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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
MythWeb
Learn about the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology.
The site includes an encyclopedia of mythology, a look at some Greek Gods and
heroes; an illustrated version of the Labors of Heracles, and a teacher section
with teaching tips and ideas.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle
School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes
Social
Studies: History
Curriculum Standard 16
Students will demonstrate the ability to employ historical analysis,
interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned judgments and to gain an
understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history and its uses in contemporary
situations.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding that people, artifacts, and documents represent
links to the past and that they are sources of data from which historical accounts
are constructed.
Proficiency
Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Analyze historical documents, artifacts, and other materials for credibility,
relevance, and point of view.
- Examine historical materials relating to a particular region, society, or theme;
analyze change over time; and make logical inferences concerning cause and effect.
- Use historical materials to trace the development of an idea or trend across
space or over a prolonged period of time in order to identify and explain patterns
of historical continuity and change.
Curriculum Standard 18
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significant developments
of world history including the study of ancient, medieval, and modern Europe
(Western civilization) with particular emphasis on those developments that have
shaped the experience of the entire globe over the last 500 years and those
ideas, institutions, and cultural legacies that have directly influenced American
thought, culture, and politics.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the origin, development, and distinctive
characteristics of major ancient, classical, and agrarian civilizations including
the Mesopotamian, Ancient Hebrew, Egyptian, Nubian (Kush), Greek, Roman, Gupta
Indian, Han Chinese, Islamic, Byzantine, Olmec, Mayan, Aztec, and Incan Civilizations.
Proficiency
Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Discuss the political, philosophical, and cultural legacies of ancient Greece
and Rome.
Language Arts: Literature
Curriculum Standard 4
Students will demonstrate competence in understanding, appreciating, interpreting,
and critically analyzing classical and contemporary American and British literature
as well as literary works translated into English.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Understand that a single text, including poetry, novels, essays, spoken and
audio-visual presentations, and accounts of events from real life, may elicit
a variety of responses and informed, reasoned interpretations.
- Understand the characteristics of a wide variety of genres including short stories,
mysteries, poetry, drama, legends, biographies, autobiographies, historical
fiction, science fiction, adventure stories, informational articles, and factual
presentations.
Proficiency
Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of literature from various
cultures and times, written for a variety of purposes and in a variety of genres
such as the classics and contemporary American, British, and world literature,
and works by Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners.
- Understand that themes and events in literature often parallel real life.
- Analyze the ways that literature reflects the range of human experience.
- Analyze the ways readers and writers are influenced by personal, social, cultural,
and historical contexts.
- Identify, analyze, and interpret literary themes and elements.
- Stand apart from a text and consider it objectively by performing a range of
tasks including critically evaluating; comparing and contrasting; understanding
the impact of the organizational structure; and analyzing the use of such elements
as satire, irony, humor, bias, redundancy, symbolism, analogies, metaphors,
and poetic license.
- Critically analyze and evaluate texts for their practical, informational, or
aesthetic value; for writer's craft; for writer's biases; and for the inherent
ability of the work to communicate.
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