Course Essential Learning Outcomes
This course stretches across the entire school year. Starting during the Civil War Era and finishing with the Civil Rights Era. Other topics covered include the two World Wars, the Great Depression, Cold War, Vietnam, etc. A large focus is to show how history rhymes, with students finding broader connections spanning generations.
Students will also be required to participate in daily current events and DBQ assessments.
All units will be organized on Google Classroom along with corresponding assignments, projects, assessments, etc.
Course Essential Learning Outcomes
A course for those interested in psychology that follows a much slower pace compared to its AP coutnerpart. 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; marketing and consumerism; and psychological disorders. Students are required to write a final research paper on a psychological disorder of their choosing.
This course is NOT a prerequisite for AP Psychology.
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.
Passing the AP Psych College Board Exam at the end of the school year provides students with college credit.
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, students may be participating in inquiry driven projects that span longer amounts of time.
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 regions of Eastern and Central Europe. The regions' 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 engage in new levels of resources and curriculum, including the biannual trip to Central and Eastern Europe (previously the Chicago trip).
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.