Standards:

The following are standards taken from the California History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools and the English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools. They are all standards which are covered by this project. They can be more emphasized and expanded by individual teachers.

History-Social Science Content Standards

Chronological and Spatial Thinking

1.Students compare present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and determining the lessons that were learned.
4.Students relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.

Historical Interpretation

1.Students show the connections, casual and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends and developments.
4.Students understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical events and recognize that events could have taken other directions.
5.Students analyze human modifications of landscapes and examine the resulting environmental policy issues.

11th Grade American History and Geography-Continuity and Change in the 20th Century

11.11Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.

English-Language Arts Content Standards

Reading

2.0Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials)

• Students read and understand grade level appropriate material.
• They analyze the organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced.

Listening and Speaking Strategies

1.0They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Arts Standards

Inter: Re-Active utilizes three primary models for interdisciplinary arts instruction: inquiry-based presentation, critical analysis, and creative production. A representative sample of activities listed below correspond directly to the Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools as indicated in parentheses.

1) Inquiry-based Presentations on the history of western participatory art models provide students with information about those works but also about the accompanying ideological, social and economic histories of various art movements. Presentations on the history of landscape, self-portraiture, and genre painting complemented by presentations on contemporary artists work in new media will facilitate studentsÕ manipulation of color, shape and spatial design in their work (Artistic Perception: 1.6: Compare and contrast similar styles of art work done in electronic media with those done in traditional visual arts materials)

2) Critical analysis of various art works emphasize written and oral critiques through which students will explain their understanding and appreciation of contemporary images, and dramatic situations and story-telling as evidenced in new media, film and literature (Connections, Relationships and Applications: 5.5: Investigate and report on the essential features of modern or emerging technologies that currently affect or will affect visual artists and the definition of the visual arts).

3) Creative production activities in the classroom and in the laboratory increase studentsÕ technical skill by incorporating traditional techniques (drawing, photography, dance, etc.) in the learning of new techniques. (Creating, Performing and Participating in the Visual Arts: 2.5: Create an expressive composition focusing on dominance and subordination).

Language Arts Standards

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
     3.6 Analyze the way in which authors through the centuries have used archetypes drawn from myth and tradition in literature, film, political speeches, and religious writings.

1.0 Writing Strategies
     Research and Technology
     1.7 Use systematic strategies to organize and record information
     (e.g., anecdotal scripting, annotated bibliographies.)

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
      1.0 Write fictional, autobiographical, or biographical narratives.
            a. Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their                 significance to the audience.
            b. Locate scenes and incidents in specific places.
            d. Pace the Presentation of actions to accommodate temporal,
                spatial, and dramatic mood changes.
            e. Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images,
                shifting perspectives, and sensory details.

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
      2.4 Write historical investigation reports:
            a. Use exposition, narration, description, argumentation,
                exposition, or some combination of rhetorical strategies
                to support the main proposition.