Course Essential Learning Outcomes
This course is divided into two semesters. The first semester covers from 1850 (Pre-Civil War) to WWI. This semester will cover the Civil War, Industrialization, Immigration, Imperialism, the Progressive Era, and WWI. The second semester begins with the 1920’s, moves into the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, the 1960’s, Watergate Era, Reagan Era, and continues until the current year.
Students will also be required to participate in the nationwide NPR Student Podcast Challenge.
All units will be organized on Google Classroom along with corresponding assignments, projects, assessments, etc.
Course Essential Learning Outcomes
The following topics are covered and not limited to: learning; principles and applications; memory and thought; altered states of consciousness; infancy and childhood; adolescence; frustration, stress, and conflict; disturbance and breakdown (mental illness); treatment and therapy. Students are required to write a final research paper on a psychological disorder of their choosing.
Along with traditional course content and work, students will do a semester long project that focuses on inquiry.
All units will be organized on Google Classroom along with corresponding assignments, projects, assessments, etc.
Course Essential Learning Outcomes
The AP Psychology course is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major sub-fields within psychology. They also learn about the ethics and methods psychologists use in their science and practice.
Along with Google Classroom, students will use the learning platform AP Classroom.
Course Essential Learning Outcomes
Sociology deals with basic concepts and culture; groups and mass behavior; marriage and family; deviance and crime; religion; ethnic and racial groups; American social problems. Students are required to write a final argumentative essay over the debate on universal healthcare.
Along with traditional course content and work, Section 1 will do a semester-long project that focuses on inquiry and Section 2 will participate in the nationwide NPR Student Podcast Challenge.
All units will be organized on Google Classroom along with corresponding assignments, projects, assessments, etc.
The course covers the following: American business firms/role of profits; scarcity/productivity and producer; free enterprise/socialism and communism; consumer choice/economic interdependence; prices directing the markets/supply and demand; competition; and wages, income, and distribution of wealth. Students will spend the term participating in the Stock Market Game Simulator and compete against teams nationwide, teaching them the ups and downs of the stock market.
Students will also be required to participate in the nationwide NPR Student Podcast Challenge.
All units will be organized on Google Classroom along with corresponding assignments, projects, assessments, etc.
The course covers the all social studies disciplines while looking into the region of Eastern Europe. Eastern European history, culture, and politics will all be covered and give students an in-depth glimpse of a place on the other side of the world. Students will be provided hands-on and educationally supplemental opportunities.
Students will have the opportunity to travel to Chicago for the Eastern Europe trip at the end of the school year.
All units will be organized on Google Classroom along with corresponding assignments, projects, assessments, etc.
Course Essential Learning Outcomes
The course will delve into documentary and film-making and will be entirely student led. Students will be given guidelines, helpful information, and will be steered in the right direction, but will do the bulk of the course on their own. As a group, this class will research and create their own documentary, complete with editing. There will be a showing at the end of the semester for the students to show off their work.
All units will be organized on Google Classroom along with corresponding assignments, projects, assessments, etc.