Unit+Goals

=Unit Goals=

1. Students will be able to discuss the political themes of power, sovereignty, nation and state and how they relate to the world around them.

2. Students will understand the differences and similarities between the three major monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam).

3. Students will begin to formulate ideas about why the Holocaust, Crusades, and the Palestinian Conflict have arose. They will be able to discuss these events with their peers.

4. Students will learn how the U.N. operates and will perform a simulation. Students will also learn how peace negotiations are enacted in the Palestinian Conflict and will perform a debate to simulate how this occurs in the real world.

5. Students will be able make deep connections between the given historical conflicts, political ideas and religions that discover new knowledge or understanding.

6. Students will become familiar with being able to express their ideas or knowledge through different visual representations such as digital movie creation and Google lit trip.