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Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions of the Unit
Enduring Understandings
1) Learning how to generate questions can help fuel curiosity
2) Humanity can only ‘progress’ when we ask questions about the world and value curiosity.
3) We can ask questions in history classes to direct further research, challenge traditional narratives, analyze or critique an argument or source, and to develop our own arguments or theories.
4) We can use questions to guide individual and group research.
5) While sharing a common Hellene heritage, Athens and Sparta had distinctly different cultures, government structures and gender role expectations
6) Traditional historical narratives have perpetuated hero/villain story lines.
7) We can develop questions to analyze and critique any source that presents a narrative for a historical event.
8) Traditional Western history, has portrayed Western peoples as ‘heroes’ and Non-western peoples as ‘villains’ or ‘backwards’, especially in a historical event that involved violent conflict
9) The ‘winners’ of a conflict often write the historical narrative after the event.
10) When we form a challenge against a belief or rule questions can help direct and organize our argument
11) Socrates development of the elenchus (Socratic method) is one of the most effective method of questioning that continues to be used in the Western world
12) We can use questions to help form an argument or opinion on a topic or scenario.
13) The Peloponnesian War caused a decline in Athens power and prestige on the Greek Peninsula.
14) The act of questioning can challenge authority and government structures
15) We can use questions to help form an argument or opinion on a topic or scenario.
16) The primary sources for the trial of Socrates are limited and extremely biased, these issues have clouded our understanding of Socrates’ guild or innocence
17) Socrates’ philosophic pursuit was viewed as dangerous to the Athenian elite because it questioned authority and threatened their democracy.
18) Socrates’ commitment to questioning laid the foundation for modern Western philosophy, encouraging individuals to pursue curiosity, to evaluate humanity and to consider how we should structure our societies.
Essential Questions
Overarching
1) What do we ask questions, and how can questions help us?
2) What is curiosity and why is it helpful?
3) How can we use questions to further our knowledge of a subject and direct our research?
4) What questions can we develop to question the validity of a historical source or narrative?
5) How can we use questions to challenge a belief or argument?
6) How can we use questions to help us form an argument or opinion?
7) Why does questioning challenge authority?
8) What are the elements of a persuasive speech?
Topical
9) How did Ancient Greece’s geography impact its city-states?
10) What were the forces uniting and disuniting Greek city-states?
11) What are the social and political differences between ancient Athens and Sparta?
12) What is the traditional Western narrative of the Persian Wars? How are both sides portrayed?
13) What is the Socratic method and what are its origins?
14) What are the causes of Ancient Athens’ decline?
15) How does Plato frame Socrates’ defense in The Apology?
16) What are the arguments for both Socrates’ guilt and innocence?
1) Learning how to generate questions can help fuel curiosity
2) Humanity can only ‘progress’ when we ask questions about the world and value curiosity.
3) We can ask questions in history classes to direct further research, challenge traditional narratives, analyze or critique an argument or source, and to develop our own arguments or theories.
4) We can use questions to guide individual and group research.
5) While sharing a common Hellene heritage, Athens and Sparta had distinctly different cultures, government structures and gender role expectations
6) Traditional historical narratives have perpetuated hero/villain story lines.
7) We can develop questions to analyze and critique any source that presents a narrative for a historical event.
8) Traditional Western history, has portrayed Western peoples as ‘heroes’ and Non-western peoples as ‘villains’ or ‘backwards’, especially in a historical event that involved violent conflict
9) The ‘winners’ of a conflict often write the historical narrative after the event.
10) When we form a challenge against a belief or rule questions can help direct and organize our argument
11) Socrates development of the elenchus (Socratic method) is one of the most effective method of questioning that continues to be used in the Western world
12) We can use questions to help form an argument or opinion on a topic or scenario.
13) The Peloponnesian War caused a decline in Athens power and prestige on the Greek Peninsula.
14) The act of questioning can challenge authority and government structures
15) We can use questions to help form an argument or opinion on a topic or scenario.
16) The primary sources for the trial of Socrates are limited and extremely biased, these issues have clouded our understanding of Socrates’ guild or innocence
17) Socrates’ philosophic pursuit was viewed as dangerous to the Athenian elite because it questioned authority and threatened their democracy.
18) Socrates’ commitment to questioning laid the foundation for modern Western philosophy, encouraging individuals to pursue curiosity, to evaluate humanity and to consider how we should structure our societies.
Essential Questions
Overarching
1) What do we ask questions, and how can questions help us?
2) What is curiosity and why is it helpful?
3) How can we use questions to further our knowledge of a subject and direct our research?
4) What questions can we develop to question the validity of a historical source or narrative?
5) How can we use questions to challenge a belief or argument?
6) How can we use questions to help us form an argument or opinion?
7) Why does questioning challenge authority?
8) What are the elements of a persuasive speech?
Topical
9) How did Ancient Greece’s geography impact its city-states?
10) What were the forces uniting and disuniting Greek city-states?
11) What are the social and political differences between ancient Athens and Sparta?
12) What is the traditional Western narrative of the Persian Wars? How are both sides portrayed?
13) What is the Socratic method and what are its origins?
14) What are the causes of Ancient Athens’ decline?
15) How does Plato frame Socrates’ defense in The Apology?
16) What are the arguments for both Socrates’ guilt and innocence?