The curriculum web will  meet several of the Wisconsin Model Academic standards in the areas of Reading, Writing, Research, and Technology, as well as standards in Social Studies (another area designated by the curriculum.) In researching World War I (the event precipitating the Modernist era) through the website and identifying its impact on the chosen art/literature, my students will be fulfilling Wisconsin Model Academic Standard (Social Studies) B.12.7, “identify major works of art and literature produced in the United States and elsewhere in the world and explain how they reflect the era in which they were created.” 

            Students will be asked to fill out a chart identifying the elements of Modernism and matching those elements to aspects of both John Singer Sargeant’s Gassed and Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” thus meeting WMAS-English Standard A.12.4a (“Draw on and integrate information from multiple sources when acquiring knowledge and developing a position on a topic of interest”); the two-three paragraph response they generate will meet WMAS-English Standard B.12.2a (“Write essays demonstrating the capacity to communicate knowledge, opinions, and insights to an intended audience through a clear thesis and effective organization of supporting ideas.”)

Finally, the act of on-line research itself meets WMAS-English Standard E.12.1a (“Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information”) as well as WMAS-English Standard F.12.1a (“Organize research materials and data, maintaining a note-taking system that includes summary, paraphrase, and quoted material”) and 1c (“Analyze, synthesize, and integrate data, drafting a reasoned report that supports and appropriately illustrates inferences and conclusions drawn from research”).