Idaho City High School Course Description Booklet |
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May 9, 2008 |
IDAHO CITY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS Students must earn a minimum of 44 credits to graduate from Idaho City High School including the 25 core classes identified by the State Department of Education. Beginning with the graduating class of 2006, graduates will also have to pass all three parts of the ISAT (Idaho Standard Achievement Test) to receive a regular diploma. Required Classes for Graduation from Idaho City High School Required Classes are Taken in Grades * Successfully completing two sports in one year is equal to one semester of required PE. CAREER PLANNING Career planning is best accomplished with the help of your parents, teachers, counselor and other adults who know and care for you. Key elements of career planning:
Basin School District 72 has established the requirements for graduation for Idaho City High School. These requirements include the Idaho State Department of Education requirements and additional local requirements. Every student has the opportunity to take those requirements necessary to enter the public colleges and universities in Idaho, both academic and vocational/technical. Pre-planning begins in the 8th grade with students (and parents) developing a personal four-year graduation plan. Individual career folders are available in the counseling office. Students are encouraged to develop a portfolio that includes a collection of information that will assist in selecting and designing a career pathway. Information should include accomplishments, writing samples, honors and awards, recommendations, and a current copy of your transcript. This information will be valuable when applying to college, filling out scholarship applications, writing a resume, and applying for employment. The counselor will meet with you individually (upon request) and in classroom groups to work on the contents of your portfolio. Parents are encouraged to call or set up conferences to review graduation requirements, do a credit check, review test scores, discuss attendance issues, and to plan post-secondary education goals. CAREER PATHWAYS Idaho recognizes six career pathways:
These career pathways can be accessed online through the Career Information System (CIS), www.idahocis.org. User name: idahocity (one word, no caps); Password: wildcats4 (for school year 04-05; wildcats5 for school year 05-06, etc.). CIS is a valuable research tool with a wealth of information on occupations, education and career exploration. Information found in CIS:
Course Requirements for Admission to Idaho Public Colleges and Universities
Course Requirement for Admission to Idaho Professional Technical Programs
ICHS COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Instructional Objectives reflect the District and State standards for teacher reference and planning. Performance Objectives, which are handed out at the beginning of each class in the fall, are more specific student-oriented tasks that outline what students should know and be able to do. State Standards can be viewed on the state website under Power Standards by grade and subject: http://www.sde.state.id.us/dept/standards.asp All classes are yearlong classes unless otherwise stated. Students can earn one credit each semester for successfully completing each course. Course: English 9 Content: Students will read and respond to a variety of literature to increase their understanding and appreciation of the many dimensions of the human experience. Students will also further develop and demonstrate the skills, conventions, and various styles of writing as a vital component of communication. Major literary works to be studied include The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Text and Materials: classroom textbook and supplementary novels, short stories, poems, and plays. Grading Procedure: A student’s grade will be a reflection of their performance in the following areas: in-class reading and writing assignments, out of class reading assignments, major writing projects, and unit tests. The first semester final exam will be cumulative and the second semester final exam will be an end of course assessment. Course: English 10 Content: This course introduces, reinforces, and strives for mastery of the concepts in reading, writing, listening, and viewing as identified for 10th grade by district and state standards. Using the writing process students will practice peer editing, and self revision of essays, personal narrative, fiction, poetry, and research reporting. Text and Materials: Prentice Hall Literature anthology and supplementary reading materials Grading Procedure: Students will show understanding and competence of the mechanical, grammatical, and process of written language and vocabulary. Each student will contribute writing to a permanent writing portfolio. A demonstration of comprehension and fluidity in reading from text and supplementary materials is mandatory. Course: English 11 Content: English 11 studies literary works in the American tradition, beginning with the essay genre and moving through literary movements such as Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism and Modernism. Students will also have a variety of writing assignments to utilize writing as a tool for examining a wide variety of literature and ideas. Text and Materials: Prentice Hall Literature Anthology, plus various novels. Grading Procedure: Students are graded on participation; essays and reading responses, which are graded on the six basic traits of writing, and weekly quizzes. Course: English 12 Content: This course integrates the skills and concepts of reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing as identified for 12th grade by district and state standards, and prepares students for the workplace and adult life. The course reading selections