Unit 3
Unit 3
Essential Question:
How is Modern Technology Helpful and Harmful to Society?
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Highlights of Unit 3: Modern Technology
In this unit, students will learn about technology. They will consider concepts relating to how technology has benefited people and consider criticisms about how it has changed our relationships to one another. Students will read a variety of texts and listen to and view media as they discuss the Essential Question for the unit.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
As a class, in small groups, and independently, students will work to answer the question How is modern technology helpful and harmful to society? Give your student the opportunity to continue the discussion at home.
TALK IT OVER WITH YOUR STUDENT
•What are some of the ways you could answer the question How is modern technology helpful and harmful to society?
•What do these selections say about our relationship to technology? How can we learn to find a healthy balance with modern technology?
•Why do you think stories about technology are so popular in the media and in books and film?
The core novel "A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeline L'Engle, will supplement this unit and connect to the essential question of technology and how it can be both helpful and harmful to society.
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Additional Suggestions for trade books that will connect with this theme are:
Anything but Typical- by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Reading Lexile 640)
My Side of The Mountain- by Jean Craighead George (Reading Lexile 810)
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