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Michigan Language Arts Content Standards:
Content Standard 3: All students will focus on meaning and communication as they listen, speak, view, read, and write in personal, social, occupational, and civic contexts.
Content Standard 7: All students will demonstrate, analyze, and reflect upon the skills and processes used to communicate through listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing.
Content Standard 8: All students will explore and use the characteristics of different types of texts, aesthetic elements, and mechanics -- including text structure, figurative and descriptive language, spelling, punctuation, and grammar -- to construct and convey meaning.
Content Standard 9: All students will demonstrate understanding of the complexity of enduring issues and recurring problems by making connections and generating themes within and across texts.
Content Standard 10: All students will apply knowledge, ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the lives of others.
Strand I. Historical Perspective
Students use knowledge of the past to construct meaningful understanding of our diverse cultural heritage and to inform their civic judgments.
Standard I.2 COMPREHENDING THE PAST
All students will understand narratives about major eras of American and world history by identifying the people involved, describing the setting, and sequencing the events
Standard I.3 ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING THE PAST
All students will reconstruct the past by comparing interpretations written by others from a variety of perspectives and creating narratives from evidence. History is not a succession of facts marching to a settled conclusion. Written history is a human construction and conclusions about the past are tentative and arguable. Documents, eyewitness accounts, letters, diaries, artifacts, photos, historical sites, and other fragments of the past are subject to analysis and interpretation. Credible reconstruction of the past draws upon a variety of records and compares interpretations that reveal more than one perspective on events. One can engage in "doing history" by assessing historical narratives written by others or by creating a narrative from evidence that has been compiled, analyzed, and interpreted.
Standard I.4 JUDGING DECISIONS FROM THE PAST
All students will evaluate key decisions made at critical turning points in history by assessing their implications and long-term consequences.
Standard V.I INFORMATIONAL PROCESSING
All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets, and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts, and time lines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information.
Standard VI.3 PERSUASIVE WRITING
All students will compose coherent written essays that express a position on a public issue and justify the position with reasoned arguments.
Using and Transferring Use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate information;
4..All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and decision making skills.
2. use technologies as tools for creative expression and communication of ideas(voice., data .video and graphics)
4. use technologies to organize thoughts in a logical process (voice., data .video and graphics) .
Apply productivity /multimedia tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, group collaboration, and learning throughout the curriculum
Design, develop, publish and present products (e.g., Web pages, video tapes) using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom
Use content-specific tools, software and simulations (e.g., Web pages, video tapes) using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom
II. Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers plan and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology. Teachers:
PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
D . use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning .
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Standard V.I INFORMATIONAL PROCESSING
All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets, and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts, and time lines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information.
Standard I.2 COMPREHENDING THE PAST
All students will understand narratives about major eras of American and world history by identifying the people involved, describing the setting, and sequencing the events
Standard I.3 ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING THE PAST
All students will reconstruct the past by comparing interpretations written by others from a variety of perspectives and creating narratives from evidence. History is not a succession of facts marching to a settled conclusion. Written history is a human construction and conclusions about the past are tentative and arguable. Documents, eyewitness accounts, letters, diaries, artifacts, photos, historical sites, and other fragments of the past are subject to analysis and interpretation. Credible reconstruction of the past draws upon a variety of records and compares interpretations that reveal more than one perspective on events. One can engage in "doing history" by assessing historical narratives written by others or by creating a narrative from evidence that has been compiled, analyzed, and interpreted.
Technology Standards
Using and Transferring Use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate information;
4..All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and decision making skills.
2. use technologies as tools for creative expression and communication of ideas(voice., data .video and graphics)
Design, develop, publish and present products (e.g., Web pages, video tapes and drawings) using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom
II. Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers plan and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology. Teachers:
PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
D . use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community in order to nurture student learning .
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