8th Grade: Unit 8

CQ: How can power lead to oppression?

CQ: How can power lead to oppression?

Staging the Compelling Question

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Supporting Question 1: 

How did enslavers use the government to their advantage?

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Supporting Question 2: 

What can we learn about slavery from interviews with former slaves? (DIG)

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Supporting Question 3: 

How did the Fugitive Slave Act create divisions?

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Supporting Question 4: 

How did popular sovereignty in the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to division?

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Summative Performance Task

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Taking Informed Action

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