COURSE LIST
Course Guide
Students of all ages and academic backgrounds enjoy the flexibility of attending our Academy in one of 3 ways. All divisions of our school are fully accredited and our challenging curriculum is based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence. Students in all divisions must have regular access to a computer/tablet and the internet in order to be successful while enrolled. All textbooks and curriculum are stored online and use and knowledge of computers is mandatory for all divisions. Instructional classes are for Core classes only. Our Elective classes are independently taken with Instructor led videos to ensure mastery.
All courses listed in this guide are offered each 6 week quarter.
EACH COURSE IS OFFERED IN A ½ CREDIT FORMAT OF PART A AND B TO EQUAL 1 WHOLE CREDIT.
(A&B Represents 1st & 2nd Semesters)
Students and adults may choose to attend our school in 1 of 3 methods: Instructional Division; our Independent Study or our Online Academy division. Each division of our Academy allows flexibility and constant access to our certified Instructional staff and counseling and tutorial staff. Additionally, each division has various attendance requirements as well as pricing differences. Each option is discussed upon appointment/evaluation.
Language Arts Offerings
This literature-based, integrated course is designed for heterogeneously grouped students to develop organization and communication skills used in composition. Students organize, develop, and arrange ideas and information
for a variety of purposes and audiences. Composition skills are further developed through guided writing (formal essays, and documented report papers) and technology. Also the teacher will integrate grammar, usage,
and conventions based on students’ compositions. The course includes comprehension and analysis of world literature including poetry, fables, mythology, short stories, and drama.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
This course is designed for twelfth-grade students, will survey British Literature in the areas of poetry and prose. It is focused on the study, analysis, and comparison of British literature. In this class, each student will become more proficient in the use and comprehension of the English language. The student will read, write, speak, listen, act, and create within the positive atmosphere of a classroom “community.”
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester 3
Social Studies Offerings
Economics offers students the opportunity to study the issues of scarcity and choice relating to the utilization of limited resources. Students learn how to apply the tools of economics personal, community, national and international issues. Economic preparedness enables students to make choices relying on past historical and geographical knowledge to active successfully engage in our complex society.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
American Government is designed to increase students’ knowledge of how the United States government was established, how it is organized, and includes an analysis of its progression throughout our history. After completion of this course, students will have an understanding of the importance of our system of government and the integral role it plays in their lives.
Units: ½ unit per semester
This course will focus on an analysis of the origins, foundations, and evidence of the American democratic ideal. Special emphasis will be placed on the colonial era and the establishment of our constitutional government. The theme for the course will be “Change.” Change has brought our country into the modern era and change will bring it forward through progress, promotion, and the endless pursuit of the American ideals of life, liberty, and happiness. Change can be shown through the exploration of wars such as the Revolutionary War, the French and Indian War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, and the present-day War on Terror. We will explore the unique ability of the United States to adapt and assimilate new cultures, ideals, and the changing world into our way of life.
Units:½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
World History is a course that enables students to explore the human race in each stage of development from the Ancient World up to the present day. Through the study of history, students will grasp a larger worldview and develop a broader understanding of the world and its people groups. Students will be able to connect with the developments of previous societies and relate these developments to their own life.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester 8
The world geography course provides students with an analytical view of how geographic factors have and continue to influence human behavior on the earth. Students will examine how the physical and cultural geographic factors contribute to varying levels of cooperation within the major world regions. Additionally, students will examine the importance that political, environmental, and economic factors have in a region’s development.
Science Offerings
Environmental Science will focus first on our earth’s natural resources of atmosphere and land. Students will also explore the need for diversity in the environment. Students will examine the need and impact of human use of energy and resources. Students will be expected to conduct laboratory studies and research. The focus will be not only on a global look at the environment, but also a look at the local community of the students.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
The Biology curriculum is designed to continue student investigations of the life sciences that began in grades K-8 and provide students the necessary skills to be proficient in biology. This curriculum includes more abstract concepts such as the interdependence of organisms, the relationship of matter, energy, and organization in living systems, the behavior of organisms, and biological evolution. Students will investigate biological concepts through experience in laboratories and field work using the processes of inquiry.
