California State Content Standards

You Selected: The Immigrant's Song

ELA R.3.2: Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.

ELA R.3.3: Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author's style, and the "sound" of language achieve specific rhetorical or aesthetic purposes or both.

ELA R.3.4: Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions.

ELA W.1.1: Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of discourse (e.g., purpose, speaker, audience, form) when completing narrative, expository, persuasive, or descriptive writing assignments.

ELA W.1.2: Use point of view, characterization, style (e.g., use of irony), and related elements for specific rhetorical and aesthetic purposes.

ELA W.1.3: Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained, persuasive, and sophisticated way and support them with precise and relevant examples.

ELA W.1.4: Enhance meaning by employing rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy; the incorporation of visual aids (e.g., graphs, tables, pictures); and the issuance of a call for action.

ELA W.1.5: Use language in natural, fresh, and vivid ways to establish a specific tone.

ELA W.1.9: Revise text to highlight the individual voice, improve sentence variety and style, and enhance subtlety of meaning and tone in ways that are consistent with the purpose, audience, and genre.

ELA W.2.1.a: Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance to the audience.

ELA W.2.1.b: Locate scenes and incidents in specific places.

ELA W.2.1.c: Describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene and the specific actions, movements, gestures, and feelings of the characters; use interior monologue to depict the characters' feelings.

ELA W.2.1.d: Pace the presentation of actions to accommodate temporal, spatial, and dramatic mood changes.

ELA W.2.1.e: Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.

ELA W.2.2.a: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the significant ideas in works or passages.

ELA W.2.2.b: Analyze the use of imagery, language, universal themes, and unique aspects of the text.

ELA W.2.2.d: Demonstrate an understanding of the author's use of stylistic devices and an appreciation of the effects created.

ELA W.2.2.e: Identify and assess the impact of perceived ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text.

ELA W.2.3.a: Explore the significance of personal experiences, events, conditions, or concerns by using rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, description, exposition, persuasion).

ELA W.2.3.b: Draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that illustrate the writer's important beliefs or generalizations about life.

ELA W.2.3.c: Maintain a balance in describing individual incidents and relate those incidents to more general and abstract ideas.

ELA W.2.6.a: Combine text, images, and sound and draw information from many sources (e.g., television broadcasts, videos, films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, the Internet, electronic media-generated images).

ELA W.2.6.b: Select an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation.

ELA W.2.6.c: Use the selected media skillfully, editing appropriately and monitoring for quality.

ELA W.2.6.d: Test the audience's response and revise the presentation accordingly.

ELA C.1.1: Demonstrate control of grammar, diction, and paragraph and sentence structure and an understanding of English usage.

ELA C.1.2: Produce legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct punctuation and capitalization.

ELA L.1.4: Use rhetorical questions, parallel structure, concrete images, figurative language, characterization, irony, and dialogue to achieve clarity, force, and aesthetic effect.

ELA L.1.7: Use appropriate rehearsal strategies to pay attention to performance details, achieve command of the text, and create skillful artistic staging.

ELA L.1.9: Use research and analysis to justify strategies for gesture, movement, and vocalization, including dialect, pronunciation, and enunciation.

ELA L.1.10: Evaluate when to use different kinds of effects (e.g., visual, music, sound, graphics) to create effective productions.

ELA L.1.11: Critique a speaker's diction and syntax in relation to the purpose of an oral communication and the impact the words may have on the audience.

ELA L.2.1.a: Explore the significance of personal experiences, events, conditions, or concerns, using appropriate rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, description, exposition, persuasion).

ELA L.2.1.b: Draw comparisons between the specific incident and broader themes that illustrate the speaker's beliefs or generalizations about life.

ELA L.2.1.c: Maintain a balance between describing the incident and relating it to more general, abstract ideas.

ELA L.2.4.a: Combine text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, online information, television, videos, and electronic media-generated images.

ELA L.2.4.b: Select an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation.

ELA L.2.4.c: Use the selected media skillfully, editing appropriately and monitoring for quality.

ELA L.2.4.d: Test the audience's response and revise the presentation accordingly.

ELA L.2.5: Recite poems, selections from speeches, or dramatic soliloquies with attention to performance details to achieve clarity, force, and aesthetic effect and to demonstrate an understanding of the meaning (e.g., Hamlet's soliloquy "To Be or Not to Be").

History/Social Science 11.2.1: Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

History/Social Science 11.2.2: Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.

History/Social Science 11.2.3: Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.

History/Social Science 11.2.4: Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.

History/Social Science 11.4.1: List the purpose and the effects of the Open Door policy.

History/Social Science 11.5.7: Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape.

History/Social Science 11.6.5: Trace the advances and retreats of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers in California.

History/Social Science 11.9.7: Examine relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues.

History/Social Science 11.11.1: Discuss the reasons for the nation's changing immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration Act of 1965 and successor acts have transformed American society.

History/Social Science 11.11.6: Analyze the persistence of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform, health insurance reform, and other social policies.

History/Social Science 11.11.7: Explain how the federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse.

Visual Arts 1.5: Analyze the material used by a given artist and describe how its use influences the meaning of the work.

Visual Arts 2.3: Develop and refine skill in the manipulation of digital imagery (either still or video).

Visual Arts 5.2: Create a work of art that communicates a cross-cultural or universal theme taken from literature or history.