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Level of texts for incoming 5th graders whose SS / history may be limited.

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Will there be differentiated resources for each of the lessons?

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It would nice if there was a section at the top of the lesson for what Essential/Guiding questions are related to each lesson.

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So far, I like many of the resources being used, such as TedEd, iCivics, and NEH.

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Western Middle School runs on a 60-minute class schedule. How will these lessons be created to support this length of class time?

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Overall structure of lessons makes sense.

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These lessons are obviously geared toward 8th grade and they have primary documents. The 6/7 curriculum is not as geared towards primary resources and our students have varying reading levels. I am concerned about the kinds of reading that will be presented to the 6/7 team.

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Sources are similar to what I am currently using.

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The students come in with different social studies backgrounds from elementary school. Some students do not know the continents and are not aware of other cultures while some students are from other places in the world. Will their varying knowledge and mastery of social studies concepts be taken into consideration particularly in the 6/7 lessons?

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It was mentioned that there would be common assessments. How prescriptive will those assessments be? I would prefer that assessments have learning targets so that we can allow differentiation and personalization of how the students communicate their learing.

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With the 6/7 units ending with current events and issues within the region, how will the team address the ever-changing events in each region? The current issues facing each region is different today than it was last year. Will these changes be taken into consideration as you grow and develop the 6/7 curriculum resources?

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Has any thought been given to a separate document that creates an index to show which lessons address which standards so that if we are dipping in and out of this resource we can be tracking the extent to which we have addressed our required touchstones?

Furthermore, is there any way this can be aligned to the skills that we are assessing using Linkit? This way we can easily find which lessons address which areas of need for our students.

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Can you consider a stronger variety of activities for students? I know we only saw 3 lessons and activities, but 2 of the 3 seem similar in the kinds of work the students are producing.

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Will the lessons include multi-day research projects that allow students to work on teams and "own" more of the inquiry process? ...What will happen to the 8th-grade Capstone project? (Other projects can build skills to reach the students' culminating independence.)

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Are the unit documents with links to lessons going to be made public? In other words, will parents and others have access to these lessons? My concern is that it may be misconstrued by community members that these are the exact lessons that teachers are expected to be following.