1. develop skills with a variety of art materials and competence in at least one medium.

   • Students will using an arta medium for their maps.

2. use the computer and other electronic media as designing tools and to communicate visual ideas.

   • Students may be using the computer for their maps.

New York State ELA #1

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas, discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Key Idea: Listening and Reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. interpret and analyze information from textbooks and nonfiction books for young adults, as well as reference materials, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, graphs, charts, diagrams, and electronic data bases intended for a general audience.

   • Students will be using materials to gain information in the correct use map symbols.

3. use a wide variety of strategies for selecting, organizing, and categorizing information.

   • Students will be using an electronic page to store quote information.

4. distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information and between fact and opinion.

   • Students will be distinguishing between relevent and irrelevant information when deciding what quotes will be represented in their map and what facts from the literature provided information.

5. relate new information to prior knowledge and experience.

   • Students will use information found in the books such as "the character rode his bike from here to there and did not stop to rest or eat". They will combine this with the knoweldge of such experiences as bike riding to determine that the places listed in the book were probably less than 10 miles apart.

Key Idea: Speaking & Writing to acquire and transmit information requires asking probing and clarifying questions, interpreting information in one’s own words, applying information from one context to another, and presenting the information and interpretation clearly, concisely, and comprehensibly.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. produce oral and written reports on topics related to all school subjects.

   • Students are producing a project that will be presented orally.

2. establish an authoritative stance on the subject and provide references to establish the validity and verifiability of the information presented.

   • Students will be declaring their map to be possible based on the information found in the novel. They will support their project with quotes from the book.

4. develop information with appropriate supporting material, such as facts, details, illustrative examples or anecdotes, and exclude extraneous material.

   • The maps will be based on quotes found in the book.

6. use standard English for formal presentation of information, selecting appropriate grammatical constructions and vocabulary, using a variety of sentence structures, and observing the rules of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

   • Students will be required to speak audibly and in standard English when presenting their project.

New York State ELA #2

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.

Students will read and listen to oral, written and electronically produced texts and performances, relate texts and performances to their own lives, and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language for self-expression and artistic creation.

Key Idea: Listening and Reading for literary response involves comprehending, interpreting, and critiquing imaginative texts in every medium, drawing on personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text, and recognizing the social, historical and cultural features of the text.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. read and view texts and performances from a wide range of authors, subjects, and genres.

   • Students will be reading science fiction.

Key Idea: Speaking & Writing for literary response involves presenting interpretations, analysis, and reactions to the content and language of a text. Speaking and writing for literary expression involves producing imaginative texts that use language and text structures that are inventive and often multilayered.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. present responses to and interpretations of literature, making reference to the literary elements found in the text and connections with their personal knowledge and experience.

   • Students will be creating and presenting their maps making reference to quotations that inspired their creation of the map.

4. use standard English effectively.

   • Students will use standard English to present their map.

New York State ELA #3

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will present, in oral and written language and from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

Key Idea: Speaking & Writing for critical analysis and evaluation requires presenting opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information, and issues clearly, logically, and persuasively with reference to specific criteria on which the opinion or judgment is based.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. present (in essays, position papers, speeches, and debates) clear analysis of issues, ideas, texts, and experiences, supporting their positions with well-developed arguments.

   • Students will be pressenting their maps and supporting their choice of building locations etc., with quotations and explanations of their reasoning.

New York State ELA #4

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

Students will use oral and written language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.

Key Idea: Listening and speaking Oral communication in formal and informal settings requires the ability to talk with people of different ages, genders, and cultures, to adapt presentations to different audiences, and to reflect on how talk varies in different situations.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. listen attentively to others and build on others’ ideas in conversations with peers and adults.

   • Students will listen to others questions about their map and will be polite when asking others questions about other's projects.

2. express ideas and concerns clearly and respectfully in conversations and group discussions.

   • Students will listen to others questions about their map and will be polite when asking others questions about other's projects.

New York State MST #2 - Information Systems

Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Key Idea: information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.

Performance Indicators

Students will

1. use a range of equipment and software to integrate several forms of information in order to create good quality audio, video, graphic, and text-based presentations.

   • Depending upon their choices, students may be using word processing and computer graphics programs.

2. use spreadsheets and data-base software to collect, process, display, and analyze information. Students access needed information from electronic data bases and on-line telecommunication services.

   • Students will be obtaining their instructions from the QUIA site.

New York State MST #3 - Mathematics

Students will: understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.

Number Sense & Numeration

Key Idea: Students use NUMBER SENSE AND NUMERATION to develop an understanding of multiple uses of numbers in the real world, use of numbers to communicate mathematically, and use of numbers in the development of mathematical ideas.

Performance Indicators

Students will

2. understand and apply ratios, proportions, and percents through a wide variety of hands-on explorations.

   • Students will be making a map with a scale with an appropriate ratio.

Mathematical Modeling/ Multiple Representation

Key Idea: Students use MATHEMATICAL MODELING/MULTIPLE REPRESENTATION to provide a means of presenting, interpreting, communicating, and connecting mathematical information and relationships.

Performance Indicators

Students will

2. use maps and scale drawings to represent real objects or places.

   • Students will be creating maps of the world and it's distances etc. as described in literature.

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Computer Technology

Key Idea: Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge.

Performance Indicators

Students will