Unit: 1 unit per semester
The Chemistry curriculum is designed to continue student investigations of the physical sciences that began in grades K-8 and provide students the necessary skills to be proficient in chemistry. This curriculum includes more abstract concepts such as the structure of atoms, structure and properties of matter, characterization of the properties that describe solutions and the nature of acids and bases, and the conservation and interaction of energy and matter. Students investigate chemistry concepts through experience in laboratories and field work using the processes of inquiry.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
Students will learn to define matter and classify it according to chemical and physical properties. The historical development and modern theory of the atom will be studied. Students will classify atoms according to atomic structure and use that understanding to predict bonding using the periodic table. The students will write formulas for compounds using their understanding of the periodic table and accepted rules of practice. Students will describe chemical reactions by using balanced equations. In the second part of the course students will examine the Newton’s three laws of motion; the six types of simple machines; the effect of forces such as electricity and magnetism on matter; as well as the concepts of light and sound waves.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
Students will explore the anatomy and physiology of the human body. The study will begin with the basic structure of cells, and then progress to tissue and then the human systems. The students will learn clinical terminology, diseases and tests conducted for diagnostic purposes. Lab activities will be 9 performed in specific areas, with the dissection of a pig throughout the semester.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester 10
Mathematics Offerings
The fundamental purpose of Coordinate Algebra is to formalize and extend the mathematics that students learned in the middle grades. The critical areas – organized into units – deepen and extend understanding of linear relationships, in part by contrasting them with exponential phenomena, and in part by applying linear models to data that exhibit a linear trend. Coordinate Algebra uses algebra to deepen and extend understanding of geometric knowledge from prior grades. The final unit in the course ties together the algebraic and geometric ideas studied. The Standards for Mathematical Practice apply throughout each unit and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful and logical subject that makes use of students’ ability to make sense of problem situations.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
In this course, transformations on the coordinate plane provide opportunities for the formal study of congruence and similarity. The study of similarity leads to an understanding of right triangle trigonometry and connects to quadratics through Pythagorean relationships. The study of circles uses similarity and congruence to develop basic theorems relating circles and lines. The need for extending the set of rational numbers arises and real and complex numbers are introduced so that all quadratic equations can be solved. Quadratic expressions, equations, and functions are developed; comparing their characteristics and behavior to those of linear and exponential relationships from Coordinate Algebra. Circles return with their quadratic algebraic representations on the coordinate plane. The link between probability and data is explored through conditional probability. The Standards for Mathematical Practice apply throughout each unit and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations. Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
Algebra II/Advanced Algebra is the culminating course in a sequence of three high school courses designed to ensure career and college readiness. It is designed to prepare students for fourth course options relevant to their career pursuits. The standards in the three-course high school sequence specify the mathematics that all students should study in order to be college and career ready. Additional mathematics content is provided in fourth credit courses and advanced courses including pre-calculus, calculus, advanced statistics, discrete mathematics, and mathematics of finance courses. High school course content standards are listed by conceptual categories including Number and Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, and Statistics and Probability. Conceptual categories portray a coherent view of high school mathematics content; a student’s work with functions, for example, crosses a number of traditional course boundaries, potentially up through and including calculus. Standards for Mathematical Practice provide the foundation for instruction and assessment. This course requires students to: analyze polynomial functions of higher degree; explore logarithmic functions as inverses of exponential functions; solve a variety of equations and inequalities numerically, algebraically, and graphically; use matrices and linear programming to represent and solve problems; use matrices to represent and solve problems involving vertex-edge graphs; investigate the relationships between lines and circles; recognize, analyze, and graph the equations of conic sections; investigate planes and spheres; solve problems by interpreting a normal distribution as a probability distribution; and design and conduct experimental and observational studies. Units: 1 Unit per semester 4
This fourth-year mathematics course is designed to prepare students for calculus and other college-level mathematics courses. It includes rational, trigonometric, and inverse trigonometric functions; basic trigonometric identities and the laws of sines and cosines; sequences and series; vectors; the central limit theorem and confidence intervals.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester 5
The course will give students further experiences with statistical information and summaries, methods of designing and conducting statistical studies, an opportunity to analyze various voting processes, modeling of data, basic financial decisions, and use network models for making informed decisions. It will challenge students to examine math applications relating to monetary experiences encountered in their personal life and business interactions.
Units: 1 Unit per semester 6
Elective Offerings
Introduces production and performance, covering terminology and idioms, elements of music, perceptive listening and attitudes, and appreciation. Stresses the ability to become a literate consumer along with the ability to speak and write fluently about music.
Units: 1 unit per semester
Investigates the principles of psychology, developmental psychology, heredity and environmental aspects of psychology, learning theory, personality, intelligence, social disorders and research methods used in the study of psychology. Integrates and reinforces social studies skills.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
Focuses on critical thinking, organizing, and communicating appropriately to different audiences; presents methods to develop and arrange ideas and information in written form for effective oral delivery. Emphasizes writing and public speaking skills.
Units: 1 unit per semester
Emphasizes basic skills, thinking skills and personal qualities such as self-esteem, responsibility and self-management; covers communications, mathematics, creative decision making and problem solving.
Units: 1 unit per semester
Provides opportunities to improve writing proficiency with emphasis on fluency, control, and style; emphasizes writing as a process with instruction in grammar, mechanics usage, and imaginative expression. Offers opportunities for independent writing assignments to examine narrative, descriptive, persuasive, and expository modes of discourse.
Units: 1 unit per semester
An introduction to the language and culture of Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries. The course will
enable students to attain a beginner’s level of proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with an
emphasis on oral proficiency
Units:½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
This course is designed to further develop listening, speaking, reading and writing with an emphasis on oral proficiency. The student will acquire a basic command of key vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary for limited personal communication as well as an appreciation of diversity in the Spanish-speaking world.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester 11
Become more proficient in the use and comprehension of the English language. The student will speak, listen, act, and create within the positive atmosphere of a classroom “community”.
Units: 1/2 unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester 3
Health Education Offerings
Explores the mental, physical, and social aspects of life and how each contributes to total health and well-being; emphasizes safety, nutrition, mental health, substance abuse prevention, disease prevention, environmental health, family life education, health careers, consumer health, and community health.
Units: ½ unit per semester or 1 Unit per semester
