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Jackson Christian Schools

Course Description

Title: Accounting Date: January 2009

Grade: 11, 12 Textbook: Century 21 South-Western Accounting

Course Objective:

Students will complete the entire accounting cycle for a proprietorship with only a cash

investment and for a merchandising business organized as a corporation.

Materials: Century 21 South-Western Accounting

Century 21 South-Western Accounting workbook

Calculator

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters meeting five days a week for 45 minutes each day

Content: The accounting equation

T-accounts with debits and credits

Journalizing transactions

Posting transactions

Petty cash, electronic funds transfers, debit card transactions

Work sheet and adjusting entries

Financial statements and the analysis of them

Recording adjusting and closing entries

Transactions for purchasing or selling merchandise for cash or on account

Posting merchandise transactions to the general ledger

Calculating employee earnings and deductions

Completing the employer payroll register and employee earnings records

Calculating employer payroll taxes

Journal entries for payroll transactions

Payroll reports

Work sheet and adjustments for merchandise inventory, supplies, & prepaid expenses

Work sheet and adjustments for uncollectible accounts, depreciation and federal

income tax

Methods used to estimate uncollectible accounts and depreciation adjustments

Preparation of financial statements

Recording of adjusting and closing entries for a merchandising business

Preparation of a post-closing trial balance


Course Description

Title: Advanced Art Date: 1/12/06

Grade: 9-12 Textbook: Various Art Books

Course Objective:

This course is designed to give students an introduction to drawing, painting, art history

and sculpting. The elements of art and the principles of design are studied within each

project. Focus is on training our eye to see and our hand to response with new purpose

and knowledge.

Materials: Variety of media will be used including; pencil, watercolor, tempera paint, conte, oil

pastel and plaster.

Variety of books and handouts on anatomy

Sketch book starting 2nd

semester

Time

Allotment:

43 minutes 5 days a week

Content: Blind contour and contour drawing

Drawing cylinder and sphere

Color wheel and theory

Value study

Still life in tempera paint

Study of the human face

Portrait in conte

Project for annual auction

Trip to an art museum

Watercolor techniques and landscape

Angels in oil pastel

Art history presentation

Student project on well known artist: presentation, biography and reproduction

Reproduction in choice of medium

Study of bones in hand

Study of skeleton

Gesture drawing

Daily sketch book (2nd

semester)

Japanese prints

Sculpting or a clay project

Days of creation collage

Perspective drawing Castles, churches or houses


Course Description

Title: Algebra One Date: January 2009

Grade: 9 Textbook: Algebra One

Course Objective:

The students will learn to solve linear and quadratic equations. They will also learn to

analyze and graph equations and inequalities. In the process, they will work with

exponents, polynomials, radicals, and rational expressions, becoming proficient in

factoring and the use of a graphing calculator.

Materials: Algebra One, Glencoe McGraw-Hill

Algebra One, Practice Masters

TI-83+ or TI-84 Graphing calculators

Worksheets

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters, meeting five times a week for forty-five minutes a day

Content: Translating verbal expressions into algebraic expressions

Evaluating expressions

Identifying properties of expressions and equations

Using formulas to solve problems

Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with rational numbers

Multi-step solving of equations with rational numbers

Solving proportions

Solving percent problems

Solving problems involving percent of increase, decrease, discount, and tax

Solving and graphing of inequalities

Comparing rational numbers

Solving and graphing open sentences

Adding, subtraction, multiplying and dividing expressions with exponents

Expressing numbers in scientific and decimal notation

Multiplying and dividing with scientific notation

Solving problems involving age, mixture, levers, direct variation and inverse

variation

Adding, subtracting, and multiplying with polynomials

Factoring the difference of squared terms

Factoring perfect square and other trinomials

Factoring polynomials with four terms

Solving equations using factoring

Solving problems of perimeter, area, and velocity

Finding the degree of a polynomial and arranging it in ascending or descending order

Solving simple interest problems

Solving uniform motion problems

Finding the prime factorization of an integer

Finding the greatest common factor

Graphing and mapping ordered pairs

Identifying domain, range, and inverse of a relation

Solving and graphing linear equations

Identifying functions and calculating values

Graphing absolute value functions

Graphing inequalities

Writing an equation for a relation

Finding the slope of a line

Writing linear equations in standard form

Writing linear equations in slope-intercept form

Writing linear equations in point-slope form

Writing linear equations for parallel and perpendicular lines

Graphing linear equations

Finding coordinates of midpoints and endpoints

Solving systems of equations by graphing, substitution, and elimination

Solving systems of inequalities by graphing

Using systems of equations to solve uniform motion, mixture, and digit problems

Simplifying radicals, radical expressions with variables, and irrational square roots

Identifying irrational numbers

Using the Pythagorean Theorem to determine right triangles and their lengths of sides

Finding the distance between two points in the coordinate plane

Simplifying radical expression

Displaying and interpreting data on a stem and leaf plot

Displaying and interpreting data on a box-and-whisker plot

Displaying and interpreting data on a line plot

Finding and interpreting mean, median, and mode

Find the complement and supplement of an angle

Finding the measure of a third angle of a triangle given the other two angles

Finding the unknown measures of sides of similar triangles

Using trig ratios to solve right triangles

Finding the probability of simple events

Finding the odds of a simple event


Course Description

Title: Algebra One-B Date: January 2013

Grade: 9 Textbook: Algebra: Concepts and Applications

Course Objective:

The students will learn to solve linear and quadratic equations. They will also learn to

analyze and graph equations and inequalities. In the process, they will work with

exponents, polynomials, radicals, and rational expressions, becoming proficient in

factoring and the use of a graphing calculator.

Materials: Algebra: Concepts and Applications

Algebra: Concepts and Applications Teacher Resource Book, Glencoe McGraw-Hill

Time

Allotment:


Content:


Course Description

Title: Algebra Two (B) Date: March 2013

Grade: 11 Textbook: Algebra 2

Course Objective:

The students will extend their knowledge of linear and quadratic equations and

inequalities. They will gain an understanding of polynomial, exponential,

logarithmic, radical, and rational functions. In addition, they will study

probability and conic sections as well as receive an introduction to sequences

and trigonometric functions.

Materials: Algebra Two, Glencoe McGraw-Hill

TI-83+ and TI-84+ Graphing Calculators

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters, five days per week, forty-five minutes per day

Content: Properties of real numbers

Algebraic expressions

Solving equations and inequalities

Absolute value equations and inequalities

Linear relationships, functions, and graphs

Solving and graphing systems of equations

Matrices, determinants, and inverses

Quadratic equations and functions

Polynomials and polynomial functions

Permutations and Combinations


Simplifying expressions with rational exponents

Solving and graphing radical equations

Exponential and logarithmic functions

Solving exponential and logarithmic equations

Solving rational equations

Probability

Circles, ellipses, hyperbolas

Arithmetic and geometric sequences and series

Trigonometric functions


Course Description

Title: Anatomy and Physiology Date: 08/26/13

Grade: 11 or 12

Textbook: Hole's Essentials of

Human Anatomy and Physiology

Course Objective:

Provide knowledge and understanding of the structure and function of the human body

at the cellular level, as well as macroscopically. The students will then use knowledge

to think critically in this area of study. Provide an opportunity for students to investigate

their own interest in Anatomy and the Biological Sciences, as well as develop college

appropriate study habits necessary to be successful at the university level.

Materials: Cat Dissection. Manual, Hole's Essentials Lab Manual, Human Cadaver CD ROM disks ,

Preserved Cat Specimens, Scalpels, Probes, Scissors, Pins, dissection trays. Time

Allotment:

36 Weeks

Course meets 3 days a week, 48 minutes 3 days a week.

Content: • Several topic, appropriate research papers using APA format

• Terminology used in the medical field as related to anatomy and physiology

• Organization and characteristics of living organisms

• Organization of the human body

• Structure of matter

• Chemicals and organelles, cellular organiztion, respiration

• Cell functions

• Cellular metabolic reactions, Enzymes, DNA, RNA, protein synthesis and replication

of proteins

• Overview of the types of tissue found in the human body

• Structure and functions of the integumentary system

• Bones of the human body, including the structure, function, and identification

• Joint type and type of movement for each type of joint

• Muscles of the human body(skeletal), including structure, function, and identification

of major muscle groups, ligaments and tendons

• Cardiovascular system, including structure and the function of each part. Blood flow

patterns, nerve impulses to the heart, and the effect the central nervous system plays,

venous and arterial blood flow

• Organs and glands involved in digestion and nutrition; location, function

• Human Reproduction; organs, glands, gametes, hormones and their effects, diseases,

fertilization, gestation, and embryonic growth

• The Central Nervous System; parts of the brain, spinal cord, nerve impulses

• Structure of the neuron and it's function

• Hands on dissection of cats to reinforce learning in the following areas; digestive

system, cardiovascular system, muscular system. Dissections will touch on other

areas of instruction


Course Description

Title: Art Date: October, 2005

Grade: 9-12 Textbook:

Course Objective:

Students will learn basic skills of drawing, painting, sculpture and art history through a

variety of projects.

Materials: Various art supplies

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Drawing The Human Head

Art History for the Young

Slide for Art History

Time

Allotment:


Content:

Blind Contour

Contour

Shading

Proportions

Perspective

Color Wheel

Critics

Art History

Sculpting


Course Description

Title: Basic Geometry Date: May 2002

Grade: 10 Textbook: Basic Geometry

Course Objective:

Students will learn the language of geometry and learn to reason logically with proofs

and problems relating to parallel lines, triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles. The will

solve surface area and volume problems as well as work with coordinate geometry.

They will also solve ratio and proportion problems and be introduced to trigonometric

relationships.

Materials: Basic Geometry, McDougal Littell Houghton Mifflin

Time Allotment:

Two semester, meeting five times a week for forty-five minutes a day

Content: Naming points, lines, rays, segments, angles, and planes

Measuring and classifying angles

Making basic constructions with a compass and a straightedge

Using postulates of equality to justify statements

Using theorems about complementary, supplementary, and vertical angles

Writing “If . . . then” statements and their converses

Understanding and writing basic geometric proofs

Using the properties of parallel lines cut by a transversal

Proving lines parallel

Constructing parallel lines

Using the properties of the angles of a triangle

Classifying triangles according to their sides or angles

Naming congruent triangles and their corresponding parts

Using postulates and theorems to prove that triangles are congruent

Using congruent triangles to prove that two segments or two angles are equal

Using congruent triangles to justify constructions

Naming the altitudes and medians of a triangle

Inscribing a circle in a triangle and circumscribing a circle about a triangle

Using the properties of isosceles triangles

Classifying polygons

Finding the interior and exterior angle sums of a convex polygon

Using the properties of parallelograms, rectangles, rhombi, and squares

Proving that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram

Using properties of trapezoids

Applying the midpoint theorem

Finding the area of a rectangle, square, parallelogram, triangle, and trapezoid

Using the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse

Finding the circumference and area of a circle

Finding the ratio of two numbers

Writing proportions in various forms

Solving problems using proportions

Making maps and scale drawings

Telling whether two polygons are similar

Finding missing parts of similar triangles

Using properties related to parallel lines

Finding the perimeters and areas of two similar polygons

Defining a circle and the points, lines, and segments related to circles

Applying theorems relating tangents and radii

Constructing a tangent to a circle at a given point on the circle

Classifying and measuring arcs

Using theorems involving the chords of a circle

Drawing a circle inscribed in a polygon and a circle circumscribed about a polygon

Using theorems relating angle measure and arc measure

Stating the positions of points and lines with respect to each other

Finding the lateral area, total area, and volume of a right prism, right circular

cylinder, regular pyramid, and right circular cone

Finding the area and volume of a sphere

Solving problems involving common right triangle lengths

Appling theorems about 45-45-90 triangles and 30-60-90 triangles

Finding the length of the diagonal of a rectangular solid

Using right triangles to solve problems involving pyramids and cones

Using the tangent, sine, and cosine ratios of an acute angle of a right triangle

Specifying points by their coordinates in the coordinate plane


Applying the midpoint formula


Finding the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines

Graphing the line specified by a given equation

Proving theorems using coordinate geometry


Course Description

Title: Basic Theology Date: 10/08/03

Grade: 10 Textbook: Basic Theology

Course Objective:

To explain basic doctrines of the Christian faith within the overall framework of

Scripture, specifically focusing on God, The Bible, angels, Satan, demons, man, sin,

Jesus Christ, salvation, the Holy Spirit, the church, and events to come.

