Matanzas High School

Course Description

Prerequisite: 2-D Studio Art 2. Students demonstrate proficiency in the conceptual development of content in drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and/or design to create self-directed or collaborative 2-D artwork suitable for inclusion in a portfolio. Students produce works that show evidence of developing craftsmanship and quality in the composition. Through the critique process, students evaluate and respond to their own work and that of their peers. Through a focused investigation of traditional techniques, historical and cultural models, and individual expressive goals, students begin to develop a personal art style. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.

Additional Information

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.

Course Number: 0101320

Course Description

Students create characters for theatrical and film/video productions through scene, character, and technical analysis. Through improvisation, script writing, and aesthetic creation and collaboration, actors refine their working knowledge and independent thought, articulating and justifying their creative choices. Students’ “critical eye” becomes more developed and significant mastery of artistic choices becomes evident. An inquiry-based capstone project may be required. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals.

Additional Information

Students are required to participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support and extend learning in the classroom.

Course Number: 0400400

Course Description

The primary content emphasis for this course pertains to the study of the chronological development of African Americans by examining the political, economic, social, religious, military and cultural events that affected the cultural group. Content will include, but is not limited to, West African heritage, the Middle Passage and Triangular Trade, the African Diaspora, significant turning points and trends in the development of African American culture and institutions, enslavement and emancipation, the Abolition, Black Nationalist, and Civil Rights movements, major historical figures and events in African-American history, and contemporary African-American affairs. 

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. This course is an elective credit. 

Course Number: 2100366

Course Description

In Algebra 1 Honors, instructional time will emphasize five areas: 

1. performing operations with polynomials and radicals, and extending the Laws of Exponents to include rational exponents;

2. extending understanding of functions to linear, quadratic and exponential functions and using them to model and analyze real-world relationships;

3.solving quadratic equations in one variable and systems of linear equations and inequalities in two variables; 

4. building functions, identifying their key features and representing them in various ways and 

5.representing and interpreting categorical and numerical data with one and two variables.

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.
EOC exam counts for 30% of overall course grade.

Course Number: 1200320

Course Description

In Algebra 2, instructional time will emphasize five areas:

1. Extending arithmetic operations with algebraic expressions to include radical and rational expressions and polynomial division
2. Graphing and analyzing functions including polynomials, absolute value, radical, rational, exponential and logarithmic
3. Building functions using compositions, inverses and transformations
4. Extending systems of equations and inequalities to include non-linear expressions
5. Developing understanding of the complex number system, including complex numbers as roots of polynomial equations.

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.

Course Number: 1200330

Course Description

This is the second course in the Health Sciences Program of Study. Emphasis is placed on communication and interpersonal skills, use of technology, ethics, and the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills. Students will also learn First Aid skills and demonstrate the measurement of vital signs.

Additional Information

Co-requisite: Anatomy & Physiology Honors or Health Science Anatomy & Physiology. 

Course Number 8417110

Course Description

The curriculum places an emphasis on an understanding and evaluation of the nature of governments and the actions of people concerning government and public policy. Such study is intended to inform students so that they can understand politics and political systems and thus function as responsible and effective citizens in their community, state, and nation.

Additional Information

Typically taken in the 12th grade year and paired as Government/Economics. This course is 0.5 credits.

Course Number: 2106320

Course Description

Study of the human body and how it works utilizing interactive labs and activities.

Additional Information

Prerequisite: Biology/Pre-AICE Biology

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.

Course Number: 2000360

Course Description

The grade 9-12 Comprehensive Law course consists of the following content area strands: American History, World History, Geography, Humanities, Civics and Government. The primary content for the course pertains to the study of the components and processes associated with the American legal system and the comprehensive examination of the civil and criminal justice systems. Content should include, but is not limited to, the historical antecedents and purpose for laws, the impact of social values on the establishment and interpretation of laws, causes and consequences of crime, evaluation of the adult and juvenile justice systems, significance of the Bill of Rights to the American legal system and elements of constitutionalism, civil and criminal law, family and consumer law, rights and responsibilities under the law, and the adversarial versus inquisitorial systems of justice.This course will incorporate the development of a written appellate brief addressing a contemporary legal question and the presentation of oral arguments to defend their position legally.

Additional Information

Prerequisite Law Studies/Critical Thinking Skills.

Course Number: 2106375

Course Description

The curriculum places an emphasis on an understanding and evaluation of business, finance, banking, investment, government's role in the economic system, labor-management relations, foreign trade, income inequality, and related fields.

