Grades 9 – 12

Critical Thinking

1. Quantitative Skills- clarity, accuracy, precision, logic, coherence, and correspondence
2. Qualitative Skills- relevance, significance, ethos, and meaning

Critical Analysis

1. Elements of Analysis
   1. Primary and secondary sources, such as historical documents and court cases
   2. Perspective (statements, assumptions), objectivity and bias, structures of arguments
   3. Evaluation (credibility, accuracy, and relevance of sources)
   4. Interpret, construct, hypothesize

Research Skills

APA and MLA writing formats, scholarly resources, factual evidence, reasoned conclusions

Research Writing

1. Types of research writing
   1. Academic- descriptive, analytical, persuasive, and critical
   2. Essay- expository, narrative, and argumentative
   3. Reports- technical, presentations, and journals
   4. Scientific- objective