Special Education Classes
Course Title: Interdisciplinary Acceleration
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 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 IEP team recommendation. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: English 1 SK
Course Number: 7004-7005
Grade Level: 9
Elective/Required: Elective
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: This is a literature-based course aimed at developing the students’ reading, listening, writing, and language abilities. It offers entering freshmen a course covering literary genres and terms, composition (including the writing process and various writing domains), grammatical units, oral presentations, vocabulary skills, and study skills. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
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: Integrated Math 1 2YAB SK
Course Number: 7405-7406
Grade Level: 9-12
Elective/Required: Elective
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: This course is designed to cover the content of the first half of Integrated Math 1 content. It involves understanding, writing, solving, and graphing linear and quadratic equations, including systems of two linear equations in two unknowns. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: Integrated Math 1 2YCD SK
Course Number: 7407-7408
Grade Level: 9 - 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 cover the content of the second half of Integrated 1 content. Quadratic equations are solved by factoring; completing the square, using graphs, or applying the quadratic formula solves quadratic equations. Students will become proficient with operations on monomial and polynomial expressions. Curricular content may be modified to meet individual needs as outlined by student Individual Education Plans.
Course Title: Life Skills 1 (Health)
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: Life Skills 2 (Biology)
Course Number: 7036-7037
Grade Level: 10
Elective/Required: Required
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits; meets life science requirement at completion of the course
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: Life Skills 2 is the second course in a three-year sequence of classes designed to provide required instruction in life 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 science education in California and incorporates essential biology content. 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 (career/post-secondary exploration and preparation) and employability. 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 increasingly independent choices in the areas of personal and life planning, management and social/emotional growth and development, and personal safety. In addition, the Life Skills 2 course also explores community resources and support systems, citizenship and personal responsibility.
Course Title: Life Skills 3 (Physical Earth Science)
Course Number: 7274-7277
Grade Level: 11
Elective/Required: Required
Length/Credits: Year/10 credits
Prerequisites: Enrollment based on academic need and/or IEP
Course Description: Life Skills 3 is the third course in a three-year sequence of classes designed to provide required instruction in earth 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 science education in California and incorporates essential earth science content. 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 (career/post-secondary exploration and preparation) and employability. 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 increasingly independent choices in the areas of personal and life planning, management and social/emotional growth and development, and personal safety.
Course Title: World History Sk
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.