Grades+6-8

Unit Assignments and Contents: 6. Develop a service learning project related to one of the previous areas such as: 7. Have students communicate/Skype with other students/stewards around the U.S. to see what they are doing.
 * 1) Read and learn about exploratory narratives in the Language Arts textbook
 * 2) Read and compare supplemental John Muir/other text selections about the history of the volcano with exploratory narratives in the textbook
 * 3) Visit the volcano
 * 4) Assume the role of an original settler or visitor to Capulin volcano and document experience from that point of view through journaling/scrapbooking (Smashbooks?)
 * 5) Develop your own ideas through journaling, as a new settler, for ways to:
 * a. Help preserve, protect, and promote awareness of the volcano
 * b. Help promote tourism and awareness of the volcano
 * a. Find areas that need protecting or re-vegetating and make a plan to help protect or re-vegetate
 * i. Organize a day to help do this by creating a pamphlet, flier, or announcement to the community
 * ii. Do a program for a tour group on the importance of conservation with regards to over-hunting, over-grazing, over-farming etc.
 * b.Think of events or new things that could be added to the park to attract more tourists and assess how it might affect the park both positively and negatively
 * i. Music at the Capulin “natural amphitheater” (student performances, local musician performances, Native American performances to take advantage of the great acoustics/view and tourists/locals bring a chair and sit and watch)
 * ii. Georgia O’Keefe Day at the park (students/tourists painting like the famous artist—could we have the museum bring some paintings or videos and do a presentation while we provide materials to sketch/paint—would need skulls and flower and wood pieces, and either sketchpads and pencils or paint and acrylic paint paper)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">iii. Research what it would take to add Flora and Fauna markers down the crater (“Have you seen me?” markers with pictures of the animals and plants, that can be flipped open for more info) or make scan-able squares to add to existing markers that link to videos with sound for people with low vision
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">iv. Think about and plan what it would take to approve the building/development of a butterfly pavilion (tourists could come watch larvae, chrysalises, caterpillars, and butterflies grown in their different stages)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">v. Historical reenactments (students do a skit, assuming the roles of the original persons of interest involved with the history of the volcano for the tourists and or younger students)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">vi. Build-your-own-volcano day (tourists/students could build their own volcano models and do the Mentos and coke project)

=1. Read and learn about exploratory narratives in the English textbook=

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">First, read the following stories in your Language Arts textbook: “A Journey Through Texas,” by Alvar <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and “Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville,” by García López de Cárdenas on pages

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">RI.6-8.6 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text. [RI.6-8.6]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can analyze how an author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. [RI.6-8.6]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">vocabulary, context, figurative, language, connotative, meaning, literal, diction, word, choice, tone, argument, structure, purpose, point, view, rhetoric, rhetorical, strategy, strategies, analyze, analysis, device, devices, triangle, ethos, pathos, logos

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">RI.6-8.9 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can describe how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information. [RI.6-8.9]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can analyze how multiple authors writing about the same topic emphasize different evidence or advance different interpretations of facts to convey their position. [RI.6-8.9]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">analyze, analysis, compare, contrast, genre, genres, print, non-print, visual, art, artistic, medium, mediums, interdisciplinary, multimedia, source, material, argument, claim, logos, specific, detail, example, reasoning, evidence,

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">RI.6-8.10 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can distinguish between portions of a text that I understand versus portions that I don’t understand. [RI.6-8.10]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use various reading and note-taking strategies that will help me locate portions of a text that are difficult for me. [RI.6-8.10]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can list questions I have about a text and ask for help in order to understand portions of a text that are too difficult for me. [RI.6-8.10]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">read, reading, range, grade, level, comprehension, understanding, exemplar, exemplars, annotation, note, taking, strategy, strategies, graphic, organizer, connections, journal, entry, pre-reading, double-sided, response, clarification, question, questions

=2. Read and compare supplemental John Muir/other text selections about the history of the volcano with exploratory narratives in the textbook=

<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WHST.6-8.8. <span style="color: #3b3b3a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can access information presented in written form alongside other media or formats to learn about a topic or issue. [RI.6-8.7]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can describe the argument and specific claims presented in a text. [RI.6-8.8]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can determine which claims presented in a text are supported by reasons and evidence, and which are not. [RI.6-8.8]

<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.9. <span style="color: #3b3b3a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another. [RI.6.9]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">analyze, analysis, compare, contrast, print, non-print, visual, art, artistic, medium, mediums, multimedia, source, material, argument, claim, specific, detail, example, reasoning, evidence

