Advanced Placement (AP)

• AP Art History
• AP Biology
• AP Calculus AB
• AP Calculus BC
• AP Chemistry
• AP Economics
• AP English Language & Composition
• AP English Literature & Composition
• AP Environment Science
• AP European History
• AP Human Geography
• AP Music Theory
• AP Physics1
• AP Physics C
• AP Psychology (Dual Credit)
• AP Psychology
• AP Spanish Language
• AP Spanish Literature
• AP Statistics
• AP Studio Art
• AP US Government
• AP US History
• AP World History

AP Art History

1. Visual Analysis- Analyze visual elements of works of art.
    
2. Contextual Analysis- Analyze contextual elements of a work of art, and connect contextual and visual elements of a work of art.
    
3. Comparison of Works of Art- Compare two or more works of art.
    
4. Artistic Traditions- Analyze the relationships between a work of art and a related artistic tradition, style, and or practice
    
5. Visual Analysis of Unknown Works- Analyze visual elements of a work of art beyond the image set.
    
6. Attribution of Unknown Works- Explain an attribute works of art.
    
7. Art Historical Interpretations- Analyze art historical interpretations.
    
8. Argumentation- Develop and support art historical arguments.

AP Biology

1. SWBAT explain how the structure and function of biological macromolecules affect cellular processes. ENE-1.A, ENE-1.B, and ENE-1.C
    
2. SWBAT analyze how cell structure, membrane transport, and the cell cycle contribute to cellular function. ENE-2.A, ENE-2.B, IST-1.A, and IST-1.B
    
3. SWBAT explain how organisms capture, store, and use energy and matter through metabolic pathways. ENE-1.D, ENE-1.E, and ENE-1.F
    
4. SWBAT analyze how cell communication and feedback mechanisms regulate biological systems and maintain homeostasis. IST-3.A, IST-3.B, and IST-3.C
    
5. SWBAT apply principles of inheritance to predict genetic outcomes and explain variation. IST-2.A, IST-2.B, IST-2.C, and IST-2.D
    
6. SWBAT explain how genetic information is stored, replicated, and expressed, including regulation of gene expression, aligned with learning objectives IST-1.C, IST-1.D, and IST-1.E /
    
7. SWBAT explain how evolutionary processes such as natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow drive population change. EVO-1.A, EVO-1.B, EVO-1.C, and EVO-1.D
    
8. SWBAT analyze how ecological interactions influence population dynamics, community structure, and ecosystem function. SYI-1.A, SYI-1.B, SYI-1.C, and SYI-1.D

AP Calculus AB

1. SWBAT interpret and analyze the limits and continuity of functions graphically, analytically, and numerically.
    
2. SWBAT evaluate the derivative of a function using a variety of methods.
    
3. SWBAT apply derivative rules and generalize them to the contexts of non-functions, inverse functions, and applied scenarios.
    
4. SWBAT generalize their understanding of derivatives to analyze graphical features in various mathematical and real world contexts.
    
5. SWBAT evaluate the antiderivative of a function using a variety of methods including definite and indefinite integrals.
    
6. SWBAT generalize their understanding of integrals to evaluate problems in various mathematical and real world contexts.
    
7. SWBAT evaluate a differential equation in order to determine its solution(s) in various mathematical and real world contexts.
    
8. SWBAT analyze functions that are used in mathematical and authentic contexts in order to determine area and volume.

AP Calculus BC

1. SWBAT interpret and analyze the limits and continuity of functions graphically, analytically, and numerically.
    
2. SWBAT evaluate the derivative of a functions and non-functions using a variety of methods.
    
3. SWBAT generalize their understanding of derivatives to evaluate problems in various mathematical and real world contexts.
    
4. SWBAT evaluate the antiderivative of a function using a variety of methods including definite and indefinite integrals in and out of context.
    
5. SWBAT evaluate a differential equation in order to determine its solution(s) in various mathematical and real world contexts.
    
6. SWBAT analyze functions that are used in mathematical and authentic contexts in order to determine area and volume.
    
7. SWBAT interpret, evaluate, and investigate alternative coordinate systems and graphing techniques including parametric equations, vector-valued functions, and polar coordinates.
    
