World History · Week 22 · World War I and Its Aftermath
Making Peace at Versailles
Students compare the Fourteen Points with the Treaty of Versailles and consider what makes a peace last or fail after serious harm.
- Students will
- Students compare the Fourteen Points with the Treaty of Versailles and evaluate what makes a peace last, including effects of the US rejection of the League of Nations.
- SEL skill
- Discuss how repair and accountability can rebuild trust after harm
- What it looks like
- Students practice repair and trust building after harm and consider forgiveness and accountability.
- Content focus
- Peace after the Great War
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
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What you get
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Standards
- 10.6.1: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.6, item 1)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HREP3 Evaluate major debates among historians about alternative interpretations of the past. (Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.3.9-12 Analyze how constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements maintain national and international order.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims.
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- Workers Speak Together Relationship skillsStudents learn how early unions organized for shorter hours and safer workplaces and practice voicing a shared need respectfully as a group.
- Gandhi and Nonviolent Resistance Relationship skillsStudents study how Gandhi and millions of Indians used nonviolent resistance to win independence and practice standing firm without harming others.
- The Holocaust and the Choice to Rescue Relationship skillsStudents learn how Nazi racial policy became the Final Solution that murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others, and study rescuers and resisters to consider what it takes to be an upstander.
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