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Topic: Geography of WWI
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Topic: Causes of Conflict: Imperialism
and Arms Race
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Topic: Cause of Conflict: Crises, Small
Wars, and Calls for Peace
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Topic: Causes of Conflict: Alliances
and Conflicting Interests
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Topic: Death of Franz Ferdinand and
Start of War
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Objective:
-Students will be able to identify
geographic aspects of the entire war zone
-Students will be able to locate and
label countries, cities, and geographic factors on a map of the
world
-Students will become familiar with
major and minor areas of conflict
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Objective:
-Students will recall how imperialism
created tension among nations
-Students will recognize that colonies
had no voice in who governed them
-Students will be able to explain how
military supremacy was integral to imperialism
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Objective:
-Students will compare and contrast
small wars for independence and conquest
-Students will examine reasons for
discontent and list reasons for oppressing others
-Students will review peace conferences,
court decisions, and several attempts at conflict resolution
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Objective:
-Students will engage in debate about
dangers of alliances
-Students will role-play different
groups involved in conflict to understand and voice their arguments
-Students will summarize arguments
for and against war
-Students will weigh importance of
alliances of many types
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Objective:
-Students will evaluate and debate
arguments for and against war
-Students will hypothesize whether
war was inevitable
-Students will criticize course of
events leading to war
-Students will show an understanding
of the multiple causes of the war
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Literacy:
-Students will develop intra-personal
skills by working together in a group map-making project
-Students will read and follow directions
for project, locating and labeling items on map in sequence
-Students will encounter new vocabulary
and utilize spatial relationship skills
-Students will develop writing skills
through quick-write and reflection entries in notebooks
-Importantly, students will be able
to apply these skills throughout this course and across content
areas, and in many practical ways outside of the classroom
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Literacy:
-Students will develop literacy about
imperialism and the reasons behind it
-Students will read selected sources
from the book Dreadnought and analyze them for bias, motive,
and strength of argument
-Students will read and summarize primary
sources from colonists and determine why their voices were ignored
-Students will increase their reading
comprehension and vocabulary by reading and analyzing these sources
-Students develop important oral communication
skills in explaining how they interpreted the readings
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Literacy:
-Students will develop literacy in
locating places on maps and making connections as to their strategic
importance
-Students will encounter new vocabulary
and define new legal concepts
-Students will analyze "sick man
of Europe" quote and evaluate its correctness
-Students will read court decisions
and rephrase them in standard English
-Students will be able to synthesize
a course of events and be able to predict its outcome
-Students will touch on workings of
political science, and more importantly, understand the importance
of conflict resolution
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Literacy:
-Students will develop literacy skills
by writing scripts and acting them out to the class
-Students will improve oral communication
skills with group work
-Students will express their ideas
in a logical fashion and defend their arguments, both orally and
in writing
-Students will criticize arguments
of others and point out flaws in logic
-Students will apply prior knowledge
of the subject
-Students will write opinions based
on facts
-Most importantly, students will develop
critical thinking skills and learn the fine art of listening to
others and their viewpoints
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Literacy:
-Students will build literacy in reading
sources and analyzing their content
-Students will develop their comprehension
and vocabulary skills by reading and paraphrasing sources
-Students will add to their debating
skills and defend their arguments by citing facts
-Students will be able to theorize
steps in a cause-and-effect relationship and follow a line of reasoning
to a logical conclusion
-Most importantly, students will be
able to employ these skills across many content areas and outside
the classroom
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