What challenges your beliefs

HISTORY	LITERATURE	BRINGING IT TOGETHER (assessments)
Road to the Civil War Why did we fight the Civil War?	Wicked	When the truth conflicts with our beliefs or our vision of ourselves, how do we reconcile the two? How does power effect beliefs? the truth? What are your sources of information? Acting on what you believe, how do you know when you are being hypocritical? Acting on what you believe, how do you know when is is skewed by your point of view? What actions do you take with this knowledge? Recognizing points of view: how do you become aware that there are other points of view? Sources of information for different points of view.

Cold War	PWB	When a society/community experiences a crisis so profound that it results in its dissolution, who gets to rebuild it? Who gets to make the decisions? How do they get this power? What do they choose to ignore and believe? How do you measure reconstruction efforts?

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