School Wide
● Working independently and collaboratively
● Responsibility, character, cultural understanding and ethical behavior
● Written communication skills
● Reading comprehension skills
● Speaking & Listening Skills
● Problem Solving
Advisory
● Demonstrate Evidence of Learning through portfolio & presentation.
● Demonstrate evidence of post secondary planning.
● Demonstrate evidence of efforts to enrich literacy skills.
English
Core English
● Students demonstrate the ability to comprehend, critique, and analyze a variety of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.
● Students demonstrate the ability to write effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.
● Students demonstrate the ability to speak purposefully and effectively.
● Students demonstrate the ability to listen and view critically.
● Students engage in research and inquiry through analyzing, integrating, and presenting information using a variety of resources and proper citations.
Creative Writing
● Students write effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.
● Students demonstrate an ability to write in a variety of genres.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to write using correct grammar, vocabulary, and formats pertaining to a range of creative mediums.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to create a unique character through entertaining writing.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to write to entertain, linking life and life lessons to writing.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze poetry and short stories to link content to self and others’ lives.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to express themselves using written, visual, and verbal techniques.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate their feelings through a variety of topics.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to research, analyze, and explain an issue pertaining to their generation, persuading others to adopt the same views through creative works - written, oral, and visual.
Drama 1 ● Students utilize voice and character traits to communicate purposefully.
● Students fluently deliver lines, both improvised and memorized.
● Students demonstrate stage presence, including body language, facial expression, movement, and posture.
● Students effectively interact with props, other actors, the stage, and the audience.
Drama 2
● Students utilize voice and character traits to communicate purposefully.
● Students utilize voice and character traits to communicate purposefully.
● Students demonstrate stage presence, including body language, facial expression, movement, and posture.
● Students effectively interact with props, other actors, the stage, and the audience
● Students utilize stage makeup to create a visual representation of character.
Film Studies
● Students demonstrate their understanding of the science and technology of film creation.
● Students understand the role of mise en scene in filmmaking and storytelling.
● Students understand how censorship affects the filmmaking process.
● Students engage in research and inquiry through analyzing, integrating, and presenting information using a variety of sources in relation to film.
● Students understand the different components of the filmmaking process.
Gender Studies
● Focus on gender and how it affects daily life in regards to community, politics, family life, work and culture.
● Dissect and analyze ads, pop culture, music, and other forms of mass media in regards to gender implications and basis.
● Write using correct grammar, vocab and formats pertaining to all writing
● Write compare and contrast essays, persuasive essays, business letters, opinion essays and research papers
● Analyze, discuss, edit, and critique their own work and their peers’ work
● Learn to be an active community of learners and respect each other’s opinions
Journalism
● Understand and employ a process in writing for the media.
● Identify a variety of types of media writing and be able to create original drafts given a particular requirement.
● Demonstrate an understanding of media responsibility.
Philosophy
● Students will demonstrate the ability to interpret, decode, and analyze complex philosophical texts from a variety of authors.
● Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately analyze the structure and strength of logical arguments.
● Students will engage in discussing how we determine right from wrong, and demonstrate their understanding through discussion, writing, and reading analysis.
● Students will engage in the questions of the nature of knowledge, and demonstrate their understanding through discussion, writing, and reading analysis.
Poetry
● Students demonstrate the ability to comprehend, critique and analyze a variety of poetry.
● Students use poetry techniques in their own writing.
● Students demonstrate the ability to listen and view critically.
● Students demonstrate the ability to speak purposefully and effectively.
Public Speaking
● Students demonstrate the ability to adjust volume, pitch, tone, and rate of speech to heighten and maintain audience interest and the ability to pronounce words and emphasize sounds correctly.
● Students demonstrate the ability to support speech through eye contact, hand gesturing, posture, stance, motivated movement, and physical appearance.
● Students demonstrate the ability to write effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.
● Students demonstrate the ability to present and speak naturally, conversationally, even during speeches.
● Students demonstrate the ability to listen, view critically, and provide feedback.
Science Fiction
● Students demonstrate the ability to comprehend critique and analyze a variety of science fiction texts.
● Students apply the themes of science fiction to writing.
● Students demonstrate the ability to speak purposefully and effectively.
● Students demonstrate the ability to listen and view critically.
Math
Core Math
● Rewrite expressions in equivalent forms and solve equations using various techniques
● Students will create and connect representations of various functions using graphs, tables, patterns, equations, and verbal/written expressions.
