Providing Real Opportunities for Vocational Education: Grades 9, 10

Self Assessment

Language Arts

Math

Reading

Identify terms related to work readiness

Identify and interpret personal interests, abilities, and skills

Describe personal, social, educational, and career goals

Explain environmental influences on one's behavior

Define self-concept

Identify and apply interpersonal skills

Explain interpersonal skills utilized in employer & employee interactions

Describe examples of vocational and academic skills

Compare the relationship of academic and vocational skills to personal interests

Analyze ways education relates to the selection of postsecondary training or employment

Explain positive contributions workers make to society

Illustrate learning habits and skills that can be used in various occupational situations

Develop and apply positive work attitudes and behaviors

Identify educational requirements of various occupations

Locate career information resources

Identify sources of information for job openings and opportunities

Identify proper construction and format of a resumé.

Identify the components of a job application.

Apply proper management of financial resources

List factors that determine lifestyle

Describe how occupational choices affect lifestyle

Identify changing career patterns of men and women

Describe gender stereotyping and bias in educational programs and occupational settings

Compare advantages and disadvantages of nontraditional occupations

Identify courses appropriate to occupational choices

Define terms related to language arts

Identify five rules of capitalization

Identify proper nouns and adjectives

Identify first word of a direct quote

Identify first word and all other important words of titles

Identify correct end punctuation of a sentence

Separate words, phrases, etc., in a series with a comma

Identify proper usage of commas in sentence structure

Use commas to separate independent clauses joined by or, nor, for, yet, and, but, so

Describe four rules for utilizing quotation marks to indicate the exact words of another person

Quotation marks before the first word and after the last word of a direct quotation

Direct and indirect quotation by using quotation marks

Describe five rules for underlining.

Describe proper use of apostrophes

Describe proper use of apostrophes to form the possessive of nouns and pronouns

Identify numbers that can be expressed in one or two words as words, and numbers that require three or more words as figures

Identify figures for dates, street numbers, page numbers, room numbers, telephone numbers, statistics, and numbers of divisions of a book

Identify figures in a series of numbers

Identify correct subject-verb agreement

Identify common, proper and collective nouns

Identify nouns functioning as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, appositives, and predicate nominatives

Describe five uses of verbs

Identify parts of irregular verbs

Identify action verbs

Identify linking verbs

Identify verb forms of be

Identify Participle phrases

Identify gerund phrases

Show examples of proper and common adjectives

Identify prepositional phrases used as adjectives

Examine examples of adverbs expressing how, where, why, and what extent, and examples of modifying verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

Identify pronouns

Identify conjunctions

Identify prepositional phrases

Explain combining process for two or more sentences effectively

Identify sentence fragments

Identify run-on sentences

Identify simple subject and predicate

Identify complete subject and predicate

Define or identify expressive writing, poetic writing, and transactional writing

Define terms related to math

Identify place value of each digit in a whole number with no more than ten digits

Label word name for a standard numeral through billons

Label standard numeral for the word name of a whole number through billions

Identify whole numbers to the nearest tens, hundred, through billions

Identify place value in decimals through thousands

Identify decimals to nearest whole number, tenth or hundredth

Label word name of a decimal through thousandth

Match standard form for decimal through thousandths, given the word name

Describe the process for calculating the addition of three or more six-digit whole numbers

Subtract two six-digit whole numbers

Multiply up to a three-digit whole number by a three-digit whole number

Divide up to a five-digit whole number by a two-digit whole number

Compute answers to whole number computation problems

Solve reading problems involving one or two operations with whole numbers

Compute greatest common factor of two or three whole numbers with no more than two digits

Find least common multiple of two or three whole numbers with no more than two digits

Convert fraction to an equivalent fraction with a given denominator which does not exceed two digits

Two or more fractions with unlike denominators that do not exceed two digits, stating the sum in simplest form

Two fractions with unlike denominators that do not exceed two digits, stating the difference in simplest form

Decimal through thousandths to a common fraction

Common fraction to a decimal (denominators not to exceed 100)

Add two or more decimals through thousandths

Subtract decimals through thousandths

Multiply decimal with no more than three digits by a decimal with no more than three digits

Divide decimal by a two-digit whole number

Solve consumer type reading problems which require the use of decimals

Rename percent, exclusive of those having decimals or fractional parts, as a fraction

Rename percent, exclusive of those having decimals or fractional parts, as a decimal

Change decimal as a percent

Solve consumer type reading problems that require finding the percent of a number

Find reasonable metric measure for length distance, capacity, or mass using metric units

Find reasonable customary measure for length or distance, liquid volume, or capacity or mass using measures