Materials: Basic Theology by Charles C. Ryrie

Time Allotment:

Five days a week, forty-seven minutes a day, for one semester.

Content: Concepts and definitions – What is systematic theology?

Presuppositions in theology

The living and true God

The knowledge, revelation, perfections, names, and triunity of God.

The Bible: God-breathed

Special revelation, inspiration, inerrancy, problem passages, the canon, and

interpretation

Angels: Ministering Spirits

Existence, creation, nature, organization, and ministry of Angels

The Devil

The reality and activity of Satan in this world

Demons: Unclean Spirits

The reality and activity of demons in this world

Man: In the image of God

The creation, facets, and fall of man

Sin

The Biblical concept of sin and Christ’s teachings regarding sin

Inheritance and imputation of sin

The Christian and sin

Jesus Christ: Lord

The preincarnate Christ and the incarnation of Christ

Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King

The sinlessness, self-emptying, resurrection, ascension, and post ascension ministry

of Christ.

Salvation

The meaning of Christ’s death and the results of salvation

Theories of Atonement

The doctrine of election and the security of the believer

What is the Gospel?

The Holy Spirit

Who is the Holy Spirit?

The role of the Holy Spirit in the Old and New Testaments

Indwelling, sealing, baptizing, gifting, filling, and other ministries of the Holy Spirit

The Church

What is the church?

Types of Church government and leadership

Worship and the ordinances in the Chruch

Eschatology

Postmillennialism, Amillennialism, Premillennialism

The Abrahamic & Davidic Covenants

Future events including the Tribulation, and the Rapture, the millennial kingdom, the

judgments, and resurrection.


Course Description

Title: Beginning Art Date: 1/12/06

Grade: 9-12 Textbook: Various Art Books

Course Objective:

This course is designed to give students an introduction to drawing, painting, art history

and sculpting. The elements of art and the principles of design are studied within each

project. Focus is on training our eye to see and our hand to response with new purpose

and knowledge.

Materials: Variety of media will be used including; pencil, watercolor, tempera paint, conte, oil

pastel and plaster.

Variety of books and handouts on anatomy

Reproductions of artist’s work

Time

Allotment:

43 minutes 5 days a week

Content: Blind contour and contour drawing

Drawing cylinder and sphere

Color wheel and theory

Value study

Still life in tempera paint

Study of the human face

Portrait in conte

Project for annual auction

Trip to an art museum

Watercolor techniques and landscape

Angels in oil pastel

Art history presentation

Student project on well known artist: presentation, biography and reproduction

Reproduction in choice of medium

Study of bones in hand

Study of skeleton

Gesture drawing

Japanese prints

Sculpting or a clay project

Days of creation collage

Perspective drawing Castles, churches or houses


Course Description

Title: Bibliology & Apologetics Date: 10/09/03

Grade: 10 Textbook: Timeless Truth

Course Objective:

The purpose of this course is for students to clearly comprehend the reliability,

authenticity, and authority of the Bible. Students will be introduced to the major

Christian teachings about scripture by exploring the essential concepts such as truth,

revelation, prophecy, inspiration, canonization, preservation, translation, illumination,

and interpretation as they relate to the reliability, authenticity, and authority of the Bible.

Materials: Timeless Truth by Mark Eckel

Time Allotment:


Content: Reliability of the Bible

Explore reasoned answers to questions such as “What is truth?” and “Where can truth

be found?”

Why does the bible matter?

The authenticity of the Bible.

How the Bible came to be.

God’s preparation of the Biblical authors.

Prophecy, inspiration, and doctrine

The Living Word – What Jesus said and why it matters

Canonization

Preservation and transmission of the Bible

Translation work of John Wycliffe and William Tyndale

The importance of language and Bible translation

The authority of the bible

Illumination and interpretation

Interpretation and culture

Mythology and Genesis – the creation myths vs. God’s story

The usefulness of scripture for “teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in

righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for

every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16b-17)


Course Description

Title: Biology Date: 8/27/13

Grade: 10 Textbook: Biology – BJU press

Course Objective:

Students will develop an appreciation and understanding of the similarities and

differences between living organisms. The students will explore living things at a

cellular level and then on an organismal level. Students will dissect specimens and learn

safe biological lab procedures. The students will develop critical thinking skills in

determining what effects pollution, genetic defects, human altering of genetic material,

will have on living things on this planet. The students will understand God is the creator

of all the universe including living things, as demonstrated by our natural world.

Students will also apply their faith in Christ and biblical knowledge and values to

discuss moral decisions made in our society about abortion, euthanasia, and genetic

engineering.

Materials: Biology, Bob Jones University Publishing

Videos

Preserved specimens

Filed labs and materials

Dissection tools – trays, scalpels, probes, latex gloves ...

Magnifying glasses

Microscopes

Prepared and unprepared slide materials

Time Allotment:

Two semesters, meeting five times a week for forty-five minutes a day.

Content: Truth and the interaction between science and the bible in this area.

The scientific method as a method of reasoning and discovery.

What makes something living – the 10 attributes of life.

Proper use of a microscope.

Study of microscopic living organisms.

The substances organisms need on a cellular level and how cells use them.

The entry and exit of substances through the cells membrane.

Cellular respiration – photosynthesis, glycolysis, Citric acid cycle, Hydrogen and

electron transport.

Enzymes, lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates.

The function of DNA and RNA (includes protein synthesis).

Cellular structure and the function of organelles, membranes in plants and animals.

The response of cells to the environment

Genetics – including mitosis and meiosis.

Formulation of ideas based on faith about abortion, genetic engineering, euthanasia.

Heredity and how traits are passed through the gene pool.

Prediction of genes which may show up in an offspring.

Hybridization and eugenics.

Relationship of the theory of evolution, theistic evolution, and creationism to each

other and how Christians and society view how we came into existence.

Classification of living organisms and the taxonomy of living organisms.

Study of the five recognized kingdoms and why, how organisms are grouped together

Viruses.

Defenses God has created to protect humans from infections.

Study of the characteristics of each of the five kingdoms.

Dissection of specimens representative of each of the macroscopic kingdoms (not

plants).

Microscope work for microscopic representative organisms from the protista and

monera kingdoms.


Course Description

Title: Calculus Date: September 2012

Grade: 12 Textbook: Calculus 8th

Edition Houghton Mifflin

Course Objective:

The student will review linear models, functions and graphs, as well as rates of change.

There will be extensive discussion of limits and continuity. Students will learn basic and

complex differentiation rules. Specific applications for differentiation will be discussed

as well as summarizing curve sketching. Taking antiderivatives and using other

integration techniques will be used in solving problems. There will also be discussion of

logarithmic and trigonometric functions as relating to differentiation and integration.

Materials: Calculus 8th

Edition

Graphing Calculator, Interwrite SmartBoard, and iPad apps

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters, 3/4 days per week, forty-five minutes per day

Content: Graphs and models

Rates of change with linear models

Functions and their graphs

Fitting models to data

Preview of calculus

Finding limits graphically and numerically

Evaluating limits analytically

Continuity and one-sided limits

Infinite limits

The derivative and the tangent line problem

Basic differentiation rules and higher order derivatives

The chain rule

Implicit differentiation

Related rates

Extrema on an interval

Rolle’s Theorem and the mean value theorem

Increasing and decreasing functions and the first derivative test

Concavity and the second derivative test

Limits at infinity

Summarizing curve sketching

Optimization Problems

Newton’s Method

Differentials

Antiderivatives and indefinite integration

Area under curves

Riemann sums and definite integrals

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Integration by substitution

Numerical integration

The natural logarithmic Function: Differentiation and integration

Inverse functions

Exponential functions: Differentiation and integration

Bases other than e and applications

Inverse trigonometric functions: Differentiation and integration

Hyperbolic functions


Course Description

Title: Chemistry Date: 8/27/13

Grade: Eleventh Grade Textbook Chemistry

Course Objective:

Students will learn facts, formulas, and principles of Chemistry. They will understand

the basic concepts underlying the facts, formulas, and principles. Students will develop

critical-thinking and problem solving skills.

Materials: Chemistry: Prentice Hall

Worksheets

Videos

Labs

Time

Allotment

Two semesters, meeting five times a week for forty-five minutes a day.

Content Students will learn SI units of measurement and the mathematical conventions for

making calculations and reporting results, as well as their application in recording

and analyzing data. Students will also learn basic ideas relating to energy and matter.

Students will learn that each atom exhibits characteristics based on its electron

configuration and that atoms are composed of three main subatomic particles. They

see how the elements are grouped on the periodic table.

Students will learn the properties of ionic and covalent bonds in compounds and how

to name compounds. Students will learn how the type of bonding in a compound

dictates the shape and characteristics such as polarity. Students will be introduced to

the nature of chemical reactions as well as the types of chemical reactions and

chemical equations.

Students will learn about the mole and its use in quantifying the amounts of products

and reactants in chemical reactions. They will learn about kinetic heat energy transfer

in reactions as a measure of enthalpy change.

Students will learn about the three states of matter- gases, liquids, and solids. They

will learn about their properties, the laws by which they can be described, and about

the kinetic-molecular theory.

Students will learn about solutions, solutes, and colligative properties. They will

learn about factors affecting equilibrium, solubility, precipitation, and the common-

ion effect of solutes.

Students learn to identify acids and bases and determine pH from their ionization in

water. They will learn to identify strong and weak acids and bases, identify salts

produced from the reaction of acids and bases, and predict the effects of buffers.


Course Description

Title: Chronological Survey of the Old Testament Date: 09/11/03

Grade: 9 Textbook:

Course Objective:

To describe the key characters and events of Old Testament History in order to cause

students to understand the general flow of the Old Testament; and to demonstrate man’s

need of redemption. In addition students will identify the characteristics of God as they

are revealed in His interaction with the people of Israel.

Materials: Bible

Handouts

Time

Allotment:

Five days a week, forty-seven minutes a day, for one semester

Content: The person and character of God

What the Bible is, who wrote it, and how it’s put together

God’s desire to communicate with man

God as our creator and how creation clarifies our understanding of Him

The fall of Adam and Eve and it’s implications today regarding the nature of man as

a sinner

The need of man to come to God with faith for salvation

Satan’s nature, his tactics, and his fight against God

Man’s struggle to please God and the God’s development of a plan to restore

fellowship with man.

God’s judgment for those who rebel and mercy for those who fear Him as

demonstrated in the life of Noah & Lot.

The life of Abraham and the introduction of God’s covenant with man.

Ishmael & Isaac – the foundations and development of the struggle in the Middle

East

Esau & Jacob and the introduction of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Joseph and the circumstances of Israel’s movement to Egypt.

Moses and the Exodus

The ten commandments and what they reveal about God’s character

The introduction of the tabernacle

Israel’s unbelief and their wilderness wanderings

Joshua and the conquest of Canaan

Israel’s continued unbelief and their cycles of rebellion and repentance throughout

the period of the Judges detailing

Kings of Israel & Judah with an emphasis on the eight good kings - David, Solomon,

Hezekiah, Josiah, Jehoiada, Asa, Jehoshaphat, and Joash

The prophets of God including – Elisha, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel

God’s judgment on Israel for their rejection of His prophets – Babylonian Captivity

God’s judgment on Judah for their rejection of His prophets – Assyrian Captivity

Esther’s intervention to save the nation of Israel

Ezra’s rebuilding of the temple

Nehemiah’s rebuilding of the walls

Brief overview of minor prophets such as – Jonah & Malachi


Course Description

Title: College Prep Math Date: October 2003

Grade: 12 Textbook: Advanced Mathematical Concepts

Course Objective:

The student will learn how to analyze linear, quadratic and polynomial functions as well

as their graphs, compositions and inverses. Emphasis is placed on trigonometric

functions and their graphs. Other topics include matrices, vectors, sequences and series,

and polar coordinates as well as exponential and logarithmic functions. In addition, the

students will study limits, derivatives, integrals and other calculus related topics.

Materials: Advanced Mathematical Concepts, Merrill Publishing

TI-83+ Graphing Calculator

Time

Allotment:


Content: Identify functions and their domain and range values.

Write equations of lines in standard form, point-slope form, and slope-intercept form

Graph linear functions

Find the distance between two points.

