INTRODUCTION:

Introduction: The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction states overall goals for each level of education. The overall goal in history instruction for high school is as follows: High school students engage in more sophisticated analysis and reconstruction of the past, examining its relationship to the present and its implications for the future. They integrate individual stories about people, events, and situations to form broader concepts in which continuity and change are linked in time and across cultures. At the high school level, students are able to think systematically about personal, national, and global decisions, interactions, and consequences, including addressing critical issues such as peace, human rights, trade, and global ecology. Students also learn how to draw on their knowledge of history in order to make informed choices and decisions in the present. The teachers use The Diary of Anne Frank and Night to use individual stories about people, events and situations to form broader concepts and to address human rights. They use materials such as encyclopedias and journal articles to encourage research into the history of the Holocaust and World War II. Maps are used to show students locations, numbers, and changes in population.