8. SWBAT determine the convergence or divergence of infinite series by selecting and applying a variety of analytical tests, including the Ratio, Integral, Comparison, and Alternating Series tests.
    
9. SWBAT represent transcendental functions as Taylor and Maclaurin series to analyze function behavior, determine intervals of convergence, and bound the error of polynomial approximations.

AP Chemistry

1. Students will be able to use models of atomic structure to describe and predict periodic trends and explain how electron configuration determines an element's chemical properties.
    
2. Students will be able to represent chemical bonding using Lewis structures and VSEPR theory to predict molecular geometry and explain how bonding type determines compound properties.
    
3. Students will be able to analyze intermolecular forces using particulate models to explain and predict how physical properties vary among substances.
    
4. Students will be able to represent chemical reactions using balanced equations and stoichiometric calculations to demonstrate the conservation of mass and predict product quantities.
    
5. Students will be able to design and analyze experiments using collision theory and rate law models to explain how molecular collisions determine reaction rates and predict the effects of variables on reaction speed.
    
6. Students will be able to use enthalpy, entropy, and free energy models to calculate energy changes in reactions and predict whether processes are spontaneous.
    
7. Students will be able to apply equilibrium constant expressions and Le Chatelier's Principle to predict and explain how systems respond to changes in conditions.
    
8. Students will be able to use acid-base equilibrium models and mathematical relationships to calculate pH and explain how buffers resist changes in acidity.
    
9. Students will be able to represent electron transfer using half-reactions and cell potential models to predict electrochemical spontaneity and calculate electrical work.
    
10. Students will be able to design a testable scientific question, create an experimental method to test it, make observations, collect data in a laboratory setting, describe potential sources of experimental error, and propose modifications.

AP Economics

1. Students will be able to analyze how economists construct measurements to monitor the state of an economy and evaluate its performance over time.
    
2. Students will be able to analyze how competitive markets bring together buyers and sellers to exchange goods and services for mutual gain.
    
3. Students will be able to analyze how macroeconomic models are simplified representations that depict basic economic relationships and can be used to predict and explain how those relationships are affected by economic shocks.
    
4. Students will be able to analyze how government taxation and spending policies and central bank monetary policy can affect an economy’s output, price level, and level of employment.
    
5. Students will be able to analyze scarcity and markets.
    
6. Students will be able to analyze costs, benefits and marginal analysis.
    
7. Students will be able to analyze how firms seek to minimize costs and maximize profits, which influences their production decisions in the short run and long run.
    
8. Students will be able to analyze market inefficiency and public policy.

AP English Language & Composition

1. Rhetorical Situation (Reading): Analyze how writers' choices reflect the components of the rhetorical situation.
    
2. Rhetorical Situation (Writing): Make strategic choices in a text to address a rhetorical situation.
    
3. Claims and Evidence (Reading): Identify and describe the claims and evidence of an argument.
    
4. Claims and Evidence (Writing): Analyze and select evidence to develop and refine a claim.
    
5. Reasoning and Organization (Reading): Analyze the reasoning, organization, and development of an argument.
    
6. Reasoning and Organization (Writing):Develop an argument through a sophisticated line of reasoning through organization and commentary.
    
7. Students will use speaking and listening to present, explain, and/or discuss information at the grades 11-12 complexity band.

AP English Literature & Composition

1. Character: Evaluate the function of character.
    
2. Setting: Evaluate the function of setting.
    
3. Structure: Evaluate the function of plot and structure.
    
4. Narration: Evaluate the function of the narrator or speaker.
    
5. Figurative Language: Evaluate the various functions of figurative language.
    
6. Literary Argumentation: Develop textually substantiated arguments about interpretations of part or all of a text.
    
7. Students will use speaking and listening to present, explain, and/or discuss information at the grades 11-12 complexity band.

AP Environment Science

1. Systems Thinking: Understanding complex, interrelated systems (biogeochemical cycles, food webs, ecological pyramids).
    
2. Environmental Impact: Distinguishing between natural vs. anthropogenic (human-made) causes for environmental problems.
    
3. Data Analysis & Scientific Method: Interpreting graphs, charts, and diagrams; understanding hypothesis, variables (dependent/independent), and controls.
    