=3. Visit the volcano=

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Take a field trip to the volcano to gain a more in-depth experience of what it would be like to be a settler or visitor to New Mexico for the first time. =4. Assume the role of an original settler or visitor to Capulin volcano and document experience from that point of view through journaling/scrapbooking (Smashbooks?)=

<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.10. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can design a work plan to appropriately match the task, purpose, and audience for a piece of writing. [W.6-8.10]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can design a work plan that includes time for research, reflection, and revision. [W.6-8.10]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can write routinely over shorter time frames for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.6-8.10]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can write routinely over extended time frames for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.6-8.10]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">task, purpose, audience, daily, research, long, term, extended, shorter, reflection, revision, process, synthesis, synthesize, work, plan, management, manage

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Standard 6 for Theater: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Benchmark 6A: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Describe and compare universal characters and situations in dramas from various cultures and historical periods. I can describe and compare universal characters and situations from different cultures and time periods. =5. Develop your own ideas through journaling, as a new settler, for ways to:=
 * PERFORMCE STANDARDS/ LEARNING TARGETS **

a. Help preserve, protect, and promote awareness about the volcano
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Go to the following site and research the biodiversity of American landscapes. [] Then put together a modern multimedia production, such as a video or slide show with music and narration, that broadly showcases American landscapes, then specifically goes into the history and landscape around Capulin volcano.

<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">WHST.6-8.1.a <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources. [W.6-8.8]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can assess the credibility of each source in answering a research question. [W.6-8.8]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources. [W.6-8.8]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">research, duration, synthesize, synthesis, integrate, source, inquiry, question, investigate, print, digital, non-print, technology, internet, search, plagiarism, MLA, APA, works, cited, bibliography, analysis, analyze, reflection, credibility, evidence, paraphrase

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Standard 1: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Learn and develop the essential skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music,theatre/drama and visual arts.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 1A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Refine dialogue and action that contribute to effective plots in classroom dramatizations.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">3. I can construct dialogue and action that creates a story line with a beginning, middle and end.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater/Drama Benchmark 3B: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Develop dramatizations which include topics in other content areas such as literature, history and science.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can apply the transfer of knowledge between the arts and other content areas to dramatic presentations.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater/Drama Standard 6: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater/Drama Benchmark 6A: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Describe and compare universal characters and situations in dramas from various cultures and historical periods.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can engage in dramatic activities depicting different cultures and times, and discuss commonality of characters, situations and motives in various cultures and historical periods.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 2: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use dance, music, theater/drama, and visual arts to express ideas.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 2A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Apply art concepts to communicate ideas about self, communities, cultures and the world.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can communicate ideas and points of view to others through specific works of art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can connect personal experience and knowledge of local and global communities as inspiration for expression in visual art.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 2B <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Use subjects, themes, and symbols when expressing ideas in art works.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> 1. I can show a variety of ideas, images, themes, symbols, and events through art.
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<span style="color: red; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 8 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 8A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Show ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with visual arts.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can participate in at least two art exhibits by providing original art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can arrange, as part of a team, an art exhibit (assist with arrangements, display, or decision making).

a. Help promote tourism and awareness of the volcano
<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.7. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can conduct short research projects to answer a question I have or one that is assigned to me. [W.6-8.7]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can draw on several sources when conducting research and can adapt and refocus my search if necessary. [W.6-8.7]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">research, duration, synthesize, synthesis, integrate, source, inquiry, question, investigate, print, digital, non-print, technology, internet, search, plagiarism, MLA, APA, works, cited, bibliography, analysis, analyze, reflection, credibility, evidence, paraphrase

=6. Develop a service learning project related to one of the previous areas such as:=

i. Organize a day to help do this by creating a pamphlet, flier, or announcement to the community
<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.4. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can understand my task, purpose, and audience when I write. [W.6-8.4]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can match the development, organization, and style of my writing to my task, audience, and purpose. [W.6-8.4]

<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.5. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can understand writing as a process of planning, revising, editing, and rewriting. [W.6-8.5]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can develop and strengthen my writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. [W.6-8.5]

<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.6. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. [W.6-8.6]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use technology, including the internet, to interact and collaborate with others on the writing process. [W.6-8.6]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">writers, workshop, task, purpose, audience, develop, development, organize, organization, style, process, planning, revising, editing, rewriting, technology, collaboration, peer, review, keyboard, typing

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">L.6-8.3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">ESSENTIAL LEARNING TARGETS **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can express ideas precisely and concisely with the language that I choose to use. [L.6-8.3]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can recognize and eliminate wordiness and redundancy. [L.6-8.3]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">precise, concise, language, wordiness, redundancy

ii. Do a program for a tour group on the importance of conservation with regards to over-hunting, over-grazing, over-farming etc.
<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.2.d <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. [W.6-8.2]

