Grade level and course info

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Ceramics I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Basic ceramic design
• Creative problem solving
• Learn hand-building construction
• Basic wheel throwing
• Glazing techniques
• Emphasis on aesthetics and art criticism

Projects, Activities, etc.: Thrown and hand-built pieces

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Ceramics II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Ceramics I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced ceramic design
• Advanced hand-building construction
• Advanced wheel throwing
• Advanced glazing techniques
• Develop sets/series of functional forms
• Continued emphasis on aesthetics and art criticism

Projects, Activities, etc.: Sets of functional forms and sculptural ceramic pieces

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Ceramics III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Ceramics II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters. One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in-studio discipline
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production

Projects, Activities, etc.: Sets of functional forms and sculptural ceramic pieces

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Computer Art I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Coursework focuses on creative and artistic applications of computer art and technology. The course will also focus on the Elements of Art and Principles of Design as they apply to computer created artwork.

• Technical skills relating to the use of the computer, software, visual composition, creative expression, and communication will be taught.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Computer Art II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Computer Art I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced student exploration and creation of computer graphics utilizing a series of project structures that demonstrate personal voice, creativity, and the understanding of the incorporation of aesthetic design principles in the work
• Additional emphasis will be placed on the analysis and evaluation of the images created utilizing industry-standard software

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Drawing I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn basic drawing skills: observation, proportion, perspective, and shading
• Learn basic drawing techniques: pencil, ink, Conte pastel, and charcoal
• Draw from life
• Learn basic art history, aesthetic and art criticism
• Excellent starting point for other art courses

Projects, Activities, etc.: Multiple drawings and sketchbook

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Drawing II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Drawing I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Expand skills developed in Drawing I: color use, composition, and figure drawing
• Expand techniques developed in Drawing I: pencil, pastel, and colorwork
• Draw from life and imagination
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art criticism

Projects, Activities, etc.: Multiple drawings and sketchbook

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Drawing III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Drawing II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters. One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in-studio discipline
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production

Projects, Activities, etc.: Multiple drawings and sketchbook

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Jewelry Craft Design I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Create wearable and usable art through multiple art projects
• Work with jewelry production using various techniques
• Explore bookmaking processes
• Explore fiber and sculpture construction
• Study the history of jewelry and craft design around the world.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Jewelry and Craft Design II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Jewelry and Craft Design I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters. One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in jewelry and craft design and production
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Medical Illustration I

[CRHS ony]

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, meets art requirement

Major Outcomes:

• Accurately interpret and portray body systems (organs, skeleton, tissues, etc .) through visual representations
• Transform complex information into visual images that have the potential to communicate to broad audiences

Projects, Activities, etc.: Multiple illustrations, sketchbook, & digital art introduction.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Medical Illustration II 

[CRHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Medical Illustration I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, meets art requirement

Major Outcomes:

• Expansion of accurately interpreting and portraying body systems (organs, skeleton, tissues, etc.) through visual representations
• Transform complex information into visual images that have the potential to communicate to broad audiences
• Digital finishing and graphic design

Projects, Activities, etc.: Multiple illustrations, sketchbook, & digital art introduction.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Painting I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn basic painting techniques
• Learn basic color theory
• Watercolor and acrylic painting
• Aesthetics and art criticism

Projects, Activities, etc.: multiple paintings and sketchbook.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Painting II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Painting I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Refinement of skills developed in Painting I
• Art awareness of modern artists
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art criticism
• More self-expression in subject matter

Projects, Activities, etc.: Multiple paintings and sketchbook.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Painting III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Painting II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters. One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in-studio discipline
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production

Projects, Activities, etc.: Multiple paintings and sketchbook.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Sculpture I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Work with 3-D art forms
• Exploration of multiple types of media as they relate to form and mass
• Learn about sculptors and the history of sculpture
• Emphasis on aesthetics and art criticism

Projects, Activities, etc.: Additive and subtractive sculptural pieces

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Sculpture II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Sculpture I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Theme-based concentration applied to working with 3-D art forms
• Greater emphasis on refinement and exploration of sculpture techniques
• Styles and works of a variety of noted sculptors studied
• Continued emphasis on aesthetics and art criticism

Projects, Activities, etc.: Fabrication, welding, and stone carving

 

Sculpture III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Sculpture II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Course may be taken up to three trimesters. One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Offers students additional coursework to develop greater depth in-studio discipline
• Continued emphasis on art history, aesthetics, and art production

Projects, Activities, etc.: Fabrication, welding, and stone carving

 

Video Art I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Coursework focuses on creative and artistic applications of video art and technology
• The course will also focus on the Elements of Art and Principles of Design as they apply to Media Art and video technology
• Technical skills relating to the use of digital video/camera equipment, sound recording, composition, and editing will be taught

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Video Art II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Video Art I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced student exploration and creation of video production
• Strong focus is placed on students demonstrating a personal voice through the filming and editing of their projects
• Additional emphasis will be placed on film presentation, evaluation, and analysis of their finished works

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Drawing/Painting [AP Studio Art: 2-D Design/Drawing]

Intended Audience: Grades 10 (with teacher approval), 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Exploration of studio art at the college-level
• Course is sponsored by the College Board
• Students are expected to be able to work independently as an adult member of the class
• Completion of a portfolio of related works, focused on an inquiry-based investigation of materials, processes, and ideas.
• Portfolio [exam] submitted to the College Board for review in May
• Course work will receive a separate grade from the teacher in addition to a rating from the College Board

Projects, Activities, etc.: Creation of a portfolio of artwork

Instructional Focus: Comparable to an introductory college course in studio art

 

Ceramics/Sculpture [AP Studio Art: 3-D Design]

Intended Audience: Grades 10 (with teacher approval), 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Exploration of studio art at the college-level
• Course is sponsored by the College Board
• Students are expected to be able to work independently as an adult member of the class
• Completion of a portfolio of three-dimensional related works focused on an inquiry-based investigation of material, processes, and ideas.
• Portfolio [exam] submitted to the College Board for review in May
• Course work will receive a separate grade from the teacher in addition to a rating from the College Board

Projects, Activities, etc.: Creation of a portfolio of artwork

Instructional Focus: Comparable to an introductory college course in studio art

 

Honors Arts Symposium

[AHS only]

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn and directly apply the elements of art and principles of design
• Explore a secondary discipline; noting the connections with art (ex. chemistry, specifically chemical reactions to metals and other materials used in jewelry design
• Apply the Design Thinking method to create solutions to various design challenges
• Design and create works that become part of an e-portfolio

Projects/Activities, etc.: Exploration of materials, original design work, development of art skills (ex. creating patinas on metal, use of jewelry equipment, designing original wearable art)

Instructional Focus: Design Thinking, Makerspace equipment, student collaboration, student-driven and project-based design challenges, industry tours, guest speakers

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FINANCE

 

Accounting I

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Maintaining accounting records for a service business
• Complete the steps in the accounting cycle to prepare financial statements

Projects, Activities, etc.: Complete the Accounting Cycle for records for a service business using spreadsheet and accounting software. Analyze financial statements to measure the financial health of a business.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on simulation using spreadsheet.

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Accounting II 

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Accounting I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Maintaining accounting records for a retail business
• Preparing payroll records for business
• Working with specialized accounting journals

Projects, Activities, etc.: Create and maintain financial records for a retail business using spreadsheet.  Analyze financial statements to measure the financial health of a business through simulations.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on simulation using spreadsheet.

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Personal Money Management

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Develop student’s financial literacy skills through spending, savings, and investing
• Create a budget and maintain a checking account
• Understand taxes and how to file income tax
• Understand the responsible use of credit

Projects, Activities, etc.: Simulate your future finances by researching your potential income, budget for your wants and needs, examine how credit affects your life, understand the costs of credit, maintain a check- ing account, create a stock portfolio, and file taxes.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities and budgeting and stock market simulation.

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Honors Building Wealth

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn the “ins” and “outs” of investing in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
• Use current market data to choose the best stock and bond mutual funds

Projects, Activities, etc.: Learn how to make money! Use tax advantaged methods of investing, such as 401K plans and IRA’s to help your money grow. Additional investment choices will be examined, such as real estate, options, and collectibles . You will have an understanding of Wall Street, the Dow Jones, and various financial markets. Create a stock portfolio and compete with classmates with return on investment.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities and speakers

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

IT Explorations for Business & Marketing

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Uses of computers in workplace and daily life
• Basic software skills
• MS Office, Google Docs, Internet research

Projects, Activities, etc.: Computer based projects for workplace readiness

Instructional Focus: Hands-on computerized activities

Co-curricular Connection: BPA

 

Keyboarding

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Keying documents for college and career
• Skill development: speed, accuracy, and technique
• Introduction to business documents

Projects, Activities, etc.: Compose, create, and proofread documents such as letters, tables, reports, and flyers.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on computerized activities and keyboarding software

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Computer Applications

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Create Word documents using: table of contents, lists, and tables
• Create Excel documents using: financial functions, data tables, integrated charts, working with multiple Excel worksheets and workbooks
• Create PowerPoint presentations using: themes, animation, and transitions

Projects, Activities, etc.: Use Microsoft Office basic and advanced features to obtain job readiness and college skills in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentations.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on computerized activities. These skills are essential for success in college and in the career world.

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Social Media Marketing and Web Design

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, Art Credit

Major Outcomes:

• Investigate online marketing tools such as internet forums, message boards, blogs, social networking, and online graphic design programs
• Develop and use your web design and graphic design skills to create professional, up-to-date websites that are pleasing to the eye and easy to use

Projects, Activities, etc.: It’s all about Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, QR codes and apps. Learn how to use these digital and social media tools in the world of business. Plan, design, and create multi-page websites.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on computerized activities

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Video Game Design and Marketing

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Understand programming concepts to develop a video game
• Use Unity game engine and C# programming to develop 2D and 3D video games.
• Create an advertising and packaging presentation to market your video game

Projects, Activities, etc.: Use programming concepts to create mini games and final game projects. Develop a game theme and story-board for game concept. Develop a marketing plan and presentation.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on computerized activities

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Web Page Coding for Business

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Master a variety of web design concepts to create powerful websites
• Design websites that are practical to the business world
• Learn basic graphic design skills

Projects, Activities, etc.: Learn the secret techniques of web designers and the latest in web development. Design and create your own interactive site through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. What you learn about the web design process will impress your future employer!

Instructional Focus: Hands-on computerized activities

Co-curricular Connection: BPA

 

Computer Programming

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Write simple to complex programs using Java
• Design and implement programming code
• Develop problem solving skills and logical thinking
• Explore computer science careers

Projects, Activities, etc.: Write programs for daily applications.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on computerized activities and career exploration

Co-curricular Connection: BPA

 

AP Computer Science

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Computer Programming

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced programming design
• Advanced problem solving
• Advanced programming methods

Projects, Activities, etc.: Design and implement a Java-based game or simulation

Instructional Focus: Computer usage and problem solving, preparation for AP Computer Science exam

Co-curricular Connection: BPA

 

PLTW Honors Computer Science Principles

[AHS, BHS only]

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester/two periods = 1.0 credit, meets arts requirement [1.0 credit] PLTW college credit can be earned

Major Outcomes:

• Introduce computational tools that foster creativity
• Problem solving with structured activities and progress to open-ended projects and problems
• Develop computational thinking

Instructional Focus: Use programming to develop computational thinking, to generate excitement about the field of computing, and to introduce computational tools that foster creativity

 

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Advertising and Sales

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Launch an advertising campaign for an existing business
• Write television commercials, radio advertisements, create billboards, and promote mobile apps for an existing business
• Master the selling process to gain an entry-level sales position
• Understand consumer psychology through the selling process

Projects, Activities, etc.: You and your team have been approached by a real business that needs help. Develop a successful advertising campaign to attract new customers. Everyone sells! Learn the eight steps of the sale and to earn a sales certificate, get college credit, and develop skills to get your first job.

Instructional Focus: Industry based examples, project-based learning, important job-based skills, and hands-on activities

Co-curricular Connection: DECA

 

Business Management

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Develop the skills to plan, lead, staff, organize and control a successful business
• Learn about successful business leaders
• Explore management fundamentals as well as business, marketing and financial practices and principles

Projects, Activities, etc.: Enhance your management skills using a computer simulation to manage a small retail store: purchasing, pricing, promotion, staffing, and market research are all part of your management activities.

Instructional Focus: Case studies, group projects, hands-on activities

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Hospitality and Tourism

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Perform event planning in the Hospitality Sector
• Business to business selling
• Travel and Tourism Bureau rebranding
• Developing 21st century skills

Projects, Activities, etc.: Take on the role of a sales representative for a destination management company and develop events that will engage a large group arriving for a special event. You have been hired to rebrand a city’s Travel and Tourism Department and creatively market the city as a tourist destination.

Instructional Focus: Industry based examples, project-based learning, important job-based skills, and hands-on activities, that stress creativity, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Co-curricular Connection: DECA

 

Marketing

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Discover the exciting world of marketing
• Team-based real-world projects and activities
• Conduct school-based survey
• Develop an innovative marketing plan and new brand

Projects, Activities, etc.: Your team’s task is to develop a new brand and develop a marketing plan that will make it competitive in the marketplace. Another team project involves identifying an issue, delivering a survey and making recommendations that have a meaningful impact within your school.

Instructional Focus: Realistic projects, team-based learning, collaborative assignments, hands-on activities that focus on innovative business skills, build problem-solving and communication skills.

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Entrepreneurship

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn how to start your own business
• Explore business opportunities available to entrepreneurs
• Complete the steps necessary to develop a business plan

Projects, Activities, etc.: Create a business plan to start your own business.

Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities, guest speakers, case studies

Co-curricular Connection: BPA, DECA

 

Honors Business Internship Program

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Application and interview required

Intended Audience: Grade 12 college and career-bound students pursuing business careers

Credit: Up to 3 credits available (0.5 credit per trimester for seminar, 0.5 credit per trimester for work); students enroll for up to three trimesters which is preferred by employers/internship sites

Major Outcomes:

• Paid business career experience
• Leadership development
• Development of business/computer skills
• Service/volunteerism
• Career development
• Communication skills
• Financial literacy

Projects, Activities, etc.: Develop a career portfolio, attend leadership conferences, participate in community and school service projects, and compete in business related competitions through BPA

Instructional Focus: On-the-job training, individualized career development and hands-on activities using Microsoft Office

Co-curricular Connection: BPA

 

Honors Marketing and Management Internship Program

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Marketing, Advertising and Sales, or Business Management recommended; application and interview required

Intended Audience: Grade 12 college and career-bound students pursuing marketing and management careers

Credit: Up to three honors credits available (0.5 credit per trimester for seminar, 0.5 credit per trimester for work); students enroll for up to three trimesters which is preferred by employers/internship sites

Major Outcomes:

• Initiative and self-direction
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Communication and collaboration
• Financial literacy
• Leadership development
• Community service
• Creativity and innovation

Projects, Activities, etc.: Take on the role of designer, buyer, advertiser, and sales person as you try to create, order, market, and sell your product. Prepare yourself for a real job interview. Learn about how to manage your personal finances. Plan your future career and education.

