Appendix on Implementing District Standards
Virginia uses the Virginia Standards of Learning in lieu of Common Core.
VA SOL ELA 7.6: The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of nonfiction texts. Students will demonstrate understanding by summarizing material in March or the other texts. They will demonstrate higher order thinking by making connections between the texts and themselves.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
VA SOL ELA 7.7: The student will write in a variety of forms with an emphasis on exposition, narration, and persuasion. The majority of the writing in this unit will be narrative. Students writing around the central questions will include exposition as they will provide descriptions related to what the Civil Rights Movement was and its significance.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.4a: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
VA SOL USII.9a: The student will apply social science skills to understand the key domestic and international issues during the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries by examining the impact of the Civil Rights Movement. Students will be able to identify some of the major points and figures of the Civil Rights Movement according to the Virginia standards. These include Brown v. Board, the murder of Emmett Till, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks.
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