Courses E - I

	Earth Science (Course ID: 303020 Duration: Full Year)
Top	Students learn topics from a variety of physical science disciplines through discussion, lab activities, and the Internet. Topics include plate tectonics, mountain building, the rock cycle, weathering and erosion, and the geologic time scale. Basic chemistry is introduced as it relates to the structure of the Earth's surface and interior. Physics topics include force, density of earth materials, and energy resources. Oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy topics are also discussed.
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	Economics (Course ID: 304240 Duration: One Semester)
Top	This course is designed to explore economic theories such as the law of supply and demand, scarcity, and economic incentives. Students will investigate different types of economic systems found throughout the world with an emphasis on the United States system. Additionally, students will be introduced to the aspects of international trade, government policies and how they affect an economy, money exchange and banking, and societal impact on and from an economic system. Practical uses of economics and technology will be incorporated into the curriculum.
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	English 1 (Course ID: 301020 Duration: Full Year)
Top	Incoming freshmen will study and learn appropriate literary terminology for a variety of literary genres including drama, poetry, short stories, essays, and novels. They will write expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative paragraphs and/or essays. Various types of oral communications, familiarity with word processors, library resources, research skills, and creative writing are studied in this course, as well as standard rules of grammar and vocabulary, which will facilitate reading and writing at the ninth grade level.
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	English 2 (Course ID: 301040 Duration: Full Year)
Top	This course is for students who have demonstrated mastery or proficiency in English 1. Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend and write about literary genres such as journals, speeches, essays, folk tales, myths, poems, novels, and plays. Students will review standard formal grammar as necessary in order to write expository, persuasive, narrative, and descriptive essays. Vocabulary study will aid students in reading and writing at the tenth grade level. Oral presentations and research projects will expand the students' language arts skills and enable students to explore and use available technology in order to create effective presentations.
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	English 3 (Course ID: 301060 Duration: Full Year)
Top	This course is for students who have demonstrated mastery or proficiency in English 2. Outcomes include recognizing the characteristics of literary time periods through the study of American Literature. Students will demonstrate mastery of various composition forms including the formal research paper. Emphasis in composition will be on accuracy of standard formal grammar usage, vocabulary usage, and standard documentation methods. Reading comprehension skills, vocabulary practice, and critical thinking skills such as analogies will be geared toward preparation for college entrance exams. Proficiency in all outcomes of this course will ensure that the student is ready to advance to college-level course work.
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	English 4 (Course ID: 301080 Duration: Full Year)
Top	This course is for students who have demonstrated proficiency in English 3. The course is designed to help students master skills in English, and expose students to an in-depth study of literature. Composition skills will include resume writing, preparing scholarship applications, various types of essays, research papers, creative writing, responding to literature, and cross-curriculum writing projects. Oral presentations will also be included in the outcomes of this course with technology being incorporated in order to create professional presentations.
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	English Enrichment (Course ID: 301300 Duration: Full Year)
Top	This class will focus on a review of previously learned English skills including rules for grammar, spelling, and proper word usage. Emphasis will be placed on writing skills including the writing process, organization of information, constructing outlines, the use of transitions, and fluency, as well as proofreading and editing skills. Reading will be done on a regular basis to improve reading comprehension, and the reading materials will serve as a basis for writing topics. The use of available resources will be practiced, and test-taking skills will be explored. English Enrichment will be offered as an elective credit and will be taken in conjunction with the required English class. This class is designed to give students the time and additional help needed to improve their overall language skills so they may be more successful in their required English classes.
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	Environmental Science (Course ID: 303060 Duration: Full Year)
Top	Students gain an understanding of the holistic nature of environmental science through topics such as: environmental problems and causes, sustainability, toxicology, economics, politics, scientific principles, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Resources such as air, water, soils, and minerals, as well as various energy resources, will be investigated as will the wastes produced through processing and using Earth's resources. This course is a Senior-to-Sophomore course.
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	Geometry (Course ID: 302100 Duration: Full Year)
Top	Geometry includes mathematical systems, review and extensions of algebra concepts, point-line-plane-angle relationships, triangles, and quadrilaterals, polygons, constructions, congruence, similarity, coordinate geometry, conditional statements, linear equations, inequalities, solving quadratics, probability, transformations, proofs, and basic right triangle trigonometry. Logical justification of statements is stressed.
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	Grant Work (Course ID: 315580 Duration: Full Year)
Top	The students selected into this class must be juniors or seniors, in good academic standing and possess strong technical and communication skills. The curriculum for this class is based on the current grants available to the school. Students will be responsible for completing grant requirements and school publicity items. Each year a new grant will be the focus of the required work. In previous years, this class has produced videos, web pages, desktop publishing documents, instructional manuals, etc. to aid the community. Promotional items for the Academy will also be produced during the course of the year. This class will push the individual in terms of creativity, technological application, and communication skills.
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	Graphic Arts (Course ID: 310320 Duration: Full Year)
Top	Students will develop an understanding of the many aspects inherent to computer graphics and the graphic arts industry. Throughout the course, students will generate original art work to be converted to computer graphics, edit graphics using current photographic editing software, use desktop publishing and web authoring software, Technology use nonlinear video editing hardware and software to create a professional quality video clip, develop animations and research real world applications of these skills.
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	Interdisciplinary Technology 1: IDT 1 (Course ID: 310160 Duration: Full Year)
Top	This course is designed to encompass the integration of technology and cross-curricular concepts into various interdisciplinary projects. Increased proficiency and complexity of the integrated technology will be expected as the year progresses. Experiences with educational software will increase student mastery of subject area content across the curriculum while improving technology skills.
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	Interdisciplinary Technology 2: IDT 2 (Course ID: 310180 Duration: Full Year)
Top	This course is designed to further the technology skills gained in IDT 1 as well as increase student proficiency in mathematics, writing and test taking skills through the use of hands on activities and educational technologies. This course will meet every other day throughout the year while earning 0.5 credit.
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