2012
Summer Course
Catalog
Updated 4.27.12 All courses offered in this catalog are open to all school districts.
District Contacts for Summer School Courses & Registration
The following school districts are pleased to offer courses to students who are in need of credit recovery, or would like to maintain their skills over the summer break. All courses are offered online and are open to students in all districts. Check the course description to determine if the course is for credit recovery, skill maintenance, or both. Some courses may require students to meet face-to face for assessment. Please see the individual course description to determine if this is a requirement of the course. For students who are taking courses for credit recovery please have your local guidance counselor confirm that the course meets the district’s requirements for credit. Please do not call the district that is offering the course to see if that course will be accepted for credit by your local district. Only your local guidance counselor or principal can make that decision. To register for summer school courses, or to obtain more information, please contact the district liaison listed below. To register your child, please visit the district web site from which you would like to take the course.
Burrell School District Monessen City School District Course Cost: (Make checks payable to Burrell School Course Cost: (Make checks payable to Monessen City District) School District) Resident Student: $125 Resident Student: $75 Non-resident: $125 Non-resident: $125 Registration Deadline: June 19, 2012 Registration Deadline: June 19, 2012 Mandatory Orientation: June 25, 2012 Student Orientation: TBA Parents will be emailed specific times for Classes Begin: June 25, 2012 orientation. Classes End: July 27, 2012 Classes Begin: June 25, 2012 Computer Lab Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from Classes End: July 27, 2012 9:00-12:00 at the Monessen HS for course assistance Computer Lab Hours: TBD and lab use. District Liaison: Shannon Wagner District Liaison: Mrs. Deb Kozar Phone: 724 334-1406 Phone: 724 5684-3600 Mail Registration Checks To: Mail Registration Checks To: Burrell School District Summer School Monessen City School District C/O Shannon Wagner C/O Deborah Kozar 1021 Puckety Church Road 1275 Rostraver Street Lower Burrell, PA 15068 Monessen, PA 15062 REGISTER FOR BURRELL COURSES ON THEIR REGISTER FOR MONESSEN COURSES ON THEIR WEBSITE: http://burrell.wiu.k12.pa.us WEBSITE: http://monessenschooldistrict.com
Norwin School District Belle Vernon Area School District Course Cost: (Make checks payable to Norwin School Course Cost: (Make checks payable to Belle Vernon Area District) School District) Resident Student: $110 Resident Student: $125 Non-resident: $125 Non-resident: $125 Registration Deadline: June 19, 2012 Registration Deadline: June 19, 2012 Mandatory Orientation: June 19, 2012, 6:00 pm Mandatory Orientation: June 21, 2012 Norwin High School Classes Begin: June 25, 2012 Classes Begin: June 19, 2012 Classes End: July 27, 2012 Classes End: July 27, 2012 Computer Lab Hours: TBD Computer Lab Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 am- 12:00 District Liaison: Mr. John Grice District Liaison: Dr. Tracy McNelly Phone: 724 808-2500 x3500 Phone: 724 861-3022 Mail Registration Checks To: Belle Vernon Area Mail Registration Checks To: School District Norwin School District C/o Mr. John Grice C/o Summer School 500 Perry Ave 281 McMahon Drive Belle Vernon, PA 15012 North Huntingdon, Pa 15642 REGISTER FOR BELLE VERNON COURSES ON REGISTER FOR NORWIN COURSES ON THEIR THEIR WEBSITE: http://bellevernonarea.net WEBSITE: http://www.norwinsd.org
Blairsville-Saltsburg School Franklin Regional School District Course Cost: (Make checks payable to Franklin Regional District School District) Course Cost: (Make checks payable to B-SSD School Resident Student: $115 District) Non-resident: $125 Resident Student: $125 Registration Deadline: June 19, 2012 Non-resident: $125 Mandatory Orientation: June 25, 2012 Registration Deadline: June 19, 2012 Classes Begin: June 25, 2012 Mandatory Orientation: none Classes End: July 27, 2012 Classes Begin: June 25, 2012 District Liaison: Ronald Suvak Classes End: July 27, 2012 Phone: 724 327-5456 x 5001 District Liaison: Jessica Pritts Mail Registration Checks To: Phone: 724 459-5500 x Franklin Regional School District Summer School Mail Registration Checks To: C/O Ronald Suvak Blairsville-Saltsburg School District Summer School 3200 School Road C/O Jessica Pritts Murrysville, PA 15668 102 School Lane REGISTER FOR FRANKLIN REGIONAL COURSES Blairsville, PA 15717 ON THEIR WEBSITE: REGISTER FOR BLAIRSVILLE SALTSBURG http://www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us COURSES ON THEIR WEBSITE:
http://www.b-ssd.org
Mathematics Pre-Algebra Practice Building a Bridge to 5 th Grade Math Grade 6-7 Grade 4 Skill Maintenance Skill Maintenance Norwin School District Norwin School District This course is designed all on-line to help students Building a Bridge to 5th grade is a course developed participate and understand the most important to review and reinforce math concepts learned in topics of Pre-Algebra. Students will watch Khan 4th grade. The purpose of this course is to provide a Academy teaching videos, play challenging math smoother transition to 5th grade math. Students will learning games, take lesson quizzes and culminate review place value, addition, subtraction, the class with a cumulative final exam. The objective multiplication, and division of whole numbers, for this Pre-Algebra course will be to bring out the measurement, geometry, fractions and decimals. abstract thinker in us all to prepare for Algebra I. Students will be expected to review basic math facts Natural numbers, percents, the coordinate plane, daily. operations, integers, fractions, decimals, Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none factorization, properties, exponents, inequalities, Minimum Enrollment: 10 ratio, rate, interpreting graphs, probability, powers, Maximum Enrollment: 20 roots, expressions, various equations, shape formulas, graphing, and variable exploration are Building a Bridge to Sixth Grade Math some of the topics that will be covered in the Bridge Grade 5 to Algebra I. Skill Maintenance Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Norwin School District Minimum Enrollment: 10 Building a Bridge to 6th grade is a course developed Maximum Enrollment: 20 to review and reinforce math concepts learned in 5th grade. The purpose of this course is to provide a Transition to Grade 7 Pre-Algebra smoother transition to 6th grade math. Students will Grade 6 review place value, addition, subtraction, Skill Maintenance multiplication and division of whole numbers and Norwin School District decimals, adding and subtracting fractions, solving This course is designed to reinforce math concepts for perimeter and area, and measurement. Students learned in grade 6 math so there is a smoother will also be expected to review basic math facts transition to 7th grade pre-algebra. Students will daily. review numeration; variable, expressions and Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none properties; operations with decimals; solving Minimum Enrollment: 10 equations; number and fraction concepts; and Maximum Enrollment: 20 decimals, fractions and mixed numbers. