English Language Learners

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 1 and limited formal schooling

Graduation Requirement: Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course focuses instruction on basic listening, speaking, reading and writing strategies to begin communicating in English. The course is a block course (2 periods) which will introduce vocabulary (BICS and CALP) and basic skills to develop a foundation for content area reading and writing in English.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 1

Graduation Requirement: Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course focuses instruction on basic reading and writing strategies applied across genres to build a foundation for understanding complex text. This course is a block course (2 periods) which will introduce social and academic vocabulary (BICS and CALP), emergent reading skills, and learning strategies and basic essay writing skills.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 2; ELD BEGINNING

Graduation Requirement: English

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course focuses instruction on basic reading and writing strategies (narrative & persuasive) applied across genres to promote strategy transfer and build a foundation for analysis of literary and expository text. The course introduces social and academic vocabulary (BICS and CALP), intermediate reading skills and learning strategies to develop a foundational level of text comprehension.

Prerequisite: ELPA Levels 2 or 3; ELD INTERMEDIATE

Graduation Requirement: English

English/Language Arts I courses build upon students’ prior knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, word usage, and the mechanics of writing and include the four aspects of language use: reading, writing, speaking, and listening from English Language Development (ELL) and Common Core State Standards. This course is a block course (2 periods) which will focus on using an effective writing process and strategies, and writing for a variety of purposes and audiences. This course will introduce and define various genres of literature with writing in response to reading. We will focus on Creative Writing and Academic Writing.

Prerequisite: ELPA Levels 2 or 3

Graduation Requirement: Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course focuses instruction on advanced/transitional reading and writing strategies applied across genres to enhance strategies for analysis of literary and expository text. The course will utilize specialized vocabulary (CALP), complex reading skills, and a variety of learning strategies to develop text comprehension and assist students in meeting the content objectives for English 1.

Prerequisite: ELPA 2 or Level 3

Graduation Requirement: Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course focuses instruction on advanced/transitional reading and writing strategies applied across genres to enhance strategies for analysis of literary and expository text. The course will teach academic vocabulary (CALP), complex reading skills, and a variety of learning strategies to develop text comprehension and assist students in meeting the content objectives for English 2 or 3 as well as other disciplines.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 1 and limited formal schooling

Graduation Requirement: Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. The course focuses on basic reading and technical writing skills in science and social studies texts with a focus on schooling survival vocabulary and concepts of science and social studies.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 1 and limited formal schooling

Graduation Requirement: Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. The course focuses on basic vocabulary and concepts of math and prepare students for Algebra Foundation.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 1 and enrollment in ELD BEGINNING

Graduation Requirement: Washington State History

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course focuses on Pacific NW history past to present and into the future. The course will utilize specialized vocabulary (CALP), complex reading skills, and a variety of learning strategies to develop the topics to meet the Washington State History requirement.

Prerequisite: ELPA Levels 1 or 2 and ELD INTERMEDIATE

Graduation Requirement: Washington State History; Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course focuses on local history and cultures, with an emphasis on the idea of “Place”. The course will utilize specialized vocabulary (CALP), complex reading skills, and a variety of learning strategies to develop the skills necessary to advance to general education history courses.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 2 or 3

Graduation Requirement: World History

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course includes cultural interactions, colonization, resistance, and world political systems and current events. Students apply research and computer technology skills to complete a CBA research project.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 2 or 3

Graduation Requirement: World History; Elective

Human Geography focuses on content that is presented thematically rather than regionally and is organized around the discipline’s main subfields: economic geography, cultural geography, political geography, and urban geography. The approach is spatial and problem oriented. Case studies will be used throughout the year and will be drawn from all world regions, with an emphasis on understanding the world in which we live today. Historical information serves to enrich analysis of the impacts of phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and human-environment relationships on places, regions, cultural landscapes, and patterns of interaction. English language learners will be provided opportunities to develop academic language in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 3

Graduation Requirement: US History

The U.S. History course will provide students with an overview of the history of the United States, examining time periods from discovery or colonialism through World War II or after. This course will include a historical overview of political, military, scientific, and social developments. Course content may include a history of the North American peoples before European settlement. The class is designed to help new English speakers work on their reading, writing and comprehension skills through the content area. Students will participate in a final, in-depth research project and presentation.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 3

Graduation Requirement: Civics/Economics

This Civics course surveys the general structure and functions of American systems of government, the roles and responsibilities of citizens to participate in the political process, and the relationship of the individual to the law and legal system in order for ELL students to gain an understanding of the foundations of citizenship in the US. The students will also study the impact world events have on the United States, Washington State, and each of us as individuals.

Prerequisite: ELPA Levels 1 or 2

Graduation Requirement: Elective

English Language Learner (ELL) courses are designed for the acquisition and rapid mastery of the English language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This course covers general introductory life science topics ranging from the cell structure to ecology. Topics are introduced through themes such as life and structures and functions of organisms, life processes, and ecosystems. The course will utilize specialized vocabulary (CALP), reading skills, and a variety of learning strategies to develop the topics necessary to be prepared for general education science courses.

Graduation Requirement: Lab Science

Physics is the study of the physical world to learn how the physical world behaves. In particular, physics is the study of matter and its movement through space and time as well as related concepts such as force and energy. This is an inquiry and experience based course that introduces the topic. This is a group work and experience based course that introduces the topic through projects, group work, and problem solving. English language learners will be provided opportunities to develop academic language in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Prerequisite: ELPA Level 2 and 3

Graduation Requirement: Lab Science

Life Science Foundations is an introductory course in life sciences. The course provides a basic understanding of living things. Topics covered will include cell biology, biochemistry, current biological issues, genetics, reproduction, evolution, taxonomy and ecology.