Standards:

United States History

McRel Standards
(www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks)

Era 9- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)

29: Understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties.

Language Arts

McRel Standards
(www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks)

Reading

5: Uses the skills and strategies of the reading process
7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts.