Standards map

9th grade: standards by week

Every week of the 9th 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.

121 standards codes across 36 weeks and 180 day plans. Open the 9th grade plan · Year at a glance · Other grades

September: Welcome / Foundations and Maps

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 1 Reading Like a Detective	Word study: Latin root scrib/script (write) and Greek root graph (write, draw). Students break words into parts and use the parts to predict meaning. Reading & writing: Cite evidence and make inferences in a suspense story (The Most Dangerous Game), track how the author builds tension, and write a claim-evidence-explanation paragraph. Math: Name parts of an expression (term, coefficient, constant, factor), evaluate expressions with the order of operations, translate words into expressions and interpret expressions in context. Science: The scientific method: observation vs inference, testable questions, hypotheses, independent, dependent and controlled variables, and a heart rate investigation about homeostasis. Social studies: The five themes of geography, latitude and longitude, map types and projections, and why early civilizations grew along rivers.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.5, W.9-10.1` `HSA-SSE.A.1` `HS-LS1-3` `C3 D2.Geo.1.9-12, D2.Geo.2.9-12`
Week 2 Questions and Sources	Word study: Latin roots spec/spect (look) and vis/vid (see). Students notice how prefixes change the direction of looking (inspect, retrospect, prospect). Reading & writing: Analyze narrator and point of view in The Necklace and The Tell-Tale Heart, explain how structure and pacing create effects, and write an objective summary. Math: Use the commutative, associative and distributive properties, combine like terms, simplify expressions like 3(x + 4) - 2x and see structure in expressions. Science: Characteristics of living things, levels of organization from atoms to the biosphere, and the four macromolecules found on a food label. Social studies: Primary vs secondary sources, artifacts and archaeology, BCE and CE dating, timelines and periodization.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5` `HSA-SSE.A.1, HSA-SSE.A.2` `HS-LS1-6, HS-LS1-2` `C3 D2.His.1.9-12, D2.His.9.9-12`
Week 3 From Caves to Fields	Word study: Greek roots log/logy (word, study) and bio (life). Students see how a root can name a whole science (biology, geology) or a kind of speech (dialogue, prologue). Reading & writing: Analyze setting and the man vs nature conflict in To Build a Fire, read a paired informational text about early humans, and write an explanatory cause-and-effect paragraph. Math: Solve one-step, two-step and multi-step linear equations, including variables on both sides, and identify equations with no solution or infinitely many. Science: Cell theory and its history, prokaryotes vs eukaryotes, the jobs of the major organelles and a labeled cell model. Social studies: Paleolithic life, the Neolithic revolution, domestication and farming, and early settlements like Jericho and Catalhoyuk.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.3, RI.9-10.2, W.9-10.2` `HSA-REI.A.1, HSA-REI.B.3` `HS-LS1-2` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12, D2.Geo.4.9-12`
Week 4 Rivers and Cells	Word study: Number prefixes equi-, uni-, bi- and tri- across English and math vocabulary (equation, binomial, trilogy). Reading & writing: Read three poems closely (Ozymandias, The Road Not Taken, We Wear the Mask), analyze figurative language and tone, and write and revise an evidence paragraph with an MLA citation. Math: Write equations from word problems, rearrange literal equations and formulas, and solve and graph inequalities including word problems. Science: Cell membrane, diffusion and osmosis with a potato osmosis lab, and an introduction to photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Social studies: The features of a civilization, the geography of Mesopotamia, Sumerian city-states, cuneiform and ziggurats.	`L.9-10.4b, L.9-10.6` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, L.9-10.5, W.9-10.5` `HSA-CED.A.1, HSA-CED.A.4, HSA-REI.B.3` `HS-LS1-5, HS-LS1-7` `C3 D2.Geo.5.9-12, D2.His.2.9-12`