● Apply and extend previous understandings of operations of whole numbers to add, subtract, multiply, and divide real numbers
● Collect, organize, analyze, and assess information and strategies to create, apply, explain, and evaluate solutions.
● Students will create, justify, and defend geometric arguments and communicate mathematical ideas using visual and verbal models.
Financial Literacy
● Apply and defend responsible money management skills for specific financial scenarios.
● Evaluate the personal impact of various financial decisions and explore plans for future success.
● Express practical application of financial concepts through written, oral, and technological forms of communication.
Science
Astronomy
● Students will identify the planets within our solar system as well as other important celestial features that occur within our solar system.
● Students will recognize constellations and utilize them to find other celestial objects – stars, deep sky objects, galaxies
● Students will know the location of important, non-planetary features in our solar system and why they are significant
Aquatic Biology
● Students demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of basic aquatic ecosystems, ecological communities, and principles.
● Students describe and analyze the impact of dissolved gases, acid/base buffering, and dissolved nutrients in aquatic ecosystems.
● Students examine the ways nutrients, salinity, pressure, sunlight, temperature, and wastes in the environment affect the distribution of aquatic organisms.
Biology
● Students describe, classify and analyze objects and situations.
● Students apply concepts learned to explain how theories, organisms and matter change over time and that all matter is interrelated.
● Students identify, evaluate and apply how energy and matter flow through a variety of systems.
● Students identify structures, functions and characteristics that allow for the survival of an organism.
● Students understand the processes that maintain homeostasis.
● Students use evidence to make and support conclusions about the factors of heredity.
Chemistry
● Students explain that the atom is a discrete unit and that all reactions, properties and identities of elements and compounds are a result of its structure.
● Students explain that all matter and energy in the universe is constant, neither being created nor destroyed, only stored, transferred or transformed.
● Students explain how chemical reactions are affected by the physical conditions of the system: energy, temperature, pressure, concentration, particle size, catalysts and its position on the periodic table.
● Students apply concepts of acid-base theory to identify properties of acids and bases, explain the use of buffers and show the relationship between acidity and alkalinity on the pH scale.
Forensics
● Students will demonstrate their ability to problem solve using proper scientific techniques.
● Students will describe, classify, and analyze objects.
● Students will systematically obtain data and apply scientific processes to understand the details of crime.
● Students will understand and apply the rules of evidence as they apply to the legal system
● Students will use modeling to help understand crime scene techniques and reconstruction.
Human Body
● Students describe the basic structure and function of the human body using proper anatomical terminology.
● Students explain how homeostasis is maintained within the human body.
● Students demonstrate an understanding of anatomy and physiology through investigations of the cardiovascular, muscular, skeletal and nervous systems.
Physical Science
● Students demonstrate an understanding that all stationary and moving objects are affected by forces.
● Students demonstrate an understanding that energy is necessary for change to occur in matter and can be stored, transferred or transformed, but not created nor destroyed.
● Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the characteristics of waves on the electromagnetic spectrum.
● Students predict properties of atoms based on their position on the periodic table.
● Students demonstrate an understanding of the life cycle of stars based on characteristics that include temperature, luminosity and size.
Physics
● Students solve one dimensional problems using displacement, time, velocity and acceleration.
* Students use vectors to solve projectile motion problems.
● Students use vectors to solve projectile motion problems.
● Students solve force problems using the three laws of motion.
● Students apply work and energy formulas to various problems.
● Students solve problems involving momentum and collision between two or more objects.
Art
● How to Advocate but Agree to Disagree Art Competencies
● Creates works of art that demonstrate a connection between personal expression and the safe use of art materials, techniques, technology and processes.
● Create works of art that use the elements and principles of art and design that generate multiple solutions to visual art problems.
● Create works of art that demonstrate the use of valid and meaningful sources, subject matters, symbols and ideas and evaluate their significance.
● Create and analyze works of art that reflect historical and/or cultural influences, artists and meaning.
● Respond to their own work and the work of others, while responding connections among art and other disciplines utilizing art terminology.
● Evaluate their own experiences through portfolios and exhibitions.
Culinary Arts
Basic Foods
● Students demonstrate kitchen cleanliness and safety.
● Students utilize and demonstrate recipe knowledge.
● Students explain and demonstrate the scientific basis for the preparation of various types of food and assess their finished products.
