Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

1. Describe historical events that led to the development of America, its people, and its government.
2. Describe history from a variety of viewpoints.
3. Use skills that will help you in other areas of your education and life.

Course Materials

• The units contain all of the material that you will need to successfully complete the unit quizzes and the final examination.
• Reliable access to a computer and internet.

Learning Outcomes

There are four main areas that you should master during this course:

• Describe the theories accounting for the history of the earth.
• Explain the air, weather, and water patterns of Earth.
• Describe the movement of Earth’s continents and the origin of volcanoes and earthquakes.
• Distinguish between rocks and minerals and describe how both are formed.

Course Materials

• There is no textbook that goes along with this course; it is a self-contained course. All of the information you need can be found in the units throughout this course.

Required Resources

Reliable access to a computer and internet.

Course Learning Outcomes

There are four main areas that you should master during this course that continue on from the first half of this course:

1. Explain different systems (digestive, circulatory, and immune) in our bodies and how they work together to make us whole.
2. Explain the properties and states of matter.
3. Describe the basic principles of ecology, including basic conservation principles.
4. Describe the basic spheres of earth science and explain the effects of astronomy systems on Earth.

Required Resources

Reliable access to a computer and internet.

Learning Outcomes

After you have successfully completed this course, you should be able to do the following:

1. Simplify roots and solve equations with roots; use radicals in the Pythagorean theorem to analyze triangles and the distance between points.
2. Evaluate the relationship between angles and find the measure of angles formed by a transversal and polygons.
3. Use different transformations to move figures on a coordinate plane.
4. Determine if figures are similar or congruent using transformations and informal arguments.
5. Find the volume and missing measures of cylinders, cones, hemispheres, spheres, and composite figures.
6. Construct and interpret two-way tables, including their relative frequencies; construct and interpret scatter plots and lines of best fit (trend lines) and then make predictions using the information.

Course Materials

Glencoe Math, Your Common Core Edition (Course 3, Volume 2). 1st ed. McGraw-Hill Education, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-07-661904-7.

Texas Instruments Explorer 30 (TI-30) or other graphing calculator with similar capabilities; this is the same calculator used in MATH 035.

Learning Outcomes

After you have successfully completed this course, you should be able to do the following:

1. Simplify and compare fractions.
2. Change from fractions to mixed numbers and fractions to decimals and vice versa.
3. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers.
4. Identify unit rates in different representations.
5. Work with ratios, proportions, and percents.
6. Use number lines and modeling with integers.
7. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers.
8. Work with algebraic expressions and equations.
9. Write and solve equations and inequalities.

Required Resources.

The calculator explorations are written for the Texas Instruments Explorer 30 (TI-30); however, most other graphing calculators have similar capabilities.

Reliable access to a computer and internet.

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply new vocabulary words to your reading and writing.
2. Write your own persuasive letter, argumentative essay, journal entries, and novel chapter.
3. Analyze literature by reading an epic adventure and a novel and completing additional recreational reading.
4. Identify the elements of the research process and incorporate them into your own research paper.

Course Materials

Most of the reading you do in this course will be found online within the course. However, you will need to have a copy of the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. This novel was published in 2000 and should not be hard to find. You may check this book out at your local library or purchase a copy of it from a bookstore.

Course Outline: 

Lesson 1: Theme
Lesson 2: Poetry
Lesson 3: Shakespeare
Lesson 4: Literary Genres
Lesson 5: Research
Lesson 6: Publishing

What You Should Already Know

The prerequisite for English 33 is English 31: Seventh-Grade English 1, or a seventh-grade equivalent.

Learning Outcomes

This course will enable you to continue your growth as an effective reader and communicator. Here are the main learning outcomes of this course:

1. Identify themes in literature, as well as the presence of imagery, symbols, and figurative language.
2. Analyze techniques in poetry that intensify and enrich the experience of language; memorize and recite a poem using effective presentation skills.
3. Compare the characteristics of selected genres in literature, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, and dystopian literature.
4. Read and interpret Shakespearean sonnets and excerpts from a play.
5. Use the steps of inquiry and research to investigate your world; compose a research paper that develops a well-supported thesis and avoids plagiarism by citing sources.
6. Apply reading and writing strategies by reading a novel and identifying the key ideas and questions it raises.
7. Expand and enrich your vocabulary by learning word-mastery strategies.

Course Materials

This course requires no additional textbook; however, we will read and discuss a novel throughout the course, which you must acquire:

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Learning Outcomes

This course is designed to prepare you for the workplace by helping you become comfortable using a computer. When you complete this course, you should be able to do the following:

1. Explain technology operations and concepts.
2. Use productivity application software.
3. Use communication networks, the Internet, and digital citizenship.
4. Use multiple processes of electronic communication and collaboration.
5. Integrate course knowledge in another general education class.

Required Resources:

• Reliable access to a computer and internet connection
• A computer with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (Microsoft Office Suite). Equivalent software found in Google Docs or on Macintosh computers may also be used, but be aware that versions of software will be different and may or may not have the tools to complete parts of the assignments.