Pioneer America: Pioneer living

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will analyze the multiple roles that individuals perform in families, workplaces, and communities.
  • Objective 2.02: Analyze similarities and differences among families in different times and in different places.
  • Objective 2.03: Describe similarities and differences among communities in different times and in different places.

Grade 5

• Goal 3: The learner will examine the roles various ethnic groups have played in the development of the United States and its neighboring countries.
  • Objective 3.02: Examine how changes in the movement of people, goods, and ideas have affected ways of living in the United States.
• Goal 4: The learner will trace key developments in United States history and describe their impact on the land and people of the nation and its neighboring countries.
  • Objective 4.02: Explain when, where, why, and how groups of people settled in different regions of the United States.

Theatre Arts Education (2001)

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.01: Identify characters and cast roles from a variety of texts that include themes of citizenship and responsibility.
  • Objective 2.03: Participate in dramatic activities that deal with problems and emotions.
  • Objective 2.04: Create characters and events to utilize in the dramatic process.
  • Objective 2.06: Demonstrate ideas and emotions using gestures, blocking and movement.
• Goal 4: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 4.09: Relate what characters think and feel during a dramatic scene.
• Goal 5: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 5.01: Express through characterization the meaning inferred from text.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.01: Develop skills to identify characters and cast roles from a variety of texts that reflect upon heritage, culture and history.
  • Objective 2.03: Participate in dramatic activities that deal with conflict and emotions.
  • Objective 2.05: Create dramatizations based on texts.
  • Objective 2.06: Demonstrate ideas and emotions through gestures and movement.
  • Objective 2.07: Assume the role of a variety of real and non-real characters.
• Goal 4: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 4.08: Identify characters' thought processes during dramatic scenes.
  • Objective 4.09: Recognize ways to display characters' thought processes.
• Goal 5: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 5.01: Express through characterization meaning inferred from a text.
  • Objective 5.03: Adapt and use information about character traits derived from a text.
  • Objective 5.07: Reference forms of literature other than scripts to support dramatic presentations.

Grade 5

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.01: Identify characters and cast roles from a variety of scripts.
  • Objective 2.03: Participate in dramatic activities that deal with conflict and emotions.
  • Objective 2.04: Create characters and events to use in the dramatic process.
  • Objective 2.06: Utilize gestures, blocking and movement to display ideas and emotions.
  • Objective 2.07: Assume the role of a variety of real and non-real characters.
• Goal 5: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.
  • Objective 5.01: Express through characterization meaning inferred from a text.
  • Objective 5.03: Adapt and use information about character traits derived from a text.
  • Objective 5.07: Reference various forms of literature other than scripts to support dramatic presentations.