Additional Information

Typically taken in the 12th grade year and paired as Government/Economics.
This course is 0.5 credits.

Course Number: 2102345 & 2106320

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide English 1 students, using texts of high complexity, integrated language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for college and career preparation and readiness. The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• active reading of varied texts for what they say explicitly, as well as the logical inferences that can be drawn
• analysis of literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
  • text craft and structure
  • elements of literature
  • arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
  • power and impact of language
  • influence of history, culture, and setting on language
  • personal critical and aesthetic response
• writing for varied purposes
  • developing and supporting argumentative claims
  • crafting coherent, supported informative/expository texts
  • responding to literature for personal and analytical purposes
  • writing narratives to develop real or imagined events
  • writing to sources using text- based evidence and reasoning
• effective listening, speaking, and viewing strategies with emphasis on the use of evidence to support or refute a claim in multimedia presentations, class discussions, and extended text discussions
• collaboration amongst peers
   

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.

Course Number: 1001320

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide English 1 students, using texts of high complexity, integrated language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for college and career preparation and readiness. The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• active reading of varied texts for what they say explicitly, as well as the logical inferences that can be drawn
• analysis of literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
  • text craft and structure
  • elements of literature
  • arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
  • power and impact of language
  • influence of history, culture, and setting on language
  • personal critical and aesthetic response
• writing for varied purposes
  • developing and supporting argumentative claims
  • crafting coherent, supported informative/expository texts
  • responding to literature for personal and analytical purposes
  • writing narratives to develop real or imagined events
  • writing to sources using text- based evidence and reasoning
• effective listening, speaking, and viewing strategies with emphasis on the use of evidence to support or refute a claim in multimedia presentations, class discussions, and extended text discussions
• collaboration amongst peers
   

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.

Course Number: 1001350

Course Description

In Geometry, instructional time will emphasize five areas:

1. proving and applying relationships and theorems involving two-dimensional figures using Euclidean geometry and coordinate geometry
2. establishing congruence and similarity using criteria from Euclidean geometry and using rigid transformations
3. extending knowledge of geometric measurement to two-dimensional figures and three-dimensional figures
4. creating and applying equations of circles in the coordinate plane
5. developing an understanding of right triangle trigonometry.

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. EOC exam counts for 30% of overall course grade.

Course Number: 1206320

Course Description

Students further develop advanced knowledge of piano techniques, musical literacy, solo and ensemble performance skills, and related musical knowledge, using a variety of advanced piano literature. Students explore the historical influence keyboards have had on music performance and composition, and apply criteria to assess their own and others' piano performances. Students extend their knowledge of music technology (i.e., MIDI keyboards) and its connection to the computer and other sound-generating devices. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom.

Additional Information

Prerequisite: Keyboard (Piano) 1, 2

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.

Course Number: 1301390

Course Description

Students further develop advanced knowledge of piano techniques, musical literacy, solo and ensemble performance skills, and related musical knowledge, using a variety of advanced piano literature. Students explore the historical influence keyboards have had on music performance and composition, and apply criteria to assess their own and others' piano performances. Students extend their knowledge of music technology (i.e., MIDI keyboards) and its connection to the computer and other sound-generating devices. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom.

Additional Information

Prerequisite: Keyboard (Piano) 1,2,3.

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.

Course Number: 1301390

Course Description

During this interdisciplinary science course, students can expect to learn about:

1. Water and how the oceans got water as well as how this water became salty
2. How water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles in the oceans
3. How water can regulate climate
4. How waves, tides, and currents influence marine life
5. How plate boundaries shaped the ocean into what it looks like today
6. About life in the ocean, including trophic relationships and energy flow, symbiosis, biodiversity, invasive species
7. Resources we depend on from our oceans, and lastly
8. How humans have impacted the oceans.

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.

Course Number: 2002510

Course Description

In Mathematics for College Algebra, instructional time will emphasize five areas:

1. Developing fluency with the Laws of Exponents with numerical and algebraic expressions
2. Extending arithmetic operations with algebraic expressions to include rational and polynomial expressions
3. Solving one-variable exponential, logarithmic, radical and rational equations and interpreting the viability of solutions in real-world contexts
4. Modeling with and applying linear, quadratic, absolute value, exponential, logarithmic and piecewise functions and systems of linear equations and inequalities
5. Extending knowledge of functions to include inverse and composition.

Course Number: 1200710

Course Description

Students work in a self-directed environment to develop a portfolio showing a body of their own work that visually explores a particular artistic concern, articulated and supported by a written artist's statement.

Artists may work in, but are not limited to, content in drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, traditional photography, digital photography, and/or new media and emerging technologies that demonstrate understanding of design principles as applied to a 2-dimensional surface. Students regularly reflect on aesthetics and art issues individually and as a group, and manipulate the structural elements of art and organizational principles of design to create 2-dimensional works of art that are progressively more innovative and representative of the student's artistic and cognitive growth.

In keeping with the rigor expected in an accelerated setting, students' portfolios show personal vision and artistic growth over time, mastery of visual art skills and techniques, and evidence of sophisticated analytical and problem-solving skills based on their structural, historical, and cultural knowledge. Students are self-directed and display readiness for high levels of critical thinking, research, conceptual thinking, and creative risk-taking. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.

Additional Information

Co-Requisite: Art 3/AICE/AP

 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.

Course Number: 0109320

Course Description

Students work in a self-directed environment to develop a portfolio showing a body of their own work that visually explores a particular artistic concern, articulated and supported by a written artist's statement.

Artists may work in, but are not limited to, content in clay, wood, wire, glass, metal, jewelry, fabrics/fibers, fashion design, green design, industrial design, and/or objects for interior design or architecture that integrate 3-dimensional design issues in a purposeful way. Students regularly reflect on aesthetics and art issues individually and as a group, and manipulate the structural elements of art and organizational principles of design to create 3-dimensional works of art that are progressively more innovative and representative of the student's artistic and cognitive growth.

In keeping with the rigor expected in an accelerated setting, students' portfolios show personal vision and artistic growth over time, mastery of visual art skills and techniques, and evidence of sophisticated analytical and problem-solving skills based on their structural, historical, and cultural knowledge. Students are self-directed and display readiness for high levels of critical thinking, research, conceptual thinking, and creative risk-taking. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.

Additional Information

Co-Requisite: Art 3/AICE/AP

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.

Course Number: 0109330

Course Description

Pre AICE Spanish (Spanish 3 Honors) provides mastery and expansion of skills acquired by the students in Spanish 2. Specific content includes, but is not limited to, expansions of vocabulary and conversational skills through discussions of selected readings. Contemporary vocabulary stresses activities which are important to the everyday life of the target language-speaking people.

Additional Information

Students do not need a foreign language to graduate high school; 2 years of a foreign language is needed for the Florida State University System.

Course Number: 0708532

Course Description

Pre-AICE/IGCSE Biology helps learners to understand the biological world in which they live and take an informed interest in science. This course aims to review several of the major concepts that are essential to the study of life, including cells as the basic unit of life, DNA as the molecule of heredity, and review of ecological principles and relationships. Learners also develop an understanding of the scientific skills essential for progression to Cambridge International AS Level Biology.

Additional Information

EOC exam counts for 30% of overall course grade.

Course Number: 2000322

Course Description

Pre-AICE Chemistry is a laboratory-based science course with mathematical applications designed to prepare students for the AICE Cambridge equivalent. Students will be introduced to the study of the composition, properties, and changes associated with matter. Laboratory activities, research, technology, and effective communication as scientific investigations will be integral components of this class. Successful completion Pre-AICE Chemistry will give students a solid foundation in chemical principles and concepts and develop strong critical thinking skills.

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.

Course Number: 2003372

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)

Course Description

Students communicate a sense of 4-D, motion, and/or time, based on creative use of spatial relationships and innovative treatment of space and its components.

Students address 4-D, the inter-relatedness of art and context, and may also include installation or collaborative works, virtual realities, light as a medium (i.e., natural, artificial, or reflective), or flexible, entered, or activated space. Sculpture artists experiment with processes, techniques, and media. Craftsmanship and quality are reflected in the surface and structural qualities of the completed art forms.

Students in the sculpture studio focus on use of safety procedures for process, media, and techniques. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.

Additional Information

Prerequisite: Level Art 2

Course Number: 0111330

Course Description

This course will provide an in-depth study of the leadership techniques of decision making, problem solving, meeting skills, communication, group conflict reduction, time and stress management, evaluation, team building, group dynamics, motivational strategy, data collection for project needs, evaluation of community organizations, purpose of local government,and the role of leadership in a democratic society. The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Development in areas such as self-esteem, goal setting, and character building
• Enhanced leadership skills and the ability to function in both a group setting and the community

Special Note: When this course is used to satisfy the high school character education requirement of s.1003.42(2)(s), Florida Statute, the following topics must be included:

• Leadership skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Research skills
• Organization skills
• Creating a résumé
• Employment interview skills
• Conflict resolution
• Workplace ethics
• Workplace law
• Stress management
• Resilience and self-motivation
• Local government purposes
• Structures of community organizations

Additional Information

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.

