It is important to know and understand the standards that relate to your learning.  Look at these standards to help you better understand not just what you are learning, but the process as well.

 

Skills

VS.1      

The student will demonstrate skills for historical and geographical analysis and responsible citizenship, including the ability to:

• identify and interpret artifacts and primary and secondary source documents to understand events in history;

• determine cause-and-effect relationships;

• compare and contrast historical events;

• draw conclusions and make generalizations;

• make connections between past and present;

• sequence events in Virginia history;

• interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives;

• evaluate and discuss issues orally and in writing;

• analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events.

 

Civil War and Postwar Eras

VS.7      

The student will demonstrate knowledge of the issues that divided our nation and led to the Civil War by

• identifying the events and differences between northern and southern states that divided Virginians and led to secession, war, and the creation of West Virginia;

• describing Virginia’s role in the war, including identifying major battles that took place in Virginia;

• describing the roles played by whites, enslaved African Americans, free African Americans, and American Indians.

VS.8      

The student will demonstrate knowledge of the reconstruction of Virginia following the Civil War by

• identifying the effects of Reconstruction on life in Virginia;

• identifying the effects of segregation and “Jim Crow” on life in Virginia for whites, African Americans, and American Indians;

• describing the importance of railroads, new industries, and the growth of cities to Virginia’s economic development.

 

Communication: Speaking, Listening, Media Literacy

5.1

The student will listen, draw conclusions, and share responses in subject-related group learning activities.

• Organize information to present in reports of group activities.

• Summarize information gathered in group activities.

• Communicate new ideas to others.

• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams.

• Demonstrate the ability to work independently.

 

5.2

The student will use effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to deliver planned oral presentations.

• Maintain eye contact with listeners.

• Use gestures to support, accentuate, and dramatize verbal message.

• Use facial expressions to support and dramatize verbal message.

• Use posture appropriate for communication setting.

• Determine appropriate content for audience.

• Organize content sequentially around major ideas.

• Summarize main points as they relate to main idea or supporting details.

• Incorporate visual media to support the presentation.

• Use language and style appropriate to the audience, topic, and purpose.

 

Reading

5.4

The student will expand vocabulary when reading.

• Use context to clarify meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.

• Use context and sentence structure to determine meanings and differentiate among multiple meanings of words.

• Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.

• an author’s use of figurative language.

• Use dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, and other word-reference materials.

• Develop vocabulary by listening to and reading a variety of texts.

• Study word meanings across content areas.

 

5.5

The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, narrative nonfiction, and poetry.

• Describe the relationship between text and previously read materials.

• Describe how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style.

• Identify and ask questions that clarify various points of view.

• Identify main idea.

• Summarize supporting details from text.

• Draw conclusions and make inferences from text.

• Identify cause and effect relationships.

• Make, confirm, or revise predictions.

• Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

• Read with fluency and accuracy.

 

5.6

The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts.

• Use text organizers, such as type, headings, and graphics, to predict and categorize information in both print and digital texts.

• Use prior knowledge and build additional background knowledge as context for new learning.

• Skim materials to develop a general overview of content and to locate specific information.

• Identify the main idea of nonfiction texts.

• Summarize supporting details in nonfiction texts.

• Identify structural patterns found in nonfiction.

• Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions.

• Identify cause and effect relationships following transition words signaling the pattern.

• Differentiate between fact and opinion.

• Identify, compare, and contrast relationships.

• Identify new information gained from reading.

• Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

• Read with fluency and accuracy.

 

Writing

5.7

The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, to explain, and to persuade.

• Identify intended audience.

• Use a variety of prewriting strategies.

• Organize information to convey a central idea.

• Write a clear topic sentence focusing on the main idea.

• Write multiparagraph compositions.

• Use precise and descriptive vocabulary to create tone and voice.

• Vary sentence structure by using transition words.

• Revise for clarity of content using specific vocabulary and information.

• Include supporting details that elaborate the main idea.

 

5.8

The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing.

• Use plural possessives.

• Use adjective and adverb comparisons.

• Identify and use interjections.

• Use apostrophes in contractions and possessives.

• Use quotation marks with dialogue.

• Use commas to indicate interrupters.

• Use a hyphen to divide words at the end of a line.

• Edit for fragments and run-on sentences.

• Eliminate double negatives.

• Use correct spelling of commonly used words.

• Identify and use conjunctions.

 

Research

5.9

• The student will find, evaluate, and select appropriate resources for a research product.Construct questions about a topic.

• Collect information from multiple resources including online, print, and media.

• Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information.

• Organize information presented on charts, maps, and graphs.

• Develop notes that include important concepts, summaries, and identification of information sources.

• Give credit to sources used in research.

• Define the meaning and consequences of plagiarism.