Resistance from Aristotle to Star Wars

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.04.12

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background Knowledge & Content
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix On Implementing District Standards.
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Notes

Far Far Away and Close to Home: Fascism and Resistance Through Star Wars

Christopher De Matteo

Published September 2026

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Appendix On Implementing District Standards.

Standards – State of Virginia, 2023: Virginia and United States History, 11th Grade. These can easily be cross-referenced with other standards, especially World History, 1500 – Present.

VUS.12.b – The student will apply history and social science skills to understand key international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies of the 1920s and 1930s by analyzing the connections between the Bolshevik Revolution and the First Red Scare, anarchist bombings, and the Palmer Raids; This unit discusses fascism as a response to communism, including the Bolshevik Revolution. Comparisons can be made between the fear of communism in Europe and the Red Scare in the 1st United States.

VUS.14.a,c,f – The student will apply history and social science skills to analyze the United States’ involvement in World War II by comparing and contrasting totalitarianism in Imperial Japan, communist Soviet Union, fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany…analyzing the Holocaust, beginning with the history and role of antisemitism in the persecution of Jews, the persecutions of other targeted groups, challenges related to the immigration of Jews, and Hitler’s “Final Solution.”

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