Kansas
State Standards
Writing
Standards
Standard 1 - Writing: The student writes effectively for a variety of
audiences, purposes, and contexts.
Reading
Standards
Reading Standard: The student reads and comprehends text across the
curriculum.
Literature Standard: The student responds to a variety of texts.
- Civics-Government Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of governmental systems of Kansas and the United States and other nations with an emphasis on the United States Constitution, the necessity for the rule of law, the civic values of the American people, and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of becoming active participants in our representative democracy.
- Benchmark 4: The student identifies and examines the rights, privileges, and responsibilities in becoming an active civic participant.
- History Standard: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of significant individuals, groups, ideas, events, eras and developments in the history of Kansas, the United States, and the world, utilizing essential analytical and research skills.
- Benchmark 1: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, developments, and turning points in the era of the emergence of the modern United States (1890 -1930).
- Benchmark 2: The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, developments, and turning points in the era of the Great Depression through World War II in United States history (1930-1945).
- Benchmark 5: The student engages in historical thinking skills.
- Standard 9: Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Benchmark 3: The student identifies various roles that musicians perform, cites representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describes their activities and achievements.
Kansas
Curricular Standards for Listening, Viewing, Speaking [PDF/163k]
- Standard: Learners will participate effectively as listeners within formal and informal groups.
- Standard: Students will demonstrate skills in viewing for a variety of purposes.
- Standard: Communicators will retrieve information from a variety of appropriate sources.