Learning goals: Teacher Facing Analyze connections between statements that use function notation and features of graphs and describe (orally and in writing) these connections. Interpret key features of a graph—the intercepts, maximums, minimums, and the intervals when the function is increasing or decreasing—in terms of a situation. Understand and be able to use the terms “horizontal intercept,” “vertical intercept,” “maximum,” and “minimum” when talking about graphs of functions. Full lesson plan (warm-up, activities, synthesis, cool-down prompt) from Alg1.4 Functions, Algebra 1.