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Math 6 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Grade 6 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Burrell School District Math Recovery This course covers the following topics: place value Grade 7 systems and operations, number properties, Credit Recovery decimals and percent, application of decimals and Monessen City School District percent, fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, This course, Math 7 Summer Recovery Program, is a multiplying and dividing fractions, exponents, credit recovery course designed to help you reach a equations, integers and the order of operations. level of understanding of Pennsylvania's mathematic Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June25 standards. You will learn and practice order of Minimum Enrollment: 10 operations, variables and equations, displaying and Maximum Enrollment: 20 analyzing data, proportions, fractions, decimals and percents. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00-12:00 at the Monessen HS for course assistance and lab use. Minimum Enrollment: 1 Maximum Enrollment: 10
Integrated Math 1 Pre-Algebra Grade 8-9 Grade 7-9 Credit Recovery Credit Recovery Monessen City School District Blairsville-Saltsburg School District This class is designed for students to grasp the This course is designed for the middle school student fundamentals of rational & irrational numbers, preparing to enter a high school level algebra course. percent’s, probabilities, geometry and algebraic Students taking this course will develop skills in concepts. This class will utilize teacher led arithmetic to include integer, fraction and decimal instruction through traditional and technological operations. Additionally, students will learn to resources. evaluate numerical and algebraic expressions, use Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Every Tuesday and formulas and solve equations. Equation solving Thursday course assistance will be provided from development will begin with one-step and continue 9:00-12:00 at the HS lab. to multi-step equations. Minimum Enrollment: 1 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Maximum Enrollment: 10 Minimum Enrollment: 5 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Integrated Math2 Grade 10-12 Pre-Algebra Credit Recovery Grade 6-12 Monessen City School District Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance This class is designed for students as a basic Burrell School District introduction to geometry and algebraic concepts. This course covers the following topics: place value This class will utilize teacher led instruction through systems and operations, number properties, traditional and technological resources. The goals of decimals and percent, application of decimals and this course will be designed to meet the percent, fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, Pennsylvania Academic Standards for grades 10-12. multiplying and dividing fractions, exponents, Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Every Tuesday and equations, integers and the order of operations. Thursday at the Monessen HS lab for course Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 assistance. Minimum Enrollment: 10 9:00-12:00 at the HS lab. Maximum Enrollment: 20 Minimum Enrollment: 1 Maximum Enrollment: 10 Math Essentials in Algebra and Geometry Grade 9-12 Pre-Algebra A Skill Maintenance Grade 7-8 Norwin School District Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance This course is designed to help students sharpen Burrell School District their mathematics skills in the essential topics of This course is the first half of the regular Pre-Algebra BOTH algebra and geometry. Topics include course. It moves at a slower pace so more emphasis graphing, equations, data analysis, congruence and can be placed on each topic. The following topics are right triangles. included: place value systems and operations, Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none number properties, decimals and percent, Minimum Enrollment: 10 application of decimals and percent, fractions, Maximum Enrollment: 20 adding and subtracting fractions, multiplying and dividing fractions, exponents, equations, integers Algebra I and the order of operations. Grade 7-12 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Minimum Enrollment: 10 Burrell School District Maximum Enrollment: 20 This is a beginning course in Algebra which is a prerequisite to Geometry. Topics studied include the language of Algebra, open sentences, systems of equations, polynomials, functions, and quadratic equations. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20
Algebra I dimensional figures, properties of figures (triangles, Grade 9-12 quadrilaterals, and other polygons), congruence, Credit Recovery circles, transformations and tessellations, areas, the Belle Vernon School District Pythagorean theorem, volumes and similarities. Topics include: the study of variables; order of Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None operations; one-step and two-step equations; Minimum Enrollment: 5 finding equations of lines; writing equations of lines; Maximum Enrollment: 10 functions and relations; simplifying algebraic expressions, absolute value, inequalities, square Geometry roots and radical expressions; drawing and Grade 8-12 interpreting graphs, stem and leaf and box and Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance whisker plots; and probability and odds. Burrell School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None This course is a study of angle and line relationships, Minimum Enrollment: 5 congruent and similar polygons, circles, and Maximum Enrollment: 10 coordinate Geometry Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Algebra I Minimum Enrollment: 10 Grade 8-12 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Credit Recovery Franklin Regional School District Geometry Algebra I is a credit recovery course that is the Grade 9-12 traditional Algebra I curriculum continuation of Credit Recovery variable concepts discussed in Pre-Algebra. This Norwin School District course provides a study of the number system, This course is designed to incorporate basic algebra variables, open sentences, polynomials, and skills into a geometric setting. Students will be graphing. The course allows a student to progress to required to use