Standards
English Language Arts Learning Standards
Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understandingAs listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas, discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information. Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluationAs listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will present, in oral and written language and from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues. Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction Students will use oral and written language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views. Social Studies: Standard 2: World History Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas,eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of historyfrom a variety of perspectives.
Key Idea: The study of world history requires an understanding of world cultures and civilizations, including an analysis of important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. This study also examines the human condition and the connections and interactions of people across time and space and the ways different people view the same event or issue from a variety of perspectives. Standard 3: Geography Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geographyof the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distributionof people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface. Key Idea: Geography can be divided into six essential elements which can be used to analyze important historic, geographic, economic, and environmental questions and issues. These six elements include: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical settings (including natural resources), human systems,environment and society, and the use of geography. Technology: Standard 5: Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs. Standard 2: Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers and develop solutions