Appendix A: Implementing District Standards
Virginia Language Arts Standards
The language arts objectives are the crux of this unit. It is also important to use multiple standards together instead of teaching everything in isolation. The students will work on all of these objectives in a meaningful way, by applying them to a real world project.
4.2 The student will make and listen to oral presentations and reports.
4.7 The student will write cohesively for a variety of purposes. A narrative is one of the
required writing assignments.
4.9 The student will demonstrate comprehension of information resources to
research a topic.
b) Collect information from multiple resources including online, print, and media.
c) Use technology as a tool to organize, evaluate, and communicate information.
d) Give credit to sources used in research.
e) Understand the difference between plagiarism and using own words.
Virginia Studies Standards
The Virginia Studies objectives are not specifically addressed, but this unit is designed to
increase the students' understanding of the larger picture.
VS. 3e The student will demonstrate knowledge of the first permanent English
settlement in America by identifying the importance of the arrival of Africans
and women to the Jamestown settlement.
VS. 4a The student will demonstrate knowledge of life in the Virginia colony by
explaining the importance of agriculture and its influence on the institution of
slavery.
VS.7c The student will demonstrate knowledge of the issues that divided our nation and
led to the Civil War by describing the roles played by whites, enslaved African
Americans, free African Americans, and American Indians.
VS. 8a The student will demonstrate knowledge of the reconstruction of Virginia
following the Civil War by identifying the effects of Reconstruction on life in
Virginia.
VS. 8c The student will demonstrate knowledge of the reconstruction of Virginia
following the Civil War by describing the importance of railroads, new
industries, and the growth of cities to Virginia's economic development.
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