Instructional Focus: Seminar class, on-the-job training and management of the school store

Co-curricular Connection: DECA

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FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Investigating Careers

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Current and future career trends in high demand, high wage areas
• College/post-secondary planning
• College options, admissions, requirements, financial aid availability
• Getting a job and keeping it, defining success at the workplace
• Self-assessment for career planning
• Career research
• Personal portfolio that reflects student’s work

Projects, Activities, etc.: Class portfolio, detailed career plan including goals and objectives, action path to get to chosen career. Students will have an overview of college offerings how to access and utilize resources.  Students will create projects based on their self-assessment results and career choices.

Instructional Focus: Speakers, PowerPoints, variety of technology access. Students will use internet accessing career and college information. Students will utilize career center and connect with Career Placement Specialists to become aware of colleges, college visits, test prep, financial aid, and business connections.

 

Coll Career Development

[AHS only]

Intended Audience: Only Grade 10 [Passed MCA Reading Test with Meets or Exceeds], only Grade 11 [GPA in top 33 percent of class or GPA of 2.6 or above], and only Grade 12 [GPA in top 50 percent of class or GPA of 2.6 or above]

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, successful completion will earn 2 college credits

Major Outcomes:

This is an Anoka Ramsey Community College course in which students will

• Assess students’ interests, needs and abilities in order to recognize the many components that go into making career decisions
• Expand awareness of self and the world of work in order to make deliberate career choices throughout one’s lifetime
• Help students learn skills that will enable them to make satisfying career decisions
• Explore the many ways the economy affects the job market
• Understand how social, economic, cultural, family and organizational changes can affect careers
• Explore strategies for implementing academic/career development plans

Projects, Activities, etc.: Interest and career inventories, career development plan, case studies, career interview

Instructional Focus: Individualized approach focused on career pathway of student

 

Work Experience Program

[WE/CEP, WED]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Referral only

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Employability Skills
• Preparation for independent living
• Entry level employment or training in high schools, district sites and STEP

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual activities and group work

Instructional Focus: Daily seminar class and on-the-job training

 

AGRICULTURE, FOOD, AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Animal Management

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, does not meet science credit requirements

Major Outcomes:

• Comprehensive analysis of the animal science industry as it relates to companion animals such as horses, dogs, cats, and other recreational animals

Projects, Activities, etc.: Animal presentations, field trips, and career exploration

Instructional Focus: Hands-on, experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments and active participation

 

Pre-Vet Animal Science

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Comprehensive exploration of the Veterinary and Animal Science Career Pathway. Units to include Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Reproduction, Nutrition and Careers.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips, presentations, and career exploration

Instructional Focus: Hands on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

Coll Honors Animal Science

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Pre-Vet; Animal Science or Animal Mgmt recommended

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• This is a University of Minnesota Introduction to Animal Science (ANSC 1101) course with emphasis on genetics, physiology and nutrition. The course includes a study of production systems relative to the horse, dairy, sheep, poultry, swine and beef industries.  Additional topics include man’s relationship to animals, current issues and future perspectives of animal agriculture. Students will experience laboratories at the University of Minnesota relating to Animal Science. Students will be concurrently enrolled at the University of Minnesota and upon successful completion of this class; students will have four semester credits posted to their college transcript.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips, presentations, and career exploration

Instructional Focus: Hands-on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

Fish and Wildlife Ecology

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, does not meet science credit requirements

Major Outcomes:

• Principles of Ecology
• Wildlife Management
• Principles of Forestry
• Relationships between organisms and the environment

Instructional Focus: Hands-on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

Fish and Wildlife Zoology

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit, does not meet science credit requirements

Major Outcomes:

• Principles of zoology
• Natural resources conservation
• Animal anatomy and structure
• Animal life functions

Instructional Focus: Hands-on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

Seasonal Horticulture

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Comprehensive exploration of the plant science [green] industry.  Units to include: Careers in the Green Industry, Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Reproduction.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Plant identification; soils and medias; landscape practices and measurements; seasonal floral design; vegetable and herb gardening; landscape maintenance and installation

Instructional Focus: Hands-on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

Floriculture

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn the art of floral design through the construction of several arrangements and corsages

Projects, Activities, etc.: Minimum of five floral arrangements, including holiday and special occasion

Instructional Focus: Hands on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

Greenhouse Management

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit, elective credit, does not meet science credit requirements

Major Outcomes:

• Learn and experience all of the components related to the propagation, growth, marketing and sale of greenhouse crops

Projects, Activities, etc.: Spring plant sale, plant propagation, fertilizer and pesticide application, management of other growth factors as they apply to greenhouse production

Instructional Focus: Hands-on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

Global Food Challenge “Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It?”

Intended Audience: Grades 11, 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Sustainable Food Systems Organic vs Conventional
• Antibiotic and Hormone use in Meat Animals
• Animal Welfare Impact on Food Production
• Use of Pesticides to Grow Crops
• Locally Sourced Food and Food Waste
• GMO’s and other Genetic Concerns
• Impact of Population Growth and the Carrying Capacity on the Planet
• Land Usage, Urban Sprawl, and Urban Agriculture
• Hydroponics and Vertical Farming

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips, guest speakers, experiential computer based simulations, group discussion and research, socratic seminar based discussions and individual research

Instructional Focus: Hands-on experiential activities, application of learning through digital assignments, and active participation

 

HEALTH SCIENCE CAREERS

Introduction to Holistic Healing

[CRHS only]

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Future health professionals will be exposed to the world of Holistic Health with topics such as Chiropractic Care, Acupuncture, Dietary Supplements, and Mind-Body Therapies. Students will research and discuss various therapies in regards to their history, implementation, interaction with traditional medicine, and careers involved.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Various Holistic Medicine Speakers, Research, and Projects

Instructional Focus: This course introduces students to non-traditional medical therapies and aligning careers in the biomedical pathway

 

Medical Anatomy I

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

[Medical Anatomy I/II may be taken in any order; both are needed for articulated credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Human anatomy and physiology of the integumentary, digestive, urinary, respiratory and musculoskeletal systems

Projects, Activities, etc.: Dissections

Instructional Focus: Taught by a health professional

Co-curricular Connection: HOSA

 

Medical Anatomy II

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

[Medical Anatomy I/II may be taken in either order; both are needed for articulated credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Human anatomy and physiology of the reproductive, sensory, cardiovascular, nervous and endocrine systems; current health issues

Projects, Activities, etc.: Dissections

Instructional Focus: Taught by a health professional

Co-curricular Connection: HOSA

 

Medical Terminology and Careers

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Medical terminology
• Career exploration

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips and guest presenters

Instructional Focus: Taught by a health professional, guest presenters

Co-curricular Connection: HOSA

 

Honors Health Science Internship

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Application and interview required

Intended Audience: Grade 12 pursuing careers in health service occupations including: chiropractic, dental, dietary, nursing, therapies and veterinary

Credit: Up to 3.0 credits available [0.5 credit per trimester for seminar, 0.5 credit per trimester for work]; students may enroll for up to three trimesters which is preferred by employers/internship sites

Major Outcomes:

• Career exploration
• Leadership development
• Effective work skills
• Community service

Projects, Activities, etc.: Job manual, career portfolio, leadership conferences, community and school service

Instructional Focus: On-the-job training, career development and student organization

Co-curricular Connection: HOSA

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Driver Education

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Fulfill Minnesota requirements for obtaining a learner’s permit
• Saves lives by teaching responsible and safe driving practices and techniques
• Defensive driving practices
• Knowledge of Minnesota traffic safety laws and regulations
• Knowledge and skills to become a safe and efficient user of the highway transportation system as a driver, passenger and pedestrian

Projects, Activities, etc.: Eight hours of driving simulation, district mandated study guide, guest speakers, insurance scenarios and parent involvement meeting

Instructional Focus: Instruction strategies are utilized through visual, auditory and tactile methods

Interdisciplinary connection: Technical and reading strategies, math and science

Note: Students who meet the Minnesota requirements of being at least 15 years of age, successfully complete this course, show proper I .D ., register for Behind the Wheel and pay the Behind the Wheel fee will be eligible to take the permit test.

Note: Students who are not age 15 by the end of the course will be issued a valid course completion sheet or a blue card. This will allow the student to take the permit test at an exam station.

After school and summer offerings: A shortened version [38 hours] of this class may be provided after school and during the summer for students who are unable to register for this course during the school year. Course offerings are enrollment dependent. There will be an additional fee for this course.

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English 9

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Read and analyze a variety of texts, focusing on the development of themes across multiple texts, and citing textual evidence to demonstrate understanding.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences, including an exploration of argumentation and personal narratives.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and identifying biased language) as they relate to reading, writing and speaking. 
• Develop skills in listening, speaking, media literacy, and argumentative speeches. 

Projects/Activities: Book clubs, Socratic seminars, narrative writing, research to support reading and writing, argumentative speeches, and independent reading. 

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion  activities as students explore thematic units. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning. 

 

Honors English 9

Intended Audience: Grade 9 students who are interested in reading, writing, and language; students who read and write well above grade level

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Read and analyze a variety of challenging texts, focusing on the development of themes across multiple texts, and citing textual evidence to demonstrate deep understanding.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences, including an exploration of argumentation, personal narratives, and audience-driven writing.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and identifying biased language) as they relate to reading, writing and speaking. 
• Develop skills in listening, speaking, media literacy, and argumentative speeches. Examine themes across different media, and create podcasts/newscasts to share information.

Projects/Activities: Book clubs, writing portfolios, Socratic seminars, narrative writing, research to support reading and writing, argumentative speeches, and independent reading. 

Instructional Focus: The course will move at a faster pace than English 9. This will allow students to explore topics in greater depth. Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion  activities as students explore thematic units. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

 

Pre-AP English 1 [AndHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

Pre-AP English 1 trains the reader to observe the small details in a text to arrive at a deeper understanding of the whole. It also trains the reader to appreciate the author’s sometimes-subtle choices, developing an awareness of how words produce effects and how the conventions of the English language are used for both precision and style. As writers, students focus on crafting complex sentences, building well-organized paragraphs, and producing sophisticated longer analyses. 

English 10

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 9 or Honors English 9

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Read and analyze texts from a variety of viewpoints, focusing on the authors’ choices, and citing textual evidence to demonstrate understanding. Examine the elements of effective arguments.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences. Focus on choices that impact the overall writing.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and examining voice and style) as they relate to reading, writing and speaking. 
• Develop skills in listening and speaking. Explore the impact of media, and create a digital work. 

Projects/Activities: Book clubs, Socratic seminars, argumentative writing, research to support reading and writing, digital works, and independent reading. 

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion  activities as students explore thematic units. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning. 

 

English 10 with College Foundations

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 9 or Honors English 9

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credit (1.0 English credit, 0.5 Elective credit)

Major Outcomes:

• Focus on college readiness skills (goal setting, time management, note taking, reflection) 
• Read and analyze texts from a variety of viewpoints, focusing on the authors’ choices, and citing textual evidence to demonstrate understanding. Examine the elements of effective arguments.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences. Focus on choices that impact the overall writing.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and examining voice and style) as they relate to reading, writing and speaking. 
• Develop skills in listening and speaking. Focus on extending academic discussions and relating the discussion to broader themes. 

Projects/Activities: Book clubs, Socratic seminars, argumentative writing, mini-inquiry project, digital works, presentations, and independent reading. 

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion  activities as students explore thematic units. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.  

 

Honors English 10

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 9 or Honors English 9

Intended Audience: Grade 10 students who are interested in reading, writing, and language; students who read and write well above grade level 

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Read and analyze a variety of challenging texts, focusing on the authors’ choices, and citing textual evidence to demonstrate deep understanding.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences, including literary analysis. Focus on deep revision and prepare work for publication.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and examining voice and style) as they relate to reading, writing and speaking. 
• Develop skills in listening and speaking. Explore the impact of media, and determine the appropriate style of communication.

Projects/Activities: Book clubs, Socratic seminars, argumentative writing, research to support reading and writing, digital works, and independent reading. 

Instructional Focus: The course will move at a faster pace than English 10. This will allow students to explore topics in greater depth. Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion  activities as students explore thematic units. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Pre-AP English 2 [AndHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Pre-AP English 1 

Intended Audience: Grade 10 at AndHS

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

Pre-AP English 2 builds on the foundation of the Pre-AP English 1 course, asking students to apply the skills learned in that earlier course. Students develop a stronger awareness of how a writer can manipulate language to serve a unique purpose. As writers, students compose nuanced analytical essays with well-crafted sentences.

CP English 11

[CPHS Only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 10, Honors English 10 or Honors Social Studies 10/English 10 Block

Intended Audience: Grade 11

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Develop student expression (oral and written)
• Introduce students to a range of literary and nonliterary works, with a focus of American literature and informational texts
• Develop the ability for detailed analysis
• Academic writing skills

Projects, Activities, etc.: Analysis essays, research projects, oral presentations, seminars, independent reading, close readings of diverse texts

 

Contemporary Writers

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 11, AP English Language and Composition, or CP English 11 [CPHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit 

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirement. Juniors will complete any two of the four choices for full English 11 credit. Seniors will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 12 credit. Additional choices will be offered for juniors and seniors in 2025-26.

Major Outcomes: 

• Read and analyze a variety of contemporary texts, focusing on how contemporary texts can help people better understand human experience and the world around them.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences, especially focusing on literary themes and connections.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and examining voice and style) as they relate to reading, writing, and speaking. 
• Develop skills in listening and speaking in small groups, full-class seminars, and presentations.

Projects/Activities: book clubs, Socratic seminars, research to support study of contemporary authors, and presentations. 

