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Maine Learning Results

Our principal, assistant-principal, guidance counselor, faculty and staff members are committed to incorporating Maine Learning Results into our school’s curriculum.  To help you become familiar with the breadth of learning that these standards cover, here is a listing and an indication of how students benefit from the alignment of the Deer Isle-Stonington High School curriculum with the learning results.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

A. PROCESS OF READING
Students will use reading, listening, and viewing strategies to experience, understand, and appreciate literature and culture

B. LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Students will use reading, listening, and viewing strategies to experience, understand, and appreciate literature and culture 

C. LANGUAGE AND IMAGES
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how words and images communicate

D. INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Students will apply reading, listening, and viewing strategies to informational texts across all areas of curriculum. 

E. PROCESSES OF WRITING AND SPEAKING
Students will demonstrate the ability to use the skills and strategies of the writing process. 

F. STANDARD ENGLISH CONVENTIONS
Students will write and speak correctly, using conventions of standard written and spoken English

G. STYLISTIC AND RHETORICAL ASPECTS OF WRITING AND SPEAKING
Students will use stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing and speaking to explore ideas, to present lines of thought, to represent and reflect on human experience, and to communicate feelings, knowledge, and opinions. 

H. RESEARCH-RELATED WRITING AND SPEAKING
Students will work, write, and speak effectively in connection with research in all content areas. 

MODERN & CLASSICAL LANGUAGES

A. PERSON-TO-PERSON COMMUNICATION
Students will develop communication skills for direct conversation and written correspondence. 

B. READING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING FOR UNDERSTANDING
Students will develop reading, listening, and viewing skills so that they can obtain and interpret information. 

C. ORAL AND WRITTEN PRESENTATIONS
Students will develop skills in oral and written presentation for communication with an individual or a group.

D. WORKINGS OF LANGUAGE
Students will gain a deeper understanding of both their native language and of the way language works by discovering patterns among language systems. 

E. CULTURAL PRACTICES, PRODUCTS, AND PERSPECTIVES
Students will gain insight into another culture through an understanding of its social practices, products, and perspectives

F. CROSS-CULTURAL CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS
Students will recognize the connections that link people, countries, and historical periods, such as cultural and religious traditions, historical events, political thought, or geography

SOCIAL STUDIES

A. CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
1. RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND PARTICIPATION
Students will understand the rights and responsibilities of civic life and employ the skills of effective civic participation.

2. PURPOSE AND TYPES OF GOVERNMENT
Students will understand the types and purposes of governments, their evolution, and their relationships with the governed.

3. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTIONS
Students will understand the constitutional principles and the democratic foundations of the political institutions of the United States.

4. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Students will understand the political relationships among the United States and other nations.

B. HISTORY
 1. CHRONOLOGY

Students will use the chronology of history and major eras to demonstrate the relationships of events and people.

2. HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, CONCEPTS, AND PATTERNS
Students will develop historical knowledge of major events, people, and enduring themes in the United States, in Maine, and throughout world history.

3. HISTORICAL INQUIRY, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION
Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.

C. GEOGRAPHY

1. SKILLS AND TOOLS
Students will know how to construct and interpret maps and use globes and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, regions, and environments.

2. HUMAN INTERACTION WITH ENVIRONMENTS
Students will understand and analyze the relationships among people and their physical environments.

E. ECONOMICS

1. PERSONAL AND CONSUMER ECONOMICS
Students will understand that economic decisions are based on the availability of resources and the costs and benefits of choices.

2. ECONOMIC SYSTEMS OF THE UNITED STATES
Students will understand the economic system of the United States, including its principles, development, and institutions.

3. COMPARATIVE SYSTEMS
Students will analyze how different economic systems function and change over time.

4. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE

Students will understand the patterns and results of international trade.

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS

A.CREATIVE EXPRESSION.

Students will create and/or perform to express ideas and feelings. 

B. CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Students will understand the cultural contributions (social, ethical, political, religious dimensions) of the arts, how the arts shape and are shaped by prevailing cultural and social beliefs and values, and they will recognize exemplary works from a variety of cultures and historical periods

C. CRITICISM AND AESTHETICS.

Students will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of art works.  

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A. CLASSIFYING LIFE FORMS
Students will understand that there are similarities within the diversity of all living things. 

B. ECOLOGY
Students will understand how living things depend on one another and on non-living aspects of the environment.  

C. CELLS
Students will understand that cells are the basic units of life that can reproduce themselves and control all life activities. 

D. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Students will understand the basis for all life and that all living things change over time. 

E. STRUCTURE OF MATTER
Students will understand the structure of matter, its physical and chemical properties, and the changes it can undergo. 

F. THE EARTH
Students will gain knowledge about the earth and the processes that change it. 

G. THE UNIVERSE
Students will gain knowledge about the universe and how humans have learned about it, and about the principles upon which it operates

H. ENERGY
Students will understand concepts of energy and its transformation.

I. MOTION
Students will understand the motion of objects and how forces can change that motion

J. INQUIRY AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Students will apply inquiry and problem-solving approaches in science and technology. Students will use scientific inquiry to provide insight into and comprehension of the world around them by using a variety of problem-solving strategies. 

K. SCIENTIFIC REASONING
Students will learn to formulate and justify ideas and to make informed decisions. Students will learn to formulate ideas and analyze and evaluate information in order to make informed decisions. 

L. COMMUNICATION
Students will communicate effectively in the application of science and technology. Students will use clear and accurate communication in sharing their knowledge.

M. IMPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Students will understand the current historical, social, economic, environmental, and ethical implications of science and technology .

