9th Grade Campus

Ninth Grade Course Electives

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9 Week Elective Pairs

Creative Writing - ½ Unit and Mythology - ½ Unit - Grade 9

College Preparatory

Creative Writing

This course develops the evaluative and creative writing talents of students who are interested in learning to write and evaluate poetry, essays, human-interest stories, and short stories. Students also study the editing process. Each student will produce his/her individual publication of original works at the end of the course.

[303209CH]

Mythology

Mythology will give students a strong foundation in the myths and legends from various cultures and will help them see the role different mythologies still play in our lives. In this course students will learn how myth influences and is influenced by culture. They will also learn the overarching structure of mythology and find commonalities among different groups of myths. Additionally, students in Mythology will work on reading and writing skills (both formal and creative) as well as digital communication and public speaking skills.

[309944CH]

History of American Pop Culture - ½ Unit and Current Events - ½ Unit - Grade 9

College Preparatory

History of American Pop Culture

This class provides an introduction to the study of American popular culture. It considers some of the defining theoretical approaches in the field and briefly surveys the history of popular culture in the United States. The class then explores themes and problems in contemporary American popular culture with special attention to the problem of values, broadly defined, in the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contested over values—moral, aesthetic, political, social—the realm of popular culture has long been a central feature of American cultural and intellectual life. [339909CH]

Current Events

This course is a 9 weeks Social Studies elective course structured to give the student an understanding of current issues in many areas of a political, social, and economic nature. The course will emphasize historical causes and perspectives, discussions, and additional research done by the student. The topics chosen are very fluid in their nature, meaning that the topics and the amount of coverage on the topics will fluctuate on any given day, week, or month depending on topics current in the media. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

show a greater understanding of political, social, and economic issues that dominate the news
research current event topics using reliable websites and other sources

[333709CH]