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Objective:
-Students will recognize the shifts
of borders and populations as a result of the war
-Students will be able to define the
role of the League of Nations and explain why it did not meet its
goals
-Students will compare and contrast
the League with more modern peace-keeping bodies like the United
Nations
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Objective:
-Students
will examine the influence of the war on art, literature, and culture
-Students will identify current movements
in the arts in response to modern war
-Students will express their individual
voices through art
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Objective:
-Students will associate the results
of discontent after the war with the next conflict
-Students will construct a timeline
of events before, during, and after the war
-Students will add to their prior knowledge
of people and events they may have heard of before
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Objective:
-Students will demonstrate comprehension
of topics presented in this World War One unit by satisfactorily
completing an end of unit examination that will address virtually
all of what we have covered in these four weeks
-Students will also be assessed through
completion of end of unit projects that were introduced at the end
of Week 2
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Objective:
-Students
will present their work in an Armistice Day Fair that will encompass
all that they have learned during the course of this unit
-Students will be evaluated on the
strength of their individual and group projects and will be expected
to show good effort, creativity, knowledge of the material, a willingness
to work with others, and command of literacy
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Literacy:
-Students will build literacy skills
by writing a list of events that they think may occur as a result
of the border and population shifts
-Students will build literacy by researching
online the newly created countries, and writing a few paragraphs
about them
-Students will build writing and critical
thinking literacy with a short 1-2 page in-class/homework essay
on how the League and U.N. were alike or different and whether they
succeeded or failed in their missions
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Literacy:
-Students will build literacy in reading
varied types of literary styles by several authors
-Students will build art and music
literacy by being exposed to many types of both and writing reflections
about them
-Students will develop vocabulary,
speaking, and comprehension skills by reading literary excerpts
aloud in class
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Literacy:
-Students will develop critical thinking
skills by constructing a logical chronology of events, after reading
them from a list
-Students will read translated excerpts
of "Mein Kampf" and watch newsreels of fascist rallies
to build vocabulary, visual, and reading literacy
-Students will gain literacy about
the effects of economic depression and the rise of totalitarian
governments
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Literacy:
-Students will demonstrate literacy
in reading various and complex texts, expository writing, analyzing
sources, critiquing poems, recognizing bias, propaganda, and censorship
in the media, writing lists of events, putting events in proper
chronological sequence, recognizing spatial relationships, locating
places on a map, describing cause and effect relationships, utilizing
oral communication skills, and relying on critical thinking skills
for continued success
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Literacy:
-Students
will demonstrate literacy by writing diaries, letters, essays, poems,
rap songs, and book and movie reviews, using what they have learned
of new vocabulary, comprehension, evaluating, paraphrasing, critiquing,
summarizing, and analyzing text. They will also show growth in literacy
in art, music, foreign languages, music, math, and science with
projects that incorporate these aspects into an expression of the
studentsâ collective and individual voice.
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