Schenectady City
  School District


108 Education Drive
Schenectady, NY  12303
518.370.8100

 
 
      



STANDARDS

Poetry Lessons

Negro Leagues Poetry Lesson
Preface Today:JackieRobinson
Listening Passage
Relevant Poems
Samples of Student Poetry
Satchel Sez Powerpoint
A presentation based on the book Satchel Sez:  The Wit, Wisdom and World of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige.
Writing Your Poem
English Language Arts Test

 

NYS ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

STANDARD 1: Students will listen, speak, read and write for information and understanding.  As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts and ideas, discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts.  As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret and apply, and transmit information.

STANDARD 2: Students will read and listen to oral, written and electronically produced texts … from American ... literature; relate texts … to their own lives; and develop and understanding of the diverse social, historical and cultural dimension the texts … represent.  As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic creation.

NYS SOCIAL STUDIES

STANDARD 1:  Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

STANDARD 5: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of … the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation