Standards
Standards Addressed
Social Studies Standards Addressed
4.4 Students explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power, tracing the transformation of the California economy and its political and cultural development since the 1850s.
1. Understand the story and lasting influence of the Pony Express, Overland Mail Service, Western Union, and the building of the transcontinental railroad, including the contributions of Chinese workers to its construction.
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills Addressed
Chronological and Spatial Thinking
1. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time
3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.
Research, Evidence and Point of View
1. Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.
2. Students distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories.
3. Students distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, essential from incidental information, and verifiable from unverifiable information in historical narratives and stories.
Historical Interpretation
1. Students explain the central issues and problems of the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time and place.
5. Students recognize interpretations of history are subject to change as new information is uncovered.
English Language Development Standards Addressed
3 - 5 Early Advanced/Advanced
Listening and Speaking
- Consistenly use appropriate wasy of speaking and writing that vary based on purpose, audience, and subject matter
- Speak clearly and comprehensibly using standard English grammatical forms, sounds, intonation, pitch and modulation
- Describe main ideas and supporting details of a text
- Generate and respond to comprehension questions related to the text
- Use resources in the text (such as ideas, illustrations, titiles, etc.) to draw conclusions and make inferences
- Distinguish between explicit examples of fact, opinions, inference, and cause/effect in texts.
- Produce independent writing with consistent use of correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
- Edit writing for basic conventions
- Use complete sentences and correct word order