October: Fall / Ancient Worlds

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 5 The Epic Begins	Word study: Roots chron (time) and temp (time): chronology puts events in time order, a contemporary lives at the same time. Reading & writing: Learn epic conventions and the oral tradition, read the Cyclops episode of the Odyssey (Book 9), analyze Odysseus as a hero with flaws, and compare him with Gilgamesh. Math: Relations vs functions, domain and range, the vertical line test, function notation f(x), and reading graphs of functions in context. Science: DNA structure (nucleotides, the double helix, base pairing A-T and C-G), chromosomes and genes, and a paper DNA model. Social studies: Mesopotamia's empires and the Code of Hammurabi; Egypt's Nile, pharaohs, hieroglyphs, pyramids and social structure.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.9, RL.9-10.4` `HSF-IF.A.1, HSF-IF.A.2, HSF-IF.B.4` `HS-LS1-1, HS-LS3-1` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.Civ.1.9-12`
Week 6 Monsters and Mitosis	Word study: Roots gen (birth, kind) and herit (heir): generation, genetics, heredity and heritage all come from what is passed on. Reading & writing: Follow Odysseus through Circe, the underworld and the Sirens (Books 10 to 12), track how the theme of temptation and self-control develops, and write a compare-contrast paragraph. Math: Slope as rise over run and as a rate of change, the slope formula, slope-intercept form y = mx + b and graphing lines. Science: The cell cycle, the stages of mitosis (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase), cytokinesis, and cancer as uncontrolled division. Social studies: Ancient India (Indus Valley cities, the Vedic period, the Mauryan Empire and Ashoka) and ancient China (Shang, Zhou and the Mandate of Heaven, Qin unification, Han, Confucius).	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, W.9-10.2` `HSF-IF.B.6, HSF-IF.C.7, HSF-LE.A.2` `HS-LS1-4` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12, D2.Civ.1.9-12`
Week 7 Return and Rule	Word study: Greek roots dem (people), crat (rule) and polis (city): democracy, aristocracy, metropolis and politics all come from Greek city life. Reading & writing: Read Odysseus' homecoming (Books 13 to 23 in excerpt), analyze disguise, loyalty and hospitality, and begin a literary analysis mini-essay on theme. Math: Write linear equations from a slope and a point, from two points and from word problems; convert between point-slope, slope-intercept and standard form. Science: Meiosis, gametes, crossing over and independent assortment as sources of variation; compare mitosis and meiosis. Social studies: Greek geography and the polis, Athenian democracy and Sparta, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, philosophy, and Alexander's empire.	`L.9-10.4b, L.9-10.6` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, W.9-10.2, W.9-10.9` `HSF-LE.A.2, HSA-CED.A.2` `HS-LS3-2` `C3 D2.Civ.1.9-12, D2.Civ.2.9-12`
Week 8 Rome and the Code of Life	Word study: Latin roots jur/jus (law, right) and leg (law): justice, jury, legal and legislate, the vocabulary of Roman law we still use. Reading & writing: Finish the Odyssey and judge its whole-epic theme, analyze an informational text on Roman engineering for structure, evaluate an argument about Rome's fall, and complete the literary analysis mini-essay. Math: Interpret intercepts and slope in linear models, write equations of parallel and perpendicular lines, fit a line to data by eye and make predictions. Science: Transcription and translation, reading a codon chart, and how the sequence of a gene determines a protein and a trait. Social studies: The Roman republic (consuls, senate, Twelve Tables), the Punic wars, Caesar and Augustus, the Pax Romana, Roman law and engineering, and reasons for decline.	`L.9-10.4b, L.9-10.6` `RL.9-10.2, RI.9-10.5, RI.9-10.8, W.9-10.2, W.9-10.5` `HSF-IF.B.4, HSF-LE.B.5, HSS-ID.B.6` `HS-LS1-1` `C3 D2.Civ.5.9-12, D2.His.14.9-12`

