Strand 3: Safety

3.4 Explain the importance of respecting personal space and boundaries

3.6 Demonstrate the ability to ask a trusted adult for help when feeling personally threatened or unsafe, including while using the Internet

3.7 Analyze environments and situations, including those where weapons may be present, to determine whether they are safe

3.8 Describe strategies to avoid unsafe situations

Strand 4: Social and Emotional Health

4.1 Describe some common causes of stress, and the health effects of stress

4.2 Analyze the importance of getting help from an adult when it is needed

4.3 Identify criteria to determine whether another person is able to help one make healthy decisions and solve problems; and apply these criteria to identify people who can provide help

4.4 Demonstrate the ability to use practical strategies to manage strong feelings

4.5 Use practical strategies to develop a personal plan for stress management

4.6 Describe the decision making and problem solving steps

4.7 Demonstrate the ability to make a decision or solve a problem using criteria to evaluate solutions

4.8 Describe the characteristics of conflicts that can be resolved and the steps of effective conflict resolution

4.9 Demonstrate the ability to use the steps of conflict resolution

4.10 Demonstrate effective listening strategies

4.11 Demonstrate the ability to use assertive communication skills appropriately

4.12 Analyze how friendships may involve positive and negative risks

4.13 Explain the difference between angry feelings and angry behavior

4.14 Demonstrate the ability to express appreciation

1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence

2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content

3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences

4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task,
purpose, and audience

5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach

10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (asingle sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences

Strand 3: Safety

3.1 Describe the characteristics of healthy (positive) and harmful (negative) relationships

3.9 Recognize warning signs of potential danger in relationships

3.10 Evaluate individual, group, and societal influences that promote peace and respectful behaviors, and those that promote violence and disrespectful behaviors

3.12 Apply conflict resolution skills to real or hypothetical situations involving peers

3.17 Commit to taking individual action to promote peace

3.19 Advocate for changes in home, school, or community environments that would increase safety

Strand 4: Social and Emotional Health

4.1 Distinguish between passive, aggressive, and assertive communication

4.2 Describe the warning signs, risk factors, and protective factors for depression and suicide

4.3 Analyze situations as to whether they call for simple acts of caring among friends, or require getting the help of caring adults

4.4 Demonstrate how to ask trusted adults and friends for help with emotional or mental health concerns for oneself or others, including the risk of suicide

4.5 Demonstrate the ability to locate school and community resources to assist with problems related to emotional health concerns, including when someone is in danger of hurting self or others

4.6 Describe the signs and symptoms of stress

4.7 Demonstrate the ability to use stress management techniques

4.8 Explain internal and external factors that help to determine how one acts toward others

4.9 Demonstrate using the problem solving steps to solve a problem

4.10 Demonstrate ways to show caring and respect for others, including those with real or perceived differences (e.g., cultural differences, disabilities, gender, and sexual orientation)

4.11 Demonstrate the ability to use assertive communication skills

4.12 Apply conflict resolution skills to real or hypothetical situations involving peers

4.13 Describe essential character traits needed for personal success and well being

4.14 Apply skills to manage strong feelings

4.15 Apply character traits during the process of making a decision

4.16 Evaluate behaviors, including one’s own, to determine if they are examples of essential character traits

4.17 Advocate for a school environment in which everyone treats each other with caring and respect

1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual
evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text

2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details
and ideas

4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative
meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone

6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach

7. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text

8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence

P4.2.1 – Demonstrate knowledge of how, when, and where individuals would plan and conduct activities intended to advance views in matters of public policy, re- port the results, and evaluate effectiveness

P4.2.2 – Engage in activities intended to contribute to solving the local, national or global issues studied

P4.2.3 – Plan, conduct, and evaluate the effectiveness of activities intended to advance views on matters of public policy and to address local, regional, or global problems