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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Woody Guthrie Foundation
and Archives 
This site features a biography of Woody Guthrie as well as an
extensive collection of curriculum materials and teaching ideas
based on Guthrie's music.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School
Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No
Social Studies: History
Curriculum Standard 16
Students will demonstrate the ability to employ historical analysis,
interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned judgments and
to gain an understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history
and its uses in contemporary situations.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding that people, artifacts, and documents
represent links to the past and that they are sources of data
from which historical accounts are constructed.
- Examine historical documents, artifacts, and other materials
and classify them as primary or secondary sources of historical
data.
- Understand the significance of the past to themselves and
to society.
- Display historical perspective by describing the past through
the eyes and experiences of those who were there, as related
through their memories, literature, diaries, letters, debates,
arts, maps, and artifacts.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Analyze historical documents, artifacts, and other materials
for credibility, relevance, and point of view.
- Examine historical materials relating to a particular region,
society, or theme; analyze change over time; and make logical
inferences concerning cause and effect.
- Use historical materials to trace the development of an idea
or trend across space or over a prolonged period of time in
order to identify and explain patterns of historical continuity
and change.
- Critically analyze historical materials in order to distinguish
between the important and the inconsequential and differentiate
among historical facts, opinions, and reasoned judgments.
- Perceive past events and issues as they were experienced
by the people at the time to avoid viewing, analyzing, and evaluating
the past only in terms of the present (present-mindedness).
Curriculum Standard 17
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significance
of the unfolding story of America including the history of their
community, New Hampshire, and the United States.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of major topics in the study
of the Depression and the New Deal (1929-1941) including the
origins of the Great Depression and its effects on people and
society; the major approaches and programs of the New Deal;
and the continuing debate over the successes and failures of
the New Deal.
- Demonstrate an understanding of major topics in the study
of World War II and the Cold War (1939-1961) including the causes,
conduct, course, and aftermath of World War II; effects of the
war on the homefront; the emergence of the United States as
a superpower; the origins of the Cold War; and postwar political
developments at home and abroad.
The Arts: Music
Curriculum Standard 9
Understand music in relation to history and culture.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Identify by genre or style aural examples of music from various
historical periods and cultures.
- Describe in simple terms how elements of music are used in
various world cultures.
- Identify many uses of music in their daily experiences and
describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for
each use.
- Identify and describe the roles of musicians in music settings
and cultures.
- Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context
and style of music performed.
- Describe the way music has been a continuous part of the history
of human culture.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Describe distinguishing characteristics of representative
music genres and styles from different cultures.
- Classify by genre, style, historical period, composer, or
title bodies of exemplary musical works and explain the characteristics
that cause each work to be considered exemplary.
- Compare the role of musicians, the function music serves and
conditions under which music is typically performed, in several
cultures of the world.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Classify by genre or style and by historical period or culture
unfamiliar but representative aural examples of music and explain
the reasoning behind their classifications.
- Identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution
of those genres, and cite well-known musicians associated with
them.
- Identify various roles that musicians perform, cite representative
individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their
activities and achievements.
- Identify and explain the stylistic features of a given music
work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical
or cultural context.
- Identify and describe music genres or styles that show the
influence of two or more cultural traditions, identify the cultural
source of each influence, and trace the historical conditions
that produced the synthesis of influences.
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