GRADE 6

 The Changing Earth's Crust: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Question:
Why is the United States waving goodbye to Europe and saying hello to Asia?
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Facing Fears: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • How does fear affect people?
  • How can we overcome our fears?
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Arctic Exploration: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Question:
  • What drives people to explore harsh climates and dangerous places?
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Causes of the Great Depression: Three Book Basket Sets: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Question:
  • What caused the Great Depression?
Set #1: World War II
Set #2: The Roaring Twenties
Set #3: The Stock Market Crash
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Location and Climate: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Question:
  • How does location impact climate?
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Greek Myths: Anchor Text: Black Ships Before Troy: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • What reading strategy will help me comprehend difficult texts. (e.g., ask questions, make connections, take notes, make inferences, visualize, re-read,  use thought organizers)?
  • How can I analyze how central ideas are developed over the course of a text?
  • How do individuals, events, and / or ideas in a text affect one another?
  • What is the significance of interactions between individuals, events, and/or ideas in a text?
  • How would interactions between individuals, events, and/or ideas be different if one of those elements changed?
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GRADE 7

Overcoming Adversity: An Extension of READ 180 Workshop 1: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Question:
  • How can challenges have a positive impact on your life or the lives of others?
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The Miraculous Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
Chalk Talk Strategy
And 2morrow Poem: Tupac Shakur
What Killed Tutankhamun?: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • Why is there so much speculation about King Tutankhamun's death?
  • What theories are supported by archeological evidence?
  • How can I use evidence from research to justify my perspective?
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Chemical Spill: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Question:
  • How can a creek become contaminated with chemicals that are not found in the surrounding area?
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Civil Rights Movement: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • Why was nonviolence so important during the Civil Rights Movement?
  • What were the major goals of the Civil Rights Movement?
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Knowing Poe: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • What aspects of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style have made his literature so popular with modern day audiences? 
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GRADE 8

Graffiti Art: Trouble or Tremendous?: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • When is graffiti ART and when is it VANDALISM?
  • What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
  • How is art used to impact the views of society from different times, places, and cultures?
  • How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives?
  • How can we read an artwork as a text?
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Coming of Age: Anchor Text: The Outsiders: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • How does "coming of age" affect the lives of others as well as my own life?
  • How does society's perception of social classes and/or age groups influence conformity?
  • What power do you have to alter society's perceptions regarding social classes and/or age groups?
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Stronger Together: Anchor Texts: The Hazelwood High Trilogy: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • How do conflicts in communities affect all of its members?
  • What is the responsibility of each citizen to advocate for their fellow man or woman?
  • How might communities promote the wellness of all?
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*Currently in Progress
Holocaust: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • Why is it important to make a difference in the world and be one less link in the chain of hate?
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Sameness: Anchor Text: The Giver: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • How can society balance individualism with responsibility to community?
  • What aspects of utopias and dystopias exit in our current society?
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Being a Colonist Could Suck: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • How and why could life be so difficult for colonists living in North America before the 18th century?
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Surviving and Perseverance: Anchor Text: The Diary of Anne Frank (play): Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • What can people do to survive during adversity?
  • Is forgetting a positive or negative trait?
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World War II: Text Set Planning Guide HERE
Essential Questions:
  • How were cultural barriers of modern times influenced by past events?
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