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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= B: Civics and Government. B3: Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections. Grade: 9-Diploma D: Analyze the political structures, political power, and political perspectives of diverse cultures, including those of Maine and other Native American, various historical and recent immigrant groups in Maine and the United States, and those of various world cultures. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: Social Studies.
 * Students understand political and civic aspects of unity and diversity in Maine, the United States, and the world including Maine Native Americans.**

//What understandings are desired?//
• The recent emigration of Somali and other African cultures has led to a new political base in the elections of the state. • The Native Americans were the original and still are a major cultural group in U.S. history. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • The Franco-American base is one of the major cultural contributors in the state.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• How has the Somali influx in Maine changed Maine politics? • Why have the Native Americans remained a major cultural faction in Maine and the United States? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • What was the economic impact of the emigration of the Franco-Americans to major cities in Maine?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• **Critical Details**: Immigration increased during times of economic distress, Franco-Americans moved to towns with Mills to work, Somalians migrated north to settle in quieter towns, Native Americans have 562 federally recognized tribe governments. They have been an economic influence with the development of casino's in Maine, and contribute with their high education and taking it to good paying professions, the functions and inner-workings of Maine's government • document how the emigration of Somalians has influenced Maine • exhibit knowledge of the political perspectives of Native Americans in the U.S. • D analyze the political structures, political power and political perspectives of diverse cultures, including those of Maine and other Native Americans, various historical and recent immigrant groups in Maine and the United States, and those of various World cultures. • consider the implications of the Somali influx in Maine politics • reflect on the Native American population in Maine and the U.S. and how they have remained a major cultural group. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * **• Events and People**: The Big Boom immigration of the Franco-Americans in the early 1800s, Civil War in Somalia, Somalians moving to central Maine and changing city demographics, Navaho, Cherokee, Choctaw etc. Native American Tribes
 * • Vocabulary:** La Survivance, Grand Trunk Railway, Refugee, Somalia, Allah, Sovereignty, Bureau of Indian Affairs, NAHASTA, Cherokee Nation || • express the contributions of the Franco-Americans


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**