Standards map

11th grade: standards by week

Every week of the 11th grade plan, with the skills taught and the standards they practice: Common Core for reading, writing and math, NGSS for science, and the C3 Framework for social studies. Use it to plan, to match another curriculum, or for a homeschool record.

139 standards codes across 36 weeks and 180 day plans. Open the 11th grade plan · Year at a glance · Other grades

September: Welcome / Foundations and Documents

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 1 Stories of Beginnings	Word study: Latin roots ver (truth) and cred (believe); connotation of credible, credulous and incredulous. Reading & writing: Set up annotation, reading logs and the analysis notebook; read the Haudenosaunee creation story and Thanksgiving Address; cite strong evidence in a claim, evidence, commentary paragraph. Math: Algebra 1 review: multi-step and literal equations, compound inequalities and absolute value equations and inequalities. Science: Lab safety, the scientific method, SI units, scientific notation and significant figures; the pendulum investigation. Social studies: Primary and secondary sources and sourcing; physical geography of the United States and how it shaped settlement.	`L.11-12.4b, L.11-12.5b` `RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2, W.11-12.9a` `HSA-REI.B.3, HSA-CED.A.4` `HSN-Q.A.3, HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.11.9-12, D2.Geo.2.9-12`
Week 2 Encounters and Accounts	Word study: Latin roots duc/duct (lead) and pel/puls (drive, push). Reading & writing: Compare accounts of encounter: Cabeza de Vaca's La Relación and John Smith's Generall Historie; evaluate point of view and reliability; embed quotations in analysis. Math: Functions: definition, vertical line test, function notation, domain and range, and average rate of change. Science: Distance and displacement, speed and velocity; position-time graphs from a walking lab. Social studies: Native nations before 1492 (Cahokia, Ancestral Puebloans, Haudenosaunee Confederacy), the Columbian Exchange, and Spanish and French colonies.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.6, RL.11-12.1, W.11-12.9b` `HSF-IF.A.1, HSF-IF.A.2, HSF-IF.B.5, HSF-IF.B.6` `HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.1.9-12, D2.Geo.6.9-12`
Week 3 Covenants and Colonies	Word study: Latin roots fid (faith, trust) and pac (peace): the vocabulary of covenants and treaties. Reading & writing: Puritan writing: Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation and the Mayflower Compact, Anne Bradstreet's poems; plan a literary analysis essay. Math: Parent functions and transformations: shifts, reflections and stretches; write an equation from a graph. Science: Acceleration; velocity-time graphs (slope is acceleration, area is displacement); the ramp lab. Social studies: Jamestown (1607), the House of Burgesses and the first enslaved Africans in Virginia (1619); New England, Middle and Southern colonies compared.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.1, RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.9, W.11-12.2` `HSF-BF.B.3, HSF-IF.C.7b` `HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.1.9-12, D2.Geo.4.9-12`
Week 4 Voices in Chains and in Print	Word study: Latin roots ject (throw) and voc/vok (voice, call). Reading & writing: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative and Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative: purpose, audience and perspective; finish and publish the literary analysis essay. Math: Piecewise and absolute value functions, step functions, and inverse functions; unit 1 check. Science: The kinematic equations; free fall and reaction time labs. Social studies: The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the colonies, the Stono Rebellion (1739), colonial self-government, the Zenger trial and the Great Awakening.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.6, RL.11-12.1, W.11-12.2, W.11-12.5` `HSF-IF.C.7b, HSF-BF.B.4a` `HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.His.4.9-12`

