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**Brady Bever**: This SL unit explores the role of militaries and military science in the founding of civilization. The unit is designed to equip students with the tools (military terminology, map reading skills, etc.) necessary to dissect various historical events pertaining to military history. The class will use: excerpts from "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond, an analysis of the "Sennecharib Prism" (an Assyrian "document" relating the victory of Sennecharib over Merodach-baladan), an ancient map of Nippur, various BLM and forest service maps of the area, GoogleMaps, etc. The culminating project is a history channel video (~10 minutes) that will explain the role of militaries in Western Civilization and their role in choosing a settlement as well as how the development of military science directly correlates with the development of civilization. Grades 9-12 (Military History)

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**Tara Bastian**: This inquiry unit explores the Feminist Perspective. The primary text used is Midsummer Night's Dream and additional informational texts will be used to further explore and expand notions of gender. The culminating project is a video documentary and Feminist perspective paper exploring those themes both in the community and in the text . 

**Dayna Langford:** EQ-- How does a kindergartner succeed in our classroom? What are student responsibilities, and how what should our class look, feel and sound like? 

This unit involves 8th graders in a volunteer effort to welcome the incoming 7th graders to South Jr. High. After learning about being a citizen in a community, students use skills in technology and language arts to produce a welcome letter and survival kit which will be used during the 6th grade orientation. The unit ends with a reflection on the power and impact of volunteers in a community.
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**Amanda Pearcy**: Next year I will be getting a group of students I have been hearing about since they have been in kindergarten. From what I hear they are a challenging group of kids. I plan to use a SL & Inquiry unit that helps them discover what it means to be a successful student. They will work toward a culminating project that includes public service announcements and role plays. These will be video recorded and shared with other classrooms.  

**Stephanie Kosares:** This unit is for 7th graders using the anchor text Freak the Mighty. Students will read various texts to analyze and answer the question, "Why do we tell stories/why is storytelling important." For their culminating project, students will interview seniors from the local senior center to record their life story. Students will then create a digital story book using images and a voice over to tell the story of the senior they were paired with. After the digital storybook is complete, we will return to the senior center and share what the students have created.  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tori Williamson**:This unit is titled "What's your story?" It stresses the importance of written and oral language while highlighting the importance of each child's story. The culminating project will be to write and illustrate a book based on one event in the student's life that they wish to share. This book can then be shared within the classroom, at a parent night, or to younger grade levels. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Teri Weisensel.** This unit for 11th grade AP Language and Composition is focused on the question: How does/has rhetoric influenced or changed culture in our society? The culminating project has two parts, one for each semester. First semester students will produce and deliver a multimedia presentation educating our class about either a) a particular type or genre of rhetoric that has had a specific and significant influence or b) a specific value, belief, or reality of our culture and various forms of rhetoric which have been instrumental in creating it.. Second semester, students will be involved in a personal or group effort to "use rhetoric for good" targeting an audience outside our class.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Kellen Miller**. This unit is for 9th-12th grade students and has them performing various skills associated with a science lab but also making connections between these findings and real world implications. The culminating project has the students utilize technologies to costruct a pamphlet or record a Public Service Anouncement that identifies pollutants found in water, steps to test your water, and ways that you can filter your water. The essential question is: Why is water important: Do living creatures have an innate right to clean drinkable water? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will either make a picture book or a themed magazine for their culminating project showing what they learned. They will present what they learned in a creative way to help other kids know what makes a good friendship, how to handle conflicts and deal with bullies. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tricia Berry: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Lisa Martell**: How do you build a good friendship? I know that the class I will teach this fall is challenging and I want to develop a strong collaborative community right from the start. I hope this unit will help us focus on the aspects of good friendship character traits and actions. We will then share our findings throughout the school and role model with student written skits. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an economics unit for 2nd graders, but could be easily adapted for older students. Students will gain a clear understanding of happiness, needs and wants, goods and services, and the use/value of money and how they are all interconnected. They will recognize the impact of all these things on a community and its people. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Niki Jones**: This is a unit for 7th grade English students. The unit is centered around the question How do I contribute to my community? and ends with a culminating project called "The Writing is NOT on the Wall" in which students participate in an anti-graffitti movement at Fairmont. We will share our project and mindset with the school in hopes that the message can be spread and practiced by all. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy Chaffin **

9th grade English, Essential Question: What is the power in story? Focus Questions: Why do we tell stories? What about stories connects us to our family, to others? How do I best tell my story? Why are some stories untold? Service Learning/Culminating Project: Identify, interview and tell the story for someone whose story isn't being told.
 * Sarah Veigel and Jared Maybon**

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12th grade AP Lit and Comp
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Debra Smith **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question: How can literacy set you free? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literacy can free people from their prejudices and fears; it can empower them, and it gives them the tools to take part in the demands of citizenship. Students will advocate for a literary resource center for parents.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Synopsis: Essential Question: "What makes a good friendship?" This unit is designed to give 5th graders an idea of how they can make and keep good/positive friends. Students will share their learning with 3rd graders in the form of skits, posters, brochures, and picture books. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="20056488"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beth Ferring **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fifth graders at Washington Elementary delve into a study of the regions of the United States. Their focus is on why Americans live where they do and what it would be like to live in the different regions. They share their knowledge in a fair format with fourth graders at Washington, parents and possibly legislators during the 2013 session. An interactive map as well as an ABC book will be created and shared. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="20096528"
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rochelle Brower **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Description: A 5th grade unit for cultural studies based on maps. Students will look at various map features and how the author of a map can influence the look of it. They will then create a travel guide/map for new residents of Bishkek.

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Our unit is titled "What Makes a Good Friend?" and will allow our 7th grade students to question how friendships develop, how they can foster them and conversly what harms/hinders them. Our final project will be a friendship cook book, and we will unveil the published works in the halls.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Andrea Souden and Shelley Hopkins **

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Title of Project: Pet Care Guide Grade Level: Second Number of Students Participating: 26 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview/Description of Project: The students will research the needs of common pets. The students will learn about the role the humane society plays in our community. The students will write a pet ownership guide to increase awareness of responsible pet ownership. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goals: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop skills in reading, writing and research. Understand what responsible pet ownership looks like. Understand that if we make good choices when we choose to be a pet owner then we will see a reduction in the numbers of pets surrendered to the humane society. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trish Mizuta **

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nina Chambers **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My unit is on “What is a Learner” and is for second grade with the final project being a poster that will be hung in the school.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy Neely **



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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This unit introduces the table roles that are necessary for quality group work. It's question Who are we? Facilitates us to become a team.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Angela Housley **

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential Question: How does money affect your life? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having seen the difference economics makes on the people of the world, what is our responsibility?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nerissa Armstrong **
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Service learning project: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">work together to decide on an effective way we can help the economic situation for a teenager in Africa || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Steps to learning philosophy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recognize ourselves as “wealthy” on a global historical scale.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Understand that scarcity as defined by American teenagers is different than scarcity to teenagers in other countries. ||

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