Matthew P. Bachand
The content standards discussed here are from the Connecticut State Department of Education. Listing these standards should provide prospective users of this unit with a frame of reference narrow enough to help teachers decide whether or not the unit is applicable to his or her goals while not being so broad as to seem applicable to all programs of study.
While not all content standards listed here are not explicitly linked to each of the sample lesson plans included in this unit, each is implicitly linked to the activities and strategies discussed within the narrative sections of the unit.
Content Standard One: Reading and Responding
Educational experiences in this unit will assure that students:
1.1 describe the text by giving an initial reaction to the text and describing its general purpose;
1.3 reflect on the text to make judgements about its meaning and quality;
1.5 generate questions before, during and after reading, writing, listening, and viewing
1.8 use the structure of narrative, expository, persuasive, poetic, and visual text to interpret and extend meaning;
1.12 make inferences about ideas implicit in narrative, expository, persuasive, and poetic texts
1.13 interact with others in creating, interpreting, and evaluating written, oral, and visual texts.
Content Standard Four: Exploring and Responding to Texts
Educational experiences in this unit will assure that students:
4.3 evaluate the merit of literary texts on the basis of individual preferences and established standards;
4.4 examine the ways readers and writers are influenced by individual, social, cultural, and historical context;
4.6 demonstrate an understanding that literature represents, recreates, shapes, and explores human experience through language and imagination;
4.7 explore and respond to the aesthetic elements of literature, including spoken, visual, and written texts;
4.8 use literature as a resource to explore ideas and decisions, as well as political and social issues; and
4.9 identify the unique and shared qualities of the voices, cultures, and historical periods in literature.