Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Curriculum Tie-Ins• Missouri Performance Show Me Standards • Missouri Knowledge Standards • Kansas Standards

Issues and Themes:

peer relationships; school life; logic

Curriculum Tie-Ins:

communication arts/literature (identify and experience stories and tall tales, comparison and contrast, storytelling, comedic writing techniques, setting/plot)

Missouri Performance Show Me Standards

Goal 1

Students in Missouri Public Schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze, and apply information and ideas.

Students will demonstrate and integrate across all content areas the ability to:

5. Comprehend and evaluate written, visual, and oral presentations and works.

6. Discover and evaluate patterns and relationships in information, and ideas, and structures.

9. Identify, analyze, and compare the institutions, traditions, and art forms of past and present societies.

Goal 2

Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to communicate effectively within and beyond the classroom.

Students will demonstrate and integrate across all content areas the ability to:

3. Exchange information, questions, and ideas while recognizing the perspectives of others.

4. Present perceptions and ideas regarding works or art, humanities, and sciences

Goal 3

Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to recognize and solve problems.

Students will demonstrate and integrate across all content areas the ability to:

1. Identify problems and define their scope and elements.

2. Develop and apply strategies based on ways others have prevented or solved problems

3. Develop and apply strategies based on one’s own experience in preventing or solving problems.

4. Evaluate the process used in recognizing and solving problems.

6. Examine problems and proposed solutions from multiple perspectives.

7. Evaluate the extent to which a strategy addresses the problem.

Goal 4

Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to make decisions and act as responsible members of society.

Students will demonstrate and integrate across all content areas the ability to:

1. Explain reasoning and identify information used to support decisions.

3. Analyze the duties and responsibilities of individuals in society.

4. Recognize and practice honesty and integrity in academic work and in the workplace

6. Identify and apply practices that preserve and enhance the safety and health of others

7. Identify and apply practices that preserve and enhance the safety and health of self and others

Missouri Knowledge Standards

Communication Arts

In Communication Arts, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of proficiency in

2. Reading and evaluating fiction, poetry, and drama

5. Comprehending and evaluating the content and artistic aspects of oral and visual presentations.

6. Participating in formal and informal presentations and discussions of issues and ideas.

7. Identifying and evaluating relationships between language and culture.

Social Studies

In social Studies, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of

6. Relationships of individual groups to institutions and cultural traditions.

Fine Arts

In Fine Arts, students in Missouri public schools will acquire a solid foundation which includes knowledge of

1. process and techniques for the production, exhibition or performance of one or more of the visual or performed arts

2. The principles and elements of different art forms.

3. The vocabulary to explain perceptions about and evaluations of works in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts.

4. Interrelationships of visual and performing arts and the relationships of the arts to other disciplines.

5. Visual and performing arts in historical and cultural contexts.

 

Kansas City, Kansas Public School Standards

English/Language Arts

Standard 1
Read critically literary and technical material for a variety of purposes.

Standard 2
Read and comprehend a wide range of classic and contemporary literature, both fiction and non-fiction, from a variety of cultures and historical periods, to build an understanding of the many dimensions (philosophical, ethical, aesthetic, and technological) of the human experience.

Standard 4
Acquire language and demonstrate an understanding of how language develops, works, and changes within and across communities and contexts.

Social Studies

Standard 7
Identify, analyze, and explain how geography influences relationships among people, places, and environments at local, state, regional, national, and international levels.

Standard 9
Identify and describe the relationships and perspectives of social science disciplines and concepts to real world applications.

Art

Standard 2
Apply art elements and design principles to solve problems and evaluate the applications using appropriate vocabulary.

Standard 4
Examine and critique the visual arts as an essential part of culture and history.

Standard 6
Compare and analyze the connections between and among the visual arts and between the arts and other disciplines.