US History

World History

This course includes the study of the history and development of a variety of world cultures, past and present. Opportunities are provided for students to compare and analyze various ways of life and cultural patterns, emphasizing the diversity and commonality of human experiences and the understanding of how these patterns occur over time. A study of contemporary world affairs is an essential part of the course.

European History(Regular and AP)

Study the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped Europe from c. 1450 to the present. Students will analyze texts, visual sources, and other historical evidence and write essays expressing historical arguments. Skills that you will learn involve evaluating primary and secondary sources, analyzing the claims, evidence, and reasoning you find in sources, putting historical developments in context and making connections between them, coming up with a claim or thesis and explaining and supporting it in writing. Students who are enrolled in Regular and AP will follow the same course sequences. 

**AP enrollment will be based on teacher recommendations. Students enrolled in AP will have extended assignments and deeper knowledge of the curriculum through additional independent assignments. There will also be required summer reading assignments and students must take the AP exam to receive the GPA scale increase.

United States History (Regular and AP)

Study the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped the United States from c. 1491 to the present. Students will analyze texts, visual sources, and other historical evidence and write essays expressing historical arguments. Students will evaluate primary and secondary sources, analyze the claims, evidence, and reasoning you find in sources, put historical developments in context and make connections between them, and come up with a claim or thesis and explain and support it in writing. Students who are enrolled in Regular and AP will follow the same course sequences. 

**AP enrollment will be based on teacher recommendations. Students in AP will have extended assignments and deeper knowledge of the curriculum through additional independent assignments. There will also be required summer reading assignments and students must take the AP exam to receive the GPA scale increase.

Government (Regular and AP)

Study the key concepts and institutions of the political system and culture of the United States. You'll read, analyze, and discuss the U.S. Constitution and other documents as well as complete a research or applied civics project. Students will connect political concepts to real-life situations, explain the impact and implications of certain U.S. Supreme Court decisions, analyze data to find patterns and trends and draw conclusions, read and analyze text and visual sources, develop a claim or thesis and support it in an essay.

**AP enrollment will be based on teacher recommendations. Students in AP will have extended assignments and deeper knowledge of the curriculum through additional independent assignments. There will also be required summer reading assignments and students must take the AP exam to receive the GPA scale increase.

Macro Economics (Regular and AP) - Coming 2022-2023

AP Macroeconomics is an introductory college-level macroeconomics course. Students cultivate their understanding of the principles that apply to an economic system as a whole by using principles and models to describe economic situations and predict and explain outcomes with graphs, charts, and data as they explore concepts like economic measurements, markets, macroeconomic models, and macroeconomic policies.

Micro Economics (Regular and AP) - Coming 2022-2023

AP Microeconomics is an introductory college-level microeconomics course. Students cultivate their understanding of the principles that apply to the functions of individual economic decision-makers by using principles and models to describe economic situations and predict and explain outcomes with graphs, charts, and data as they explore concepts like scarcity and markets; costs, benefits, and marginal analysis; production choices and behavior; and market inefficiency and public policy.