Unit 1: Confronting Change

Overview:

This opening unit consists of three parts to help build some of the context and foundation for the rest of the units. The first unit focuses on the larger thematic questions of how to confront change and challenges. When do people choose to resist, remain resilient and when do they choose to adapt in this unit students will also begin to learn about some of the challenges facing Mexico today. The second set of activities is intended to help give students perspective on story telling and the truth. Since the units following do ask students to engage in historiographic analysis, this is a personalized way to get students to begin thinking about authorship, memory and motivations for storytelling. The last section is intended to help students begin to think about migrations of people and the notion of living in a place for a long period of time.

Essential Questions: 

What does it mean to adapt? Be resilient? or resist? 

Is there one truth? Can two different people tell the same story? 

Where are you and your ancestors from? 

Final Assessment:

Zine Project (courtey of A. Archer) or Scenarios Research Assignment