In this lesson, students will identify a pivotal event in world history that they would have liked to have witnessed. They will then research this event and write a first-person account of it as if they had been present. In this lesson, students explore the intersection between immigration and America's vision of itself. They conduct research on the various political parties of Israel and create campaign slogans and posters based on their findings. The names of all the major Israeli political parties and brief descriptions can be found at the following web site.
Teachers can choose which parties to assign to each group.
In this lesson, students will consider the giving and receiving of aid from political rivals in the aftermath of natural disasters by learning about the earthquake in India and the international relief response it has induced. Students then learn about the face of slavery in different parts of the world and use the information to imagine what it would have been like to be a slave in a different time and place. Students then interview one another and write one another's stories. In this lesson, students research various international terrorist attacks, looking for the motivation of the perpetrators. After reading and analyzing an article on the training of extremist Islamic fighters in Afghanistan, students then discuss terrorism and ways the international community might respond to discourage future terrorist acts.