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Common Core
ISBN: 978-1-118-52696-5
Paperback
240 pages
May 2014, Jossey-Bass
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The Alexandria Plan

The Alexandria Plan is Common Core’s curriculum for the teaching of United States and world history. This strategic framework identifies high-quality informational texts and narrative nonfiction that teach students history and promote mastery of the Common Core State Standards for ELA. The history studied complements the best state social studies standards. This four-volume series encompasses Grades K-2 and 3-5 for both United States and world history.

Features of each book include

  • Concise Era Summaries that orient both teachers and students to the historical background of an era
  • A list of suggested anchor texts that teach an essential aspect of an era
  • One text study per era that draws students through a close read of an anchor text with text-dependent questions and writing-based performance assessments
  • Learning Expectations that articulate the key ideas, events, facts, and figures to study in a particular grade span

This volume introduces upper elementary students to eighteen key eras in our country’s history, from the original Native American people to modern times, through stories that will captivate readers and inspire curiosity to learn more.

On the Cover: George Catlin (1796–1872), The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas, 1844-1845, oil on canvas. Photo: © Corbis

What can a portrait teach us?

Common Core takes advantage of every opportunity to build students’ cultural literacy. That is why the cover of each book we publish is illustrated with an important work of painting, sculpture, or architecture. We select images that we know students will love to look at again and again. These works relate to ideas taken up in the book. In the 1800s, artist George Catlin painted a series of portraits of Native American leaders. Unique in his time, Catlin painted Native Americans not as types but as individuals, much the same way as presidents and national heroes historically had been painted. The power of individualism is a central theme of the books that comprise the basis for this volume.

Common Core, Inc. (commoncore.org) is a non-profit organization formed in 2007 to advocate for a content-rich liberal arts education in America’s K-12 schools. To improve education in America, Common Core creates curriculum materials, conducts professional development, and also promotes programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences. Common Core, Inc. is not affiliated with the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

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