S1+Belton,+Roger

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies Subject: "The post-Reagan era." Standard E-1 Historical knowledge, themes, and patterns. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * The Maine Learning Results

//What understandings are desired?//
•There has not been a declared war involving the US since WWII. •The American military has been #1 military for a few decades, and that status comes with a price tag. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •There are several different perspectives in history.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•Why has the United States moved to an era of quasi wars? •Why does the American Military need to be number 1, and how does the price effect the country? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How have the different perspectives in history changed the world today?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
the Gulf War, 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq. •People: Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr., Clinton, Gorbochev, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein. •Locations: Columbia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, United States. || •Students will be able to analyze and criticize the reasoning for the locations of various events. •Students will be able to remain open to other perspectives and make their own conclusions. •Students will be able to exhibit and describe the roles that various people played in modern political affairs. •Students will be able to read between the lines and make meaning of why people in modern history have made the decisions that they did. •Students will be able to design a build a model showing where and why important events in modern history happened. •Students will be able to be aware of why various locations were chosen and how that effected the world. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •Events: Iran-Contra affair, Berlin Wall, Iranian hostage crisis,


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**