This course focuses on the study of life by examining the five fundamental concepts of cellular biology, genetics, ecology, evolution and physiology. The scientific process and laboratory skills are emphasized along with biology’s connections to other scientific disciplines. Course instruction requires students to study and apply the experimental method, compose lab reports, engage in peer […]
Learn MoreThis course provides an in depth overview of the law of nature. Topics include matter and interactions, forces and motion, energy, and waves and their interactions and applications. Course instruction promotes a solid understanding of physics, cultivation of problem-solving and critical-thinking skills related to physics, application of physics knowledge to decision-making about scientific and technological […]
Learn MoreStudents focus on the theme of “Challenges,” as they read works by Ray Bradbury and Walt Whitman, an essay about Civil War heroes, narratives about the Holocaust, and Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. They learn about the hero archetype and hero’s journey narratives, write narratives, explanatory essays, argumentative essays, research an issue in current […]
Learn MoreStudents examine the uses of language as they read works by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, William Shakespeare, Joshua Bennett, and Toni Morrison, as well as selected nonfiction texts. They learn to gather evidence from texts and incorporate it into written and oral responses, write argumentative, informational, and narrative modes among others, and […]
Learn MoreStudents study the power of language to persuade as they read works such as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Sophocles’ Antigone, Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women’s Right to Vote,” and Kofi Annan’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. They learn to examine how culture influences an individual’s worldview, incorporate textual evidence into a written argument, write in […]
Learn MoreStudents study in units built around the theme of an immigrant’s dream as they read foundational documents such as the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, essays by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. They learn to write an expository essay defining […]
Learn MoreStudents study Geometry as a mathematical system through the deductive development of relationships in the plane and space developed intuitively in previous years. Course content includes congruent segments and angles, circle chords, secants and tangent segments, parallel and perpendicular lines, angle measure in triangles, direct and indirect triangle congruence and similarity, proofs, solids of revolution, […]
Learn MoreStudents extend and expand upon concepts and techniques learned in algebra and geometry including solving and graphing solutions to inequalities, equations, and systems of equations. In addition, students will learn about imaginary and complex numbers, conic sections, logarithms, functions, and operations with polynomial expressions. Graphing calculators are used to enhance the understanding of realistic applications […]
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