In Geography, the student will demonstrate essential skills using maps, globes, geographic information systems from a variety of sources. The student will learn about various regions including human populations, regional patterns of cultural groups and political units; present patterns of economic activity; characteristics of local and global settlements, and how humans influence the environment and how they are influenced by it.
- Teacher: Chandra Schwab
In Geography, the student will demonstrate essential skills using maps, globes, geographic information systems from a variety of sources. The student will learn about various regions including human populations, regional patterns of cultural groups and political units; present patterns of economic activity; characteristics of local and global settlements, and how humans influence the environment and how they are influenced by it.
- Teacher: Chandra Schwab
In Geography, the student will demonstrate essential skills using maps, globes, geographic information systems from a variety of sources. The student will learn about various regions including human populations, regional patterns of cultural groups and political units; present patterns of economic activity; characteristics of local and global settlements, and how humans influence the environment and how they are influenced by it.
- Teacher: Chandra Schwab
EmpowerU is a course to help students work on their personal growth each day with the support of daily coaching to help personalize the course to each student's goals and challenges. Students set and meet goals in personal wellness, emotional wellness, social connection and academic wellness. Through the course, students increase confidence, decrease anxiety, and meet goals and build resilience. Get ready for self-improvement! This is fun!
- Teacher: Katie Dorn
- Teacher: Cathy Wood
EmpowerU is a course to help students work on their personal growth each day with the support of daily coaching to help personalize the course to each student's goals and challenges. Students set and meet goals in personal wellness, emotional wellness, social connection and academic wellness. Through the course, students increase confidence, decrease anxiety, and meet goals and build resilience. Get ready for self-improvement! This is fun!
- Teacher: Katie Dorn
- Teacher: Breanna Jones
This Advanced Placement Human Geography course will introduce students to the study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use and alteration of Earth's surface. In-depth units include topics of population, political organization, agriculture and rural land use, industrialization and economic development, and cities and urban land use.
- Teacher: Greg Miller
This Advanced Placement Human Geography course will introduce students to the study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use and alteration of Earth's surface. In-depth units include topics of population, political organization, agriculture and rural land use, industrialization and economic development, and cities and urban land use.
- Teacher: Greg Miller
This Advanced Placement Human Geography course will introduce students to the study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use and alteration of Earth's surface. In-depth units include topics of population, political organization, agriculture and rural land use, industrialization and economic development, and cities and urban land use.
- Teacher: Greg Miller
Students in this course will explore the literature of world cultures through short stories, epic poetry and novel forms. The course will explore universal themes and work to foster an understanding of the commonalities shared by all people as well as differences created by cultures. Students will hone critical thinking skills through analytical assignments as well as compare and contrast writing. In addition, they will make and support assertions about different texts and extend their thinking to related ideas.
Students will complete coursework in an online community and will have scheduled online meetings with the instructor as needed.
- Teacher: Randi Rose
- Teacher: Jlayne Torma
- Teacher: Jlayne Torma
- Teacher: Jlayne Torma
- Teacher: Matt Moore
In Geography, the student will demonstrate essential skills using maps, globes, geographic information systems from a variety of sources. The student will learn about various regions including human populations, regional patterns of cultural groups and political units; present patterns of economic activity; characteristics of local and global settlements, and how humans influence the environment and how they are influenced by it.
- Teacher: Julie Lentz
In Geography, the student will demonstrate essential skills using maps, globes, geographic information systems from a variety of sources. The student will learn about various regions including human populations, regional patterns of cultural groups and political units; present patterns of economic activity; characteristics of local and global settlements, and how humans influence the environment and how they are influenced by it.
- Teacher: Julie Lentz
In Geography, the student will demonstrate essential skills using maps, globes, geographic information systems from a variety of sources. The student will learn about various regions including human populations, regional patterns of cultural groups and political units; present patterns of economic activity; characteristics of local and global settlements, and how humans influence the environment and how they are influenced by it.
- Teacher: Julie Lentz
- Teacher: Kelly Garita
- Teacher: Kelly Garita
- Teacher: Kelly Garita
- Teacher: Matt Moore
EmpowerU is a course to help students work on their personal growth each day with the support of daily coaching to help personalize the course to each student's goals and challenges. Students set and meet goals in personal wellness, emotional wellness, social connection and academic wellness. Through the course, students increase confidence, decrease anxiety, and meet goals and build resilience. Get ready for self-improvement! This is fun!
- Teacher: Katie Dorn
- Teacher: Robin Howard
- Teacher: Dee McCarthy
This class is an overview of the elements and principles of design that can apply to graphic design, interior design, architecture, fashion design, and engineering. And some fun design projects!
- Teacher: Elizabeth Zaccardi
- Teacher: Darlene Leimer
Accounting II
This course will introduce students to the basic accounting procedures used to operate a merchandising business formed as a sole proprietorship. It will also cover procedures used for a partnership. It will be a sound background for employment in office jobs and preparation for studying business courses in college. Prerequisite: Accounting I.
