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12th
Grade Student Profile
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Throughout
the year, the student will learn and demonstrate:
LISTENING/SPEAKING
READING
- Understand/analyze and critically evaluate all written
texts and visual representations
- Develop extensive vocabulary through reading and systematic word
study
- Use reference materials and electronic media to determine precise
meanings and usage of words
- Analyze analogies, homonymns, synonymns/antonymns, and connotation/denotation
- Analyze main ideas and supporting details
- Respond to literary works and draw inferences using elements of
the text as support
- Analyze literary elements, forms, terms, and text structures
- Recognition/interpretation of poetic elements and the effect of
sound on meaning in a poem
- Analyze the possible influences of the historical context on a
literary work
- Analyze the characteristics of text, including structure, word
choice, and intended audience
- Evaluate the credibility of information sources to determine the
writer's motives
- Analysis of nonfiction texts and visual representations to determine
the main idea
- Understand and interpret visual representations through an analysis
of relationships, ideas, and cultures shown in various media
- Distinguish the purposes of various media forms identifying bias
and other persuasive techniques
WRITING
- Selects and uses writing process to compose original
text
- Create effective compositions for specific purposes, demonstrating
command of writing/grammar/usage/conventions/spelling
- Evaluates their own writing and writing of others for both mechanics
and content
VIEWING/REPRESENTING
- Understand and interpret visual messages and media.
- Analyze and critique the significance of media.
- Deconstruct media to get the message's main idea
- Produce visual representation that communicates
with others.
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In 12th grade your child will be given the opportunity to learn:
DESCRIBE, DEFINE, AND TRANSLATE FUNCTIONS
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Describe parent functions symbolically and graphically,
including y=xn, y=lnx, y=, y=ex, y=ax, etc.
- Determine domain and range of these functions
- Describe symmetry of graphs of odd and even functions
- Recognize and use connections among significant points of a function
(roots, maximum points, minimum points)
- Investigate continuity, end behavior, vertical and horizontal asymptotes,
and limits and connect these characteristics to a graph of a function
SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS OF FUNCTIONS AND OPERATIONS
OF FUNCTIONS
- Apply basic transformations to parent functions
- Perform operations including composition functions, find inverses,
and describe the results verbally, numerically, symbolically, and
graphically
- Investigate identities graphically and verify them symbolically
including logs, trig identities, and exponential properties
- Use logarithmic, exponential, and trigonomic functions to model
real life data
- Use properties of functions to analyze and solve problems
- Use Law of Sines, Law of Cosines, and area formulas to solve problems
- Represent patterns using arithmetic and geometric sequences and
series and use them to solve problems
- Describe limits of sequences and apply their properties to investigate
convergent and divergent series
- Apply sequences and series to solve problems including sums and
binomial expansion
- Use conic sections to model motion
- Use conic sections to describe the reflective properties of light
and sound
- Convert between parametric and rectangular forms of functions
- Use parametric functions to simulate problems involving motion
- Use vectors to model situations defined by magnitude and direction
- Analyze and solve vector problems generated by real-life situations
In the 12th grade US Government and Economics, your teenager will
learn:
HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
- Explain the effects of political, economic, and social developments
of the US
- Use geographic tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data
- Understand the effects of migration and immigration on American
Society
- Analyze population growth and voting patterns of the US
ECONOMICS
- Understand why various sections of the U.S. developed different
patterns of economic activity
- Identify the economic forces in US History and how governments have
responded
- Understand the significant economic developments between World War
I and World War II, specifically the Great Depression and the New
Deal programs and their effects on our governments
- Origins, development, and regulation of the free enterprise in the
US
GOVERNMENT
- Understand the structure of the US Constitution and other historic
documents in our history
- Recognize the foundations and beliefs of our representative government
- Identify major political parties and special interest groups
- Explain the process of electing public officials
- Understand the impact of landmark Supreme Court cases and their
decisions
- Describe the similarities of Federal, State, and Local governments
CITIZENSHIP
- Understand the rights and responsibilities of citizens of the US
- Recognize the importance of the expression of different points of
view and effective leadership in our representative democracy
CULTURE
- Understands how people from various groups, including racial, ethnic,
and religious groups, contribute to life in the US and our national
identity
- Identify the major reform and third party movements throughout US
History
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
- Describe the impact of major scientific and mathematical discoveries
and technological innovations on life in the US
SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS
- Apply age-appropriate critical-thinking skills, communicate effectively,
and use problem-solving and decision-making processes.
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12th grade students will learn:
LAB INVESTIGATION AND SAFETY
- Laboratory investigation and safety training in the use of lab equipment
- Wise choices in the conservation, and disposal or recycling of materials.
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
- The scientific method during field and laboratory investigation
- To collect and make measurements with precision
- To organize, analyze, evaluate, make inferences and communicate
valid conclusions
CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
- To use critical thinking and scientific problem solving to make
informed decisions
- To analyze, review, and critique scientific explanations, including
hypotheses and theories as to their strengths and weakness using scientific
evidence and information
LAWS GOVERNING MOTION
- Examples of uniform and accelerated motion including linear, projectiles,
and circular
- To develop and interpret a free-body diagram for force analyze
- Physical system and recognizes that energy and momentum are conserved
- To interpret evidence for the work - energy theorem and observe
examples of kinetic and potential energy
- To calculate the mechanical energy and momentum in a physical system
such as billiards, cars, and trains
FORCES IN NATURE
- To identify the influence of mass and distance on gravitational
forces
- To describe the historical development of the concepts of gravitational,
electrical, and magnetic force
LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
- How to analyze and explain everyday examples that illustrate the
laws of thermodynamics
- To evaluate different methods of heat energy transfer that results
in an increasing amount of disorder
CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIOR OF WAVES
- How to examine and describe a variety of waves propogated in various
types of media and describe wave characteristics such as velocity,
frequency, amplitude, and behaviors such as reflection, refraction,
and interference
QUANTUM PHYSICS
- How to describe the photoelectric effect
- To explain the line spectra from different gas-discharge tubes
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
- To calculate the half-life of radioactive isotopes
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