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How Historical Empathy Helps Students Understand the World Today

By Facing History & Ourselves

Collection
Instructional Guides
Subject
English Language Arts
Grades
Grades 7-12
Format
Lesson Page
Curriculum
Curriculum alignment not recorded
Publisher or host
facinghistory.org
Source language
English

Classroom fit

Defines historical empathy as understanding people in the past by contextualizing their actions. This is exactly the cognitive move the fictional / historical 1958 Harlem dual layer asks students to make. Free.

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