New Unit: Social Justice & Adversity

social justice (n.) equal opportunity, fairness and access for all members of a community of people

adversity (n.) state of hardship or affliction; bad news, misfortune

Beginning with tomorrow's classes, we will be starting a new multi-genre Humanitites unit dealing with the themes of Social Justice and Adversity.

Both the anchor text, of which students will each be given one of three possible titles, and related reading selections will deal, in great part, with the Holocaust and the period of American history beginning at the close of World War I and stretching through the year's following the end World War II.

We will once again be using essential questions to focus our learning. (Essential questions are questions that probe for deeper meaning and set the stage for further questioning foster.) The essential questions we will be exploring throughout the unit are:

In the face of adversity, what causes some individuals to prevail while others fail?

Do we have choices concerning fairness and justice?

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