Curriculum Standards
NYS Learning
Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Standard 2:
Information Systems
Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using
appropriate technologies.
Students
will learn how to access, generate, process, and transfer information
using word processing, search engines, Internet resources,
and primary sources as they research for this project.
NYS Learning
Standards for English Language Arts
Standard 1:
Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read and write for information and
understanding.
Students
will read for information using
web sites
and primary sources.
They will take notes about what they read and cite the source.
Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and
Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read and write for critical analysis and
evaluation.
Students
will
integrate
the information from multiple sources, and synthesize their facts into an
interesting and well written newspaper article using
the "writing process" and their research notes. They will
include quotes from their primary sources. They will
include answers to the following critical thinking questions:
1.Why was the fort at West Point
located on the Hudson River so
strategically important to the Americans?
2. What might have happened if
Major Andre had not been captured with
the plans?
NYS Learning
Standards for Social Studies
Standard 1:
History of the United States and New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning
points in the history of the United States and New York.
Students
will take a virtual tour of historical sites to research
Rockland
County’s history during the American Revolutionary War using Web sites
and primary sources. They
will uncover the events of the Major Andre treason plot
involving Benedict Arnold.
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