Form and theme in the traditional Mexican Corrido

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Music Education (2001)

Grades 9–12 — General Music/All Other High School Electives

• Goal 4: The learner will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.
  • Objective 4.02: Plan logical steps and organize resources necessary to create compositions in varied styles.
  • Objective 4.03: Synthesize the study and characteristics of several styles/genres of music to create original compositions.
  • Objective 4.05: Show respect for the composing and arranging efforts of others.
• Goal 6: The learner will listen to, analyze, and describe music.
  • Objective 6.01: Identify musical forms representing various historical periods and cultures.
  • Objective 6.02: Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
  • Objective 6.04: Show respect while listening to and analyzing music.
• Goal 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.
  • Objective 7.04: Apply rules of standard English in written evaluations of music.
• Goal 8: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.
  • Objective 8.01: Apply rules of standard written English to explain the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts areas (dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts) in different historical periods and cultures.
  • Objective 8.02: Identify and explain ways in which the concepts and skills of other content areas outside the arts are related to those of music.
• Goal 9: The learner will understand music in relation to history and culture.
  • Objective 9.01: Identify representative examples of music using distinguishing characteristics to identify genre, style, culture and/or historical periods.
  • Objective 9.02: Examine situations to determine conflict and resolution in relation to music in history and cultures.
  • Objective 9.03: Recognize and identify ways that music reflects history.
  • Objective 9.05: Show respect for music from various cultures and time periods.

Social Studies (2003)

Grades 11–12 — Advanced Placement World History

• Goal 1: Historical Themes, Tools, and Practices – The learner will identify, evaluate and use the methods and tools valued by historians, compare the views of historians, and trace the themes of global history.
  • Objective 1.01: Define history and the concepts of cause and effect, time, change and continuity, and perspective across the global historical periods covered in this course.
  • Objective 1.02: Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources to compare views, trace themes, and to detect point of view.
  • Objective 1.06: Identify cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 10 — English II

• 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 1.02: Respond reflectively (through small group discussion, class discussion, journal entry, essay, letter, dialogue) to written and visual texts by:
    • relating personal knowledge to textual information or class discussion.
    • showing an awareness of one's own culture as well as the cultures of others.
    • exhibiting an awareness of culture in which text is set or in which text was written.
    • explaining how culture affects personal responses.
    • demonstrating an understanding of media's impact on personal responses and cultural analyses.
  • 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 4: The learner will critically interpret and evaluate experiences, literature, language, and ideas.
  • Objective 4.02: Analyze thematic connections among literary works by:
    • showing an understanding of cultural context.
    • using specific references from texts to show how a theme is universal.
    • examining how elements such as irony and symbolism impact theme.
  • Objective 4.03: Analyze the ideas of others by identifying the ways in which writers:
    • introduce and develop a main idea.
    • choose and incorporate significant, supporting, relevant details.
    • relate the structure/organization to the ideas.
    • use effective word choice as a basis for coherence.
    • achieve a sense of completeness and closure.
• 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.
  • Objective 5.02: Demonstrate increasing comprehension and ability to respond personally to texts by:
    • selecting and exploring a wide range of works which relate to an issue, author, or theme of world literature.
    • documenting the reading of student-chosen works.