Appendix # 5: Standards
The following Citizenship Standards will be used in this curriculum unit. The numbers of the Standards reflects their number within the Citizenship Standards.
Citizenship Standards
- All students demonstrate an understanding of major event, cultures, groups and individuals in the historical development of Pennsylvania, the United States and other nations, and describe patterns of historical development.
- All students describe the development and operations of economic, political legal and governmental systems in the United States, assess their relationships to those systems, and compare them to those in other nations.
- All students examine and evaluate problems facing citizens in their communities, state, nation, and world by incorporating concepts and methods of inquiry of the various social sciences.
- All students develop and defend a position on current issues, confronting the United States and other nations, conducting research, analyzing alternatives, organizing evidence and arguments and making oral presentations.
- All students demonstrate their skills of communicating, negotiating and cooperating with others.
- All students demonstrate that they can work effectively with others.
- All students demonstrate an understanding of the history and nature of prejudice and relate their knowledge to current issues facing communities, the United States and other nations.
- All students demonstrate the ability to resolve conflicts in peaceful ways, including but not limited to peer mediation, anger management, interpersonal skills and problem-solving.
Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Standards
- All students use effective research and information management skills, including locating primary and secondary sources of information with traditional and emerging library technologies.
- All students read and use a variety of methods to make sense of various kinds of complex texts.
- All students respond orally and in writing to information and ideas gained by reading narrative and informational texts and use the information and ideas to make decisions and solve problems.
- All students write for a variety of purposes, including to narrate, inform, and persuade, in all subject areas.
- All students analyze and make critical judgments about all forms of communication, separating fact from opinion, recognizing propaganda, stereotypes, and statements of bias, recognizing inconsistencies and judging the validity of evidence.
- All students exchange information orally, including understanding and giving spoken instructions, asking and answering questions appropriately, and promoting effective group communications.
- All students listen to and understand complex oral messages and identify their purpose, structure and use.
- All students compose and make oral presentations for each academic area of study that are designed to persuade, inform or describe.
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