CDP Curriculum

The East Haven Adult Credit Diploma Program offers a curriculum that is diverse and demanding. Students are offered course selections that build esteem, awareness, and the skill sets that will transition the student to real life success. The ability to comprehend, synthesize, and make logical conclusions is paramount to our mission of life-long learning. Clarity in thoughtful, insightful responses, in both the written and spoken word, completes the focus we promote.

To highlight our curriculum goals, each student must pass a comprehensive exit exam in order to fulfill our graduation requirements. It is mandatory that every student score a minimum grade of 70 or better in the following core disciplines: Mathematics, Science, History, Reading, and a writing sample.

Among the courses East Haven Adult Education offers our Credit Diploma students are:

Ø Black and Latino Studies (Mandatory effective 1/1/2022 CSDE)

In this one-year, integrated course, the history of Africa and the Diasporas are explored with intentional linkages to the accomplishments, struggles, and beauty of Black and Latino people in the U.S., Americas (North and South), the Caribbean, and around the world. Through the lens of these very unique histories, students, with the guided support of their educators, will have opportunities to make connections to their own cultural and racial backgrounds and strengthen their understanding of what positive identity can look and sound like, the importance of inclusivity of diverse perspectives, and value for social justice to inform actions in their own community.

Ø U.S. History (Beginnings & Modern)

1865-1900

• • Changes after the Civil War in the South

  • Western expansion and how effected the American Indians

  • Transforming of the West because of mining and railroads

  • Segregation and Social tensions in the South and West

Ø World and Ancient Civilizations

1800 -1914

• • The New Imperialism

  • Building Overseas Empire

  • The Partition of Africa

  • Europeans Claims in Muslims Region

Ø Civics

Foundations of American Government

• • Principles of Government

  • Government and the State

  • Forms of Government

  • Basic Concepts of Democracy

Ø U.S. Government

Origins of American Government

• • Our Political Beginnings

  • American Independence

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Creating of the Constitution

  • Ratifying the Constitution

Ø Composition

• • Remedial Composition

  • Vocabulary

  • Sentence, paragraph, and essay structure

  • Analogies

  • College Essay

  • Creative Writing

The literature and seminar courses run on a two year cycle.

Ø British Literature (Romantic, Victorian, Shakespeare, Modern)

Shakespeare

• • As You Like It

  • Comedy of Errors

  • Macbeth

  • Romeo and Juliet

  • Othello

William Blake

• • Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• • Kubla Kahn

  • Dejection: an Ode

William Wordsworth

• • Resolution and Independence

Mary Shelley

• • Frankenstein

Lewis Carroll

• • Alice in Wonderland

  • Through the Looking Glass

Oscar Wilde

• • Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Plays

    • The Ideal Husband

    • The importance of Being Earnest

Ø Music and Poetry

Poetry (Beats, Modern, Abstract)

§ Dylan

§ Ginsberg

    ·    Howl

§ Frost

    · Road less traveled

§ Songs of war, peace, social change, protest, liberation, organization

Ø Modern American and British novels

Mitch Albolm

• • Tuesday with Morrie

  • Five People you meet in Heaven

Jonathan Foer

• • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Truman Capote

• • In Cold Blood

 Ray Bradbury

• • Fahrenheit 451

 Aldous Huxley

• • Brave New World

 Patricia Baker

• • Union Street

  • Blow Your House Down

George Orwell

• • 1984

  • Animal Farm

Jack Kerouac

• • On the Road Again

 Kurt Vonnegut

• • Slaughter House Five

  • Welcome to the Monkey House

Alex Halley

• • Malcolm X

Harper Lee

• • To Kill a Mockingbird

Ø American Literature

Edgar Allen Poe

• • Short Stories

Mark Twain

• • Short stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• • Scarlet Letter

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• • The Great Gatsby

Sylvia Plath

• • The Bell Jar

Arthur Miller

• • Crucible

John Steinbeck

• • East Of Eden

  • Grapes of Wrath

  • Of Mice and Men

  • Pearl

  • Cannery Row

Ø Native American Literature

Dee Brown

• • Bury My Heart At Wounded Knees

Ø Gay/Lesbian Film and Literature

Annie Proulx

• • Brokeback Mountain

Jean Copeland

• • The Revelation of Beatrice Darby

Ø Greek Mythology

Homer

• • The Odyssey

Ø Literature of the Sixties (Vietnam Literature)

Tim O’Brien

• • The Things They Carried

Ø Harlem Renaissance

Maya Angelou

• • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Toni Morrison

• • Sula

 Zora Neale Hurston

• • Their Eyes are Watching God

Walter Dean Myers

• • Monster

Ralph Ellison

• • Invisible Man

Ø Holocaust Literature

Imere Kertesz

• • Fateless

Markus Zusak

• • The Book Thief

Ø Biology

• • Cellular structure

  • Ecology

  •  Kingdoms

  • Human Anatomy

Ø Earth Science

• • Geology

  • Oceanography

  •  Astronomy

  • Weather

Ø General Science

• • Cellular structure

  • Plants

  • Animals

  • Biomes

Ø Math for Manufacturing

• Distribution of Processing

• Organization of production

• Conversion  of standard measurement to metric

• Measurement using industry specific instruments

• Design and build (home and building)

• 3D printing

Ø Consumer Math

• • Covering Expenses

    • Fixed and variable

  • Making and Changing your Budget

    • Estimating with money

    • Salary and take home Pay

    • Yearly, weekly, monthly, salaries

    • Overtime pay

    • Commission

    • Gross and Net

    • Taxable Income: Refund or Balance due

Ø Basic Math

• • ASMD whole numbers

  •  FDP

  • Word Problems

Ø Probability

• • X! nPr nCr n!x!x!x!

  • Counting Principle

  • Conditional probability

Ø Statistics

• • Mean, Mode, Median, Standard Deviant

  • Graphs and interpretation

  • Surveys and raw data

Ø Algebra

• • From the number line through quadratic equations (3 consecutive courses)

Ø Geometry

• • Triangles, polygons, and quadrilaterals

  • Construction with a compass and straight edge

  • Perspective

  • The basics of Sketchpad (computer program)

Ø Calculus

• • Derivatives and integrals used to solve myriad problems

Ø Trigonometry

• • (Circular) Angular speed, linear velocity, area, and arc length

  • (Triangular) Pythagoras, sine, cosine, tangent, air, and sea bearings

Ø Tech Math

• • All aspects of the TI-83 calculator

Ø PPS

• • Solving problems with: 

    • Diagrams

    • Systematic lists

    • Venn

    • Trial and error

    • Elimination

Ø Accuplacer

• • All aspects of the college entrance placement exam (3 consecutive terms