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2021-2022 course catalog www.sevenstar.org This is a complete listing of courses and their relevant descriptions for the upcoming school year and should match our current catalog. However, our courses can sometimes update without warning, so please check our website and catalog for changes and updates. 2 HIGH SCHOOL COURSES MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSES Advanced Placement ® 06 Bible 52 Bible 14 Electives 54 Credit Recovery 18 World Languages 58 Electives 22 Sixth Grade Classes 60 English 30 Seventh Grade Classes 62 World Languages 32 Eighth Grade Classes 64 Mathematics 38 Science 42 Social Studies 46 3 4 high school 5 AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of College Board. Used with permission. AP Art History Credit: 1.0 Our God is the master artist and has instilled in us the ability to respond to Prerequisites: Him and His world in artistic ways. In Successful completion of World History AP® Art History, students explore the and high-level interconnectedness of art, culture, and reading and writing historical context, using critical analysis skills are strongly through the critical lenses of artistic recommended. Prior art training is not a expression, cultural awareness, purpose, prerequisite nor does and biblical truth. Using a defined art- the course cater history skill set and reflective learning, exclusively to future Art students analyze relationships across History majors. cultures with a global lens. They evaluate how successful these artistic endeavors Recommended have been in reflecting God’s nature Grade Levels: and glorifying Him. They also explore 11th-12th the impact of distorted beliefs and Required Materials: fallen humanity on artistic expression. Common household The examination of how people have items, and access to responded to and communicated their research materials as experiences and worldview through art well as word process- ing and presentation enables students to think conceptually software, may be and biblically about art from prehistoric required for the com- to contemporary times. Students are pletion of lab activities active participants, engaging with art and/or other assign- ments. See course for and its context as they read, research, details. and collaborate to learn about art, artists, art making, and responses to and interpretations of art. This course is designed to provide a college-level experience and prepare students for the AP® exam in early May. Students must take the AP® Exam in order to receive AP® credit. placement® advanced 6 high school AP Biology AP Calculus AB Credit: 1.0 AP® Biology is a college-level laboratory Credit: 1.0 The concepts in AP® Calculus begin course that teaches students to look with zero and work toward infinity, Prerequisites: at the design of creation in order to Prerequisites: encountering complex equations and Biology, Chemistry, Algebra 1, Algebra 1. Students understand its Designer. Students Geometry, Algebra unknown numbers along the way. will be exposed to a explore the key themes of the AP® 2, Pre-Calculus Students learn that these equations allow college-level course. Biology course—the scientific processes, or Trigonometry/ us to explore the realms of the natural the effects of science on technology Analytical Geometry. world without concrete knowledge of Recommended Student will be and society, the chemistry and makeup exposed to a the values we are working with, and that Grade Levels: of living organisms, genetics, creation, unknown numbers work in predictable 11th-12th college-level course. and diversity; and learn to appreciate ways due to God sustaining His creation. Required Materials: the inherent design of all living things. Recommended Students walk in the footsteps of Newton Lisa Urry, Michael Students engage in a wide variety of Grade Levels: and Leibnitz and evaluate the biblical Cain, Steven activities, with substantial emphasis 11th-12th foundations and historical approaches Wasserman, and Peter on interpreting and collecting data in to the study of mathematics. The course Minorsky, Campbell Required Materials: Biology in Focus, 3rd virtual labs, writing analytical essays, This course includes includes a study of limits, continuity, Edition AP® Edition for and mastering biology concepts and access to materials differentiation, integration, differential Advanced Placement. connections. Throughout this course, from StudyForge. equations, and the applications of The price of this course students are expected to answer These materials are derivatives and integrals. Students learn includes access to the provided at no cost to required etext listed questions, reflect on issues, and the student and are that math is a reflection (measurement, above. The etext will complete lab activities. The primary frequent throughout expression, and organization) of the be provided to the emphasis is to develop an understanding the course. More reality and wonder of God’s created student within one of concepts from a biblical perspective, details can be found in universe. God’s infinite nature is seen week of the student’s the course information start date in the rather than simply memorizing terms and materials section of as we seek ways to deal with the large course. See course technical details. the course. Students numbers we encounter in our world. This for details. Common are also required course bolsters students’ understanding household items, and This course is designed to provide a to use a graphing of Calculus in a fully integrated way and access to research calculator. This should materials as well as college-level experience and prepare be a student-owned prepares students for the AP® Calculus word processing and students for the AP® exam. Students calculator which can AB exam given each year in May. presentation software, must take the AP® Exam in order to be used on the AP may be required for receive AP® credit. exam (online options This course is designed to provide a the completion of lab are not accepted). activities and/or college-level experience and prepare other assignments. See students for the AP® exam. Students course for details. must take the AP® Exam in order to receive AP® credit. Most colleges and universities offer a sequence of several courses in calculus, and entering students are placed within this sequence according to the extent of their preparation, as measured by the results of an AP® examination or other criteria. UC approved NCAA approved honors available credit recovery available placement test available high school 7 AP Computer Science A AP English Language & Composition Credit: 1.0 AP® Computer Science A is equivalent Credit: 1.0 In AP® English Language and to the first segment of a college level Composition, students learn to be Prerequisites: computer science course. As man Prerequisites: better students of English, as well as Algebra 1 and 2. Teacher better communicators―skills God can use Students will be created in the image of God as creative, recommendation, exposed to a categorical builders and designers, English 1, 2 (honors), both locally and worldwide. Students college-level course. students develop the skills to write with a B+ average. read prose written throughout a variety programs or part of programs to correctly Students will be of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical Recommended exposed to a solve specific problems. Throughout the college-level course. contexts, as they learn to filter what Grade Levels: course, students are reminded that God they read through the truth of the Bible. 11th - 12th is the ultimate programmer who lovingly Recommended Students formulate clear and concise Required Materials: created His children and redeems us Grade Levels: biblical responses to controversial issues, The price of this course from sin into salvation. Made in His 11th-12th compare and contrast transcendentalism includes access to the image, students are capable of designing to Christianity, analyze the topic and required etexts listed programs in understandable, adaptable, Required Materials: meaning of death in the Bible, and above. The etexts will An extensive list of be provided to the and appropriately reusable ways. books are required explore aphorisms in the Bible that student within one Throughout the course, connections for completion of provide guidance to the human week of the student’s between faith and computer science are the course. Most are experience. start date in the course. explored. At the same time, the common novels and Students must have the MLA Handbook. a PC or Mac to install development of useful computer More details of these In addition, students learn to write the custom course programs and classes is used as a context materials are found in skillfully for a variety of purposes. They material to complete for introducing other important concepts the course. develop the skill of annotating as a tool the course. More in computer science, including the to study the word of God, as well as details can be found in the course information development and analysis of algorithms, learn to understand the power and materials section of the the development and use of fundamental persuasiveness of words in order to course. data structures, and the study of standard use them effectively, according to the algorithms and typical applications. In Word of God. Through their reading addition, an understanding of the basic and writing, students become aware of hardware and software components of the interactions that occur as a writer’s computer systems and the responsible purposes,