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Standards
Culture & Change: Black History in America meets national
standards by providing students with opportunities in the following
areas:
4th Edition Standards & Benchmarks
Grades K’4 History
- Understands how democratic values came to be, and how they
have been exemplified by people, events, and symbols
United States History
- Understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and
for the extension of civil liberties
Standards set by the National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA).
- Students read a wide range of print and non-print texts to
build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures
of the United States and the world; to acquire new information;
to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace;
and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction
and nonfiction, classic, and contemporary works.
- Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend,
interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their
prior experience, their interactions with other readers and
writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts,
their word identification strategies, and their understanding
of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence
structure, context, graphics).
- Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual
language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate
effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
- Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating
ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate,
and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print
and non-print texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their
discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.
- Students use a variety of technological and information resources
(e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather
and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
From the ten thematic strands that form the basis of the social
studies standards established by the
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
- Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of culture and cultural diversity.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of the ways human beings view themselves
in and over time.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of people, places, and environments.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of individual development and identity.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of interactions among individuals,
groups, and institutions.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of how people create and change structures
of power, authority, and governance.
- Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of the ideals, principles, and practices
of citizenship in a democratic republic.
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