Identity changes over time

1. Literature/Media

1.1. Identity poems

1.2. nonfiction articles: adoption, multiracial families, culture shock, identity crisis, identity theft

1.3. blogs--cultural adjustment

1.4. National Geographic website

1.5. culture grams website/documents

1.6. cia factbook site

1.7. museum box website

1.8. English grammar/writing texts

1.8.1. New node

1.9. songs

2. Ideas for Essential Understandings

2.1. cultures/conflict/change

2.2. population/change/conflict

2.3. self/knowledge/change

2.4. geography/conflict/movement

2.5. kinship/family/nurture/DNA

2.6. race/coflict/culture/geography/perspective/history

3. New node

4. Social Studies

4.1. culture

4.1.1. language

4.1.2. ethnicity

4.1.3. heritage

4.2. geography

4.2.1. native country vs. native culture

4.3. family/kinship

4.3.1. ancestors

5. Science/Math

5.1. DNA

5.2. population comparisons

5.3. nature vs. nurture

5.4. country stats

5.4.1. graghs/tables

6. English Language Skills

6.1. verb BE in present, past, present perfect

6.2. definition paragraphs

6.3. word study skills-new vocab

6.4. reading: predicting, scanning, main idea

6.5. summarizing

6.6. capitalization and punctuation