Middle School Courses

Core Classes

• World Geography 6-Western Hemisphere

• World Geography 7-Eastern Hemishpere

• Grade 8 U.S. History

Elective Courses

• M.S. Ancient World History

• M.S. Civics, Government, and Economics

• M.S. World Cultures and Geograph

High School Courses

Core Classes

• 9th Grade U.S. Government

• 9th Grade Oklahoma History

• Modern World History

• AP Modern World history

• U.S. History

• AP U.S. Histor

Elective Classes with Descriptions

AP Human Geography (Grades 9-12)

AP Human Geography is a college-level, yearlong course designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography Exam. The goal of this course is to examine human populations and their interaction with one another, as well as with the physical and built environments. Emphasis is placed on critical and evaluative thinking skills, free-response writing, and research. Students will demonstrate that they can understand and implement skills via written work, project-based activities, and assessments.

AP US Government and Politics (Grades 11-12)

AP US Government and Politics is designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement (AP) US Government and Politics exam. The goal of this course is to explore and analyze important concepts of US government and politics. Students will demonstrate their understanding and acquisition of skills through written work, project-based activities, and practice exams.

Economics (Grades 10-12)

This full-year course invites students to broaden their understanding of how economic concepts apply to their everyday lives. The course helps students to master microeconomic and macroeconomic theory while discovering the characteristics of mixed-market economies. Then, students utilize their new understanding to analyze the role of government in a free-enterprise system and the global economy. The course culminates by encouraging students to explore personal finance strategies. Throughout the course, economic theory is introduced, demonstrated, and reinforced through real-life scenarios and examples. In assignments and project-based lessons, students learn to apply critical thinking skills while making practical economic choices. Students also master literacy skills through rigorous reading and writing activities. Data, graphs, charts, maps, and other multimedia stimuli are closely analyzed in instruction and assignments. Students write routinely and responsively in shorter tasks and assignments that are based on scenarios, texts, activities, and examples. In more extensive, process-based writing lessons, students write a topical essay in an argumentative format and a research-based informative essay

Human Geography

A year-long high school level course takes a thematic approach to understanding the development of human systems. Building upon the National Geography Standards, the course focuses on human understanding of the world and human social organization. The course explores the humanenvironment interaction, and the interactions among human systems. Semester one introduces students to geographic concepts, theories, models, and methods. Students will develop geographic skills including learning to interpret maps, analyze data, and compare theories. Students will apply their geographic and historical skills while studying physical geography of the major world regions, population and migration patterns, cultural and political systems. Throughout their study, students will examine current global issues that impact our world today. Semester two explores global connections: tracing the development of modern civilization and human systems from the agricultural revolution to the technological revolution, and the development of the modern urban space. Students will analyze economic trends, and compare global markets and urban environments. Students will also examine the effects of technology on societies and environments, including human movement, communications, climate change, and pollution. Finally, students will identify challenges facing the modern world.

Survey of World History (Grades 11-12)

This year-long course examines the major events and turning points of world history from ancient times to the present. Students investigate the development of classical civilizations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia, and then explore the economic, political, and social revolutions that have transformed human history. Finally, students conduct a rigorous study of modern history, allowing them to draw connections between past events and modern issues. The use of recurring themes, such as social history, democratic government, and the relationship between history and the arts, allows students to draw connections between the past and the present, among cultures, and among multiple perspectives. The course implements career and college readiness literacy skills by encouraging students to read and write in a variety of formats. Assignments and projects encourage students to apply critical-thinking skills and show their learning in a variety of modalities. Students use a variety of primary and secondary sources, including legal documents, essays, historical writings, and political cartoons to evaluate the reliability of historical evidence and to draw conclusions about historical events. Students also sharpen their writing skills in shorter tasks and assignments, and practice outlining and drafting skills by writing full informative and argumentative essays