Reading
1. The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.
1.1. Use word recognition skills and strategies to read and comprehend text.
1.2. Use vocabulary (word meaning) strategies to comprehend text.
1.3. Build vocabulary through wide reading.
1.4. Apply word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently.
2. The student understands the meaning of what is read.
2.1. Demonstrate evidence of reading comprehension.
2.2. Understand and apply knowledge of text components to comprehend text.
2.3. Expand comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas in literary and informational text.
2.4. Think critically and analyze author’s use of language, style, purpose, and perspective in informational and literary text.
3. The student reads different materials for a variety of purposes.
3.1. Read to learn new information.
3.2. Read to perform a task.
3.3. Read for career application.
3.4. Read for literary/narrative experience in a variety of genres.
4. The student sets goals and evaluates progress to improve reading.
4.1. Assess reading strengths and need for improvement.
4.2. Develop interests and share reading experiences.
Writing
1. The student writes clearly and effectively.
1.1. Develop concept and design.
1.2. Use style appropriate to the audience and purpose.
1.3. Apply writing conventions.
2. The student writes in a variety of forms for different audiences and purposes.
2.1. Write for different audiences.
2.2. Write for different purposes.
2.3. Write in a variety of forms.
2.4. Write for career applications.
3. The student understands and uses the steps of the writing process.
3.1. Pre-write.
3.2. Draft.
3.3. Revise.
3.4. Edit.
3.5. Publish.
4. The student analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of written work.
4.1. Assess own strengths and needs for improvement.
4.2. Seek and offer feedback.
Communication
1. The student uses listening and observation skills to gain understanding.
1.1. Focus attention.
1.2. Listen and observe to gain and interpret information.
1.3. Check for understanding by asking questions and paraphrasing.
2. The student communicates ideas clearly and effectively.
2.1. Communicate clearly to a range of audiences for different purposes.
2.2. Develop content and ideas.
2.3. Use effective delivery.
2.4. Use effective language and style.
2.5. Effectively use action, sound, and/or images to support presentations.
3. The student uses communication strategies and skills to work effectively with others.
3.1. Use language to interact effectively and responsibly with others.
3.2. Work cooperatively as a member of a group.
3.3. Seek agreement and solutions through discussion.
4. The student analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of formal and informal communication.
4.1. Assess strengths and need for improvement.
4.2. Seek and offer feedback.
4.3. Analyze mass communication.
4.4. Analyze how communication is used in career settings.
Arts
1. The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills.
1.1. Understand arts concepts and vocabulary.
1.2. Develop arts skills and techniques.
1.3. Understand and apply arts styles from various artist, cultures, and times.
1.4. Apply audience skills in a variety of arts settings and performances.
2. The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes.
2.1. Apply a creative process in the arts.
2.2. Apply a performance process in the arts.
2.3. Apply a responding process to an arts presentation.
3. The student communicates through the arts.
3.1. Use the arts to express and present ideas and feelings.
3.2. Use the arts to communicate for a specific purpose.
3.3. Develop personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices.
4. The student makes connections within and across the arts to other disciplines, life, cultures, and work.
4.1. Demonstrate and analyze the connections among the arts disciplines.
4.2. Demonstrate and analyze the connections among the arts and other content areas.
4.3. Understand how the arts impact lifelong choices.
4.4. Understand that the arts shape and reflect culture and history.
4.5. Demonstrate the knowledge of arts careers and the knowledge of arts skills in the world of work.
Health and Fitness
1. The student acquires the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain an active life: movement, physical fitness, and nutrition.
1.1. Develop fundamental and complex movement skills as developmentally appropriate.
1.2. Safely participate in a variety of developmentally appropriate physical activities.
1.3. Understand the concepts of health-related physical fitness and develop and monitor progress on personal fitness goals.
1.4. Understand the relationship of nutrition and food nutrients to physical performance and body composition.
2. The student acquires the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain a healthy life: recognize patterns of growth and development, reduce health risks, and live safely.
2.1. Recognize patterns of growth and development.
2.2. Understand the concept of control and prevention of disease.
2.3. Acquire skills to live safely and reduce health risks.
3. The student analyzes and evaluates the impact of real-life influences on health.
3.1. Understand how environmental factors affect one’s health.
3.2. Gather and analyze health information.
3.3. Use social skills to promote health and safety in a variety of situations.
3.4. Understand how emotions influence decision-making.
4. The student effectively analyzes health and safety information to develop health and fitness plans based on life goals.
4.1. Analyze health and safety information.
4.2. Develop a health and fitness plan and a monitoring system.
Social Studies: Civics
1. The student understands and can explain the core values and democratic principles of the United States as set forth in foundational documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
1.1. Understand and interpret the major ideas set forth in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other foundational documents.
1.2. Examine key ideals of United States democracy such as individual human dignity, liberty, justice, equality, and the rule of law.
1.3. Examine representative government and citizen participation.
2. The student analyzes the purposes and organization of government and laws.
2.1. Understand and explain the organization of government at the federal, state, and local level including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
2.2. Understand the function and effect of law.
2.3. Compare and contrast democracies with other forms of government.
3. The student understands the purposes and organization of international relationships and how United States foreign policy is made.
3.1. Understand how the world is organized politically and how nations interact.
3.2. Recognize factors and roles that affect the development of foreign policy by the United States, other nations, and multinational organizations.
4. The student understands the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the principles of democratic civic involvement.
4.1. Understand individual rights and their accompanying responsibilities including problem-solving and decision-making at the local, state, national, and international level.
4.2. Identify and demonstrate rights of United States citizenship related to school, local, state, national, and international issues.
4.3. Explain how various stakeholders influence public policy.
Social Studies: Economics
1. Students understand the impact of scarcity on their personal lives and on the households, businesses, governments, and societies in which they are participants.
1.1. Understand that the condition of scarcity requires people to choose among alternatives and bear the consequences of that choice.
1.2. Understand that the availability and use of resources influences the production of goods and services in the economy.
2. Students understand the essential characteristics of past and present economic systems.
2.1. Recognize that both buyers and sellers participate in voluntary trade because both expect to gain.
2.2. Explain how different economic systems produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services.
2.3. Understand that prices in competitive markets create incentives that influence the choices of buyers and sellers.
2.4. Understand that investment in people, tools, and technology affects employment levels and standards of living.
3. Students understand the role of government and institutions in past and present economic systems.
3.1. Analyze the role of government as participant in an economy through taxation, spending, and policy setting.
3.2. Understand the role of money, banking, and financial institutions and how individuals and businesses use them.
Social Studies: Geography
1. The student uses maps, charts, and other geographic tools to understand the spatial arrangement of people, places, resources, and environments on Earth’s surface.
1.1. Use and construct maps, charts, and other resources to gather and interpret geographic information.
1.2. Recognize spatial patterns on Earth’s surface and understand the processes that create these patterns.
2. The student understands the complex physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
2.1. Describe the natural characteristics of places and regions and explain the causes of their characteristics.
2.2. Describe the patterns humans make on places and regions.
2.3. Identify the characteristics that define the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Rim as regions.
3. The student observes and analyzes the interaction between people, the environment, and culture.
3.1. Identify and examine people’s interaction with and impact on the environment.
3.2. Analyze how the environment and environmental changes affect people.
3.3. Examine cultural characteristics, transmission, diffusion and interaction.
Social Studies: History
1. The student examines and understands major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in United States, world, and Washington State history.
1.1. Understand and analyze historical time and chronology.
1.2. Understand events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping United States, world, and Washington State history.
1.3. Examine the influence of culture on United States, world, and Washington State history.
2. The student understands the origin and impact of ideas and technological developments on history.
2.1. Compare and contrast ideas in different places, time periods, and cultures, and examine the interrelationships between ideas, change, and conflict.
2.2. Understand how ideas and technological developments influence people, culture, and environment.
Mathematics
1. The student understands and applies the concepts and procedures of mathematics.
1.1. Understand and apply concepts and procedures from number sense—number and numeration, computation, and estimation.
1.2. Understand and apply concepts and procedures from measurement—attributes and dimensions, approximation and precision, and systems and tools.
1.3. Understand and apply concepts and procedures from geometric sense—properties and relationships and locations and transformations.
1.4. Understand and apply concepts and procedures from probability and statistics— probability, statistics, and prediction and inference.
1.5. Understand and apply concepts and procedures from algebraic sense—patterns, representations, and operations.
2. The student uses mathematics to define and solve problems.
2.1. Investigate situations by searching for patterns and using a variety of approaches.
2.2. Formulate questions and define the problem.
2.3. Construct solutions by organizing the necessary information and using appropriate mathematical tools.
3. The student uses mathematical reasoning.
3.1. Analyze information from a variety of sources; use models, known facts, patterns and relationships to validate thinking.
3.2. Predict results and make conjectures based on analysis of problem situations.
3.3. Draw conclusions and verify results—support mathematical arguments, justify results, and check for reasonableness of solutions.
4. The student communicates knowledge and understanding in both everyday and mathematical language.
4.1. Gather information—read, listen, and observe to access and extract mathematical information.
4.2. Organize and interpret information.
4.3. Represent and share information—express and explain mathematical ideas using language and notation in ways appropriate for audience and purposes.
5. The student understands how mathematical ideas connect within mathematics, other subject areas, and real-life situations.
5.1. Relate concepts and procedures within mathematics—use conceptual and procedural understandings among content strands and use equivalent models and representations.
5.2. Relate mathematical concepts and procedures to other disciplines—identify and use mathematical patterns, thinking, and modeling in other subject areas.
5.3. Relate mathematical concepts and procedures to real-life situations—understand the connections between mathematics and problem-solving skills used every day at work and at home.
Science
1. SYSTEMS: The student knows and applies scientific concepts and principles to understand systems.
1.1. Properties: Understand how properties are used to identify, describe, and categorize substances, materials, and objects and how characteristics are used to categorize living things.
1.2. Structures: Understand how the components, structures, and organizations of systems and the interconnections within and among them describe systems.
1.3. Changes: Understand how interactions within and among systems cause changes in matter and energy.
2. INQUIRY: The student knows and applies the skills, and processes, and nature of scientific inquiry.
2.1. Investigate Systems: Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to do scientific inquiry.
2.2. Nature of Science: Understand the nature of scientific inquiry.
3. DESIGN: The student knows and applies the design process to develop solutions to human problems in societal contexts.
3.1. Design Solutions: Apply design processes to develop solutions to human problems or meet challenges using the knowledge and skills of science and technology.
3.2. Science, Technology, & Society: Know that science and technology are human endeavors, interrelated to each other, to society, and to the workplace.