November: Family and Gratitude / Ecosystems

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 9 Claims and Food Chains	Word study: The vocabulary of argument: claim, counterclaim, evidence, warrant, concede, refute, credible, fallacy. Reading & writing: Analyze the structure and claims of the Gettysburg Address, begin The Call of the Wild (chapters 1 and 2) and track Buck's change, and plan an argument essay. Math: What a system of equations is, solving by graphing, systems with one, no or infinitely many solutions, and simple word problems solved by graphing. Science: Producers, consumers and decomposers, food chains and webs, trophic levels, energy pyramids and the 10 percent rule. Social studies: The Han and Roman empires compared, the Persian Empire's roads and satraps, and the Silk Road as an exchange of goods and ideas.	`L.9-10.6, L.9-10.4` `RI.9-10.8, RI.9-10.9, RL.9-10.3, W.9-10.1` `HSA-REI.C.6, HSA-REI.D.11` `HS-LS2-3, HS-LS2-4` `C3 D2.Eco.1.9-12, D2.Geo.7.9-12`
Week 10 Beliefs and Balance	Word study: Roots theo (god), cred (believe) and fid (faith, trust): monotheism, credible, fidelity and confidant. Reading & writing: Analyze Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech for claim and rhetorical questions, read The Call of the Wild chapters 3 and 4 and track the theme of leadership and survival, and draft the argument essay. Math: Solve systems by substitution and by elimination, including multiplying an equation first, and choose the best method. Science: Population growth curves, exponential vs logistic growth, carrying capacity, limiting factors and predator-prey cycles. Social studies: Origins, texts and core ideas of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism and Daoism, and the geography of their spread.	`L.9-10.4b` `RI.9-10.8, RL.9-10.2, W.9-10.1` `HSA-REI.C.5, HSA-REI.C.6` `HS-LS2-1, HS-LS2-2` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12, D2.His.3.9-12`
Week 11 Harvest and Gratitude	Word study: Roots eco (house, home) and sym/syn (together): ecosystem, economy, symbiosis and synthesis. Reading & writing: Finish The Call of the Wild (chapters 5 to 7) and judge its theme, read Roosevelt's conservation speech and Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation as primary sources, and finish the argument essay with a works cited list. Math: Systems word problems (tickets, mixtures, break-even), graphing linear inequalities in two variables and systems of inequalities. Science: The water, carbon and nitrogen cycles, symbiosis (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism) and why biodiversity makes ecosystems stable. Social studies: Harvest festivals across cultures, the honest story of the first Thanksgiving and the Wampanoag, the Olmec and Maya, and the African kingdoms of Kush and Aksum.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, RI.9-10.9, W.9-10.1, W.9-10.8` `HSA-CED.A.3, HSA-REI.D.12` `HS-LS2-5, HS-LS2-6` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12, D2.Geo.2.9-12`

December: Winter Holidays / Change Over Time

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 12 Scrooge and the Shape of Change	Word study: Roots vert/vers (turn) and mut (change): convert, reverse, mutation and immutable. Reading & writing: Read Staves 1 and 2 of A Christmas Carol, analyze characterization, tone and imagery, and plan a personal narrative with a clear scene and change. Math: Quadratic functions from tables and graphs, the vertex and axis of symmetry, maximum and minimum values, graphing y = ax² + bx + c and interpreting key features in context. Science: Darwin's voyage and the four parts of natural selection, and evidence for evolution from fossils, homologous and vestigial structures, embryos and DNA. Social studies: Causes of Rome's fall in the West, the Byzantine Empire and Justinian's code, feudalism and the manor, Charlemagne and the Vikings.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, W.9-10.3` `HSF-IF.B.4, HSF-IF.C.7` `HS-LS4-1, HS-LS4-2` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.Civ.1.9-12`
Week 13 Selection and Golden Ages	Word study: Roots spir (breathe) and vita/viv (life): inspire, respiration, vital, survive and revive. Reading & writing: Read Staves 3 and 4 of A Christmas Carol, analyze symbolism (Ignorance and Want), foreshadowing and social commentary, and draft the narrative with dialogue and pacing. Math: Factor out a greatest common factor, factor x² + bx + c and ax² + bx + c, factor a difference of squares, and solve quadratic equations with the zero product property. Science: A natural selection simulation with kitchen tools as beaks, data analysis across generations, and real cases: Galapagos finches, peppered moths and antibiotic resistance. Social studies: The Islamic Golden Age (Baghdad, algebra, medicine, preserved learning), the Mongol Empire and Pax Mongolica, and Song China's inventions and economy.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, W.9-10.3` `HSA-SSE.B.3, HSA-REI.B.4, HSA-APR.B.3` `HS-LS4-3, HS-LS4-4` `C3 D2.Eco.1.9-12, D2.His.2.9-12`
Week 14 Light in the Dark	Word study: Tone and connotation vocabulary for describing and writing narrative: melancholy, jovial, somber, exuberant, wistful, serene, bleak, radiant. Reading & writing: Finish A Christmas Carol (Stave 5) and judge its theme, read The Gift of the Magi for irony and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening for tone, and publish the narrative with a craft reflection. Math: Solve quadratics with square roots, the quadratic formula and the discriminant, solve projectile problems, and review the semester. Science: Speciation, common ancestry and cladograms, and human-caused evolution in dog breeds and antibiotic resistance. Social studies: The Black Death and its effects, Magna Carta (1215) and limits on kings, and winter holiday traditions across cultures as examples of change and continuity.	`L.9-10.5, L.9-10.6` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.6, W.9-10.3, W.9-10.5` `HSA-REI.B.4, HSA-CED.A.1` `HS-LS4-5, HS-LS4-1` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12, D2.Civ.1.9-12`

