Sample Lessons Linking Performance Standards in English Language Arts to Arts Standards
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
"CREATING, PERFORMING, PARTICIPATING IN
THE ARTS"
Producing a Report
* research and create a report on how these pictures
came to be
Producing a Response to Literature
* create art which illustrates a response or interpretation
to Pablo Neruda's poem I Explain a Few Things
Producing a Narrative Account
*produce a storyboard/diary of life in the colonias or
write a letter home from the colonias
Producing a Narrative Procedure
Producing a Persuasive Essay
"*explain the statement, ""Spain was a dress rehearsal
for World War II"" Do you agree or disagree?"
"What is meant by the phrase ""premature antifascist?"";
in your opinion is this an accurate term?"
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
KNOWING AND USING MATERIALS AND
RESOURCES
Producing a Report
*visit Spain during 1936-38 through the art in this show; use
the information you observe and record from the drawings to
produce an account of everyday life in this period from a
child's viewpoint
Producing a Response to Literature
*how have the pictures drawn by the children in the exhibit
helped you to understand what they felt and experienced?
Producing a Narrative Account
Producing a Narrative Procedure
Producing a Persuasive Essay
*write a persuasive essay on the importance of viewing these
eye-witness accounts
"*use the ALBA website to locate information on postwar
Spain: based on your research, describe what life must have
been like for the children after they left the colonias; how did
the aftermath of the Civil War affect them?"
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
RESPONDING TO AND ANALYZING WORKS OF ART
