Graduation Area: Literacy
Writing: Produce clear and coherent writing in addressing a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Research: Conduct inquiry-based research that demonstrates critical thinking about the subject and its implications.
Reading: Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a wide range of complex literary and informational texts.
Language: Through the writing process, demonstrate control of Standard English, grammar, and usage.
Critical Discourse: Participate effectively in a range of discussions by responding thoughtfully to perse perspectives and expressing ideas clearly and persuasively.
Graduation Area: Mathematical Content and Practices
Modeling: Use mathematics to help make sense of the real world: identify variables, formulate a model describing the relationship between the variables, interpret results, validate and report conclusions, and describe the reasoning behind them.
Number and Quantity: Reason, describe, and analyze quantitatively to solve problems.
Algebra Skills: Interpret, use, and analyze expressions, equations and inequalities.
Geometry: Understand geometric concepts and constructions, prove theorems, and apply appropriate results to solve problems, including right triangle trigonometry.
Statistics: Interpret and apply statistics to analyze data, reach and justify conclusions, and make inferences.
Probability: Interpret and apply probability to analyze data, reach and justify conclusions, and make inferences.
Graduation Area: Scientific Inquiry and Content Knowledge
Cause and Effect: Investigate and predict causal relationships and the scientific mechanisms that drive them.
Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Apply mathematical relationships with respect to size, time, mass, or energy scales.
Systems and System Models: Define the boundaries and components of a system, and use a clear and appropriate model.
Energy and Matter: Apply thermodynamics and conservation to a system by tracking changes of energy and matter into, out of, and within systems.
Structure and Function: Demonstrate that the structure of an object or living thing determines many of its properties and functions.
Scientific and Engineering Practices: Demonstrate knowledge and application of scientific and engineering practices through the integration of science, technology and/or engineering concepts.