List of skills taught in Humanities 7:
Academic Skills: Participation and Engagement
Academic Skills: Materials
Academic Skills: Academic Responsibility
Academic Skills: Personal and Intellectual Skills
Equity Skills
Reading Skills
Research Skills
Presentation Skills
Speaking Skills
Writing Skills
Academic Skills: Participation and Engagement
- APE1 - Collaborates effectively
- APE2 - Stays on task during discussion and work time
- APE3 - Arrives on time
- APE4 - Contributes effectively and listens actively
Academic Skills: Materials
- AM1 - Has all necessary materials
- AM2 - Abides by Technology and iPad Acceptable Use Policies
Academic Skills: Academic Responsibility
- AAR1 - Meets deadlines
- AAR2 - Prepared for assessments and activities
- AAR3 - Completes work with care
Academic Skills: Personal and Intellectual Skills
- API1 - Monitors herself
- API2 - Advocates for herself as needed
- API3 - Able to transfer concepts learned in class to new situations
- API4 - Understands and follows directions accurately
- API5 - Takes intellectual risks
- API6 - Demonstrates intellectual curiosity
Equity Skills
- E1 - Understand the different aspects of identity.
- E2 - Understand intersectionality.
- E3 - Understand the distinction between prejudice, bigotry, discrimination, and racism.
- E4 - Apply the distinction between prejudice, bigotry, discrimination, and racism in analyzing literature and historical and current events.
- E5 - Apply the distinction between prejudice, bigotry, discrimination, and racism in examining other systems of oppression in literature and historical and current events.
- E6 - Understand the distinction between segregationist, assimilationist, and antiracist thought.
- E7 - Apply the distinction between segregationist, assimilationist, and anitracist thought in analyzing literature and historical and current events.
- E8 - Relate anitracist thought to resistance to other systems of oppression.
- E9 - Apply an understanding of resistance to other systems of oppression in analyzing literature and historical and current events.
- E10 - Apply an understanding of specific issues (problems faced, causes of those problems, existing solutions) to develop and take action steps.
Reading Skills
- R1 - Determining importance
- R2 - Making text-self connections
- R3 - Making text-text connections
- R4 - Making text-world connections
- R5 - Making inferences
- R6 - Making predictions
- R7 - Asking questions
- R8 - Maintaining focus while reading
- R9 - Self-monitoring while reading
Research Skills
- RS1 - Locating information
- RS2 - Evaluating accuracy of information
- RS3 - Evaluating relevance of information
- RS4 - Keeping track of sources.
- RS5 - Including a Works Cited page in proper MLA format.
- RS6 - Including necessary citations in the body of a paper in proper MLA format.
Presentation Skills
- P1 - Theme of presentation is clear
- P2 - Main points of presentation are clear
- P3 - Main points of presentation are connected to the theme
- P4 - Evidence and explanations presented are clear
- P5 - Evidence and explanations presented support the relevant main point
- P6 - Engages audience
- P7 - Mode(s) of presentation (speech, monologue, dance, music, etc.) communicate effectively
- P8 - Any supportive media used (visual, audio, audiovisual, etc.) enhance and enrich presentation
Speaking Skills
- S1 - Volume is consistently high enough to be audible.
- S2 - Words are articulated clearly.
- S3 - Pacing is appropriate and varied.
- S4 - Intonation is appropriate and varied.
- S5 - Eye contact is maintained to the greatest extent possible.
Writing Skills
- W1 - Essay Pre-writing: evaluating information gathered and selecting for relevance
- W2 - Essay Pre-writing: evaluating information gathered and grouping by common theme
- W3 - Essay Pre-writing: choosing and applying an effective method for organizing by paragraph
- W4 - Essay Introduction: begins by grabbing the reader’s attention
- W5 - Essay Introduction: includes necessary background information
- W6 - Essay Introduction: main focus of essay is clear
- W7 - Essay Body: paragraph topic is clear
- W8 - Essay Body: paragraph topic connects to and supports main focus of essay
- W9 - Essay Body: ideas are explained clearly
- W10 - Essay Body: evidence provided is accurate and relevant
- W11 - Essay Conclusion: includes a brief summary of main and supporting ideas
- W12 - Essay Conclusion: includes a reflection on the importance of these ideas
- W13 - Essay Revision: Considers suggestions and makes changes as appropriate
- W14 - Essay Revision: Evaluates own writing for organization, logic, and flow; makes changes as appropriate
- W15 - Fiction: Characters are consistent
- W16 - Fiction: Plot is coherent and believable
- W17- Poetry: author’s intent is achieved
- W18 - General: tone is consistent
- W19 - General: pacing is appropriate
- W20 - General: sentence length is varied
- W21 - General: ideas flow smoothly one to the next
- W22 - General: in final draft form, mechanics are accurate
- W23 - General: shows depth of thought
List of skills taught in Middle and Upper School Rock Bands:
* Middle School Band students will learn the same academic skills as Humanities 7 students; see above.
Practice Skills
Rehearsal Skills
Performance Skills
* Middle School Band students will learn the same academic skills as Humanities 7 students; see above.
Practice Skills
- Frequency of practice sessions.
- Length of practice sessions.
- Meeting personal goals for the week.
Rehearsal Skills
- Try your hardest.
- Stay focused.
- Master your part.
- Develop a group feel.
- Active listening when people are talking.
- Contribute your thoughts.
- Support group members.
Performance Skills
- Taking the stage: promptness, placement, tuning
- Staying with the group beginning to end.
- Maintaining group feel consistently.
- Playing your part accurately.
- Affect and interaction with audience.
- Acknowledging audience when through.