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Unit Topic: _Social Studies_____________________ Grade
level:__8__________
Stage 1 Desired Results
Content Standard/Established Goals(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary
sources.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.5
Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially,
comparatively, causally).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.3
Identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to
history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are
raised or lowered).
Understanding(s)
Students will understand that:
1. Change can occur based on
Supreme Court Rulings
2. Empathy can be used to better
understand perspectives
Student objectives (outcomes):
Students will know:
1. How certain cases make it to the
Supreme Court
2. Why the Hyde Amendment is
important to the topic of abortion
3. How laws are sometimes changed
in our country
4. How to Debate
5. How to refute an argument
6. Why forming a well structured
and evidence based argument is
an important skill to have as a
democratic participant
7. How the Supreme Court decides
on verdicts for a case
Essential Question(s):
What is Change?
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
argument
Argue for a certain perspective
Refute an argument
Participate in a Supreme Court
simulation
Empathize for a perspective they
are not advocating for
Rule on a decision for the
Simulation using formal Supreme
Court Proceedings
Beginning Culminating
Learning Activity
Formative Assessment
Amendment