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Stage 1 Identify Desired Results Establish Goals: (G) (from the Grade 9 SS Curriculum Standards) SS 9.2.1: Students will analyze wealth, poverty, resource distribution, and other economic factors of diverse cultures around the world.

Maine Learning Results: Social Studies - C. Economics C2. Individual, Cultural, International, Global Connections in Economics. Grades 9 - Diploma Students will analyze wealth, poverty, resource distribution, and other economic factors of diverse cultures.

What understandings are desired? Students will understand that: (U) • Poverty takes on different forms around the globe • Poverty is cyclical and the cycle can end • There are aid organizations and government programs to help people in poverty

What essential questions will be considered? Essential Questions: (Q) • How does poverty affect people of our world? • How can we end the cycle of poverty, how important is education in this process? • What are some ways that government and other people can help those in poverty?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit? Students will know: (K) - How poverty affects people - Ways to stop the spread of poverty - The definition of poverty and what poverty looks like around the world

Students will be able to: (S) • Describe poverty and its effects on people • Analyze the cyclical nature of poverty and what can be done to end it • Describe how poverty is portrayed in literature • Evaluate different programs and initiatives to slow poverty down

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe