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Critical Content/Concept Web
**Unit Theme**: Explanatory/Informational Writing **Conceptual Lens**: Change **Unit Length**: 6-8 weeks **Grade Level(s)** : 6th grade


 * ===Unit Overview === ||
 * Ever wonder why the world is so different now than 30 years ago? In this unit students will explore their own family's perspective on events in history and the changes that take place as a direct effect of those events. Students will then use their inferring skills to predict how current events in our country may effective their future. ||

Inferring Listening and Speaking || Research Skills Primary Sources ||
 * **English ** || **Social Studies ** ||
 * Explanatory Writing

Understandings:
<span style="background-color: #d94fe0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Students will understand that events in history can change our daily lives and our future.

<span style="background-color: #d94fe0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Essential Question:
<span style="background-color: #d94fe0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> How can events in history directly affect our present lives and our future?

<span style="background-color: #d94fe0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Mission Statement:
<span style="background-color: #d94fe0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">The Windham School System is committed to providing an environment suitable for the intellectual, cultural, social and physical development which will enable each student to make responsible and effective decisions and to become a contributing member of our society. Realizing that each student is unique, we set expectations and provide opportunities for individuals to pursue goals and aspirations through a quality educational program.

<span style="background-color: #d94fe0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Students will build a foundation for a lifelong process of learning by developing and acquiring skills in critical and logical thinking, effective listening, and reading, writing and speaking. Students will explore opportunities that foster an appreciation for aesthetics and our cultural and historical heritage, that stress physical health and fitness, that teach life skills, and that prepare them for further academic studies and vocational pursuits.

<span style="background-color: #d94fe0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">We will inspire in students the desire to achieve excellence throughout life, both in the learning process and in the workplace, thereby promoting a cooperative attitude toward others and a positive self-image.