CURRICULUM GUIDE 2019-2020
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CONCERT/MARCHING/PEP BAND
1.0 credit / full year commitment
Prerequisite: One year of playing experience on selected instrument.
Concert band is open to students who currently play a woodwind, brass or percussion instrument. In this class, students will
receive guidance in techniques for producing proper tone, pitch, rhythm, posture, dynamics, and performance at different
levels. Band is also a class designed to help build self-esteem (playing solos, achievement), cooperation (playing in an
ensemble), and life skills (practice, study, commitment) through the discipline required to learn to play an instrument. We
will also provide service to our school community.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION COURSES:
024 PHYSICAL EDUCATION I
In this one-semester course, students will learn the fundamentals and skills of individual, team and lifelong sports that will
lead to a value of lifelong physical activity. Units may include flag football, team handball, basketball, soccer, wrestling, as
well as strength and conditioning and personal fitness. Students will be evaluated on homework, written exams , and
physical skills test. Good sportsmanship, cooperation, and participation are required and will impact a student’s grade.
026 HEALTH
In this one-semester course, students will learn about health promotion and disease prevention; accessing valid health
information and health promoting products and services; practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks;
the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health; to use interpersonal communication skills to
enhance health; to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health; to advocate for personal, family and
community health. Topics will be explored from a mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual perspective.
Presentations, research, and physical participation will be requirements in this class.
SCIENCE COURSES:
153 GLOBAL SCIENCE
In the first part of the class, students will examine the physical characteristics and ongoing processes of the world in
which they live. Students will develop an understanding of the mathematics used in science, as well as topics in
meteorology, climatology, geology, geomorphology and oceanography. Students will also study the specific ways in which
man has detrimentally interacted with his natural environment, creating problems of global concern, by examining such
topics as air pollution, water pollution, famine, climatic changes, ozone depletion, nuclear energy, chemical contaminants,
solid waste disposal, urban crowding, alternative energy sources and the population explosion.
251 BIOLOGY HONORS
0.5 credit
0.5 credit
1.0 credit
1.0 credit
Prerequisites: 80% in World History Honors (or 90% in World History)
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In this course, students will study life, beginning with cellular organization, the Chemistry of Biology, Cell Division,
Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, Zoology, Botany, and culminating with Human Biology. Emphasis is placed on the
student doing much outside reading and critical thinking. Students should expect to experience more labs, and cover
materials more in depth.
253 BIOLOGY
Through this laboratory course students will develop an appreciation of the natural world with a study of the scientific
method, the metric system, the origin of life, cells, heredity, the plant and animal kingdoms, bacteria and diseases.
1.0 credit