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: This course requires students to demonstrate their basic reading skills, recognize text structures, examine author’s choice, and use textual evidence to analyze the elements of fiction.  Students will review concepts of main idea, finding details in a text, making inferences and drawing conclusions, and understanding figurative language.

Fiction: In this course students examine the literary elements and author’s craft in fictional Literature.  Students will be able to utilize contextual evidence to analyze texts, identify themes, plots, setting, and viewpoint; as well as examine character interactions and motivations.

Non-Fiction: Students in this course will read and analyze informational texts.  After reading informational texts such as letters, speeches, reports, articles, and historical documents, students will demonstrate their understanding of foundational texts, author’s viewpoint and purpose, and explore rhetorical techniques.  Additionally, they will be required to compare texts on the same topic by different authors.  

Written Composition: This course requires students to demonstrate their command of standard English.  Students will identify and compose sentences with correct sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, conventions, grammar, and spelling.

Mathematics:

Basic Math: Students must solve and identify errors in solutions for basic math problems in this course.  Concepts covered in this course include whole numbers, operations with decimals and fractions, percents, and probability.

Algebra: Students who earn their high school diploma are required to demonstrate their ability to correctly solve Algebra problems.  Topics for this course include: roots and exponents, functions, evaluating algebraic expressions, and graphing.  

Geometry: The study of shapes, objects, and angles are foundational in developing an understanding of geometry.  Students will compare and contrast attributes of polygons, circles, 3-Dimensional objects, and complex figures.  Using formulas, students will find area, perimeter, and volume as well as solve for various angles by utilizing the Pythagorean Theorem.  

Statistics and Data Analysis: Students enrolled in this course must demonstrate their ability to study and understand data. In this course, they will analyze data sets, summarize data with graphs and charts, and examine the relationship between data sets.

Science:

Biology: This course covers basic biology concepts.  Students will study the structures and functions of life, energy intake, heredity, DNA, evolution, and ecosystems.

Physical Science: Students taking this course will be introduced to concepts related to chemistry and physics.  Through an integrated approach, they will explore chemical interactions, structures of matter, and physical and chemical properties.  Additionally, students study sources and types of energy, heat, motion, and force.  Visual materials are also provided to illustrate the connections between concepts and the real-world.

Human Body and Health: This course requires students to recognize the body systems and the way that they interact.  Students will also learn basic muscle and skeletal structure; as well as the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle by examining nutrition concepts and disease prevention.

Earth and Space: While taking this course, students will explore key components of the solar system, qualities of the universe, the structure of Earth and our atmosphere, agents of weathering and erosion, and interactions between Earth’s systems and living things.  Students will learn to interpret diagrams illustrating these concepts.

Social Studies:

World History and Geography: Students in World History and Geography will study the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution.  Furthermore, students will examine political ideas and development and how politics and these philosophies led to conflicts such as World War I and II. Finally, students will be exposed to the tools and skills that geographers use to study the world and its people.

United States History: Students enrolled in U.S. History follow the development of our country.  Beginning with the discovery of America, the colonization of America, the first Continental Congress, the American Revolution, the writing of the Declaration of Independence, and the development of the U.S. Constitution.  Next, they will cover the ideals that shape U.S. policy including Manifest Destiny, industrialism, and civil rights.  Students will also be exposed to conflicts that the U.S. has been a part of, presidencies, and current issues that the United States is facing.

American Government: While taking this course, students will learn the types of government throughout the world such as a monarchy, dictatorship, and democracy.  Then, they will study the basic principles of American government, the structure of the federal government, and the role of the President and Cabinet.  Students will understand the key components of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.  Additionally, students will be exposed to the political party systems, political campaigns, elections, the electoral process, and current political policy.

Economics: Economics refers to the continuous exchange of goods, services, and resources that are necessary to human society.  In this course, students will define fundamental economic concepts, distinguish between microeconomics and macroeconomics, understand banking and credit, and reflect upon the role of the government in both the national and international economy.  Students will also study key economic events in U.S. history.