problem solving skills, oral and Algebra II or Geometry. written communications to develop their reasoning Required Face-to-Face Meeting: orientation and logic skills. Emphasis in this course will focus on Minimum Enrollment: 5 transitioning from abstract thinking to specific Maximum Enrollment: 20 applications. Topics include basic terminology, triangles, parallel lines, coordinate geometry, Algebra I quadrilaterals, similar figures, volume and area. Grade 8-12 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Credit Recovery Minimum Enrollment: 10 Norwin School District Maximum Enrollment: 20 Algebra I credit recovery is a course designed to reinforce critical Algebra I skills needed for students Geometry to be successful when moving forward in other Grade 8-12 mathematical courses. Students will work Credit Recovery extensively on solving and graphing linear and Franklin Regional School District quadratic equations and inequalities. Additional Modern Geometry is a logically organized system of topics will include rules of exponents, factors and mathematics that deals with points, lines, planes, polynomials, radicals, factoring and the quadratic and their relationships to each other. The properties formula. of plane figures as well as-three-dimensional figures Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None are studied. Congruence, similarities, properties of Minimum Enrollment: 10 right triangles, right triangle trigonometry, and Maximum Enrollment: 20 circles, and area and volume equations are included. Deductive reasoning and analytical thinking are Geometry emphasized. Algebra concepts are integrated Grade 9-12 throughout the course. This course is academically Credit Recovery paced for students preparing for college. Belle Vernon School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Orientation This course is designed for students to learn through Minimum Enrollment: 5 investigating and discovering the ideas of Geometry. Maximum Enrollment: 20 Inductive reasoning and activities lead to the formulation of conjectures about geometric principles such as: line and angle relationships, two
Algebra II Algebra II Grade 9-12 Grade 9-12 Credit Recovery Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Belle Vernon School District Burrell School District The topics covered in depth in this course include This is a course in Algebra 2 is a prerequisite course the properties and operations of real numbers, one for Trigonometry. Topics studied include the variable equations and inequalities, absolute value language of Algebra, open sentences, systems of sentences, linear equations and graphs, systems of equations, polynomials, functions, and quadratic equations, polynomials (simplifications of, equations. operations with, and solving equations containing), Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 matrices, quadratic functions & graphs, the Minimum Enrollment: 10 quadratic formula, complex number, probability & Maximum Enrollment: 20 statistics. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Algebra II Preparation Minimum Enrollment: 5 Grade 9-12 Maximum Enrollment: 10 Skill Maintenance Norwin School District Algebra II The objective of the Algebra II Preparation is to Grade 9-12 enhance the skills learned in Honors Algebra I and Credit Recovery Geometry to better prepare the student for the Franklin Regional School District transition from Geometry to Algebra II. The course Algebra II is a credit recovery course that will will focus on skills involving Linear Equations, strengthen the basic algebra skills from first year Systems of Equations and Quadratic Equations. The algebra and develop to the essential topics for a students will be instructed through prerecorded second year algebra course. Such topics include video instruction, chat room discussions and concepts of algebraic proof, systems of linear and exploratory activities. In addition to section quadratic open sentences, rational and irrational assignments there will be both a mid-term and final number systems, polynomial functions and exam. operations, exponential functions, logarithms, and Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None sequences. The emphasis is on teaching equation Minimum Enrollment: 10 solving and its application to the solution of word Maximum Enrollment: 20 problems. This course is academically paced for students preparing for college. Algebra II Required Face-to-Face Meeting: orientation Grade 9-12 Minimum Enrollment: 5 Credit Recovery Maximum Enrollment: 10 Norwin School District This course is designed as credit recovery for students who have already completed the Algebra II Algebra II course but did not score above a 60% or for students Grade 9-12 who would like remediation on concepts discussed Credit Recovery in Algebra II. This course will extend and develop Blairsville-Saltsburg School District concepts learned in Algebra II and prepare the This is a course designed to review and enhance students for the fundamentals needed in Stats and algebraic skills. The following topics will be taught in Trig. Students will develop their problem-solving this course: linear equations and inequalities, skills and drawing connections to real-life situations systems of equations, quadratic equations, and to give Algebra greater meaning. Topics will include polynomial equations. Students will need to be able properties of exponents, radical functions, to print and scan in worksheets. logarithms and rational expressions. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Minimum Enrollment: 5 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20
Trigonometry will be building on the foundation you already have. Grade 9-12 It would be impossible to teach all the concepts Skill Maintenance tested on the SAT in a small amount of time. You Norwin School District must rely on knowledge you've received in your This course is designed to give a foundation in the math courses. We will, however, diagnose areas of fundamental topics of trigonometry. Some topics weakness and provide practice problems to help include a study of the six trigonometric functions strengthen these areas. We will also review general and their graphs, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines, topics in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. trigonometric identities and equation solving. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Minimum Enrollment: 10 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Science Basic Applied Statistics Grade 9-12 Science 6 Credit Recovery Grade 6 Norwin School District Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance This course serves as an introduction to important Burrell School District statistical concepts. Topics covered include The student will be able to analyze information from summarizing and presentation of numerical data, topics covered throughout the school year, probability, the normal distribution, Central Limit including: Minerals, Rocks, Fossils and Earth History, theorem, and basic inferential statistics. Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Online Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none education is an interactive environment requiring Minimum Enrollment: 10 the student to be actively engaged in the education Maximum Enrollment: 20 process. The student will complete a variety of activities and interact with the other students and Pre-Calculus Preparation the instructor through a variety of methods. Grade 10-12 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Skill Maintenance Minimum Enrollment: 10 Norwin School District Maximum Enrollment: 20 The objective of pre-calculus is to enhance the skills learned in honors algebra II to better prepare Science 7 students for the transition to pre-calculus. The Grade 7 course will focus on skills involving logarithmic Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance expressions, rational equations and the Burrell School District fundamentals of Trigonometry. The students will be This integrated five week science course will include instructed through pre-recorded video instruction, topics such as cells, Newton's Laws, chemical chat room discussion, live student/teacher interactions, and Astronomy. This course is designed discussion and exploratory activities. In addition to around the discovery method of science and uses section assignments there will be both a mid-term many virtual lab assignments. and final exam. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: July 18 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Life Science 7 SAT Math Preparation Grade 7 Grade 9-12 Skill Maintenance Skill Maintenance Norwin School District Norwin School District Life Science is an introductory level course designed This class is designed to familiarize you with test- to enable students to explore basic biological taking techniques and strategies for the SAT. You concepts in a laboratory setting. Students focus on will learn the types of math questions that appear on concepts that are shared by all living things such as the SAT as well as strategies for solving these types cell structure, biochemical make-up, and of questions. You are not expected to know how to inheritance; there is also a focus on the diversity of do all the problems. The level of math classes you life as students classify the many different species of have taken will significantly impact your test results. living organisms into kingdoms and other This is not a crash course to study for the SAT. We
classification categories. A unit on ecology, that Earth Science relates the interdependence of living with each Grade 9-12 other and with their environment, wraps up the Credit Recovery course. Blairsville-Saltsburg School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Earth Science Credit Recovery is an intensive, five- Minimum Enrollment: 10 week summer school course that covers the main Maximum Enrollment: 20 concepts in Physical Geology, Historical Geology, Oceanography, Meteorology, and Astronomy. Science 8 Topics include rocks and the rock cycle, plate Grade 8 tectonics, geologic time, the oceans, structure of the Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance atmosphere, and Earth's place in space. Monessen City School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None My summer course is based on 6 weeks of material: Minimum Enrollment: 5 Week 1 & 2 covers Earth Science; Week 3 &4 deal Maximum Enrollment: 20 with Physical Science with topics; week 5 &6 cover Life Science, all topics focus on the nature of science Earth Science as well covering the scientific method, instruments, Grade 9-12 and experiments. Credit Recovery Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Monessen City School District Minimum Enrollment: 1 Earth Science presents a broad overview of four Maximum Enrollment: 10 areas: geology, the study of the earth’s processes; astronomy, the study of space; meteorology, the Science 8 study of weather; and, oceanography, the study of Grade 8 oceans. Through the use online resources, Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance experiments, activities, discussions and audio-visual Burrell School District materials, the students develop a practical This integrated five week science course will include knowledge and appreciation of the forces which topics such as machines, energy, waves, weather shape the earth and affect our lives. and water. This course is designed around the Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None discovery method of science and uses many virtual Minimum Enrollment: 1 lab assignments. Maximum Enrollment: 20 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Biology I Maximum Enrollment: 20 Grade 10-12 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Environmental Science Belle Vernon School District Grade 9-12 It is a six week recovery on-line biology course. We Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance will be covering the following topics: (Scientific Burrell School District Method, Characteristics of Life, Cells, Genetics, This course is for those students who did not Ecology, and Evolution). If you are having any successfully complete Environmental Science during difficulty during the next six weeks concerning the school year. The curriculum includes a variety of Biology 1 please e-mail me at issues pertaining to concerns about our global [email protected] and I will respond environment as well as our local government. These within twenty four hours. You can also skype me at topics include issues such as, an overview, basic bvahsredar. ecology, populations, pollution, society and Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None environment, and natural resources. Minimum Enrollment: 5 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20
