The document outlines the parts and sequence of a standards-based learning plan, including essential questions, acquisition, meaning making, and transfer. It describes a design protocol for curriculum alignment that includes standards, learning goals, competencies, assessments, activities, and resources. Various competency assessments and activities are listed, as well as components of performance tasks and ways to design them. The transfer of skills is emphasized through goal-setting, defining roles and audiences, and creating argumentative speech products to resolve conflicts.