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to contemporary issues and texts. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Graphic Novels

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 11, AP English Language and Composition, or CP English 11[CPHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and Grade 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit 

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirements. Juniors will complete any two of the four choices for full English 11 credit. Seniors will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 12 credit. Additional choices will be offered for juniors and seniors in 2025-26.

Major Outcomes: 

• Read and analyze a variety of graphic novels, comics, and traditional prose texts, focusing on the impact of using a specific genre or format.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences, especially focusing on reflection and analyzing a specific theme across multiple texts.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and examining voice and style) as they relate to reading, writing, and speaking. 
• Develop skills in listening and speaking in small groups, full-class seminars, and presentations.

Projects/Activities: Book clubs, Socratic seminars, digital graphic memoirs, research related to book club texts, and presentations. 

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to graphic novels and the human experience. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Humanities: Creation and Expression

Prerequisite/Selection process: English 11, AP English Language and Composition, or CP English 11 [CPHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and Grade 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirements. Juniors will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 11 credit. Seniors will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 12 credit. Additional choices will be offered for juniors and seniors in 2025-26.

Major Outcomes:

• Read and view a wide variety of artifacts from different societies and time periods to examine how an author’s purpose, bias, or perspective impact those artifacts.
• Explore what the artifacts reveal about the human experience, as well as how those artifacts have influenced later creations.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences, especially focusing on reflection and connections.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary and examining voice and style) as they relate to reading, writing, and speaking.
• Develop skills in listening and speaking in small groups, full-class seminars and presentations.

Projects/Activities: book clubs, Socratic seminars, group research projects, presentations, and personal museum capstones.

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to different forms of expression and how they connect to cultures and societies. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Impact of Media

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 10, Honors English 10, English 10 with College Foundations

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and Grade 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirement this year. Students will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 11 or English 12 credit. Note that eight different trimester courses will be offered on a rotating basis, with four choices available each year.

Major Outcomes:

• Evaluate how the author’s purpose, stated identities, biases, and perspective shape the content and style of a text.
• Write to reflect how personal perspective, identity, and voice have developed and changed over time, in relation to the global community.
• Create and present a piece of digital work or digital communication.
• Communicate effectively in print through media.

Projects/Activities: Analysis of production and consumption of media, digital portfolio of media posts with reflection.

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to media consumption and production. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Literature and its Transformation into Film

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 10, Honors English 10, English 10 with College Foundations

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and Grade 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirement this year. Students will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 11 or English 12 credit. Note that eight different trimester courses will be offered on a rotating basis, with four choices available each year.

Major Outcomes:

• Analyze the impact of the author’s creative choices in literature.
• Analyze the impact of the author’s creative choices in film.
• Write routinely for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• Create and present a piece of digital work or digital communication.

Projects/Activities: Analysis of author’s creative choices in literature and film, digital adaptation of a text with reflection.

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to elements of literature and film. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Mysteries and Whodunits

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 10, Honors English 10, English 10 with College Foundations

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and Grade 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirement this year. Students will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 11 or English 12 credit. Note that eight different trimester courses will be offered on a rotating basis, with four choices available each year.

Major Outcomes:

• Write to argue, supporting a position with developed ideas and logical reasoning.
• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support conclusions.
• Participate in conversations that explore reasoning and evidence.

Projects/Activities: Analysis of writing techniques in mysteries; creation of a mystery story, film, case file, game, or podcast.

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to elements of the mystery genre. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Stories in History

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 10, Honors English 10, English 10 with College Foundations

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and Grade 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirement this year. Students will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 11 or English 12 credit. Note that eight different trimester courses will be offered on a rotating basis, with four choices available each year.

Major Outcomes:

• Read texts to examine events and topics from multiple viewpoints or perspectives.
• Write to respond to a variety of texts.
• Exchange ideas through discussion and collaboration.

Projects/Activities: Choice book clubs, creative writing.

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to the stories that individuals and societies have told throughout history. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

Real World English: Technical Reading and Writing

Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 11, AP English Language and Composition, or CP English 11 [CPHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 11 and Grade 12 students

Credit: One trimester = .5 credit

Note: This is one of four possible trimester courses students can select to fulfill one half of the English 11 or English 12 requirements. Juniors will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 11 credit. Seniors will complete any two of the four choice courses for full English 12 credit. Additional choices will be offered for juniors and seniors in 2025-26.

Major outcomes:

• Read complex technical and informational texts effectively.
• Write daily, with a wide variety of writing experiences, especially focusing on writing for the workplace and daily life.
• Develop language skills (including expanding vocabulary) as they relate to reading, writing, and speaking.
• Communicate effectively in print and through media.

Projects/Activities: book clubs, research about a chosen career path, presentations, and Socratic seminars.

Instructional Focus: Teachers will create daily reading, writing, and discussion activities as students explore essential questions related to technical reading and writing. Language work will be embedded within authentic reading, writing, and speaking experiences. Teachers will offer multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.

AP English Language and Composition

[AP exam is in May each year]

Intended Audience: Highly skilled readers and writers in grade 11

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Reading texts from a variety of periods, disciplines and rhetorical contexts
• Build skills in analyzing writer’s purpose and use of rhetorical techniques
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Various challenging writing and reading assignments

Instructional Focus: Faster pace and independent work; College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution

  

AP Literature and Composition

[AndHS only]

[AP exam is in May each year]

Intended Audience: Highly skilled readers and writers in grade 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Reading selected pieces of world literature from a variety of periods
• Analyze literature for structure, style, theme, and use of language
• Acquire skills necessary to succeed in college
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Writers notebook, small and large group discussions, individual reports, panels and oral reading of plays

Instructional Focus: Faster pace and independent work; College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution

 

Coll Honors Introduction to Literature

College credit [University of Minnesota]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: GPA in top 20 percent or cumulative GPA in previously-taken English courses that exceeds a 3.25; English 11 or AP English Language and Composition; or by teacher recommendation

Intended Audience: Highly skilled readers and writers in grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Discussion and interpretation of literary forms
• Personal response to literature
• Experience with literary analysis composition
• Reader’s notebook

Projects, Activities, etc.:

• Reader’s notebook
• Textual Discussions

Instructional Focus: Rigorous and higher level critical thinking, multiple perspectives, seminars, some independent study

 

Coll Honors University Writing

College credit [University of Minnesota]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: GPA in top 20 percent or meet university entrance requirements [see counselor]; English 11 or AP English Language and Composition Intended Audience: Highly skilled readers and writers in grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Knowledge of variety of writing assignments
• Defining purpose, organizing, developing content
• Skills in revision, editing project, activities, etc .; writing portfolio may include: personal narrative, ethnography, review of fine arts event, expository essay based on inquiry

Instructional Focus: Some independent study, discussion, seminars, writing and literary events

 

 

ARTS

Acting I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Note: Course does not meet the Arts course requirement

Major Outcomes:

• Foundations of Theater
• Creativity
• Techniques for improvisation
• Beginning scene work
• Leadership and communication skills

Projects, Activities, etc.: Writing and performance, individual and group performance

Instructional Focus: Active participation and collaborative group work

 

Acting II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Acting I or teacher permission

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Original scripts
• Character analysis
• Collaborative scene work
• Acting styles and forms

Projects, Activities, etc.: Perform scenes from a variety of styles, write and perform original work

Instructional Focus: Active participation and collaboration

 

Acting III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Acting II or teacher permission

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One or two trimesters = 0.5 credit or 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Prepare an audition piece
• Experience in blocking
• Analysis of dramatic literature
• Acting experience
• Scene work

Projects, Activities, etc.: Perform scenes from musicals, dramas, and comedies

Instructional Focus: Active participation

 

Creative Writing I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn strategies to improve as a writer
• Development of writerly voice
• Collaborate with a community of writers
• Freedom to write innovatively

Projects, Activities, etc.: Project-based learning: fiction, poetry, plays, and creative non-fiction

 

Creative Writing II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Creative Writing I

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 [grade 10 with special permission of teacher]

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Continue to develop a writerly voice
• Experimentation with genre and style
• Collaborate with other student writers

Projects, Activities, etc.: Project-based learning: fiction, poetry, plays, and creative non-fiction

 

JOURNALISM

Introduction to Journalism

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Reporting techniques
• News and feature writing
• Editorial and review writing
• Layout and photography
• Journalistic ethics

Projects, Activities, etc.: Students may write news stories, feature stories, sports stories, and opinion pieces. Students may create photography portfolios and page design layouts. [Articles submitted may be included in the school newspaper.]

Instructional Focus: Computer and hands-on activities

 

 

Yearbook Lab I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Introduction to Journalism or instructor approval

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Copy writing
• Interviewing techniques
• Layout design
• Photo composition and development
• Advertising
• Time management

Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities

 

Yearbook Lab II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Yearbook Lab I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Copy writing
• Interviewing techniques
• Layout design
• Photo composition and development
• Advertising
• Time management

Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities

 

Yearbook Lab III

Prerequisites/Selection Process: Yearbook Lab II or teacher permission

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Further development of skills learned in Yearbook Lab I and II

Instructional Focus: Hands-on activities

 

Television Journalism

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Introduction to Journalism or instructor approval

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit; students may enroll for one, two, or three trimesters

Major Outcomes:

• Improve speaking skills
• Improve journalism and interviewing skills
• Write human interest stories, opinion pieces, and general announcements to be broadcast
• Work as reporters, news writers, news anchors, editors, camera operators, and technicians

Instructional Focus: Using journalism and broadcast skills to create informational news for school-wide announcements

 

SPEAKING

Debate I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Basic research skills
• Public speaking
• Understanding basic debate formats

Projects, Activities, etc.: Research and deliver major debates

Instructional Focus: Active participation, research and group work

 

Honors Debate II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Debate I or teacher permission

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced research skills
• Argumentation theory

Projects, Activities, etc.: Research and deliver major debates and utilize argumentation theories

Instructional Focus: More rigorous challenges, for example, types of research materials

 

Public Speaking

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Confidence in public speaking situations
• Speaking skills
• Presentation skills

Projects, Activities, etc.: Interpretive speeches, informative presentation, persuasive speeches

Instructional Focus: Non-threatening course designed to help overcome fears

 

Coll Honors Public Speaking

College credit [North Hennepin Community College]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Minimum GPA of 2.0; additional criteria set by NHCC

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12; for students who want to improve speaking skills and earn honors and college credit

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Practice and improve public speaking skills
• Critically analyze own and others’ speeches
• Explore advanced research techniques and organizational strategies
• Analyze audience and evaluate communication choices
• Participate effectively in groups with emphasis on critical listening and responding

Instructional Focus: Create and deliver speeches

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HOSPITALITY

Culinary Arts I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Experiential learning through food preparation and tasting
• Management of culinary tools and equipment
• Application of safety and sanitation skills

Projects, Activities, etc.: Food labs

Instructional Focus: Food preparation and demonstration

 

Culinary Arts II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Introduction to Culinary
Arts 

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Meal planning and preparation
• Advanced cooking methods, professional knife skills, and plating techniques.
• Working toward Articulated College Credit

Projects, Activities, etc.: Food labs and planning process, hospitality and advanced meal preparation, teamwork 
Food labs and planning process, hospitality and advanced
meal preparation, teamwork, weekly labs.

Instructional Focus: Applied culinary skills.

 

Culinary Arts III

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Culinary Arts I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Apply advanced culinary skills, professional practices, new techniques and professional menu development throughout the course.
• Articulated Credit may be earned. 

Projects, Activities, etc.: Careers in the food industry will be explored through various opportunities. Students will develop and present a concept for a food truck or restaurant. 

Instructional Focus: Students will use hands-on lab experiences to learn industry food safety and preparation techniques.

 

Nutrition

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Personal Nutrition and wellness concerns
• Selecting & preparing Nutritious food
• Understand health conditions related to diet, eating disorders, and body image concerns
• Establish personal wellness and nutrition goals
• Demonstrate food safety and sanitation during food labs

Projects, Activities, etc.: Create a personal nutrition/wellness plan, analysis of nutrition wellness issues, nutritious food labs

Instructional Focus: Personal nutrition goals, research and  and guest presenters

 

Food Science

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of food science
• Technology associated with providing safe and nutritious foods
• Analyze basic scientific principles that explain how and why we process, prepare, and store foods for human consumption

Projects, Activities, etc.: Hands-on activities

Instructional Focus: Examining food products using scientific methods that lead to product development and safety in our food supply

 

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND HUMAN SERVICES

Child and Human Development

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Understanding of physical, intellectual,
  emotional and social development of children birth to age 5.
  

Projects, Activities, etc.:

• Interact with preschool children in the AH School Readiness Preschools
• Observation of children
• Research preschool toys, read aloud books, and hands on engaging activities
• Real Care Baby or alternative project 

Instructional Focus: Discussion, small/large group
activities, project based activities, guest presenters,
observation and research.

Students in this course will be working towards their CDA (Child Development Associate) hours.

 

Early Childhood Careers I

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Child and Human Development

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Plan and develop lessons and activities for
  children
  
• Read aloud and teach lessons to preschool children
  development skills and service learning
  
• Explore and research various career opportunities working with children.
• Create a preschool learning environment using space, relationships, materials, and routines as resources for constructing an interesting, secure, and enjoyable learning experience
• Students in this course will be working towards their CDA (Child Development Associate) hours. 

Co-Curricular Connection: Educators Rising

Early Childhood Careers II

[Students may earn Articulated College Credit]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Early Childhood Careers I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes: 

• Graduate high school career-ready with the nationally recognized CDA Credential
• Earn college credit while still in high school
• Become lead teacher qualified in a center-based child care setting.
• Gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to work with young children

Projects, activities, etc,:

• Compiling their portfolio
• Completing their learning experiences in the preschool
• Working on their competency statements for the CDA with support from their teacher
• Preschool experience is part of this course as well as an opportunity for field experience
• Evaluate a client’s profile to create a detailed, specific project to meet a client’s needs.

Instructional Focus: Designing and creating the CDA portfolio
Students may receive up to 6 college credits for this course plus earn their CDA through additional steps.

Co-Curricular Connection: FCCLA

Co-Curricular Connection: Educators Rising

 

Coll Foundation of Education

[Concurrent enrollment with Anoka Ramsey Community College]

Intended Audience: 10, 11, 12

Prerequisites/Selection Process: College admission requirements 

Credit: Two trimesters/One Period = 1.0 credit Successful completion will earn 4 college credits

Major Outcomes:

• Exploration of the education profession 
• Exploration and application of topics related to education: learning, assessment, history, instructional strategies
• 30 hours Field Experience

Instructional Focus: Discussion, small/large group activities, Project based activities, Guest presenters, field trips, observations

Co-curricular Connection: Educators Rising 

DESIGN AND VISUAL ARTS

Fabric, Apparel, and Design

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Analyze how culture is connected to fashion.
• Create apparel designs that use the principles and elements of design
• Apply technical skills to create a textile product.

