Teacher: Mark Doebele
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Length: 1 year/1 credit
Course Description: The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials — their relevance to a given interpretive problem, reliability, and importance — and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. An AP U.S. History course should thus develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. The approach to this course includes, but is not limited to, the following elements: development of substantial knowledge of social, cultural, political, economic and military events relevant to history of the United States; development of assessment and interpretive skills; development of “map skills”, and the development of communicative skills through the writing of coherent, analytical essays.
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The student will
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Teacher: Hannah Swafford
Length: 1 semester/.5 credit
Course Description: Honors Government is designed to give students an analytical perspective on government and politics within the United States. Specifically, this course will focus on the Constitution; political beliefs and behaviors; political parties, interest groups, and mass media; the Congress, presidency, bureaucracy, and the federal courts; public policy; and civil rights and liberties. The course will require students to master historical and analytic skills, including; chronological and spatial thinking, historical research and interpretation. Students will evaluate viewpoints presented through major print and electronic media, understand statistical data and analyze trends related to significant political events.
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Teacher: Shelby Spitz
Length: 1 semester/.5 credit
Course Description: This course is a survey of the U.S. government structure, systems and political processes. Content will include factors that influence U.S. government at the national, state, and local levels. This course prepares students to become responsible/aware members of American society, to think critically about political issues, and to express informed opinions about questions of government through a variety of different formats.
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The student will
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Teacher: Brooke Davis
Length: 1 year/1 credit
Textbook: ISBN- 0-618-42770-8 The Earth and Its People (A Global History)
Course Description: Honors World History is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills that will facilitate their understanding of the evolution of global processes through the study of interaction among different societies. Focuses include encounters and interactions among the major societies and how their actions (political, economic, technological, and environmental) have both initiated change and allow for continuities over time, from 5000 BC to the present. The curriculum — in terms of both content and skills — is based on five overarching themes which serve throughout the course as unifying threads, helping put what is particular about each period or society into a larger framework. The five themes we will focus on are: Interaction between humans and environment; Development and interaction of cultures; State-building, expansion, and conflict; Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and Development and transformation of social structures.
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Teacher: Brooke Davis
Length: 1 semester/.5 credit
Course Description: sychology is the science and profession concerned with the behavior of humans and how the mind functions. This course will look at the content and terminology of the discipline. A course in general psychology gives the students the opportunity to develop methods of learning and study; to prepare for parenthood, family life, and careers; and to learn about the range of services provided by psychologists. Through the use of class notes, current media, case studies and class discussion, the student will explore the theories and assertions that are open to question in the light of new information.
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Teacher: Mark Doebele and Shelby Spitz
Length: 1 year/1 credit
Course Description: This course is a study of American History starting with the beginning of the first Americans to the Eisenhower Era. Students will use different resources to study the effects of how places, events, and people have shaped who we are as a country today. The approach to this course includes, but is not limited to, the following elements: development of assessment and interpretive skills, development of higher order thinking skills, and communicative skills through a variety of writing tasks and projects.
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The student will
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Teacher: Hannah Swafford
Length: 1 semester/.5 credit
Course Description:This course is designed for students to learn about the constantly changing world in which we live. Students will study the relationship between culture, history, physical geography and human interaction with the land. Through these studies, students will have a growing understanding of the influences of geography over history and the development of distinct cultures and nations in the world around them.
Course Objectives: The student will: Discuss the relevance of geography to the development of culture. Identify the differences between human geography and physical geography and explain their independent variations. Formulate their own opinions and provide sufficient support on relevant conflicts between geographic regions.
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Teacher: Bill Garner
Length: 1 year/1 credit
Textbook: Prentice Hall's World History - Connections to Today
Course Description:World History covers a variety of information spanning about 6000 years! Beginning with early civilizations, Biblical times, and ancient history all the way through World War Two.
Course Objectives: Students will understand development of civilizations, specific emphasis on Europe's development, go through major empires in history, and a continual development leading toward the modern world.
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