Advanced Placement (AP)

This challenging course is designed to provide a college-level experience and prepare students for the AP exam in early May. Over two semesters, students are engaged in a wide variety of activities, with substantial emphasis on interpreting and collecting data in virtual labs, writing analytical essays, and mastering biological concepts and connections. The key themes of the AP Biology course are the scientific processes, the effects of science on technology and society, the chemistry and make-up of living organisms, genetics, diversity, and evolution.

Throughout this course, students are expected to answer questions, analyze data, discuss real-world connections, and complete lab activities. The primary emphasis is to develop an understanding of concepts rather than memorizing terms and technical details. 

Prerequisites: Biology, Chemistry, Algebra I

Course Length: full year

Credit: 1.0

GPA Bonus Applies

Students in this course will walk in the footsteps of Newton and Leibnitz.

An interactive course framework combines with the exciting on-line course delivery to make calculus an adventure. The course includes a study of limits, continuity, differentiation, and integration of algebraic, trigonometric, and transcendental functions, and the applications of derivatives and integrals.

An Advanced Placement (AP) course in calculus consists of a full high school year of work that is comparable to calculus courses in colleges and universities. It is expected that students who take an AP course in calculus will seek college credit, college placement, or both, from institutions of higher learning.

Most colleges and universities offer a sequence of several courses in calculus, and entering students are placed within this sequence according to the extent of their preparation, as measured by the results of an AP examination or other criteria.

Prerequisites: Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and Pre-calculus or Trigonometry

Course Length: full year

Credit: 1.0

GPA Bonus Applies

Students in this course will walk in the footsteps of Newton and Leibnitz.

An interactive course framework combines with the exciting on-line course delivery to make calculus an adventure. The course includes a study of limits, continuity, differentiation, and integration of algebraic, trigonometric, and transcendental functions; the applications of derivatives and integrals; infinite series; parametric equations; and polar equations.

An Advanced Placement (AP) course in calculus consists of a full high school year of work that is comparable to calculus courses in colleges and universities. It is expected that students who take an AP course in calculus will seek college credit, college placement, or both, from institutions of higher learning.

Most colleges and universities offer a sequence of several courses in calculus, and entering students are placed within this sequence according to the extent of their preparation, as measured by the results of an AP examination or other criteria.

 Prerequisites:  Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and Pre-calculus or Trigonometry

 Course Length:  full year

 Credit:  1.0

GPA Bonus Applies

This course provides high school students with college-level instruction in studying and writing various kinds of analytic or persuasive essays on literary and nonliterary topics in language, rhetoric, and expository writing. Students become skilled readers of prose written in various periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. Both reading and writing should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as how writing conventions and language contribute to effectiveness in writing. This course will effectively prepare students for the AP Exam by enabling them to read, comprehend, and write about complex texts while developing further communication skills on a college level.

Prerequisites:  English 9 and English 10

Course Length:  full year

Credit:  1.0

GPA Bonus Applies

Develop critical standards for the appreciation of literary works and increase your sensitivity to literature as a shared experience. This course meets one required English credit for high school graduation.

Prerequisites:  English 9, English 10, American Literature and Composition

Course Length:  full year

Credit:  1.0

GPA Bonus Applies

Explore the patterns and processes that impact the way humans understand, use, and change Earth’s surface. Geographic models, methods, and tools help you examine the effect that human social organization and interconnections have on our world. This course provides elective credit only.

 

Prerequisites: This course is for students with advanced reading and writing skills. Completion of previous advanced or AP level English/ Language Arts courses with a C or above strongly recommended.

Course Length:  Full Year

Credit:  1.0

GPA Bonus Applies

Lights, Camera, Action" ...Prepare to study the intricacies of the American Political Culture. The script is written and the actors participate daily in the drama of American politics. You will be "on location" to delve into primary source documents. You will go behind the scenes with stars such as the President, Congress people, and Supreme Court Justices. You will research the roles of the media, political parties, interest groups, states, candidates, bureaucracy, and the public in the governmental process. Finally, you will witness the large- scale production of policy building in the areas of economic/social policy, foreign policy and public administration.

Prerequisites:  Successful completion of U.S. History is recommended

Course Length:  .5 sem

Credit:  .5

GPA Bonus applies

Within AP U.S. History, students will develop and use historical thinking skills (chronological reasoning, comparison and contextualization, crafting historical arguments from historical evidence, and historical interpretation and synthesis) to examine the history of the United States from 1491 to the present. Students will learn through active participation as they analyze sources and collaborate to gain a conceptual understanding of U.S. history.

The AP U.S. History course is structured around nine time periods outlined within the College Board Advanced Placement United States History Framework. Each time period is divided into key concepts meant to contextualize history and show continuity and well as change over time. The intention is for students to explore history, establishing economic, political, and social patterns.

 

Prerequisites:  None

Course Length:  Full Year

Credit:  1.0

GPA Bonus Applies