Texas Content Area Standards

• Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.1

  The student demonstrates professional standards/employability skills as required by business and industry. The student is expected to:

  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.1.B: apply competencies related to resources, information, interpersonal skills, problem solving, critical thinking, and systems of operation in agriculture, food, and natural resources.

• Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4

  The student explains the historical, current, and future significance of the agriculture, food, and natural resources industry. The student is expected to:

  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4.B: analyze the scope of agriculture, food, and natural resources and its effect upon society.
  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.4.C: evaluate significant historical and current agriculture, food, and natural resources developments.

• Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.6

  The student demonstrates appropriate personal and communication skills. The student is expected to:

  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.6.A: demonstrate written and oral communication skills appropriate for formal and informal situations such as prepared and extemporaneous presentations.
  • Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources: 130.2.c.6.B: demonstrate effective listening skills appropriate for formal and informal situations.

• World Geography Studies: 113.43.c.11

  Economics. The student understands how geography influences economic activities.

  • World Geography Studies: 11.B: The student is expected to identify the factors affecting the location of different types of economic activities, including subsistence and commercial agriculture, manufacturing, and service industries.

• United States History Since 1877: 113.41.c.26

  Science, technology, and society. The student understands the impact of science, technology, and the free enterprise system on the economic development of the United States.

  • U.S. History Since 1877: 26.B: The student is expected to explain how specific needs result in scientific discoveries and technological innovations in agriculture, the military, and medicine.

• United States History Since 1877: 113.41.c.28

  Social studies skills. The student understands how historians use historiography to interpret the past and applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology.

  • U.S. History Since 1877: 28.A: The student is expected to analyze primary and secondary sources such as maps, graphs, speeches, political cartoons, and artifacts to acquire information to answer historical questions.

• English I: 110.36.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English I: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse by listening actively, responding appropriately, and adjusting communication to audiences and purposes.
  • English I: 1.D: The student is expected to participate collaboratively, building on the ideas of others, contributing relevant information, developing a plan for consensus building, and setting ground rules for decision making.

• English I: 110.36.c.5

  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

  • English I: 5.B: The student is expected to write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing texts within and across genres.
  • English I: 5.E: The student is expected to interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.

• English II: 110.37.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundation language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English II: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse by listening actively, responding appropriately, and adjusting communication to audiences and purposes.
  • English II: 1.D: The student is expected to participate collaboratively, building on the ideas of others, contributing relevant information, developing a plan for consensus building, and setting ground rules for decision making.

• English III: 110.38.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English III: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse when evaluating the clarity and coherence of a speaker's message and critiquing the impact of a speaker's use of diction and syntax.
  • English III: 1.D: The student is expected to participate collaboratively, offering ideas or judgements that are purposeful in moving the team toward goals, asking relevant and insightful questions, tolerating a range of positions and ambiguity in decision making, and evaluating the work of the group based on agreed-upon criteria.

• English III: 110.38.c.5

  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

  • English III: 5.B: The student is expected to write responses that demonstrate analysis of texts, including comparing texts within and across genres.
  • English III: 5.E: The student is expected to interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.

• English II: 110.37.c.5

  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

  • English II: 5.B: The student is expected to write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing texts within and across genres.
  • English II: 5.E: The student is expected to interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.

• English IV: 110.39.c.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • English IV: 1.A: The student is expected to engage in meaningful and respectful discourse when evaluating the clarity and coherence of a speaker's message and critiquing the impact of a speaker's use of diction, syntax, and rhetorical strategies.
  • English IV: 1.D: The student is expected to participate collaboratively, offering ideas or judgements that are purposeful in moving the team toward goals, asking relevant and insightful questions, tolerating a range of positions and ambiguity in decision making, and evaluating the work of the group based on agreed-upon criteria.

• English IV: 110.39.c.5

  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

  • English IV: 5.B: The student is expected to write responses that demonstrate analysis of texts, including comparing texts within and across genres.
  • English IV: 5.E: The student is expected to interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.

• Environmental Systems: 112.37.c.5

  Science concepts. The student knows the interrelationships among the resources within the local environmental system.

  • Environmental Systems: 5.A: The student is expected to summarize methods of land use and management and describe its effects on land fertility.

• Environmental Systems: 112.50.c.6

  Science concepts. The student knows the interrelationships among the resources within the local environmental system. The student is expected to:

  • Environmental Systems: 112.50.c.6.A: compare and contrast land use and management methods and how they affect land attributes such as fertility, productivity, economic value, and ecological stability