Content+Standards

1. Content Standards SS4H1: The student will describe how early Native American cultures developed in North America. ELA4W1: The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure. The student ELA4R1: The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts. For informational texts, the student reads and comprehends in order to develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that:
 * 1)  Locate where Native Americans settled with emphasis on the Artic (Inuit), Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plateau (Nez Perce), Southwest (Hopi), Plains (Pawnee), and Southeast (Seminole).
 * 2) Describe how Native Americans used their environment to obtain food, clothing and shelter.
 * 1)  Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.
 * 2) Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.
 * 3) Uses traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question).
 * 4) Uses appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition elements).
 * 1) Locates facts that answer the reader’s questions.
 * 2) Identifies and uses knowledge of common textual features (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences, glossary).
 * 3) Identifies and uses knowledge of common graphic features (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams, illustrations).
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Identifies and uses knowledge of common organizational structures (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect).
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Distinguishes cause from effect in context.
 * 6) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Summarizes main ideas and supporting details.
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Makes perceptive and well-developed connections.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Distinguishes fact from opinion or fiction.