MBA’s Advisory Department: Alignment to New York State Standards
9th Grade
Quarter Units
New York State and City Learning Standards
Final PBA
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 1
Visual
Sociology 1: Intro to presentation of
the Self
the self using
.5 CR Sociology
evidence
Quarter 2
College & Career 1:
Introduction to Presentation on
a college
College
.5 CR Career Development
and Occupational Studies
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 3
Civics 1:
Participation in a
Multi-cultural
Society (Laramie
Project)
.5 CR U.S. History
Quarter 4
Conflict
Resolution:
Addressing our
Own Thoughts and
Actions
.5 CR English
New York State Curriculum & Instruction Standards:
Public Service
Announcement
on a particular
“ism” or social
issue that
affects a
specific
culture.
 The Arts: 4 (Understanding the Cultural Contributions of the Arts)
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences: Demonstrate understanding of and sensitivity to individual, ethnic, and cultural differences among individuals and families.
New York City Social Studies Standards


Standard 1: History of New York and the US:
o 1.2c: Compare and contrast the experiences of different groups in the United States.
1.3: The study of the major social, political, economic, cultural, and religious developments in New York State and United States history involves learning about the
important roles and contributions of individuals and groups.
o 1.3a: Compare and contrast the experiences of different ethnic, national, and religious groups, including Native American Indians, in the United States, explaining their
contributions to American society and culture.
Standard 5-civics, citizenship, and government:
o 5.2b: Analyze disparities between civic values expressed in the US Constitution and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the realities as
evidenced in the political, social, and economic life in the United States and throughout the world.
o 5.2c: Identify, respect, and model those core civic values inherent in our founding documents that have been forces for unity in American society.
o 5.3a: Understand how citizenship includes the exercise of certain personal responsibilities, including voting, considering the rights and interests of others, behaving in a
civil manner, and accepting responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions
o 5.4d: Consider the need to respect the rights of others, to respect others’ points of view
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
10th Grade
Quarter
Final PBA
New York State and City Learning Standards
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 1
Family Science:
Healthy Inside and
Out
.5 CR Health
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Explore a variety of community-based human service agencies and careers.
o Demonstrate effective communication skills, decision-making strategies, and problem-solving techniques with children, elderly, families of clients, staff colleagues.
o Understand and be able to manage personal resources of talent, time, energy, and money, to make effective decisions in order to balance their obligations to work,
family, and self. They will know and access community resources.
New York State Curriculum & Instruction Standards:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 1: learn about the changing nature of the workplace, the value of work to society, and the connection of work to the achievement of personal goals.
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
Quarter 2
Preparation for
College & Career 2: Volunteering
and Actual
Human Services &
Advisory
Giving Back
Volunteering
.5 CR Family and Consumer
Experience
Science
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Explore a variety of community-based human service agencies and careers.
o Demonstrate effective communication skills, decision-making strategies, and problem-solving techniques with children, elderly, families of clients, staff colleagues.
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 3
Resume, Cover
College & Career 3:
Letter, and
My First Job
Performance of
.5 CR Career Development
an Interview
and Occupational Studies
New York State Curriculum & Instruction:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 1: learn about the changing nature of the workplace, the value of work to society, and the connection of work to the achievement of personal goals.
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: ethical/legal responsibilities, communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Explore a variety of community-based human service agencies and careers.
o Demonstrate effective communication skills, decision-making strategies, and problem-solving techniques with children, elderly, families of clients, staff colleagues.
o Understand and be able to manage personal resources of talent, time, energy, and money, to make effective decisions in order to balance their obligations to work,
family, and self. They will know and access community resources.
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 4
Civics 2: Multiple
Perspectives on
World Conflicts
.5 CR Global Studies
Each advisory
focuses on one
conflict;
students within
the advisory
choose a
particular
perspective to
study and
present on.
New York State World History Standards:
 2.1c: Analyze historic events from around the world by examining accounts written from different perspectives.
 2.1e: Analyze changing and competing interpretations of issues, events, and developments throughout world history
 2.2c: Analyze evidence critically and demonstrate an understanding of how circumstances of time and place influence perspective.
 2.2e: Investigate key events and developments and major turning points in world history to identify factors that brought about change; the long-term effects of changes.
