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NYS Learning Standards

English Language Arts

1. Read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

2. Read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.

3. Read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

4. Read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

The Arts

1. Actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.

2. Be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

3. Respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual works to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.

4. Develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.

Health, Physical Education & Home Economics

1. Have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.

2. Acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.

3. Understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources.

Career Development & Occupational Studies

1. Knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions.

2. Demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.

3a. Demonstrate mastery of the foundation skills and competencies essential for success in the workplace.

3b. Choose a career major and acquire career-specific technical knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment, career advancement, and success in postsecondary programs.

Languages Other Than English

1. Be able to use a language other than English for communication.

2. Develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.

Mathematics, Science & Technology

1. Use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

2. Access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

3. Understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.

4. Understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

5. Apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

6. Understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

7. Apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.

Social Studies

1. Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, ears, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic system and associated institution 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 nonmarket mechanisms.

5. 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.