GRADE 6 Language Arts • Reads and discusses ... - The Rashi School

GRADE 6
Language Arts
• Reads and discusses novels, short stories, myths, and informational texts in depth.
• Identifies and understands the basic elements of fiction (plot, character, setting, dialogue,
foreshadowing, conflict, motif).
• Identifies and discusses how an author manipulates aspects of plot structure including the
development, climax and resolution.
• Understands texts by questioning, predicting, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, synthesizing
new and prior information.
• Recognizes issues and ideas that are central to a text.
• Identifies and communicates the motifs that are central to a text.
• Accesses textual evidence and uses it to support a position during literature discussions.
• Writes in the following forms: personal narrative, description, short story, and expository
paragraph.
• Writes a brief interpretation or explanation of a literary or informational text using evidence from
the text as support.
• Writes a persuasive piece that uses facts, examples, and/or supporting information to persuade
readers.
• Writes a properly structured formal letter.
• Constructs a dangling thesis and a dangling conclusion.
• Masters subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, and correction of misplaced
modifiers.
• Spells correctly and gives precise meanings for 200 grade-appropriate words.
• Follows the steps of the writing process from planning to self-assessment.
• Reads his/her work aloud during various points during the writing process.
• Memorizes and performs 15 lines of a character from a Shakespearean play.
• Applies Maimonides' Ladder of Tzedakah to the central themes in a text.
• Applies a rabbinic commentary on "Justice, justice you shall pursue" to the central themes in a
text.
Mathematics
• Compares and orders groups of large numbers, decimals, fractions, percents, and mixed
numbers.
• Converts efficiently between fractions, decimals, and percent representations.
• Understands the meaning and effects of arithmetic operations with fractions, decimals, and
percents.
• Defines negative numbers and performs four arithmetic operations.
• Applies order of operations to simplify expressions with division, subtraction, multiplication,
division, and grouping symbols.
• Solves problems involving scale factors, using ratio and proportion, staying in the same
dimension.
• Develops an initial conceptual understanding of different uses of variables.
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• Recognizes, names, and categorizes three dimensional shapes (prisms, pyramids, cylinders,
cones) and use nets of these shapes.
• Calculates perimeter, area, volume and surface area, as well as memorizes the key formulas
related to these calculations.
• Draws geometric objects with specified properties, such as side lengths or angle measurements.
• Uses two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects to visualize and solves
problems such as those involving surface area and volume.
• Converts between units within the metric system.
• Uses common benchmarks to select appropriate methods for estimating measurements.
• Selects, creates, and uses appropriate graphical representations of data including histograms,
box plots, line plots, and scatter plots.
Jewish Studies
• Explains the process of commentary on the Torah as a literary tradition.
• Employs additional access skills when reading blocks of text independently.
• Discusses holiness in its various contexts in the Tanakh.
• Explains how the holidays connect to the text.
• Articulates rabbinic influences on modern holidays and their observances
• Traces events of the narrative focusing on details and complex themes.
• Recognizes special literary characteristics of the Books of Vayikra and Bamidbar.
• Draws text connections between the Books of Vayikra and Bamidbar to his/her life.
Science
• Follows lab directions and uses equipment correctly.
• Explains the roles and relationships among producers, consumers and decomposers in the
process of energy transfer in a food web.
• Explains and gives examples of ways in which organisms interact and have different functions in
an ecosystem.
• Determines how animals are broken down by other living organisms and how this process
contributes to the system as a whole.
• Understands how human behavior impacts the environment.
• Relates the survival of a species in its ability to adapt.
• Gives examples of ways in which genetic variation and environmental factors are causes of
evolution and the diversity of organisms.
• Recognizes that all organisms are composed of cells and that in one-celled organisms the cell
must carry out all of the basic functions of life.
• Compares and contrasts plant and animal cells, including major organelles.
• Classifies organisms into the currently recognized kingdoms according to the characteristics that
they share.
• Describes the hierarchal organization of multi-cellular organisms from cells to tissues to organs
to systems to organisms.
• Identifies the general functions of the major systems of the human body and describes ways
that these systems interact with each other.
Social Studies
• Explains the political and economic factors that contributed to the American Revolution.
• Explains the influence and ideas of the Declaration of Independence.