Projects, Activities, etc.: 

• Design sketches related to the principles and elements of design.
• Hands on experience in construction, pattern selection and design, alter and sustain textile and apparel products

Instructional Focus: Project-based fashion designs and apparel construction. Students will be exposed to industry technology in the field of apparel and design.

Students will receive an art credit for this course.

Interior Design and Housing

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Analyze past and present housing trends and cultural influences in the United States.
• Create a design that utilizes all of the elements of art
• Sketch a floor plan using planning terminology and architectural symbols 

Projects, Activities, etc.:

• Analyze the principles of design
• Evaluate a client’s profile to create a detailed, specific project to meet a client’s needs.

Instructional Focus: Designing functional and attractive spaces for individual and/or professional use.

Students will receive an art credit for this course.

 

FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Consumer Strategies

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Budgeting and Spending
• Income and Taxes
• Insurance
• Banking Options
• Credit and Identity Theft
• Investing, and Savings
• Major Purchases (leasing, renting, ownership)

Projects, Activities, etc.: Develop a financial budget and helpful personal resource guide. 

Instructional Focus: Preparing students for the financial aspects of “adulting.” 

 

Interpersonal Relationships

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Understanding Families, Self, and Personal development
• Effective communication skills
• Understanding and developing healthy relationships
• Conflict resolution strategies
• Recognizing harassment, abuse and prejudice in relationships

Projects, Activities, etc.: Self surveys and reflection, In-depth discussions, Practice of strategies to use

Instructional Focus: Students will develop communication skills that will improve personal and professional relationships.

 

Honors Family and Consumer Sciences Internship

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Application and interview required.

Intended Audience: Grade 12 college and career-bound students pursuing service occupation careers including; child care, cosmetology, design, interior design or fashion, education, hospitality/culinary and social services.

Credit: Up to three credits available (0.5 credit per trimester for seminar, 0.5 credit per trimester for work); students enroll for up to three trimesters which is preferred by employers/internship sites.

Major Outcomes:

• Paid work experience
• Job Skill Development
• Career Investigation
• Job Site Safety
• Financial Literacy
• Application to Real World

Projects, Activities, etc.: Develop a career portfolio, research career options, showcase job site, community building, leadership development, service projects.

Instructional Focus: On the job training, project based, engaging activities, discussion, small/large group activities, field trips.

Co-curricular Connection: FCCLA, Educators Rising

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Health

Intended Audience:  Grade 10 [grade 10 preferred]

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

Students will participate in a skills based approach to comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention by demonstrating the ability to:

• Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. 
• Access valid health information and products and services to enhance health. 
• Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
• Use decision-making skills to enhance health. 
• Use goal-setting skills to enhance health. 
• Practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks including CPR training.
• Advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Projects, Activities, ect.: Research brochure, posters,small/large group activities, health behavior goals, health skills based activities, stress management techniques, CPR training.

Instructional Focus: Skill based activities, discussion, collaboration, project based assessments and guest speakers.

 

Healthy Living

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Health 10

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes: 

• Students will practice a Skills Based Approach to build on their prior knowledge of the Health Education Standards including comprehending concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention by demonstrating the ability to:  
  • Access valid information, products, and services to enhance health. 
  • Practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • Advocate for personal, family, and community health.
• This class will support the development of health education skills and acquisition of knowledge they need now, and will need in the future to maintain or enhance their health. 

Projects, Activities, ect.: Students will participate in healthy lifestyle practices including classroom and physical activity.They will use technology to research healthy lifestyles skills, the benefits of mindfulness, and health related reading group to promote the development of the 7 dimensions of wellness. (Physical, Social, Emotional, Career, Intellectual, Environmental and Spiritual Wellness) They will have a chance to create a podcast about stress management techniques and a public service announcement on a current health topic to improve students quality of life. 

Instructional Focus: Skills based activities, stress management techniques, health & wellness field trips, guest speakers, research and advocacy projects, community school partnerships including peer teaching, and hands-on activities.

 

Healthy Life Skills

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Health 10

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Students will practice a Skills Based Approach to build on their prior knowledge of the Health Education Standards including comprehending concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention by demonstrating the ability to:  
  • Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. 
  • Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • Use decision-making skills to enhance health.
  • Use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
• This class will support the development of health education skills and acquisition of knowledge they need now, and will need in the future to maintain or enhance their health and fitness. 

Projects, Activities, ect.: Students will participate in healthy lifestyle practices including classroom and physical activity.They will use technology to research healthy lifestyles skills, the benefits of mindfulness, and health related reading group to promote the development of the 7 dimensions of wellness. (Physical, Social, Emotional, Career, Intellectual, Environmental and Spiritual Wellness) They will have a chance to create a podcast about stress management techniques and a public service announcement on a current health topic to improve students quality of life. 

Instructional Focus: Skills based activities, stress management techniques, health & wellness field trips, guest speakers, research and advocacy projects, community school partnerships including peer teaching, and hands-on activities.

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HS Intermediate Algebra

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: **Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes: This course continues the extensive, connected, and applied study of Mathematics from previous courses. Emphasis is on the development of multiple strategies to solve problems and to recognize multiple ways of understanding concepts, especially as it pertains to quadratic and exponential functions. It has strong threads woven throughout the course focusing on multiple representations, justifying thinking, and communicating the meaning of a solution. The topics covered in the course are:

• Functions, Linear Relationships
• Simplifying and Solving
• Sequences
• Modeling Two-Variable Data
• Exponential Functions
• Quadratic Functions
• Solving Quadratic and Inequalities

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; some hands-on activities and the use of a graphing calculator.

** Students may be placed in an additional trimester of math based on a variety of achievement scores and teacher recommendation. Students passing this additional trimester course would receive an additional 0.5 elective credit.

 

HS Geometry with College Foundations

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Intermediate Algebra with College Foundations or Honors Intermediate Algebra

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.0 math credit and 0.5 elective credit

Major Outcomes: This course continues the extensive, connected, and applied study of Mathematics from previous courses. It has strong threads woven throughout the course focusing on multiple representations, justifying thinking, and communicating the meaning of a solution. The topics covered in the course are:

• Shapes and Transformations
• Angles and Measurement
• Justification and Similarity
• Trigonometry and Probability
• Congruent Triangles
• Proof and Quadrilaterals
• Polygons and Circles
• Solids and Constructions
• Circles and Conditional Probability
• Solids and Circles

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; some hands-on activities

 

Honors HS Geometry with College Foundations

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Intermediate Algebra with College Foundations or Honors Intermediate Algebra

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.0 math credit and 0.5 elective credit

Major Outcomes: This course continues the extensive, connected, and applied study of Mathematics from previous courses. It has strong threads woven throughout the course focusing on multiple representations, justifying thinking, and communicating the meaning of a solution. The topics covered in the course are:

• Shapes and Transformations
• Angles and Measurement
• Justification and Similarity
• Trigonometry and Probability
• Congruent Triangles
• Proof and Quadrilaterals
• Polygons and Circles
• Solids and Constructions
• Circles and Conditional Probability
• Solids and Circles

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; some hands-on activities, and more in-depth study of content

  

HS Algebra II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: HS Geometry with College Foundations or Honors HS Geometry with College Foundations

Intended Audience: Grade 11

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 math credit

Major Outcomes: This course continues the extensive, connected, and applied study of Mathematics from previous courses.  It has strong threads woven throughout the course focusing on multiple representations, justifying thinking, and communicating the meaning of a solution. The topics covered in the course are:

• Transformations of parent graphs
• Equivalent forms
• Solving and intersections
• Inverses and logarithms
• 3-D graphing and logarithms
• Trigonometric functions, polynomials
• Randomization and normal distributions
• Series
• Simulating sampling variability

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; some hands-on activities

 

Honors HS Algebra II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: HS Geometry with College Foundations or Honors HS Geometry with College Foundations

Intended Audience: Grade 11

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 math credit

Major Outcomes: This course continues the extensive, connected, and applied study of Mathematics from previous courses. It has strong threads woven throughout the course focusing on multiple representations, justifying thinking, and communicating the meaning of a solution. The topics covered in the course are:

• Transformations of parent graphs
• Equivalent forms
• Solving and intersections
• Inverses and logarithms
• 3-D graphing and logarithms
• Trigonometric functions, polynomials
• Randomization and normal distributions
• Series
• Simulating sampling variability

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; some hands-on activities, and more in-depth study of content

 

Coll Honors College Algebra Through Modeling

[AndHS, AHS, BHS, and CRHS only]

College Credit [University of Minnesota - CI 1806]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: HS Algebra II, Honors HS Algebra II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12; a grade of C+ or better in Advanced Algebra and class rank (50th-80th percentile) is considered

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Construct math models to describe real world phenomena
• Use math models to make predictions
• Apply linear, polynomial, rational, expo- nential, and logarithmic functions to real world situations
• Communicate and evaluate math reasoning

Projects, Activities, etc.: Modeling assignments solving realistic problems; utilize graphing calculators and spreadsheets to accurately represent the behavior of real-world data

Instructional Focus: Emphasis on real-world problem-solving applications

 

Coll Honors College Algebra

[AndHS, AHS, BHS, CRHS only]

College Credit [AHS only: Anoka-Ramsey Community College – Math 1200] [AndHS, BHS, and CRHS: St. Cloud State University – Math 112]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: HS Algebra II or Honors HS Algebra II and a required math score on the placement test

Intended Audience: Only Grade 11 [GPA in top 33 percent of class] and only Grade 12 [GPA in top 50 percent of class]

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit, successful completion can earn college credit

Major Outcomes:

• Functions and function inverses
• Exponential and logarithmic functions
• Polynomial and Rational Functions
• Linear programming
• Systems of equations and inequalities

Projects, Activities, etc.: Group problem-solving sessions, group presentations, group activities, computer lab projects, individual student presentations, student portfolio creation

Instructional Focus: Small and large group discussions, concept mapping, presentations and use of a college text

 

Honors Precalculus

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors HS Algebra II or Coll Honors College Algebra [HS Algebra II with teacher recommendation]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two terms = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Extension of algebraic and geometric concepts of relations, functions and graphing into trigonometric functions
• Applications of trigonometry

Projects, Activities, etc.: Varies by teacher

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways, use of graphic calculator

 

AP Statistics

[AP test is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors HS Algebra II

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Introduction to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing and drawing conclusions from data

Projects, Activities, etc.: Varies by teacher

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways, use of statistical software, some hands-on activities and preparation for AP test

 

AP Calculus AB

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors Precalculus

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two terms = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Functions
• Limits, derivatives, integrals
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Varies by teacher

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; use of graphing calculator; preparation for AP exam; College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution

 

Calculus AB Seminar

Prerequisite/Selection Process: AP Calculus AB

Intended Audience: Students who have completed Calculus AB and desire to prepare for the AP Exam

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Review Calculus AB Concepts
• Further in-depth study in Calculus Concepts

Projects, Activities, etc.: Practice AP Calculus AB Exams and discussion of AP testing strategies

 

AP Calculus BC

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Students must have successfully completed AP Calculus AB or AP Differential Calculus AB and AP Integral Calculus AB

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improper integrals
• Partial fractions, infinite series
• Parametric, vector and polar functions
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Varies by teacher

Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; use of graphing calculator; preparation for AP exam; College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution

 

AP Calculus AB/BC

[BHS]

[AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors Precalculus

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Functions
• Limits, derivatives, integrals
• Improper integrals
• Partial fractions, infinite series
• Parametric, vector and polar functions

Projects, Activities, etc.: Varies by teacher

Instructional Focus: Same as AP Calculus AB for first two trimesters [1.0 credit course] and same as AP Calculus BC for one trimester course [0.5 credit course]

 

[AP Calculus AB/BC]/IB Mathematics HL 11

[CPHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors Precalculus

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Functions
• Limits, derivatives, integrals
• Improper integrals
• Partial fractions, infinite series
• Parametric, vector and polar functions

Projects, Activities, etc.: Varies by teacher

Instructional Focus: Same as AP Calculus AB for first two trimesters [1 .0 credit course] and same as AP Calculus BC for one trimester course [0 .5 credit course]

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Beginning Band

Prerequisite/Selection Process: None

Intended audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = .5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Basic elements of music
• Reading music
• Beginning group performance
  

Instructional focus: Beginning band is for students with little to no experience in instrumental music.

Band I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Minimum of one year of band instruction or private study and approval of the band teacher

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Elements of music
• Reading music
• Performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Band II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Band teacher determines level of placement

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Elements of music
• Reading music
• Performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Honors Band III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Approval of band teacher

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced development of skills in music elements, reading, and performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Marching Band

[CRHS only]

[Trimester 1 only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Minimum of one year of band instruction or private study and approval of band teacher

Intended Audience: Band Students in Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Development of the Elements of Musicianship and the Elements of Movement

Projects, Activities, etc.: The Marching Band is a highly visible and active music ensemble that includes band students in grades 9-12. The ensemble requires a time commitment outside of the school day, including selected dates in August, Monday evening rehearsals in September and October, all home football games, marching band field show competitions, and possible other venues such as local community events. A calendar for the season is available now in the Band Office.

Note: This is a first trimester course of a year-long band curriculum. Students should register for Band Level I, II or III for trimesters 2 and 3. Students may enroll and receive credit for this course more than once. Students registered for Band III trimester 2 & 3 will receive Honors Credit [0.5 credit] for Marching Band.

 

Concert Band

[CRHS only]

[Trimester 1 only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Minimum of one year of band instruction or private study and approval of band teacher

Intended Audience: Band Students in Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Elements of Music
• Reading Music
• Performance

Projects, Activities, etc.: This course is intended for brass, woodwind and percussion performers not interested in participating in Marching Band.  The ensemble will study and perform literature representing many stylistic and historical periods. Performances will include one concert.

Note: This is a first trimester course of a yearlong band curriculum. Students should register for Band Level I, II or III for trimesters 2 and 3.  Students may enroll and receive credit for this course more than once. Students registered for Band III trimester 2 & 3 will receive Honors Credit [0.5 credit] for Concert Band.

