Unit Standards

Unit: Wartime Experiences: 1941-1942

Essential Question: How did individuals experience the war?

Standards: Proficiency Based Graduation Requirements: Global Citizenship: Vermont

1. Inquiry: Ask focused, probing, and significant questions that encourage inquiry around an issue of personal, community, or global relevance; revise explanations as necessary based on personal reflection, peer critique, and/or expert opinion; solicit and respond to feedback; identify possibilities for continued or further research.

2. History: Describe how life in the United States and/or the world has both changed and stayed the same over time and explain why these changes have occurred;  identify different types of primary and secondary sources; evaluate the credibility of differing accounts of the same event(s).

Already I have made changes to my unit outline; I narrowed my essential question and expanded the unit standards.  This unit will focus on the Inquiry and History standards that will guide my unit.

My goals for my unit (based on standards):
-I want to create lessons that are discussion-based, in which students can ask myself and their peers questions, share ideas, and receive feedback.  Social learning will hold an important place in my unit.
-I want this unit to be reading and writing intensive.  Students will read a variety of texts (diaries, informational accounts), in which they will need to understand the difference between primary and secondary sources.  They will also read texts from diverse perspectives.  For instance, we may look at the Blitz from the German and British perspective.  Students will find that these perspectives are greatly different and will have to ask themselves, "Are both sides credible?" Similarly, I will ask students to complete various writing assignments, one in which students will write a journal as if they were living during WWII.  Students will receive frequent feedback on their writing and will hand in multiple drafts.