📚 English Language Arts (ELA)

Grades 6–12

• Analyze how a sentence, paragraph, or chapter fits into the overall structure and contributes to the development of ideas.
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings.
• Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed.

Grades 11–12

• Use precise language, domain-specific vocabulary, and techniques such as metaphor, simile, and analogy to manage the complexity of the topic.

🕰️ History–Social Science

Grade 6

• Understand the relationship between religion and the social and political order in ancient civilizations (e.g., Mesopotamia and Egypt).

Grades 6–12

• Analyze the development of belief systems, symbolic representations, and cultural memory across historical contexts.
• Examine how different societies commemorate historical events (e.g., memorials, rituals, or public ceremonies).

🎨 Visual Arts

Grades 6–8

• Identify and describe how a person’s cultural context influences individual responses to works of art.
• Identify and compare works of art from various regions or periods.
• Understand how artists create the illusion of space using placement, overlapping, relative size, atmospheric and linear perspective.