Appendix C: Implementing District Standards
Language Arts
4.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, narrative
nonfiction texts, and poetry.
4.6 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts.
This curriculum unit provides an opportunity for students to read variety of (excerpts), non-fiction, and poetry centered on a theme.
4.7 The student will write cohesively for a variety of purposes.
The students have many opportunities to write for a variety of purposes.
History/Virginia Studies
VS.8 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the reconstruction of Virginia following the Civil War by
- b) identifying the effects of segregation and “Jim Crow” on life in Virginia for whites, African Americans, and American Indians;
VS.9 The student will demonstrate knowledge of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Virginia by
- c) identifying the social and political events in Virginia linked to desegregation and Massive Resistance and their relationship to national history;
- d) identifying the political, social, and/or economic contributions made by Maggie L.
Walker; Harry F. Byrd, Sr.; Oliver W. Hill; Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.; A. Linwood Holton,
Jr.; and L. Douglas Wilder.
These standards will be embedded throughout the unit. The curriculum provides a much broader and deeper understanding of the Civil Rights Movement in response to the Jim Crow Laws. The people listed in the standard who are not taught will be covered during social studies when the class studies VS9 specifically.
Rebecca Jean Stanton
February 18, 2016 at 1:26 pmGreat resources!
Thank you so much for sharing this curriculum unit with us. It's well developed, and is definitely what we need to be teaching in schools. Thank you
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