Mapping Standards to Learning Targets

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/ela/elastandards/elamap.html Link to Standards for ELA

Learning Target 1: Students will have an understanding of the Great Depression and the life of a migrant worker.
Standard 1: Within this standard a student is reading for information because he/she is obtaining facts and information about a particular time in history and of the lifestyle of a migrant worker.

Learning Target 2: Students will relate characters from Of Mice and Men to the historical time period of The Great Depression and life as a migrant worker
Standard 3: The students will be reading, listening and speaking in a way that show critical thinking relating how characters live and react to events which are caused by the effects of being a migrant worker and/or living during The Great Depression.
Standard 2: Students will be relating historical periods to the characters within the novel (text).

Learning Target 3: Students will empathize with the character George from the novel to have a better understanding of his character.
Standard 2: Students will be relating George to their own lives in order to obtain feelings of empathy, understand how that character feels.
Standard 3: Students will be looking at George from their own perspective and making judgments based on their own experiences and George’s.

Learning Target 4: Students will understand the concept of prejudice (gender, race and physical/mental disabilities) and how prejudice affects how one is viewed in society.
Standard 2: Students are looking closely at the culture and society surrounding them along with own life experiences to make a determination on how these prejudices affect people in society.

Learning Target 5: Students will closely examine the characters from OMM and determine which characters are experiencing prejudice based on either their race, gender or physical/mental disability
Standard 2: Students are looking closely at the culture and society surrounding them along with own life experiences to make a determination on how these prejudices affect people in society.
Standard 3: Students are using their personal experiences to make judgments on which characters are experiencing such prejudices within OMM.

Learning Target 6: Students will write a four paragraph essay to compare and contrast two characters from OMM who struggle based on their experiences with prejudices
Standard 3: Students will be completing a written performance based on their experiences and judgments as well as the information they have retrieved from the reading of OMM.

Learning Target 7: Students will display their full understanding of the characters and events within OMM through the completion of a RAFT exercise [This target needs to be more specific].
Standard 2: Students will be artistically completing an exercise which relates the characters and events within OMM together and create something (F) to show their full understanding of the text and characters.