1. Unit 2 Enduring Issues Essay Theme: Civilizations

2. Agenda Aim: How do we write an Enduring Issues Essay?
Do Now: Annotate the task. Put a star next to important words, circle words you don’t understand, underline the verbs that tell you what to do.
Mini-lesson : review enduring issues, model, components of an the Enduring Issues Essay.
Work Period: Use the graphic organizer to write your thesis statement and outline your essay.
Closing: Pair/Share

3. Unit 2: Enduring Issues Essay
Aim: How do we write an essay on an enduring issue using documents to identify the issue?
Do Now: Annotate the task. Put a star next to important words, circle words you don’t understand, underline the verbs that tell you what to do.

4. Enduring Issues in Global History
Conflict
Desire for Power
Inequity
Need for and Impact of Innovation
Impact of Interconnectedness
Impact of Ideas and Beliefs
Environmental Impact
Scarcity
Population Growth

5. Mini-lesson
➡ Directions: Read the story that Adrian’s grandfather told him and answer the questions about it.
Adrian’s Grandfather: “How much money do you want? When I was your age, my grandfather used to tell me that he would go down to the store on the corner and buy a sandwich and an apple for five cents. Five cents! Can you imagine that? When I grew up here it cost two dollars to get soda and turkey sandwich at that same store and now you’re asking me for 7 bucks!?”
Identify one enduring issue that Adrian’s father discusses in the passage above. Why is that enduring issue significant to him?

6. Mini-lesson Document Based Writing
A written statement that uses documents to provide evidence for the thesis statement.

7. Enduring Issues Essay Components
1. Thesis Statement - Claim/Intro with historical context
2. Body Paragraph 1
3. Body Paragraph 2
4. Body Paragraph 3
5. Conclusion

8. Unit 2 Enduring Issues Essay Task
Identify and define an enduring issue raised by this set of documents.
Using your knowledge of Social Studies and evidence from the documents, argue why the issue you selected is significant and how it has endured across time.

9. Writing an Introduction
Identify the issue based on a historically accurate interpretation of three documents.

10. Work Period
Use the graphic organizer to write your thesis statement and outline your essay.

11. Closing
Pair/Share