Learning Domain: Expectations
Standard: Cite evidence to explain and justify reasoning.
Learning Domain: Expectations
Standard: Make inferences to support comprehension.
Learning Domain: Expectations
Standard: Use appropriate collaborative techniques and active listening skills when engaging in discussions in a variety of situations.
Learning Domain: Expectations
Standard: Use appropriate voice and tone when speaking or writing.
Learning Domain: Knowledge Constructor
Standard: Students practice and demonstrate the ability to evaluate resources for accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance.
Learning Domain: Civics
Standard: (US) Explain key ideals and principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the US Constitution, including the rule of law, separation of powers, representative government, and popular sovereignty; and, the Bill of Rights, including due process and freedom of expression
Learning Domain: Civics
Standard: (US) Evaluate efforts to reduce discrepancies between key ideals and reality in the United States
Learning Domain: Civics
Standard: (US) Analyze how a claim on an issue attempts to balance individual rights and the common good
Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Analyze positions and evidence supporting an issue or an event
Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Evaluate the logic of reasons for a position on an issue or event
Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Evaluate the breadth, reliability, and credibility of primary and secondary sources to determine the need for new or additional information when researching an issue or event
Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Engage in discussion, analyzing multiple viewpoints on public issues
Learning Domain: Social Studies Skills
Standard: Analyze multiple factors, make generalizations, and interpret sources to formulate a thesis in a paper or presentation, while observing rules related to plagiarism and copyright
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Standard: Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects
Standard: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity.
Standard: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.