October: Fall / Colonial to Revolution

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 5 Sermons and Suspicion	Word study: Latin roots sanct/sacr (holy) and pen/pun (punish, regret). Reading & writing: Jonathan Edwards's 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' and the Salem witch trial records: imagery, purpose and the theme of fear in a community; analytical paragraphs. Math: Quadratic functions in standard, vertex and factored form; axis of symmetry, vertex, zeros and y-intercept; projectile models. Science: Scalars and vectors, adding vectors head to tail, components with sine and cosine, and relative velocity. Social studies: The French and Indian War (1754 to 1763), the Albany Plan of Union and the Proclamation of 1763 from British, colonial and Native perspectives.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.4, RI.11-12.6, W.11-12.9b` `HSF-IF.C.7a, HSF-IF.C.8a, HSF-IF.B.4` `HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.4.9-12`
Week 6 The Self-Made Citizen	Word study: Latin roots bene (good, well) and mal (bad). Reading & writing: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, the thirteen virtues and 'The Way to Wealth': character, persona and irony; plan a theme and character essay. Math: Solve quadratic equations by factoring, square roots, completing the square and the quadratic formula. Science: Projectile motion: horizontal launches and launches at an angle; the marble launch lab. Social studies: The Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts and the First Continental Congress.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.6, RI.11-12.6, W.11-12.2` `HSA-REI.B.4a, HSA-REI.B.4b, HSA-SSE.B.3b` `HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.11.9-12`
Week 7 Common Sense and Independence	Word study: Latin roots rupt (break) and volv/volut (roll, turn). Reading & writing: Thomas Paine's Common Sense and The American Crisis No. 1, and the Declaration of Independence as an argument; draft the theme essay body. Math: Complex numbers: i, powers of i, operations, conjugates, quadratics with complex solutions and the discriminant. Science: Newton's first law (inertia) and second law (F = ma); free-body diagrams; the shoebox and spring scale lab. Social studies: Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress, Bunker Hill, the Olive Branch Petition and the Declaration of Independence.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.5, RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.9, W.11-12.2` `HSN-CN.A.1, HSN-CN.A.2, HSN-CN.C.7` `HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.16.9-12`
Week 8 Voices of the Revolution	Word study: Latin roots jur/jus (law, swear) and dict (say). Reading & writing: Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention, Phillis Wheatley's poem and letter to Samson Occom, and Abigail Adams's 'Remember the Ladies' letter; liberty and who is included; publish the theme essay. Math: Modeling with quadratics (projectiles in feet, area), linear-quadratic systems and the unit 2 check. Science: Newton's third law, mass and weight, apparent weight in an elevator; unit check on Newton's laws. Social studies: The Revolutionary War: Valley Forge, Saratoga and the French alliance, Loyalists, Black Americans, Native nations and women, Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.2, RI.11-12.6, RL.11-12.9, W.11-12.5` `HSA-CED.A.1, HSA-REI.C.7, HSF-IF.B.4` `HS-PS2-1` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12, D2.His.14.9-12`

November: Family and Gratitude / Early Republic

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 9 A More Perfect Union	Word study: Greek roots dem (people), crat/cracy (rule) and arch (rule, chief): the vocabulary of government. Reading & writing: Federalist No. 10 and Brutus No. 1: the rhetorical situation, how Madison defines faction, and how each writer reasons; rhetorical analysis paragraphs. Math: Polynomials: vocabulary, adding, subtracting and multiplying, end behavior, and graphing from zeros and multiplicity. Science: Static and kinetic friction, forces on inclined planes, and Newton's law of universal gravitation. Social studies: The Articles of Confederation, Shays' Rebellion, the Northwest Ordinance and the Constitutional Convention's compromises.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.4, RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.8, W.11-12.9b` `HSA-APR.A.1, HSA-APR.B.3, HSF-IF.C.7c` `HS-PS2-1, HS-PS2-4` `C3 D2.Civ.4.9-12, D2.His.14.9-12`
Week 10 Appeals to the Nation	Word study: Greek roots path (feeling), log (word, reason) and eth (character): the names of the appeals. Reading & writing: Benjamin Banneker's letter to Jefferson and Jefferson's reply, Judith Sargent Murray's 'On the Equality of the Sexes' and Washington's Farewell Address; draft a full rhetorical analysis essay. Math: Polynomial long and synthetic division, the Remainder and Factor Theorems, and the Rational Root Theorem. Science: Momentum and impulse; the egg-drop design challenge begins. Social studies: Constitutional principles, the ratification debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and the Bill of Rights.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.8, W.11-12.2, W.11-12.9b` `HSA-APR.B.2, HSA-APR.B.3` `HS-PS2-2, HS-PS2-3` `C3 D2.Civ.4.9-12, D2.Civ.3.9-12`
Week 11 Proclamations of Gratitude	Word study: Latin root grat (thanks, pleasing, free) and its family. Reading & writing: Thanksgiving proclamations by Washington (1789) and Lincoln (1863), Sarah Josepha Hale's letter to Lincoln, and the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address revisited; finish and publish the rhetorical analysis essay. Math: Polynomial identities, sums and differences of cubes, factoring by grouping and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra; unit 3 check. Science: Conservation of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions, and testing the egg-drop designs. Social studies: Washington's presidency, Hamilton and Jefferson, the first parties, the election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison and how Thanksgiving became a national holiday.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.9, W.11-12.2, W.11-12.5` `HSA-APR.C.4, HSA-SSE.A.2, HSN-CN.C.9` `HS-PS2-2, HS-PS2-3` `C3 D2.His.1.9-12, D2.Civ.4.9-12`