January: New Year / Genetics

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 15 Mendel's Garden	Word study: Roots nat (born) and mort (death): native, innate, mortal, immortal. Reading & writing: Begin Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (chapters 1 to 3): author's purpose, central ideas and historical context; choose an informative essay topic. Math: Product, quotient and power rules for exponents, zero and negative exponents, and scientific notation. Science: Mendel's experiments, dominant and recessive alleles, genotype and phenotype, monohybrid Punnett squares and probability. Social studies: Monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, republic, theocracy and empire with examples from the ancient and medieval world.	`L.9-10.4b` `RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.6, W.9-10.7` `HSN-RN.A.2, HSA-SSE.B.3` `HS-LS3-3` `C3 D2.Civ.1.9-12`
Week 16 Growth and Decay	Word study: Roots duc/duct (lead) and reg/rect (rule, straight): conduct, deduce, regulate, direct. Reading & writing: Douglass chapters 6 and 7 (learning to read): how literacy becomes freedom; research notes and paraphrasing. Math: Exponential functions y = a·b^x, growth and decay, graphs and tables, writing a function from a situation. Science: Incomplete dominance, codominance, multiple alleles (ABO blood types) and dihybrid crosses. Social studies: Magna Carta, the growth of Parliament, the English Bill of Rights (1689) and the idea of rule of law.	`L.9-10.4b` `RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.5, W.9-10.8` `HSF-LE.A.1, HSF-LE.A.2, HSF-IF.C.7` `HS-LS3-3` `C3 D2.Civ.5.9-12, D2.His.2.9-12`
Week 17 Patterns and Pedigrees	Word study: Roots liber (free) and civ (citizen): liberty, liberate, civil, civic, civilization. Reading & writing: Douglass chapter 10 and his escape; evaluate sources for credibility and bias; draft the informative essay. Math: Compound interest and percent growth, comparing linear and exponential models in tables and graphs, interpreting parameters. Science: Reading and building pedigrees, sex chromosomes, sex-linked traits such as red-green color blindness and hemophilia. Social studies: Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire and Wollstonecraft; natural rights, separation of powers and the social contract.	`L.9-10.4b, L.9-10.6` `RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.8, W.9-10.2` `HSF-LE.A.3, HSF-LE.B.5` `HS-LS3-1, HS-LS3-3` `C3 D2.Civ.2.9-12, D2.His.4.9-12`
Week 18 Mutations and Citizens	Word study: Greek prefixes mono (one), poly (many), hetero (different) and homo (same) in science and literature words. Reading & writing: Finish and publish the informative essay with a works cited list; informational texts on genetics in the news. Math: Arithmetic and geometric sequences, explicit and recursive rules, and sequences as functions. Science: Types of mutations, their effects on proteins, genetic disorders, and an introduction to genetic technology. Social studies: Who counted as a citizen in Athens, Rome and medieval towns, and what citizenship means today: rights and responsibilities.	`L.9-10.4b` `W.9-10.2, W.9-10.5, RI.9-10.1` `HSF-BF.A.2, HSF-IF.A.3, HSF-LE.A.2` `HS-LS3-2, HS-LS1-1` `C3 D2.Civ.2.9-12, D2.Civ.1.9-12`

