Language Arts

English Language Arts

Standard 4

Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. In order to meet this standard students will: make predictions, analyze, draw conclusions, and discriminate between fact and opinion in writing, reading, speaking, listening, and viewing

-use reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing to define and solve problems evaluate the reliability, accuracy and relevancy of the information

Standard 5

Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources

 Social Studies

As students in grades 5-8 extend their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes:

-distinguishing between primary and secondary sources;

-interpreting the data in historical maps, photographs, art works, and other artifacts;

-and examining data for point of view, historical context, bias, distortion, or propaganda

As students in grades 9-12 extended their knowledge, what they know and are able to do includes

-explaining how historical descriptions, arguments and judgments can reflect the bias of the author and/or the prevailing ideas of the culture and time period;

-interpreting oral traditions and legends as histories;

-evaluating data within the social, political, and economic context in which it was created, testing its credibility, and evaluating its bias; and

-comparing and contrasting reliability of information received from multiple sources.

Civics Grades 5-8

Evaluating the role of the media and public opinion in formulating public policy

Civics Grades 9-12

Developing, evaluating and defending positions about the role  of media and public opinion in United States politics 

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