MDstandards

National Standards
K-12 Standards Addressed:
 * Language Arts**
 * Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
 * Standard 2: Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.
 * Standard 3: Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions.
 * Standard 4: Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
 * Standard 5: Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process.
 * Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.
 * Civics**
 * Standard 13: Understands the character of American political and social conflict and factors that tend to prevent or lower its intensity.
 * Standard 14: Understands issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.
 * Standard 23: Understands the impact of significant political and nonpolitical developments on the United States and other nations.
 * Geography**
 * Standard 1: Understands the characteristics and uses of maps, globes and other geographic tools and technologies.
 * Standard 6: Understands that culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
 * Standard 9: Understands the nature, distribution and migration of human populations on Earth's surface.
 * Standard 12: Understands the patterns of human settlement and their causes.
 * Standard 13: Understands the forces of cooperation and conflict that shape the divisions of Earth's surface.
 * U.S. History**
 * Standard 9: Understands the United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans.
 * Standard 11: Understands the extension, restriction and reorganization of political democracy after 1800.