Flour Bluff Junior High 2015-2016

GRADE 8 STAAR REPORTING CATEGORIES OBJECTIVES
READING
1. The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze a variety of written texts
across reading genres.
2. The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze literary texts.
3. The student will demonstrate an ability to understand and analyze informational texts.
MATHEMATICS
1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of how to represent and manipulate numbers
and expressions.
2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of how perform operations and represent
algebraic relationships.
3. The student will demonstrate an understanding of how to represent and apply geometry and
measurement concepts.
4. The student will demonstrate an understanding of how to represent and analyze data and how
to describe and apply personal financial concepts.
SOCIAL STUDIES
1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S. History.
2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of geographic and cultural influences on
historical issues and events.
3. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the role of government and the civic
process on historical issues and events.
4. The student will demonstrate an understanding of economic and technological influences on
historical issues and events.
SCIENCE
1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the properties of matter and energy and
their interactions.
2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of force, motion, and energy and their
relationships.
3. The student will demonstrate an understanding of components, cycles, patterns, and natural
events of Earth and space systems.
4. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the structures and functions of living
organisms and their interdependence on each other and on their environment.
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