The Illustrated Page: Medieval Manuscripts to New Media

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.01.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. The Unit
  4. Content objectives
  5. Text Selection
  6. Visual Art
  7. Background Building Strategies
  8. Reading Strategies
  9. Visual Literacy
  10. Writing Strategies
  11. Creativity strategies
  12. Appendix
  13. Common Core State Standards
  14. End Notes
  15. Annotated bibliography

An American Myth: How Pictures and Texts Have Changed the Narrative of the American Revolution

Lynnette Joy Shouse

Published September 2017

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Appendix

Oklahoma Academic Standards

Process and Literacy Skills Standard 1: The student will develop and demonstrate Common Core informational text reading literacy skills.

A. Key Ideas and Details

3. Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in United States history primary and/or secondary sources based on specific information in the texts.

C. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

7. Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources (e.g., timelines, maps, graphs, charts, political cartoons, images, artwork), demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question or to solve an historic problem.

8. Identify and explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

9. Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Process and Literacy Skills Standard 3: The student will develop and demonstrate Common Core speaking and listening skills.

A. Comprehension and Collaboration

1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on Grade 5 United States History topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

B. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

5. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in United States History presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Content Standard 3: The student will examine the foundations of the American nation laid during the Revolutionary Era through the contributions of historic individuals and groups, the spreading of the ideals found within the Declaration of Independence, and the significant military and diplomatic events of the Revolutionary War that resulted in an independent United States. (CCRIT 1, 3, 5, 6, and CCW 7, 9)

5. Analyze and explain the relationships of significant military and diplomatic events of the Revolutionary War including the leadership of General George Washington, the experiences at Valley Forge, the impact of the battles at Trenton, Saratoga, and Yorktown, as well as the recognition of an independent United States by Great Britain through the Treaty of Paris. (CCRIT 3)

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