Unit 1

Essential Question: How do we decide which resources to develop?

Enduring Understanding: The decisions people make about which resources to develop end up having a big effect on their daily lives. 

Unit 2

Essential Question: Why do we value certain qualities in people?

Enduring Understanding: Characters and people bring their own opinions and viewpoints to a relationship.

Unit 3

Essential Question: Why do laws continue to evolve?

Enduring Understanding: As society changes, laws must also adapt.

Unit 4

Essential Question: How can perspectives help us to evaluate the world?

Enduring Understanding: A narrator or speaker's point of view will influence how events are described.

Unit 5

Essential Question: What value does technology bring to people's lives?

Enduring Understanding: Technology is continually reshaping and reinvigorating society

Unit 6

Essential Question: What compels us to survive?

Enduring Understanding: Humans vs nature is a classic- and compelling- conflict in literature

Unit 7

Essential Question: How does conflict shape a society?

Enduring Understanding: The American Revolution gave rise to a new form of government and shaped a new society.

Unit 8

Essential Question: What does water mean to people and the societies they live in?

Enduring Understanding: Water is an important natural resource that must be both celebrated and preserved.