4. Quantitative Skills: Applying math routines, specifically dimensional analysis or the factor-label method.
    
5. Explain and Describe: Articulate environmental concepts and processes, such as the rainshadow effect, El Niño/La Niña, or biogeochemical cycles.
    
6. Analyze and Interpret: Evaluate data, visual representations, and research studies, identifying trends, outliers, and lines of best fit.
    
7. Propose Solutions: Develop and support solutions for environmental problems (e.g., pollution reduction, sustainable land use) with evidence.

AP European History

1. Historical Thinking Skill 1: Developments and Processes (HTS1) SWBAT identify and explain historical developments and processes
    
2. Historical Thinking Skill 2: Sourcing and Situation (HTS2) SWBAT analyze sourcing and situation of primary and secondary sources.
    
3. Historical Thinking Skill 3: Claims and Evidence in Sources (HTS3) SWBAT analyze arguments in primary and secondary sources
    
4. Historical Thinking Skill 4: Contextualization (HTS4) SWBAT analyze the context of historical events, developments, or process
    
5. Historical Thinking Skill 5: Making Connections (HTS5) SWBAT use historical reasoning processes (comparison, causation, continuity and change) analyze patterns and connections between and among historical developments and processes.
    
6. Historical Thinking Skill 6: Argumentation (HTS6) SWBAT develop and support an argument using specific and relevant evidence

AP Human Geography

1. Students will be able to analyze geographic theories, approaches, processes and models.
    
2. Students will be able to analyze Population and Migration Patterns & Processes.
    
3. Students will be able to describe, analyze, and compare Cultural Patterns & Processes.
    
4. Students will be able to analyze & describe Political Patterns & Processes.
    
5. Students will be able to describe and analyze Agriculture and Land-Use Patterns & Processes.
    
6. Students will be able to compare and analyze Cities and Land-Use Patterns & Processes.
    
7. Students will be able analyze and evaluate Industrial and Economic Development Patterns & Processes.

AP Music Theory

1. Comprehend Text: Comprehend written, audio, audiovisual, and visual text (text, pictures, and numbers).
    
2. Make Connections: Make interdisciplinary and cultural connections.
    
3. Interpret Text: Interpret the content of written or audio text (words).
    
4. Make Meanings: Make meanings from words and expressions.
    
5. Speak to Others: Communicate interpersonally by speaking with others.
    
6. Write to Others: Communicate interpersonally by writing to others.
    
7. Present Orally: Communicate through spoken presentations.
    
8. Present in Writing: Communicate through written presentations.

AP Physics1

1. Create qualitative diagrams, tables, charts, or schematics to represent physical situations.
    
2. Create appropriately scaled quantitative diagrams, tables, charts, or schematics to represent physical situations.
    
3. Derive a symbolic expression from known quantities by selecting and following a logical mathematical pathway.
    
4. Analyze systems by calculating, or estimating an unknown quantity with units from known quantities, by selecting and following a logical computational pathway.
    
5. Compare physical quantities between two or more scenarios or at different times and locations in a single scenario.
    
6. Predict new values or factors of change of physical quantities using functional dependence between variables.
    
7. Create experimental procedures.
    
8. Analyze data to make and justify claims.

AP Physics C

1. Create qualitative diagrams, tables, charts, or schematics to represent physical situations.
    
2. Create appropriately scaled quantitative diagrams, tables, charts, or schematics to represent physical situations.
    
3. Derive a symbolic expression from known quantities by selecting and following a logical mathematical pathway.
    
4. Analyze systems by calculating, or estimating an unknown quantity with units from known quantities, by selecting and following a logical computational pathway.
    
5. Compare physical quantities between two or more scenarios or at different times and locations in a single scenario.
    
6. Predict new values or factors of change of physical quantities using functional dependence between variables.
    
7. Create experimental procedures.
    
8. Analyze data to make and justify claims.

AP Psychology (Dual Credit)

1. Identify psychological, biological, and other factors that influence behavior and mental processes.
    
2. Apply key theories and concepts in psychology.
    
3. Evaluate claims about psychological phenomena and human behavior through the use of empirical evidence and knowledge of the scientific method.
    
4. Demonstrate knowledge about the ways psychological science and practices are contextualized by ethical standards and sociocultural factors.
    
5. Identify psychological, social, cultural, and biological factors that influence behavior and mental processes.
    
6. Evaluate claims about psychological phenomena and human behavior through the use of empirical evidence.
    
7. Demonstrate knowledge about the ways psychological science and practices are contextualized by ethical standards and sociocultural factors.

AP Psychology

1. Apply psychological perspective, theories, concepts, and research findings to the scenario.
    
2. Evaluate qualitative and quantitative research methods and study design.
    
3. Evaluate representations on psychological concepts in quantitative and qualitative research including tables, graphs, charts, figures, and diagrams.
    
4. Develop and justify psychological arguments using evidence.

AP Spanish Language

1. Comprehend Text: Comprehend written, audio, audiovisual, and visual text (text, pictures, and numbers).
    
2. Make Connections: Make interdisciplinary and cultural connections.
    
3. Interpret Text: Interpret the content of written or audio text (words).
    
4. Make Meanings: Make meanings from words and expressions.
    
5. Speak to Others: Communicate interpersonally by speaking with others.
    
6. Write to Others: Communicate interpersonally by writing to others.
    
7. Present Orally: Communicate through spoken presentations.
    
8. Present in Writing: Communicate through written presentations.

AP Spanish Literature

1. Analyze and/or interpret literary texts and audio sources in the target language.
    
2. Investigate connections between literary texts, non-literary texts, and/or aspects of culture.
    
3. Compare & contrast literary texts.
    
4. Compare & contrast texts to artistic representations.
    
5. Analyze a literary analysis.
    
6. Use accurate language and apply appropriate conventions of written language.
    
7. Engage in discussions about literary texts in the target language.

AP Statistics

AP Studio Art

1. Students will evaluate works of art.
    
2. Students will demonstrate technical skills with a variety of tools, media, and processes.
    
3. Students will apply elements of art and design principles to create artwork.
    
4. Students will generate artistic ideas and work.
    
5. Students will utilize personal reflection and critical feedback to refine their process.

AP US Government

1. Concept Application: Apply political concepts and processes to scenarios in context.
    
2. SCOTUS Application: Apply Supreme Court decisions.
    
3. Data Analysis: Analyze and interpret quantitative data represented in tables, charts, graphs, maps, and infographics.
    
4. Source Analysis: Read, analyze, and interpret foundational documents and other text-based visual sources.
    
5. Argumentation: Develop an argument in essay format.

AP US History

1. Document Based Analysis - Responds to a prompt with a historically defensible claim, describes the broader historical context, demonstrates understanding of documents and/or effectively uses documents in support of an argument related to the prompt, identifies the historical significance of the documents, and demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of historical arguments related to the prompt.
    
2. Long Essay Analysis - Responds to a prompt with a historically defensible claim, describes the broader historical context, provides specific evidence relevant to the prompt, supports an argument using relevant evidence, uses historical reasoning skills to structure an argument relevant to the prompt,and demonstrates a complex understanding of the historical developments relevant to the prompt.
    
3. Content Knowledge - Analyzes complex content relevant to U.S. history with or without a stimulus.
    
4. Short Answer Analysis - Writes short answers to complex historical content with or without a stimulus. The answers demonstrate a thorough understanding to the posed questions.

AP World History

1. Historical Thinking Skill 1: Developments and Processes (HTS1) SWBAT identify and explain historical developments and processes.
    
2. Historical Thinking Skill 2: Sourcing and Situation (HTS2) SWBAT analyze sourcing and situation of primary and secondary sources.
    
3. Historical Thinking Skill 3: Claims and Evidence in Sources (HTS3) SWBAT analyze arguments in primary and secondary sources.
    
4. Historical Thinking Skill 4: Contextualization (HTS4) SWBAT analyze the context of historical events, developments, or process.
    
5. Historical Thinking Skill 5: Making Connections (HTS5) SWBAT using historical reasoning processes (comparison, causation, continuity and change) analyze patterns and connections between and among historical developments and processes.
    
6. Historical Thinking Skill 6: Argumentation (HTS6) SWBAT develop and support an argument using specific and relevant evidence.