Standards
Language Arts Literacy
3.1 Reading
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
E. Reading Strategies (before, during, and after reading)
1. Identify, assess, and apply personal reading strategies that were most effective in previous learning from a variety of texts.
G. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text
1. Identify, describe, evaluate, and synthesize the central ideas in informational texts.
9. Distinguish between essential and nonessential information, identifying the use of proper references and propaganda techniques where present.
10. Differentiate between fact and opinion by using complete and accurate information, coherent arguments, and points of view.
H. Inquiry and Research
1. Select appropriate electronic media for research and evaluate the quality of the information received.
4. Read and critically analyze a variety of works, including books and other print materials (e.g., periodicals, journals, manuals), about one issue or topic, or books by a single author or in one genre, and produce evidence of reading.5. Apply information gained from several sources or books on a single topic or by a single author to foster an argument, draw conclusions, or advance a position.
6. Critique the validity and logic of arguments advanced in public documents, their appeal to various audiences, and the extent to which they anticipate and address reader concerns.
3.2 Writing
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
A. Writing as a Process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, postwriting)
2. Use strategies such as graphic organizers and outlines to plan and write drafts according to the intended message, audience, and purpose for writing.
3. Analyze and revise writing to improve style, focus and organization, coherence, clarity of thought, sophisticated word choice and sentence variety, and subtlety of meaning.
4. Review and edit work for spelling, usage, clarity, and fluency.
5. Use the computer and word-processing software to compose, revise, edit, and publish a piece.
B. Writing as a Product (resulting in a formal product or publication)
3. Draft a thesis statement and support/defend it through highly developed ideas and content, organization, and paragraph development.
4. Write multi-paragraph, complex pieces across the curriculum using a variety of strategies to develop a central idea (e.g., cause-effect, problem/solution, hypothesis/results, rhetorical questions, parallelism).
7.Use primary and secondary sources to provide evidence, justification, or to extend a position, and cite sources, such as periodicals, interviews, discourse, and electronic media.
9. Provide compelling openings and strong closure to written pieces.
3.4 Listening
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
A. Active Listening
2. Listen skillfully to distinguish emotive and persuasive rhetoric.
B. Listening Comprehension
1. Listen to summarize, make judgments, and evaluate.
2. Evaluate the credibility of a speaker.
3. Determine when propaganda and argument are used in oral forms.
3.5 Viewing and Media Literacy
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
A. Constructing Meaning from Media 1. Understand that messages are representations of social reality and vary by historic time periods and parts of the world. 2. Identify and evaluate how a media product expresses the values of the culture that produced it. 3. Identify and select media forms. B. Visual and Verbal Messages 1. Analyze media for stereotyping (e.g., gender, ethnicity). C. Living with Media 2. Determine influences on news media based on existing political, historical, economical, and social contexts (e.g., importance of audience feedback). 3. Recognize that creators of media and performances use a number of forms, techniques, and technologies to convey their messages. Social Studies 6.2 Civics Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will: A. Civic Life, Politics, and Government 6. Evaluate ways that national political parties influence the development of public policies and political platforms, including political action committees, McCain-Feingold Act, platform committees, and political campaigns. 7. Analyze how public opinion is measured and used in public debate (e.g., electronic polling, focus groups,
C. The Constitution and American Democracy 1. Debate current issues and controversies involving the central ideas of the American constitutional system, including representative government (e.g., Electoral College and the popular vote), civic virtue (e.g., increasing voter turnout through registrations and campaigns), checks and balances, and limits on governmental power. 6.4 United States and New Jersey History Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will: L. Contemporary
1. Examine the administration of American presidents, beginning with President Richard M. Nixon, as a means to analyze political and economic issues in contemporary
7. Discuss major contemporary social issues, such as the evolution of governmental rights for individuals with disabilities, multiculturalism, bilingual education, gay rights, free expression in the media, and the modern feminist movement. 6.5 Economics Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will: A. Economic Literacy 2. Describe the purposes of social security and Medicare. 5. Discuss how a market economy experiences periodic business cycles of prosperity and recession and that the federal government can adjust taxes, interest rates, spending, and other policies to help restore economic health. 8. Define basic terms associated with international trade such as imports, exports, quotas, embargoes, tariffs, and free trade. B. Economics and Society 5. Analyze the importance of economic issues to politics and be able to distinguish the economic views of different political parties.in preceding grades, 8.1 Technology A. Basic Computer Skills and Tools 8. Discuss and/or demonstrate the capability of emerging technologies and software in the creation of documents or files. 9. Merge information from one document to another. B. Application of Productivity Tools Social Aspects 1. Describe the potential and implications of contemporary and emerging computer applications for personal, social, lifelong learning, and workplace needs. 2. Exhibit legal and ethical behaviors when using information and technology, and discuss consequences of misuse. 3. Make informed choices among technology systems, resources, and services in a variety of contexts. 4. Use appropriate language when communicating with diverse audiences using computer and information literacy. Information Access and Research 6. Identify new technologies and other organizational tools to use in personal, home, and/or work environments for information retrieval, entry, and presentation. 7. Evaluate information sources for accuracy, relevance, and appropriateness.. Problem-Solving and Decision Making 9. Create and manipulate information, independently and/or collaboratively, to solve problems and design and develop products. 12. Integrate new information into an existing knowledge base and communicate the results in a project or presentation.
Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will: