Academics

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Solve and apply systems of linear equations and inequalities
• Use the properties of exponents and radicals to simplify expressions
• Factor, solve, and graph quadratic equations
• Identify and apply functions (Function Notation [substitution], Domain, Range, Transformations, and Type - including absolute value)
• Perform operations on polynomials (Add, Subtract, Multiply and Factor)Identify and use complex numbers

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Analyze informational text
• Correctly collect and cite information from a variety of sources using MLA
• Analyze literary text
• Write analytically, persuasively, and informationally
• Write creatively with appropriate structures and purpose
• Use Standard conventions to create clear and concise writing

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Chronological Reasoning: Analyze and explain how events of history affect each other
• Historical Analysis: Analyze and evaluate multiple perspectives
• Historical Connections: Compare and contrast historical context
• Historical Argumentation: Create and defend a historical argument

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Ask questions and defining problems
• Plan and carry out investigations
• Develop and use models
• Analyze and interpret data
• Use mathematics and computational thinking
• Construct and design solutions
• Engage in argument from evidence
• Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Construct logical arguments verbally and in written form (using words and symbols)
• Calculate measurements of geometric figures (area, volume, perimeter, circumference, and surface area)
• Apply the properties of angle relationships to solve problems and justify results
• Apply the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles to solve problems and justify results
• Apply the properties of similar triangles (and proportions) to solve problems and justify results
• Apply the properties of right triangles to solve problems

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Demonstrate close reading of fiction and nonfiction by using fitting textual evidence to prove a claim
• Write creatively with appropriate structure, purpose, tone, and conventions for various audiences
• Write argumentative pieces with appropriate structure, purpose, tone, and conventions for various audiences
• Use a writing process to develop and strengthen ideas
• Develop and verbalize a cohesive argument that initiates, builds on, or poses questions to move discussion forward

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Historical Causation: Interpret and trace events to their cause(s)
• Proper Use of Relevant Historical Evidence: Identify, describe, evaluate evidence, and cite about the past from various sources
• Historical Interpretation: Describe, analyze, and evaluate different perspectives of the past
• Drawing Inferences and Conclusions: Make decisions or form opinions based on relevant information
• Evolution of Citizenship: Trace and define a citizen's role and rights in society
• Interpret and determine the effect(s) of an event

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Ask questions and defining problems
• Plan and carry out investigations
• Develop and use models
• Analyze and interpret data
• Use mathematics and computational thinking
• Construct and design solutions
• Engage in argument from evidence
• Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Graph and solve quadratic functions
• Graph and solve polynomial functions
• Graph and solve radical functions
• Graph and solve exponential functions
• Graph and solve logarithmic functions
• Graph and solve rational functions
• Sequence and series

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Speaking and Listening: Actively participate in collaborative discussions and/or presentations
• Write persuasively using a thesis-driven argument
• Find, evaluate, and integrate relevant sources in student work
• Identify, explain, and support with textual evidence an author's purpose in informational texts
• Identify and analyze literary elements in fiction with supporting textual evidence

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Make inferences about the physical or human characteristics of places based on maps
• Explain and analyze sustainability issues in a variety of geographic contexts
• Understand how places have unique features and how regions have (a) unifying feature(s)
• Explain how humans have created and imposed non-natural geographic elements onto the earth and the impacts of those elements
• Analyze economic data to explain change in various markets
• Demonstrate an understanding in comparing and contrasting real world economic situations
• Understand and apply the economic decision making process
• Identify cause and effect relationships in economic forces in society

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Ask questions and defining problems
• Plan and carry out investigations
• Develop and use models
• Analyze and interpret data
• Use mathematics and computational thinking
• Construct and design solutions
• Engage in argument from evidence
• Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Graph and solve quadratic functions
• Graph and solve polynomial functions
• Graph and solve radical functions
• Graph and solve exponential functions
• Graph and solve logarithmic functions
• Graph and solve rational functions
• Sequence and series

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning these about these topics and developing these ability to:

• Demonstrate how the US Constitution establishes a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits that have changed or are changing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of civic responsibility (characteristics of good citizenship) and civic duty (obligations of citizenship) as well as ways individuals can influence the government
• Access and analyze information in multiple formats
• Use fact-based evidence from primary, secondary, and other credible sources, create an argument, deliberate, and reach a decision about an issue
• Critically analyze ways in which the government (at various levels) operates and impacts daily life