Course syllabus
- Teacher: Darlene Leimer
Accounting II
This course will introduce students to the basic accounting procedures used to operate a merchandising business formed as a sole proprietorship. It will also cover procedures used for a partnership. It will be a sound background for employment in office jobs and preparation for studying business courses in college. Prerequisite: Accounting I.
Course syllabus
- Teacher: Darlene Leimer
American Literature is a semester long course in which students will explore the creation of a uniquely American voice in literature by studying themes, forms, and writing styles across literary periods. They will read speeches, essays, short stories and poems online from the Colonial Period, the Romantics, the Realists, the Moderns, and contemporary American Writers. Central themes that travel across all of these literary periods are the American dream, nature, religion, war and death. The course also includes several online videos, discussion forums, multimedia projects, and short writing assignments. Students will consider these essential questions: What makes a literary voice uniquely American? How have generations of American writers influenced each other?
- Teacher: Robert Andresen
This Literature course covers various types of writing such as: Short Stories; Poetry; Comic Books; Novels; Media Coverage and various other types of expression that impact American Culture such as video games; television and movies.
- Teacher: Robert Andresen
Astronomy is a course designed to give students a broad overview of the most interesting aspects of the study of the Universe. Since current research is proceeding faster than textbooks can keep up, this course is designed to be as flexible as possible, and it changes every term. The course covers the history of Astronomy (the oldest science) from the ancient Greeks to Einstein, Hubble, and Hawking; Space Race; Laws that govern the Universe; the Solar System with our Sun, the planets, and their moons; stars; galaxies; and Cosmology. We even take time to look at the possibility of alien lifeforms. The course is fun, current, and filled with lots of really interesting things for your enjoyment.
- Teacher: Tom Franke
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Robert Schoch
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Kelly Garita
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Elizabeth Mulville
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Robert Schoch
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Kelly Garita
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Elizabeth Mulville
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Robert Schoch
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Kelly Garita
Biology is the study of the interactions between living things and their environment, both internal and external. These interactions are studied by practical experience in the virtual laboratory and the class activities. Major areas investigated are cell division, cancer, DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Modern Genetics, and Human Body Systems. A capstone project finishes the course.
- Teacher: Elizabeth Mulville
This course is an opportunity to look at your own unique set of interests, aptitudes, skills, values and personality as they relate to this career exploration experience. The requirement for this particular credit is that you: determine your personal interests, abilities, values and personality type, you investigate three career clusters, and that you evaluate that experience as it relates to your own personal life goals and attributes. The work you do should be your own; it is your own personal profile that matters, not what you think others expect of you. Be honest in answering the questions and surveys and have fun exploring the wonderful world of careers.
- Teacher: Jeremy Shibley
- Teacher: Rashmi Kapil
- Teacher: Rashmi Kapil
- Teacher: Rashmi Kapil
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
- Teacher: Yu Han Chang
This course is intended for students who have an undeniable interest in learning to write poetry, description, and narration for an audience of both peers and the public. It includes a rigorous study of the qualities of good writing, including figurative language, content, focus, organization, and style as well as the reading and interpretation of various types of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that are considered models of good writing. The students will also read pieces that will be modeled in writing creatively. Students will make their work public through oral reading in class and are encouraged to submit work to our school newspaper on-line publications.
- Teacher: Susie Evans
Learning to draw is like learning to see in a whole new way. Drawing helps you see the big picture when problem-solving. In this class, you'll learn about art history while you make practice drawings, portfolio drawings, and a visual journal that will help you improve your drawing skills, and create a web portfolio of your work.
- Teacher: Connie DeMillo
- Teacher: Erin Vorpahl
- Teacher: Stephanie Hicks
- Teacher: Erin Vorpahl
- Teacher: Stephanie Hicks
- Teacher: Erin Vorpahl
- Teacher: Stephanie Hicks
- Teacher: Karah Holle
- Teacher: Karah Holle
- Teacher: Karah Holle
- Teacher: Liam Baucom
- Teacher: Liam Baucom
- Teacher: Liam Baucom
This semester course is meant to connect the earliest forms of human writing to the kinds of stories we tell and where we might be heading.
Students will work on reading early human literature; exposure to Greek Mythology and British Romanticism. They will also work on the processes of preparing, evaluating, and delivering multiple forms of written communication.
- Teacher: Randi Rose
- Teacher: Randi Rose
This semester course is meant to connect the earliest forms of human writing to the kinds of stories we tell and where we might be heading.
Students will work on reading early human literature; exposure to Greek Mythology and British Romanticism. They will also work on the processes of preparing, evaluating, and delivering multiple forms of written communication.
- Teacher: Randi Rose
Students in Environmental Science will be studying the interaction between humans and their environment. This will include looking at the cycling of nutrients, and how living and nonliving things work together.
Course Syllabus
- Teacher: Rashmi Kapil
Students in Environmental Science will be studying the interaction between humans and their environment. This will include looking at the cycling of nutrients, and how living and nonliving things work together.