February: Friendship / Human Impact

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 19 Fair Verona	Word study: Roots path (feeling) and phil (love): sympathy, empathy, apathy, philosophy, philanthropy. Reading & writing: Romeo and Juliet Act 1: the prologue sonnet, the feud, Romeo's lovesickness and the party; blank verse and iambic pentameter. Math: Dot plots, histograms and box plots; shape, center and spread. Science: Biodiversity, habitat loss and fragmentation, endangered species and the sixth extinction debate. Social studies: Leaders: Hatshepsut, Ashoka, Pericles, Augustus, Wu Zetian and Mansa Musa; what made each effective and how we know.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.3` `HSS-ID.A.1, HSS-ID.A.2, HSS-ID.A.3` `HS-LS2-7, HS-LS4-6` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12`
Week 20 Balcony and Bias	Word study: Roots terra (earth) and geo (earth): terrain, territory, geography, geology. Reading & writing: Romeo and Juliet Act 2: the balcony scene, Friar Laurence and the secret marriage; figurative language and foreshadowing. Math: Two-way frequency tables, relative frequencies, mean, median, interquartile range and standard deviation. Science: Air and water pollution, the carbon cycle and climate change evidence, and calculating a carbon footprint. Social studies: Thinkers: Confucius, Socrates, Hypatia, Ibn Sina, al-Khwarizmi and Thomas Aquinas; how ideas travel.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, L.9-10.5` `HSS-ID.B.5, HSS-ID.A.2` `HS-LS2-7, HS-LS2-5` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12`
Week 21 A Plague on Both Houses	Word study: Data vocabulary: correlation, causation, outlier, median, variable, sample, bias, trend. Reading & writing: Romeo and Juliet Act 3: the fights, the banishment and the turning point of the tragedy. Math: Scatter plots, lines of best fit by eye and by technology, interpreting slope and intercept of a fit. Science: Invasive species case studies (zebra mussels, kudzu, Burmese pythons) and their effects on ecosystems. Social studies: Travelers and explorers: Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, Leif Erikson and Rabban Bar Sauma.	`L.9-10.6` `RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.2` `HSS-ID.B.6, HSS-ID.C.7` `HS-LS2-7, HS-LS2-6` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.Geo.7.9-12`
Week 22 Evidence on Trial	Word study: Roots bene (good) and mal (bad): benefit, benevolent, malice, malfunction. Reading & writing: Finish the Acts 1 to 3 argument essay; a mock trial that puts the characters' choices on trial with textual evidence. Math: Correlation coefficient as a measure of strength, residuals, and correlation vs causation. Science: Design and evaluate a solution to a local human impact using criteria and constraints. Social studies: Research and present a short biography of a historical figure using at least two sources.	`L.9-10.4b` `W.9-10.1, SL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.1` `HSS-ID.C.8, HSS-ID.C.9, HSS-ID.B.6` `HS-ETS1-2, HS-LS2-7` `C3 D2.His.3.9-12, D2.His.16.9-12`

