High School Curriculum
What 9th Graders Learn:
- Read a wide variety of literature including concentrated units on American literature, mythology, world literature, and poetry
- Write in a variety of forms including creative writing, non-fiction, and journalism
- Master elements of grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
- Listen, understand, and make various forms of oral presentations including poetry, plays, and speeches
- Algebra
- World History (pre history to A.D. 1000)
- Earth/Space Science
- Foreign Language
- Art theory, appreciation, and history
- Music theory, performance, history, and appreciation
- Health and physical education
What 10th Graders Learn:
- Read a variety of literature including biographies and poetry
- Evaluate a variety of literature including fiction, non-fiction, short stories, essays, plays, poems, and book length works
- Write in a variety of forms including creative writing, non-fiction writing, journalism, reports, essays, short stories, poems, narratives, journal entries, business letters, and personal letters
- Listen, understand, present, discuss, and analyze various forms of oral presentations
- Geometry/Algebra II
- World History (A.D. 100 to modern times)
- General Biology
- Foreign Language
- Apply elements and priciples of art design to create art work
- Analyze artwork and study art with other academic subjects including literature and history
- Study musical selections
- Health and physical education
What 11th Graders Learn:
- Build upon 9th and 10th grade reading, writing, grammar, and oral presentation skills
- Word processing
- Intermediate algebra/trigonometry or pre-calculus
- American History
- Chemistry
- Foreign Language
- Continue art, music, health, and physical education
What 12th Graders Learn:
- Continue reading, writing, grammar, oral presentation, art, music, health, and physical education skill learned previously
- Drama
- Calculus
- American Government/Civics
- Physics
- Foreign Language