Find the slope of a line

Graph linear inequalities and systems of linear inequalities.

Find the maximum and minimum value of a function for a convex polygonal set.

Solve problems by using linear programming.

Find roots of simple polynomial equations.

Solve quadratic equations by completing the square and the quadratic formula.

Use synthetic division to divide polynomials.

Use the Remainder and Factor theorems.

Use the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.

Use the Rational Root Theorem to identify possible roots of polynomial equations.

Use Descartes’ Rule of Signs and the Upper Bound Theorem to find zeroes.

Find the equation of the tangent to the graph of a function at a given point.

Determine critical points on the graph of a function.

Evaluate determinants and use Cramer’s Rule to solve systems of equations.

Add, subtract, and multiply matrices.

Find inverses of matrices.

Use augmented matrices to solve systems of equations.

Add, subtract, and multiply vectors and measure magnitude and amplitude.

Find the inner product and cross product of vectors

Find the coordinates of points determined by the wrapping function.

Evaluate the six circular functions on the unit circle and by using tables.

Use addition, double- & half-angle formulas for sine, cosine and tangent functions

Evaluate trigonometric functions of angles of right triangles.

Use trigonometric tables.

Use and verify trigonometric identities.

Use the degree/radian proportion and find the length of an arc.

Evaluate trigonometric functions of angles using reference angles.

Evaluate functions of quadrantal angles.

Graph the six trigonometric functions.

Find the amplitude, period, and phase shift of functions.

Graph compound trigonometric functions.

Evaluate inverse trigonometric functions and find principal values.

Write the equation for the inverse of a function, and graph the inverse of a function.

Solve trigonometric equations.

Use the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines.

Find the area of a triangle using Hero’s formula and trigonometric functions.

Solve problems by using vector triangles.

Find the areas of circular sectors and segments.

Recognize arithmetic and geometric sequences and series.

Find the nth term, arithmetic/geometric means, and the sum of n terms of a series.

Find the limit and sum of the terms of an infinite sequence.

Determine whether a series is convergent or divergent.

Use summation notation and factorial notation.

Use the binomial theorem to expand binomials

Graph polar coordinates and simple polar equations.

Graph classical curves

Convert from polar to rectangular coordinates and vice versa.

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide complex numbers in rectangular form.

Convert complex numbers from rectangular to polar form and vice versa.

Find products and quotients of complex numbers in polar form.

Find powers and roots of complex numbers in polar form using DeMoivre’s Theorem

Evaluate and simplify expressions with rational exponents

Use irrational exponents and graph exponential equations.

Find the composition of functions and inverse functions.

Solve equations and evaluate expressions involving logarithms.

Find common logarithms and antilogarithms and compute powers and roots.

Solve exponential and logarithmic equations.

Find and use natural logarithms to solve problems.

Write and use the standard form of the equation of a circle and graph it.

Write and use the standard form of the equation of a parabola and graph it.

Write and use the standard form of the equation of an ellipse and graph it.

Write and use the standard form of the equation of a hyperbola and graph it.

Recognize conjugate and equilateral hyperbolas

Solve problems related to the Basic Counting Principle and linear permutations.

Solve problems involving permutations with repetitions and circular permutations.

Solve problems involving combinations.

Find the probability and the odds for the success or failure of an event.

Find the probabilities of independent and dependent events.

Find the probability of mutually exclusive events or inclusive events.

Find the probability of an event given the occurrence of another event.

Find the limit of a polynomial function.

Determine if a function is continuous

Find the derivative of a function and use derivative formulas

Use the first and second derivatives to determine characteristics of a graph.

Find the area between a curve and the x-axis using the limit of the area of rectangles.

Use integration formulas.

Use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to find definite integrals and areas.


Course Description

Title: Drama Date: September, 2013

Grade: 10, 11, 12 Textbook: The Stage and School

Course Objective:

Students will learn voice, movement, and acting techniques, and develop skills in those

areas through multiple performance opportunities, including skits for school events, a

major fall play, and touring as Royal Players, a ministry to local churches of Jackson

Christian Schools. Students will also learn staging methods, makeup, lighting,

costuming, and play production.

Materials: The Stage and the School, McGraw-Hill Book Company

Various scripts

Theatrical supplies and appliances

Drama Commitment Contract

Time

Allotment:


Content: Philosophy of literature and the lack of neutrality in literature

Plot development and character development

Types of dramatic literature and the causes of laughter

Use of the voice: diaphragmatic breathing, volume, pace, inflection and pitch,

quality, and interpretation

Stage movement and gesture

Acting techniques: use of the eyes, voice, timing, cues, ad-libbing, characterization,

blocking, remaining in character, and entrances and exits

Theatrical concepts: types of roles, types of characters, acting schools, types of

rehearsals, and stage directions

Play production: staff, types of rehearsals, planning and designing a production.

Stage design: pre-design considerations, use of lines, colors, shapes, and principles of

unity, balance, and emphasis

Lighting design: types of lighting instruments, lighting principles, and special effects

Costuming: methods of obtaining costumes, design principles and use

Makeup: types of makeup, makeup possibilities, and procedures for applying makeup

Uses of theatre in church and school

Development of acting abilities through rehearsals and multiple performances


Course Description

Title: Earth Science . Date: 8/27/13

Grade: 11th

-12th

grade Textbook: Earth Science for Christian Schools

Course Objectives:

Students will continue to add to their understanding of the Universe, our solar system,

and our earth. Students will investigate movement and changes in the earth and sky.

Critical thinking skills will be developed in the areas of earth and space science.

Students will apply scientific concepts to the real world.

Materials: Text: Earth Science for Christian School / BJU press

Classroom models and posters.

General lab materials including identifiable rocks and minerals.

Videos

Teacher written tests, quizzes, worksheets, activities ...

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters meeting five times a week, for forty-five minutes a day.

Content: The earth’s motions

Location and description of the stars

The Sun

Characteristics and classifying of planets

Asteroids, comets and meteors

The moon; description, motion and origin

History of Space exploration

The earth’s atmosphere

The water cycle /atmospheric water

Air masses winds and storms

Weather analyzing and prediction

Science, faith and reason

Geology

Components of minerals and ores

Rocks (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic) and fossils

Mountains

Earthquakes

Volcanoes

Weathering, mass wasting and erosion

Oceanography

Glaciers

Ground water


Course Description

Title: Eleventh Grade Economics Date: February, 2012

Grade: 11 Textbook: Economics: Principles and Policy

Course Objective:

Students will learn basic economic concepts, the principles of capitalism, and personal

finance, including investing, credit, insurance, checking accounts, and other practical

financial matters. Students will also learn of business organization, business finances,

productivity, competitive markets, and labor issues. Students will be able to explain the

role of government in the economy, including taxation, government regulation, the role

of the Federal Reserve and money, and fiscal and monetary policy.

Materials:

Time Allotment:

Five days a week, forty-five minutes a day for one semester

Content: Scarcity as the basis of economics, and how scarcity forces us to make choices

The issue of scarcity in the Garden of Eden

The factors of production, and how each society must choose how to use them

The principles of capitalism, including private property, the price system,

competition, and the profit motive

The three actors in our economy: homes, business firms, and government, and the

circular flows

Demand, the law of demand, changes in demand, and elasticity

Supply, the law of supply, changes in supply, and elasticity of supply

The interaction of supply and demand: the point of equilibrium

Personal finance, including sources of income, the need for education and training in

maximizing income, budgeting, investing, credit, and insurance

How to manage a checkbook

Types of business firms: sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and others

like franchises, non-profits, co-ops, government owned corporations, trusts

Financing a business, including internal and external sources of income, stock, the

operation of the stock markets, and balance sheets and income statements

Gross Domestic product and standard of living, and the key of productivity

Fixed and variable costs in business, and the law of diminishing returns

Economies of scale and why it works

Competitive markets including monopoly, perfect competition, oligopoly,

government regulated monopolies, and monopolistic competition

The benefits of competition

Marketing, including price, product, promotion, and place

Labor and the setting of wages: market and nonmarket forces

Changes in the labor force

Labor unions: history, goals, and methods

The role of government in the economy, and taxation uses and types

The definition of money, money supply

Inflation and deflation and their effects


Course Description

Title: Literature Date: February 13, 2002

Grade: Eleventh Textbook: Adventures in Appreciation

Course Objective:

Students will learn to analyze the elements of theme, plot, character, irony, and

symbolism in short stories and a novel. They will be able to evaluate the ideas of essays

and write an essay on an assigned topic. Students will interpret poems in order to

understand the authors’ themes. They will improve their interpretation of Shakespearean

historical drama.

Materials: Adventures in Appreciation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Lord of the Flies, Putnam Publishing

Videos

Time

Allotment:

One semester, meeting five days per week for 45 minutes per day

Content: Literary terms (definition and application): plot, character, theme, irony, symbol,

universal theme, essay, biography, types of poetry, and figurative language.

Basic conflict, theme, the three kinds of irony, plot development, and symbolism in

short stories by Finney, London, Freeman, Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, Maugham,

O’Connor, Jewett, Poe, Walsh, Chekhov, de Maupassant, and Benet.

Methods of organization, satire to effect social change, theme, and description in

essays by Montaigne, Addison, Irving, Dickens, White, Horgan, Steinbeck, Twain,

and Plutarch.

Types of poetry, theme, imagery, and symbolism in poetry by Masefield, Sandburg,

Helton, Keats, Johnson, Lindsay, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Yeats, Pope, Bridges,

Browning, Kipling, Deever, Housman, Crane, Hopkins, Cummings, Carroll, Nash,

and Frost.

The nature of man, morality in society, and symbolism in Lord of the Flies, Golding


Course Description

Title: Environmental Science Date: 2012

Grade: Honors

grades 10-12 Textbook:

Environmental Science: A Study of Interralationships

By Enger and Smith

Course

Objective:

Develop student awareness and knowledge in regard to the environment. The course is

an overview of the study of environmental science and is meant to provide opportunity

for students to use biblical principles and truths to further formulate a biblical world

view for how they should view the physical creation.

Materials: Textbook, Videos, Smart Board, Multimedia

Time

Allotment:

36 weeks taught 3 days a week for 48 minutes in each class period

Content: All following statements are made with the truth of scripture as the hand rail and

filter for the course.

Environmental interrelationships

Environmental ethics

Risk and costs in decision making regarding the environment

A review of basic scientific and physical science concepts related to environmental

science study

Environments and organisms

Ecosystems and Communities

Population principles in communities

Human population principles

Patterns of energy consumption and the history thereof

Energy sources

Nuclear energy cost and benefit

Biodiversity

Cycles; water, nitrogen, carbon…

Acid Rain

Global Warming and true Science

Biomes

Environmental issue in the current media – current news and events


Course Description

Title: Foreign Language Date: April 24, 2012

Grade: 9,10,11 & 12 Textbook: Rosetta Stone Online Curriculum

Course Objective:

Students will learn to read, write, comprehend and speak the foreign language of their

choice through interactive lessons that prompt them respond in that language.

Materials: Hp Mini laptop

Time Allotment:

2 semesters, meeting 5 times a week, for 45 minutes a day.

Content: The Rosetta Stone curriculum offers a choice of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.

Each language is split up into 4 units, and each unit has the following lessons:

Core lesson: introduces all the new material for each unit.

Grammar: explains the new grammatical concepts introduced.

Speaking: helps the learner become fluent by having them repeat phrases spoken by a

fluent speaker.

Listening: the learner will be introduced to new words and prompted to match them

to the correct picture.

Review: this takes five minutes, and quickly goes over the concepts previously

introduced.

Vocabulary: new words and phrases are introduced along with matching pictures to

allow the student to understand their meaning.

Pronunciation: it breaks down each word and phrase into smaller parts, allowing the

student to pronounce each part separately, with fluency.

Writing: after seeing the correct spelling in previous lessons, the student is asked to

spell the words and phrases correctly, after hearing them spoken by a fluent speaker.

Milestone: this lesson serves as a form of assessment to see how well the students

know the concepts taught in the unit.


Course Description

Title: Geography Date: September, 2013

Grade: 9 through 12 Textbook:

Course Objective:

Students will learn geography terms and principles, as well as the physical geography,

and cultural, political, and historical information concerning North America, South

America, and Europe.