support the topic of the personal, professional and political self and exemplify the concepts of identity, knowledge, interactions, interdependence, and interconnections. Emphasis is on technical, analytical and reflective reading and writing. Students will write research and proposal papers, and update their graduation portfolios. Text and Materials: Prentice Hall Literature anthology and supplementary reading materials Grading Procedure: Students will be able to research and write papers in the APA style. Students will write essays in response to literature, and based on personal experience. Reading comprehension and fluidity will be at a twelfth grade competency. Students will continue to add to their writing port folios. Course: English 12, College Prep Content: This course integrates the skills and concepts of reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing as identified for 12th grade by district and state standards, and prepares for a four-year university program. The course focuses on the concepts of literary archetypes, catalysts, tragedy, and mutability in classic and contemporary British and world literature. Text and Materials: Prentice Hall Literature anthology and supplementary reading materials Course: Technical Reading and Writing Content: This course emphasizes basic reading and writing skills, utilizing texts and the Read Naturally program. The course provides instruction in comprehension and vocabulary development, study skills, and both technical and recreational reading. The six areas of the ISAT will be emphasized and remediated: word analysis, vocabulary development, literal comprehension, interpretive comprehension, evaluative comprehension, and literary analysis. All students not proficient in reading on the spring ISAT will be placed in this class. Text and Materials: Read Naturally Reading Program; Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning Grading Procedure: Students are graded on participation, comprehension questions on Read Naturally reading selections, written reports and weekly quizzes. Course: Speech Content: This course introduces the student to the communication process, interpersonal communication skills, small group interactions and, most importantly, public speaking. Students will prepare and deliver several different types of speeches including informational, how-to, and persuasive. Text and Materials: Handouts. Grading Procedure: Students will be graded on specified speech characteristics for each speech given according to prescribed speech rubrics. Course: General Math Content: The foundations of math in the following areas will be covered: multiplication tables, division, working with decimals and fractions in adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, place value, reading and writing numbers, rounding numbers, averages, finding greatest and least common factors, working with fractions, figuring percentages, ratios and proportions, scientific notation, unit conversions, introduction to geometry, perimeter, area, and volume. Course: Business/Consumer Math Content: This class includes detailed mathematical computations for wages and tips, payroll tax and social security deductions, health and life insurance premiums, credit card and checking accounts, income tax forms, automobile loans, house mortgages, investments in stocks and bonds as well as mathematical applications to carpentry, plumbing, painting, sale, advertising and manufacturing. Course: Pre Algebra Content: The course begins with the very basics (addition, subtraction, decimals etc.) and goes all the way through a full treatment of many basic algebra topics, including percentage problems, exponentials, adding like terms, as well as numerous volume and surface area geometry problems and many other algebra-based concepts. Text: Algebra ½, An Incremental Development Grading Procedure: Each student’s test average will have 2.5 percent added to it if all the homework is done (1.25 percent is added if half of the homework is done, and so forth). If a student has a 90 percent test average and has done all the homework, 2.5 percent will be added. Then, the 92.5 will be rounded up to a 93 percent such that a full “A” is recorded. When considering all students’ grades up and down the scale, homework averages out to be about fifteen percent of the total grade. Course: Algebra 1 Content: The course begins with basic addition and subtraction of fractions and progresses all the way through traditional algebra, as well as many volume and surface area geometry problems and much else, before concluding with a number of standard Algebra II topics such as exponential growth and quadratic equations. Text: Algebra 1, An Incremental Development Grading Procedure: Each student’s test average will have 2.5 percent added to it if all the homework is done (1.25 percent is added if half of the homework is done, and so forth). If a student has a 90 percent test average and has done all the homework, 2.5 percent will be added. Then, the 92.5 will be rounded up to a 93 percent such that a full “A” is recorded. When considering all students’ grades up and down the scale, homework averages out to be about fifteen percent of the total grade. Course: Geometry Content: Geometry is the study of properties and relationships of points, lines, angles, curves, surfaces, and solids. Topics include reasoning and proof, parallel and perpendicular lines, congruent triangles and their relationships, quadrilaterals, area and volume, similarity, and right triangle trigonometry. Text: Geometry, 2004, ISBN 0-13-062572-8 Course: Algebra II Content: The course begins with a full review of Algebra I material and then covers: trigonometry, imaginary numbers, quadratic equations, multi-step rate times time equals distance problems, exponential and logarithmic equations, geometric proofs, three equations and three unknowns, parabolas and several