Grade 11 ( Age 16 )
Reading Literature and Informational Text and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
• Cite evidence from text to support analysis of both explicit and implicit messages within the text
• Cite evidence from text to support analysis of primary and secondary sources
• Identify the theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development
• Identify in detail a series of events described and the relationships among them
• Summarize literary and informational or explanatory texts
• Follow a multistep procedure when performing science or technical tasks
• Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several sources
• Analyze how the author’s choices effect the development of a story
• Analyze how a text makes connections among individuals, events, or ideas
• Analyze how a complex primary source is structured
• Determine meanings and effects of words, phrases, or symbols as used in a text
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the structure of a work in furthering the key ideas or argument
• Analyze how the structure of parts of a text contribute to the overall meaning
• Analyze a work that uses satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement
• Determine author’s purpose or point of view and how rhetoric is used to advance that purpose or point of view
• Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem
• Compare the point of view or claims of two or more authors on similar topics
• Show knowledge of 18th-, 19th- , and 20th-century foundational works of American (or home country) literature
• Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information in different formats
• Integrate information from diverse primary and secondary sources
• Analyze whether an author supports a claim with sound reasoning and sufficient evidence
• Analyze and evaluate 17th-, 18th- , and 19th-century foundational U.S. literary and historical documents (or similar documents from appropriate periods for home country)
• Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions of a science or technical text
• By the end of the academic year, read and understand grade-level literary and
informational texts (including history/social studies, science, and technical subjects) independently and with proficiency
Speaking and Listening
• Participate in collaborative discussions on a variety of grade-level topics
• Express ideas clearly and respectfully in group discussions
• Follow agreed-upon rules and preparation procedures for discussions
• Ask questions and respond to others, building on others’ ideas
• Integrate into speech preparation diverse sources of information in a variety of formats
• Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of rhetoric and evidence
• Identify an argument, claims; evaluate the soundness of reasoning and evidence
• Present claims or information in logical sequence supported with relevant facts and details
• Use clear pronunciation and appropriate eye contact and volume when speaking
• Add digital media and visual components to clarify ideas in presentations
• Adapt speech to a variety of tasks, showing command of formal English
Writing
• Write arguments supported with clear reasons and relevant evidence, including
arguments in history, social studies, science, and technical topics
• Write informative or explanatory pieces developed with relevant details, including
arguments in history, social studies, science, and technical topics
• Write narrations that include details, put events in order, and provide a conclusion
• Produce writing appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience
• Strengthen writing by getting feedback, revising, editing, and rewriting
• Add dialogue and descriptions to develop characters and events
• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing
• Contribute to collaborative group writing projects
• Conduct short and sustained research projects on a topic through investigation
• Draw and cite evidence from a variety of texts to support analysis
• Assess the credibility and accuracy of sources
• Quote or paraphrase data and conclusions while avoiding plagiarism
• Include evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis
• Regularly produce clear writing for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences
(including writing in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects)
English Language Skills
• Show a command of conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking
• Correctly use conventions of English when writing (capitalization, punctuation, and spelling)
• Make effective choices of language for meaning and style when writing or speaking
• Know the difference between formal and informal English and when to use each
Vocabulary
• Use context clues to determine word and phrase meanings
• Use word structure clues to determine meanings of unknown words
• Use relationships between words to better understand each word’s meaning
• Use references (print and digital) to determine or verify a word’s meanings, or to find its pronunciation or part of speech
• Interpret, analyze, and use figurative language in context
• Distinguish shades of meaning among related words
• Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations
• Distinguish among connotations of words with similar denotations
• Learn and use grade-level general academic vocabulary
Algebra II
• The complex number system
• Operations with complex numbers
• Exponents, including rational exponents
• Expressions in radical and exponent form
• Rewriting rational expressions in equivalent forms
• Arithmetic operations on polynomials
• Polynomial identities and equations
• Structure of expressions
• Expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems
• Equations and inequalities in one variable
