High School Overview

9^th Grade Curriculum:

 Math:

• Keys to Algebra
• Teaching Textbooks – Algebra

English/Language Arts:

• Vocab through the Classical Roots,
• Pentime, Voyages Grammar,
• Modern Literature and Rhetoric.
• Reading log: Of Mice and Men, Diary of Anne Frank, Sounder, Boy at War, To Kill a Mockingbird, poetry by Thomas Hardy, Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, Lao-Tsu The Tao, Machiavelli excerpts from The Prince, Roosevelt’s Declaration of War 1941, King’s I have a Dream speech, Johnson’s The Great Society, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Two Towers (Lord of the Rings), Fahrenheit 451.

Science:

• Semester 1 – exploratory science:
  • Forensic Science
  • Geology, Lyrical Earth Science.
• Semester 2 – Astronomy, Math and the Cosmos.

History:

• Semester 1 – Modern American History; America by Prentice Hall, Hippocampus.org
• Semester 2 – Geography: Usborne Encyclopedia of Geography, Worldbook CD ROM

Art: Artistic Pursuits

Music: Guitar and Piano

Physical Education:

• Tae Kwon do
• EMH Sports

Computers:

• Java Course and Complete Guide to Java
• Blender and game modifications

Languages:

• Rosetta Stone Spanish 1
• Latin – Minimus intro to Latin

11^th Grade Curriculum:

Math:

• Saxon Math Geometry; Dive CD rom;

English/Language Arts:

• Vocab through the Classical Roots,
• Pentime, Writing Strands book 5; Intro to Comp– Power Basics; AP Written exam (IEW)
• American Literature – Colonial period, to Modern American lit
• Reading log: “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” ; “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; Declaration of Independence; “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” ;“I like to see it Lap for miles”; “Cask of Amontillado” and “ The tell-tale heart”; “The Last Leaf” O Henry ; “O Captain My Captain” by Walt Whitman; “Rappaccini’s Daughter” Hawethorne; Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Old man and the Sea by Hemmingway; “A jury of her peers” by Susan Gladspell ; “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Science:

• Chemistry – org Chemistry 101 – online text and problems
• Khan Academy lecture
• Chemistry experiments 100 Lab

History:

• American History – History of America text; Hippocampus online lecture/videos
• Keys to American Documents
• Reading: Jamestown; Washington, Letters From Jefferson; American Lion (Andrew Jackson); Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter; Stout Hearted Seven; Geronimo Wolf of the West; Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider;
  

Art: Graphic Arts - Youth Digital Arts class; Photoshop

Music: Piano / Music manipulation computer software

Physical Education: Tae Kwon do / EMH Sports

Languages:

• Korean

Driver’s Ed : ½ semester

Dual Credit Elective: ½ semester -Psychology at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

10^th Grade Curriculum:

Math:

• Teaching Textbooks – Algebra II/Keys to Algebra
• Khan Academy lecture videos

English/Language Arts:

• Vocab through the Classical Roots,
• Pentime; Writing Strands book 5; Intro to Comp Part 1 – Power Basics.
• World Literature – from Ancient Civilizations through Renaissance/Enlightenment
• Reading log: Gilgamesh Life of Alexander the Great, Odyssey, World’s great speeches, Oedipus Rex, Eagle of the Ninth, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, Hamlet

Science:

• Biology – Biology Text and Lab Manual by Levine.
• Lab Dissections and Hippocampus.org
• Dissections: fish, frog, fetal pig
• Cell study: virus, cancer cells

History:

• World History – Rise and Fall of Empires, H.G. Wells Story of Mankind, Worldbook CD ROM
• Speeches – Hannibals’ Speeches to his soldiers, Socrates on Condemnation of his Death

Art: Graphic art /     Music: Piano

Physical Education:

• Tae Kwon do
• EMH Sports

Computers:

• Complete Guide to Java
• Blender and game modifications
• Multimedia Fusion game development

Languages:

• Rosetta Stone Spanish 2/ Barrons’ Spanish

12th grade:

Math:

Kahn Academy College Prep Algebra - khanacademy.org

English:

• Vocabulary through the Classical Roots, Analogies workbook, Succeeding on the AP lit Exam”
• Chaucer: Knight’s Tale/ Wife of Bath’s tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,  short essay – reflection essay: Reflection on Middle Ages; 
• Julius Ceasar, study guide and essay on themes;

• John Donne /Study Guide “Bait” and “hymn to God the Father” ;  William Blake: / Study Guide; Coleridge: Rime of Ancient Mariner/Guide;              Keats:   /Study Guide ; Essay #2: Research elements and techniques ; Research essay on The Romantic Era

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley/Guide; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens/ Guide; Writing - essay on how a political / social issue in the text raises awareness and how it contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole

• Time Machine by HG Wells/ study guide; “Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawerence/study guide guide;  “Do not go gently into that Good night";  Animal Farm;  Writing - essay on the negative /dystopian themes and imagery in modern literature.      

Science:

Marine Biology - CSUDH

Astronomy - CSUDH

Social Studies:

Economics  and Government (1 semester each)

Sociology - CSUDH

Health:

Healthy Eating Workbook; Caprock Press online Health Curriculum (1 semester)

Electives:

PE: TKD and EMH Sports.

Theater: INTRO to Theater/Raisin in the Sun - CSUDH