December: Winter Holidays / Expansion

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 12 Tales of the New Nation	Word study: Latin roots luc/lumin (light) and noct (night). Reading & writing: Washington Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow': satire, frame narrator, setting, mood and ambiguity; begin an original short story. Math: Rational expressions: simplify with restrictions, multiply, divide, add, subtract and simplify complex fractions. Science: Work, kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy; the bounce lab. Social studies: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition and the War of 1812.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.5, RL.11-12.6, W.11-12.3` `HSA-APR.D.6, HSA-APR.D.7` `HS-PS3-1, HS-PS3-2` `C3 D2.His.1.9-12, D2.Geo.5.9-12`
Week 13 Dark Romantics	Word study: Latin roots mort (death) and spec/spect (look). Reading & writing: Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Raven' and Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown': unreliable narration, unity of effect, sound devices and allegory; draft the story's middle and climax. Math: Inverse variation and rational functions: transformations of 1/x, vertical and horizontal asymptotes, holes and intercepts. Science: Conservation of mechanical energy, energy with friction, and power. Social studies: Jacksonian democracy, the Bank War and the Nullification Crisis, and the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.5, W.11-12.3` `HSA-CED.A.2, HSF-IF.C.7d` `HS-PS3-1, HS-PS3-2` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12, D2.Civ.10.9-12`
Week 14 Self-Reliance and Manifest Destiny	Word study: Latin roots sol (alone) and nat/nasc (born). Reading & writing: Emerson's 'Self-Reliance', Thoreau's Walden and 'Civil Disobedience'; semester literature review; revise and publish the short story; portfolio reflection. Math: Rational equations and extraneous solutions, work-rate and distance-rate problems; semester review and exam. Science: Efficiency and energy transformations; design a device that converts energy; semester physics review. Social studies: Manifest Destiny, the Oregon Trail, Texas and the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and how American holiday traditions grew in the 1800s.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.2, RI.11-12.3, RL.11-12.9, W.11-12.3, W.11-12.5` `HSA-REI.A.2, HSA-CED.A.1` `HS-PS3-3, HS-PS3-1` `C3 D2.His.1.9-12, D2.His.6.9-12`

January: New Year / Industrialization

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 15 Mills, Canals and Local Color	Word study: Latin roots fract/frag (break). Reading & writing: Realism and local color: Mark Twain's 'The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'; begin an informative research paper with a topic and research questions. Math: Exponential growth and decay models y = a·bˣ; growth factors, percent rates and models from two points. Science: Periodic motion (period, frequency, amplitude) and transverse and longitudinal waves. Social studies: Early industrialization: Slater's mill, the Lowell mills, the Erie Canal, railroads, the cotton gin and the expansion of slavery.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.6, W.11-12.7, W.11-12.2` `HSF-LE.A.1, HSF-LE.A.2, HSF-IF.C.8b` `HS-PS4-1` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.Eco.1.9-12`
Week 16 Reformers and Rafts	Word study: Latin root port (carry). Reading & writing: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, opening chapters: voice, the river and satire, with careful, respectful discussion of the novel's racial language and history; take notes from sources. Math: Compound interest, the number e and continuous growth; graphs of exponential functions. Science: Wave properties: frequency, wavelength, speed and v = fλ. Social studies: The Second Great Awakening and reform: temperance, public schools, Dorothea Dix, abolition and the Seneca Falls Convention.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.6, W.11-12.8` `HSF-LE.A.2, HSF-IF.C.7e, HSF-BF.B.3` `HS-PS4-1` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.Civ.14.9-12`
Week 17 A House Dividing	Word study: Latin root scrib/script and Greek root graph (write). Reading & writing: Finish Huckleberry Finn: Huck's decision in chapter 31, the ending debate and reception in 1885; continue drafting the research paper. Math: Logarithms as inverses of exponentials, properties of logarithms, common and natural logs, and logarithmic scales. Science: Sound waves: speed of sound, pitch and frequency, loudness and the decibel scale. Social studies: The Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, W.11-12.2` `HSF-BF.B.5, HSF-LE.A.4` `HS-PS4-1` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.15.9-12`
Week 18 The Union Breaks	Word study: Latin root sequ/secu (follow). Reading & writing: Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge': structure, point of view and the twist ending; revise, edit and publish the research paper. Math: Solve exponential and logarithmic equations; half-life and doubling time; unit check. Science: Interference, standing waves, resonance and the Doppler effect. Social studies: Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid, the election of 1860 and secession.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.5, RL.11-12.3, W.11-12.5, W.11-12.7` `HSF-LE.A.4, HSA-CED.A.1` `HS-PS4-1` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.16.9-12`