Materials: Worksheets

Handouts

Videos

The Internet

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters, meeting two or three times weekly for forty-five minute periods

Content: Definition of geography, including the five themes of geography

Land form terms

Weather, climate, and seasons

Latitude and longitude, and the equator, Prime Meridian, and the two Tropics

Physical geography of Mexico

History of Mexico

Mexico’s government, population, and current challenges

North American physical geography, including physical regions, climate zones,

watersheds

The fifty states: location, capitals, major products

The Canadian provinces: location, capitals, major products

History of Canada, and comparing the U. S. and Canadian government systems

Immigration trends to the United States

Internal migration for the United States

Population geography for North America

Urban studies: why cities exist, how they come to be, city models and problems

History of the European Union

Present political system of the European Union

Description of the nations of Europe: size, populations, products

South America’s history, physical features and watersheds, political systems

Description of the nations of South America: size, populations, products


Course Description

Title: Geometry: Concepts and Applications Date: February 2009

Grade: 10 Textbook: Geometry: Concepts and Applications

Course Objective:


and problems relating to parallel lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, and

circles. They will solve surface area and volume problems as well as work with

coordinate geometry. They will also solve ratio and proportion problems and work with

trigonometric relationships.

Materials: Geometry: Concepts and Applications, Glencoe McGraw-Hill

Time Allotment:

Two semester, meeting five times a week for forty-five minutes a day

Content: Naming points, lines, rays, segments, angles, and planes

Measuring and classifying angles,

Classifying triangles and polygons

Making basic constructions with a compass and a straightedge

Using postulates of equality to justify statements

Using theorems about complementary, supplementary, and vertical angles

Writing “If . . . then” statements and their converses

Understanding and writing basic geometric proofs

Using the properties of parallel lines cut by a transversal

Proving lines parallel

Writing equations for lines

Naming congruent triangles and their corresponding parts

Using postulates and theorems to prove that triangles are congruent

Using the triangle inequality theorem

Naming the altitudes and medians of a triangle

Inscribing a circle in a triangle and circumscribing a circle about a triangle

Using the properties of isosceles triangles and right triangles

Finding the interior and exterior angle sums of a convex polygon

Using the properties of parallelograms, rectangles, rhombi, squares and trapezoids

Proving that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram

Applying the midpoint theorem

Finding the area of a rectangle, square, parallelogram, triangle, and trapezoid

Using the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse

Finding the circumference and area of a circle

Finding the ratio of two numbers

Solving problems using proportions

Identifying similar polygons and solving for unknown parts

Finding the perimeters and areas of two similar polygons

Defining a circle and the points, lines, and segments related to circles

Classifying and measuring arcs

Using theorems involving the chords of a circle, angle measure and arc measure

Finding the surface area, and volume of a right prism, right circular cylinder, regular

pyramid, right circular cone, and a sphere

Appling theorems about 45-45-90 triangles and 30-60-90 triangles

Using right triangles to solve problems involving pyramids and cones

Using the tangent, sine, and cosine ratios of an acute angle of a right triangle

Specifying points by their coordinates in the coordinate plane



Finding the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines

Graphing the line specified by a given equation

Proving theorems using coordinate geometry


Course Description

Title: Geometry Date: October, 2002

Grade: 10 Textbook: Geometry Applications and Connections

Course Objective:


and problems relating to parallel lines, triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles. They will

solve surface area and volume problems as well as work with coordinate geometry.

They will also solve trigonometric problems.

Materials: Geometry Applications and Connections, Merrill Publishing Co.

Geometry Applications and Connections Practice Masters, Merrill Publishing Co.

Geometry Applications and Connections Evaluation Masters, Merrill Publishing Co.

TI-83+ Graphing Calculator

Time

Allotment:


Content: Graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane.

Identify and draw models of points, lines, and planes.

Identify collinear and coplanar pints and intersecting lines and planes.

Solve problems by making a list of possibilities.

Find the distance between two points in a number plane and in a coordinate plane.

Find the midpoint of a segment.

Identify and use congruent segments.

Identify angles and parts of angles.

Use the angle addition postulate to find the measure of angles.

Classify angles as acute, obtuse, right, and straight.

Identify and use congruent angles and the bisector of an angle.

Identify and use adjacent angles, vertical angles, complementary angles,

supplementary angles, and linear pairs of angles.

Identify and use right angles and perpendicular lines.

Determine what information can and cannot be assumed from a figure.

Make geometric conjectures based on inductive reasoning.

Identify the hypothesis and conclusion of an “if-then” statement.

Write the converse of an “if-then” statement.

Identify and use basic postulates about points, lines, and planes.

Use the law of detachment and the law of syllogism in deductive reasoning.

Use properties of equality in algebraic and geometric proofs.

Solve problems by eliminating possibilities.

Complete proofs involving segment theorems and angle theorems.

Solve problems by using a diagram.

Describe the relationships between two lines and between two planes.

Identify the relationships among pairs of angles formed by pairs of lines and

transversals.

Use the properties of parallel lines to determine angle measures.

Recognize angle conditions that produce parallel lines.

Prove two lines parallel based on given angle relationships.

Find the slope of a line.

Use slope to identify parallel and perpendicular lines.

Recognize and use distance relationships among points, lines, and planes.

Identify the parts of a triangle.

Classify triangles.

Apply the angle sum theorem and the exterior angle theorem.

Identify congruent triangles.

Name and label corresponding parts of congruent triangles.

Use SAS, SSS, ASA, and AAS postulates to test for triangle congruence.

Solve problems by identifying and achieving sub goals.

Use properties of isosceles and equilateral triangles.

Identify and use medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors in a

triangle.

Recognize and use tests for congruence of right triangles.

Solve problems by working backward.

Use indirect reasoning and indirect proof to reach a conclusion.

Recognize and apply the properties of inequalities to the measures of segments and

angles.

Recognize and use relationships between sides and angles in a triangle.

Apply the triangle inequality theorem.

Use the SAS Inequality and SSS Inequality in proofs and to solve problems.

Recognize and define a parallelogram.

Recognize, use, and prove the properties of a parallelogram.

Solve a problem by looking for a pattern and using the pattern to find the missing

information.

Recognize and apply the conditions that ensure that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.

Recognize the properties of rectangles.

Use properties of squares and rhombi in proofs.

Recognize the properties of trapezoids and use them in proofs and other problems.

Recognize and use ratios and proportions.

Apply and use the properties of proportions.

Identify similar figures.

Solve problems involving similar figures.

Identify similar triangles and use them to solve problems.

Use proportional parts of triangles to solve problems.

Divide a segment into congruent parts.

Recognize and use the proportional relationships of corresponding perimeters,

altitudes, angle bisectors, and medians of similar triangles.

Solve problems by first solving a simpler related problem.

Find the geometric mean between a pair of numbers.

Solve problems using relationships between parts of a right triangle and the altitude

to its hypotenuse.

Use the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.

Use the properties of 45-45-90 and 30-60-90 triangles.

Express trigonometric ratios as fractions or decimals.

Recognize trigonometric relationships from right triangles.

Use a calculator to find values of trigonometric ratios or measures of angles.

Recognize angles of depression or elevation.

Use trigonometry to solve problems.

Use the law of sines to solve triangles.

Solve triangles and problems using the law of cosines.

Choose the appropriate strategy for solving a problem.

Name parts of circles.

Determine relationships between lines and circles.

Write an equation of a circle in the coordinate plane.

Recognize major or minor arcs or semicircles.

Find the measures of arcs and central angles.

Recognize and use relationships between arcs, chords, and diameters.

Recognize and find the measure of inscribed angles.

Use properties of inscribed figures.

Use properties of tangents to solve problems.

Find the measure of angles formed by intersecting secants and tangents in relation to

intercepted arcs.

Use properties of chords, secants, and tangents to solve problems.

Solve problems by using graphs.

Identify and name polygons.

Identify faces, edges, and vertices of a polyhedron.

Find the sum of the measures of the interior and exterior angles of a convex polygon.

Find the measure of each interior and exterior angle of a regular polygon.

Use angle measures of polygons in problem solving.

Solve problems by using guess and check.

Find areas of parallelograms, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids, and regular polygons.

Find the circumference and area of a circle.

Use areas to solve problems involving geometric probability.

Solve problems by making a model.

Create, draw, and fold three-dimensional figures.

Make two-dimensional nets for three-dimensional solids.

Identify the parts of prisms and cylinders.

Find the lateral areas and surface areas of right prisms and right cylinders.

Find the lateral area of a regular pyramid.

Find the lateral area and surface area of a right circular cone.

Find the volume of a right prism, a right cylinder, a pyramid and a circular cone.

Recognize and define basic properties of spheres.

Find the surface area and volume of a sphere.

Graph linear equations using the intercepts method.

Graph linear equations using the slope-intercept method.

Write an equation of a line given information about its graph.

Relate equations of lines and statistics to geometric concepts.

Solve problems by using equations.

Prove theorems using coordinate proofs.

Find the magnitude and direction of a vector.

Determine if two vectors are equal.

Perform operations with vectors.

Locate a point in space.

Use the distance and midpoint formulas for points in space.

Determine the center and radius of a sphere.


Course Description

Title: Government Date: September, 2013

Grade: 11 Textbook: American Government and Economics

Course Objective:

Students learn the historical development of American government, and learn the

structure and processes of the federal government through a survey of the U. S.

Constitution. Students also learn the structure of state, county, and local government

through a survey of the Michigan state constitution.

Materials: American Government and Economics, Abeka Books

Worksheets

Time

Allotment:

Forty-five minutes a day, four days a week, one semester

Content: Christian and Humanist definitions of government: God’s sovereignty vs. the social

contract

Types of governments: a continuum from authoritarian to anarchy

Trends of political organization in the colonies

Reasons for the American Revolution

The Declaration of Independence: the role of government in maintaining human

rights

The failure of the Articles of Confederation, and the calling of the Constitutional

Convention

The Virginia and Connecticut plans, and necessary compromises: the Great

Compromise, compromise on trade, supremacy, choosing the executive, and slavery

The ratification of the Constitution and the role of the Bill of Rights in ratification

The Preamble, and concept of federalism, and categories of state/national powers

The concept of separation of powers, and checks and balances

The Legislative Branch: qualifications and organization

The Legislative Branch: the committee system, bills and resolutions, the path of a

bill, and voting methods

The Legislative Branch: the powers of Congress

The Executive Branch: the Electoral College, qualifications, powers, and the

Executive Office and Executive Departments

The Judicial Branch: levels and jurisdiction of federal courts, the jury system, the

qualifications and selection of judges, the powers of the Supreme Court, and judicial

activism vs. judicial conservatism

The final articles of the Constitution, and the Amendments by historical grouping

The preamble and Article I (Bill of Rights) in the state constitution, and Article II,

Elections, and Article III, Miscellaneous Provisions

Article IV, legislative branch: qualifications, organization, and powers

Article V, executive branch: qualifications, powers, succession, and other executive

officers

Article VI, judicial branch: levels of state courts, their jurisdiction, and general

provisions

Local government, including county, township, municipality: organization and

taxation

Education in the state constitution: funding, organization, and levels

Property rights and provisions

State funding and taxation

Amending the state constitution

Current issues in state and local government

Role playing the legislative process: the Senate Game, and Student Statesmanship

Institute

Direct experience: attending two government bodies and writing a summary and

response to the experience


Course Description

Title: High School Band Date: August 2013

Grade: 9-12 Textbook: N/A

Course Objective:

Students will develop musical ability through rehearsals and individual instruction, and

understanding of the elements of music, professionalism in performance, and general

knowledge of music. Students will also develop appreciation of various music styles and

will enhance the school community through performances.

Materials: Fundamental Exercises

Bach Chorales

14 Weeks to a Better Band

Symphonic Band Technique

Standard Band Literature

Time

Allotment:

1 year, meeting 5 times a week for 40 minutes a day

Content: Producing a good sound, moving it, then articulating it

Learning to tune individually in unison

Improving intonation and tone quality

Illustrating the different styles of articulation

Developing a sense of rhythm by clapping, counting, and singing measures of

rhythm

Learning and practicing major and chromatic scales

Developing a mature sound

Increasing technical fluency

Applying the concepts of dynamic changes and breath control

Illustrating phrasing and melodic contour

Playing various types of band literature

Improving listening skills through exposure to a variety of musical selections


Course Description

Title: HIGH SCHOOL P.E. Date: SEPTEMBER 2003

Grade: 9-12 Textbook: NONE

Course Objective:

The students will demonstrate competency in many movement forms and proficiency in

a few movement forms. The students will be able to apply movement concepts and

principles to the learning and development of those motor skills. The students will

exhibit a physically active lifestyle by achieving and maintaining a health-enhancing

level of physical fitness. Each student will learn to understand and respect the

differences among people in the physical activity setting. Upon completing the physical

education curriculum, the students will understand that physical activity provides

opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.

