Curated teaching resource
How Historical Empathy Helps Students Understand the World Today
By Facing History & Ourselves
- Collection
- Teaching Activities
- Subject
- English Language Arts
- Grades
- Grades 7-12
- Format
- lesson-page
- Curriculum
- Cross-curricular
- Publisher or host
- facinghistory.org
Why this resource is included
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.