Courses Covered
All courses, including curriculum and study materials, are current with Common Core standards and developed in collaboration with the NROC network community.
Language Arts:
Introduction to Literature: In this course, students will acquire basic reading skills and strategies necessary for comprehending and interpreting fiction and non-fiction texts. The course builds on reading skill development, moving from identifying main ideas to drawing conclusions and making inferences. Additionally, students will analyze how an author’s choices related to purpose and audience as well as diction and figurative language affect meaning.
By the completion of this course, students will:
- Read and identify main ideas and details, both implicit and explicit
- Make inferences and draw conclusions
- Analyze authors’ choices and craft related to the
- audience and purpose
- sequence of events
- structural relationship between ideas
- word choice
- diction
- tone
- transitional devices
- literary devices
Fiction: Building on Course 1, students will develop reading skills and strategies to identify and analyze the major elements of fiction. Using textual evidence, students will identify how an author utilizes point of view and develops characters, setting, and plot to advance the theme.
By the completion of this course, students will
- Read and identify plot, characters, and setting
- Analyze character development
- Analyze mood and tone in stories
- Understand the interrelationship of narrative elements to create story
- Analyze mood and tone in stories
- Interpret theme
Nonfiction: Building on Courses 1 and 2, students will develop reading skills and strategies specific to informational texts, including articles, speeches, reports, and letters. Students will read and identify text structures in nonfiction articles and analyze rhetorical techniques used in arguments, discerning between bias and reliable sources of evidence.
By the completion of this course, students will
- Read and distinguish between text structures:
- cause and effect
- compare and contrast
- parallel ideas
- Identify an author’s viewpoint and purpose
- Analyze arguments by
- distinguishing between fact and opinion
- assessing reliability of sources and claims
- identifying rhetorical techniques, such as alliteration, analogy, enumeration, juxtaposition, qualifying statements, parallelism, etc.
- comparing conflicting viewpoints
Writing: In this course, students will gain knowledge of the conventions of Standard English, focusing on grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage. Students will demonstrate this knowledge by distinguishing between correct and incorrect grammatical forms and sentence structures. Also, students will write to demonstrate their ability to responds to a writing prompt, conceptualize a response, and express that idea in writing.
By the completion of this course, students will
- Identify Standard English conventions related to
- capitalization
- spelling
- grammar
- modification
- sentence structure
- Demonstrate the ability to construct a meaningful text.
Mathematics:
Pre-Algebra: The goal of the Pre-Algebra Curriculum is to provide pre-curser skills review and teach foundational concepts that will be further developed during Algebra 1.By completion of the course, students understand how to:
- Manipulate numbers and equations.
- Factor numerators and denominators to solve problems.
- Use properties of exponents.
- Use the Pythagorean Theorem and solve problems in which they compute the length of an unknown side.
- Compute the surface area and volume of basic three-dimensional objects and understand how area and volume change with a change in scale.
- Make conversions between different units of measurement.
- Use different representations of fractional numbers (fractions, decimals, and percent) and are proficient at changing from one to another.
- Use ratio and proportion to solve problems.
- Compute percent of increase and decrease.
- Graph linear functions and understand the idea of slope and its relation to ratio.
- Demonstrate knowledge of statistical terms, types of data, and identify variables.
- List steps necessary for collection of data.
- Identify the methods of sampling; random, systematic, stratified, and cluster.
- Interpret and apply graphical displays of data.
- Calculate and use the measures of central tendency
- Calculate probability
- Identify sampling methods
- Identify and use the arithmetic properties of subsets of integers and rational, irrational, and real numbers, including closure properties for the four basic arithmetic operations where applicable
- Understand and use such operations as taking the opposite, finding the reciprocal, taking a root, and raising to a fractional power. They understand and use the rules of exponents.
- Solve equations and inequalities involving absolute values.
- Simplify expressions before solving linear equations and inequalities in one variable, such as 3(2x-5) + 4(x-2) = 12.
- Solve multistep problems, including word problems, involving linear equations and linear inequalities in one variable and provide justification for each step.
- Graph a linear equation and compute the x- and y-intercepts. They are also able to sketch the region defined by linear inequality.
