End-of-year targets

What most 12th graders can do by June. Every child grows at their own pace; use this as a guide, not a test.

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Reading

Read British and world literature from Beowulf to the twentieth century with understanding, using context, translation notes and annotation
State a theme or central idea precisely and trace how it develops across a whole work
Analyze how an author's choices about structure, point of view, irony and figurative language shape meaning
Identify the rhetorical situation, appeals and devices in speeches and essays and judge how well they work
Evaluate an argument's reasoning and evidence and spot common fallacies
Compare two or more texts on the same theme or topic
Use Greek, Latin and Old English roots and context to define unfamiliar academic and literary words

Write a literary analysis essay with an arguable thesis, embedded quotations and MLA citations
Write a rhetorical analysis that explains how a writer's choices achieve a purpose
Write an argument with a precise claim, evidence, a fair counterclaim and a rebuttal
Plan, research and write a senior research paper with an annotated bibliography and a Works Cited page
Write a focused, specific college application essay of 650 words or fewer
Revise for focus, evidence and voice, and edit for conventions using a checklist

Use function notation, domain and range, transformations, piecewise functions, composition and inverses
Analyze polynomial and rational functions by zeros, end behavior and asymptotes
Model growth, decay and compound interest with exponential functions and solve them with logarithms
Solve right and oblique triangles and use radians, the unit circle and trig graphs and identities
Write equations of conics and work with vectors
Use sequences and series to compute savings plans and loan payments
Estimate and evaluate limits and explain the slope of a tangent line as a limit

Design fair investigations, collect and graph data, and write claim, evidence and reasoning conclusions
Model ecosystems, energy flow and population growth, and estimate populations by sampling
Explain human population trends and the use of water, soil, land and energy resources
Explain air and water pollution, waste and toxicology and the laws that address them
Interpret climate system data and explain feedbacks in the climate system
Use the engineering design process to design, test and refine a solution that reduces a human impact

Explain the ideas and compromises behind the Constitution and its principles
Describe the rights in the Bill of Rights and later amendments and how landmark cases shaped them
Explain how laws and public policy are made at local, state and national levels
Use scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand to analyze markets and policies
Build a budget and explain credit, interest, taxes and the basics of saving and investing
Describe trade, globalization and international organizations
Discuss public issues fairly, presenting more than one point of view

Keep a reading journal, a vocabulary notebook and a writing portfolio and set goals from them
Manage long projects with a calendar of daily steps
Find, evaluate and cite credible sources
Explain reasoning out loud in math and science, including mistakes
Disagree respectfully with evidence and listen to other views
Reflect weekly on what worked and what to try next