Course Catalog

The College Prep curriculum provides preparation for post-secondary education. This curriculum is designed to enable students to achieve the school’s graduation expectations in the areas of logical thinking, effective communication, and responsible citizenship. CP is scaffolded to allow students multiple opportunities to meet state standards, as well as national content standards in English, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, health/physical education, and fine/applied/technical arts. Achievement will be measured using a variety of traditional, authentic, and performance-based assessments.

The Honors curriculum provides preparation for post-secondary education. This curriculum is de-signed to enable students to achieve the school’s graduation expectations in the areas of logical thinking, effective communication, and responsible citizenship. Honors allows students multiple opportunities to meet state standards, as well as national content standards in English, mathematics, science, social studies and world languages. This curriculum requires extensive independent and supplementary work outside the classroom, is taught at an accelerated pace, and the depth and breadth of subject content will be explored more comprehensively than in the CP curricula. Achievement will be measured using a variety of traditional, authentic, and performance-based assessments. In some cases, classes are designated Pre-AP; this is an Honors level curriculum. Pre-AP means the class is designed to follow an accelerated pace to prepare for an AP course.

These courses are college-level courses for which students may receive college credit from some institutions upon successful completion of the Advanced Placement Examination. AP courses are available in a variety of disciplines; descriptions of these courses can be found listed by discipline.

AP courses are designed as first year college courses and follow an established curricula approved by the College Board. The courses address a broad content, at a deep level, and at a faster pace than required by the Rhode Island high school curriculum standards. Students taking an AP course should expect to spend significant time on independent reading, projects and papers. Demonstrable skills that support successful participation in an AP course include the ability to:

• Read independently and readily recalls essential knowledge
• Organize and synthesizes large amounts of material
• Write organized, sophisticated essays