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• Identify common rhetorical techniques (rhetorical questions, repetition, parallel structure, figurative language) in a text and explain their effects.
• Select evidence from a claim or passage to justify how a technique supports meaning and reader engagement.
• Distinguish when emotional appeals and logical reasoning are balanced effectively to fit a text’s purpose and tone.

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• Use active listening strategies to identify the central message and key supporting details in spoken texts.
• Monitor understanding during listening and use context clues, tone, and emphasis to make accurate inferences.
• Recognize when clarification is needed and ask appropriate questions to stay aligned with the speaker’s intent.

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• Identify the main claim and supporting details in a discussion by listening for key ideas.
• Demonstrate respectful, purposeful turn-taking behaviors during collaborative conversations.
• Evaluate whether a speaker’s point connects to the shared goal and responds to others’ contributions.

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• Explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration transfer energy between producers and consumers.
• Describe how net primary productivity relates to biomass accumulation in autotrophs.
• Use respiration rates to predict how much energy is available to heterotrophs.+ Show more

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• Identify the claim, evidence, and reasoning in informational and argumentative writing.
• Evaluate whether evidence is relevant and sufficient to support a conclusion.
• Distinguish justified explanations from assertions that lack reasoning.+ Show more

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• Explain how collision theory connects particle motion to reaction speed.
• Use rate law ideas to predict how temperature, concentration, surface area, and catalysts change reaction rates.
• Interpret how activation energy and effective collisions affect observed rate constants.+ Show more

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• Use clear criteria to compare two texts by identifying similarities and differences in setting, characterization, tone, and language choices.
• Support comparison claims with evidence from both texts and explain how author choices shape reader response.
• Evaluate how genre conventions influence meaning and pacing, moving beyond summary to reasoned judgment.

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• Explain how word meaning changes with context, including denotation and connotation.
• Analyze how an author’s tone and surrounding sentences narrow a word’s interpretation.
• Use sentence-level relationships (cause, contrast, evaluation) to infer meaning in academic texts.

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• Understand different options for freshwater management and their tradeoffs.
• Evaluate constraints and environmental impacts of water system designs.
• Identify solutions like surface water storage, groundwater recharge, water recycling, and desalination.+ Show more

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• Identify stylistic devices (imagery, symbolism, irony, parallelism, rhetorical questions) in ELA texts.
• Explain how stylistic devices shape tone and theme and deepen meaning for a specific audience.
• Analyze how a writer’s purpose influences word choice and the effect of stylistic devices.+ Show more

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• Identify diagnostic mineral properties such as hardness, cleavage, lustre, streak, and specific gravity.
• Explain how mineral composition and crystal structure relate to formation conditions and stability under pressure and temperature changes.
• Distinguish ore minerals from gangue minerals and describe how mineral assemblages reflect petrogenetic histories.

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• Explain how weathering, transport, deposition, burial, lithification, crystallization, and metamorphism move rocks through the rock cycle
• Identify petrologic indicators (mineral assemblages and textures) that provide evidence for pressure–temperature history
• Use radiometric dating and stratigraphic correlation to sequence igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic events

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• Explain how chemical energy changes are represented by bond formation and breaking.
• Describe how enthalpy change is determined by bond energies and the use of calorimetry data.
• Apply Hess's law to relate reaction enthalpies to molecular structures.+ Show more

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• Understand how mass influences acceleration when a net force is applied.
• Distinguish between inertial mass and gravitational effects in response to forces.
• Apply the force–acceleration relationship to predict object motion under different masses.+ Show more

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• Explain the roles of emperors, shoguns, daimyo, and samurai in medieval Japan’s feudal hierarchy.
• Analyze how loyalty, martial skill, and Confucian principles influenced governance and cultural practices.
• Describe how feudal social structure affected regional rule, economic organization, and stability.

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• Distinguish evaluation from simple comprehension by judging how well evidence supports a claim.
• Evaluate reasoning by checking whether conclusions match the evidence presented.
• Assess the fairness and sufficiency of counterpoints in persuasive and editorial texts.+ Show more

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• Identify how a central claim or purpose shapes the structure of a spoken presentation.
• Use transitions and signposts to keep supporting details aligned to the main idea.
• Evaluate whether specific details belong by checking their connection to the thesis or purpose.+ Show more

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• Explain how scientific predictive models connect variables to expected outcomes
• Identify key features of a useful model, including assumptions and testable predictions
• Use model-based reasoning to interpret patterns in data

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• Explain the urban heat island phenomenon and identify key drivers such as surface materials, reduced vegetation, and anthropogenic heat.
• Describe how impervious surfaces, reduced evapotranspiration, and building geometry affect local heat retention and nighttime temperatures.
• Evaluate mitigation strategies (e.g., cool pavements, increased urban greenery, and strategic shading) and predict their likely impacts on comfort and energy use.

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• Use commas to separate items in a series of three or more
• Place commas after introductory elements to mark where the main idea begins
• Set off nonessential phrases and clauses with commas+ Show more

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• Explain how reflective thinking and planning can help students succeed during the school year.
• Use goal-setting and progress tracking to respond to challenges with perseverance.
• Describe how community support helps students maintain hope and a growth mindset.