• Explains the reasons for the adoption of the Articles of Confederation, including why its drafters
created a weak central government.
• Describes the causes, course, and consequences of America’s westward expansion and its
growing diplomatic assertiveness.
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• Describes the rapid growth of slavery in the South after 1800, and analyzes slave life and the
struggle for freedom on plantations and farms across the South.
• Compares and contrasts the Jewish notion of slavery with the treatment of slaves in Africa.
• Describes how the different cultures and economies of the North and South contributed to the
growing divide in politics between these two regions in the beginning of the 19th century.
• Summarizes the critical developments leading to the Civil War including the Missouri
Compromise, the Dred Scott Supreme Court case, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and the election
of Abraham Lincoln.
• Explains the policies and consequences of Reconstruction.
• Describes how the Industrial Revolution led to the development of a factory economy, and how
the factory economy transformed the Northern states.
Hebrew
• Engages in conversations to provide and obtain information, express likes/dislikes, feelings, and
emotions.
• Tells about personal experiences during transition, feelings and emotions (easy, hard, I
like/dislike…).
• Uses the future tense of Binyan Paal in real life contexts.
• Reads/listens to stories/testimonials of children about their transitions, adjusting and starting
new beginnings.
• Understands the main ideas and many details of authentic texts.
• Uses verbal and nonverbal cues (contextual and morphological) to interpret spoken and written
texts in Hebrew.
• Recounts biographies of famous Jews/Israelis; tells salient facts about the life of a famous
person using a sequence of sentences.
• Reads a biography (semi-authentic) of a person in Jewish/Israeli history, and understands most
of the main points and most of the details.
• Composes interview questions, interviews someone and writes a summary.
• Retells and summarizes stories (paraphrases) he/she reads and understands the main ideas and
details of the stories.
• Reads and comprehends different genres, describes the characters/places in the book,
summarizes the story, creates a dialogue between characters and infers the meaning of
unfamiliar words using contextual clues.
Fitness & Health
• Designs and performs a fitness (or dance) sequence that combines balance and weight transfer
with changes in direction and speed.
• Identifies proper warm-up, cool down and stretching techniques and the reasons for using
them.
• Sets realistic physical activity goals and strives to attain them through participation in activities
of his/her choosing.
• Measures and maintains a heart rate within target heart rate zone for a minimum of 20 minutes
of a physical activity of their choice.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently.
• Seeks physical activity as a positive outlet for competition and social interaction.
• Demonstrates understanding of how to clean and take care of materials and tools.
• Demonstrates understanding of how to use elements of design to create visual effects.
Art
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• Demonstrates interest and engagement in the artistic process through reflective response to
verbal prompts about his/her work.
• Demonstrates understanding of various artistic styles and influences through questions and
prompts.
• Demonstrates understanding of self-reflective practice through drafting and selecting a final
product.
• Demonstrates understanding of Jewish cultural and religious tradition by creating works of
Judaica.
• Demonstrates understanding of Islamic principles of design.
• Demonstrates independence and creative problem solving skills.
• Remains engaged in the project throughout class time.
• Participates in class discussions of artists and artistic styles.
GRADE 7
Language Arts
• Understands and analyzes elements and structures of poetic forms: the sonnet, free verse, the
lyric poem, and the ballad.
• Identifies and understands character development, subtext, soliloquies, and monologues in
plays.
• Compares and contrasts passages from two different pieces of literature.
• Analyzes an author's use of literary techniques, such as symbolism, dramatic irony, the use of
sub-plots, foreshadowing and reversal.
• Recognizes common figures of speech: metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, extended
metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration.
• Explores the theme of how humans treat each other in person-to-person interactions, local
community mores and structures, larger community rights and laws.
• Writes in the following genres: poetry (sonnet, ballad, lyric, free verse); drama (dialogue);
expository writing (persuasive essay, biography, author study).
• Revises work using a variety of editing strategies: condenses text, elaborates text, adjusts
sentence structure, improves word choice to enhance content.
• Constructs a well-developed introductory paragraph that includes background information, a
concession-assertion thesis, and a preview of information.
• Constructs a well-developed conclusion paragraph that includes a restated thesis, a summary of
information, and a clear closing statement.
• Masters correct punctuation (comma, ellipsis, semi-colon, colon, dash, hyphen).
