Triarchic Teaching Template
Subject/Grade: U.S. History, Eighth Grade Topic/Concept: Civil Rights Movement/Holocaust
Learning Goals: Analytical Task Directions:
Students will Justify/defend the position that Jim Crow America and Nazi
… perceive the similarities and differences between the Germany were qualitatively equivalent, or…
Holocaust and the experiences of African-Americans. Justify/defend the position that Jim Crow America and Nazi
Germany were qualitatively different.
Students should understand that
…post-WWII American leaders failed to recognize that the Students may use debate, persuasive essays, or speeches to
African-American experience was analogous to the experience of present their viewpoint.
Jews in Hitler’s Germany. Creative Task Directions:
Find a new way to show the similarities between the Jewish
Know (facts, definitions, concrete information) experience in Nazi Germany and the African-American
Holocaust experience in Jim Crow America, or…
The Final Solution Become a Jew in Nazi Germany or an African-American in
Genocide Jim Crow America and use your “new” perspective to help
Death camps think about your counterpart in the other nation.
Civil rights
Prejudice and discrimination Students may use creative writing, drama, songs, or poems to
Segregation present their viewpoint.
Jim Crow laws Practical Task Directions:
Lynching Use your knowledge of Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America
to develop a plan to combat prejudice and discrimination in
Be Able To (thinking skills, skills of the discipline) the 21st Century, or…
Connect the experiences of Jews in Nazi Germany and
…explain the events of the Holocaust and the experiences of African-Americans in Jim Crow America to the problem of
African-Americans from Reconstruction to WWII, analyzing bullying in school and ways to solve that problem.
the similarities and differences between Jim Crow America and
Nazi Germany. Students may use charts, diagrams, posters, film, or other
media to present their viewpoint.
Designed by Jessica Hockett, based on Sternberg & Grigorenko (2003)