Fulfills the standards: Time, Continuity, and Charge, People, Places, and Environments, and Individual Development and Identity, from the National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Standards for Middle School. Fulfills the standards: Historical Comprehension and Historical Analysis and Interpretation from the National History education Standards for Grades 5-12. Fulfills the standards: Read texts to build an understanding of texts, themselves, and the culture of the U.S. and Read from many periods to build an understanding of human experience from the National English Education Standards for Middle School.