Content Standards

Alignment with California Content Standards – Economics & English

Economics, Grade 12

12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

Examine the causal relationship between scarcity and the need for choices.
Explain the opportunity cost and marginal benefit and marginal cost
Identify the difference between monetary and nonmonetary incentives and how changes in incentives cause changes in behavior.
Evaluate the role of private property as an incentive in conserving and improving scarce resources, including renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Analyze the role of a market economy in establishing and preserving political and personal liberty.

12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Understand the relationship of the concept of incentives to the law of supply and the relationship of the concept of incentives and substitutes to the law of demand.
Discuss the effects of changes in supply and/or demand on the relative scarcity, price, and quantity of particular products.
Explain the roles of property rights, competition, and profit in a market economy.
Explain how prices reflect the relative scarcity of goods and services and perform the allocative function in a market economy.
Understand the process by which competition among buyers and sellers determines a market price.
Describe the effect of price controls on buyers and sellers.
Analyze how domestic and international competition in a market economy affects goods and services produced and the quality, quantity, and price of those products.
Explain the role of profit as the incentive to entrepreneurs in a market economy.
Discuss the economic principles that guide the location of agricultural production and industry and the spatial distribution of transportation and retail facilities.

12.4 Students analyze the elements of the U.S. labor market in a global setting.

Understand the operations of the labor market, including the circumstances surrounding the establishment of principal American labor unions, procedures that unions use to gain benefits for their members, the effects of unionization, the minimum wage, and unemployment insurance.
Describe the current economy and labor market, including the types of goods and services produced, the types of skills workers need, the effects of rapid technological change, and the impact of international competition.
Discuss wage differences among jobs and professions, using the laws of demand and supply and the concept of productivity.
Explain the effects of international mobility of capital and labor on the U.S. economy.

12.6 Students analyze issues of international trade and explain how the U.S. economy affects, and is affected by, economic forces beyond the United States’ borders.

Identify the gains in consumption and production efficiency from trade, with emphasis on the main products and changing geographic patterns of twentieth-century trade among countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Understand the changing role of international political borders and territorial sovereignty in a global economy.

English Language Arts, Grade 12

2. READING COMPREHENSION (FOCUS ON INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS): Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organization patterns, arguments, and positions advanced.

Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text:

2.1. verify and clarify facts presented in other types of expository texts by using a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents

2. WRITING APPLICATIONS (GENRES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS)

2.3. write job applications and resumés:

• provide clear and purposeful information and address the intended audience appropriately

• use varied levels, patterns, and types of language to achieve intended effects and aid comprehension

• modify tone to fit purpose and audience

• follow the conventional style for the type of document (e.g., resumé, memorandum) and use page formats, fonts, and spacing that contribute to the document’s readability and impact of the document

2.4. deliver multimedia presentations:

• combine text, images, and sound and drawing information from many sources (e.g., television broadcasts, videos, films, newspapers, magazines, CD ROMs, the Internet, electronic media-generated images

• select an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation

• use selected media skillfully, editing appropriately and monitoring for quality

• test audience’s response and revise the presentation accordingly

2. SPEAKING APPLICATIONS (GENRES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS)

2.2. deliver multimedia presentations that

• combine text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including film, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, online information, television, videos, and electronic media-generated images

• select an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation

• use the selected media skillfully, editing appropriately and monitoring for quality

• test audience’s response and revise the presentation accordingly