Student reading The Far Side of the Moon may be helpful in their addressing
the following California K-12 History-Social Science and English Language Arts Content Standards:

• Grade Four: California: A Changing State
  4.1.3,4 "...physical and human geographic features that define places and regions in California."
  4.4.2,3,4 "...transformation of the California economy and its political and cultural development...."
• Grade Eight: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict
  8.8 "...divergent paths of the American people in the West...."
  8.12 "...patterns of agricultural...development...."
  

• Grades Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten: English Language Arts: Literary Response and Analysis
  3.0 "Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature
  that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science...."

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