February: Friendship / Civil War Era

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 19 Learning to Read, Learning to Fight	Word study: Latin roots liber (free) and serv (serve, slave). Reading & writing: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), chapters on learning to read: evidence and analysis of how literacy and freedom connect. Math: Systems of linear equations in two variables by graphing, substitution and elimination; applications. Science: Light as an electromagnetic wave; the spectrum; c = fλ. Social studies: Fort Sumter, the resources of the North and the South, early battles and Antietam.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.3, W.11-12.9b` `HSA-REI.C.6, HSA-CED.A.3` `HS-PS4-1, HS-PS4-3` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.Geo.2.9-12`
Week 20 Whose Fourth of July?	Word study: Latin root loqu/locut (speak). Reading & writing: Douglass's speech 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' (1852): rhetorical analysis of structure, irony and appeals. Math: Systems of equations in three variables by elimination. Science: Reflection: the law of reflection, plane mirrors and curved mirrors. Social studies: The Emancipation Proclamation, Black soldiers in the Union Army, Gettysburg and Vicksburg.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.9, W.11-12.2` `HSA-REI.C.6, HSA-CED.A.3` `HS-PS4-1` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.His.14.9-12`
Week 21 A New Birth of Freedom	Word study: Latin root cor/cord (heart). Reading & writing: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address: purpose, structure, diction and themes in foundational documents. Math: Matrices: dimensions, addition, scalar multiplication and matrix multiplication. Science: Refraction, index of refraction, Snell's law and lenses. Social studies: Total war, Sherman's march, the election of 1864, Appomattox, Lincoln's assassination and the Thirteenth Amendment.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.9, RI.11-12.5, RI.11-12.6` `HSN-VM.C.6, HSN-VM.C.7, HSN-VM.C.8` `HS-PS4-1` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.Civ.4.9-12`
Week 22 Reconstruction and Two Poets	Word study: Latin root anim (life, mind, spirit). Reading & writing: Walt Whitman (selections from Song of Myself and 'O Captain! My Captain!') and Emily Dickinson ('Because I could not stop for Death' and 'Hope is the thing with feathers'): form, voice and figurative language. Math: Inverse matrices to solve systems and linear programming with constraints; unit check. Science: Color and dispersion, diffraction and polarization; optics lab report. Social studies: Reconstruction: the Freedmen's Bureau, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, Black officeholders, Black Codes and violence, the Compromise of 1877 and Jim Crow.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.5, RL.11-12.9` `HSA-REI.C.9, HSA-REI.D.12, HSA-CED.A.3` `HS-PS4-1, HS-PS4-3` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12, D2.Civ.14.9-12`

