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= **Unit Team 2010** =

Overarching Focus: // How have immigrants fought for American citizenship, 1840-1912? // How did immigrants imagine freedom as they interpreted the founding documents? || ** Grade 5 **** Conceptual/ ** ** Essential Question ** What were immigrants' claims on citizenship? || ** Grades 8-10 **** Conceptual/Essential Question ** How did immigrants respond to America's systemic inequalitites? ||
 * ** Grade K-3 **** Conceptual/Essential Question **

= =  Unit Goals should be broad enough to encompass your lesson objectives and align to the Essential Question.

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**Group 1**
Standard 3.6
 * Jessica Travaline, Hope Rossow, Inmaculda Peters, Natalie Forbes**

Guiding Questions
Identify the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as key American documents

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**Group 2**
Standard 5.24,

Linda Maltais, Colleen Synan, Paul Mallett, Mecky Napoli

Guiding Questions
Describe the basic political principles of American democracy and explain how the Constitution & the Bill of Rights reflect and preserve these principles.
 * a. individual rights and responsibilities
 * b. equality
 * c. the rule of law
 * d. limited government
 * e. representative democracy

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**Group 3**
Standard 5.27

Lisa DiSalvatore, Mary Puleo, Michela Debari, Patrick Condon, Kathryn Gamache

Guiding Questions
Explain how American citizens were expected to participate in, monitor, and bring about changes in their government over time, and give examples of how they continue to do so today.

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Group 4
Standard US2-1

Aaron Minton

Guiding Questions
Explain the various causes of the Industrial Revolution.
 * a.the economic impetus provided by the Civil War
 * b. important technological and scientific advances
 * c. the role of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt

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**Group 5**
US2-2 Debbie Corleto, Rachel Porter, Deborah Vose

Guiding Questions
Explain the important consequences of the Industrial Revolution.
 * a. the growth of big business
 * b. environmental impact
 * c. the expansion of cities

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Unit Goal
US2-3 Jody Lui, Kevin Cullen, Maria D'Orsi,, Kathi O'Donoghue

Guiding Questions
Describe the causes of the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese to America in the late 19th adn early 20th centuries, and describe the major roles of these immigrants in the industrialization of America.

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= **Group 7** = US2-5

Bob D'Agostino, Helen Martin

Guiding Questions
Explain the formation and goals of unions as well as the rise of radical political parties during the Industrial era.
 * d.the Knights of Labor
 * e. the American Federation of Labor headed by Samuel Gompers
 * f. the Populist Party
 * g. the Socialist Party headed by Eugene Debs

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=Group 8= US2-8 Mike Lightbody

Guiding Questions
Analyze the origins of Progressivism and important Progressive leaders, and summarize the major accomplishments of Progressivism.

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