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Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title:The World Wars Name:James Morgan


Content Area:Social Studies Grade Level: 10 Grade
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
CCSS HSS 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.

CCSS HSS 10.6 Students analyze the effects of the First World War.

CCSS HSS 10.7 Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I.

CCSS HSS 10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:


World War I had the following MAIN factors

1. Militarism
2. Alliances
3. Imperialism
4. Nationalism

 World War II was largely shaped by the terms of peace of World War I
 The end result of WWII played a huge role into the following half decade of history

Unit Summary:
This unit covered the two World Wars as well as the cause an effects. Roughly 100 million people died in conflicts in all corners of the
globe during these two conflicts. These effects of these two wars play a large part in shaping the modern world. They also spurred large
amounts of social change in both political office and on the home front. At the end of this unit, students will poses a knowledge of the
events of these wars as well as the cause and effects.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: KWL Charts – A KWL Chart Formative:Flash Cards: Leaders and Summative: Narrative Essay- Students will
is a way of enhancing literacy with text. The Ideologies – This would be flashcards with be asked to write a narrative essay on either
components of a KWL Chart are What You the various leaders and associated WWI or WWII focusing on the important
Know, What You Want to Know and What ideologies of the conflicts to help the events and the causes and effects of these
You Learned. KWL Charts can go with students to remember all the different events.
individual text readings as well as the topic figures.
as a whole. War Atrocities Poster: Students will be
Timelines- Just like the flashcards, this is a asked to create a poster on any of the darker
Geography Assignments- In part of way to help organize information for aspects of the two world wars (Gas Attacks,
understanding a conflict and its nuisances students. Ethnic Cleansing, etc.). They goal is for
its important to understand the location of students to create a poster to highlight the
the participants. Students will be asked to Quiz- The Interwar Years – This quiz key aspects of the event as if they are
label the active participants and factions of focuses on how the events of the first World raising awareness.
the war. War lead into the second.

Group Presentations WWII – Students will


be placed into groups and asked to present
on the history of a specific country during
the war. They will be prompted to include
specific information that the rest of the class
will be listening to answer on a worksheet
during the presentation.

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)


Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Note Taken to the lecture
Objective: The information from
The Nazis Rise to this lecture should
Power appear in the narrative
essay
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Students will fill out a worksheet through the use of selected
Objective: Completion of the websites to find information about World War I
World War I Key Facts Worksheet
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Students will create a poster highlight any atrocity or
Objective: Poster controversial event of either of the world wars.
War Atrocities Poster
Unit Resources:
Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005.

Useful Websites:
Simple History Playlists
World War I
WWI Factions
Interwar Years
World War II
WWII Factions
Strange Stories of WWII

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