3 Unit Standards

Library Media Standards Grades 6-12:

• 1.I.T Learners display curiosity and initiative:
  • I.T.2 – Recall prior and background knowledge as a context for new meaning.1.I.C Learners engage with new knowledge by following a process:
  • I.C.2 Devise and implement a plan to fill knowledge gaps.
  • I.C.3 Generate products that illustrate learning.
• 1.I.S Learners adapt, communicate, and exchange learning products with others in a cycle:
  • I.S.1 Interact with content presented by others.
• 1. I.G Learners participate in an ongoing inquiry-based process:
  • I.G.1 Continually seek knowledge
  • I.G.2 Engaging in sustained inquiry.
  • I.G.3 Enact new understanding through real-world connections.

Social Studies Academic Standards 9-12:

History

• H.1 Students will understand chronology, patterns of continuity, and change over time. This includes the contextualization of historical events and ways people gather, view, construct, and interpret historical evidence.
• H.5 Students will understand key historical periods from the Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945 (Era 8), to the Contemporary United States, 1968 to Present (Era 10). This includes the patterns of social, economic, and political change over time and the ways people view, construct, and interpret the history of the United States.

Disciplinary Literacy Standards: Resource for History/Social Studies (2016)

• RH.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
• RH.6-8.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
• RH.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
• RH.9-10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
• RH.11-12.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
• RH.11-12.3 Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain.

English Language Arts

• 6.RC.3.RF & 9.RC.3.RF : Cite text evidence to support an analysis of what a text states, using background knowledge to draw inferences from the text.
• 6.RC.4.RF & 9.RC.4.RF: Demonstrate reading comprehension of age and grade-appropriate texts by speaking or writing.
• 6.RC.6.RL: Determine how elements in the structure of a story, drama, or poem support the development of setting, plot, or theme.
• 9.RC.6.RL: Explain how the overall structure and sequencing of a text enhances the mood, suspense, and tension.
• 6.RC.8.RL: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a text to listening to or watching an audio, video, or live version of the text. Compare and contrast what is: (1) Imagined when reading a text, (2) Observed when listening and/or watching.
• 9.RC.8.RL: Compare and contrast the representation of a subject or key scene in two artistic media, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
• 9.RC.10.RL: Identify a theme in an original, adapted, or modernized drama, poem, folktale, or story from Arkansas or regional literature, explaining its historical and/or contemporary significance.
• 6.W.3.S: Write to express real or imagined experiences and/or events: use relevant descriptive details, organize well-structured event sequences, use narrative techniques (e.g., dialogue, sequencing, description, characterization).
• 9.W.3.S: Write to express real or imagined experiences and/or events: Develop the topic, context, narrative elements, and point of view and/or perspective; select well-chosen, descriptive details, sensory language, and precise language, conveying a detailed picture of conflict, setting, and/or characters; develop a well-structured event sequence and plot line to enhance the relationships among ideas and experiences; use narrative techniques effectively.
• 6.W.8.P: Construct clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
• 6.W.13.R: Conduct research to answer a question.
• 9.W.4.P: Construct clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

Fine Arts

• RE.7 Students will perceive and analyze artistic work.
• RE.8 Students will interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
• CN.10 Students will synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
• CN.11 Students will relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding