Our High School is committed to high academic expectations for each student. We work together so that students learn to communicate clearly and think critically. We promote lifelong learning and encourage students to take responsibility for themselves as individuals and as members of their community.
Academic Expectations:
• Students will use the skills and strategies of the reading process to
comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate what they read.
• Students will demonstrate their ability to use the skills and strategies
of the writing process.
• Students will learn to conduct appropriate and in-depth research.
• Students will develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills
in a language other than their own.
• Students will broaden their perspectives by gaining insight into
other cultures.
• Students will understand and analyze the relationships among
people and their physical environments.
• Students will develop historical knowledge of major events, people,
and enduring themes in Maine, the United States, and throughout
world history.
• Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents,
artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about
the perspective of the authors and their credibility when interpreting
current and historical events.
• Students will understand the rights and responsibilities of civic life and
will employ the skills of effective civic participation.
• Students will demonstrate artistic literacy by creating, performing or
exhibiting in one or more art forms.
• Students will use analysis and appropriate terminology to demonstrate
an informed acquaintance with exemplary works of art from a variety of
cultures and historical periods.
• Students will acquire the knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to
maintain or modify levels of fitness.
• Students will participate in and demonstrate a level of competency in a
variety of life-long physical activities.
• Students will continue developing their knowledge of health literacy.
• Students will understand and apply concepts from algebra, geometry,
data analysis and probability.
• Students will be able to make accurate observations and measurement
using appropriate instruments and units.
• Students will be able to form generalizations based on observations
(i.e. deductive reasoning).
• Students will be able to know and understand the process of scientific
inquiry, and be able to use the process to solve problems.
• Students will be able to use symbols, graphs and diagrams to support
arguments and to draw conclusions by verifying and evaluating results.
• Students will utilize technological tools, materials and processes to
develop problem-solving skills.
• Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career
options and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to their career
decisions.
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