Advanced Foods
● Students explain the relationship between microorganisms and foodborne illnesses and demonstrate safe food handling practices.
● Students demonstrate various cuisines through the practice and discussion of types of meal service, settings, menu layouts and table etiquette.
● Students evaluate and create kitchen designs for efficiency of work centers and work triangles.
● Students analyze their dietary practices and strategies to meet their individual nutritional requirements.
Culinary Fundamentals
● Students identify and practice culinary terms, skills and sanitation.
● Students demonstrate proper culinary techniques and knife skills
● Students demonstrate self-management
● Students demonstrate the ability to effectively manage resources in high-performance workplaces.
Cake Decorating
● Students demonstrate and produce a variety of cakes and icings using fundamental techniques
● Students demonstrate and execute mastery level bakery products using proficiency techniques
Bread and Rolls
● Students create a variety of bread and rolls from plain to elaborately shape, flavored and decorated bakery products
● Students demonstrate how to use and work with different yeast, starters, flours and other bread making products and techniques.
Bakery Production
● Students demonstrate food knowledge using accurate procedures to produce bakery items
● Students demonstrate lab. techniques ,baker's scale, to produce finish products that could be sold in a bakery
● Students demonstrate self management
Music
Music Competencies
● Perform - Perform on an instrument or voice alone or with others
● Respond - Analyze, describe and evaluate music performance and notation.
● Create - Generate a product that reflects an understanding of music.
● Connect - Demonstrate an understanding of music in relation to history, culture, other arts, other disciplines and careers
Physical Education
P.E. & Health PE
● Students demonstrate competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.
● Students apply knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies and tactics related to movement and performance.
● Students demonstrate the knowledge and skills to achieve a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
● Students recognize the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and respectful social interaction.
Health
● The student demonstrates an understanding of health factors and choices that influence one's well-being.
● The student can identify the systems of the body, their functions, organs and common conditions.
● The student demonstrates an understanding of nutrition and the correlation between healthy foods and personal wellness.
● The student can identify signs, symptoms, treatment and prevention of mental illness.
● The student can analyze the effects of drug misuse and addiction on the body, one's life, community and society.
● The student demonstrates an understanding of issues related to human sexuality.
● The student can create health promotion media addressing personal and/or community safety.
Spanish
Spanish Novice
● Identify the general topic and basic information in familiar and everyday contexts by recognizing words, phrases, and simple sentences in texts that are spoken or written.
● Communicate in spontaneous spoken or written conversations on familiar and everyday topics using words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions.
● Present information on familiar and everyday topics using words, phrases, and simple sentences through spoken or written language.
● Identify products and practices in my own and other cultures to help me understand perspectives.
Spanish Intermediate
● Understand the main idea and some information on familiar topics from sentences and series of connected sentences within texts that are spoken or written.
● Participate in spontaneous spoken or written conversations on familiar topics, creating sentences and series of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions.
● Communicate information, make presentations, and express my thoughts about familiar topics, using sentences and series of connected sentences through spoken or written language.
● Make comparisons between products and practices in my own and other cultures to help me understand perspectives.
Tech Ed
Woodworking 1
● The student demonstrate an understanding of shop safety practices
● The student demonstrate an understanding of measuring in the woods shop
● The student demonstrate an understanding of wood shop tools
● The student demonstrate a use of power wood machines
Woodworking 2
● The student demonstrate an understanding of shop safety practices
● The student demonstrates an understanding of wood species
● The student demonstrates an understanding of Table Saw operations
● The student demonstrate a use of advanced wood machines
Woodworking 3
● The student demonstrate an understanding of shop safety practices
● The student demonstrates an understanding of tree ID
● The student demonstrates an understanding of advance Table Saw operations
● The student demonstrate an understanding of advance wood construction
Electricity
● The student demonstrate an understanding of electrical safety practices
● The student demonstrate an understanding of DC circuits
● The student demonstrate an understanding of AC circuits
● The student demonstrate an understanding of residential home wiring
Robotics
● Understand through principles and practices workplace safety concepts and procedures in order to operate in a safe environment.
● Understand the methodologies and engineering disciplines as applied to the fundamental skills associated with the engineering design process.
● Understand the use of problem-solving.
● Understand the interaction of multiple disciplines and the underlying principles of engineering.
● Understand the impact engineering has on society.
● Understand that making effective choices is essential in meeting an individual career goal.
● Understand the importance of personal growth and leadership to enhance career success.