Materials: A variety of equipment and proper attire

Time Allotment:

45 minutes per day, 3 days per week, 36 weeks

Content: Team sports

Individual and duel sports

Physical Fitness

Weight training


Course Description

Title: Honors Choir Date: October 2012


Course Objective:

Students will build the physical skills necessary for singing: alignment, respiration,

phonation, resonation and articulation. Students will learn to read music by identifying

notes, rhythms, and musical symbols, and by reading and singing solfege syllables.

Students will prepare standard choral repertoire for performances.

Materials: Standard Choral Literature, Sight Reading Materials, Hymnals, Skill Worksheets

Time Allotment:

One year, meeting five days a week for 44 minutes a day

Content: Alignment (posture)

Respiration (breathing)

Phonation (basic sound production)

Resonation (extending vocal range)

Articulation (enunciation, musicality)

Identify note names in treble and bass clef

Identify time and key signatures

Identify solfege syllables in treble and bass clef

Read rhythms independently in varying difficulties

Sing different variations of the “Do” scale in unison up to 4 parts

Sight-sing independently in varying difficulties

Prepare standard choral repertoire for performance SATB harmony

Learn basic principles of music performance

Attend MSVMA Festival to receive performance practice, receive feedback, work

with a clinician and sightread


Course Description

Title: Journalism Date: September, 2013

Grade: 10-12 Textbook: Press Time

Course Objective:

Students will learn how to decide whether a story is newsworthy or not. They will learn

how to get the facts for a story. They will be able to write an effective news lead. They

will learn to organize a news story. They will learn how to write clearly in “news

English.” They will be able to discern between a straight news story and an editorial.

They will learn how a journalist’s world view affects every piece he writes and learn to

discern bias in reporting. They will learn the principles of newspaper design and layout.

They will learn many terms (jargon) of the newspaper business. They will develop

newsgathering and writing skills as they write articles for the bi-weekly school

newspaper, The Royal Mag. They will learn how to take pictures with the digital

camera. The editor (and possibly other staffers) will learn to lay out the newspaper in

Microsoft Publisher.

Materials: Press Time, Prentice-Hall

Various newspapers

Time

Allotment:

Forty-five minutes per day, five times per week, for two semesters

Content: How to gather the news: deciding what is newsworthy, qualities of a good reporter,

where to find the news, interviewing techniques

How to write a news lead: the five W’s and one H, articulating the key thought,

capturing reader interest

How to organize the news story: inverted pyramid style, chronological order,

composite stories, and principles of effective news paragraphs

How to write in newspaper style: key thoughts first, short and simple sentences,

concrete words, conciseness, vividness, inclusion of names, editorializing, various

grammar reminders

How to design and layout a newspaper: history and importance of visual design,

types of newspapers, general design principles emphasizing modular design and

triangular balance, principles for specific pages, typography and graphic art, and

layout of photos

The First Amendment and journalistic freedom and responsibility


Course Description

Title: Lifetime Applications Date: 06/22/04

Grade: 12 Textbook: The Bible

Course Objective:

Students will study injustice and persecution that is taking place around the world,

discover the need for involvement in international humanitarian issues, and begin to

investigate how to plan their lives to accomplish God’s purposes by carrying physical

and spiritual hope to the world. Students will apply the principles they’ve learned to

their own career paths.

Materials: The Justice Mission by Jim Hancock & The International Justice Mission

Every Picture Tells A Story by Mark Oestreicher

What Do You Want? (Visual Curriculum) – Youth Specialties/Zondervan

Student Underground – Youth Specialties/Zondervan

Finding A Job You Can Love by Ralph T. Mattson & Arthur F. Miller

Choosing Your Career by Martin E. Clark

Time

Allotment:


Content: Oppression

What is oppression?

Understanding how oppression works

Things God loves

Things God hates

Types of oppression

Video-driven discussion: Oppression

Bible study on Isaiah 1:10-17

Personal Inventory: What’s most important?

Personal Journaling

Overview of web resources

What God Hates

Oppressors hall of fame

Defining deception and coercion

Bible study on Job 24

Video-driven discussion: I don’t get it

Bible study on Hebrews 13:1-3

Meditation on Psalm 9

Community Injustice inventory

Personal Journaling

Joining The Fight Against Injustice

Defining object permanence

Bible study on Isaiah 58

Video-driven discussion: Remembering Injustice

Meditation on Psalm 146

Personal Inventory: What can I do?

Personal Journaling

God’s Vision Brings God’s Provision

Images of Injustice – art project

Bible study on John 6:1-21

Video driven discussion: The Justice Mission

Counting the costs and resources in the fight against injustice

Prayer for victims

Personal Journaling

Do It Now

Group reflection on what God’s doing

Video-driven discussion: Rescue

Bible study on James 1:22-27

Imagining our influence

Letters to God

Organization of personal and group action steps

Personal Journaling

Understanding God’s Will – Step by Step

Video-driven discussion: Step by Step

Bible study on Acts 17:28

Bible study on Luke 11:37-54 & Ephesians 2:8-9

Understanding God’s Will – Spin Cycle

Video-driven discussion: Spin Cycle

Bible study on Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 & 4:4

Bible study on Psalm 119:15-16

Understanding God’s Will – That Guy

Video-driven discussion: That Guy

Bible study on Luke 5:1-8

Bible study on selected Proverbs

Walk in the Woods – talksheet

Understanding God’s Will – Joe Nine Eleven

Video-driven discussion: Joe Nine Eleven

Bible study on Psalm 27:5-6

Bible study on 2 Cor. 11:24-27

Understanding God’s Will – Consequences

Video-driven discussion: Consequences

Bible study on Galatians 6:7; Genesis 3:1-24; 2 Samuel 12:1-14; Deuteronomy

32:48-52; 1 Samuel 2:27-31; Acts 5:1-10

Weighty decisions – talksheet

Every Picture Tells A Story

Seeing your faith story

Seeing the faith story of others

Seeing God’s story

Writing modern day parables

Seeing God in everyday life

Billboards

Global issues

The Fruit of the Spirit

Gaining wisdom

Rites of Passage

The future

Consequences

Understanding Persecution Today

Discover the extent of persecution of Christians in the world

Explore what God says concerning the persecuted

What’s it like to be a persecuted Christian?

Examine the ways Christians are persecuted

Express empathy for the restricted and persecuted

Why are people persecuted?

Know why Christians are persecuted, the results, and the progress made in spite of

persecution

Becoming the hands and feet of Jesus

Grasp the fact that Jesus suffered and that he asks us to suffer and come alongside

those who suffer

Foundational issues in career choice

The Christian value of work and career

Elements of the Lord’s will

Discovering and being the person God has made you to be

Decision making

Spiritual gifts and career choice

The role of circumstances

Does God call us to specific careers?

Being a whole person

Dealing with failure


Course Description

Title: Living by Faith Date: 10/08/03

Grade: 11 Textbook:

Course Objective:

To identify and describe the foundational spiritual habits and disciplines of Bible study,

prayer, and sharing Christ with others. Students will also realize the importance of a

lifestyle characterized by spiritual accountability, Bible memorization, involvement in

the local church, and tithing.

Materials: Living by the Book by Howard G. Hendricks

The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkenson

Becoming a Contagious Christian (student edition) Zondervan

Time

Allotment:


Content: Why study the Bible?

An overview of the Bible study process

The role of observation in the Bible study process

Strategies to reading the Bible thoughtfully, repeatedly, patiently, selectively,

prayerfully, imaginatively, meditatively, purposefully, acquisitively, telescopically.

Exercises in practical understanding of reading strategies.

Observation of things emphasized, repeated, related, alike and unlike, and true to life

in the Biblical text.

Exercises in the practical understanding of observation.

The role of interpretation in the Bible study process

Keys to interpretation: Context, Comparison, Culture, and Consultation

Dealing with the figurative and the literal

Exercises in the practical understanding of interpretation.

The role of application in the Bible study process

The practice of knowing, relating, meditating, and practicing the truths we observe

and interpret in Scripture.

How to translate truth into positive life-change

Exercises in the practical understanding of application.

Getting started with personal Bible study

Developing a personal prayer life

Common prayer busters

Understanding reasons for unanswered prayer

Coming to grips with God’s will and prayer

How do I pray?

Prayers in Scripture – the Lord’s prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), the prayer of Jabez (1 Chron.

4:9-10), Jesus in the Gethsemane (Mk. 14:32-42), Jesus’ prayers for Himself, His

disciples, and the world (John 17)

Balancing prayer with adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication

Journaling and other expressions for prayer and spiritual development

How and why to share your faith

What does it mean to be a contagious Christian?

Battling the stereotypes of “evangelism”

Relational evangelism - Understanding the different styles of evangelism

Principles for starting spiritual conversations

Three story evangelism – God’s story, your story, other’s stories

Methods and tools for leading someone to salvation

Dealing with objections when sharing your faith

Introduction of other important spiritual practices including accountability, Bible

memorization, involvement in the local church, and tithing

What is accountability and how does one establish accountability?

Why Bible memorization is important and how to get started

Why and how to get involved in the local church

Factors to consider when choosing a church

God and money – What is tithing and why is it important?


Course Description

Title: Marriage, Family, & Money Date: 09/25/03

Grade: 12 Textbook: One Plus One

Course Objective:

To show God’s principles and guidelines for achieving and sustaining a Christian

marriage and family. The course will present the journey from dating through family as

an ongoing relationship based on the solid foundation of God’s Word.

Materials: One Plus One

Time Allotment:


Content: Understanding the differences between men and women

The Christian principles involved in dating through marriage and family vs. the

world’s principles.

Measuring our perspective on marriage and family against God’s perspective on

marriage and the family

Guidelines for establishing and maintaining a Christian marriage and family based on

Biblical principles.

How to evaluate and implement knowledge, patterns and principles regarding

marriage and family.

How to recognize and resist worldly values that are threatening the institutions of

marriage and family.

Developing financial responsibility

Managing conflict in the home


Course Description

Title: Michigan History Date: September, 2013

Grade: 11 Textbook: Forging the Peninsula

Course Objective:

The students will learn and be able to explain the basic history of Michigan, starting with

the Indians and their culture, followed by a study of the French, British, and finally

American periods. Students will learn the process of settlement, the political

development of the territory, the history of early statehood times, and the development

of major state industries. Students will be able to explain various causes for political and

economic developments in state history, and will be able to relate events in Michigan to

broader movements and patterns in U.S. History.

Materials: Forging the Peninsula, Hillsdale Publishing

The Jackson Citizen-Patriot

Michigan History Magazine

Worksheets and Map Exercises

Filmstrips

Videos and slides

Time Allotment:

One semester, meeting five times a week for forty-five minutes a day

Content: Major divisions of American Indians and their cultures

Earliest French explorers and their motivations

Early French settlements: places, patterns, and purposes

French/British conflict: causes and results

French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion and results

The Revolutionary War: causes, and effects on Michigan

American/British struggle for control of Great Lakes: events and results

American/Indian conflicts and the Battle of Fallen Timbers

American territorial development: laws and patterns

Michigan’s development as a territory

War of 1812: causes, events, results

The Cass Expedition of 1820

Development of Michigan communities: patterns of settlement

Michigan’s struggle for statehood

The first state constitution

The Panic of 1837: causes and results

Political party development in Michigan and the birth of the Republican party

The Civil War: causes, events, and people in Michigan

The Industrial Revolution in Michigan: causes of Michigan industrialization

The development of various industries of Michigan: mining, lumber, fishing, cereal,

furniture, and others

The social, financial, and environmental impact of mining, lumber, and the fishing

industry

The Progressive movement: who became a progressive, their issues, and the

personalities in Michigan politics involved in Progressivism and their

accomplishments.

