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Citizenship. The student understands characteristics of good citizenship as exemplified by historical figures and other individuals. The student is expected to:

organizing with structure; and

Child will make inferences and predictions about text.

describe the effects of political scandals, including Teapot Dome, Watergate, and Bill Clinton's impeachment, on the views of U.S. citizens concerning trust in the federal government and its leaders; and

identify characteristics of good citizenship, including truthfulness, justice, equality, respect for oneself and others, responsibility in daily life, and participation in government by educating oneself about the issues, respectfully holding public officials to their word, and voting;

developing an idea with specific and relevant details;

revise drafts by adding details in pictures or words;

Concepts of Print

describe the role of contemporary government legislation in the private and public sectors such as the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

identify historical figures such as Paul Revere, Abigail Adams, World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) and Navajo Code Talkers, and Sojourner Truth who have exemplified good citizenship;

identify other individuals who exemplify good citizenship; and

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

Government. The student understands the changing relationships among the three branches of the federal government. The student is expected to:

Child can distinguish between elements of print including letters, words, and pictures.

identify ways to actively practice good citizenship, including involvement in community service.

complete sentences with subject-verb agreement;

Mathematical process standards. The student uses mathematical processes to acquire and demonstrate mathematical understanding. The student is expected to:

Child holds books right side up and demonstrates understanding of print directionality (e.g., knows where a book starts and ends, turns pages, points to words left to right, top to bottom, with correct sweeping).

describe the impact of events such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the War Powers Act on the relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government; and

evaluate the impact of relationships among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, including Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices and the presidential election of 2000.

Citizenship. The student identifies customs, symbols, and celebrations that represent American beliefs and principles that contribute to our national identity. The student is expected to:

past and present verb tense;

apply mathematics to problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace;

Child can identify some conventional features of print that communicate meaning including end punctuation and case.

Government. The student understands the impact of constitutional issues on American society. The student is expected to:

recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag and the Pledge to the Texas Flag;

singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;

use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution;

analyze the effects of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Hernandez v. Texas, Tinker v. Des Moines, and Wisconsin v. Yoder; and

identify selected patriotic songs, including "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful";

adjectives, including articles;

select tools, including real objects, manipulatives, paper and pencil, and technology as appropriate, and techniques, including mental math, estimation, and number sense as appropriate, to solve problems;

Motivation to Write

communicate mathematical ideas, reasoning, and their implications using multiple representations, including symbols, diagrams, graphs, and language as appropriate;

Child intentionally uses marks, letters, or symbols to record language and verbally shares meaning.

explain why landmark constitutional amendments have been proposed and ratified from 1877 to the present.

identify selected symbols such as state and national birds and flowers and patriotic symbols such as the U.S. and Texas flags and Uncle Sam; and

adverbs that convey time;

create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas;

Child independently draws and writes for many purposes to communicate ideas, using a variety of writing tools.

Citizenship. The student understands the concept of American exceptionalism as identified by Alexis de Tocqueville. The student is expected to:

identify how selected customs, symbols, and celebrations reflect an American love of individualism, inventiveness, and freedom.

prepositions;

pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;

analyze mathematical relationships to connect and communicate mathematical ideas; and

Writing as a Process

discuss values crucial to America's success as a constitutional republic, including liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire; and

Culture. The student understands the significance of works of art in the local community. The student is expected to:

identify selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of the local cultural heritage; and

capitalization for the beginning of sentences and the pronoun "I";