March: Spring / Body Systems

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 23 Rebirth	Word study: Roots corp (body), card/cord (heart) and derm (skin): incorporate, cardiac, cordial, epidermis. Reading & writing: Romeo and Juliet Act 4: the Friar's plan, the potion and Juliet's courage; dramatic irony. Math: Classify polynomials, add and subtract, multiply monomials and binomials (area model and distribution). Science: Digestive and circulatory systems, nutrients, the heart as a pump, blood pressure and pulse. Social studies: The Italian Renaissance: Florence, the Medici, humanism, Leonardo and Michelangelo, and Gutenberg's press.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5` `HSA-APR.A.1` `HS-LS1-2` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12`
Week 24 Breath and Reform	Word study: Roots neur (nerve), psych (mind) and cogn (know): neurology, psychology, cognitive, recognize. Reading & writing: Romeo and Juliet Act 5: the tomb and the ending; theme of fate vs choice across the play. Math: Special products (squares of binomials, difference of squares), factoring review and multiplying polynomials with more terms. Science: Respiratory system, gas exchange, lung capacity with a balloon, and the immune system's defenses and vaccines. Social studies: Luther's 95 Theses (1517), Calvin, Henry VIII, the Counter-Reformation and the role of printing.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.5` `HSA-SSE.A.2, HSA-APR.A.1` `HS-LS1-2, HS-LS1-3` `C3 D2.His.4.9-12, D2.His.14.9-12`
Week 25 Control Systems	Word study: Shakespearean vocabulary and grammar: thee, thou, hath, doth, wherefore, hence, anon, ere. Reading & writing: Finish and publish the Romeo and Juliet essay; read Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 for form and tone. Math: Completing the square, vertex form y = a(x - h)² + k, and switching among forms of a quadratic. Science: Nervous system (neurons, reflexes, reaction time), endocrine system and feedback loops that keep homeostasis. Social studies: Portuguese voyages, Columbus, Magellan, the Columbian Exchange and its consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas.	`L.9-10.4, L.9-10.3` `W.9-10.2, W.9-10.5, RL.9-10.5` `HSA-REI.B.4, HSA-SSE.B.3` `HS-LS1-3, HS-LS1-2` `C3 D2.Geo.7.9-12, D2.His.14.9-12`
Week 26 Frame and Movement	Word study: Roots phon (sound), aud (hear) and voc (voice, call): symphony, audible, advocate. Reading & writing: Vocabulary in context across an informational text set about the human body; summary and synthesis. Math: Absolute value functions, piecewise functions, square roots and simplifying radicals. Science: Skeletal and muscular systems, levers in the body, and how disease disrupts systems. Social studies: The Aztec and Inca, Songhai, the Ottoman and Mughal empires and Ming China around 1500.	`L.9-10.4b` `RI.9-10.4, RI.9-10.2, L.9-10.4` `HSF-IF.C.7, HSN-RN.A.2` `HS-LS1-2` `C3 D2.Geo.5.9-12, D2.His.2.9-12`

April: Earth and Environment / Resources

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 27 Water and Wealth	Word study: Roots hydr and aqua (water), pyro (fire) and therm (heat). Reading & writing: Read a John Muir essay excerpt and a passage from Thoreau's Walden for central ideas and style; launch the research project with a question. Math: Populations and samples, random sampling, survey questions and bias, and planning a data collection. Science: Major biomes, how temperature and rainfall shape them, and the biome where you live. Social studies: Scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, specialization and the history of barter and money.	`L.9-10.4b` `RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.6, W.9-10.7` `HSS-ID.A.1` `HS-LS2-2` `C3 D2.Eco.1.9-12, D2.Eco.2.9-12`
Week 28 Soil, Surplus, Deficit	Word study: Economic vocabulary: scarcity, surplus, deficit, inflation, commodity, currency, tariff, incentive. Reading & writing: Read and annotate three sources for the research project, paraphrase and quote correctly, and outline the essay. Math: Mean, median, mode, range, mean absolute deviation and standard deviation on the collected data. Science: Water resources and the water cycle, aquifers, soil formation and erosion, and conservation methods. Social studies: Silk Road, Indian Ocean and trans-Saharan trade, the silver trade and mercantilism in early modern Europe.	`L.9-10.6` `W.9-10.8, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.8` `HSS-ID.A.2, HSS-ID.A.3` `HS-LS2-7` `C3 D2.Eco.14.9-12, D2.Geo.7.9-12`
Week 29 Energy and Earth Day	Word study: Roots sol (sun), lun (moon), astr (star) and cosm (universe). Reading & writing: Draft the research essay, integrate evidence from three sources and build the works cited list. Math: Fit linear and exponential models to environmental data sets (CO2, recycling rates) and judge which fits better. Science: Renewable and nonrenewable energy, efficiency, and tradeoffs of each source. Social studies: The first Earth Day (1970), stewardship traditions across cultures, and conflicts over resources in history.	`L.9-10.4b` `W.9-10.2, W.9-10.8` `HSS-ID.B.6, HSF-LE.A.1` `HS-LS2-7, HS-ETS1-3` `C3 D2.Geo.4.9-12, D2.His.2.9-12`
Week 30 Proposals	Word study: Environmental vocabulary: sustainable, renewable, biodegradable, conservation, emission, habitat, deforestation, footprint. Reading & writing: Finish and present the research project; listen and respond to peers with questions. Math: Complete a statistics project: question, data, display, summary and conclusion. Science: Design, build and present a sustainability project for home or school with criteria and constraints. Social studies: Traditional, command, market and mixed economies with historical and modern examples.	`L.9-10.6` `W.9-10.5, SL.9-10.4, SL.9-10.1` `HSS-ID.C.9, HSS-ID.A.1` `HS-ETS1-3, HS-LS2-7` `C3 D2.Eco.3.9-12, D2.Eco.1.9-12`

