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This course focuses on five critical areas: relationships between quantities and reasoning with equations, linear and exponential relationships, descriptive statistics, expressions and equations, and quadratic functions and modeling. This course builds on the foundation set in middle grades by deepening students’ understanding of linear and exponential functions and developing fluency...
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Focused on application, this sophomore English course reinforces literary analysis and twenty-first century skills with superb pieces of literature and literary nonfiction, application e-resources, and educational interactives. Each thematic unit focuses on specific literary analysis skills and allows students to apply them to a range of genres and text structures....
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This freshman-year English course engages students in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts both classic and contemporary. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and literary nonfiction, students will master comprehension and literary-analysis strategies. Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are activities that encourage students to strengthen their...
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Math 8 delivers instruction, practice, and review designed to develop computational fluency, deepen conceptual understanding, and apply mathematical practices. In this course, students focus on understanding functions ? what they are, how to represent them in different ways, and how to write them to model mathematical and real-world situations. In...
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This is the first semester of a yearlong course that focuses on functions, polynomials, periodic phenomena, and collecting and analyzing data. The course begins with a review of linear and quadratic functions to solidify a foundation for learning these new functions. Students make connections between verbal, numeric, algebraic, and graphical...
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Throughout US history, African Americans have faced great adversity in the form of enslavement and institutional racism. They fought for their freedom and worked to right a broken system, but their struggle continues today. This course studies the treatment of enslaved Africans as they were brought to America, the prejudices...
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Algebra 1, Semester A, is a single-semester course designed to cultivate and periodically assess your subject-matter knowledge while strengthening your mathematical skills. This course includes lessons that focus on the relationships of linear and nonlinear equations. You?ll learn to create, graph, and solve linear and exponential equations and inequalities. You?ll...
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Algebra 2, Semester A, is a single-semester course designed to cultivate and periodically assess your subject-matter knowledge while strengthening your mathematical skills. This course includes lessons that focus on the interpretation of polynomial and rational expressions. You?ll learn to create, graph, and solve equations and inequalities. You?ll also identify the...
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AP Psychology provides an overview of current psychological research methods and theories. Students will explore the therapies used by professional counselors and clinical psychologists and examine the reasons for normal human reactions: how people learn and think, the process of human development and human aggression, altruism, intimacy, and self-reflection. They...
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English is the study of the creation and analysis of literature written in the English language. In English 10A you will explore the different literary devices used in short stories, such as subject, theme, mood, plot, and narration. You will read and analyze a variety of literary works to learn...
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