Grade 11

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  • SAT Words in Context and Craft and Structure

    The learner answers Words in Context, Text Structure and Purpose and Cross-Text Connections questions: picking the most precise word for a blank, naming what a sentence or passage does, and predicting how one author…

  • How to Write an Argumentative Essay

    The learner writes an argumentative essay that develops claims and counterclaims fairly, supports and qualifies them with evidence, links reasoning with transitions and keeps a formal style.

  • How to Write a Research Paper

    The learner narrows a research question, gathers and evaluates sources, integrates quotations and paraphrase, avoids plagiarism and documents sources in a standard style.

  • Photosynthesis

    The learner explains that plants make glucose by photosynthesis, writes the word equation, links leaf structure to its job, and explains why plants need minerals and why photosynthesis matters for food chains and the…

  • Colonial America

    The learner explains how Native nations, European empires and African captives shaped colonial North America, compares the economies, societies and governments of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies, and…

  • Constitutional Convention

    The learner explains the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, analyses the debates and compromises of the Constitutional Convention, and compares Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments in the ratification…

  • American Civil War

    The learner explains how conflict over slavery and its expansion divided the United States, why the Southern states seceded, and how the Union won a war that became a war to end slavery.

  • American Revolution

    The learner explains how the Seven Years' War led to an imperial crisis, how colonial resistance became a war for independence, what the Declaration of Independence claimed, and how and at what cost the United States…

  • Maya, Aztec and Inca

    The learner describes the Maya, Aztec and Inca states and the diversity of other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of present-day Brazil, and their achievements.

  • Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

    The learner explains how the transatlantic slave trade worked, the lives and resistance of enslaved people in the Americas, and how abolition movements ended the trade and slavery.

  • Novel Study

    The learner tracks character, conflict, setting, symbol and theme across a whole novel, relates it to its context and writes about it.

  • Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny

    The learner explains how the idea of Manifest Destiny, settlers and wars pushed the United States to the Pacific, and evaluates the consequences for Native nations, Mexico and the balance between free and slave states.

  • Budgeting and Saving

    The learner plans a personal budget, tracks income and spending, sets saving goals and decides between spending now and saving for later.

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