9th Grade Campus
Ninth Grade Course Electives
9 Week Elective Pairs
1 Unit Total
Creative Writing (1/2 unit)
Mythology (1/2 unit)
***The above courses will be paired.
History of American Pop Culture (1/2 unit)
Current Events (1/2 unit)
***The above courses will be paired.
Creative Writing – ½ Unit and Mythology- 1/2 Unit - Grade 9
College Preparatory Prerequisites : None
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 - 1/2 Unit and Current Events - 1/2 Unit - Grade 9
College Preparatory Prerequisites: None
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, you will be able to:
show a greater understanding of political, social, and economic issues that dominate the news
conduct research on current event topics using reliable websites and other sources [333709CH]
Career and Technology Education (CTE)
Agricultural Science and Technology - 1 unit
Automotive Technology - 1 unit
Diesel Engine Technology - 1 Unit
Building Construction - 1 unit
*Fundamentals of Computing - 1 unit
*Computer Programming 1 Honors- 1 unit
Cyber Security Technology- 1 Unit
Introduction to Early Childhood Education - 1 unit
Family and Consumer Science - 1 unit
Fashion, Fabric, and Design 1 - 1 unit
Introduction to Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security - 1 unit
Fine Arts Electives
Marching Percussion/Indoor Percussion (2 units)
Marching Winds/Concert Band (2 units)
Marching Color Guard (1 unit - Fall)
Dance 2 H - audition required – 1 unit
Chorus - select Ensemble Option first
***Ensemble courses must be paired with PE or ROTC.
Choraliers - 2 units - Select Men's/Women's Ensemble as primary and Choraliers as alternate pending audition results
Other Electives
Journalism - 1 unit (Description Below)
PE 1 - 1 unit - (Click the link to view description.)
Air Force ROTC - 1 unit (Click the link to view description.))
Sport and Society - Grades 9-12 – 1 Credit (Click the link to view description.)
Journalism - 1 Unit - Grade 9 [Ninth Grade Campus Only]
This class will focus on researching, writing, and editing for a monthly production of an NGC newspaper. [305000CW]