Biology School District which will focus on conceptual Grade 9-12 chemistry concepts, but will involve simplified Credit Recovery mathematical calculations. Topics for this course Monessen City School District include: measurement, atomic structure, chemical This course will cover basic concepts in the Biology names and formulas, periodicity, bonding, reactivity, concepts. and gas laws. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Every Tuesday and Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00 at the Monessen High Minimum Enrollment: 10 School lab 101. Maximum Enrollment: 20 Minimum Enrollment: 1 Maximum Enrollment: 10 Physics Biology I Grade 11-12 Grade 9-12 Credit Recovery Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Monessen City School District Burrell School District This course is an introduction to basic mechanics and In this course, you will be exposed to the most waves. relevant topics in the Biology 1 curriculum at Burrell Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Every Tuesday and High School. We will be discussing the following Thursday at the Monessen HS for lab use and course concentrations: Classification, Biochemistry, Cells, assistance. Cell Transport, Photosynthesis, Respiration, Cell Minimum Enrollment: 1 Division, DNA, and Genetics. Your task will be to Maximum Enrollment: 10 define terms as they pertain to each chapter, complete study guides, participate in a forum Applied Physics question for certain class periods, and participate in Grade 9-12 laboratory activities. We will cover approximately 2 Credit Recovery chapters per week and you will be required to report Norwin School District to the high school to take a final in-class exam during The course focuses on the basic concepts of the course to test your knowledge of the subject mechanics--how and why objects move. The class matter. will cover the concepts of motion and their Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 application to the real-world. Math and critical Minimum Enrollment: 10 thinking are both a part of the curriculum. Simple Maximum Enrollment: 20 laboratory and hands-on activities will be incorporated as appropriate. Applied Biology Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Grade 9-12 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Credit Recovery Maximum Enrollment: 20 Norwin School District This biology course covers biological principles, basic Language Arts biochemistry, cell structure and function, homeostasis and cell transport, DNA and protein Bridge to 5th Grade Language Arts synthesis, mitosis and meiosis, fundamentals Grades 4 genetics, evolution, taxonomy, microbiology, and Skill Maintenance ecology. A goal of this course is to promote scientific Norwin School District inquiry in everyday situations. In 5th grade, students are required to apply many of Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None the grammar concepts to their work. This course has Minimum Enrollment: 10 been designed to help students review the parts of Maximum Enrollment: 20 speech, sentences, and basic word usage. By completing this course, students will have a Applied Chemistry thorough review of many of the basic grammar Grade 9-12 concepts. Credit Recovery Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Norwin School District Minimum Enrollment: 10 Chemistry is the study of the composition, structure, Maximum Enrollment: 20 and properties of matter and the changes it undergoes. The eAcademy Applied Chemistry course is a remedial course offered by Norwin
English 6 and subordinate clauses, types of sentences, and Grade 6 verb usage. Students will learn a set of vocabulary Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance words for each week of the course. In addition, Burrell School District students will respond to writing prompts in both Students will gain the necessary skills in grammar single and multi-paragraph forms. and writing to ensure success in 7th grade. Students Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none will master the eight parts of speech, sentence Minimum Enrollment: 5 types, sentence kinds, and complements. Focus, Maximum Enrollment: 20 content, conventions, and vivid language will be taught and used to write multiple paragraphs and a English 7 five-paragraph essay. This class will provide the Grade 6-8 opportunity for students to succeed while instilling Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance in them an appreciation for the English language. Burrell School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 English 7 is a course designed to help students in the Minimum Enrollment: 10 areas of grammar and writing. It will focus on key Maximum Enrollment: 20 skills in order for the students to master concepts necessary to move on to 8th grade English. Bridge to 6th Grade Language Arts Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Grades 5 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Skill Maintenance Maximum Enrollment: 20 Norwin School District The sixth- grade language arts class is devoted to Reading 7 developing communication and thinking skills Grade 6-8 through the integrated study of reading, speaking Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance and writing strategies. Students will also continue Burrell School District their practice with the writing process as they gain This course is designed to improve the independent experience mastering single and multi-paragraph comprehension skills of students. Students will focus texts. In this online class, students will be able to on analyzing literature primarily through the novel use the information learned in 5th grade Language Bearstone and related readings. Arts, and apply it to their own writing and literary Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 thinking.This class will give students a head start in Minimum Enrollment: 10 the application of prior knowledge in reading, Maximum Enrollment: 20 speaking, and writing. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Language Arts 7 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Grades 7 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Credit Recovery Norwin School District Reading 6 This course is designed to strengthen the writing Grade 6 skills of the student. To accomplish this, we will Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance compose essays, paragraphs, and complete Burrell School District sentences. We will treat the parts of speech as This course is designed to improve the independent building blocks. comprehension skills of students. Students will focus Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None on analyzing literature primarily through the novel Minimum Enrollment: 10 Esperanza Rising and related readings. Maximum Enrollment: 20 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Minimum Enrollment: 10 English 8 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Grade 6-8 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance English 7 Burrell School District Grade 7 English 8 is a course designed to help students in the Credit Recovery areas of grammar, writing, and research. It will focus Belle Vernon Area School District on key skills in order for the students to master This course will focus on grammar, vocabulary, and concepts necessary to move on to 9th grade English. writing. Students will review aspects of sentence Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 structure including subjects, verbs, direct objects, Minimum Enrollment: 10 indirect objects, prepositional phrases, independent Maximum Enrollment: 20
