Advanced Placement Courses

AP Language and Composition is a college level course intended to give students accelerated and diverse writing experiences in preparation for the AP Language and Composition exam as well as the demands of college and the professional world.  In order to receive college credits, students must pass the exam at the end of the course. According to the College Board, this course “engages students in becoming skilled readers of texts written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes.  Both their writing and reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.”  This class will help you read and write for all disciplines in college.

Course #:  410001A & 410001B 

Last updated:  1/7/2020 

AP Literature and Composition engages students in the careful reading and critical analysis of literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students consider a work's structure, style and themes, as well as smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. 

Course#:  410008A & 410008B

Last updated:  1/3/2020 

AP Physics 1 is an algebra based, introductory college-level physics course.  Students cultivate their understanding of physics through inquiry-based investigations as they explore physics phenomena.

Topics   covered:    kinematics; dynamics; circular motion and gravitation; energy; momentum; simple harmonic motion; torque and rotational motion; fluids  

Course #:  410208A & 410208B

Last updated 10/28/2022

AP European History develops an understanding of the main themes in modern European history, including political and diplomatic, intellectual and cultural, and social and economic history.  Analyzing historical evidence and reading critical literary narratives is integrated into the chronologically ordered whole picture of the modern history of Europe.  Using a college level textbook, this course begins with the Renaissance and concludes with the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany and the crisis of global terrorism.  In May, students take the College Board Advanced Placement examination for possible college credit.

Course #:  410002A & 410002B

Last updated 10/07/2019

AP Human Geography introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice. The course is structured according to the course outline found in the most recent AP® Human Geography Course Description published by the College Board https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-human-geography/course-details

Course #: 410007A & 410007B

Last updated:  11/10/2022

This college-level course covers the major themes of U.S. history from settlement to contemporary times with an emphasis on American identity, economic and social life, political change and continuity, and the U.S. role in the world. The course will utilize historical reasoning skills to draw conclusions, weigh evidence, examine diverse points of view, defend arguments, and write critically about events of U.S. history. An emphasis will be placed upon examination of scholarly text, critical thinking, independent study, research, in addition to the use and analysis of documents, images, cartoons, quantitative data, and other primary sources. For further details, view the College Board AP United States History Course Page https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-united-states-history?course=ap-united-states-history

Course #: 410003A & 410003B

Last updated 11/10/2022