Identity+and+Awareness

=**Identity and Awareness**=

__**Pacing:**__
3 weeks

__**Essential Question:**__
Who are you and how do you fit in this world?



__**Instructional Focus:**__
team building activities multiple intelligences SMART goals

cultural identity concepts: gender, race, ethnicity, culture, language, ethnocentrism, prejudice, discrimination, racism

continents oceans countries of study: USA, USSR/Russia, China, India, Great Britain/England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Israel, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, South Africa, Rwanda

primary vs. secondary sources

analyzing historical documents (SOAPS)

__**Learning Objectives:**__
1. Contribute in a meaningful way to the creation and sustainability of a classroom community*

2. Reflect of personal learning strengths and weaknesses/areas for improvement*

3. Develop a plan for how one will use identified strengths and build on weaknesses to be successful*

4. Set a SMART goal for success in 20th century and 9th grade*

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">5. Define and describe one’s identity as a member of the global community (i.e. gender, race, ethnicity, culture, language, history, ethnocentrism)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">6. Identify major regions of the world

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">7. Describe the role of an essential question and how it guides our thinking and learning

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">8. Distinguish between and provide an example of primary and secondary sources

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">9. Analyze a historical document using SOAPS

__**Common Assessment:**__
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">District Benchmark Assessment Term 1