Course Number: 2400310

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide formative opportunities to build on skills acquired in the Leadership Techniques course, including meetings skills, communication skills, motivational strategies, character development, group dynamics, community relations, data collection for project needs, evaluation of community organizations, purpose of local government, community service and personal and civic responsibility. The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• effective project planning, execution and management
• techniques for the successful advocacy of proposed public policy changes
• mastery of organizational theories and management techniques and strategies
• analysis of community organizations' impact on the community as a whole
• construction of surveys to gather data for community needs
• analysis of survey data

Additional Information

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.

Course Number: 2400320

Course Description

organizational management, goal-setting, communication with varied audiences, peer mediation, citizenship, data collections and analysis, conflict resolution, healthy decision-making, assertiveness, and meeting skills, stress management and strategies for self-reflection. The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• study in self-reflection
• continued development in such areas as goal setting, self-actualization, and assertiveness
• practice of organizational theories and management
• evaluating the needs of local community
• supporting the connection along local governmental agencies

This course has been designed for the teacher to select and teach only the appropriate standards corresponding to a student’s grade level and/or instructional needs.

Additional Information

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.

Course Number: 2400330

Course Description

This year-long promotes the enjoyment and appreciation of music through performance of high-quality wind and percussion literature. Rehearsals focus on the development of critical listening skills, instrumental and ensemble technique and skills, expanded music literacy, and aesthetic awareness culminating in periodic public performances.

Additional Information

Students are required to participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support and extend learning in the classroom.

Course Number: 1302340

Course Description

This year-long promotes the enjoyment and appreciation of music through performance of high-quality wind and percussion literature. Rehearsals focus on the development of critical listening skills, instrumental and ensemble technique and skills, expanded music literacy, and aesthetic awareness culminating in periodic public performances.

Additional Information

Students are required to participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support and extend learning in the classroom.

Course Number: 1302530

Course Description

This course is designed for students with significant experience in theater, and promotes depth of engagement and lifelong appreciation for theater through a broad spectrum of teacher-assigned and self-directed study and performance. Students regularly reflect on aesthetics and issues related to and addressed through theater, and create within various aspects of theater in ways that are progressively more innovative. In keeping with the rigor expected in an accelerated setting, students assemble a portfolio that showcases a significant body of work representing personal vision and artistic growth over time; mastery of theater skills and techniques in one or more areas; and evidence of significant oral and written analytical and problem-solving skills based on their structural, historical, and cultural knowledge.

Additional Information

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. This course may require students to participate in extra rehearsals and performances beyond the school day.

Course Number: 0400330

Course Description

This course is designed for students with significant experience in theater, and promotes depth of engagement and lifelong appreciation for theater through a broad spectrum of teacher-assigned and self-directed study and performance. Students regularly reflect on aesthetics and issues related to and addressed through theater, and create within various aspects of theater in ways that are progressively more innovative. In keeping with the rigor expected in an accelerated setting, students assemble a portfolio that showcases a significant body of work representing personal vision and artistic growth over time; mastery of theater skills and techniques in one or more areas; and evidence of significant oral and written analytical and problem-solving skills based on their structural, historical, and cultural knowledge.

Additional Information

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. This course may require students to participate in extra rehearsals and performances beyond the school day.

Course Number: 0400340

Course Description

The grade 9-12 United States History course consists of the following content area strands: United States History, Geography, and Humanities. The primary content emphasis for this course pertains to the study of United States history from Reconstruction to the present day. Students will be exposed to the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events which influenced the development of the United States and the resulting impact on world history. So that students can clearly see the relationship between cause and effect in historical events, students should have the opportunity to review those fundamental ideas and events which occurred before the end of Reconstruction.

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. Typically taken in 11th grade. EOC exam counts for 30% of overall course grade.

Course Number: 2100320

Course Description

The grade 9-12 World History course consists of the following content area strands: World History, Geography and Humanities. This course is a continued in-depth study of the history of civilizations and societies from the middle school course, and includes the history of civilizations and societies of North and South America. Students will be exposed to historical periods leading to the beginning of the 21st Century. So that students can clearly see the relationship between cause and effect in historical events, students should have the opportunity to review those fundamental ideas and events from ancient and classical civilizations. 

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.

Typically taken in the 10th grade year.

Course Number: 2109320