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English II students will study literature that spans centuries, continents, and genres. Each of the four thematically-integrated units encourages close study of this literature and its context. Students will gain valuable cultural insight as they read and write about works depicting the social, personal, religious, and political struggles and triumphs...
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English III is a survey of American Literature and literary culture from its inception through the twentieth century. Students will explore the major literary forms, themes, authors, and periods of American Literature. They will understand how this literature represents the experiences of people native to America, those who immigrated to...
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By English IV, students have repeatedly peered through the window to humanity that literature has opened for them. Through it, they have gained valuable perspective on their world, past and present. Close-textual interaction with literature should have heightened appreciation for those texts, improved critical and analytical skills in reading and...
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In French 1, students begin to develop competence in four basic skill areas: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. While developing communicative competence in French, students gain and expand their knowledge of francophone countries and cultures. Emphasis is placed on learning the present tense, the near future and the past tense...
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The AP Chemistry course is equivalent to the general chemistry course taken during the first college year. The course is based on 9 Units and aligned with science practices integrated and spiraled throughout the course. This course is designed to be a second year high-school chemistry course. The pre-requisite for...
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Students will work to learn the skills necessary to understand and communicate how to develop a program, how to write original code using the Java programming language to solve problems, and how to troubleshoot existing code to debug programs. Course focuses on creative development processes, big ideas of modularity, variables,...
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Students work to learn the principles that underlie the science of computing and develop the thinking skills that computer scientists use. This course fully prepares students to have confidence in completing all requirements for the AP Computer Science Principles exam. Course is structured around five main ideas: 1) Creative Development...
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Students cultivate their understanding of the interrelationships of the natural world through inquiry-based lab investigations and field work as they explore concepts like the four Big Ideas; energy transfer, interactions between earth systems, interactions between different species and the environment, and sustainability.
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AP European History is an introductory college-level European history course. Students cultivate their understanding of European history through analyzing historical sources and learning to make connections and craft historical arguments as they explore concepts like interaction of Europe and the world; economic and commercial developments; cultural and intellectual developments; states...
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AP Human Geography is an introductory college-level human geography course. Students cultivate their understanding of human geography through data and geographic analyses as they explore topics like patterns and spatial organization, human impacts and interactions with their environment, and spatial processes and societal changes.
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