- Verify that a point lies on a line, given an equation of the line. Students are able to derive linear equations by using the point-slope formula.
- Understand the concepts of parallel lines and perpendicular lines and how those slopes are related. Students are able to find the equation of a line perpendicular to a given line that passes through a given point.
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide monomials and polynomials. Students solve multistep problems, including word problems, by using these techniques.
- Apply basic factoring techniques to second- and simple third-degree polynomials. These techniques include finding a common factor for all terms in a polynomial, recognizing the difference of two squares, and recognizing perfect squares of binomials.
- Simplify fractions with polynomials in the numerator and denominator by factoring both and reducing them to the lowest terms.
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational expressions and functions. Students solve both computationally and conceptually challenging problems by using these techniques.
- Apply algebraic techniques to solve rate problems, work problems, and percent mixture problems.
- Understand the concepts of a relation and a function, determine whether a given relation defines a function, and give pertinent information about given relations and functions.
- Determine the domain of independent variables and the range of dependent variables defined by a graph, a set of ordered pairs, or a symbolic expression.
- Use the quadratic formula to find the roots of a second-degree polynomial and to solve quadratic equations.
- Demonstrate understanding by identifying and giving examples of undefined terms, axioms, theorems, and inductive and deductive reasoning.
- Write geometric proofs, including proofs by contradiction.
- Prove basic theorems involving congruence and similarity.
- Prove that triangles are congruent or similar, and they are able to use the concept of corresponding parts of congruent triangles.
- Use theorems involving the properties of parallel lines cut by a transversal, the properties of quadrilaterals, and the properties of circles.
- Know, derive, and solve problems involving the perimeter, circumference, area, volume, lateral area, and surface area of common geometric figures.
- Compute the volumes and surface areas of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, and spheres10.0 Students compute areas of polygons, including rectangles, scalene triangles, equilateral triangles, rhombi, parallelograms, and trapezoids.
- Determine how changes in dimensions affect the perimeter, area, and volume of common geometric figures and solids.
- Find and use measures of sides and of interior and exterior angles of triangles and polygons to classify figures and solve problems.
- Prove relationships between angles in polygons by using properties of complementary, supplementary, vertical, and exterior angles.
- Use the Pythagorean theorem to determine distance and find missing lengths of sides of right triangles.
- Find the midpoint of a line segment, the distance formula, and various forms of equations of lines and circles.
- Know and are able to use angle and side relationships in problems with special right triangles, such as 30°, 60°, and 90° triangles and 45°, 45°, and 90° triangles.
- Know the effect of rigid motions on figures in the coordinate plane and space, including rotations, translations, and reflections.
- Apply strategies to monitor income and expenses, plan for spending and save for future goals.
- Develop strategies to control and manage credit and debt.
- Use a career plan to develop personal income potential.
- Implement a diversified investment strategy that is compatible with personal financial goals.
- Apply appropriate and cost-effective risk management strategies.
- Apply reliable information and systematic decision making to personal financial decisions.
Science:
Life Science: is a course based on the study of living organisms. The course deals with basic chemical and physical structures in relation to the functions of the cell, cell structure and function, cell growth and reproduction, heredity, organic compounds, viruses, protists, fungi, plants, animals, classification systems, the biosphere, biomes, and ecosystems. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of living organisms and how each contributes to the diversity of life on Earth.
By completion of the course, students understand:
- Cell Theory
- Specialized tissue
- Cell structure and function
- Cell Division
- Mitosis and Meiosis
- Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
- Heredity, DNA and Chromosomes
- Evolution
- Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
- Relationships in Ecosystems
Physical Science: This course introduces the general principles of physics and chemistry. The Physical Science Course stresses an in depth understanding of the nature and structure of matter and the characteristics of energy. Major areas covered by the course include the organization and use of the periodic table; physical and chemical changes; nuclear reactions; temperature and heat; sound; light; electricity and magnetism; and work, force, and motion. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the physical environment and apply basic principles of chemistry and physics to commonplace products and events.