 

HEALTH EDUCATION

A. HEALTH CONCEPTS
Students will understand health promotion and disease prevention concepts. 

B. HEALTH INFORMATION, SERVICES, AND PRODUCTS
Students will know how to acquire valid information about health issues, services, and products.  .

C. HEALTH PROMOTION AND RISK REDUCTION
Students will understand how to reduce their health risks through the practice of healthy behaviors

D. INFLUENCES ON HEALTH
Students will understand how media techniques, cultural perspectives, technology, peers, and family influence behaviors that affect health. 

E. COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Students will understand that skillful communication can contribute to better health for them, their families, and the community

F. DECISION-MAKING AND GOAL SETTING
Students will learn how to set personal goals and make decisions that lead to better health. 

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

A. PHYSICAL FITNESS
Students will acquire the knowledge needed to be physically fit and take part in healthful physical activity on a regular basis. 

B. MOTOR SKILLS
Students will develop motor skills and apply these to enhance their movement and physical performance.  .

C. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Students will demonstrate responsible personal and social behaviors in physical activity settings.  .

MATHEMATICS

A. NUMBERS AND NUMBER SENSE
Students will understand and demonstrate a sense of what numbers mean and how they are used. 

B. COMPUTATION
Students will understand and demonstrate computation skills

C. DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS
Students will understand and apply concepts of data analysis.

D. PROBABILITY
Students will understand and apply concepts of probability. 

E. GEOMETRY
Students will understand and apply concepts from geometry

F. MEASUREMENT
Students will understand and demonstrate measurement skills

G. PATTERNS, RELATIONS, FUNCTIONS
Students will understand that mathematics is the science of patterns, relationships,
and functions. 

H. ALGEBRA CONCEPTS
Students will understand and apply algebraic concepts. 

I. DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Students will understand and apply concepts in discrete mathematics. 

J. MATHEMATICAL REASONING
Students will understand and apply concepts of mathematical reasoning. 

 

CAREER PREPARATION

A. PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions. 

B. EDUCATION/CAREER PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Guided by self-assessment and personal career interests, students will integrate school- and work-based experiences to develop their career goals

C. INTEGRATED AND APPLIED LEARNING
Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings

D. BALANCING RESPONSIBILITIES
Students will acquire and apply skills/concepts required to balance personal, family, community, and work responsibilities.  

 

History of the Island Communities’ schools

            Formal secondary education began on Deer Isle during the 1890's. Before that time education for teenage students was conducted during the “winter term" of school.  This system enabled the older students to work during the spring and summer at home, on the farm, or at sea.  School buildings were used year round to accommodate the needs of the various age groups of youngsters. Throughout most of the 19th century Deer Isle had up to 48 one-room schoolhouses.

The teacher was usually a man. However, some women were employed, if they were seen as capable of keeping order and meting out corporal punishment. Many of the teachers were college students who were taking a semester off in order to help pay for their own educational expenses.  For this reason the course varied with the teacher.  Aside from the 3 R's - reading, 'riting, arithmetic - there were often courses in history, geography and public speaking. Since Deer Isle has always been a maritime-oriented community, retired sea captains or those home for the winter would often teach higher math, science and navigation in the schools. When a student had completed the available courses he simply dropped out and was said to have completed a "common school" education. Many, however, continued to take courses offered at the schools during the long winter evenings in a type of adult education.

Around 1890 a "high school room" was located in the Masonic Hall in Deer Isle.  About ten years later the town constructed the high school building.  It was used to house all grades until the 1950's. Also around 1890 the Rockbound High School was established in what is today the Stonington Town Hall.  A detailed record of daily events of the school during 1896-97 is available in a journal similar to a ship's log.  A student or the teacher kept this.  This log reveals the school was a typical small high school.  It had a principal and an assistant. The principal taught math and science.  The assistant taught the other subjects.  The school did  not have a fixed curriculum, nor did it grant diplomas. It did have one or two students who were contemplating teaching as a career.  They taught in the one room school on Crotch Island.

In 1906 Stonington built its own school building, which housed all grades and was used as a school through the year 2000.  Around the same time both Deer Isle and Stonington established formal courses of study and began to grant diplomas. Sports included baseball and basketball.  Deer Isle even had a football team at one point.  During the Depression and World War II sports were dropped, but were later revived. Deer Isle used the old Town Hall for all its school functions, while Stonington used the Opera House.  Both schools had excellent bands in the late 1930's and early 1940's.  The Stonington High School Band played at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.

The 1950's saw Stonington build a high school and Deer Isle an elementary school.  Although a “commercial course” had been offered in both schools for many years, Stonington could now also offer Industrial Arts.  The new gym meant Stonington could vacate the "Red Barn" behind the Post Office and play basketball in the new facility.  It was in 1961 and 1962 that the Stonington Rockets captured the Class "S" State championships in basketball.

The late 1960's saw the creation of the short-lived S.A.D. 73 and with it the Sedistobrook High School, which was composed of students from Deer Isle, Stonington, Brooksville, Brooklin and Sedgwick. In 1972 the S.A.D. dissolved and the Deer Isle-Stonington CSD was formed.  Mainland students continued to attend the island school as tuition students.  In December 1974, construction of the present high school building was begun.  Students in grades 9-12 from the five Island and Reach towns occupied the new building in 1976.  It opened new vistas with expanded facilities, academic and extracurricular programs for many youngsters.  In 1980, grades 7 and 8 from Deer Isle and Stonington were added to the secondary school, which then became Deer Isle-Stonington Jr./Sr. High School.

(The information for this historical sketch was provided by Clayton H. Gross.)