The 2025-2026 Elective Choice Window is
NOW CLOSED!
If you have questions or concerns, please email Assistant Principal Mr. Beliveau @ devin.beliveau@sausd.us or Intermediate school counselor Mrs. Janet Zavala @ janet.montes@sausd.us
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Beginning ART
🎨 Possible Elective for the 2025-2026 School Year
This introductory art class allows students to explore various mediums, techniques, and styles while building fundamental artistic skills.
🖌 Interested in Art? Select "Yes" on the elective sheet.
You will still need to choose three other electives.
If Art is available, it will be your #1 choice.
Contact Ms. Metoyer: Niza.Metroyer@SAUSD.us
Associated Student Body (ASB) Leadership
🎉 ASB is responsible for hosting school events, assemblies, and dances.
🏫 The purpose of this class is to increase school spirit and foster unity among all students on campus.
🤝 ASB participates in community service both in and out of school and plays a role in decision-making for all class activities.
🚍 Students will take part in a Team-Building Field Trip.
📌 Eligibility Requirements
📖 Intermediate Students (Grades 7-8):
📊 Minimum 2.5 GPA required.
📝 Two teacher recommendations required.
✏️ Incoming 6th Graders:
🏆 Must have all 3s and 4s in 5th grade.
👩🏫 Teacher recommendation required.
ASB Application is REQUIRED!!!
If you choose this elective as one of your three choices,
you must fill out the application to be considered.
Applications are due
Friday March 28th, @ 8:00 pm
Click Here to visit the ASB website.
Contact Ms. Metoyer: Niza.Metroyer@SAUSD.US
A.V.I.D.
(Advancement Via Individual Determination)
📚 AVID is a college readiness program that equips students with the skills, support, and mindset needed to succeed in rigorous coursework and achieve their post-secondary goals.
📝 Focuses on key academic skills:
Writing, speaking, and reading strategies
Test-taking techniques
Goal-setting and self-awareness
🌟 Provides a supportive and challenging
environment to help students succeed.
Concert Band
(All Levels,6-8th grade)
🎵 Learn to read music, play an instrument, and have fun!
🎺 Instrument options:
Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Percussion (Drums).
📚 Two levels:
🥁 Intermediate Band
✅ Open to all students.
🎭 3 required performances.
🎶 Advanced Band
🎤 Enrollment is based on audition - requirements = strong rhythm, music reading, and good behavior.
🎼 4 required performances plus more (field trip opportunities).
Orchestra
(All Levels,6-8th grade)
🎻 Band, but chill.
🎼 Learn the same music skills with the string family:
Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass
🏫 One class, anyone welcome!
🎭 4 Required performances (field trip opportunities).
Beginning Drama
(6-8th grade)
🎭 Intro - Basic concepts of theatre arts
✨ Build confidence and trust
🎨 Stimulate imagination & movement
🎤 Lose inhibitions and gain trust in themselves and others
🎬 Use drama and theatre vocabulary
👥 Individuals and group performances
🎶 Participate in the ensemble of Santiago's spring musical production
📜 Presentations, performances, script writing
🎟 No previous experience needed
Advanced Drama
(7-8th grade)
🎭 Only for students who have taken Santiago’s Beginning Drama or who have the instructor’s permission (ie, had a lead in our Disney Musical)
⚠️ An Audition is required
🎬 Build upon previously learned skills
🎭 Learn to portray more compelling characters and complex scenes
✨ Build an ensemble, stimulate imagination, movement, and role-play
🎭 Emphasis on believability and stage presence
📖 Address plot, setting, and character in monologues
🎭 Use drama and theatre vocabulary
👥 Individual and group performances
🌟 Opportunity to audition for a lead or featured role in both Santiago's fall comedy play and spring musical production
Production and Design
(6-8th grade)
🎭 Focus on the design and safe application of basic tools and procedures to create elements of technical theatre, including:
✂️ Costumes, 💡 Lighting , 🎨 Makeup, 🎭 Props, 📢 Publicity, 🏗️ Scenery, 🔊 Sound
🛠️ Develop assessment and problem-solving skills
📚 Connect selected literature to various cultures, history, and other content areas
🎟️ Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals
⏳ Students may be required to attend or participate in technical work, rehearsals, and/or performances beyond the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom
App Creators & Innovators & Makers
(6-8th grade) - 6th Graders will have priority
📅 This is a year-long course, with students taking two specialized classes each semester.
🤖 Part of the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Robotics Pathway
🛠️ Builds foundational skills for future Robotics electives
🎮 Hands-on learning in engineering, automation, and design
✨ Taking this course is the first step for students interested in advancing in the PLTW Robotics program.
Robotics
Design and Modeling & Automation and Robotics (7-8th grade)
🤖 This Project Lead The Way (PLTW) course provides students with a strong foundation in robotics and engineering.
📏 Semester 1: Design and Modeling
🔧 Develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills through hands-on projects.
🎨 Learn the engineering design process to create and test 3D models.
⚙️ Semester 2: Automation and Robotics
🔩 Explore mechanical systems, automation, and programming.
🤖 Build and program robots to solve real-world challenges.
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