justicia. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
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Warriors Don't Cry Study Guide
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals-a first-hand account of the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. The book explores not only the power of racism but also such ideas as justice, identity, loyalty, and choice. |
Publication | February 23, 2008 |
Schindler's List, the award-winning film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian based on the book by Thomas Keneally, tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a war profiteer and member of the Nazi party who saved over 1,000 Jews during World War II. The movie explores the human capacity for monumental evil as well as for extraordinary courage, caring, and compassion.
