Power
Power, from a toddler learning how to use the word "No" to exert self to a dictator controlling his people with starvation and forced labor, is organic to the human condition. How do people gain or keep power? How does power, or lack of power, affect people? How should people use their power? What should people do when power is misused?
Enduring Understandings: Theme, Writing, Reading
Enduring Understandings: Theme, Writing, Reading
- Factors influence one's ability to gain, keep, and lose power.
- Power, or lack of power, affects people.
- Writers gather and select information from primary and secondary sources to develop an informed position.
- Writers synthesize accurate and relevant research to develop an informed position.
- Using reading strategies advances reading comprehension.
- Analyzing text structures and literary devices advances reading comprehension.
- How do people gain or keep power?
- a. How does power, or the lack of power, affect people? b. How should people use their power? c. What should people do when power is misused?
- a) Why is it important to gather information from primary and secondary sources? b) How do writers develop an informed position?
- Why are accuracy and relevancy significant to conducting research?
- How do reading strategies advance reading comprehension?
- How do text structures and literary devices advance reading comprehension?
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