Beginning Choir

Prerequisite/Selection Process: none

Intended audience: Grades 9,10,11,12 who have no experience with group singing. 

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credits

Major Outcomes: 

• Exploring world cultures through a variety of music
• Building teamwork and communication skills
• Development and knowledge of the singing voice
• Developing musical skill through performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

Choir Level I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: No prior experience needed

Intended audience: Grades 9,10,11,12 who have experience with group singing. 

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes: 

• Exploring world cultures through a variety of music
• Building teamwork and communication skills
• Development and knowledge of the singing voice
• Developing musical skill through performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Choir Level II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Vocal music teacher determines placement

Intended audience: Grades 9,10,11,12 

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes: 

• Exploring world cultures through a variety of music
• Building teamwork and communication skills
• Advancement of knowledge of the singing voice
• Deepening musical skill through performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Honors Choir Level III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Vocal Music Teacher determines placement

Intended audience: Advanced Singing students grades 9,10,11,12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes: 

• Exploring world cultures through advanced levels of music
• Building teamwork, communication and leadership skills
• Advanced Development and knowledge of the singing voice
• Developing advanced musical skill through performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

Honors Choir Level IV

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Approval of Vocal music teacher

Intended audience: Advanced Singing Students grades 10, 11 and 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes: 

• Exploring world cultures through advanced levels of music
• Building teamwork, communication and leadership skills
• Advanced development and knowledge of the singing voice
• Developing advanced musical skill through performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

Voice Lab 

Prerequisite/Selection Process: None

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = .5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Development and knowledge of a student's own voice. 
• Emphasis on individual performance skills culminating in a final project.
• Interact with music of various cultures and genres.
• Opportunities to build teams and personal leadership.
• Build musical listening and communication skills.

Instructional Focus: See teacher for specific instructional focus.

Voice Lab II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Voice Lab I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = .5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Development and knowledge of a student’s own voice.
• Emphasis on individual vocal skills culminating in a final project.
• Interact with music of various cultures and genres.
• Opportunities to build teams and personal leadership.
• Build musical listening and communication skills.
  

Instructional Focus: See teacher for specific instructional focus.

 

Beginning Orchestra

Prerequisite/Selection Process: None

Intended Audience: All grades, but students who have not taken orchestra before

Credit: one trimester = 0.5 credits 

Major Outcomes: 

• Elements of Music
• Reading Music
• Performance Instructional 

Focus: Performance

Orchestra I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Minimum of one year of orchestra instruction or private study, approval of orchestra teacher

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Elements of Music
• Reading Music
• Performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Orchestra II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Placement determined by orchestra teacher

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Elements of Music
• Reading Music
• Performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Honors Orchestra III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Enrollment is by approval of the orchestra teacher

Intended Audience: Advanced students in grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced development of skills in music elements, reading, and performance

Instructional Focus: Performance

 

Music Exploration

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Introduction to music composition, theory, history, analysis, and current performance practices
• Music Technology
• Music of various cultures

Note: See teacher for specific instructional focus.

 

AP Music Theory

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Enrollment in Level II or higher ensemble, or grade of C or higher in Music Exploration, or teacher permission

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Develop the ability to recognize, understand, and describe basic materials and processes of music
• Learn and apply notational and aural skills
• Learn and apply basic music concepts and terminology
• Be prepared to pass the College Board Advanced Placement Music Theory Exam
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Listening to, analyzing, performing, and composing a wide variety of music

Instructional Focus: AP Music Theory corresponds to a typical introductory music theory two course sequence. College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution.

 

World Drumming

Prerequisite: No musical experience necessary

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Performance skills and understanding the musical cultures and traditions of Africa and the Caribbean
• Opportunities to build teams and personal leadership
• Build musical listening and communica- tion skills
• Learn to improvise and create new musical patterns

Projects, Activities, etc: World Drumming is an active participation class that will primarily focus on musical traditions and performance practices from West Africa and the Caribbean. Students will learn traditional beat patterns, create new ones, and learn how to lead and follow in a musical setting. Performance options will be available including pep fests and specialty programs.

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Physical Education I

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Fundamentals of individual physical fitness
• Instruction in varied physical activities

Instructional Focus: Physical activities designed to meet student interests

 

Physical Education II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I

Intended Audience: Grade 10 [Grade 10 preferred]

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Development and implementation of personal fitness plan
• Instruction in varied physical activities

Projects, Activities, etc.: Fitness plan

Instructional Focus: To develop interest in lifelong physical activity.

 

Accelerated Basketball I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0 .5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Individual offensive and defensive skills (dribbling, passing, shooting, rebounding)
• Proper warm up, rules of the game, etiquette, and terminology 
• Emphasis will be placed on person-to-person defense and a motion offense utilizing screens, cuts, spacing, and movement

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play.

 

Accelerated Basketball II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Accelerated Basketball I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improve individual skills and introduces more advanced offensive and defensive team concepts
• Topics include half-court zone offense and defense, sideline and baseline out of bounds plays, full court press and press break, and officiating signals
• Fitness components are specific to the game of basketball
• Emphasis is placed on improving upon skills learned in Accelerated Basketball 1 and implementing them within a more advanced team dynamic

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play.

 

Accelerated Basketball III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Accelerated Basketball II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improve individual intermediate skills through self-analysis of strengths and weaknesses and introduce some of the most advanced offensive and defensive concepts in basketball
• Topics include full court zone press, trapping and switching defenses, secondary break offenses, and video analysis
• Emphasis on improving upon skills learned in Accelerated Basketball I/II and implementing them within a more advanced team dynamic

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play.

 

Accelerated Volleyball I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Basic and advanced volleyball skills
• Team strategies

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play.

 

Accelerated Volleyball II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Accelerated Volleyball I

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced volleyball skills
• Team strategies for competitive volleyball

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play.

 

Accelerated Volleyball III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Accelerated Volleyball II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced volleyball skills
• Skill analysis, team-building concepts, coaching, and officiating

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play.

 

Group Fitness I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improvement of personal fitness through a variety of group fitness activities
• Application of the Principles of Exercise and F.I.T.T.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Floor and Step Aerobics, Biking, Boot Camp, Cardio kickboxing, Circuit Training, Jogging, Jump Training, Plyometrics, Power Walking, Inline Skating, Yoga, Resistance Training with dumbbells, bands, stability balls, and the latest trends

Instructional Focus: Active participation

 

Group Fitness II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Group Fitness I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improvement of personal fitness through a variety of group fitness activities
• Continued application of the Principles of Exercise and F.I.T.T. in training
• Principles of a healthy lifestyle
• The opportunity to lead and develop group fitness workouts
• Participation at a more advanced level than Aerobics/Group Fitness I

Projects, Activities, etc.: Floor and Step Aerobics, Biking, Boot Camp, Cardio kickboxing, Circuit Training, Jogging, Jump Training, Plyometrics, Power Walking, Inline Skating, Yoga, Resistance Training with dumbbells, bands, stability balls, and the latest trends 

Instructional Focus: Active participation

 

Lifetime Activities Outdoors [Fall/Spring]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Experience various indoor and outdoor activities
• Enhance fitness levels
• Develop appreciation for the outdoors
• Acquire leadership skills
• Understand the importance of physical activity as it relates to a healthy lifestyle

Projects, Activities, etc.: Golf, rock climbing, canoeing, orienteering, court sports, fishing, biking, inline skating, hiking, and disc golf

 

Lifetime Activities Outdoors [Winter]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Experience various indoor and outdoor activities
• Enhance fitness levels
• Develop appreciation for the outdoors
• Acquire leadership skills
• Understand the importance of physical a activity as it relates to a healthy lifestyle

Projects, Activities, etc.: Snowshoeing, Nordic skiing, bowling, court sports, ice fishing, downhill skiing/snowboarding, broomball, ice skating and hockey

 

Physical Education Elective 9

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Expanded opportunities in individual, dual, and team activities
• Improvement in physical fitness

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play. To develop interest in lifelong physical activity.

 

Strength Training and Conditioning I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Knowledge and application of basic strength and conditioning principles
• Development of associated skills and techniques

Instructional Focus: Individualized instruction and physical activity

 

Strength Training and Conditioning II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Strength Training and Conditioning I

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Further development in training techniques and skills
• Emphasis on fitness-related issues

Instructional Focus: Individualized instruction and physical activity

 

Strength Training and Conditioning III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Strength Training and Conditioning II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improvement of skills learned in Strength Training and Conditioning I and II
• Development of personal fitness program

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips

Instructional Focus: Individualized instruction and physical activity

 

Strength Training and Conditioning IV

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Strength Training and Conditioning III

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Development of advanced training techniques, skills and concepts
• Opportunity to explore a variety of advanced strength training protocols

Instructional Focus: Individualized instruction and physical activity

 

Team Sports

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Basic skills and strategies of activities such as basketball, boot hockey, bowling, floor hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball, team handball and volleyball

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play. To develop interest in lifelong physical activity.

 

Total Sports I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I and Physical Education II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• This course is a combination of team and individual sport

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play. To develop interest in lifelong physical activity.

 

Total Sports II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Total Sports I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• This course is a combination of team and individual sports. Play is more advanced than in Total Sports I

Projects, Activities, etc.: Field trips

Instructional Focus: Physical activity in skills and game play. To develop interest in lifelong physical activity.

Reading for High School Success

Intended Audience: Grades 9 and 10

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improve comprehension in texts related to science, social studies, and math
• Understand how we read differently based on specific content areas
• Apply content-specific reading approaches and strategies to texts in different courses
• Read content area text more efficiently and effectively

Projects, Activities, etc.:

• Read, analyze, and respond to materials found in current high school classes such as science, social studies, and math.
• Use reading to build background knowledge for success in other content areas
• Develop and increase content area vocabulary (‘wordology’)
• Research and synthesize resources/ideas based on content areas
  

Instructional Focus: Effective and efficient reading practices, reading approaches and strategies, note-taking and test-taking skills

 

Reading for Today's World

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Improve comprehension by applying various reading approaches and strategies to texts in technical/informational subjects, life situations, and potential careers
• Understand how we read differently based on type of text and desired task
• Read relevant and/or real-world texts more efficiently and effectively

Projects, Activities, etc.: 

• Read, analyze, and respond to relevant materials in technical/informational subjects, life situations, and potential careers
• Explore real-world texts and tasks
• Develop and increase understanding of new vocabulary (“wordology”)
• Research and synthesize resources/ideas based on relevant and/or real-world texts
  

Instructional Focus: Reading approaches and strategies, real-world reading and exploration, note-taking and test-taking skills

 

Coll Reading and Study Strategies

College credit [Anoka-Ramsey Community College]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: GPA Top 1/3 juniors, top 1/2 seniors, instructor permission

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 high school credit. Successful completion may earn college credits at Anoka-Ramsey Community College.

This course emphasizes ways to learn information for college classes. Topics include study strategies, note-taking, test-taking, decreasing procrastination, time management and test anxiety.

Major Outcomes:

• Application of higher-level thinking, reading strategies, and study skills leads to comprehension and improved academic performance
• Enhancing an academic vocabulary and an understanding of word parts will increase the ability to discern meaning

Projects, Activities, etc.: Create and utilize personal reading and notetaking strategies in order to achieve success in a college course

Instructional Focus: Application of problem-solving strategies, study strategies, note-taking and test-taking strategies to enhance individual learning experiences in order to prepare for college level course work

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Earth Science

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Apply Science and Engineering Practices to explain phenomena in Earth and Space Science
• Knowledge of Earth systems and processes
• Analyze human impacts on Earth systems and processes
• Knowledge of astronomical structures and phenomena

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work

Instructional Focus: Small and large group lecture and lab activities and demonstrations

 

Honors Earth Science

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Strong math skills recommended

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Apply Science and Engineering Practices to explain phenomena in Earth and Space Science
• Knowledge of Earth systems and processes
• Analyze human impacts on Earth systems and processes
• Knowledge of astronomical structures and phenomena

Projects, Activities, etc.: Honors research project

Instructional Focus: Designed for the more independent science learner. Small and large group lecture and lab activities.

 

Honors Physics 9

[BHS, CRHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Middle School Algebra

Intended Audience: Grade 9 or 10  students considering enrolling in the CEMS program at BHS or BME program at CRHS

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn concepts related to motion, sound, light, electricity and magnetism
• Develop analytical reading and study techniques related to science
• In-depth understanding of concepts related to mechanics, fluids, thermodynamics, waves [sound and light], electricity and magnetism

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work and honors research project

Instructional Focus: To prepare for advanced science courses in grades 11 and 12, lab work and group activities

 

Chemistry I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Earth Science 9, or Honors Earth Science 9 or Honors Physics 

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

Build understanding of:

• Composition, structure, interactions between substances
• Measurement
• Compounds
• Atoms
• Chemical reactions
• Kinetic theory

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work

Instructional Focus: Rigorous high school-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; high school text is used

 

Honors Chemistry I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Earth Science 9, or Honors Earth Science 9, or Honors Physics [This course is suggested in preparation for the IB Program]

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

Build understanding of:

• Composition, structure, interactions between substances
• Measurement
• Compounds
• Atoms
• Chemical reactions
• Kinetic theory

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; college text is used

Honors Pre-IB Chemistry I

[CPHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Earth Science, or Honors Earth Science, or Honors Physics
[This course is suggested in preparation for the IB Program at CPHS]

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Two trimesters=1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

Build understanding of:

• Composition, structure, interactions between substances
• Measurement
• Compounds
• Atoms
• Chemical Reactions
• Kinetic theory
• Structure of matter
• Intermolecular forces and bonding
• Laws of thermodynamics
• Chemical equilibrium

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work.

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; college level text is used; college credit could be earned by taking the IB Chemistry course after this course.

 

AP Chemistry

[AndHS only]

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Earth Science or Honors Earth Science

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

Build understanding of:

• Structure of matter
• Intermolecular forces and bonding
• Chemical reactions
• Kinetics
• Laws of thermodynamics
• Chemical equilibrium
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Inquiry based activities and lab work

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; college text is used. College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution.

 

Biology I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Chemistry I or Honors Chemistry I or AP Chemistry [AndHS]

Intended Audience: Grade 11

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Describe cycles and interactions in the natural world
• Understand structure and function of cells
• Understand principles and applications of genetics
• Knowledge of biological change over time
• Understand life processes and diversity of life on Earth

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work

Instructional Focus: Small and large group lecture and lab activities

 

AP Biology

[AndHS, BHS, CRHS only]

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Chemistry I or Honors Chemistry I or AP Chemistry [AndHS]

Intended Audience: Grade 11

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Science as a Process
• Evolution
• Energy Transfer
• Continuity and Change
• Relationship of Structure to Function
• Regulation
• Interdependence in Nature
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Inquiry based activities and lab work

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; college text is used. College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution.