By completion of the course, students understand:
- Structure of Matter
- Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter
- States of Matter
- Chemical Formulas and Equations
- Types of Chemical Reactions
- Solutions and Solubility
- Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Motion and Force
- Gravity
- Types of Energy
- Energy Conservation and Transformation
- Simple Machines
- Thermal Energy
- Waves
- Food Chemistry
- Cosmetics and Personal Care
- Household Products
The Human Body and Health: This course is designed to give students an understanding of the structure and functions of the systems of the human body and the relationships between them. Topics include: structure and functional organization of systems within the human body; cellular skeletal, muscular, nervous, sensory, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, excretory, endocrine and reproductive. Students will be able to understand the functioning of their body and the importance of making wise decisions to protect their health and well-being. Students make positive choices with regard to physical, mental, emotional, and social health throughout his/her lifetime. Students will examine life-style factors, learn decision-making skills, select goals, and make plans to work toward optimum health. This course is designed to help the students make positive choices with regard to physical, mental, emotional, and social health throughout his/her lifetime. Students will examine life-style factors, learn decision making skills, select goals, and make plans to work toward optimum health. The primary focus of this course will be knowledge in the areas of stress and self-esteem, nutrition, medicine and drugs, disease, and reproductive health. .
By completion of the course, students understand:
- The following systems within the human body:
- Integumentary system
- Skeletal system
- Nervous system
- Cardiovascular/Circulatory system
- Endocrine system
- Muscular system
- Lymphatic system
- Respiratory system
- Urinary system
- Excretory system
- Reproductive system
- Digestive system
- Immune system
- Interactions between body systems
- Disease and disease prevention
- Optimum physical and mental health practices
Earth and Space Science: Earth and space science has emerged as a crucial field of study, engaging students in science that addresses humanity’s immediate concerns: Earth’s resources; energy from fossil fuels, wind, and the sun; weather and severe storms; conservation of water and other natural resources; our changing climate; and the exploration of our solar system and the universe. In the Earth and Space Science course, students develop an understanding of Earth and space science as a complex system made up of many smaller systems through which matter and energy are continuously cycled.
By completion of the course, students understand:
- The age of the Earth
- The solar system
- Interactions between Earth and the solar system
- The universe
- The structure of Earth
- Tectonic plates
- Earth’s atmosphere
- Atmospheric gases
- Weathering and erosion
- Wind
- The oceans and ocean currents
- Cycles in nature
- Natural hazards
- Natural resources
Social Sciences:
Modern U.S. History: The focus for this class is understanding the major turning points in American history in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The goal is for students to develop an understanding of current national issues and relate them to their historical, geographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts, enabling them to understand that our rights under the U.S. Constitution comprise an inheritance that depends on an educated citizenry for their preservation and protection.
The course will include:
- major turning points that shaped the nation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- roles of industrialization, rural to urban migration, and European immigration,
- factors that influenced the rise of the U.S. as a major world power,
- major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society
Modern World History: This course is designed to introduce the major turning points that shaped the modern world from the late eighteenth century (1700s) through the present including.
This course will include:
- principles that influenced Western political thoughts,
- ideas and revolutions that affected the development of society,
- imperial expansion,
- global issues, economic conditions, and interdependence among nations that have contributed to the modern world.
Economics: This course will focus on fundamental economic principles such micro- and macroeconomics, international economics, comparative economic systems, measurement, and methods. The goal is for students to develop an understanding of principles that apply to the functions of decisions-makers, both consumers and producers, within the larger economic system.
The course will include:
- common economic terms and concepts
- elements of America’s market economy
- role of government in a market economy
- laws of supply and demand and their application to wage differences among jobs and professions
- aggregate economic behavior of the U.S. economy (inflation/deflation, economic growth, interest rates, etc.
- issues of international trade
Government: The focus on American Government is a deeper understanding of the institutions that comprise the United States government of today. The goal is for students to develop civic literacy to enable them to vote, participate in community activities, and assume the responsibilities of citizenship.
The course includes:
- fundamental principles of American democracy
- scope and limits of democratic citizens
- branches of government
- interpretations of the Bill of Rights over time
- issues regarding campaigns
- influence of the media on American political life
- rights and limitation of the Constitution in relation to federal versus state authority
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