 2.3a: Analyze the roles and contributions of individuals and groups to social, political, economic, cultural, and religious practices and activities.
 2.3b: Explain dynamics of cultural change and how interactions between and among cultures has affected various cultural groups throughout the world.
 2.3c: Examine the social/cultural, political, economic, and religious norms and values of Western and other world cultures.
 2.4a: Identify historical problems, pose analytical questions or hypotheses, research analytical questions or test hypotheses, formulate conclusions or generalizations, raise
new questions or issues for further investigation.
 2.4b: Interpret and analyze documents and artifacts related to significant developments and events in world history.
 2.4c: Plan and organize historical research projects related to regional or global interdependence.
 2.4d: Analyze different interpretations of important events, issues, or developments in world history by studying the social, political, and economic context in which they
were developed; by testing the data source for reliability and validity, credibility, authority, authenticity, and completeness; and by detecting bias, distortion of the facts, and
propaganda by omission, suppression, or invention of facts (Taken from National Standards for World History).
 3.1e: Analyze how the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the Earth’s surface
11th Grade
Quarter
PBA
Quarter 1
Conflict Resolution
2: Actively
creating a positive
env’t in society
New York State and City Learning Standards
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
.5 CR English
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 2
Family Science 3:
Social and
Emotional Health
.5 CR Sociology
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
o Understand major stages of human development—physical, social, emotional, and psychological—and the problems that are part of the phases of human growth.
New York State Curriculum & Instruction:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 3
Application Pack
of “Reach”,
College and Career
“Target”,
and
4: Where will I
“Safety” choices
apply?
and rationale for
.5 CR Career Development
each
and Occupational Studies
New York State Curriculum & Instruction:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
New York State Common Core English Language Arts Standards
(Writing Standards, 11th-12th Grade):
Quarter 4
College personal
statement
(to be
College Writing 11:
used in college
Personal
application in
Statement
the fall)
.5 CR English
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen etails, and well-structured event sequences.
a. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a
narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
c. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense
of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution).
d. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
f. Adapt voice, awareness of audience, and use of language to accommodate a variety of cultural contexts.
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific
purpose and audience. (
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or
information.
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks,
purposes, and audiences.)
(Language Standards, 11th-12th Grade):
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
3. Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully
when reading or listening.
12th Grade
Quarter
Quarter 1
College and Career
5: The College
Application
Process
PBA
New York State and City Learning Standards
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
New York State Curriculum & Instruction:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
.5 CR Career Development
and Occupational Studies
Quarter 2
College and Career
6: What It Takes
to Be a
Professional
Leader
.5 CR Leadership
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
o Understand the major stages of human development—physical, social, emotional, and psychological—and the problems that are part of the phases of human
growth.
New York State Curriculum & Instruction:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 3
Family Science 4:
Who am I now and
who do I want to
be?
.5 CR Sociology
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences:
o Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
o Understand the major stages of human development—physical, social, emotional, and psychological—and the problems that are part of the phases of human
growth.
New York State Curriculum & Instruction:
 Career Development and Occupational Studies:
o 2: communication
o 3a: Basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, interpersonal skills, managing information, managing resources
o 3b: Human and public services: communication, human growth and development, interpersonal dynamics, thinking/problem-solving
NYS Common Core for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking: TBD
Quarter 4
Civics 3: My Legacy
in the MBA
Community
.5 CR Civics
New York State Curriculum & Instruction Standards:
 The Arts: 4 (Understanding the Cultural Contributions of the Arts)
New York State Career and Technical Education:
 Family and Consumer Sciences: Demonstrate understanding of and sensitivity to individual, ethnic, and cultural differences among individuals and families.
New York City Social Studies Standards

Standard 5-civics, citizenship, and government:
o 5.2b: Analyze disparities between civic values expressed in the US Constitution and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the realities as
evidenced in the political, social, and economic life in the United States and throughout the world.
o 5.2c: Identify, respect, and model those core civic values inherent in our founding documents that have been forces for unity in American society.
o 5.3a: Understand how citizenship includes the exercise of certain personal responsibilities, including voting, considering the rights and interests of others, behaving in a
civil manner, and accepting responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions
o 5.4d: Consider the need to respect the rights of others, to respect others’ points of view