Aligning with the Common Core

Tours and curricula offered by the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust are designed to support our students in meeting the standards. Below is a selection of Common Core State Standards that our tours, workbooks, and teacher’s guides address:

Speaking and Listening:

• Participate effectively in a range of conversations, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly
• Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and orally

Reading:

• Determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it
• Cite specific evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions
• Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text
• Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words

Language:

• Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases
• Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words

Writing:

• Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources
• Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research