• Prerequisite: Students MUST have received credit in Honors Latin 2 

• Grades:  10, 11, 12

• Details: (1 credit) Category II

• Dates: June 2 – June 16    (There will be no classes on June 19th)

• Time: 7:30 - 3:30

Accelerated Original Credit: Face to Face/In-person setting. Latin III Honors continues students’ exposure to authentic Latin, including both prose and poetry. There will be an emphasis on reading various Roman authors, so students who wish to take this course should consider themselves proficient at reading Latin. The story line includes the Emperor Domitian in the first semester. The second semester introduces Pliny, Martial, Cicero, Caesar, Tacitus, Vergil, Ovid and Catullus.  This course is for the student who enjoys Latin and wants a good preparation for AP Latin.

(Dictionary and Readers required.)

Teacher: Dana Caron

Email:  CaronD@hpisd.org

Room #: NC215

• Prerequisite: Spanish 1 -

• Grades:  9-12

• Details: (1 credit) Category III

• Dates: June 2– June 30    (There will be no classes on June 19th)

• Time:   7:30 - 3:30

Accelerated Original Credit: Face to Face/In-person setting.  This course focuses on the Interpretive, Interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication which include understanding of print and audio material, speaking and writing exchanges with another person, and presentations in written and spoken formats. It includes a review of all previous grammar concepts (present and preterite tenses and other grammar points). Students will be introduced to other tenses and structures in context. The class includes new vocabulary building strategies, and culture.  At the end of the course the student will be able to reach the ACTFL proficiency levels of  Novice High to Intermediate Low. This means the students will be able to express meaning in straightforward and personal contexts, by combining and recombining what they know, what they read, and what they hear in short statements and sentences.

Teacher:  Maria Schrimpf

Email:  SchrimM@hpisd.org

• Prerequisite: Spanish II or II Honors

• Grades:  10, 11, 12

• Details: (1 credit) Category III

• Dates: June 2– June 30  (There will be no classes on June 19th)

• Time:   7:30 - 3:30

Accelerated Original Credit: Face to Face/In-person setting.  This course focuses on the Interpretive, Interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication which include understanding of print and audio material, speaking and writing exchanges with another person, and presentations in written and spoken formats. It includes a review of previous grammar concepts and an introduction to advanced grammatical structures, vocabulary building strategies, and cultural background.  At the end of the course the student will be able to reach the ACTFL proficiency levels of  Intermediate Low to Intermediate Mid. This means the students will be able to participate in conversations and maintain social interactions about familiar topics in everyday situations using a series of simple sentences with supporting details. The class will be conducted mainly in Spanish with a student speaking goal of 90% Spanish.

Teacher:  TBD

Email:  

• Prerequisite: Identified Gifted or Audition with teacher  (please contact teacher for audition details if needed).

• Grades:  9, 10, 11, 12

• Details: (0.5 credit) Category II

• Original Credit: Students only enroll in one semester of this course.  This course will ONLY be offered FIRST SESSION due to low enrollment numbers.

• Semester 1:  June 2 - June 13

• Semester 2:  June 16 - June 30 (There will be no classes on June 19th)

• Time:  7:30 -3:30

• Teacher:  Amy Brown

• Email: BrownAm@hpisd.org

Accelerated Original Credit: Face to Face/In-person setting. This course is open to the Talented and Gifted students only. This one-semester course will approach speech from a practical, applicable point of view, meeting each of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills requirements as established by the Texas Education Agency. The format of the class will be that of a legislative body within which the students organize the body, write the by-laws for the body (based upon various traditional organizational methods as in Robert’s Rules of Order), elect the leaders of the body, pass legislation for the body, and dissolve the body at the end of the semester. These activities will be accomplished through the traditional speech skills of critical thinking, organization, research, parliamentary procedure, public address, extemporaneous speaking, interpretation, listening, questioning and answering, protocol, legislative debate, problem solving and ethical decision making.  

Room #:  NC218

• Prerequisite: Algebra I 

• Grades:  9, 10

• Details: (1 credit) Category III

• Dates: June 3 – June 30 (There will be no classes on June 19th) 

• Time:  7:30 - 3:30

Accelerated Original Credit: Face to Face/In-person setting. This course emphasizes primarily plane geometry but includes space and coordinate geometry. Formal geometric proof is emphasized. Algebraic concepts will be thoroughly integrated into the course. Algebra II is the next course.

This course is  intended for highly motivated, self disciplined students who have extremely strong Algebra I skills. Students will be required to take a pre-test prior to enrollment in the course to help determine readiness for this fast paced course.  The pre-test is mandatory to take the course.

Pre-test dates:   May 5th and May 7th at 3:45 in WC217

Teacher:  William (Andy) Speir

Email:  SpeirW@hpsid.org

Room#:  NC223