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English Language Arts
Standard
1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and
understanding. As 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 that follows
the accepted conventions of the English
language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Standard 2: Language for Literary Response and
Expression
Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced
texts and performances from American and world literature; relate texts and
performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the diverse
social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances
represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written
language that follows the accepted conventions of the English
language for self-expression and artistic creation.
Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and
evaluation. As 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 use oral and written
language that follows the accepted conventions of the English
language to present, from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and
judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.
Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction.
Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions
of the English 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 1: History of the United States and
New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate
their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning
points in the history of the United States and New York.
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 history from a variety of
perspectives.
Standard 3: Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate
their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we
live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people,
places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Standard 4: Economics
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to Demonstrate
their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic
systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major
decision making units function in the United States and other national
economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market
mechanisms.
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate
their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the
governmental system of the United
States and other nations; the United
States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional
democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including
avenues of participation.
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