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">L.6-8.3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">ESSENTIAL LEARNING TARGETS **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can express ideas precisely and concisely with the language that I choose to use. [L.6-8.3]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can recognize and eliminate wordiness and redundancy. [L.6-8.3]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">precise, concise, language, wordiness, redundancy

b. Think of events or new things that could be added to the park to attract more tourists and assess how it might affect the park both positively and negatively. See examples below:
==i. Music at the Capulin “natural amphitheater” (student performances, local musician performances, Native American performances to take advantage of the great acoustics/view and tourists/locals bring a chair and sit and watch)==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">***L 6-8-6 and music standards missing

==ii. Georgia O’Keefe Day at the park (students/tourists painting like the famous artist—could we have the museum bring some paintings or videos and do a presentation while we provide materials to sketch/paint—would need skulls and flower and wood pieces, and either sketchpads and pencils or paint and acrylic paint paper)==

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 1: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Learn and develop the essential skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music,theatre/drama and visual arts.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 1A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Produce art that demonstrates the elements of art and principles of design in a variety of media


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can demonstrate understanding or show examples of the principles of design.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can show the elements of art in a variety of media and unique/new situations.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 1B <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Explore and understand the use of art materials and techniques.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can use and explain the use for a variety of materials, tools, and techniques for producing art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can show the elements of art in a variety of media and unique/new situations.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 1C <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Recognize that there are multiple points of view about organizational principles of design and elements of art.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can compare the use of principles of design and elements of art in different works of art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can problem-solve by demonstrating unique and intentional application of the principles of design and the elements of art.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 2: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use dance, music, theater/drama, and visual arts to express ideas.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 2A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Apply art concepts to communicate ideas about self, communities, cultures and the world.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can communicate ideas and points of view to others through specific works of art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can connect personal experience and knowledge of local and global communities as inspiration for expression in visual art.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 2B <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Use subjects, themes, and symbols when expressing ideas in art works.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can show a variety of ideas, images, themes, symbols, and events through art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can infer emotional connotations of the use and placement of design principles and elements in my own work and the work of others.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 3: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as all other content areas.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 3B <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Show ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with visual arts.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can show similarities and differences of concepts common to the visual arts and to other content areas.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can analyze art concepts such as texture, repetition, contrast, balance, symmetry and pattern within other content areas.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 5: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Observe, discuss, analyze, and make critical judgments about artistic works.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 5B <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Understand personal, contemporary and historical meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can observe how history, art and culture can influence each other in making and studying works of art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can use historic, cultural, and visual art concepts and information to explain the meaning of a piece of art.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 6: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 6A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Compare and describe artwork of various eras and cultures.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can compare and contrast artworks and artifacts from two dissimilar world cultures.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can experiment with creating art that reflects cultural and historical influences.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Standard 8 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Visual Arts Benchmark 8A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Show ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with visual arts.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can participate in at least two art exhibits by providing original art.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can arrange, as part of a team, an art exhibit (assist with arrangements, display, or decision making).

==iii. Research what it would take to add Flora and Fauna markers down the crater (“Have you seen me?” markers with pictures of the animals and plants, that can be flipped open for more info) or make scan-able squares to add to existing markers that link to videos with sound for people with low vision==

<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.6. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use technology to produce and publish writing. [W.6-8.6]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">writers, workshop, task, purpose, audience, develop, development, organize, organization, style, process, planning, revising, editing, rewriting, technology, collaboration, peer, review, keyboard, typing

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">L.6-8.3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can express ideas precisely and concisely with the language that I choose to use. [L.6-8.3]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can recognize and eliminate wordiness and redundancy. [L.6-8.3]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">precise, concise, language, wordiness, redundancy

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">SL.6-8.5 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can include multimedia and visual components with my presentations. [SL.6-8.5]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest by incorporating multimedia and visual components into my presentations. [SL.6-8.5] ==iv. Think about and plan what it would take to approve the building/development of a butterfly pavilion (tourists could come watch larvae, chrysalises, caterpillars, and butterflies grown in their different stages)==

