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Course Title: Interdisciplinary Acceleration (Grades 11-12 Only)
Course Number: 1088-1089
Grade Level: 9-12
Elective/Required: Elective
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: This class is designed for Resource Specialist students who need support in their academic subject areas. Skills to promote success in reading, writing, and math will be taught. Study skills will be foundational to the goals of Skills for Success. Emphasis will be placed on developing the confidence needed to achieve each student’s highest potential. Enrollment is limited to those students challenged by grade level curriculum content and/or teacher, assistant principal, or LD recommendation. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: English 1 SK (SLC Only)
Grade Level: 9
Elective /Required: Required
Length/Credits: 1 year /10 credits
Prerequisites: Below grade level reading skills
Course Number: 1009/2101
Course Description: English Skills 1 is designed for students who are performing below their grade level. This class allows freshmen students to read and respond orally and in writing to a variety of literature. Sheltered instruction techniques are used to ensure all learners access to information and materials presented. A special emphasis is placed on passage of writing and reading proficiencies so that a student may have the option to take college-prep English in the future. Materials used and assignments given are closely aligned with English 1 (P). Emphasis is placed on understanding and interpreting material through the writing process.
Course Title: English 2 SK
Course Number: 7006-7007
Grade Level: 10
Elective/Required: Elective
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Meets UC/CSU A-G category:
Course Description: This course is an integrated program emphasizing reading, writing, listening, speaking, and researching for a variety of purposes in a variety of settings. Students explore ideas, consider strategies, and broaden their outlook via a thorough exploration of literature. Poetry, novel, short story, drama, and essays are the genres used as vehicles of study. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: English 3 SK
Course Number: 7324-7325
Grade Level: 11
Elective/Required: Elective
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: Students will study the work of American writers as they fall into various categories: romanticism, transcendentalism, realism, naturalism, and symbolism. The genres of the novel, short story, poetry, drama, and non-fiction works such as histories, political essays, speeches, sermons, etc.will be used as vehicles for study of these schools in the course. Students will present their ideas in various modes of discourse, such as essays, class discussions, projects, etc. Curricular content may be modified to meet Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: English 4 SK
Course Number: 7318-7319
Grade Level: 12
Elective/Required: Elective
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: This course is designed to offer the student an opportunity to study and reflect upon world literature. Students improve their critical thinking skills as they determine the underlying assumptions and values presented in the different literature of the world. Oral discussion and written composition are integral parts of the course emphasis. The course may survey representative works of a particular genre or a specific theme or works of a particular era or world region. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: Life Skills 1 (SLC Only)
Course Number: 7031-732
Grade Level: 9
Elective/Required: Required
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits; meets health science requirement at completion of the course
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: Life Skills 1 is the first course in a three-year sequence of classes designed to provide required instruction in health science along with key academic, life and transition skills. Instruction emphasizes a skills-based curriculum that addresses federal and state mandates for transition preparation and planning, as well as the state framework for health education in California. The course of study focuses on a variety of academic skills and behaviors, personal and social skills, and personal health and wellness, with a focus on the development of responsible decision-making skills in relationship to personal independence (mobility and community resources) and a healthy lifestyle. Explicit Instruction provides models and opportunities to practice the use of self-monitoring, interpersonal communication and life planning skills and tools. Course content includes life skills that support healthy choices in the areas of nutrition, fitness, stress management and social/emotional health, substance use and abuse, growth and development, and reproductive health. The course also explores environmental factors influencing health and healthy lifestyle choices, as well as societal influences and media pressures.
Course Title: World History Sk (SLC Only)
Course Number: 7046-7047
Grade Level: 10
Elective/Required: Required
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Meets UC/CSU A-G category:
Course Description: Students study major turning points that shaped the modern world, from the late 18th century through the present. They trace the rise of democratic ideas and develop and understanding of the historical roots of current world issues as they pertain to international relations. Students study the cause and effects of international events including the Industrial Revolution, Imperialism and the two world wars. Students also develop an understanding of current world issues and relate them to their historical, geographic, political, economic and cultural contexts. Students consider multiple accounts of events in order to understand international relations from a variety of perspectives. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: US History Sk
Course Number: 7336-7337
Grade Level: 11
Elective/Required: Required
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: This course offers a traditional chronologically based survey of American History from the Colonial period to the present. Emphasis is on critical writing, analysis, discussion, interpretation and historiography, as well as mastery of historical facts. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: Life Skills 4 (Civics Sk)
Course Number: 7040
Grade Level: 12
Elective/Required: Required
Length/Credits: Semester/5 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: Civics Sk course content develops an understanding of the institutions of American government. The course of study includes comparison of systems of government in the world today and analysis of changing interpretations of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the current state of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.
Course Title: Life Skills 4 (Economics Sk)
Course Number: 7041
Grade Level: 12
Elective/Required: Required
Length/Credits: Semester/5 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Meets UC/CSU A-G category:
Course Description: Economics Sk course is designed to help students become responsible citizens and effective decision makers as they are exposed to economic issues at the personal, local, national and international levels.
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