 

Coll Honors Biology

[AHS only]

Composed of SCSU BIOL 102 [The Living World]

Intended Audience:

Grade 11 - GPA in top 33% of class OR 3.5 GPA OR nationally standardized test score listed below.

Grade 12 - GPA in top 50% of class OR 3.0 GPA OR nationally standardized test score listed below.

Students may be eligible with the following nationally recognized test scores:

• ACT: 23 or above composite score
• Pre-ACT: 22 or above composite score
• PLAN: 19 or above
• SAT: 1070 or above (math & critical reading)
• PSAT: 107 or above
  

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit, successful completion will earn 3 college credits

Major Outcomes:

Students will understand:

• The nature of science, its methods, scope, and limitations
• Cell function
• The genetic basis of life
• Major concepts and theories of diversity, evolution, and ecology
• Plant form and function
• Organization and general function of the human body
• Significant biological issues facing society

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab investigations and write-ups, research, presentations and college campus visit

Instructional Focus: Small and large group lecture, field and lab activities and use of college text

 

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Honors Biology II: Genetics and Biotechnology

[AndHS, AHS, BHS, CPHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Biology I, IB Biology SL or HL, Coll Honors Biology or AP Biology [AndHS, BHS, CRHS]

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Identify and culture microscopic organisms
• Understand use and apply techniques and principles of biotechnology to microorganisms

Projects, Activities, etc.: Bacterial identification, genetic engineering, and DNA extraction/ transfer; college text is used

 

Honors Biology II: Physiology/Anatomy

[AndHS, AHS, BHS, CPHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Biology I, or IB Biology SL or HL, Coll Honors Biology or AP Biology [AndHS, BHS, CRHS]

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 students interested in health-related careers

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Knowledge of structure and function of human organ systems

Projects, Activities, etc.: Mammal dissection

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; college text is used

 

CHEMICAL SCIENCE

Honors Chemistry II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Chemistry I with permission of teacher or Honors Chemistry I or AP Chemistry [AndHS only]

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 interested in pursuing science, medicine or engineering

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Further development of advanced chemistry concepts

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; college text is used

Honors/IB Chemistry II A Only

[CPHS Only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Chemistry 1 with permission of teacher or Honors Chem 1 or Honors Pre-IB Chemistry 1 [CPHS Only] and HS Algebra 2 or Hon HS Algebra 2

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Laws of thermodynamics
• Kinetics
• Chemical equilibrium
• Further development of advanced chemistry

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; college level text is used; college credit could be earned by taking the full IB Chemistry course (2 trimester course)

 

EARTH SCIENCE

Astronomy

Prerequisite/Selection Process: None

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes: 

• Learn to navigate the night sky
• Understand how astronomers uncover the mysteries of stars, supernovae, galaxies, and black holes
• Investigate the possibility of life outside of Earth, the expansion of the universe, General Relativity, dark matter, and dark energy
• Develop skills to understand and communicate about new astronomy research

Projects, activities, etc: Create a star wheel to help view the night sky, stargaze with telescopes, develop a model showing the life cycle of stars, analyze curved space-time with a gravity table, use real data from space telescopes to look for exoplanets, complete personalized research project

Instructional Focus: Collaborative and hands-on lab activities, discussion, and lecture through the context of current astronomy research and data 

 

Geology of Minnesota

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Science 9, or Honors Physical Science 9, or Honors Physics 9

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Describe and locate local and regional geologic features
• Describe and locate natural and mineral resources
• Knowledge of geological history

Projects, Activities, etc.: Collections

Instructional Focus: Hands-on experiential learning

 

Meteorology

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Science 9, or Honors Physical Science 9, or Honors Physics 9

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Knowledge of weather basics
• Weather forecasting

Projects, Activities, etc.: Weather data collecting and interpretation

Instructional Focus: Small and large group lecture and lab activities

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Outdoor Adventures Fall Environmental Science

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Biology I, IB Biology SL or HL, Coll Honors Biology, or AP Biology [AndHS, BHS, CRHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 12 students interested in ecology and outdoor activities

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Understand natural systems
• Develop stewardship for the environment
• Experience outdoor activities with science

Projects, Activities, etc.: Wild edibles, taxonomy [plants and birds], exploration of seasonal Influences on outdoor activities through camping, fall ecology

Units of study: The living world, population and global change

 

Outdoor Adventures Winter Environmental Science

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Biology I, IB Biology SL or HL, Coll Honors Biology, or AP Biology [AndHS, BHS, CRHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 12 students interested in ecology and outdoor activities

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Understand natural systems
• Develop stewardship for the environment
• Experience outdoor activities with science

Projects, Activities, etc.: Independent project, orienteering, winter ichthyology through ice fishing, winter survival, exploration of seasonal influences on outdoor activities through winter camping, astronomy, winter ecology

Units of study: Energy resources and consumption, pollution and global change

 

Outdoor Adventures Spring Environmental Science

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Biology I, IB Biology SL or HL, Coll Honors Biology, or AP Biology [AndHS, BHS, CRHS only]

Intended Audience: Grade 12 students interested in ecology and outdoor activities

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Understand natural systems
• Develop stewardship for the environment
• Experience outdoor activities with science

Projects, Activities, etc.: Meteorology, applied open water ecology through fishing, river morphology through canoeing/kayaking, geology, applied geology through rock climbing, exploration of seasonal influences on outdoor activities, spring ecology

Units of study: Land and water use, earth systems and global change

 

Outdoor Adventures AP Environmental Science

[AndHS only]

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Biology or AP Biology

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: Three trimesters = 1.5 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Understand natural systems
• Population and global change
• Energy resources and consumption
• Pollution and global change
• Land water use
• Earth systems and global change
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Inquiry based activities and lab work

Instructional Focus: College level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities. College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution.

 

PHYSICS

Physics

Prerequisite/Selection Process: None

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12 

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit 

Major Outcomes: 

• Explore the Physics of Sports/Motion, Energy, Electricity, Music/Waves
• Investigate real-world physics phenomena related to cars & driving, sports, roller coasters, instruments, motors, electronic devices, and beyond.
• Construct solutions to engaging and relevant problems.
• Uncover the fundamental laws that govern the universe.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Voice-over (broadcast) physics of a sporting event, calculating the safety of car collisions, developing musical instruments, creating and using circuits and motors to solve an engineering challenge.

Instructional Focus: Problem-based, collaborative, and hands-on laboratory investigations with conceptual and mathematical foundations.

IB Prep Physics 9

[CPHS only]

Prerequisites: None

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn concept related to motion, forces, work and energy
• Develop analytical reading and study techniques related to science

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work 

Instructional Focus: To prepare for IB sciences and advanced science courses in 11th and 12th grade, lab work and group activities

AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: HS Algebra II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12 students planning to take college courses

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credits

Major Outcomes:

• Learn in depth concepts related to Newtonian mechanics; work, energy, power; mechanical waves, sound and electric circuits
• Develop deep understanding of the content and focus on applying their knowledge through labs that include inquiry
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: College credit may be earned based on AP exam score and institution

Instructional Focus: Computer-enhanced small and large group lecture and lab activities using higher-level mathematics

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Civics 9

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Provide students with practical knowledge and understanding of American government
• Connect with the democratic process as citizens of the United States
• Apply knowledge of early founding documents including the US Constitution
• Demonstrate an understanding of how the American system of government functions
• Demonstrate an understanding that US citizens have both rights and responsibilities in order for the government to maintain order in society.
• Understand the election process in the United States
• Differentiate views on the political spectrum

 

Honors Civics

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Middle school social studies grades may be considered

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Purpose and principles of government
• Creation of U .S . government institutions and processes
• Rights and responsibilities of citizens
• Principles of the U.S. Constitution

Instructional Focus: This honors course requires students to apply higher-order thinking and communication skills, study primary source documents, and complete independent and/or group research projects

 

Geography 9

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Review locations of physical features, climatic regions, and cultural icons
• Practice reading maps and charts.
• Types of maps, when to use and how to analyze
• Effects of migration and population countries and cultures
• Types of boundaries and governments
• Global climate changes
• Human effects on the environment

Projects, Activities, etc.: Creating maps, develop the where the next should be located [e.g. determine where the next supermarket should be located in your city]

Instructional Focus: Use of maps, charts, Geographic Information Systems, population pyramids

 

AP Human Geography

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Previous social studies grades may be considered or recommended by a counselor or teacher

Intended Audience: Grade 9

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface
• Employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences
• Learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications
• Interpret maps and analyze geospatial data
• Understand and explain the implications of associations and networks among phenomena in places.
• Recognize and interpret the relationships among patterns and processes at different scales of analysis.
• Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process.
• Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places.
• Approach the AP exam with confidence. 

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lectures and activities; college text is used.

College credit may be earned based on AP test scores and institution.

 

US History 10

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Civics or Honors Civics and Human Geography or AP Human Geography

Intended Audience: Grade 10

Credit: Two Trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major outcomes:

• Use historical skills and methods of inquiry which includes students asking questions about context, identifying diverse points of view.
• Investigating evidence from multiple historical sources.
• Using historical methods of inquiry, students will explore the history of the United States from early indigenous history through today.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Historical Inquiry

Instructional Focus: Students will engage diverse perspectives through primary and secondary sources, identify absent voices and create and support reasoned historical arguments. Teachers will support students in developing their historical skills with the end goal of creating an actionable plan.

 

AP US History

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Civics or Honors Civics and Geography

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Previous social studies grades may be considered or recommended by a counselor or teacher

Major Outcomes:

• Students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present.
• Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; making historical comparisons; utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time; and developing historical arguments.
• The course also provides seven themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; migration and settlement; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; geography and the environment; and culture and society.
• Approach the AP exam with confidence.

Instructional Focus: College-level concepts through small and large group lectures and activities; college text is used.

College credit may be earned based on AP test scores and institution.

 

US History Seminar

Prerequisite/Selection Process: AP US History

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• The study of major events in U.S. history
• Knowledge necessary to analyze problems, concepts, and primary documents in U.S. History

Instructional Focus: Preparation to take the National Advanced Placement exam

 

World History 11

Prerequisite/Selection Process: US History or AP US History

Intended Audience: Grade 11

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• World History 11 is an investigation of global history from the beginning of humanity to the present and includes significant events, people, and traditions from various regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
• This course equips students with a broad understanding of the past and historical thinking skills that they can use to analyze the roots of contemporary issues.

• Skills this course focuses on include asking historical questions, analyzing primary and secondary sources, evaluating dominant and non-dominant narratives, and making arguments based on available historical evidence.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Historical Inquiry Instructional Focus: Students will engage diverse perspectives through primary and secondary sources, identify absent voices and create and support reasoned historical arguments. Teachers will support students in developing their historical skills with the end goal of creating an actionable plan.

 

AP World History

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisites/Selection Process: US History or AP US History Previous social studies grades may be considered or recommendation of counselor or teacher

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
• Development and Interaction of Cultures
• State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict
• Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
• Development and Transformation of Social Structures
• Approach the AP exam with confidence.

Instructional Focus:

• Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence, Chronological Reasoning, Comparison and Contextualization, Historical Interpretation, and Synthesis.
• College-level concepts through small and large group lectures and activities; college text is used.
• College credit may be earned based on AP test scores and institution.

 

World History Seminar

Prerequisite/Selection Process: AP World History

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Interaction Between Humans, the Environment, and the development of Cultures
• Preparation for AP Exam

Instructional Focus: Crafting historical arguments from historical evidence

 

Economics 12

Prerequisite/Selection Process: World History or AP World History

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Concept of scarcity and its impact on choices of individuals, organizations, businesses, and government
• Market structures
• Supply and demand
• Personal Finance
• Macroeconomics
• Global Economy

Projects, Activities, etc.: Investigation of public issues, identification of problems and proposed solutions

 

Economics 12 Hybrid

Prerequisite/Selection Process: World History or AP World History

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Concept of scarcity and its impact on choices of individuals, organizations, businesses, and government
• Market structures
• Supply and demand
• Personal Finance
• Macroeconomics
• Global Economy

Projects, Activities, etc.:

• Investigation of public issues
• Identification of problems and proposed solutions

 

AP Microeconomics

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: World History or AP World History. Previous social studies grades may be considered or recommendation of counselor or teacher; College credit may be awarded at the discretion of the post-secondary institution

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Fundamental economic concepts
• Supply and demand
• Market structures
• Role of the government
• Factor markets
• Application of economic principles
• Approach the AP exam with confidence.

Instructional Focus:

• College-level concepts through small and large group lectures and activities; college text is used.
• College credit may be earned based on AP test scores and institution.

 

Coll Honors Microeconomics

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Students must be seniors and meet at least one of the follow- ing qualifications, B or better in rigorous high school Advanced Algebra/HS Algebra II, OR Cumulative GPA of 3 .25 or higher, OR in the top 20% of their class, OR have teacher and faculty coordinator approval. College credit can be awarded at the discretion of the post-secondary institution.

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Fundamental economic concepts
• Supply and demand
• Market structures
• Role of the government
• Factor markets
• Application of economic principles

 

US Government and Politics 12

Prerequisite/Selection Process: World History or AP World History

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Examines the political system of the American government
• Focuses on the political processes of local, state, and national government, the three branches of government, as well as applying Constitutional principles to the American legal system
• Learn how to be active citizens
• Debate and analyze public policy issues, including foreign policy
• Understand how the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches work together
• Understand the importance of the American Legal system including criminal, civil, and constitutional law
• Analyze public policy issues including foreign policy
• Investigate state and local government and politics
• Analyze primary sources and court cases to understand the role of government during major periods of social and political change

Instructional Focus: State/Local Public Issue Project [5 Youth Service Hours], Constitutional Law Project

 

US Government and Politics 12 Hybrid

Prerequisite/Selection Process: World History or AP World History

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Examines the political system of the American government
• Focuses on the political processes of local, state, and national government, the three branches of government, as well as applying Constitutional principles to the American legal system
• Learn how to be active citizens
• Debate and analyze public policy issues, including foreign policy
• Understand how the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches work together
• Understand the importance of the American Legal system including criminal, civil, and constitutional law
• Analyze public policy issues including foreign policy
• Investigate state and local government and politics
• Analyze primary sources and court cases to understand the role of government during major periods of social and political change

Instructional Focus: State/Local Public Issue Project [5 Youth Service Hours], Constitutional Law Project

 

AP US Government and Politics

[AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisites/Selection Process: World History or AP World History; previous social studies grades may be considered or recommendation of counselor or teacher

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester required = 0.5 credit Optional Trimester = 0.5 credit Non-Honors Credit

Major Outcomes:

• Concepts of political science
• Analysis of topics such as the U.S. Constitution, political beliefs and behavior, interest groups, mass media, institutions of government, public policy, civil rights, and civil liberties
• Approach the AP exam with confidence.

