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Big Question: How can belief systems organize society?
Big Question: How can belief systems organize society?
In this unit on Ancient India, students used the their text book with a collaborative model and Common Core Standards in History to build a website to examine the big question stated above. Students will examine a text to gather evidence for their website. All materials will be examined using close reading techniques.
Time Frame two-three weeks.
Culminating activity: Students will build a group website answering the question, "How can belief systems organize society?"
CALIFORNIA HISTORY CONTENT STANDARDS
6.5 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of India. 1. Locate and describe the major river system and discuss the physical setting that supported the rise of this civilization.
2. Discuss the significance of the Aryan invasions.
3. Explain the major beliefs and practices of Brahmanism in India and how they evolved into early Hinduism.
4. Outline the social structure of the caste system.
5. Know the life and moral teachings of Buddha and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and Central Asia.
6. Describe the growth of the Maurya empire and the political and moral achievements of the emperor Asoka.
7. Discuss important aesthetic and intellectual traditions (e.g., Sanskrit literature, including the Bhagavad Gita; medicine; metallurgy; and mathematics, including Hindu-Arabic numerals and the zero).
COMMON CORE READING STANDARDS FOR LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES 6–12
RH1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
RH 6. Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts.
RH 7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
WHST 1. Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
a. Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
WHST 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
WHST 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
The students divided up into groups of six students and then given a topic directly from the California State Content Standards. The group has to identify six subtopics in their standard and then assign a student to research that subtopic. Each student then produces a 7-15 sentence paragraph using evidence form the text to support their topics and has a teammate peer edit their writing to make sure the rubric provide to students is addressed. The group then publishes their writing on a Google Site and have an editor make sure each group member produced a group website that will address the units big question. Group Websites are posted below by period.
Periods
The Students then used google form to review all projects from their period and evaluated them according to a class rubric. They were to decide which group did the best job of addressing the Big Questions and followed the rubric closest. They posted their finding in a google form and their responses are posted below.
Google Sites
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