May: Oceans / Inventors and Technology

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 31 Twenty Thousand Leagues	Word study: Roots tech (skill), mech (machine) and fac/fact (make): technology, mechanism, manufacture, artifact. Reading & writing: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (opening chapters): the mystery of the monster, Aronnax as narrator, Verne's science. Math: Compare linear, quadratic and exponential functions in tables, graphs and equations. Science: The engineering design process: define, research, brainstorm, prototype, test, improve. Social studies: A timeline of inventions: wheel, writing, paper, compass, gunpowder, printing, steam, and how each spread.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5` `HSF-LE.A.1, HSF-LE.A.3` `HS-ETS1-1, HS-ETS1-2` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12`
Week 32 Nautilus	Word study: Roots nav (ship), mar (sea) and port (carry): navigate, marine, submarine, transport. Reading & writing: Twenty Thousand Leagues continued: the undersea world, Nemo's secrets, and the theme of freedom vs isolation. Math: Shifts, stretches and reflections of functions: f(x) + k, f(x - h), a·f(x), -f(x). Science: Biotechnology: selective breeding, GMOs, gene editing and vaccines, with evidence and ethical questions. Social studies: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton; the scientific method in history; conflicts with authority.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3` `HSF-BF.B.3` `HS-LS1-1, HS-LS3-3` `C3 D2.His.14.9-12, D2.His.4.9-12`
Week 33 Around the World	Word study: Roots tele (far), scope (see), micro (small) and macro (large). Reading & writing: Around the World in Eighty Days: Fogg, Passepartout and the race against time; pacing and structure. Math: The modeling cycle: define, build, compute, interpret, validate; units and reasonableness. Science: Ocean zones and ecosystems: coral reefs, kelp forests, the deep sea; threats and resilience. Social studies: Global connections: trade maps of 1500 and today, shipping lanes, undersea cables, migration.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.5` `HSA-CED.A.2, HSN-Q.A.1` `HS-LS2-6, HS-LS2-2` `C3 D2.Geo.7.9-12, D2.Geo.2.9-12`
Week 34 Design and Deliver	Word study: Roots junct (join), nect (tie) and soci (companion): junction, connect, society. Reading & writing: Finish Around the World in Eighty Days; literary analysis essay on a theme across the two Verne novels. Math: Average rate of change over intervals for linear, quadratic and exponential functions; systems revisited. Science: Build, test, measure and improve the engineering prototype; present results with data. Social studies: Navigation history: Polynesian wayfinding, the astrolabe and compass, the longitude problem and GPS.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, W.9-10.2, W.9-10.9` `HSF-IF.B.6, HSA-REI.C.6` `HS-ETS1-3, HS-ETS1-2` `C3 D2.Geo.1.9-12, D2.His.2.9-12`

June: Review and Celebration

Week	Skills	Standards
Week 35 Review Week	Word study: Review of the year's roots with a roots tournament. Reading & writing: The Open Window by Saki and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin: irony, surprise endings and theme. Math: Mixed review of all units with an error log. Science: Review the scientific method and plan a short final investigation. Social studies: Build a timeline of the whole year from the Neolithic revolution to 1700.	`L.9-10.4b` `RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.5` `HSA-REI.B.3, HSA-REI.B.4, HSF-LE.A.1` `HS-LS1-3` `C3 D2.His.1.9-12`
Week 36 My Year in Review	Word study: Words for reflection: retrospect, culminate, milestone, aspire, resilient, perseverance, legacy, horizon. Reading & writing: Independent reading conference and a portfolio presentation. Math: A math applications project that uses two function types to answer a real question. Science: Analyze and share the final investigation. Social studies: My year in review: a three-minute presentation on the biggest change in world history.	`L.9-10.6` `W.9-10.10, SL.9-10.4` `HSA-CED.A.2, HSF-LE.A.1` `HS-LS1-3` `C3 D2.His.2.9-12`

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