New Jersey

New Jersey Social Studies Curriculum Framework, Chapter 2: Understanding History, Standard 6.4: Social History, Learning Activities for Grades 9-12 – World History period, requires that students in the public schools:
Locate and read other eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust and of other tragic examples of human destruction in history, such as the genocide of the Armenians; the horrors of Stalin’s planned famine in the Ukraine, the genocide in Cambodia or Rwanda, the Trail of Tears in American history, the treatment of the Aborigines in Australia, the forced immigration and enslavement of Africans, and countless other examples of inhumanity.  Compare and contrast the authors’ views, thoughts, emotions, and experiences with those recorded by Anne Frank.