• Identifies and models the four basic types of sentences: simple, complex, compound and
compound-complex.
• Eliminates awkward, incomplete, and run-on sentences.
• Spells correctly and gives precise meanings for 200 grade-appropriate words.
• Gives an oral presentation to a group with attention to content, pace, fluency, eye contact and
voice projection.
• Memorizes and performs a soliloquy from a Shakespearean play.
• Uses rabbinic commentary on the Jewish obligation to care for those within our gates and
outside our gates to the central themes of a text.
• Understands evolution in a Jewish context.
• Understands the struggles and rights of people with disabilities in a Jewish context.
Mathematics
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• Understands and uses ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships including
problems with percents, similarity, and scale.
• Understands large numbers and recognizes and appropriately uses exponential, scientific, and
calculator notation.
• Uses factors, multiples, prime factorization, and relatively prime numbers to solve problems.
• Develops meaning for integers, represents and compares quantities with them, and performs
four operations.
• Understands and applies the properties that govern real number systems (identity, inverse,
commutative, associative).
• Defines sets of numbers (natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational and real).
• Applies the distributive property to expand expressions, factor out common factors, and
combine like terms.
• Develops and use strategies to estimate the results of rational number computations and judge
the reasonableness of the results.
• Represents, analyzes, and generalizes a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and
when possible, symbolic rules.
• Graphs linear equations in a coordinate plane.
• Solves linear equations including those with variables on both sides using the properties of
equality.
• Solves simple problems involving rates and derived measurements for such attributes as velocity
and density.
• Discusses and understands the correspondence between data sets and their graphical
representations, especially histograms, stem-and-leaf plots, box plots, and scatterplots.
• Determines the theoretical and experimental probability of events.
• Describes probabilities quantitatively with decimals, fractions and percentages.
• Models real world events with probability.
Jewish Studies
• Recognizes literary characteristics of the Books of Devarim and Joshua by their identifying
literary devices.
• Draws text connections between Books of Deuteronomy and their lives.
• Draws connections between text and personal experience.
• Compares and contrasts Torah texts that present divergent ideas about the same issue.
• Describes the mitzvah of burying the dead with respect.
• Identifies how the Mishna informs our holiday observances.
• Identifies Mishnaic sources for holiday observances.
• Identifies Megillot and their relationship to themes and practices of the holiday.
Science
• Follows lab directions and uses equipment correctly.
• Uses the scientific method to answer questions, including creating data tables, making
appropriate graphs, and drawing conclusions related to various experiments.
• Differentiates between length, mass, volume and weight and chooses the appropriate
measurement tool and units.
• Explains and gives examples of how motion of an object can be described by its position,
direction, and speed.
• Graphs and interprets distance vs. time graphs for speed.
• Demonstrates the application of Newton's Laws of Motion.
• Recognizes and understands various forms of energy including light, sound and heat.
• Recognizes that heat is a form of energy and describes how heat moves in predictable ways.
• Identifies and compares examples of various transportation systems.
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• Recognizes that gravity is a force that pulls all things on and near Earth toward the center of
Earth.
• Compares and contrasts properties and conditions of objects in the solar system.
• Describes observed moon phases, tides, and lunar and solar eclipses.
• Identifies and explains the steps of the engineering design process and applies the knowledge
to build a prototype.
• Explains how design features such as size, shape, mass, function, and cost limitations would
affect the construction of a given prototype.
Social Studies
• Describes the impact of technology on the expansion of cities at the beginning of the 20th
century.
• Recognizes the period between 1880 and 1930 when more than two million Jews left Europe, as
a major event in Jewish history, and explains the reasons for this huge wave of immigration.
• Analyzes the causes and course of America’s growing role in world affairs from the Civil War to
World War I.
• Explains the course and significance of President Wilson’s wartime diplomacy, including his
Fourteen Points, the League of Nations, and the failure of the Versailles Treaty.
• Analyzes the causes of America's policy of isolationism, and explains how World War I
challenged isolationism.
• Describes the various causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930's including
the Stock Market crash, and analyzes how Americans responded.
• Explains the agricultural and economic damage caused by the Dust Bowl, and the consequences
of the Dust Bowl in relation to the Great Depression.
• Explains how the Great Depression and the New Deal affected American society.
