Welcome and Essential Questions
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Unit 5 Session 1 Essential Questions |
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Welcome to Unit 5 Session 1! This unit focuses on ways that we read non-fiction texts in order to discover ideas and clarify our thinking. We'll do this through a study of Martin Luther King, Jr., who can inspire all of us. (Check out the "Kid President" video below.) Through this in-depth study, we’ll learn more about how researchers read primary and secondary documents, how to take notes effectively, and how to craft complex ideas into meaningful generalizations. This will be challenging work that helps prepare you for a research paper that you’ll be writing in Unit 6 in which you’ll research your own historical figure in the same way we explore MLK in this unit. Here are a few essential questions we’ll explore in this session:
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