Convert one unit of measure to another within the same system

Find length of a line segment to the nearest tenth of a centimeter or eighth of a inch

Identify circles, triangles, quadrilaterals, and octagons

Calculate perimeter of any polygon

Calculate area of a square and rectangle

Interpret charts, tables, and graphs

Interpret simple chart, table, or graph to find information

Calculate mean of five two-digit numbers

Identify set of integers

Define terms related to reading

Identify synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms

Explain meaning of unfamiliar words by using context clues

Select correct base or root from of the word in words having a prefix and/or suffix

Locate dictionary key to match the phonetic spelling with the correct spelling

Name plurals of words

Define word meanings through the expanded use of prefixes and suffixes

Differentiate stated or implied main idea of a selection

Recall details of a selection

Recall stated or implied sequence of events in a selection

Predict logical outcome after reading a portion of a selection

Interpret literal meaning for familiar idioms

Interpret cause and effect relationships in a section

Interpret literal meaning of figurative language

Distinguish inferences or conclusions from a selection

Select word or phrase to complete a given analogy

Determine author's purpose

Compare reality and fantasy

Identify facts and opinions

Identify propaganda and bias in advertising

Name types of literature

List essential elements of a story

Identify dictionary skills

Interpret information from tables of content, indexes, appendices, glossaries, card catalogs, maps, graphs, tables, time lines, and newspapers

Distinguish main topics, subtopics, and details

Show attentive listening by taking accurate notes from class lectures and correctly answering questions pertaining to material presented orally

Describe various types of propaganda

Describe conversational skills

Examine appropriate response to an idea

Describe how individual characteristics relate to achieving personal, social, educational, and career goals.

Compare the relationship between personal behavior and self concept.

Using case studies illustrate interpersonal skills exhibited by employer & employee.

Compare the relationship of academic vocational skills to career goals.

Demonstrate positive work attitudes and behaviors in role playing situations.

Construct a resource guide for locating career information.

Investigate information about job openings and opportunities.

Prepare a resumé using proper construction and format.

Complete and critique a job application.

Prepare a personal budget for a specific time period.

Justify expenditures.

Compare lifestyles based on a variety of budgets.

Create a plan for eliminating gender bias and stereotyping.

Compile sources of postsecondary vocational and academic programs.

Demonstrate knowledge of capitalization rules by capitalizing first word of a sentence.

Demonstrate knowledge of proper nouns and adjectives of a sentence.

Demonstrate knowledge of first words of a direct quote.

Demonstrate knowledge of capitalization rules by capitalizing first word of a title.

Demonstrate knowledge of capitalization rules by capitalizing pronouns.

Apply commas to set of items in sentences.

Demonstrate the usage of commas with coordinating conjunctions.

Apply quotation marks to set off the titles of songs, short stories, short poems, articles, essays, lectures, short plays, and book chapters.

Apply quotation mark before the first word and after a direct quote.

Identify the difference in an indirect quote and direct quote.

Apply underlines in titles of books, pamphlets, movies, radio, and television programs.

Apply underlining to indicate titles, long plays and poems published as separate volumes.

Apply underlining to indicate names of newspapers and magazines.

Apply underlining to indicate titles of paintings, statues, concertos, operas, ballets, and musical comedies.

Apply underlining to indicate names of ships and airplanes.

Apply apostrophes to form contractions

Apply Apostrophes to form the possessive nouns & pronouns

Demonstrate knowledge of regular verbs

Demonstrate by writing different forms of irregular verbs

Demonstrate by writing different forms of action verbs

Demonstrate by writing the different forms of the verb to be

Express knowledge of examples of modifying verbs, adverbs, adjective.

Change pronouns to antecedents.

Recognize pronouns that can replace nouns.

Coordinate conjunctions to connect words, phrases, or clauses of equal rank.

Apply subordinate conjunctions to connect a dependent clause with an independent clause.

Apply conjunctions to make an alternative sentence express the same time relationship as a given sentence.

Apply conjunctions to make an alternate sentence express the same causation, result, or contingency as a given sentence.

Combine two or more sentences effectively.

Correct sentence fragments.

Correct run-on sentences.

Construct sentences using simple subject and predicate.

Demonstrate composing process by prewriting, drafting, revising, edition, and publishing

Write to one of five audiences: self, peers, trusted adult, teacher as critic, and world at large

Calculate addition of these or more six-digit whole numbers.

Demonstrate dictionary skills by alphabetizing a given word list, using entry words, using guide words, using pronunciation keys, and selecting appropriate dictionary meanings.

Demonstrate analytical listening by determining a main idea from an oral discussion, drawing inferences, and stating speaker's purpose

Apply conversational skills with subject appropriate to the occasion.