Home / Online CampusStudy Guides Facing History has produced classroom study materials to accompany books, films, and other multimedia resources used to teach lessons of identity, membership in society, and the legacies of history and prejudice. The study guides currently available are listed below. Educators in the Facing History network may borrow books and multimedia from our Lending Library, and other printed materials may also be purchased from Facing History.
| America and the Holocaust | |  America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference offers a disturbing look at the choices Americans made at a time when the Germans were labeling, isolating, humiliating, and eventually murdering. |
| American Love Story, An | |  An American Love Story chronicles a year and a half in the life of an interracial family in Flushing, a section of Queens in New York City, as they try to figure out a way to overcome instances of racism. |
| Anne Frank in the World Exhibit | |  The purpose of this guide is to prepare teachers and students to view the exhibition, Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945, while incorporating perspectives and themes highlighted in the Facing History and Ourselves program. |
| Becoming American | |  Becoming American: The Chinese Experience describes the ways the first arrivals from China in the 1840s, their descendants, and recent immigrants have “become American.” It is a story about identity and belonging that will resonate with all Americans. |
| Children of Willesden Lane, The | |  This Teacher's Resource provides a meaningful but flexible structure for examining the story Mona Golabek tells and relating it to historical and current events. It is designed for use with middle and high school students in English, social studies, music, and/or interdisciplinary studies. |
| Choosing to Participate Study Guide | |  Choosing To Participate focuses on a time in American history when people were struggling to expand democratic traditions and strengthen democratic ideals. The readings focus on the 1950s and early 1960s. |
| Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers | |  This study guide accompanies Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers, an extraordinary documentary about the efforts of South Africans to deal with their past—specifically the years of apartheid. |
| Family Name | |  Family Name documents Macky Alston’s efforts to confront his family’s history and relate what he learned to his own identity. It is a journey with both particular and universal implications. |
| Farewell to Manzanar | |  Farewell to Manzanar begins on the first Sunday in December of 1941, the day Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It is a day that changes Jeanne’s life and the lives of everyone in her family. |
| Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezin | |  This study guide is designed to help teachers and their students use the CD, Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezín, to explore the role of the arts and artists in that extraordinary place. |
| From Modern Art to Degenerate Art | |  In 1937, Germany’s National Socialist government seized over 16,000 modernist artworks by over 1,400 artists from German public museums and displayed over 650 of them in the Entartete Kunst, or Degenerate Art exhibition. |
| Ghetto Life 101 | |  The idea for Ghetto Life 101 came from David Isay, a New York writer and producer. He was asked to make a documentary for a public radio station in Chicago as part of a series on issues of race and ethnicity in the city. Instead of interviewing scholars and other experts on urban life, Isay decided to ask young people who lived in urban neighborhoods to tell their own stories. |
| Giver, The | |  Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a futuristic society in which all the needs of its citizens seem to have been met. They are protected from poverty, hunger, disease and violence. When Jonas is given his lifetime assignment, he becomes the receiver of "the memories of the whole world" that are held by just one other person in the community. |
| I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People During the Holocaust (Salvaged Pages) | |  During the Holocaust, a handful of young people chose to write and record in diaries throughout Europe. The documentary film developed by MTV, I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust, weaves together excerpts of young writers’ diaries covering the years 1937 - 1944 and is based on the book Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, by Alexandra Zapruder. |
| Lost Childhoods | |  This study guide accompanies three documentaries: The Lost Boys of Sudan, Discovering Dominga, and The Flute Player. All three focus on the individuals who were orphaned as a result of a war in their homeland. |
| Matters of Race | |  Matters of Race is a four-part documentary series that explores race, culture, and identity in the United States today. Each of the 60-minute programs focuses on a single story or set of stories that reveals how “matters of race” continue to shape and misshape American life. |
| Memphis: Building Community | |  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. |
| New England Holocaust Memorial | |  Our identity is shaped, at least in part, by our history. One way a community builds and preserves memory is through monuments that honor its heroes or mark its tragedies. |
| Night | |  Night by Elie Wiesel—a memoir that focuses on the final year of the Holocaust—a year the author spent at Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp. The Central Question: What is the relationship between our sto |
| Night - Revised for New 2006 Translation | |  Night by Elie Wiesel—a memoir that focuses on the final year of the Holocaust—a year the author spent at Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp. The Central Question: What is the relationship between our sto |
| Participating in Democracy: Choosing to Make a Difference | |  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. |
| Rescuers of the Holocaust: Boston Exhibit | |  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. |
| Schindler's List | |  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. |
| Survivors of the Holocaust | |  Immediately after World War II, Nazi leaders were brought to trial at Nuremberg, Germany for “crimes against humanity” and other war crimes. At those trials, the world heard evidence solely of what the perpetrators did. The voices of victims were not given full expression until decades later. |
| Survivors: Testimonies of the Holocaust | |  After hearing a survivor speak, many students express outrage at the behavior not only of the perpetrators but also of the bystanders. How, they wonder, could people turn away, as friends and neighbors were stripped of rights, possessions, family, name, and ultimately life itself? |
| Twilight, Los Angeles | |  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. Together they raise questions about race, power, truth, and justice. |
| Twilight, Los Angeles (Espanol) | |  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. |
| Two Towns of Jasper | |  We have known each other for twenty-five years. We attended the same high school, shared holidays and weddings, and at times even lived in each other’s homes. Both of us went to similar northeastern |
| Warriors Don't Cry | |  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. |
|
|
This guide is designed to accompany the resource book Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior published by Facing History. Reading the chapter overviews and the suggested backgroun