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• Use academic and domain-specific vocabulary to clarify claims, describe evidence, and explain reasoning in informational writing.
• Distinguish technical terms from everyday synonyms by focusing on precise meaning and context.
• Strengthen coherence by applying vocabulary that signals relationships, processes, and categories.+ Show more

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• Explain how pollinators support biodiversity and food production in ecosystems
• Analyze how cultural stories about pollinators can connect to conservation today
• Use vocabulary related to ecosystems, pollination, and interdependence to answer questions

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• Explain how work is calculated as the force component along displacement
• Use the work–energy theorem to connect work done to changes in kinetic energy
• Calculate work for constant and variable forces using appropriate reasoning+ Show more

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• Describe the components and fluxes involved in the global carbon cycle.
• Identify sources, sinks, and feedback mechanisms affecting atmospheric CO₂ levels.
• Analyze the magnitudes, residence times, and feedback loops within the carbon cycle.+ Show more

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• Evaluate whether an informational argument’s claims are logically supported by evidence and reasoning
• Identify reasoning problems such as unsupported leaps, misleading comparisons, or missing context
• Assess how well an argument addresses counterclaims, including whether rebuttals acknowledge limitations

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• Identify qualities of bravery, selflessness, and teamwork shown by first responders and volunteers.
• Explain how honoring heroes supports civic duty, compassion, and empathy.
• Use key vocabulary related to community service and emergency help.

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• Understand the process of identifying and prioritizing constraints in engineering design.
• Analyze social, economic, environmental, and functional requirements for project feasibility.
• Evaluate interactions among competing constraints to support decision-making.+ Show more

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• Understand the roles of leaf structures in gas exchange, photosynthesis, and transpiration.
• Identify variations in leaf structures between conifers and deciduous species.
• Explain how seasonal changes affect leaf functions and tree physiology.+ Show more

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• Explain how budgeting supports personal financial goals and resource allocation.
• Analyze how interest, credit, and inflation affect long-term financial decisions.
• Evaluate strategies for savings, investing, and risk management to build financial stability.

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• Understand the importance of balancing chemical equations to reflect atomic conservation.
• Learn how to identify and apply coefficients to balance chemical equations correctly.
• Recognize the role of state indicators and stoichiometric coefficients in symbolic chemical equations.+ Show more

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• Understand how data feedback guides the refinement process in engineering design.
• Identify examples of parameter adjustments to improve system performance.
• Explain the role of evidence-based reasoning in system refinement, using heat-pump systems as an example.+ Show more

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• Explain how a writer connects key ideas from multiple sources to a controlling claim using explanation of agreement, difference, or relevance.
• Synthesize research by integrating evidence smoothly into sentences instead of listing separate notes.
• Use source references/citations to keep evidence traceable while maintaining coherent writing flow.

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• Describe the processes involved in the water cycle, including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, infiltration, and groundwater storage.
• Explain how solar energy and gravity drive the movement of water through various reservoirs in the hydrosphere.
• Identify examples such as evapotranspiration, river discharge, aquifer recharge, and seasonal snowmelt that illustrate water transport and storage timescales.

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• Explain how voter registration rules and election districting shape voter participation.
• Analyze how voting regulations can affect political representation in diverse populations.
• Evaluate how election legitimacy can be supported through transparent and fair voting systems.

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• Explain reaction rate in terms of collision frequency and the fraction of effective collisions
• Analyze how concentration, temperature, and physical state/surface area affect reaction rates
• Use the activation energy concept to predict whether a collision can lead to product formation+ Show more

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• Identify the central idea of an informational text by focusing on the author’s main message.
• Distinguish key supporting details from unrelated or less important information.
• Use central idea and supporting details to write a clear summary.

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• Analyze key causes and drivers of urbanization in contemporary societies
• Assess impacts of urban growth on housing, infrastructure, governance, and inequality
• Evaluate evidence from demographic and spatial information to compare municipal policy responses+ Show more

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• Match a subject (singular or plural) with the correct verb form.
• Use subject-verb agreement correctly even when other words come between the subject and verb.
• Apply agreement rules for common third-person subjects and indefinite subjects (like everyone, some, and many).

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• Describe the hierarchy of ecological organization from individual organisms to biospheres (organism → population → community → ecosystem → biosphere).
• Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers and explain how energy moves through trophic levels.
• Explain how structural features at each level can help ecosystems resist change and recover after disturbances.+ Show more

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• Distinguish between speed, velocity, and acceleration and describe what each quantity measures
• Apply sign conventions to interpret motion direction in one-dimensional kinematics problems
• Use unit conversions and algebraic relationships to compare motion quantities

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• Describe how physical and computational models generate quantitative data for testing solutions.
• Identify limitations and sources of measurement uncertainty in data models.
• Understand the importance of consistent input conditions and repeatability in data collection.+ Show more

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• Explain how an oral speaker adapts to audience needs and the discussion context.
• Use strategies such as clarifying vocabulary, rephrasing central ideas, and adding examples during short talks.
• Plan oral communication that fits the available time and the expectations of the setting.

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• Identify an author’s purpose (inform, explain, persuade, justify) using signals in tone and structure.
• Analyze point of view by tracking word choice, pronouns, emphasis patterns, and how evidence is framed.
• Connect language choices to what the author treats as most important and evaluate how that shapes reader understanding.

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• Explain what SMART goals are and identify each component (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound).
• Use goal-setting strategies to plan realistic academic and personal objectives for September.
• Describe how monitoring progress and adjusting plans can improve motivation and resilience.

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• Explain how reasoning connects evidence to the writer’s claim using clear cause-and-effect logic.
• Write explanations that address the “so what” by stating why evidence matters and what it proves.
• Use definition and context to anticipate reader misunderstanding and strengthen logical flow.

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• Understand how to interpret and balance chemical equations to reflect quantitative relationships.
• Apply mole ratios from balanced equations to calculate amounts of reactants and products.
• Use conservation principles to predict reagent needs and product yields in chemical reactions.+ Show more

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• Explain how setting a goal helps a team plan and work together at the start of the school year.
• Use vocabulary related to launching ideas, collaboration, and perseverance in complete sentences.
• Read a class story and identify true statements about teamwork, planning, and trying again.