March: Spring / Progressive Era

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 23 Open Boats and Open Hearths	Word study: Latin root fort (strong). Reading & writing: Naturalism: Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat': indifferent nature, point of view and theme. Math: Arithmetic sequences: explicit and recursive formulas. Science: Electric charge, conductors and insulators, static electricity and Coulomb's law. Social studies: The Gilded Age: railroads, Carnegie and Rockefeller, labor unions and strikes (Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman), presented from several perspectives.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.6` `HSF-IF.A.3, HSF-BF.A.2, HSF-LE.A.2` `HS-PS2-4, HS-PS3-5` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12, D2.Eco.1.9-12`
Week 24 Building a Fire, Building a City	Word study: Latin roots urb (city) and migr (move). Reading & writing: Jack London's 'To Build a Fire': naturalism, foreshadowing and the man versus nature conflict; analysis paragraphs. Math: Geometric sequences: explicit and recursive formulas and exponential connections. Science: Current, voltage and resistance; Ohm's law; simple circuits. Social studies: New immigration: Ellis Island, Angel Island, the Chinese Exclusion Act, cities, tenements and Jacob Riis.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.5` `HSF-IF.A.3, HSF-BF.A.2, HSF-LE.A.2` `HS-PS3-1, HS-PS2-5` `C3 D2.Geo.7.9-12, D2.His.3.9-12`
Week 25 Muckrakers	Word study: Latin root tract (pull, draw). Reading & writing: Muckraking: excerpts from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company; purpose and impact. Math: Arithmetic and geometric series, sigma notation and sum formulas. Science: Series and parallel circuits: total resistance, current and voltage. Social studies: Progressive reforms: Theodore Roosevelt's trust-busting, the Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments and the Federal Reserve.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.7, W.11-12.1` `HSA-SSE.B.4, HSF-BF.A.2` `HS-PS3-1` `C3 D2.Civ.14.9-12, D2.Eco.8.9-12`
Week 26 Voices for Change	Word study: Latin root equ (equal). Reading & writing: Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': irony, point of view and theme; finish the argument essay. Math: Infinite geometric series and applications; unit check. Science: Electric power P = VI, energy in kilowatt-hours, cost and household electrical safety. Social studies: Women's suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment; Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells and the NAACP.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.6, RL.11-12.2, W.11-12.1` `HSA-SSE.B.4` `HS-PS3-1, HS-PS3-3` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12, D2.Civ.14.9-12`

April: Earth and Environment / 20th Century

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 27 Over There	Word study: Latin roots bell (war) and ced/ceed (go, yield). Reading & writing: Early modernism and the Great War: Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' and Alan Seeger's 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death'; launch a research project on the Harlem Renaissance or modernism. Math: Data displays, mean, median, standard deviation and outliers; comparing distributions. Science: Magnets, magnetic fields and field lines; Earth's magnetic field and compasses. Social studies: World War I: causes, American neutrality, the Lusitania, the Zimmermann telegram, entry in 1917, the home front, the Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles debate.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.9, W.11-12.7` `HSS-ID.A.1, HSS-ID.A.2, HSS-ID.A.3` `HS-PS2-5, HS-PS3-5` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.4.9-12`
Week 28 The Jazz Age	Word study: Latin root temp/tempor (time). Reading & writing: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (public domain since 2021), Langston Hughes's 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Claude McKay's 'If We Must Die'; research notes and drafting. Math: The normal distribution, the 68-95-99.7 rule and z-scores. Science: Electromagnetism: an electric current makes a magnetic field; build an electromagnet. Social studies: The 1920s: the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration quotas, the consumer economy and the 1929 crash.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.9, W.11-12.7` `HSS-ID.A.4` `HS-PS2-5` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12, D2.Eco.1.9-12`
Week 29 Hard Times	Word study: Latin root fin (end, limit). Reading & writing: Finish The Great Gatsby: the ending, symbolism and the American Dream; revise the research paper. Math: Sampling methods, bias, surveys, observational studies and experiments. Science: Electromagnetic induction; how motors and generators work. Social studies: The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and the New Deal; GDP, unemployment and fiscal and monetary policy, with arguments for and against New Deal programs presented fairly.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.5, W.11-12.5` `HSS-IC.A.1, HSS-IC.B.3` `HS-PS2-5, HS-PS3-3` `C3 D2.Eco.11.9-12, D2.Eco.12.9-12, D2.His.14.9-12`
Week 30 A World at War	Word study: Latin root cid/cis (cut). Reading & writing: Present research projects; Franklin Roosevelt's 'Four Freedoms' address (1941): rhetorical analysis. Math: Margin of error, simulation and comparing two treatments with randomization; unit check. Science: Earth Day: how power plants and renewable sources generate electricity; an energy design challenge. Social studies: World War II: the rise of dictators, Pearl Harbor, the home front, Japanese American incarceration, D-Day, the Holocaust and the atomic bombings, taught factually and respectfully.	`L.11-12.4b` `SL.11-12.4, RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.8` `HSS-IC.B.4, HSS-IC.B.5, HSS-IC.B.6` `HS-PS3-3, HS-ETS1-3` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.4.9-12`

