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My lessons are designed to cover several different New Mexico Standards and Benchmarks:
Geography Standard 2:
Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the
ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environments.
A. Analyze and evaluate the characteristics and purposes of geographic tools, knowledge, skills,
and perspectives, and apply them to explain the past, present, and future in terms of patterns,
events, and issues.
B. Explain the physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define
regions, their relationships with other regions, and their patterns of change.
C. Analyze the impact of people, places, and natural environments upon the past and present in
terms of our ability to plan for the future.
E. Analyze and evaluate how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape
patterns of human populations, and their interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
F. Analyze and evaluate the effects of human and natural interactions in terms of changes in the
meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources in order to predict our global capacity
to support human activity.
History Standard 1:
Students are able to identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns,
relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in New Mexico, United States, and world
history in order to understand the complexity of the human experience.
Grade 9-12 students will:
A. New Mexico: Analyze how people and events of New Mexico have influenced United States and
world history since statehood.
C. World: Analyze and interpret the major eras and important turning points in world history from
the Age of Enlightenment to the present to develop an understanding of the complexity of the
human experience.
D. Skills: Use critical thinking skills to understand and communicate perspectives of individuals,
groups, and societies from multiple contexts.
Language Arts :
Strand: Reading and Listening for Comprehension
Content Standard I: Students will apply strategies and skills to comprehend information that is read,
heard, and viewed.
Strand: Reading and Listening for Comprehension
9-12 Benchmark:
I-A: Listen to, read, react to, and analyze information.
I-B: Synthesize and evaluate information to solve problems across the curriculum.
I-C: Demonstrate critical thinking skills to evaluate information and solve problems.
I-D: Apply knowledge of reading process to evaluate print, non-print, and technology-based
information.
Strand: Writing and Speaking for Expression
Content Standard II: Students will communicate effectively through speaking and writing.
II-A: Communicate information in a coherent and persuasive manner using verbal and non-
verbal language.
II-C: Demonstrate competence in the skills and strategies of the writing process to inform and
persuade.
Strand: Literature and Media
Content Standard III: Students will use literature and media to develop an understanding of people,
societies, and the self.
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