Instructional Focus:

• Examination of Federalist Papers, Research, and presentation of public policy topic
• College-level concepts through small and large group lectures and activities; college text is used.
• College credit may be earned based on AP test scores and institution. 

 

US Government and Politics Seminar

Prerequisite/Selection Process: AP Government and Politics

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes: Analysis of topics such as the U.S. Constitution, political beliefs and behavior, interest groups, mass media, institutions of government, public policy, civil rights, and civil liberties

Instructional Focus: Preparation to take the National Advanced Placement exam

 

FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Globe Trekker

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Exploring the world around us
• Dispel common misconceptions of other regions of the world
• Create a project of experiences with, pictures, letters, postcards, etc.
• Research: History, landmarks, language, traditions, religions, food, etiquette, architecture, art, transportation
• Focus on regions of the world that is different/more in-depth from other courses

Instructional Focus: Research, discussion, projects, activities, etc.

 

America Through Multimedia

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn the origins and evolution of various types of popular media including radio, film, social media, and video games
• Understand how history has shaped multimedia and how major forms of media have impacted history and culture

Instructional Focus: Class discussions, projects, journaling, and film analysis.

 

Modern Global Issues

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Students will understand the world from a variety of perspectives
• Should all people have access to the same basic rights?
• Analyze global human rights such as sex trafficking, child labor, access to clean water, and food security
• Understand the history and modern relevance of global and domestic terrorism and extremism
• Investigate the impact of the changing global environment
• Debate privacy rights in the face of foreign and domestic spying and cybersecurity
• Global response to outbreaks of disease and natural disasters

Instructional Focus: Instruction is presented in a variety of ways: class discussion, individual research, student-driven presentations, small and large group activities, simulations, and the use of technology and geographical tools.

 

Multicultural Perspectives

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Students will analyze how the concepts of Power and Privilege impact how we each experience the world differently and will be evaluated through a multicultural lens in the following areas of study: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, LGBTQ, Disability
• Students will gain exposure to the cultural richness of the Greater Twin Cities Area
• Research how groups have maintained their culture while becoming part of the Minnesota tradition. Examples of groups include Southeast Asian [Hmong, Vietnamese, etc .], Scandinavian [Norwegian, Swedish, etc .], African [Liberian, Somalian, etc .], Latino, Soviet Bloc, and others.

Instructional Focus: Discussion - Socratic Seminar, Sociological Observation, Research Papers, Group Presentations

 

Honors African-American History

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

The African American History course is designed to develop an understanding of the causes, character, and consequences of the African-American experience and its influence on the world, the United States, and the African-American community. Beginning with a historical, geographical, social, political, economic, and cultural understanding of the African continent, the course will provide a descriptive and corrective overview, introducing the student to the study of both the African and African-American experiences.

Major Outcomes:

• Study of major events in U.S. History from the perspective of African Americans
• Study of diverse peoples who created the American story

Instructional Focus: Journaling, class discussions, projects, lectures, book/article reading, and various other forms of media.

 

 

HUMAN SERVICES

Youth Issues

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Effective communication skills in personal, family, and social situations
• Analysis of issues which affect youth

Instructional Focus: Discussion

 

Sociology

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Sociological Perspectives-Introduction to Sociology [contributors, key concepts], research
• Culture/Social Structure-culture, socialization, groups/status, and deviance
• Social Inequality-racial/ethnic, and gender discrimination
• Social Institutions-family: marriage, divorce, domestic violence, sports, religion, or education.

Instructional Focus: Discussion, lecture, group activities, simulations, and research

 

Psychology I

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• History of psychology
• Scientific method
• Brain structure and function
• Impact of genetics and environment or personality
• Mental disorders and treatment

Instructional Focus: Discussion, lecture, group activities, experiments, observations, fields, and methods of psychology

 

Psychology II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester =  0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Sensation and perception
• Motivation and emotion
• State of consciousness
• Development — child through adulthood
• Gender
• Intelligence
• Social psychology

Instructional Focus: Discussion, lecture, group activities, experiments, observations and fields and methods of psychology

 

AP Psychology

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Research methods
• Exploration of self and relationships
• Impact of genetics and environment on personality
• Theories of learning and memory

Instructional Focus: This course is equivalent to an introductory college [psychology] course.

 

 

LAW, PUBLIC SAFETY, CORRECTIONS, AND SECURITY

Criminal Justice

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Knowledge of crime, criminals, and victims; the role of police, court systems, and corrections

Instructional Focus: Class activities and guest speakers

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ARTS, AUDIO/VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, AND COMMUNICATIONS

Digital Photography I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Course work will focus on the basics of photographic composition, lighting, camera positioning, workflow digital photography, and digital manipulation.
• Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Bridge. Software will be integrated with apps available for mobile, devices including, but not limited to: Instagram, Adobe PS Express, etc.
• Images will be taken with, and technical training will be provided for; DSLR, Digital Cameras, Smartphones, and tablets.

Instructional Focus: Taking photographs in various settings on the campus, in and out of the lab, and off-campus either as a work assignment or field-trip.

 

Digital Photography II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Digital Photography I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Course work will focus on advanced site selection, lighting, camera positioning, and all aspects of a creative photoshoot.
• Mastery in linking workflow photography to final shot manipulation/enhancement using both computer and mobile software utilizing the most current versions of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Lightroom, and Bridge).
• Emphasis will be placed on creativity, using advanced DSLR Cameras and Smartphones, and printing on various types of media, plus matting of photographs.

Instructional Focus: Lab work, photoshoots, both on and off-campus, field-trips.

 

Digital Videography I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Course work will focus on the basics of Digital Videography, Pre-Production, Production, and Post Production Editing as it applies to the Videography field in both freelance and industry settings.
• Introduction to Adobe™ Premiere Pro CC and Adobe™ After Effects (industry-standard software).
• Images will be taken with, and technical training will be provided for; DSLR and Video Cameras, GoPros, and smartphones (Apple and Android).

Instructional Focus: Shooting videos in various settings on the campus, in and out of the lab, and off-campus either as a work assignment or field-trip.

 

Graphic Design I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Course work will focus on the basics of design composition, the use of software to create digital copies of the design, and the application of designs to items (substrate).
• Introduction to Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and presentation style software such as google slides for presenting creative ideas to an audience.
• Students will study designs that exist in the industry and use ideas gained from this study to create their own unique and independent designs.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Using equipment that relates to design application to a substrate such as; Screen Printing, Vinyl printing and Cutting, Laser Engraving, Dye Sublimating, Hydro Printing, and Direct Image Printing.

Instructional Focus: Introduction to the graphics industry with an emphasis on computers, lab work and mathematics and technical reading as it relates to the graphics industry

 

Graphic Design II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Graphic Design I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes: More independent use of

• Course work will emphasize advanced printing techniques, an elevated understanding of design composition, concentration on finished career-based design projects, more independent use of the Adobe Creative Suite CC software, and all aspects of Graphic Design.
• Mastery in linking workflow printing and graphic design to career/industry-based Graphic Design.
• An understanding of previous and current printing techniques including wide-body large format printing, Direct to image transfer printing, screen printing, dedicated photo printing, UV-LED inkjet print & cut printing, Dye Sublimation, laser engraving, hydro-dipping, & packaging design.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work, computer-based software technologies, both on and off-campus, field-trips

Instructional Focus: Introduction to the Graphics industry with an emphasis on computer technologies, Lab work, and understanding of the printing and design industry.

 

Graphic Design III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Graphic Design II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes: More independent use of

• Adobe Creative Suites software
• Students will create a printing company and produce orders.
• Screen and offset printing processes in
• Multiple color designs

Projects, Activities, etc.: Creation of a manufacturing company with their own logo, screen-printing activities [shirts, hoodies, mir- rors], and offset printing activities [memo pads]

Instructional Focus: Introduction to the manufacturing of printing processes, with an emphasis on computers, lab work, and mathematics as it relates to the graphics industry.

 

Photography [AP Studio Art: 2-D Design]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Digital Photography I and Digital Photography II, or teacher recommendation.

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Photography Composition: Focus on the creative side of an image. Work with unique canvas sizes, i.e ., square, panoramic, circular, etc.
• Camera Technology: In-depth on the use of RAW photography. Best practice with mass storage devices.
• Site Selection: Preparing for a photo-shoot [both indoor and outdoor]
• Lighting: Setup studio for a photoshoot. Use of light meter to determine correct exposure for an outdoor photoshoot.
• Manipulative software: In-depth. Master the creative techniques photographers use to take an image from just ok to really amazing.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Create a Photographic Portfolio of 15-20 unique photographs utilizing various camera, lighting techniques, and software manipulation. Portfolio [due early May] will be eligible for submission to the College Board for credit.

Instructional Focus: Closely aligned to the requirements of a post-secondary Introductory Digital Photography Course. Project-based Portfolio. Work will receive a separate grade from the teacher in addition to a rating from the College Board.

 

 

TRANSPORTATION, DISTRIBUTION, AND LOGISTICS

Outdoor Power Equipment

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Maintenance and repair of four-stroke small gas engines like those on lawnmowers and snow blowers
• Principles of engine operation with related mathematical principals

Projects, Activities, etc.: Disassemble, overhaul, and reassemble a small engine [engine will be provided for students]

Instructional Focus: Lab work and classroom study

 

Power Sports Engines

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Small Gas Engines II or Outdoor Power Equipment

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Maintenance and repair of internal combustion engines like those on scooters, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and boats
• Principles of engine operation with related mathematical principles

Projects, Activities, etc.: Disassemble, overhaul, and reassemble larger two- and four-stroke engines.

Instructional Focus: Lab work

 

Automotive Technology I

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Outdoor Power Equipment

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Theory of operation
• Servicing of automotive engines and related systems
• Prerequisite to Technical Systems in Automotive Technology II

Instructional Focus: Theory of operation and related mathematics through hands-on activities

 

Automotive Technology II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Automotive Technology I

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Theory of operation
• Brake service
• Driveline service
• Suspension service

Projects, Activities, etc.: Work on personal vehicle as time and space allow

Instructional Focus: Theory of operation and related mathematics through hands-on activities

 

 

ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

Architectural Drafting and Design

[Students may earn Art Requirement Credit]

Intended Audience:

Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Construction/cabinetry terminology
• CAD software applications
• Codes and design constraints
• Introduction to blueprint reading
• Construction/cabinetry measurement systems
• House design
  • 3D Residential design
  • 2D Floor plans
• Basic cabinetry design
• Exploration of architectural careers

Projects, Activities, etc.: This course will focus on using computer-aided drafting (CAD) software to design various aspects of residential structures and cabinets.

Instructional Focus: Computer lab-based; students will use industrial level software to produce construction and cabinetry designs.

 

Cabinetry I

[Students may earn Art Requirement Credit]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Knowledge and safe use of tools and equipment
• Basic processes in construction of cabinets
• Cabinet materials and applications
• Finishing materials and procedures
• Exploration of construction/manufacturing careers

Projects, Activities, etc.: Construction of basic cabinet details.

Instructional Focus: Laboratory-based; focused on safety, integration of math, science, and workplace skills.

 

Cabinetry II

[Students may earn Art Requirement Credit]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Cabinetry I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Frame and panel construction
• Drawer construction
• Joinery
• Abrasives and hardware
• Exploration of construction/manufacturing careers

Projects, Activities, etc.: Students will follow a plan/blueprint and construct a cabinet.

Instructional Focus: Laboratory-based; instructor-designed product. Focused on safety, integration of math, science, and workplace skills.

 

Cabinetry III

[Students may earn Art Requirement Credit]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Cabinetry II

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 Credit

Major Outcomes:

• Integration of all cabinetry aspects
• Exploration of construction/manufacturing careers

Projects, Activities, etc.: This is the culmination or capstone of the cabinetry course series. Students will personally design and construct a product that integrates all of the aspects from the first two courses.

Instructional Focus: Laboratory-based; Individualized design and product. Focused on safety, integration of math, science, and workplace skills.

  

Exploring Construction

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12

Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Jobsite Safety
• Foundation/masonry
• Residential Framing
• Roofing
• Basic Electrical
• Basic Plumbing
• Insulating
• Introduction to drywall installation
• Introduction to interior finishing/trim work
• Introduction to exterior finishing
• Exploration of construction careers

Projects, Activities, etc.: This course is offered at the high school and teams of students will build storage sheds. Following the completion of this course, additional in-depth construction courses may be taken at STEP, where a house is built.

Instructional Focus: Laboratory-based; focused on safety, integration of math, science, and workplace skills. 

 

MANUFACTURING

Engineering Design & Fabrication I

[Students may earn Art Requirement Credit]

Intended Audience:

The Design and Fabrication course will be the first course all Tech Ed CTE students will participate in. As such, it has no prerequisite.

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Students will be able to demonstrate basic engineering design skills using CAD software.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the four career pathways and explore one pathway in depth by designing and fabricating a product in that pathway.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the materials (properties and selection) and processes used in product fabrication.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to correctly program/code CNC and 3D printing equipment.
• Students will demonstrate the safety attitudes and procedures required in the use of fabrication materials and equipment.
• Students will experience and be able to articulate the critical attributes of manufacturing careers needed to be successful in MN businesses and industries.

Instructional Focus:

• This course will focus instruction on students developing and then applying their knowledge, and skills in the design and fabrication of a product. Students will be allowed to choose the career pathway of focus.
• Students will also be expected to integrate STEM and other content knowledge into their product design and fabrication.
• This is an “application-based course” with students demonstrating the real-world application of knowledge and skills in the use of high-tech cutting-edge equipment, software, and materials.

Co-curricular Connection: Skills USA

 

Engineering Design & Fabrication II

[Students may earn Art Requirement Credit]

Intended Audience: All interested students in Grades 9, 10, and 11 (or any first-time Tech Ed upper-class student since this course hasn’t previously been available).

