High School Core State Standards of Utah: Curriculum Units & Resources

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While this page is still a work-in-progress, there are several helpful resources and links for teachers’ use in implementing the Core State Standards. Here’s a short description of each:

• Core State Standards with “I Can” Statements for Grades 7 – 12: Lists reading, writing, speaking & listening, and language standards with associated “I Can” statements in order from seventh to twelfth grades. 
• High School Units At-a-Glance: Teachers can see where each standard is covered throughout the school year as illustrated by these spreadsheets grade by grade or 10th through 12th.
  
• Grades 10, 11, and 12 Units: Each unit plan features “focus standards” – specific standards to emphasize, along with associated “I Can” statements.  This does not mean other standards and objectives may not be addressed during the course of that unit’s instruction.
  
• Optional topics/motifs to use with units: Because learning is enhanced when taught within a context, these pages provide topics, enduring understanding statements, essential questions and resources that can serve as frameworks for the units. (Go to HOMEPAGE to read rationale.)
  

JSD High School 10th-12th Units At-a-Glance

TENTH GRADE CURRICULUM UNITS:

10th Grade At-a-Glance

• Unit 1
• Unit 2
• Unit 3
• Unit 4
• Unit 5
• Unit 6

Optional Topics/Motifs to Use with 10th Grade Units:

• Beauty
  
• Communication
• Fear
  
• Happiness 
• Jealousy 
• Journeys 
• Justice  
• Progress
• Rebellion

ELEVENTH GRADE CURRICULUM UNITS:

11th Grade At-a-Glance

• Unit 1
• Unit 2
• Unit 3
• Unit 4
• Unit 5
• Unit 6

Optional Topics and Motifs to Use with 11th Grade Units

Note: These topics are chronologically arranged and correlate with most 11th grade anthologies and U.S. history textbooks.

• The New World*
• A New Nation
• American Romanticism
• A Troubled Young Nation
• Emerging Modernism
• Challenges and Successes of the Twentieth Century

Motifs

• The American Dream*
• Freedom
• Idealism
• Intuition
• Nature and Society
• Reason & Emotion
• Rebellion
• War

TWELFTH GRADE CURRICULUM UNIT

12th Grade At-a-Glance

• Unit 1
• Unit 2
• Unit 3
• Unit 4
• Unit 5
• Unit 6

Optional Topics/Motifs to Use with 12th Grade Units

• Alienation*
• Conformity and Nonconformity*
• Cultural Conflict*
• Evolution of the Hero*
• Power and Ethics*
• Innocence and Experience* 
• Moral Ambiguity 
• Social Influence and Responsibility
• Search for Self
• Utopia *

* Note: Resources for starred motifs are more complete. Additional helps are in the process of being added.