other advanced algebra subjects. Text: Algebra II, An Incremental Development Grading Procedure: Each student’s test average will have 2.5 percent added to it if all the homework is done (1.25 percent is added if half of the homework is done, and so forth). If a student has a 90 percent test average and has done all the homework, 2.5 percent will be added. Then, the 92.5 will be rounded up to a 93 percent such that a full “A” is recorded. When considering all students’ grades up and down the scale, homework averages out to be about fifteen percent of the total grade. Course: Pre Calculus Content: The course covers geometric proofs, complex volume and surface area problems, vector functions, abstract rate times time equals distance problems, inverse trigonometric functions, , angular velocity, functions of conic sections (hyperbolas, ellipses, parabolas etc.), infinite series and sequences, trigonometric proofs and identities, advanced logarithmic/exponential functions and a full treatment of solutions to higher order polynomials. Text: Advanced Mathematics, An Incremental Development Grading Procedure: Each student’s test average will have 2.5 percent added to it if all the homework is done (1.25 percent is added if half of the homework is done, and so forth). If a student has a 90 percent test average and has done all the homework, 2.5 percent will be added. Then, the 92.5 will be rounded up to a 93 percent such that a full “A” is recorded. When considering all students’ grades up and down the scale, homework averages out to be about fifteen percent of the total grade. Course: Calculus Content: The course reviews all of the latter portion of Pre Calculus and then progress onto limits, differentiation, integration, maximum/minimum problems, related rates, derivatives and integrals of trigonometric functions, integration of solids, Maclaurin polynomials, power series, partial fraction decomposition for integration, and much else including many calculus applications for physics. Text: Calculus with Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry Grading Procedure: Each student’s test average will have 2.5 percent added to it if all the homework is done (1.25 percent is added if half of the homework is done, and so forth). If a student has a 90 percent test average and has done all the homework, 2.5 percent will be added. Then, the 92.5 will be rounded up to a 93 percent such that a full “A” is recorded. When considering all students’ grades up and down the scale, homework averages out to be about fifteen percent of the total grade. Course: Biology Content: This inquiry-based class explores the study of life and living systems. It is a required lab science for all sophomores, and emphasizes human anatomy/physiology and comparative anatomy within the animal kingdom. All human body systems are studied both in the classroom and the lab with the relationship between structure and function receiving special attention. Lab activities include protist culture observation, skeleton reconstruction, heart, lung and eyeball dissection and fetal pig system analysis. Text and Materials: Grading Procedure: Emphasis placed on lab work, projects, and tests. Course: Biotechnology Content: First semester is spent studying genetics including the structure of DNA, replication, transcription, translation and mutation. Second semester the focus shifts to the practical application of emerging technologies in the field of Biotechnology and their ethical implications. Students will be asked to construct rational arguments in support of their opinions on some of these issues. Text and Materials: to be provided. Grading Procedure: A through F Course: Chemistry Content: This course of study is a conceptual, mathematical and technical approach that utilizes laboratory procedures to understand basic chemistry principles. It includes scientific measurement, matter and change, atomic structure, chemical names and formulas, periodic table, chemical quantities, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, forensic chemistry, the states of matter, chemical bonds, and thermo chemistry. Offered alternating years with Physics. Text and Materials: Grading Procedure: Emphasis placed on lab work, projects, and tests. Course: Earth Science Content: Earth Science is a survey course examining the Earth and its place in the universe. Emphasis is placed on the formation of the Earth, its structure and the forces that continually change it. Identification of landforms and the use of topographic maps are also stressed. Text and Materials: Grading Procedure: Emphasis placed on lab work, projects, and tests. Course: Environmental Science Content: The Environmental Science curriculum is an activity-based approach. The class is designed to get students involved in their own educational processes and environmental concerns by designing the Environmental Science curriculum around hands-on activities and rehabilitation projects within the geographical location of the high school and local community. The Environmental Science class was created to take advantage of the unique setting and location of Idaho City High School. Activities focus around aquatic biomes and their rehabilitation. Text and Materials: Various handouts and activities. Grading Procedure: Grading is based on a point scale of A-F. Course: Physics Content: The course begins with an introduction to significant digits and a review of trigonometry (Algebra II at ICHS or a course in trigonometry are prerequisites for this class) and goes on to cover numerous topics: friction, torque, work, power, potential & kinetic energy, wave theory, heat, velocity & acceleration, optics (Snell’s Law), electricity & magnetism (Ohm’s Law), Hooke’s Law, Archimedes Principle and more. Text: Physics, An Incremental Development Grading Procedure: Grading is based on a point scale of A-F. |
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