Invisible Cities: The Arts and Renewable Community

Appendix – Implementing District Standards

The following Common Core Standards are addressed in this curriculum unit:

SOCIAL STUDIES – SS1.3,SS1.4, SS1.5, SS1.6, SS2.2, SS2.3, SS2.4 - Geographical Space & Place, Information Literacy and Communication, and Global Awareness, Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Students will investigate the origins of prominent and less prominent individuals past and present, examining their heritage and influence on the community; identify geographic features and create geographic representations of those features via the use of maps and models; analyze how and why people settled in specific communities and how people and communities have an impact on their environment; participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners; respond to questions based on discovered and provided info; interpret information from various primary and secondary sources (e.g., walking tours, photographs, and other pictorial images); create various forms of written work across genre based on gathered information; and will present info gathered on a collaborative group or independent basis using clarity, voice, and fluency.

MATHEMATICS (Geometry & Measurement) – M3.1, M3.2 - Students will recognize that shapes and structures can be analyzed, visualized, measured, and transformed using a variety of strategies, tools, and technologies; identify, draw, and construct two-and-three dimensional shapes; compare, contrast, and identify polygons and solids; draw and interpret simple maps and/or pictures using coordinate grids, investigate ways to tessellate a shape or regions using a variety of polygons and other geometric shapes, use spatial reasoning, location, and geometric relationships to problem solve.

LITERACY - RR1.4, ERL2.1, ERL2.4, CWO 3.1, CWO 3.2, CWO 3.3 - Reading and Responding, Exploring and Responding to Literature, Communicating with Others: Students will communicate with others to create interpretations of written, oral, and visual texts, explore and respond to literature; recognize that readers and authors are influenced by individual, social, cultural, and scientific context; use oral language with clarity, voice and fluency to communicate a message, will use the appropriate features of narrative, expository or poetic writing, use strategies to generate and develop ideas for speaking, writing, and visual activities, and publish and present final products in myriad ways, including the use of the arts and technology.

Photo & Pictorial Credits

Yellin Metal workers photo featured on curriculum unit cover page, permission for use granted by Samuel Yellin Metalworkers.

Pastoral image on the New Haven Green thumbnail image, permission for use granted by Jason Bischoff-Wurstle, Director of Photographic Archives, and the New Haven Historical Society.

Photos of the Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinque) statue in front of New Haven's City Hall, the shadowed fence Adinkra symbolism, and Old Campus ground image, permission for use granted by Yale National Initiative Fellow Jeffry Weathers.

Featured Adinkra symbols on Exhibit 1 made available via downloadable for educational use Adinkra website @ http://www.adinkra.org.