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">SL.6-8.5 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can include multimedia and visual components with my presentations. [SL.6-8.5]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest by incorporating multimedia and visual components into my presentations. [SL.6-8.5]

v. Historical reenactments (students do a skit, assuming the roles of the original persons of interest involved with the history of the volcano for the tourists and or younger students)
<span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.2.b <span style="color: #3b3b3a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can write informational/explanatory texts that examine and convey ideas, concepts, and other information. [W.6-8.2]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can introduce a topic clearly and develop it with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, and examples. [W.6-8.2]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can organize ideas, concepts, and information using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect. [W.6-8.2]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. [W.6-8.2]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. [W.6-8.2]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">informational, explanatory, inform, explain, organization, organize, analysis, analyze, concept, process, topic, develop, development, facts, extended, definition, concrete, detail, quotation, example, cite, citation, transition, format, graphic, multimedia, vocabulary, terminology, formal, language

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">SL.6-8.4 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can organize my claims and findings on a topic or issue and gather reasons and evidence to support them. [SL.6-8.4]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can present my claims and findings with relevant descriptions, facts, details, and examples. [SL.6-8.4]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. [SL.6-8.4]

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">SL.6-8.5 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can include multimedia and visual components with my presentations. [SL.6-8.5]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest by incorporating multimedia and visual components into my presentations. [SL.6-8.5]

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">SL.6-8.6 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can adapt my speech to a variety of contexts and tasks depending on my purpose and audience. [SL.6-8.6]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can demonstrate a command of formal English when necessary. [SL.6-8.6]


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">clarity, focus, perspective, issue, topic, digital, multimedia, visual, non-print, organization, development, purpose, interaction, interactive, formal, English, convention, engage, engagement, present, presentation, audience

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Standard 1: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Learn and develop the essential skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music,theatre/drama and visual arts.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 1A <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Refine dialogue and action that contribute to effective plots in classroom dramatizations.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can use acting skills to study human behavior and conflict resolution.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can interpret the meaning of scripted scenes and plays.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">3. I can construct dialogue and action that creates a story line with a beginning, middle and end.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 1B: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Practice acting skills to develop characterizations that suggest or illustrate artistic choice.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can define and analyze character relationships in improvised and scripted scenes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can analyze and describe character behaviors and motivations.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">3. I can participate in improvisation and scene work focused on artistic choices.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 1C: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Interact as characters in an ensemble.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can apply various acting skills (memory and sensory recall, concentration and motivation) to create believable characters that function in an ensemble.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can cooperate and abide by group decisions.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 1D: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Select and create necessary technical elements for dramatizations (e.g., sets, props, costumes, make-up and sound effects).


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. Using available resources, I can develop and implement technical elements (e.g., sets, costumes, lighting, sound) needed to enhance the meaning of a scene or play.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can develop basic design concepts to create a set for formal and informal scenes.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 1E: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Demonstrate the directing process (e.g., research, plan, collaborate, audition, cast, block and direct).


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can use the directing process (research, plan, collaborate, audition, cast, block and direct) in dramatizations.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can lead small groups in designing, planning and rehearsing a variety of dramatizations.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Standard 2: Use dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts to express ideas.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 2A: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Create improvised dramatizations that express specific ideas, meanings, themes, moods and emotions.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can develop and defend character choices in relation to other actors' interpretations of their characters.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can identify the physical, emotional and social dimensions of characters in improvisations.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 2B: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Interact as the invented characters within an ensemble.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can collaborate with others to create and evaluate improvised and scripted scenes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can demonstrate the ability to stay in character for longer classroom dramatizations.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 3B: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Develop dramatizations which include topics in other content areas such as literature, history and science.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can apply the transfer of knowledge between the arts and other content areas to dramatic presentations.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Standard 6: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 6A: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Describe and compare universal characters and situations in dramas from various cultures and historical periods.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can engage in dramatic activities depicting different cultures and times, and discuss commonality of characters, situations and motives in various cultures and historical periods.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can critique theatrical material from various cultures.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">6-8 Theater and Drama Benchmark 6B: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Explore similarities between life and theatre.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">1. I can assess the emotional and social impact of theatre arts on my own life.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">2. I can analyze the functions of the performing arts in the community and in other cultures.

vi. Build-your-own-volcano day (tourists/students could build their own volcano models and do the Mentos and coke project)
<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">SL.6-8.5 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can include multimedia and visual components with my presentations. [SL.6-8.5]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest by incorporating multimedia and visual components into my presentations. [SL.6-8.5]

=7. Have students communicate/Skype with other students/stewards around the U.S. to see what they are doing.= <span style="color: #8a2003; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">W.6-8.6. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">I can use technology, including the internet, to interact and collaborate with others on the writing process. [W.6-8.6] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Writers, workshop, task, purpose, audience, develop, development, organize, organization, style, process, planning, revising, editing, rewriting, technology, collaboration, peer, review, keyboard, typing
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