• Reasoning and problem solving with equations and inequalities
• Graphic representations of equations and inequalities
• Quadratic equations
• Number and type of solutions of a quadratic equation
• Systems of equations
• Graphic representations of systems of equations
• Concept of a function
• Function notation
• Inverse functions
• Interpreting and describing functions from models
• Building functions to show a relationship between two quantities
• Writing functions in different forms
• Comparing properties of two functions
• Rate of change of a function
• Inverse functions
• Linear functions
• Quadratic functions
• Exponential functions
• Trigonometric functions
• Logarithmic functions
• Graphing functions
• Building new functions from existing functions
• Parameters of functions from a graph
• Modeling periodic phenomena with trigonometric functions
• Proving the trigonometric identities
• Translating between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section
• Modeling a bivariate data set with a function
Chemistry
• Structure and properties of matter
• Physical and chemical properties of substances
• Atomic structure and formation
• Historical development of atomic theory
• Electrical forces within and between atoms
• Molecular structure
• Molecular behavior
• Periodic Table
• Properties of elements
• Physical properties of substances
• Physical changes
• Mixtures
• Solutions, solubility, and precipitation
• Acids, bases, and electrolytes
• Chemical properties of elements
• Chemical reactions and energy
• Changes during chemical reactions
• Describing and predicting chemical reactions
• Acid-base reactions
• Oxidation-reduction reactions
• Chemical kinetics
• Moles and stoichiometry
• Chemical equilibrium
• Chemical bonding
• Chemical formulas and equations
• Nuclear processes
• Nuclear energy and radioactivity
• Radioactive decay
• Carbon chemistry
• Organic compounds and reactions
• Safe practices during investigations
• Gaining, analyzing, and applying health information
• Knowledge about and use of available health services
• Health choices and long-term consequences of choices
• Benefits of, practices for, and personal responsibility for health
• Personal health profile and plan
• Interrelationships of physical, mental, and social health
• Impacts of social pressures on physical, emotional, and social health
• Marketing and advertising effects on health behavior
• Structure, functions, and interdependence of major body systems
• Causes and effects of poor body image
• Eating disorders and their prevention and treatment
• Changes in anatomy during puberty
• Role of hormones in growth, development, and personal health
• Reproductive processes; healthy development of fetus
• Consequences of sexual activity
• Strategies to resist pressures to become sexually active
• Characteristics of healthy relationships and dating behaviors
• Lifelong strategies for identifying and preventing depression and anxiety
• Avoidance of risky or self-destructive behaviors
• Health risks and effects of technology use
• Myths and facts related to disease transmission and prevention
• Laws relating to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and other controlled substances
• Treatment options for drug and other addictions
• Understanding of first-aid procedures and emergency response
• Use, abuse, and effects of medications, tobacco, alcohol, and other controlled
substances
• Relationship between tobacco, alcohol, or illegal drugs and such unsafe situations as
date rape, sexually-transmitted disease, and drinking and driving
• Prevention of and response to deliberate and accidental injuries
• Reasons and ways to avoid violence, gangs, weapons, and drugs
• Skills to identify, avoid, report, and cope with potentially dangerous situations
• Positive and negative characteristics of social groups, gangs, clubs, cliques
• Development of self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-control
• Understand appropriate ways to express emotions
• Skills for building and maintaining healthy relationships
• Bullying, alternative behaviors to bullying, and appropriate responses to bullying
• Strategies for resolving conflicts with peers and others
United States History
• Civilizations of indigenous nations in North America
• Explorations of the Americas
• European colonization of America
• Effects of colonization on indigenous people
• Mayflower Compact
• Independence movement
• American Revolution
• Founding documents
• Principles and values of the new democratic government
• Challenges of the new government
• Drafting and ratification of the Constitution
• Federalists and anti-federalists
• Economic expansion; agricultural and industrial growth (1792-1861)
• Conquest of indigenous people and Mexican territory
• Regional and ethnic divisions and reform movements
• Jeffersonian Era
• Louisiana Purchase
• Slavery and abolition
• Conflicts between the North and South
• Civil War and Reconstruction
• African-American struggle for rights
• Voting rights
• Industrialization (1870-1920)
• Growth as an industrial and global power
• Immigration
• Class and ethnic conflicts
• The Progressive Era
• Urbanization
• World War I: causes, events, and effects
• The Great Depression
• The New Deal
• World War II: causes, events, U.S. role, impacts
• Post World War II and the Cold War
• Vietnam War and protests
• Civil Rights movements
• Changes in policies about Native Americans
• Era of geopolitical dynamics and a global economy
• Impact of technological innovations on society
• U.S. identity, roles, and values in the world (1980-present)
• National security
• Current domestic and foreign policy
• Global interdependence and cooperation
• Current national and global issues (human rights, terrorism, environment, poverty,
hunger, refugees, resource scarcity, genocide, etc.)
