Appendix A
Implementing District Standards
In this interdisciplinary curricular unit of study I address the New Mexico social studies, language arts and visual arts content area standards and benchmarks listed below.
History Standard 1: Students are able to identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns, relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in New Mexico, United States, and world history in order to understand the complexity of the human experience. D. Skills: Research historical events and people from a variety of perspectives. Civics and Government Standard 1: Students understand the ideals, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship and understand the content and history of the founding documents of the United States with particular emphasis on the United States and New Mexico constitutions and how governments function at local, state, tribal, and national levels. A. Understand the structure, functions, and powers of government. B. Explain the significance of symbols, icons, songs, traditions, and leaders of New Mexico and the United States that exemplify ideals and provide continuity and a sense of unity. D. Explain how individuals have rights and responsibilities as members of social groups, families, schools, communities, states, tribes, and countries. Geography Standard 2: Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environments. B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change. C. Understand how human behavior impacts man-made and natural environments, recognizes past and present results, and predicts potential changes. E. Understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, and their interdependence, cooperation, and conflict. Language Arts Standard 1: Reading and Listening for Comprehension: Students will apply strategies and skills to comprehend information that is read, heard, and viewed. A. Listen to, read, react to, and interpret information. B. Gather and use information for research and other purposes. C. Apply critical thinking skills to analyze information. D. Demonstrate competence in the skills and strategies of the reading process. Language Arts Standard 2: Writing and Speaking for Expression: Students will communicate effectively through speaking and writing. A. Use speaking as an interpersonal communication tool. B. Apply grammatical and language conventions to communicate. C. Demonstrate competence in the skills and strategies of writing process. Language Arts Standard 3: Literature and Media: Students will use literature and media to develop an understanding of people, societies, and the self. A. Use language, literature, and media to understand various social and cultural perspectives. B. Identify ideas and make connections among literary works. Arts Content Standard 2: Use visual arts to express ideas. Arts Content Standard 3: Integrate understanding of visual arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as all other content areas. Arts Content Standard 4: Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.
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