Unit 1: Rites of Passage 

Essential Question: What are some milestones on the path to growing up?

Unit 2: Resilience 

Essential Question: What do stories of resilience teach us about the human spirit?

Unit 3: Taking a Stand 

Essential Question: What social or community problem needs greater attention? How do we decide what matters to us?

Unit 4: Human Intelligence 

Essential Question: In what different ways can people be intelligent?