Appendix II: Enduring Understandings/Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
Students will understand that…
Reading involves many different types of text— in print or in non-print— that helps the reader to understand the text.
Analyzing and interpreting non-print texts helps the reader to make critically informed decisions about a historical event.
Artwork has the ability to shape and inform a reader/society by offering themes and supporting details.
Artwork helps a reader to empathize with human experience.
Essential Questions
Students will keep considering (section questions)…
Does history repeat itself?
Can humankind learn from its historical rights and wrongs?
What role does artwork and propaganda play throughout the human experience?
How does art represent the values and morals of a society?
How do the people feel?
What is their value?
How does the painter capture the pain and trauma?
How can art allow us to understand an earlier era?
Is an informed citizen a good citizen?
When is violent language a crime? 17
What is genocide? Has it been going on longer than we think?
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