English 8 culminate with the reading of a play, reflective Grade 8 journal writing, and a course research project on the Credit Recovery Holocaust. Belle Vernon Area School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None This course will focus on grammar, literary analysis, Minimum Enrollment: 10 and writing. Students will apply understanding of Maximum Enrollment: 20 quotation marks, punctuating titles, punctuation rules, the writing process with a focus on essay English 9 writing, short story analysis, and grammar phrases Grade 9-12 and clauses. Students will complete journal prompts Both and edit sentences daily. Burrell School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none In this course, you will read To Kill a Mockingbird and Minimum Enrollment: 5 write a research paper on a topic that reflects the Maximum Enrollment: 20 social and racial issues identified in the novel. Therefore, you will analyze the literature through Reading Recovery various study guides and will apply the subjects and Grade 7-8 themes to various relevant cultural references Credit Recovery through discussion forums. Monessen City School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 This course is designed to help seventh and eighth Minimum Enrollment: 10 grade students for credit recovery. Topics of study Maximum Enrollment: 20 will cover reading skills in the areas of grammar, reading comprehension and writing. English 9 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Every Tuesday and Grade 9-12 Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00 students will be Credit Recovery provided lab use and assistance with course work. Monessen City School District In-depth study of a novel vocabulary, and basic Reading 8 grammar skills. Topic of study will include literacy Grade 6-8 criticism, appreciation, grammatical functions, and Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance application. Burrell School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none This course includes development of skills in all four Minimum Enrollment: 1 areas of language arts (reading, writing, grammar Maximum Enrollment: 10 and vocabulary). These skills will be developed and practiced during individual reading assignments, English 10 discussions of various literature materials, and Grade 10 practice for the PSSA reading test. Assessment of Credit Recovery these skills will be done through presentations, Blairsville-Saltsburg School District writing assignments, class discussions and tests The English 10 Summer Credit Recovery course is a Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 5-week standards-based course in the English Minimum Enrollment: 10 Language Arts. Reading selections will be drawn Maximum Enrollment: 20 from short fiction, non-fiction, and a short novel. Additional topics will include practical sentence English 8 correction and composition as well as a focus on Grade 8 higher order thinking skills. Credit Recovery Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Norwin School District Minimum Enrollment: 5 This course reflects the required 8th grade Language Maximum Enrollment: 20 Arts course, which consists of instruction in literature, writing, vocabulary, and research. Students will read and analyze short stories, with a focus on setting, plot, characterization, point of view, and theme. They will also read poetry and evaluate the use of form, sound, figurative language, and meaning. Students will practice essay writing using the five-paragraph essay format and following the steps in the writing process. The course will
English 10 Students will also write an iSearch paper, which Grade 9-12 can serve as part of the graduation project for Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Norwin School District. The class will Burrell School District incorporate exercises designed to increase Students will read, analyze, and discuss the novel reading comprehension. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and complete a Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none research project based on the themes of the novel. Minimum Enrollment: 10 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 27, July 29 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Minimum Enrollment: 10
Maximum Enrollment: 20 English 11
Grade 9-12 English 10 Both Grade 10 Burrell School District Credit Recovery Students will read, analyze, and discuss the novel i, Norwin School District Robot by Isaac Asimov and complete a research Students will read various selections of World project inspired by themes of the novel Literature from other cultures and time periods. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: July 25 There will be outside readings of classical and Minimum Enrollment: 10 contemporary works that include such titles as Maximum Enrollment: 20 Fahrenheit 451, Night, the Iliad and Julius Caesar.
Writings will be literature-based, personal, PSSA-like English 12 and research. Students will examine various writing Grade 9-12 techniques and strategies. The class will include Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance vocabulary and critical thinking activities. Burrell School District Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Students will read, analyze, and discuss the novel Minimum Enrollment: 10 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and complete a Maximum Enrollment: 20 research project inspired by themes of the novel.
Participation points are given based on your English 10 participation on graded assignments, as well as Grade 10 additional information given for specified lessons; Credit Recovery study guides, vocabulary, theme discussions, Monessen City School District participation, and research project. This course is designed to offer the student a Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 comprehensive recovery opportunity of key Minimum Enrollment: 10 elements of 10th grade English. Reading Maximum Enrollment: 20 comprehension (of both short stories and poetry), vocabulary, grammatical concepts, and identification English 12 of literary devices will be supplemented through Grade 12 various written activities. Students will compose a Credit Recovery minimum of 3 five paragraph essays and will be Norwin School District tested on a minimum of four literary pieces. Students will read and examine various samples of Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None literature. Writing will be both literature-based and Minimum Enrollment: 10 workplace-based. The class includes vocabulary, Maximum Enrollment: 20 critical thinking and reading comprehension
exercises. English 11 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Grade 11 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Credit Recovery Maximum Enrollment: 20 Norwin School District
Students will read selections from American Literature, including various poems, short stories and essays. Writings will be both literature-based and personal and will include research and documentation. Students will examine various writing techniques that will help them write to persuade and inform.
