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Unit Plan Standards Compliance

The text, lectures, and activities would fulfill a number of the DOE and
Common Core standards referenced below. Learning about Ancient
Greece and Rome as well as the origins of modern Europe would be a
vehicle for students to familiarize themselves with modern day
European and West Asian political and physical maps and introduce
them to key concepts relating to government as well as economy. By
assessing major trends, cultural drivers, and supporting evidence
students will gain an appreciation for concepts that transcend
particular places and times and enhance their ability to think
analytically. They will also gain an advanced understanding of ideas
and narratives that they will study more comprehensively in Grade 7.
Mass DOE
6th Grade World Geography
Development of maritime civilizations in the Mediterranean area and
in Northern and Western Europe.
Standards that emphasize physical and political geography and
embed five major concepts: location, place, human interaction with the
environment, movement, and regions.
Human interaction with the environment encompasses the many ways
in which people have adapted to their surroundings or altered them for
economic reasons.
Concepts and Skills
History and Geography
5. Identify how current world atlases are organized and the kind of
information they provide for each continent and country.
Civics and Government
8. Define what a nation is and give examples of the different ways
nations are formed.
Western Asia

Optional Topics for Study


Describe major ethnic and religious groups in various countries in
Western Asia.
Grade 6 Learning Standards
EUROPE
On a map of the world, locate the continent of Europe. On a map of
Europe, locate
the Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea.
Locate the Volga,
Danube, Ural, Rhine, Elbe, Seine, Po, and Thames Rivers. Locate the
Alps, Pyrenees,
and Balkan Mountains. Locate the countries in the northern, southern,
central, eastern, and western regions of Europe.
The early civilizations that flourished
in the Mediterranean area. They [the students] study the religions,
governments, trade, philosophies, and art of these civilizations as well
as the powerful ideas that arose in the ancient world and profoundly
shaped the course
of world history. These ideas include monotheism, democracy, the rule
of law, individual worth, personal responsibility, the alphabetic
principle for a writing system, and scientific reasoning.
Common Core
English Language Arts Standards: Reading, Literature Grade 6
Key Ideas and Details:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed
through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from
personal opinions or judgments.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of
episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot
moves toward a resolution.
Craft and Structure:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a

text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the


impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into
the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of
the theme, setting, or plot.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.8
(RL.6.8 not applicable to literature)

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