May: Oceans / Modern America

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 31 Witch Hunts and the Cold War	Word study: Greek roots phob (fear) and phil (love). Reading & writing: The Crucible by Arthur Miller (in copyright: read the play, discuss, no long quotations) as an allegory of McCarthyism; theme and character. Math: Radian measure and the unit circle; exact values of sine and cosine. Science: Light as wave and particle: photons and the photoelectric effect. Social studies: The early Cold War: the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, NATO, the Korean War and McCarthyism.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.3, RL.11-12.7` `HSF-TF.A.1, HSF-TF.A.2` `HS-PS4-3` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.Civ.10.9-12`
Week 32 Letters and Marches	Word study: Latin roots civ/cit (citizen). Reading & writing: Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' (in copyright: read it, analyze structure and choices, quote only short phrases): rhetorical analysis. Math: Graphs of sine and cosine: amplitude, period and midline. Science: Nuclear physics: fission, fusion, half-life and radioactive decay. Social studies: The civil rights movement: Brown v. Board, the Montgomery bus boycott, Little Rock, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the March on Washington and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.	`L.11-12.4b` `RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.8, W.11-12.2` `HSF-IF.C.7e, HSF-TF.B.5` `HS-PS1-8` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.Civ.14.9-12`
Week 33 Tides and Turning Points	Word study: Latin root mar (sea) and Greek/Latin naut/nav (ship, sail). Reading & writing: Contemporary voices: choose short fiction or poetry by writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, Julia Alvarez or Li-Young Lee (titles and authors only); identity and point of view; literary analysis essay. Math: Modeling periodic phenomena such as tides; the Pythagorean identity. Science: Engineering design: design, build and test a boat or a wave-energy device; buoyancy and criteria and constraints. Social studies: The Vietnam War, the Great Society, the women's movement, the farmworkers' movement (including the Coachella Valley) and Watergate.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.2, RL.11-12.6, W.11-12.2` `HSF-TF.B.5, HSF-TF.C.8` `HS-ETS1-2, HS-ETS1-3` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.Civ.14.9-12`
Week 34 Global Connections	Word study: Latin root nov (new). Reading & writing: Publish the literary analysis essay; spring fluency check and independent reading reflections. Math: Trigonometric functions review and cumulative Algebra 2 review; unit check. Science: Test and refine the ocean design and write the engineering report; modern physics review. Social studies: The end of the Cold War, globalization, the digital age and September 11, 2001; global connections today.	`L.11-12.4b` `W.11-12.5, RL.11-12.10, SL.11-12.4` `HSF-TF.A.2, HSF-TF.B.5, HSF-IF.C.7e` `HS-ETS1-3, HS-ETS1-4` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.Eco.15.9-12`

June: Review and Celebration

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 35 Looking Back	Word study: Review of the year's Greek and Latin roots. Reading & writing: Mixed review: theme, rhetoric and craft across the year's texts; independent reading book talks. Math: Mixed review and real-world applications of Algebra 2. Science: Lab investigations review: motion, forces, energy, waves, circuits and magnetism. Social studies: My year in review: build a timeline from Native nations to the present.	`L.11-12.4b` `RL.11-12.9, RI.11-12.9, SL.11-12.4` `HSA-CED.A.1, HSF-IF.B.4` `HS-PS2-1, HS-PS3-1, HS-PS4-1` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12, D2.His.16.9-12`
Week 36 Celebration	Word study: Celebrate vocabulary growth: favorite words of the year. Reading & writing: Portfolio showcase and readings of favorite pieces. Math: Algebra 2 in the real world: present one application project. Science: Physics fair: demonstrate one investigation from the year. Social studies: My year in review: present a historical argument on the question 'What makes America change?'	`L.11-12.6` `SL.11-12.4, W.11-12.10` `HSA-CED.A.2, HSF-BF.A.1` `HS-ETS1-3` `C3 D2.His.16.9-12`

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