Communications II American History 1787-1865 Grade 9-12 Grades 8 Credit Recovery Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Norwin School District Burrell School District This course is designed as a continuation of To acquire an understanding of United States history Communications I. Emphasis will be placed on and government focusing on the development of our writing and delivering speeches. Students will deliver Constitution through the Civil War. Emphasis will be informative, narrative, persuasive, and impromptu on Pennsylvania and United States history, speeches and present oral interpretations of relationships with the world, geography and literature. The course will culminate with a economics. persuasive speech that will be presented to the Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 class. Minimum Enrollment: 10 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: July 25 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20 American Cultures 9 Grades 9-12 College Writing/Basic Composition Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Grades 11-12 Burrell School District Credit Recovery This required course is designed for students who Norwin School District are planning post-high school education at the College Writing/Basic Composition is an introductory college level. The course covers the time period from writing course that prepares students to write in a Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. In the collegiate environment. The course will examine interest of developing critical thinking skills, study various modes of writing in an attempt to brief will be on an interdisciplinary interest of developing students on upcoming compositions they will critical thinking skills. Study will be on an encounter throughout their academic careers. The interdisciplinary basis incorporating history, following are the thematic composition units of the geography, economics, sociology, and political course: Personal Essay (college admission or science. This course, in preparation for college, will scholarship essay), Rhetorical Deconstruction Essay, develop historical analysis through academic MLA/APA Research Essay and Literary Analysis Essay. readings, research, writing, and project-based The course also includes an emphasis on learning. grammatical and stylistic revisions through Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 assessments and peer revisions and critiques. A Minimum Enrollment: 10 portfolio of student work is used as part of the final Maximum Enrollment: 20 assessment of the course. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None US PA II Minimum Enrollment: 10 Grades 9-12 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Credit Recovery Norwin School District Social Studies The course is designed as a remedial, credit-recovery course spanning U.S. History from the 1850's to Social Studies 7-World History 1914. It is not intended to be a full survey of United Grades 7-8 States history during those dates. This course will Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance comprise six units, spanned over a six-week time Burrell School District frame. To acquaint students with the origins of civilization, Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None early societies, and the historical roots of the Middle Minimum Enrollment: 10 Age Era with a focus on the geographical influences Maximum Enrollment: 20 of region, development of political institutions, and cultural relations. US History I Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Grades 9-10 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Maximum Enrollment: 20 Monessen City School District United States History chronicles the history of the United States from the first European colonization of the Americas to the present. Individuals and groups that contributed to the unique evolution of the
United States are studied. Both domestic and foreign US PA III policies are examined at various points in time as the Grades 9-12 United States developed into a democratic world Credit Recovery power. While focusing on political and economic Norwin School District history, this course includes a study of the American This course provides students with the opportunity culture. to examine the history, geography, and economy of Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none the United States from 1914 to the present. Each Minimum Enrollment: 10 decade of the 20th century will be analyzed with an Maximum Enrollment: 20 emphasis placed on the significant developments and trends that will affect the future. American Cultures II Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Grades 9-12 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Maximum Enrollment: 20 Burrell School District This course is for those students who did not American Cultures (US History) successfully complete their second year of American Grades 10-12 Cultures during the regular school year. It covers the Credit Recovery time period from World War II to modern day Belle Vernon School District America and traces the development of our people This course is an overview of American History from and heritage throughout the era. around 1900 to the present Learning Objectives: Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 After completing this course, students should be Minimum Enrollment: 10 familiar with the main events in American History Maximum Enrollment: 20 during the 20th and early 21st century Active Learning: This course requires you to be an active Government participant in your learning process through various Grades 9-12 methods Teaching Methods: This online course is Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance facilitated using Moodle and Virtual Classroom. Burrell School District Required Face-to-Face none The United States Government course has a twofold Minimum Enrollment: 5 mission: 1) to provide students with knowledge of Maximum Enrollment: 20 the basic concepts behind the organization and structure of our Country's government and 2) enable Health/Physical Education students to become productive and participating Health citizens. Grade 7-12 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Credit Recovery (.5 credit) Minimum Enrollment: 10 Belle Vernon School District Maximum Enrollment: 20 You will have the opportunity to learn about the physical, mental, social, emotional, and career World Cultures aspects of health. An emphasis is placed on the Grades 9-12 importance of making positive health-related Credit Recovery decisions and incorporating good personal health Norwin School District habits that lead to a higher quality of life. The This regional, interdisciplinary approach pulls purpose of this class is to learn about the major together history, geography, economics, and politics health issues of today, the components of health, of major peoples and cultures of the world. Regions how a person’s behavior affects their health and the include Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin risk factors involved in these issue. America. The period covered for each region Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None extends from exploration and discovery to the Minimum Enrollment: 5 present. Maximum Enrollment: 20 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20
Health log” and complete a few short quizzes and Grade 9-12 assignments based on the information Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance (.5 credit) provided. Each week, a new topic will be covered Burrell School District which will build upon what was covered the week The main objective of this course is to provide the before. This Online Physical Education Course is student’s knowledge about one's body and health in designed so that all students can succeed and order to make sound decisions now and in their excel. It is based on personal ability level and future. Our health affects all aspects of how we go personal improvement. through life and how we live our lives. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Minimum Enrollment: 5 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20