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Design and Fabrication I

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Students will be able to demonstrate engineering design skills using CAD software.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the four career pathways and explore one pathway in depth by designing and fabricating a product in that pathway. As the second course in the sequence, the products in this course will allow for greater complexity and personalization in focus.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the materials (properties and selection) and processes used in product fabrication.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to correctly program/code CNC and 3D printing equipment.
• Students will demonstrate the safety attitudes and procedures required in the use of fabrication materials and equipment.
• Students will experience and be able to articulate the critical attributes of manufacturing careers needed to be successful in MN businesses and industries.

Instructional Focus:

• This course will focus instruction on advancing students’ knowledge and skills in the design and fabrication of products. Students will be allowed to choose the career pathway of focus.
• Students will also be expected to integrate STEM and other content knowledge into their product design and fabrication.
• This is an “application-based course” with students demonstrating the real-world application of knowledge and skills in the use of high-tech cutting-edge equipment, software, and materials.

Co-curricular Connection: Skills USA

Introduction to Welding & Manufacturing

[AHS, BHS, CPHS, CRHS only]

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Oxy-Acetylene Welding [OAW]
• Sheet Metal / Bench Metal
• GMAW / SMAW Welding
• Foundry
• Plasma Cutting

Projects, Activities, etc.: Welding skills, welding techniques, project-based sheet metal and foundry, design and complete project using metal forming tools and welding.

Instructional Focus: Introduction to the metal fabrication industry with an emphasis on metal forming, precision, mathematics, and joining techniques through lab work.

 

Welding & Manufacturing

[AHS, BHS, CPHS, CRHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Metal Technology I or Intro to Welding & Manufacturing

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Advanced Welding Techniques in OAW, GMAW, and SMAW
• TIG welding Mild Steel
• Flame Cutting
• Lathe Operation

Projects, Activities, etc.: Design and make projects

Instructional Focus: In-depth look at the metal fabrication industry with an emphasis on precision, metal forming, mathematics, and joining techniques through lab work.

 

Honors Trade and Industrial Internship Program

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Related technology subjects are recommended; application during grade 11

Intended Audience: Grade 12

Credit: Up to three credits available [0.5 credit per trimester for seminar, 0.5 credit per trimester for work]; students may enroll for up to three trimesters which is preferred by employers/internship sites

Major Outcomes:

• General employment skills
• On-the-job success could include but is not limited to, employment in careers such as auto mechanics, graphics, electrical, drafting, cabinetry, machine operations, metal fabrication, construction, or welding

Projects, Activities, etc.: Community service, leadership opportunities, and skills competition Instructional Focus: The seminar portion focuses on work-related topics and school-sponsored work sites provide for early release and graduation credit

Co-curricular Connection: Skills USA

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American Sign Language I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Common communicative events and interactions are utilized to acquire a basic working vocabulary and grammar.
• Includes development of appropriate linguistic/cultural behaviors and awareness of respect for deaf culture.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small, and large group communication activities

Instructional Focus: Skill-building in receptive and expressive sign related to everyday situations that might occur when conversing using ASL

 

American Sign Language II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: American Sign Language I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Common communicative events and interactions are utilized to acquire more abstract vocabulary and grammar.
• Greater understanding of deaf culture and deaf history

Projects, Activities, etc.: Role-playing and presentations to enhance communication skills

Instructional Focus: Greater expectation of communication skills through the implementation of learned skills into novel language expressions, increased receptive language skills

 

Honors American Sign Language III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: American Sign Language II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Develops vocabulary, conversational competence, and grammatical knowledge with a total immersion approach
• Introduces increasingly complex grammatical aspects including those unique to ASL
• Discusses Deaf culture, literature, sociolinguistics aspects, and history
• Respond with confidence to routine social situations
• Narration, description, and elaboration of topics related to background, family, and interests/hobbies

Projects, Activities, etc.: Role-playing and presentations to enhance communication skills

Instructional Focus: Greater expectation of communication skills through the implementation of learned skills into novel language expressions, enhanced receptive, and expressive language skills

 

Honors American Sign Language IV

[AndHS and BHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors American Sign Language II

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Accurately sign acquired vocabulary using the five parameters of American Sign Language
• Explain continuity in a conversation both expressively and receptively
• Comprehend and respond with complex grammatical accuracy to expressive American Sign Language and demonstrate cultural awareness locally and globally
• Examine simple patterns of behavior, gestures, and social courtesies in a variety of informal and formal social situations
• Interpret and explain the cultural relevance or historical context of traditions and celebrations
• Use American Sign Language for fun, to express humor, and for personal enjoyment
• This course, with a higher level of learning, will help to better prepare students who wish to test for the Bilingual/Multilingual Seal.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Debate and exchange information and opinions on topics of students’ choosing. Demonstrate mastery expressing prepared presentations (at least 5 to 15 minutes) (e .g ., holidays, nationalities, things, and events using appropriate sign selection and syntactically correct phrases).

Instructional Focus: Greater expectation of communication skills through the implementation of learned skills into novel language expressions, enhanced receptive, and expressive language skills.

 

French I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Learn about the various cultures of French speakers around the world
• Join the French-speaking world by learning how to communicate on personal everyday topics
• Gain a personal awareness of your place in the world
• Reach a Novice-Mid proficiency level

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small, and large group interactive learning activities that will get students communicating in French about their everyday lives at home and in the community.

Instructional Focus: Students will learn to communicate on a variety of cultural topics.

 

French II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: French I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Level up your French by learning how to navigate a variety of real-life situations
• Expand your knowledge of cultural norms, products, and practices
• Reach a Novice-High proficiency level

Projects, Activities, etc.: Students will learn to communicate on a variety of cultural topics.

Instructional Focus: Skill-building in speaking, listening, reading, and writing with an emphasis on verb tense control.

 

Honors French III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: French II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Explore a variety of cultural perspectives and practices across the French-speaking world
• Use French to express your opinions and perspectives on a variety of topics
• Reach an Intermediate-Low proficiency level

Projects, Activities, etc.: Students will learn to communicate on a variety of cultural topics.

Instructional Focus: Greater expectation of language use, implementing skills in-class activities, building on prior knowledge

 

Honors French IV

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors French III

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Explore ways to “Frenchify” your world as you continue to expand your proficiency
• Familiarize yourself with a broad-range of cultural topics impacting communities around the world
• Reach an Intermediate-Mid proficiency level

Projects, Activities, etc.: Students will learn to communicate on a variety of cultural topics.

Instructional Focus: Proficiency-based study of vocabulary, grammar, and culture using a variety of media

 

AP French V

[AndHS, AHS, BHS, CRHS only] [IB French V SL available at CPHS. See IB section.] [AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors French IV or placement exam

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Communicate exclusively in French to increase your proficiency as you work toward fluency
• Immerse yourself in the French-speaking world through complex topics that impact our society
• Reach an Intermediate-High proficiency level
• AP test at completion of the course offered, not required

Projects, Activities, etc.: Instructional content will reflect interests shared by the students and the teacher [the arts, current events, literature, sports, and so forth]. In addition to standard textbooks and anthologies, materials might in- include audio and visual materials, newspapers, magazines, and contemporary literature.

Instructional Focus: The course seeks to develop language skills that are useful in themselves and that can be applied to various activities and disciplines. Extensive practice in the organization and writing of compositions is emphasized.

 

German I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Communicate about everyday topics
• Learn basic sentence structure
• Gain cultural awareness of German-speaking countries

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small, and large group interactive learning activities that will get students communicating in German about their everyday lives at home and in the community.

Instructional Focus: Students will learn to communicate about self, friends, family, and daily life in German. Skill-building in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

 

German II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: German I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Increasing the ability to communicate and comprehend spoken and written German
• Addition of past tense
• Cultural awareness of German-speaking countries

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small and large group communicative activities which may include: posters, dialogues, skits, food, city, house, and travel

Instructional Focus: Skill-building in speaking, listening, reading, and writing with an emphasis on verb tense control

 

Honors German III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: German II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Immersive language experience
• Ability to communicate in various time frames and contexts
• Production of the compound and complex ideas
• Expansion of Cultural Competence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Oral presentations, role-playing, composition, and readings on topics which may include: body parts, daily routines, clothing, and animals

Instructional Focus: Greater expectation of language use, implementing skills in-class activities, building on prior knowledge

 

Honors German IV

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors German III

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Commitment to language use and interest in culture
• Language study with the increased use of authentic materials
• Oral and written emphasis

Projects, Activities, etc.: Research, presentation, student-led communicative activities on topics which may include: travel, restaurants, hotels, news media, art, history, literature, and music

Instructional Focus: Proficiency-based study of vocabulary, grammar, and culture using a variety of media

  

AP German V

[AndHS, AHS, BHS, CRHS only] [IB German V SL available at CPHS. See IB section.] [AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors German IV or placement exam.

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Exclusive use of the German language
• Preparation for placement into intermediate-level college courses
• Exploration of the German-speaking world via Advanced Placement Themes: global challenges, science and technology, contemporary life, personal and public identities, families, and communities, beauty, and aesthetics
• AP test at completion of the course offered, not required
• Cultural awareness
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Instructional content will reflect interests shared by the students and the teacher [the arts, current events, literature, sports, and so forth]. In addition to standard textbooks and anthologies, materials might include audio and visual materials, newspapers, magazines, and contemporary literature.

Instructional Focus: The course seeks to develop language skills that are useful in themselves and that can be applied to various activities and disciplines. Extensive practice in the organization and writing of compositions is emphasized.

 

Spanish I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Communicate about everyday topics.
• Develop novice skills in listening, reading, speaking and writing.
• Gain cultural awareness of Spanish-speaking countries. 

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small, and large group interactive learning activities that will get students communicating in Spanish about their everyday lives at home and in the community.

Instructional Focus: Students will learn to communicate on a variety of cultural topics. Skill building in  developing Interpretive, Presentational and Interpersonal abilities. 

  

Spanish II

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Spanish I

Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Increase ability to communicate and comprehend spoken and written Spanish
• Continue to develop skills in listening, reading, speaking and writing
• Grow in cultural awareness of Spanish-speaking countries

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small and large group interactive learning activities where students will communicate on a variety of cultural topics.

Instructional Focus: Skill building in developing Interpretive, Presentational and Interpersonal abilities.

  

Honors Spanish III

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Spanish II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Immersive language experience
• Ability to communicate in various time frames and contexts
• Production of the compound and complex ideas
• Expansion of Cultural Competence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small and large group interactive learning activities where students will communicate on a variety of cultural topics.

Instructional Focus: Greater expectation of language use, and building on prior Interpretive, Presentational and Interpersonal language abilities.

 

Honors Hispanic Studies I

Honors Hispanic I and II are noncontingent and nonsequential.

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors Spanish III A and III B with a final grade of “meeting course expectations” or higher or placement exam results.

Intended Audience: Students entering Spanish IV and or Spanish V who wish to take their Spanish abilities to the next level, be it for college and or career aims, by studying Spanish for a full academic year. Also for students who desire to maintain the abilities, they acquired through level III, but don’t have room in their schedule for more than one trimester.

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Ability to participate in an immersive Spanish language experience while examining the Spanish-Speaking world. Students will learn by exploring unit essential questions through thematically organized unit topics.
• Ability to demonstrate Spanish at an intermediate-mid level as defined by ACTFL’s Performance Descriptors for Language Learners via real-world unit performance evaluations.
• Ability to demonstrate an emerging understanding of cultures of the Hispanic world by completing real-world unit performance evaluations with an emphasis on verb tense control

  

Honors Hispanic Studies II

[This course is an alternating curriculum taught every other year. Honors Hispanic I and II are noncontingent and nonsequential.

Prerequisite: Honors Spanish III A and III B with a final grade of “meeting course expectations” or higher or placement exam results.

Intended Audience: Students entering Spanish IV and or Spanish V who wish to take their Spanish abilities to the next level, be it for college and/or career aims, by studying Spanish for a full academic year. Also for students who desire to maintain the abilities, they acquired through level III, but don’t have room in their schedule for more than one trimester.

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Ability to participate in an immersive Spanish language experience while examining the Spanish-Speaking world. Students will learn by exploring unit essential questions through thematically organized unit topics.
• Ability to demonstrate Spanish at an intermediate-mid level as defined by ACTFL’s Performance Descriptors for Language Learners via real-world unit performance evaluations.
• Ability to demonstrate an emerging understanding of cultures of the Hispanic world by completing real-world unit performance evaluations with an emphasis on verb tense control.

 

Honors Spanish IV

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors Spanish III

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Immersive language experience
• Grow in ability to communicate in various time frames
• Continue with production of compound and complex ideas
• Expansion of cultural competence 

Projects, Activities, etc.: Individual, small and large group interactive learning activities where students will communicate on a variety of cultural topics.

Instructional Focus: Greater expectation of language use, and building on prior Interpretive, Presentational and Interpersonal language abilities.

 

AP Spanish V

[AndHS, AHS, BHS, CRHS only] [IB Spanish V SL available at CPHS. See IB section.] [AP exam is in May each year]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors Spanish IV or placement exam.

Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12

Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit

Major Outcomes:

• Exclusive use of the Spanish language
• Preparation for placement into intermediate-level college courses
• Exploration of the Spanish-speaking world via Advanced Placement Themes: global challenges, science and technology, contemporary life, personal and public identities, families, and communities, beauty and aesthetics
• AP test at completion of the course offered, not required
• Cultural awareness
• Approach the AP exam with confidence

Projects, Activities, etc.: Instructional content will reflect interests shared by the students and the teacher [the arts, current events, literature, sports, and so forth]. In addition to standard textbooks and anthologies, materials might include audio and visual materials, newspapers, magazines, and contemporary literature.

Instructional Focus: The course seeks to develop language skills that are useful in themselves and that can be applied to various activities and disciplines. Extensive practice in the organization and writing of compositions is emphasized.

 

Medical Spanish

[CRHS only]

Prerequisite/Selection Process: Spanish II

Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12

Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit

Major Outcomes:

• This course is designed for Healthcare Professionals to assist them in communicating with those who speak a language other than English in the healthcare setting.
• Students will learn the vocabulary of Spanish medical terms, learn skills in medical reporting and medical communications, and apply cultural variations to medical practices.

Projects, Activities, etc.: Use conversational Spanish in medical scenarios

Instructional Focus: Medical applications in the World Languages area