Matanzas High School

Course Description

AP 2-D Art and Design is an introductory college-level two-dimensional design course. Students refine and apply 2-D skills to ideas they develop throughout the course.The AP Art and Design course framework is composed of course skills, big ideas, essential questions and enduring understandings, learning objectives, and essential knowledge. AP Art and Design skill categories delineate overarching understandings central to the study and practice of art and design. Each of the three skill categories consists of skills that encompass foundational to advanced learning over the span of the course. Students need to develop, practice, and apply these skills in a variety of contexts.

Additional Information

The AP Art and Design framework included in the course and exam description outlines distinct skills that students should practice throughout the year—skills that will help them develop inquiry around the thinking and making of art. Skills 2 and 3 are specifically assessed in both portfolio sections. The framework for the AP Art and Design courses is made up of three big ideas. As always, you have the flexibility to organize the course content as you like.

• Big Idea 1: Investigate materials, processes, and ideas.
• Big Idea 2: Make art and design.
• Big Idea 3: Present art and design.

Course Number: 0109350

Course Description

AP 3-D Art and Design is an introductory college-level three-dimensional design course. Students refine and apply 3-D skills to ideas they develop throughout the course.The AP Art and Design course framework is composed of course skills, big ideas, essential questions and enduring understandings, learning objectives, and essential knowledge. AP Art and Design skill categories delineate overarching understandings central to the study and practice of art and design. Each of the three skill categories consists of skills that encompass foundational to advanced learning over the span of the course. Students need to develop, practice, and apply these skills in a variety of contexts.

Additional Information

The AP Art and Design framework included in the course and exam description outlines distinct skills that students should practice throughout the year—skills that will help them develop inquiry around the thinking and making of art. Skills 2 and 3 are specifically assessed in both portfolio sections. The framework for the AP Art and Design courses is made up of three big ideas. As always, you have the flexibility to organize the course content as you like.

• Big Idea 1: Investigate materials, processes, and ideas.
• Big Idea 2: Make art and design.
• Big Idea 3: Present art and design.

Course Number: 0109360

Course Description

AP Microeconomics is an introductory college-level microeconomics course. Students cultivate their understanding of the principles that apply to the functions of individual economic decision-makers by using principles and models to describe economic situations and predict and explain outcomes with graphs, charts, and data as they explore concepts like scarcity and markets; costs, benefits, and marginal analysis; production choices and behavior; and market inefficiency and public policy. The AP Microeconomics framework included in the course and exam description outlines distinct skills that students should practice throughout the year—skills that will help them learn to think and act like economists.

AP U.S. Government and Politics is an introductory college-level course in U.S. government and politics. Students cultivate their understanding of U.S. government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis. The AP U.S. Government and Politics framework included in the CED outlines distinct skills, called disciplinary practices, that students should practice throughout the year—practices that will help them learn to think and act like political scientists.

Additional Information

Meets Economics/Government Graduation Requirement

Course Number: 2102370

Course Description

Course Description
This course meets for two periods all year long with an opportunity to earn up to 8 college credits through the AP Exam in May. We discuss the concepts of limits and how they apply to major calculus concepts such as derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. We will apply these concepts to various situations, such as the movement of an object and finding volume of 3-d figures. We will explore how parametric equations can better explain the movement of an object through vectors as well as the derivative and area in the polar coordinate system.

Additional Information

It is strongly recommended that students have a graphing calculator to use at home. Students must sit for the AP exam in May.

Course Number: 1210320

Course Description

AP Microeconomics is an introductory college-level microeconomics course. Students cultivate their understanding of the principles that apply to the functions of individual economic decision-makers by using principles and models to describe economic situations and predict and explain outcomes with graphs, charts, and data as they explore concepts like scarcity and markets; costs, benefits, and marginal analysis; production choices and behavior; and market inefficiency and public policy. The AP Microeconomics framework included in the course and exam description outlines distinct skills that students should practice throughout the year—skills that will help them learn to think and act like economists.

AP U.S. Government and Politics is an introductory college-level course in U.S. government and politics. Students cultivate their understanding of U.S. government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis. The AP U.S. Government and Politics framework included in the CED outlines distinct skills, called disciplinary practices, that students should practice throughout the year—practices that will help them learn to think and act like political scientists.

Additional Information

Meets Economics/Government Graduation Requirement

Course Number: 2106420

Course Description

In Precalculus Honors, instructional time will emphasize six areas:

1. Extending right triangle trigonometry to unit circle trigonometry and trigonometric functions
2. Extending understanding of functions to trigonometric
3. Developing understanding of conic sections
4. Representing and performing operations with complex numbers and vectors in the coordinate plane
5. Extending understanding of relations in the plane using parametric representations, including polar coordinates
6. Analyzing arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.

Additional Information

Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning. Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.

Prerequisite: Completion of Algebra 2.

Course Number: 1202340 (Pending Updated Course Code)