Health Electives Grade 9-12 Money Matters Credit Recovery (.5 credit) Grade 10-12 Norwin School District Credit Recovery (.5 credit) Health has the function of initiating a consciousness Norwin School District of an appreciation for practices of healthy living that Money Matters is designed for students who want to will continue to be effective throughout the life of get the most from their money. You will learn money the student. The purpose of this course is to provide management skills such as understanding pay, taxes students with practical health instruction that and budgets. You will also learn the ins and outs of focuses on the physical, mental, and social aspects of checking accounts, credit, and insurance will be health. Course topics include: HIV/AIDS, alcohol and explored, as well as saving and investing for your driver's safety, nutrition and your health, physical future. We will also examine your rights as a activity for life, substance abuse and tobacco. consumer and shopping on the Internet. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Minimum Enrollment: 10 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20 e-Wellness Personal Finance Grade 7-12 Grade 9-12 Credit Recovery (.5 credit) Credit Recovery (.5 credit) Franklin Regional School District Belle Vernon School District This course is designed to provide students with an This course is designed to (1) educate high school opportunity to learn about the physical, mental, students about sound money management skills and social, emotional, and career aspects of health. An the financial planning process; and (2) help teens emphasis is placed on the importance of making begin to develop positive behaviors that are positive health-related decisions and incorporating necessary to attaining financial maturity and good personal health habits that lead to a higher achieving a secure future. quality of life. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Required Face-to-Face Meeting: Orientation Minimum Enrollment: 5 Minimum Enrollment: 5 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Speech Physical Education Grades 9-12 Grade 7-12 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Credit Recovery (.5 credit) Burrell School District (.5 credit) Norwin School District Speech is a course designed to enhance In the online physical education course, the student communication by developing skill with the spoken will be designing a personal fitness program based word. Students learn through repeated experience on various concepts and principles upon which of giving prepared speeches before the class. In lifetime activity is based. The student will complete depth delivery work is done on delivery skills as well a “baseline” fitness test, participate in a personal as on speech content. Students are also expected to fitness plan, and then retest the baseline fitness prepare and turn in outlines, as well develop other test. In addition to participating in a personal fitness preparatory skills such as research speech topics. program, the student will keep a “personal activity
Students also develop listening skills for critical Economics analysis of others speeches. Grades 10-12 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Minimum Enrollment: 10 Burrell School District Maximum Enrollment: 20 This microeconomics course provides students with the conceptual and analytical tools needed to PowerPoint 2010 understand the major economic problems of our Grade 10-12 free enterprise economy. The course also Credit Recovery (.5 credit) emphasizes the basic economic principles of our Belle Vernon School District American economy and its interaction with the This course will introduce students to the global economy. presentation software, PowerPoint 2010. Students Required Face-to-Face Meeting: June 25 will learn to apply the features of the program to Minimum Enrollment: 10 design, create, and edit professional quality Maximum Enrollment: 20 presentations. This software is widely used in the business world. Students MUST have PowerPoint Economics 2010. Grades 10-12 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Credit Recovery/Skill Maintenance Minimum Enrollment: 5 Monessen City School District Maximum Enrollment: 20 This course will offer the student a comprehensive recovery opportunity of key elements of Economics. Freshman Technology Goods and services, supply and demand, prouction Grade 9 and labor, as well as distribution and financial Credit Recovery analysis will be covered. Students will complete Belle Vernon School District several written responses and analysis of current, This course introduces and develops a variety of past, and present economic structures. In addition, computer related skills that will aid in high school students may be asked to complete a project based coursework as well as apply in life. Students will on marketing and/or advertising. complete career research and use various Web 2.0 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none tools to complete projects including but not limited Minimum Enrollment: 1 to podcasting, wikis, Voicethread and Photostory. Maximum Enrollment: 10 Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Minimum Enrollment: 5 Economics Maximum Enrollment: 20 Grades 10-12 Credit Recovery On Your Own Norwin School District Grades 11-12 This course is designed to give students a basic Credit Recovery (.5 credit) understanding of the principles of economics. The Norwin School District will cover the basic concepts in both This course is designed to prepare young adults to microecomonics and macroeconomics. Economics is make wise choices on their journey to becoming the study of the use of scarce resources to satisfy independent consumers. Students will use the unlimited human wants. In Microeconomics, we decision making process to set goals, map a career, study how these scarce resources are allocated manage finances and select and maintain clothing, within the market (or price) system. Within this housing, food and transportation. This course is a system, we consider the actions and the interactions must for students planning to live on their own upon of three economic agents: 1) the consumers, 2) the graduation from high school. firms and 3) the government. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: None Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Minimum Enrollment: 10 Minimum Enrollment: 10 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20
Child Care and Development Microsoft Word 2010 Grades 9-12 Grades 9-12 Credit Recovery Credit Recovery Belle Vernon Area School District (.5 credit) Belle Vernon Area School District (.5 credit) In this course students will explore the physical, This course provides training in more complex emotional, social and intellectual development of phases of word processing including creating, children from conception through adolescence. editing, formatting and printing documents. Special Students will be exposed to various areas of research features of Word will also be introduced such as dealing with the brain, learning, and the importance creating tables, columns, header/foots, graphs and of the family in the success of a child. There will be charts, using Wizards and templates, and adding exposure to real life situations and activities which graphics. Students MUST have Microsoft Office aid in the success of this course. 2010. Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Required Face-to-Face Meeting: none Minimum Enrollment: 5 Minimum Enrollment: 5 Maximum Enrollment: 20 Maximum Enrollment: 20
Registering for Summer Courses □ Confirm with your local guidance counselor that credit recovery courses will be accepted by your district □ Do NOT contact district liaison to see if their district’s course will be accepted by your district. They do not know that answer. □ Register online at each district from which you would like to take courses. You may have to register on several sites depending on the number of courses you are taking. □ Mail registration check to district liaison □ Plan to attend orientation with your child □ Make sure your child can attend any and all face-to-face meetings required for the course