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• Students will analyze the change over time in U.S. religion. • Students will analyze diversity in world religions.

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• Students will describe the distribution and spread of the witch trials of the late 1600s along the American colonies. • Students will measure distances between isolated communities during the time of the witch trials and understand how information spread between these communities.

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• Students will analyze the impact of tuberculosis on Edgar Allan Poe. • Students will analyze the impact of tuberculosis on modern society

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• Students will understand the impact of this battle on the Civil War. • Students will draw connections between Crane and this battle.

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• The learner will analyze Twain’s life journeys. • The learner will analyze the historical and cultural connections to Twain’s work.

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• Students will be able to identify essential services in a turn-of-the-century small American town and in their own community today. • Students will be able to see the relationship between services offered in a small community and the modes of transportation through time.

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• Students will explain how suburbs grew as the railroads expanded into rural areas. • Students will explain the importance of the geographic setting in the novel and describe how closely the author adhered to the actual geography.

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• Students will describe the changes in the distribution of the black population within the USA since 1930. • Students will describe the landscape of segregation and social inequities that were spotlighted in To Kill a Mockingbird.

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• Students will analyze the impact of the drought on characters. • Students will analyze the agricultural and economic influences in the literature.

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• Students will analyze the effects of the explosion on buildings and people. • Students will analyze the effects of the explosion on the environment.

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• Students will analyze the impact of Dr. King on the Civil Rights Movement. • Students will understand how historic events led to the Civil Rights Movement.

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•Students will explain how scale (the granularity of information) changes our understanding of a place. • Students will identify how the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of suburban Chicago influenced Cisnerous’ childhood and her writing.

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• Students will analyze the patterns of reported book challenges. • Students will analyze how book challenges and Fahrenheit 451 are related to religion, education, and literacy.

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• Students will describe the topography, vegetation, and climate of Central Alaska. • Students will chart a path out of the Alaskan wilderness using a topographic map.