• Describes the origins of the Western government, particularly the law and American legal
system, in Mishna Sanhedrin.
• Identifies the three branches of American government established by the Constitution, and
describes the role that each branch plays in preventing an imbalance of power.
• Identifies the rights given to American citizens in the Bill of Rights and analyzes how the
Supreme Court has interpreted the Bill of Rights differently over the course of American history.
Hebrew
• Engages in conversations to provide and obtain information, express likes/dislikes, feelings, and
emotions.
• Chronicles family stories, such as moving from place to place (country to country), relatives'
special successes, adventures, life stories, etc., in chronological order.
• Tells how family traditions started.
• Tells a number of historical facts from the historical periods in which relatives lived.
• Compares and contrasts past and present family traditions, places of residence, and family
structure using past, present and future tenses.
• Understands different aspects of a book – characters, plot, etc.
• Expresses wishes or predictions for their family’s future, such as family structure, where they
will live, their professions, etc.
• Reads and/or listens to and understands the main ideas and supporting details from texts about
family histories. Takes notes while listening to other students’ stories.
Spanish
• Says greetings, introduces him/herself, tells time, date, weather and seasons.
• Uses the verbs "ser" and "estar" (to be) appropriately.
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• Describes objects in the classroom; uses the appropriate definite and indefinite articles; singular
and plural of articles and adjectives.
• Engages in a conversation regarding what there is, what they have or what they need in the
classroom and in school.
• Uses the question words: what, how, who, when, which and how many.
• Uses subject pronouns and adjectives to describe characteristics.
• Expresses likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements and uses the indirect object
pronoun appropriately.
• Engages in conversations to express interest in activities in his/her daily life.
• Knows vocabulary to express hunger, thirst, likes, dislikes and preferences.
• Names location of activities in his/her daily life.
• Engages in conversation to order food in a restaurant.
• Knows the food pyramid and activities to keep healthy.
• Comprehends the meaning and conjugates regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs.
• Engages in a conversation with Spanish-speaking students to introduce and describe
himself/herself, express likes and dislikes, order food, invite friends to join activities, ask time,
give date, season and describe weather.
• Arrives in class prepared with homework completed.
• Participates and is engaged in class.
Fitness & Health
• Demonstrates skills and movements needed in offensive and defensive game-play.
• Explains the importance of maintaining spatial awareness for positioning and relevant strategies
in game-play and related activities.
• Maintains a physical activity log documenting progress toward achievement of personal goals.
• Meets the age-and gender-specific health-related fitness standards defined by Fitnessgram and
formulates meaningful personal fitness goals based on the results.
• Demonstrates appropriate decision making skills to resolve conflicts arising from the powerful
influence of peers and the conflicts that arise in competitive activities.
• Recognizes the avenues of self-expression provided by physical activity.
Art
• Demonstrates understanding of how to clean and take care of materials and tools.
• Demonstrates understanding of how to use elements of design such as value to create visual
effects.
• Demonstrates interest and engagement in the artistic process through reflective response to
verbal prompts about her/his work.
• Demonstrates understanding of various artistic styles and influences through questions and
prompts.
• Demonstrates understanding of self-reflective practice through drafting and selecting a final
product.
• Demonstrates understanding of Jewish cultural and religious tradition by creating works of
Judaica.
• Demonstrates independence and creative problem solving skills.
• Remains engaged in the project throughout class time.
• Participates in class discussions of artists and artistic styles.
GRADE 8
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Language Arts
• Reads and discusses short stories, drama, memoir, nonfiction, and fiction in depth.
• Identifies and articulates the author's purpose and point of view in a short story, a play, a
memoir, and a novel.
• Identifies and communicates the theme of the limits and possibilities of forgiveness within a text
or texts.
• Identifies and communicates how race, class, gender, culture, and religion are explored within a
text or texts.
• Understands philosophical texts by questioning, predicting, visualizing, inferring, summarizing,
synthesizing new and prior information.
• Initiates his/her own research, narrows the area of inquiry, and frames research questions.
• Writes comparisons of texts with reference to theme, language, narrative structure, and point of
view.
• Writes a multi-paragraph interpretation of a literary or informational text using textual evidence
as support.
• Writes a persuasive multi-paragraph composition that demonstrates originality in analysis by
drawing from multiple sources to support an argument.
