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Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: Westward Expansion
 * Conceptual Lens:** Development
 * Unit Length:**


 * ===Unit Overview=== ||
 * You are about to embark on an exhilarating journey through Westward Expansion! Your journey begins by joining the Lewis and Clark expedition and ending with creating your own living history experience. Along the way, you will learn about the lives of people affected during this time through narrative writing and speaking in period vocabulary. You will learn about how distance, rationing and probability will impact the community in which you live. You will experience the way industrialization and government altered the lives of Americans forever. The last leg of your journey challenges you to fuse all of these experiences into a living history night to be shared with your parents and the community. ||

Student will understand that Westward Expansion ignited the development of modern America and molded our country into the thriving society we are known for today.
 * Unit Understanding**
 * Essential Question**
 * How did Westward Expansion impact the developing nation, America? **

- Informational Text - Period accurate vocabulary || - Distance - Area - Inequalities ||  || - Lewis & Clark - Transcontinental Railroad - Native Americans - Manifest Destiny - Gold Rush -Industrial Revolution || - Social Diversity and Justice - Big Business vs Individual (role of government) - Technology ||
 * **English** || **Mathematics** || **Science** || **Social Studies** || **Politics** ||
 * - Narrative Writing

Designer(s):
Shila Cook Sarah McKeown Erich Scheffler Andrew Flanagan