The development of the auto industry: reasons for its location in Michigan, new ideas

and methods, and the corporate histories of Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler


Course Description

Title: Modern Literature Date: September, 2013

Grade: 12 Textbook: (see below)

Course Objective:

Students will learn major philosophical trends in modern thinking, and the dominant

themes of despair and fragmentation in literature of the twentieth century. Students will

learn the causes for these themes, and examine examples in literature. Students will also

learn literary terms and concepts such as plot development, character development, and

theme, as well as schools of literature, and styles of literature such as tragedy, drama,

myth, travel literature, and fantasy. The ultimate goal is to teach students to evaluate

literature from a Christian perspective, to learn to discern truth and error. Students will

also develop writing skills through essay assignments.

Materials: Adventures in English Literature

Waiting for Godot

Ethan Frome

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Natural (movie)

Supplementary materials

Time Allotment:

Forty-five minutes a day, four times a week for one semester

Content: Definition of literature, and discussion of the purposes for literature, selectivity in

literature and how it prevents neutrality, and criteria for literature

Themes of despair and fragmentation in twentieth century literature and the causes of

these themes

Major philosophical movements in modern society including fascism, existentialism,

nihilism, and Eastern Religions

The development of despair as theme shown chronologically from Matthew Arnold

through Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot, and in contemporary song lyrics

Existentialism and despair in The Myth of Sisyphus by Sartre and Waiting for Godot

by Beckett

Plot development, character development, Realism and issues of moral neutrality,

and situation ethics in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Fantasy and travel literature and Christian themes in Voyage of the Dawn Treader by

C. S. Lewis

Myth, theme, and plot development in The Natural¸ a movie based on the book by

Bernard Malamud


Course Description

Title: New Testament Survey Date: 10/23/03

Grade: 9 Textbook:

Course Objective:

To describe the key characters and events of the New Testament with a special emphasis

on the life of Christ and the development of the Church. In addition students will

identify the general themes of each New Testament book and demonstrate a basic

understanding of their content.

Materials: The Bible

Time Allotment:


Content: Why the New Testament?

A comparison of the Gospels

John the Baptist - forerunner of the Messiah

Life of Christ – Parables, Miracles, and Messianic Prophecies fulfilled

The book of Acts

Peter’s ministry – establishment and expansion of the church

Paul’s ministry – three missionary journeys

The book of Romans

Doctrine presented in Romans – sinfulness, forgiveness, and freedom

Application presented in Romans – personal responsibility

The book of I Corinthians

Divisions and disorder in the church

Instructions on marriage, Christian freedom, public worship, and the resurrection.

The book of II Corinthians - Paul’s principles of action and his authority as an

apostle

The book of Galatians - Authenticity, superiority, and freedom of the Gospel

The book of Ephesians - Unity in Christ and Unity in the Body of Christ

The book of Philippians - Joy in suffering, serving, believing, and giving

The book of Colossians - What Christ has done and what Christians should do

The book of I Thessalonians - Faithfulness to the Lord and watchfulness for the Lord

The book of II Thessalonians - The hope of Christ’s return and how it ought to affect

our lives

The book of I Timothy - Right belief, right behavior, and right leadership in the

church

The book of II Timothy – foundations for Christian service

The book of Titus – more instructions on leadership and living in the church

The book of Philemon – forgiving others

The book of Hebrews

The superiority of Christ – greater than the angels, Moses, and Old Testament priests

The superiority of the New Covenant – Faith

The book of James – genuine religion, genuine faith, genuine wisdom

The book of I Peter – dealing with suffering

The book of II Peter – guidance, warnings, and hope for growing Christians

The book of I John – God is light, love, and life

The book of II John – warning: false teachers

The book of III John – living out the gospel through hospitality

The book of Jude – the danger of false teachers

The book of Revelation

The letters to the seven churches

Things to come


Course Description

Title: Ninth Grade English Date: May, 2005

Grade: Ninth Textbook: Grammar and Composition III

Adventures in Reading

Course

Objective:

Students will learn sentence structure and parts of speech through diagramming, and

learn proper grammar using their knowledge of sentence structure. Students will also

develop skills in writing with paragraph exercises, essays, and a term paper. Students

will learn principles of literature and to evaluate content and themes from a Biblical

perspective.

Materials: Grammar and Composition III

Adventures in Reading

A Christmas Carol

Study guides and exercise sheets

Quizzes

Time

Allotment:

Forty-five minutes a day, five days a week, for two semesters

Content: Capitalization

Punctuation

Fragments and Run-ons

Finding Subjects and Verbs; Identifying types of verbs; Subject/Verb Agreement

Noun complements: direct object, indirect object, and predicate nominatives

Modifiers: adjectives, and adverbs

Appositives and nouns of direct address

Prepositional phrases, interjections, and conjunctions

Verbals: Basic definition, recognition, use, and diagramming of participles, gerunds,

and infinitives

Clauses: Basic definition, recognition, use, and diagramming of noun, adjective, and

adverb clauses

The Research Paper: documentation methods: purpose, content, and form of

parenthetical citations and bibliographies

Outlining methods

Paragraph construction: topic sentences, methods of development, unity, coherence

(arrangement of details and continuity devices)

Writing process: choosing a topic, thesis statements, research, writing rough drafts,

rewriting for unity, coherence, and emphasis, writing introductions and conclusions,

editing, and final copies and cover pages

Definition of literature, purpose, and the significance of selectivity in literature

Criteria for literature

Basic story elements: setting, characters, conflict, plot, and theme

Short Story Unit (eight or nine stories from literature text)

The Novel: historical background, plot, theme, and character development in

Dickens’s A Christmas Carol

Romeo and Juliet: historical background, characters, plot, and themes of rashness,

tragic waste, violence begetting violence, moderation, and obedience.


Course Description

Title: 9th

Grade Science Earth and Physical Sci. Date: 8/27/13

Grade: 9th

grade Textbook: Science; Matter and Energy

Published by Pensacola Christian College

Course

Objectives:

Students will continue to add to their understanding of what it means to be scientific,

and incorporate scriptural support for the sciences. Students will investigate and

observe some chemical and physical reactions. Students will build on their knowledge

of physical sciences. Critical thinking skills will be developed in the areas of physical

science. Students will apply scientific concepts to the real world.

Materials: Text: Science; Matter and Energy A Beka Book

Science; Matter and Energy – Test

Science; Matter and Energy – Lab book

General lab glassware – beakers, thermometers, graduated cylinders.

Safety glasses, goggles.

Classroom models and posters.

General lab materials including limited chemicals.

Videos

Teacher written tests, quizzes, activities ...

Balances – triple beam.

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters meeting five times a week, for forty-five minutes a day.

Content: Limitations of Science

The scientific method as a process.

Scientific measurements and mathematics.

Volume and Density

Matter and its chemical characteristics and physical characteristics.

Kinetic and Atomic Theories of matter.

The nature of heat; transfer/energy/changes

Introductions to Chemistry and the atom

The periodic table of elements – information and uses for the information.

Chemical reactions and bonding.

An introduction to organic chemistry and biochemistry.

Science vs. Evolution

Introduction to physics including motion and forces

Electrostatics

Waves – electromagnetic and sound.

The nature of light and color

Magnetism and electricity.

Electronics and technology


Course Description

Title: Office 2007 Date: March, 2013

Grade: 9,10,11,12 Textbook: A Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Professional

Course Objective:

This course is designed to introduce the student to Microsoft Office 2007 Professional

with considerable “hands on” experience. Students will learn to use and integrate data

between word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and desktop publishing

applications. The use of the Internet and the roles computers play in modern society will

also be discussed.

Materials: A Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, Lawrenceville Press

Dell Computers with Windows 98 SE and Windows XP Professional

Time

Allotment:


Content: Discuss the history and terminology of computers

Discuss the benefits of telecommunications and describe networks, the Internet, and

the World Wide Web

Use the Windows GUI, mouse, windows, and dialog boxes

Be able to properly handle diskettes and use My Computer to format and copy a

diskette

Be able to start an application, use Windows Explorer and My Computer to manage

files and folders, recover deleted files, use online help, and find the location of files

Be able to create, edit,, and save a Word document

Be able to open documents, spell check, use the Toolbars, display and identify

formatting marks, change views, scroll, close and print documents, and exit Word

Be able to use the Undo command, print preview and format a document, create

headers and footers, and control pagination

Be able to use tabs and set tab stops

Be able to copy and paste text, use the Windows and Office Clipboards, find and

replace ext, use the Thesaurus, and format indents

Be able to format hanging and first line indents, create bulleted and numbered lists,

create footnotes, insert time stamps, display document info, add graphics to a

document, and format a document with columns

Be able to create and format table structures, insert special characters, hyphenate a

document, apply built-in styles, use Outline view, and create a table of contents and

create sections in a document

Be able to create headers, footers, and page numbers in different sections of a

document.

Be able to create hyperlinks, newsletters, labels, macros, and email a message and an

existing document from Word

Be able to create, edit, save, print, and format simple spreadsheets and use formulas

to perform calculations

Be able to use the SUM, AVERAGE, and ROUND functions, enter cell references in

formulas using pointing, display formulas, use the Fill handle to copy cell contents,

and Exit Excel

Be able to plan a spreadsheet, use the Find, Replace, Copy, Cut, and Paste

commands, use the MAX and MIN functions, enter functions using the Function

command and the Paste Function button, and understand absolute cell references.

Be able to insert and delete rows and columns in a spreadsheet, print large

spreadsheets, and use the IF function

Be able to use and print multiple sheets, copy and move data between sheets, and

refer to data in different sheets

Be able to create, modify, format, and print pie, bar, and line charts

Be able to ask and answer What if? Questions, sort a spreadsheet, use the CHOOSE

and VLOOKUP functions, and freeze cells

Be able to create an amortization table, use the PMT function, print a selected

spreadsheet area, create hyperlinks, and email a spreadsheet

Be able to share data between Word documents and Excel spreadsheets and create

hyperlinks to Office files

Be able to use OLE to create an embedded or linked object

Be able to understand what a relational database is and how to design and create an

Access relational database

Be able to create a database from, enter records, format Datasheet view, print a table,

and query a table

Be able to sort records, modify a table, modify records, define relationships, view sub

datasheets, and use select queries to limit the records displayed

Be able to modify and delete select queries, sort query results, use ranges in criteria,

and create select queries involving And and Or

Be able to create relational database reports

Be able to use fields in select query criteria and create calculation fields

Be able to copy Access database entries to a Word document or Excel spreadsheet

and create an Access table from Excel spreadsheet data

Be able to use mail merge to produce form letters and mailing labels

Be able to create a presentation using PowerPoint, change views, add and delete

slides, add graphics and charts, format the presentation with transitions and

animation, apply a design template, and create speaker notes

Be able to create, modify, and print a publication using Publisher, create folded

greeting cards, insert text from a Word document, and use mail merge to personalize

a publication

Be able to access Web sites using Internet Explorer, print Web pages, describe

HTML, use search engines, and evaluate Web sites


Course Description

Title: Physics Date: May 2013

Grade: 12 Textbook: Physics: Principles and Problems

Course Objective:

Students will study about forces and how they affect motion. They will also discuss

topics related to gravity, momentum, energy, work, and simple machines. There will

also be some discussion of states of matter as it relates to thermal energy.