• Translates first-hand experiences into a piece of fictional writing.
• Spells correctly and gives precise meanings for 200 grade-appropriate words.
• Correctly identifies and constructs independent and dependent clauses, prepositional phrases,
direct objects, and indirect objects.
• Tracks and responds to information presented orally in a debate.
• Performs a Shakespearean scene as part of an ensemble.
• Reads and understands different representations of the Holocaust (poetry, historical fiction,
biographies, autobiographies).
• Applies the Jewish teachings on forgiveness and repentance to the central themes of a text
(includes Maimonides).
Mathematics
• Understands absolute value as distance.
• Understands exponent rules, including negative and fractional (roots).
• Translates between words and symbols.
• Uses symbolic algebra to represent situations and to solve problems, especially those that
involve linear relationships.
• Recognizes and generates equivalent forms for simple algebraic expressions and solve linear
equations. Uses graphs to analyze the nature of changes in quantities in linear relationships.
• Explores relationships between symbolic expressions and graphs of lines, paying particular
attention to the meaning of intercept and slope.
• Solves systems of equations and systems of inequalities.
• Recognizes and solves inverse functions.
• Solves quadratic equations.
• Adds/subtracts polynomials.
• Multiplies/divides polynomials.
• Factors polynomials.
• Creates and critiques inductive and deductive arguments concerning geometric ideas and
relationships, such as congruence, similarity, and the Pythagorean relationship.
• Uses coordinate geometry to represent and examine the properties of geometric shapes.
• Makes conjectures about possible relationships between two characteristics of a sample on the
basis of scatterplots of the data and approximate lines of fit.
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Jewish Studies
• Explains how biblical stories respond to issues of ultimate concern.
• Identifies rabbinic sources for Jewish ethical behavior.
• Identifies Torah sources for Jewish ethical behavior.
• Uses a concordance when exploring the significance of a particular word or phrase in TaNaKH.
• Reads and comprehends blocks of verses from the TaNaKH in Hebrew.
• Understands the Reform movement and its evolution in terms of halachic practice.
• Differentiates between the different movements in Judaism and their practices.
• Differentiates between secular and religious practice in Israel.
• Differentiates between different aspects of Jewish life as impacted by living inside Israel and
outside Israel.
Science
• Follows lab directions and uses equipment correctly.
• Uses the scientific method to answer questions, including creating data tables, making
appropriate graphs, and drawing conclusions related to various experiments.
• Uses the Periodic Table of Elements to determine properties of elements.
• Differentiates and gives examples of elements and molecules.
• Draws and describes the parts of an atom.
• Differentiates between physical and chemical changes.
• Explains how the movements of the Earth's crustal plates cause both slow and rapid changes in
the Earth's surface.
• Explains and gives examples of how physical evidence, such as fossils and surface features of
glaciation, support theories that the Earth has evolved over geologic time.
• Describes and gives examples of ways in which the Earth's surface is built up and torn down by
natural processes.
• Explains how design features such as size, shape, mass, function, and cost limitations would
affect the construction of a given prototype.
• Understands the properties of acids and bases and can explain the chemical reactions between
them.
• Identifies specific organs of a frog and understands how human body systems work together.
• Identifies and explains the steps of the engineering design process and applies the knowledge
to build a prototype.
Social Studies
• Weighs the intent and impact of American policies in World War II.
• Discusses important domestic events that took place during World War II and their impact on
American society.
• Analyzes how German aggression in Europe and Japanese aggression in Asia contributed to the
start of World War II and summarizes the major events of the war.
• Recognizes and describes the unique set of circumstances that allowed Hitler’s rise to power and
how he used legal means to take civil rights away from those he perceived as enemies of the
Third Reich.
• Compares and contrasts the main tenets of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and explains the
significance of Israel to each religion.
• Explains how identities, both of individuals and of nations, are formed and defined, and explains
the significance of those definitions: explains how democracy, race, and nationalism shape how
nations define their identities.
• Describes the decisions that resulted in the Holocaust, and relates those decisions to modern
day issues of racism, anti-Semitism, violence, and conformity.
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• Applies principles of moral and legal judgment in establishing responsibility for crimes against
humanity.
• Describes actions that could contribute to the prevention of future crimes against humanity
including: how we remember the past; how those memories shape the present and future, and
the choice to engage in acts of good citizenship.
