Curated OER
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Eleventh graders write a two to three page paper addressing one of the following topics: Analyze the values and beliefs of the two conflicting cultures. Explain which values seem to dominate within the conflict and why. They brainstorm...
Curated OER
World War II History Textbooks Project
Students, in groups, research and compare how events of World War II are treated in various countries' school textbooks through linking with another classroom from that country.
Curated OER
Forget Us Not
Young scholars read a literary selection about the Holocaust. They examine a website with art and poems created by students regarding this topic. Then they create poetry that demonstrates their understanding of the literary selection on...
Curated OER
Build a Connection
Learners discuss their personal connections with stories they've read in the past and identify techniques to connect with more stories. They create illustrations, construct task cards, and complete sentence stems based on books they read...
Curated OER
Connection Stems
Students connect their lives to a story or nonfiction text. In this reading connections lesson, students make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they complete connections stems based on a story.
Curated OER
America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Five
Students read and write poems for two voices about the Civil Rights Movement.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Types of Conflict: Lesson 6
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the range of ways conflict can occur in the world. It is 6 of 7 in the series titled "Types of Conflict."
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Examining Plot Conflict Through a Comparison/contrast Essay
Contains plans for six lessons that ask learners to examine types of conflict (character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, and character vs. society) before writing essays that compare and contrast two conflicts....
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: If Everything Is Genocide
The author of this article discusses remarks by a Hamas representative where he compared the situation in Gaza to what happened during the Holocaust. His words were repeated before the UN Security Council. The author labels this type of...