Materials: Physics: Principles and Problems

Time Allotment:

Two semesters, 5 days a week, 45 minute periods

Content: Using mathematical tools to measure and predict

Applying accuracy and precision when measuring

Displaying and evaluating data graphically

Representing motion through the use of words, motion diagrams, and graphs

Using the terms of position, distance, displacement, and time interval in a scientific

manner to describe motion

Developing descriptions of accelerated motion

Using graphs and equations to solve problems involving moving objects

Describing the motion of objects in free fall

Using Newton’s Laws to solve problems

Determining the magnitude and direction of the net force that causes a change in an

object’s motion

Classifying forces according to the agents that cause them

Representing vector quantities both graphically and algebraically

Using Newton’s Laws and your knowledge of vectors to analyze motion in two

dimensions

Solving problems dealing with projectile and circular motion

Solving relative-velocity problems

Learning the nature of gravitational force

Relating Kepler’s laws of planetary motion to Newton’s laws of motion

Describing the orbits of planets and satellites using the law of universal gravitation

Learning how to describe and measure rotational motion

Learning how torque changes rotational velocity

Exploring factors that determine the stability of an object

Learning the nature of centrifugal and Coriolis “forces”

Describing momentum and impulse and applying them to the interactions between

objects

Relating Newton’s third law of motion to conservation of momentum

Exploring the momentum of rotating objects

Recognizing that work and power describe how the external world changes the

energy of a system

Relating force to work and explaining how machines ease the load

Learning that energy is a property of an object that can change the object’s position,

motion, or its environment

Learning that energy changes from one form to another, and that the total amount of

energy in a closed system remains constant

Learning how temperature relates to the potential and kinetic energies of atoms and

molecules

Distinguishing heat from work

Calculating heat transfer and the absorption of thermal energy

Explaining the expansion and contraction of matter caused by changes in temperature

Applying Pascal’s Archimedes’ and Bernoulli’s principles in everyday situations


Course Description

Title: Honors Psychology Date: 08/26/13

Grade: 12th Textbook: Exploring Psychology in Modules, ninth edition

Course Objective:

1. To develop critical and creative thinking skills.

2. To develop the ability to communicate both verbally and in written form.

3. To develop foundational skills needed for scientific research and writing.

Materials: Textbook, online resources

Time Allotment:

36 weeks taught 3 days a week for 48 minutes in each class period

Content: Introduction to the History and Science of Psychology

Biology and Behavior

The Developing Person

Sensation and Perception

State of Consciousness

Learning

Memory

Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Motivation

Emotions, Stress, and Health

Personality

Psychological Disorders

Therapy

Social Psychology


Course Description

Title: Royal Concert Choir Date: October 2012


Course Objective:

Students will build the physical skills necessary for singing: alignment, respiration,

phonation, resonation and articulation. Students will learn to read music by identifying

notes, rhythms, and musical symbols, and by reading and singing solfege syllables.

Students will prepare standard choral repertoire for performance.

Materials: Standard Choral Literature, Sight Reading Materials, Hymnals, Skill Worksheets

Time Allotment:

One year, meeting three times a week for 48 minutes a day

Content: Alignment (posture)

Respiration (breathing)

Phonation (basic sound production)

Resonation (extending vocal range)

Articulation (enunciation, musicality)

Identify note names in treble and bass clefs

Identify time and key signatures

Identify solfege syllables in treble and bass clefs

Read rhythms independently in varying difficulties

Sing different variations of the “Do” scale in unison up to 4 parts

Sight-sing independently in varying difficulties

Prepare standard choral repertoire for performance 2 Part to SATB harmony

Learn basic principles of music performance

Attend MSVMA Festival to receive performance practice, receive feedback, work

with a clinician and sightread


Course Description

Title: Senior Review Math Date: January 2013

Grade: 12 Textbook: MathMatters 3

Course Objective:

The students will review the concepts of algebra and geometry continuing to develop

their skills in solving linear and quadratic equations, analyzing and graphing equations

and inequalities, and working with exponents, polynomials, radicals, and rational

expressions. In addition, students will work with trigonometric functions and solve

problems relating to parallel lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, and circles

as well as surface area, volume, and coordinate geometry. Students will also learn how

to manage money through saving and investing; how to budget, shop wisely, and avoid

money traps; and how to make good choices with insurance, real estate and mortgages.

Materials: MathMatters 3, Glencoe; Foundations in Personal finance by Dave Ramsey

TI-83+ and TI-84+ Graphing Calculators

Time

Allotment:


Content: Properties of real numbers

Patterns and iterations

Algebraic expressions

Solving equations and inequalities

Inductive and deductive reasoning

Angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons

Measurement of perimeter, circumference, area, surface area and volume

Linear relationships, functions, and graphs

Solving and graphing systems of equations

Similar polygons

Translations, reflections, rotations, dilations

Matrices, determinants, and inverses

Quadratic equations and functions

Polynomials and polynomial functions

Probability, Permutations and Combinations

Standard deviation

Scatter Plots and Box-and-Whisker Plots


Special right triangles

Circles, angles , and arcs

Simplifying expressions with rational exponents

Solving and graphing radical equations

Exponential and logarithmic functions

Solving rational equations

Circles, ellipses, hyperbolas

Periodic functions and trigonometry

Savings and investing

Credit and Debt

Budgeting

Insurance

Real Estate and Mortgages


Course Description

Title: Speech Date: February 14, 2011

Grade: Eleventh Textbook: Speech for Effective Communication

Course Objective:

The students will learn the definition of communication, and the basics of verbal and

nonverbal messages. They will be able to explain the basics of vocal production, and

will improve their own vocal production. They will learn to be effective listeners and to

recognize faulty reasoning and propaganda. The students will be able to research,

organize, and present several different kinds of speeches. They will present a minimum

of 5 (five) speeches in class for evaluation.

Note: Students taking this course for college credit will be required to give 1 (one)

additional speech and 1 minute of time requirement will be added to each presentation.

Materials: Speech for Effective Communication, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Videos

Time

Allotment:

One semester, meeting five times per week for forty-five minutes per day.

Content: Definition and necessity of communication

Verbal messages

Nonverbal messages

Vocalization: explanation of process and correction of problems

Effective listening; recognizing and avoiding faulty reasoning and propaganda

Beginning preparation for a speech: choosing a topic, writing a general purpose, a

specific purpose, a thesis statement, and support

Organizing a speech, with emphasis on outline form

Techniques of persuasion

Storybook or Commercial project

Introduction Speech

Personal Experience Speech

Informative Speech

Demonstration speech

Persuasive speech

Belief speech


Course Description

Title: Tenth Grade English Date: October, 2012

Grade: Tenth Textbook: Grammar and Composition IV, Abeka

Adventures in American Literature, Harcourt Brace

Course

Objective:

Students will be able to identify and correct errors in grammar. They will be able to

correctly use parts of speech, diagram sentences, and manipulate sentence structure to

improve their writing. Students will learn to write rhetorically (persuasive writing). They

will be able to write an outline in parallel form and a coherent paragraph. They will learn

to see symbolism and themes in an American novel.

Materials: Grammar and Composition IV, Abeka

Adventures in American Literature, Harcourt Brace

To Kill a Mockingbird, Warner Books

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters, meeting five times per week for forty-five minutes

Content: Verbs: special lists, transitive/Intransitive, irregular verbs, active/passive voice,

logical verb tense sequence, and mood

Subjects: locating subjects and verbs, subject/verb agreement

Fragment and run-on review

Complements: direct object, indirect object, object complement, predicate nominative

and predicate adjective

Adjectives: comparative and superlative

Adverbs: comparative and superlative

Appositives and nouns of direct address

Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections

Verbals: participles, gerunds, and infinitives

Clauses: noun, adjective, and adverb

Sentence Structure: simple, compound, complex, compound/complex

Pronouns: agreement and case

Usage and Diction: three standards of usage, slang, illiteracies, clichés, jargon,

connotation/denotation, figures of speech

Outlines and paragraph development

Essay writing

Rhetorical writing (persuasive writing)

Realists and Moderns: Robinson, Jackson, Cather, Hemingway (as time permits)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: themes, symbolism, and Christian principles


Course Description

Title: U. S. History Date: September, 2013

Grade: 10 Textbook: America: The Glorious Republic, 1877 to Present

Course Objective:

In Tenth Grade U. S. History, the student learns the main trends of early America, the

forces leading to the Civil War, and the changes in America brought by the Civil during

and after the war in Reconstruction. Students will learn the problems of the industrial

revolution and the Gilded Age, culminating in the reform movements of Populism and

Progressivism. Students will be able to explain trends in American policy before,

during, and after WWI, and changes in America in the 1920’s. Students will learn some

of the factors leading to the Great Depression, and the programs and results of the New

Deal. Students will learn the events leading the U. S. into WWII, and the Cold War that

followed. Students will learn the causes, events, and results of the Civil Rights

movement. Students will be able to explain the reasons for American involvement in

Viet Nam, and the events of the war. Students will learn the nature of the counterculture

movement, Watergate, and the problems of the Seventies. Finally, the students will

learn the presidency of Reagan and the end of the Cold War.

Materials: America: The Glorious Republic, 1877 to Present, Houghton Mifflin

Map sheets

Worksheets

Time Allotment:

Forty-five minutes a day, five days a week for two semesters

Content: The problem of slavery, especially in the territories, and the Compromises of 1820

and 1850 to deal with slavery in the Louisiana Purchase and Mexican Cession

The Fugitive Slave Act and northern responses in Personal Liberty laws and the

Underground Railroad

The Kansas-Nebraska Act and resulting birth of the Republican party

The Dred Scot Decision and extremism

The Lincoln-Douglas debates and effects

John Brown’s raid and the election of 1860: the candidates, platforms, and sectional

results

The concept of pyric victory and southern decisions in the 1850’s

The battles of the Civil War, the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the

changes in war shown by the Civil war

Competing interpretations of Reconstruction, and the events and results of

Reconstruction

The Gilded Age: growth of industry, political machines, and labor problems

The problems of the farmer and the Populist movement

The nature of the Progressives, and their motivations and goals

The progressive reforms of Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

The failure of progressivism

The Twenties: isolationism, racism, the transportation revolution, and the coming of

the Depression

Hoover’s economic philosophy, his programs, and the effects on his popularity

The Election of 1936

The programs and economic direction of the New Deal: FDR’s essential pragmatism

The radicals of the Depression

The failure of the NIRA, the off-year election of 1934: the new Democratic coalition

The Second Hundred Days

Final New Deal Measures

The labor movement: the CIO and sit-down strikes

Foreign policy in the Depression: battling isolationism, the USSR, the Good

Neighbor Policy, the fascist aggressors

Preparing for war: American military buildup, Bases for Destroyers, Lend-Lease, the

Election of 1940, the Four Freedoms, the Atlantic Charter

Pearl Harbor and American entry in the war

The military campaigns of WWII, the conferences, the changes in war, the use of the

atomic bomb, and the war years in America: racism, women in the workplace, the

Election of 1944, and FDR’s death

The UN, and the birth of the Cold War

The economy after WWII, and the effects of the GI Bill

Events leading us into Korea, the fighting, and the firing of Macarthur

The Election of 1952 and the ending of the war

The Fifties: problems in education, cities, and foreign: the fallacy of nuclear weapons

and the military-industrial complex

The Civil Rights Movement: origins before WWI, the internal migration of the

Twenties, Civil Rights and the New Deal

The Civil Rights Movement: WWII as a turning point, and the new organizations

The Civil Rights Movement: Brown vs. Board of Education, and Civil Rights

campaigns of the Fifties, and the philosophy and program of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Election of 1960 and the impact of TV

Kennedy’s foreign policy: the trend from mistakes to successes

Kennedy’s domestic policy and Civil Rights campaigns

Johnson and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the

days of Rage: the split in Civil Rights and the fate of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Johnson’s Great Society: philosophy and programs

Viet Nam: Kennedy, Johnson, the TET Offensive, and the election of 1968

Nixon’s Foreign Policy, and Vietnamization: the ending of the war

Nixon and Watergate

Ford and détente, and the election of 1976

Carter and Foreign Policy: trend from successes to failure

The Election of 1980

Reagan and Reagonomics: domestic policy

Reagan and Foreign Policy: arms control


Course Description

Title: Trigonometry and Pre-calculus Date: September 2012

Grade: 11,12 Textbook: Advanced Mathematical Concepts-PreCalculus

Course Objective:

The student will learn how to analyze linear, quadratic and polynomial functions as well

as their graphs, compositions and inverses. Emphasis is placed on trigonometric

functions and their graphs. Other topics include matrices, vectors, polar coordinates, and

probability. In addition, the students will study limits, derivatives, integrals and other

calculus related topics.