• Examines the meaning of the word “infidel” from the perspectives of Christians, Jews, and
Muslims at the time of the Crusades and in modern context.
• Explains factors contributing to the creation of Israel as a Jewish state.
• Explains the roots of Zionism, and describes the mission of Zionism: a national movement to
ensure the return of the Jewish people to their homeland in the state of Israel.
• Describes modern Israel including political parties and structures, population and religious
diversity, cultural life (the arts), languages, food, recreation, and architecture.
Hebrew
• Engages in conversations to provide and obtain information, express likes/dislikes, feelings, and
emotions.
• Describes places of origin and places of resettlement in Israel (kibbutz, absorption center).
Student is able to describe correct data about places in Israel.
• Describes people of Israel, who they are, when and where they were born, their family,
professions, hobbies, places of employment, and special attributes.
• Describes historical and biographical facts. Tells a number of historical facts from the historical
periods people lived in (what happened during that time).
• Describes the challenges people faced when relocating and adjusting to a new country/culture,
etc., using past tense (“They had to … They lived in … They didn’t have …”)
• Tells/chronicles family stories of relocation, such as moving from place to place (country to
country), adventures, etc., in chronological order.
• Compares different periods of immigration, different places of origin and settlement and
immigration at different ages.
• Describes the geography of Israel.
• Reads, comprehends and analyzes different genres of literature and uses future tenses to
prepare for next school experiences in written and oral presentations.
• Reads newspapers for students and is familiar with current events.
• Exchanges information about topics of personal interest with native speakers.
• Handles situations of buying and ordering food.
• Plans a trip of imaginary travel.
Spanish
• Comprehends the meaning and conjugates regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs.
• Engages in a conversation with Spanish-speaking students to introduce and describe
him/herself, express likes and dislikes, order food, invite friends to join in activities, ask time,
give date, season and describe weather.
• Expresses possession, uses: prepositions, indirect object pronouns, possessive adjectives, and
demonstrative adjectives.
• Uses vocabulary around themes of family, planning celebrations and different chores to do
around these themes.
• Makes comparisons and uses adjectives of physical description
• Uses idiomatic expressions with "tener" and "hacer."
• Masters the difference between "ser" and "estar."
• Engages in a conversation regarding the chores of the house, uses commands and progressive
regular verbs.
• Comprehends the meaning and conjugates the preterit of the regular -ar, -er, and -ir verbs.
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• Engages in a conversation to express shopping needs, likes, dislikes, agreement and
disagreement.
• Conjugates stem changing verbs.
• Produces and completes two paragraphs in Spanish on a given topic of previous vocabulary
exposure.
• Reads a short story and responds appropriately to questions asked in the target language
regarding the story.
• Talks and writes about traveling - places he/she has been, activities, detailed information about
when, where, how, and with whom.
• Arrives in class prepared with homework completed.
• Participates and is engaged in class.
Fitness & Health
• Demonstrates advanced proficiency and mature form in the basic skills of fitness activities,
games and specialized sports.
• Demonstrates ability to use information from a variety of sources, both internal and external, to
guide students in their pursuit of a healthy lifestyle.
• Develops, implements and assesses personal fitness plan.
• Participates in activities designed to improve or maintain muscular strength and endurance,
flexibility, cardio respiratory endurance, and body composition both during and outside school.
• Through verbal and nonverbal behavior, demonstrates cooperation with peers by seeking out,
participating with and showing respect for differing personalities, gender and abilities.
• Analyzes selected physical experiences for social, emotional and health benefits.
Art
• Demonstrates understanding of how to clean and take care of materials and tools.
• Demonstrates understanding of how to use elements of design such as contour, perspective,
and proportion to create visual effects.
• Demonstrates interest and engagement in the artistic process through reflective response to
verbal prompts about his/her work.
• Demonstrates understanding of various artistic styles and influences through questions and
prompts.
• Demonstrates understanding of self-reflective practice through drafting and selecting a final
product.
• Demonstrates understanding of the design influence of traditional African maskmaking.
• Demonstrates understanding of Jewish cultural and religious tradition by creating works of
Judaica.
• Demonstrates independence and creative problem solving skills.
• Remains engaged in the project throughout class time.
• Participates in class discussions of artists and artistic styles.
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