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Overlying Questions for Modern World History These questions are the foundations for specific units but can be reviewed time and time again as the year progresses and knowledge of the world expands. How is our world connected? (See National Geographic site ) Using National Standards of geo-literacy a geo-literate individual is able to reason about the ways that people and places are connect to each other across time and space. We should be able to: analyze digital and paper maps of a place or thematic topic and construct geographic questions to investigate issues. analyze current trends in population and constructing geographic questions to investigate the sources and future projections of the trends. analyze a current news report and construct questions that would provide a focus or resolution of the topic or issue. know what interactions and interconnections determine what outcomes of actions. When we integrate and evaluate of multiple sources of i...