Materials: Advanced Mathematical Concepts, Pre-calculus with Applications—Glencoe McGraw

Hill

Graphing Calculator, Interwrite SmartBoard, and iPad apps

Time

Allotment:


Content: Relations and functions

Composition of functions

Graphing linear functions

Writing linear functions

Modeling real-world data with linear functions

Piecewise functions

Graphing linear inequalities

Solving systems of equations in two/three variables

Modeling real-world data with matrices

Determinants and multiplicative inverses of matrices

Augmented matrices

Solving systems of linear inequalities

Linear programming

Symmetry and coordinate graphs

Families of graphs

Graphs of nonlinear inequalities

Inverse functions and relations

Continuity and end behavior

Critical points and extrema

Graphs of rational functions

Direct, inverse and joint variation

Polynomial functions

Quadratic functions

The remainder and factor theorems

The rational root theorem

Locating zeros of a polynomial function

Rational equations and partial fractions

Radical equations and inequalities

Modeling real-world data with polynomial functions

Angles and degree measure

Trigonometric ratios in right triangles

Trigonometric functions on the unit circle

Applying trigonometric functions

Solving right triangles

Law of sines and the ambiguous case

Law of cosines

Solving triangles using the graphing calculator

Angles and radian measure

Linear and angular velocity

Graphing sine and cosine functions

Amplitude and period of sine and cosine functions

Translations of sine and cosine functions

Graphing of the other trig functions

Modeling real-world data with sinusoidal functions

Trigonometric inverses and their graphs

Basic trigonometric identities

Verifying trigonometric identities

Sum and difference identities

Double-angle and half-angle identities

Solving trigonometric equations

Normal form of a linear equation

Distance from a point to a line

Geometric and algebraic vectors

Vectors in three-dimensional space

Perpendicular vectors

Cross products and dot products

Applications of vectors

Transformation matrices in three-dimensional space

Polar coordinates

Graphs of polar equations

Polar and rectangular coordinates

Polar form of a linear equation

Simplifying complex numbers

The complex plane and polar form of complex numbers

Products and quotients of complex numbers in polar form

Powers and roots of complex numbers

Introduction to analytic geometry

Circles

Ellipses

Hyperbolas

Parabolas

Systems of second-degree equations and inequalities

Permutations and combinations

Probability and odds

Probabilities of compound events

Conditional probability

The binomial theorem and probability

Limits

Derivatives and antiderivatives

Area under a curve

The fundamental theorem of Calculus


Course Description

Title: Twelfth Grade English Date: February 12, 2002

Grade: Twelfth Textbook: Adventures in English Literature

Handbook of Grammar and Composition

Course

Objective:

Students will be able to identify and correct errors in grammar. They will be able to

correctly use parts of speech and manipulate sentence structure to improve their writing.

They will have a knowledge of the content and themes of some of the cornerstones of

English literature. They will be able to write various kinds of essays and business

letters. They will be able to research and write a paper on a controversial topic.

Materials: Adventures in English Literature, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Handbook of Grammar and Composition, A Beka Book Publications

Worksheets (teacher’s)

Videos

Time

Allotment:

Two semesters, meeting five times per week for forty-five minutes

Content: Verbs: Special lists, Subject/Verb Agreement, Irregular verbs

Subjects

Complements

Fragments/Run-ons

Appositives, Adjectives, Adverbs

Interjections, Nouns of Direct Address, Interjections

Phrases: Prepositional and Verbal

Clauses: independent and dependent

Diagramming

Sentence Structure

Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement

Pronoun Case

Unity

Coordination and Subordination

Correct use of Modifiers

Pronoun Reference

Clarity and Logic

Point of View

Parallelism

Literature: Macbeth, and Paradise Lost: Conventions of tragedies, conventions of

epics, themes, character development, plot outlines

Principles of Formal Writing: manuscript form, outlining, steps in the writing process

Principles of rhetoric, Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle, logos, ethos, pathos, inductive

writing, deductive writing, thesis statements

Writing a thesis: organization, research, documentation

Essay writing: paragraphs, introductions, organization

Essay writing: book reports reflecting summary and response

Minimum of thirty weekly essays, two pages each, emphasizing mechanics and

content, and various rhetorical styles, including argumentative essays using

deduction, and argumentative essays using inductive patterns which include logos,

ethos, and pathos

Senior Thesis of ten pages, including research, outlining, and written as a persuasive

paper employing proper documentation in the APA format


Course Description

Title: Weight Training Date: SEPTEMBER 2003

Grade: 11-12 Textbook: WEIGHT TRAINING FOR LIFE

Course Objective:

The students will understand the importance of physical fitness in their daily lives, and

how weight training can play an important role in their fitness development. The

students will be able to evaluate their needs and develop and program specifically geared

toward their body type, strengths, and abilities.

Materials: Weight equipment, proper attire

Time Allotment:

47 minutes per day, 5 days per week, 36 weeks

Content: A study of muscular strength and function

How to warm up and stretch

Safe and effective weight training

Proper nutrition

How to develop a personal weight training program

How to maintain a personal weight training program


Course Description

Title: Western Lit Date: 1-19-09

Grade: 12 Textbook: Adventures in Western Lit, Tale of Two Cities

Course Objective:

Students will learn a definition of literature, the purpose of literature, why it can’t be

neutral, genres of literature, and various mechanics of literature and poetry, using

readings, discussion, writing assignments, and online posting and discussion. An

emphasis is placed understanding and evaluating world views and themes in literature

and poetry.

Materials: Adventures in English Literature, HBJ

Tale of Two Cities

Various handouts

Videos

Time

Allotment:

One semester, five days a week, forty-five minute class periods

Content: Definition of literature

Purpose of literature

Classics vs. popular literature

Process of selectivity negating neutrality

Criteria for literature

Definition of plot

Conflicts in literature

Categories or types of characters

Development of characters

Plot outlines: the Freitag Pyramid

Theme in literature

Settings

Point of view

Biography of Charles Dickens

Key characteristics of Dickens’ style

Background to Tale of Two Cities

Setting of Tale of Two Cities

Character development in Tale of Two Cities

Plot outline of Tale of Two Cities

Themes, motifs, and foreshadowing in Tale of Two Cities

Definition of poetry

Mechanics of poetry: rhyme, rhythm

Types of poetry

Comparisons of world views: Christian, Classical, Romanticism

Poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge

Definition of short stories

History of short stories

Short stories by various authors: Dahl, Glaspell, Turtledove, I Samuel 25, Clarke,

Lost

Cinema as novel: Chariots of Fire, developing character, theme, plot outline, setting


Course Description

Title: World History Date: February, 2002

Grade: 9 Textbook: World History and Cultures

Course Objective:

Students will learn basic events and people from creation through the civilizations of the

ancient world to the formation of European civilizations. Students will learn the nature

of medieval life and culture, and the changes brought to Western civilization by the

Renaissance and Reformation. Students will focus especially on the development of

English government and law as a precursor to our own systems. Students will also learn

of the industrial revolution and modern European politics through WWI.

Materials: World History and Cultures, Abeka Books

Map sheets

Primary source documents

Time

Allotment:

Five days a week, forty-five minutes a day, two semesters

Content: Creation and the implications of being God’s image-bearers

Fall of man and the implications of man’s sin nature

The flood and Tower of Babel with the spreading of mankind around the earth and

racial/linguistic development

The Sumerian civilization and concepts of culture and the development of a

civilization, including important Sumerian inventions

Egyptian civilization, including concepts of dynasties, and the link to Biblical events

The development of the Israeli nation through Abraham to Moses, the Sinatic

Covenant, the conquering of the land, the time of the Judges, the kings, the split

kingdoms, and the reasons for and results of the captivities

Phoenician contributions and the Hittite empire

The empire of Assyria, and reasons for its fall

The empire of Babylon, development of astrology, and Daniel’s dream: the

successive human kingdoms and prophetic view of end times

The empire of Persia: concepts of empire/nation building, religious dualism, coinage,

and succession problems

The Greek civilization, including the literature of Homer, the development and

conflicts of the city-states, the Macedonian conquest, and the empire of Alexander

the Great and results

Greek philosophy: its origin, goals, major concepts including definitions of ethics,

and major contributors, including the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,

Epicurus, Stoicism, and Greek humanism

The Roman empire, including studies of development of republican forms of

government, the rule of law, and the meaning and continued influence of Pax

Romana

The development of Christianity, examining its origin, reasons for growth, and

reasons for and results of persecution

The fall of the Roman Empire

The origins and wanderings of the Germanic tribes, and the beginnings of the

Germanic nations, especially the reign of Charlemagne

The structure of the Catholic church: what and why, and the development of the

papacy, holy orders, and the doctrines of the medieval Catholic church

The definition of feudalism, and its basic concepts including the terms of feudal

contracts, and reasons for European fragmentation after Charlemagne

The definition of manorialism, and the roles of lords and serfs

The need for and contents of the code of Chivalry, and the process of knighthood,

heraldry, and church limits on knightly violence

The origins of the Anglo-Saxon people, their migration to the British Isles, and the

establishment of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms

The Viking invasions and results

The reign of Alfred the Great, and the beginnings of England

The invasion of Knut

The reign of Edward the Confessor

The battle of Hastings and triumph of William the Conqueror

The changes linguistically, socially, politically, and administratively from the

Norman Invasion

The administrative reforms of Henry I and the judicial reforms of Henry II

The mistakes of King John and the resulting Magna Charta: concepts of limited

government, lex rex¸ and the growth of the Great Council

The changes in the Great Council brought by Simon de Montfort

The reign of Edward I and the growth of Parliament

The Hundred Years war and the development of nationalism, and changes created by

the war and Black Plague: the decline of feudalism, the rise of absolute monarchies,

and the decline of manorialism

The War and Roses and establishment of the Tudor dynasty

The reign of Henry VII and concepts of freedom vs. stability

Precursors to the reformation: Acquinas, Peter Waldo, Wycliffe, Hus, Erasmus, and

Gutenberg

The life of Martin Luther and the reformation

The changes Luther created in the church and the development of Protestantism

The effects of Protestantism on European culture

The secondary reformation: Zwingli, the Anabaptists, and Calvin

The counter-reformation

The reign of Henry VIII: the creation of the Anglican church

The reformation under Edward VI

The failure of Mary Tudor

Elizabeth: reasons for success, the Elizabethan settlement, and the Spanish Armada

Divine right monarchy and James I

Charles I: the Petition of Right, the personal rule, the Grand Remonstrance, and the

English Civil War

Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate: England comes full circle

The Restoration and changes in the government

The Glorious Revolution: causes and results, including the English Bill of Rights

William and Mary through the Hanoverian dynasty: evolution of parliamentary

government under Robert Walpole

The French Revolution: the causes, the events, and the results: France comes full

circle

The causes and results of the industrial revolution

Democracy and nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The causes of WWI, and the impact of the industrial revolution on war

Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and the Treaty of Versailles, and its later implications


Course Description

Title: Worldviews Date: 9/25/03

Grade: 11 Textbook: Understanding The Times

Course Objective:

The Biblical Christian worldview is presented in contrast to the humanist worldviews of

Secular Humanism, Marxism/Leninism, and Cosmic Humanism. The course surveys ten

essential areas of study: theology, philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology,

law, politics, economics, and history. Students will become increasingly aware of the

lost condition of those without Christ and will be better equipped to communicate God’s

truth.

Materials: Understanding The Times – Text

Understanding The Times – Workbook

Time

Allotment:

Five days a week, forty-seven minutes a day, one semester

Content: What makes up worldview and why understanding worldview is important

Introduction to three of the major non-Christian worldviews: secular humanism,

Marxism/Leninism, and cosmic humanism

Non-Christian theologies

Foundations for Biblical theism

What is philosophy?

Non-Christian philosophies and the Christian response.

Non-Christian ethics in today’s society

Christian ethics

Non-Christian teachings regarding the origin of life – biology

Biology as a testimony to the Creator

Non-Christian perspectives relating to human behavior – psychology

Psychology from the Christian perspective

Non-Christian views of social organization – sociology

Christian view of social structure

Natural Law vs. Positive Law

God’s Laws vs. Man’s Law: applied

The State: ordained by God or product of evolution?

Economics – Justice, the fall, and the stewardship of resources

Worldview and History – random, revolutionary, or redemptive

The way things really are


Course Description

Title: Desktop Publishing Date: September 11, 2003

Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12 Textbook: none

Course Objective:

The objective of this class is for students complete the Royal Heir yearbook. Topics of study include publication design, layout techniques, and manipulating text and graphics within Josten’s website. Students design pages for the Royal Heir by creating the layout,

writing copy, and placing pictures. Students also sell ads to help finance the yearbook, learning business skills.

Materials: Jostens’s Yearbook Avenue website

Computer

Adobe Photoshop

Microsoft Word

Printer

Scanner

Camera

Time Allotment:

One year, meeting five times a week for forty-five minutes a day.

Content: Preliminary planning of The Royal Heir

Selling ads

Planning the ladder

Basic layout techniques

Planning page layout

Acquiring photos

Writing process

Designing advertisements

Submitting pages through Jostens’ Yearbook Avenue website

Documents

Jackson Christian Schools Course Description proportions in various forms Solving problems using proportions Making maps and scale drawings Telling whether two polygons are similar