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CI – Contemporary Issues – Students will use inquiry skills to learn about the issues that impact the contemporary world and engage in research and problem solving in order to better understand and assess significant current issues.

CI | CONTEMPORARY ISSUES Course Description: Students will use inquiry skills to examine the issues that impact the contemporary world. Students will analyze the historical, cultural, economic, and geographic factors that have elevated certain issues to levels of concern in the United States and around the globe. Students will engage in research and problem solving in order to better understand and assess significant current issues.

C—Culture, E—Economics, G—Geography, H—History, P—Politics/Government, T—Tennessee TCA—Tennessee Code Annotated: These standards are legally required to be taught.

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Contemporary Issues – Lesson 4 – CI.03

CI.03 Analyze how cultural characteristics (e.g., language, religion, ethnicity, gender roles) link, divide, and/or define regions. C, G What am I learning today? Our culture is our identity. We are

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Contemporary Issues – Civil Rights Movement

Bellwork/Group Work With your neighbor, identify your current knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. Ask each other these questions: Who? When? Why? Where? How? Our Standard CI.09 Analyze the causes

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Contemporary Issues – Lesson 1 – CI.01

Bellwork #1 On An Index Card Write Your Name, your favorite ice cream flavor, sports team (if you like sports), movie, food and type of music. Our First Standard Geography

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