Themes & Essential Questions

Framing Inquiry & Promoting
Critical Thinking

Click on the themes to the left to access essential questions, which can be highlighted, copied, and pasted
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Past, Present, & Future

• Why do we bother to study/examine the past, present or future?

• How is memory of the past shaped by our present experience?

• How is the present shaped by our experiences in the past and our hopes for the future?

• How is the future shaped by the past and the present?

• What are the recurrent motifs of history and in what ways have they changed or remained the same?

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