Note about high school arts curriculum: High school curriculum generally requires some sort of study and credit in the arts. Most schools offer experiences and study in a variety of areas in the arts. Some examples are:
• Animation
• Architecture
• Casting
• Ceramics
• Choral music
• Computer graphics and applications
• Construction
• Dance or other creative movement
• Digital arts
• Drama (including mime, storytelling, and technical aspects of theater)
• Drawing
• Film
• Graphic design
• Improvisational music
• Instrumental music
• Jewelry-making
• Metal Sculpture
• Mosaics
• Painting
• Photography
• Printmaking
• Sculpture
• Textiles and fiber art
In the study and practice of any of the performance or visual arts, students encounter such topics and sharpen such skills as:
• Watching, listening, and responding to works of art
• Background and elements of particular art form
• Understanding of the processes and techniques of particular forms
• Principles of design
• Vocabulary of particular art forms
• Interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of works of art
• Reflecting on own experiences and creations or performances
• Art history
• Well-known artists and works of visual or performing art forms
• Cultural contexts and expressions of art
• Style, materials, and techniques used in a work of art
• Generating questions about a work of art
• Considering messages and purposes of a particular work of art
• Responding orally, in writing, or some other way to works of art
• Responding orally, in writing, or some other way to works of art
• Reflecting on the contributions of artists to society
• Careers in art
• Discipline and mindset for improving and developing skills in art
• Fostering of creativity and self-expression
• Development of artistic awareness, imagination, perception, skill
• Experimenting with a variety of media, forms, and techniques
• Solving design problems
• Use of digital media and tools for producing, viewing, or responding to art
• Polishing and furthering personal skills in a chosen area of art
• Participation in collaborative discussions about works of art
• Participation in collaborative creation of works of art
• Proper safety procedures for activities in the specific arts
General goal for high school students: Use technology within all content areas to collaborate, communicate, generate innovative ideas, create original works, and investigate and solve problems.
• Demonstrating proficient keyboarding skills
• Understanding of operating system tools, applications, and storage devices
• Use of a variety of common applications and productivity tools
• Creating products combining text, images, sound, music, and video
• Creating and publishing stories, games, animations, problems, and solutions
• Creating Web pages
• Use of spreadsheet and concept-mapping software
• Use of interactive tools to design polls or surveys to gather data
• Making contributions to blogs, wikis, and other digital collaborative forums
• Use of online databases or simulation software to interpret and predict trends
• Increasing knowledge about many cultures through digital content
• Communicating with multiple audiences through a variety of formats and media
• Increasing understanding of a local or global issue
• Researching and using information fluently
• Choosing appropriate search engines, directories, and online applications
• Selecting appropriate, relevant sources for a purpose or audience
• Analysis and synthesis of information to make decisions or develop solutions
• Assessing the credibility and validity of online sources
• Use of bibliography tools to cite sources from digital sources
• Reporting and sharing results or solutions
• Exploring ways to receive feedback from multiple, appropriate audiences
• Demonstrate understanding and avoidance of potential online dangers
• Understanding health hazards of frequent technology use
• Demonstrating safe and legal use of online sites and information
• Use of passwords, virus prevention, and other protective procedures
• Understanding risks of social networking sites; safe sharing of personal information online
• Understanding privacy issues and how data are kept and available publicly
• Practicing ethical and respectful behavior online
• Careful, responsible use and maintenance of digital equipment
• Demonstrating openness to learning new technologies and procedures
