Course
Description

Prerequisites

Grade

53.0711099 

Beginning Choral Ensemble I Y is a beginning vocal performance class that focuses on basic fundamentals of tone production, music reading, and part singing.  “Ensemble” indicates a small group (20-25)

None

9-12

1

Elective

 53.0712099 

Beginning Choral Ensemble II Y is a beginning vocal performance class that focuses on basic fundamentals of tone production, music reading, and part singing.  “Ensemble” indicates a small group (20-25)

Teacher Rec.

9-12

1

Elective

54.0211099

Beginning Mixed Chorus I Y is a beginning performance class for male and female voices that focuses on basic fundamentals of tone production, music reading, and part singing

Teacher Rec.

9-12

1

Elective

Course
Description

Prerequisites

Grade

Units

Diploma
Option

52.0210099

Fundamentals of Drama I Y is a course that develops advanced acting skills with a focus on character/scene study and monologue/scene work.  Students will be introduced to audition and resume skills.  This course offers the opportunity to utilize scene work and audition techniques through performance opportunities

Acting 1 & 2

9-12

1

Elective

52.0220099

Fundamentals of Drama II Y offers advanced theatre students a performance opportunity by performing a play designed for an audience of children.  Students will learn the techniques for performing for children and will participate in all aspects of the production process.  Composition may be included through the scripting of a children’s play.  The course will culminate in the production for an audience of children.

Fundamentals of Drama I and/or Teacher Rec.

9-12

1

Elective

60.0120011

French II Y is designed to further develop listening, speaking, reading and writing with an emphasis on oral proficiency.  The student will acquire a basic command of key vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary for limited personal communication as well as an appreciation of diversity in the French-speaking world.

French I
  or
French I Honors

9-12

1

C, TC

60.0720011

Spanish II Y is designed to further develop listening, speaking, reading and writing with an emphasis on oral proficiency.  The student will acquire a basic command of key vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary for limited personal communication as well as an appreciation of diversity in the Spanish-speaking world

Spanish I

9-12

1

C, TC

60.0790011

Spanish for Native Spanish Speakers, Level 1 Y is designed for Spanish Heritage Speakers.   This course will focus on advanced skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.  Essay development and novel reading are integral to this course.  

Department Recommendation

9-12

1

C, TC

60.0791011

Spanish for Native Spanish Speakers, Level 2 Y is designed for Spanish Heritage Speakers.  This course will focus on advanced skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.  Essay development, novel reading, and an in-depth study of culture, literature, and history of the Spanish- speaking world are integral to this course. 

Spanish for Native Spanish Speakers, Level 1

9-12

1

C, TC

36.0510099

Personal Fitness Y is designed to help students understand why exercise and fitness are important in developing a healthy and active lifestyle. The course will emphasize successful strategies for maintaining good cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, muscular endurance and body composition. It will follow a conceptual approach dealing with the following topics: the nature of fitness, assessing individual fitness, developing and maintaining a life-long fitness program, and developing an appreciation for efficient movement by viewing it as both an art and a science. Fitness progress and assessments will be made utilizing POLAR Heart Rate Monitor technology to determine cardiovascular fitness levels and their relation to the individuals target heart rate zone.

N/A

9-12

1

C,TC

17.0110099

Health Y (Contemporary Health Issues) provides a direct and factual approach to health education that is practical, personal, and positive.  Health topics include safety, drug education, nutrition, personal health, growth and development building self-esteem and relationship skills.  By acquiring the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to a healthful life, students learn to take responsibilities for their own health.

N/A

9-12

1

C, TC

36.0210099 

Introductory Team Sports Y is designed to introduce students to three different team sports, with no one sport less than 4 weeks or longer than 8 weeks. Those from which the selection is made include the following: basketball, gym hockey, soccer, speedball, flag football, ultimate Frisbee, team handball, softball, and volleyball. Others may be substituted depending upon facilities and equipment. This course will offer students the opportunity to learn the history, rules and regulations, etiquette, strategy and judgment, and the basic motor skills of each selected activity.

N/A

9-12

1

Elective

36.0220099

Introductory Lifetime Sports Y is designed to introduce students to three different lifetime sports with no one sport less than 4 weeks and not more than 8 weeks. Those from which the selection is made include the following: archery, badminton, bowling, golf, handball, pickelball, racquetball, table tennis, tennis and wall ball. Others may be substituted depending upon facilities and equipment. This course will offer students the opportunity to learn the history, rules and regulations, etiquette, strategy and judgment, and the basic motor skills of each selected activity.

N/A

9-12

1

Elective