Course Syllabus
- Teacher: Robert Schoch
In Film Studies, the student will learn how to appreciate movies in depth and on a variety of levels. To accomplish this, students will develop criteria for aesthetic awareness. They will increase their vocabulary and their understanding of the language of films. These goals will be accomplished by studying: film terminology, art direction, sound and music, animation, genres, and directors.
- Teacher: Liam Baucom
- Teacher: Herr (Mr.) Schauer
- Teacher: Herr (Mr.) Schauer
- Teacher: Herr (Mr.) Schauer
- Teacher: Herr (Mr.) Schauer
- Teacher: Herr (Mr.) Schauer
- Teacher: Herr (Mr.) Schauer
Health Prep is intended for students who need two semester credits of Health to graduate from high school. It can be taken in middle school or early high school in preparation for Health Science. Students who need only one credit of Health should register for Health Science, but the enrolling school district must make the final determination on which course meets their graduation requirements.
- Teacher: Danielle Bogucki
The objective of this course is to provide students with a study of topics for developing a healthy lifestyle. Students will be exposed to the latest information from the health field. Students will be expected to process and apply information in order to help develop healthy life plans.
- Teacher: Marit Dohse
The objective of this course is to provide students with a study of topics for developing a healthy lifestyle. Students will be exposed to the latest information from the health field. Students will be expected to process and apply information in order to help develop healthy life plans.
- Teacher: Jane Kleinman
Introduction to Business is designed to show what businesses are, how they are operated and how they are managed. You will explore business opportunities and learn how to make informed economic decisions in our global economy.
- Teacher: Darlene Leimer
Welcome to a great introduction course for everyone living in our technological world today. We will be introducing HTML, PHP and Linux as our developmental environment.
- Teacher: Mike Smart
- Teacher: Mike Smart
- Teacher: Mike Smart
- Teacher: Mike Smart
Japanese 2a is the first semester of Japanese 2, which is the second year of Japanese.
- Teacher: Mike Smart
Japanese 2b is the second semester of Japanese 2, which is the second year of Japanese.
- Teacher: Mike Smart
Short Description.
- Teacher: Mike Smart
This course examines the history, principles, and practices of varied genres of journalism with emphasis on writing news, features, interviews, and editing.
- Teacher: Susie Evans
Young people consume hundreds of images daily -- advertisements, memes, videos, games, websites and more. Media Literacy encourages students to examine these images critically and to develop a greater awareness of the way we are rhetorically influenced.
- Teacher: Jon Fila
- Teacher: Mrs. Bell
- Teacher: Mrs. Bell
- Teacher: Noy Tran
During this course students will enhance their personal fitness through Individual & Team Sports and Aerobic Activities. Students discover their prefered way to exercise and learn what it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
- Teacher: Eileen Egge
During this course students will enhance their personal fitness through Individual & Team Sports and Aerobic Activities. Students discover their prefered way to exercise and learn what it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
- Teacher: Bonnie Waldman
A Personal Fitness Profile is developed through evaluating individual levels of fitness, decision-making and goal setting.
This course is created to help you discover health-related fitness as it pertains to YOU!
Note: Phy Ed 1: Skill-Related Fitness is NOT a pre-requisite for this course.
- Teacher: Eileen Egge
A Personal Fitness Profile is developed through evaluating individual levels of fitness, decision-making and goal setting.
This course is created to help you discover health-related fitness as it pertains to YOU!
Note: Phy Ed 1: Skill-Related Fitness is NOT a pre-requisite for this course.
- Teacher: Christine Whritenour
A Personal Fitness Profile is developed through evaluating individual levels of fitness, decision-making and goal setting.
This course is created to help you create and implement your own Fitness Plan.
Note: Phy Ed 1 and 2 ARE NOT pre-requisites for this course.
- Teacher: Abby Moore
This course serves as a basic introduction to the field of psychology. Topics include: Scientific methods; Biological psychology Perception; Altered States; Learning; Memory; Cognition; Intelligence; Human Development; Motivation; Emotions; Personality; Social psychology; Abnormal psychology and Therapy
- Teacher: Sarah Christopherson
- Teacher: Sarah Christopherson
Speech Communications is an elective course that will provide students with the basic skills needed in a variety public and daily interaction within society. We will study historical and famous speeches, types of speeches, and speech skills. Students will learn the essentials parts of speech. Students are expected to deliver speeches to the instructor via various modes every week. Students may use: http://screencast-o-matic.com, Skype, Face Time, Google vtalk, Yahoo Messenger, or recording yourselves with a video camera or phone.
- Teacher: Susie Evans
- Teacher: Pamela Koenen
- Teacher: Paul Bennett
- Teacher: Paul Bennett
- Teacher: Paul Bennett
Students work with their teacher through a process of brainstorming ideas, planning with an audience and purpose in mind, drafting, revising, and final editing on essay topics of the student's choice. In addition to the general feedback they receive about each step of the process, students also identify their own particular concerns about their writing. The teachers use the students' questions about writing to individualize the writing process and help students discover ways to make their writing more clear and effective.
- Teacher: Susie Evans