Behind the masks: Exploring culture and self through art and poetry

Computer Technology Skills (2005)

Grade 9–12

• Goal 3: The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.
  • Objective 3.02: Use electronic resources for research.
• Goal 3: The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.
  • Objective 3.03: Use electronic resources for research.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 9

• Goal 1: The learner will express reflections and reactions to print and non-print text and personal experiences.
  • Objective 1.03: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print expressive texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
    • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
    • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
    • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
    • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
    • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
    • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
    • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
    • making connections between works, self and related topics.
    • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
    • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
    • identifying and analyzing elements of expressive environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.
• Goal 2: The learner will explain meaning, describe processes, and answer research questions to inform an audience.
  • Objective 2.01: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print informational texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
    • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
    • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
    • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
    • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
    • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
    • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
    • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
    • making connections between works, self and related topics.
    • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
    • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
    • identifying and analyzing elements of informational environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.
• Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate understanding of various literary genres, concepts, elements, and terms.
  • Objective 5.01: Read and analyze various literary works by:
    • using effective reading strategies for preparation, engagement, reflection.
    • recognizing and analyzing the characteristics of literary genres, including fiction (e.g., myths, legends, short stories, novels), non-fiction (e.g., essays, biographies, autobiographies, historical documents), poetry (e.g., epics, sonnets, lyric poetry, ballads) and drama (e.g., tragedy, comedy).
    • interpreting literary devices such as allusion, symbolism, figurative language, flashback, dramatic irony, dialogue, diction, and imagery.
    • understanding the importance of tone, mood, diction, and style.
    • explaining and interpreting archetypal characters, themes, settings.
    • explaining how point of view is developed and its effect on literary texts.
    • determining a character's traits from his/her actions, speech, appearance, or what others say about him or her.
    • explaining how the writer creates character, setting, motif, theme, and other elements.
    • making thematic connections among literary texts and media and contemporary issues.
    • understanding the importance of cultural and historical impact on literary texts.
    • producing creative responses that follow the conventions of a specific genre and using appropriate literary devices for that genre.

Grade 10

• Goal 1: The learner will react to and reflect upon print and non-print text and personal experiences by examining situations from both subjective and objective perspectives.
  • Objective 1.03: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print expressive texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
    • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
    • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
    • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
    • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
    • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
    • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
    • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
    • making connections between works, self and related topics.
    • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
    • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
    • identifying and analyzing elements of expressive environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.
• Goal 2: The learner will evaluate problems, examine cause/effect relationships, and answer research questions to inform an audience.
  • Objective 2.01: Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print informational texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:
    • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
    • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
    • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
    • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
    • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
    • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
    • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
    • making connections between works, self and related topics.
    • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
    • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
    • identifying and analyzing elements of informational environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.
• Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate understanding of selected world literature through interpretation and analysis.
  • Objective 5.01: Read and analyze selected works of world literature by:
    • using effective strategies for preparation, engagement, and reflection.
    • building on prior knowledge of the characteristics of literary genres, including fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry, and exploring how those characteristics apply to literature of world cultures.
    • analyzing literary devices such as allusion, symbolism, figurative language, flashback, dramatic irony, situational irony, and imagery and explaining their effect on the work of world literature.
    • analyzing the importance of tone and mood.
    • analyzing archetypal characters, themes, and settings in world literature.
    • making comparisons and connections between historical and contemporary issues.
    • understanding the importance of cultural and historical impact on literary texts.

Grade 11

• Goal 2: The learner will inform an audience by using a variety of media to research and explain insights into language and culture.
  • Objective 2.03: Respond to informational texts by:
    - using a variety of strategies for preparation, engagement, and reflection.
    - paraphrasing main ideas and supporting details present in texts.
    -explaining significant connections among the speaker's/author's purpose, tone, biases, and the message for the intended audience.

Grade 11 — Advanced Placement English Language

• Goal 2: The learner will use inquiry and research to inform an audience about complex subjects.
  • Objective 2.01: Research and synthesize information by:
    • investigating a variety of media sources.
    • evaluating validity and significance of information.
    • analyzing rhetorical functions of textual annotation and documentation.
    • organizing information for clarity and effectiveness.
    • demonstrating awareness of purpose, audience, and context.
    • documenting sources accurately.

Grade 12 — Advanced Placement English Literature

• Goal 5: The learner will engage in an intensive study of representative works of recognized literary merit from various genres and time periods with a strong focus on the 16th through the 21st century.
  • Objective 5.01: Demonstrate an understanding of literary works by:
    • analyzing textual detail.
    • exploring historical context as well as social and cultural values.
    • evaluating an author's style, including syntax, diction, figurative language, and literary devices.
    • considering organization, subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker.
    • sharing thoughtful discussion in the company of his/her peers.

Information Skills (2000)

Grade 9–12

• Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
  • Objective 1.08: Select and use independently, both within and outside the school, a variety of resources (print, non-print, electronic) and formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia).
• Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Collect and compare information about diverse cultures, environments, and peoples.
• Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
  • Objective 4.08: Credit sources of information.
  • Objective 4.10: Evaluate the product.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 9–12 — Visual Arts Electives

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.03: Use different media and techniques expressively.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Know that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
  • Objective 5.03: Compare relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and cultural/ethnic groups.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify connections, similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.

Grade 9–12 — Visual Arts I

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.03: Communicate and express ideas through a variety of materials and techniques.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Know that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
  • Objective 5.03: Compare relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and cultural/ethnic groups.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Describe the various purposes for creating works of visual art.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify connections, similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.

Grade 9–12 — Visual Arts II

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.03: Communicate and express ideas through a variety of materials and techniques.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Know that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
  • Objective 5.03: Compare relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and cultural/ethnic groups.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify connections, similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.

Grade 9–12 — Visual Arts III

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.03: Communicate and express ideas through a variety of materials and techniques.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Know that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
  • Objective 5.03: Compare relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and cultural/ethnic groups.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify connections, similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.

Grade 9–12 — Visual Arts IV

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
  • Objective 2.03: Communicate and express ideas through a variety of materials and techniques.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Know that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.
  • Objective 5.02: Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
  • Objective 5.03: Compare relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and cultural/ethnic groups.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify connections, similarities and differences between the visual arts and other disciplines.