1. Connecting Themes and Enduring Understanding
7th grade social studies

2. First of all what is theme?
Theme is the message or lesson that the author wants you to take away from the story.
The theme is the message of the story!
Common Themes: Courage, honesty, love, friendship, forgiveness, loyalty, hope, equality, hard work, teamwork.

3. Activator Think, Pair, Share
“1 minute challenge”
List every movie that you can think of that has something to do with sports.
Lets see if we can connect some of your movies with a common theme!
The goal of this activator is to engage students and get them thinking about the concept of a theme. Allow students to share responses. Ask questions that focus on similarities and differences between movies. For example, some could be about baseball, football, soccer, etc. The movie “category” may be sports, but a theme can probably be identified in each one. Ask students to identify the “message” of the movie. This should help to identify the appropriate theme of the movie. Point out that some movies may have more than one message or theme!

4. 7th Grade Time, Change, Continuity Conflict & Change Governance
Production, Distribution, Consumption
Movement/ Migration
Human Environmental Interaction
Culture
Location 4

5. Conflict and Change
When there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result.

6. What conflict is this related to and what changed as a result?
Change pictures as desired.

7. Time, Change, Continuity
While change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of a society.
Continuity- the unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over a period of time

8. Governance
As a society increases in complexity and interacts with other societies, the complexity of the government also increases.

9. Production, Distribution, Consumption
The production, distribution, and consumption of goods/services produced by the society are affected by the location, customs, beliefs, and laws of the society.

10. Why did they move the Braves stadium?
The new stadium is now surround by “red” aka people on all sides so more people will come to the games and spend money!
New Stadium
Old Turner Stadium

11. Human Environmental Interaction
Humans, their society, and the environment affect each other.

12. Location
Location affects a society’s economy, culture, and development.

13. Distribution of Power
Distribution of power in government is a product of existing documents and laws combined with contemporary values and beliefs.

14. Compare life in each of these pictures

15. Culture
The culture of a society is the product of the religion, beliefs, customs, traditions, and government of that society.

16. Movement/ Migration
The movement or migration of people and ideas affects all societies involved.

17. Where do these concepts fit?
Mohandas Gandhi
Partitioning of Middle East
Scarcity of resources
Geography of nations
Terrorism
Government instability
Containment of Communism
Geography of physical features
Civil Wars
Korean War
Partitioning of Africa
Jews vs. Arabs
Vietnam War
Impact of trade
Water pollution
Nationalism
Air pollution
Ask students to PREDICT which theme these topics will match.

18. Summarize! (Either/Or)
Which theme do you think is likely to connect to more topics than the other? Explain your thinking!
Culture….or Conflict & Change?
Distribution of Power….or Location?
Human Environmental Interaction…..or Governance?
Time, Continuity, & Change…..or Movement/Migration?