Social Sciences
1. Chronological Thinking: Student can distinguish between past, present, and future to interpret data and explain patterns of historical succession, continuity, and change.
2. Historical Comprehension: Student can reconstruct the meaning of a historical passage, drawing upon multiple sources of data (visual, literary, musical, mathematical, etc.) to differentiate between facts and interpretations.
3. Historical Analysis and Interpretation: Student can compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, analyzing cause-and-effect relationships while bearing in mind multiple causations, including the importance of the individual in history; the influence of ideas, human interests, and beliefs; and the role of chance.
4. Historical Research Capabilities: Student can formulate historical questions, obtain data, and interrogate data for its historical, social, political, and economic significance.
5. Historical Issues: Student can analyze historical and current problems and issues, identifying antecedents, describing courses of action, evaluating decisions, explaining alternatives, and examining intended and unintended outcomes.
English Language Arts
1. Reading Comprehension: Student can read texts to comprehend central ideas or themes (explicit and implicit), identify supporting evidence and details, and draw clear inferences and conclusions.
2. Reading Interpretation: Student can analyze and evaluate texts to draw conclusions about the broader historical, cultural, or societal impact of a work, appraising the significance of supporting evidence and details, and explaining the influence of elements such as tone, point of view, style, and structure.
3. Writing: Student can write persuasive, informative, and narrative texts that convey complex ideas, organizing content clearly and coherently, utilizing evidence to support analysis.
4. Writing Conventions: Student can demonstrate an understanding of standard English conventions, applying knowledge of language to show how language functions in different contexts to make effective choices for meaning or style.
5. Speaking/Presentation: Student can communicate a clear main idea in an organized way, making connections between related details, utilizing visuals effectively and maintaining appropriate control over voice and body language.