2021-2022
PENN HIGH SCHOOL
Program of Studies Message from the Principa l Dear Students and Parents,
Penn High School is committed to preparing its students for our rapidly changing world. Our mission is to provide an educational environment of support for students to reach their highest academic achievement, while preparing students to be responsible, healthy, contributing citizens. Penn is comprised of the interdependent Smaller Learning Communities of the Freshman Academy, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Academy (STEM), Fine Arts and Communications Academy (FACA), the Management & Business Academy (MBA), the Health and Human Services Academy (HHSA) and the Penn Academy for Early College (PAEC).
Coupled with this mission is a shared responsibility among the school, student, and home to make wise choices and plan well for a 6-8+ year course of study that leads to continued education and employment after graduating from Penn High School. A successful young person needs to be knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, motivated, civically inspired, engaged in the arts, and prepared for work and self-sufficiency.
This Program of Studies is intended as a planning tool that can assist students as they set goals and make informed plans for the future. As you prepare for registration, you should complete these steps:
·read this Program of Studies, ·explore and identify plans for a career, ·develop or revise a four-year plan with the help of your counselor and parents, ·seek information about specific courses from your counselor and teachers, ·attend The Penn High School Showcase if you are a freshman, sophomore or junior.
Your counselor, teachers and parents are important sources of guidance for you as you choose courses. They can help you plan for, as well as understand, graduation requirements. They can help you use other planning resources like the Career Resource Center. Finally, they serve as important sources of experience and wisdom. Keep in mind that ultimately; the final selection of courses is yours. For that reason, you need to be an active participant in the selection of courses and development of your career plan.
The staff of Penn High School and the Board of School Trustees is committed to continuous improvement of student performance. In keeping with this charge, students are expected to deliver their best effort in the classroom, observe school rules, and respect the rights of fellow students and staff members.
Your success is our success. Your active involvement with our dedicated staff will lead to success. You are instrumental in continuing the tradition of excellence for which Penn High School is recognized.
Please let us know how we can be of assistance to you.
Sincerely,
Sean Galiher Principal Board of School Trustees
Mr. Chris Riley President
Mr. Larry Beehler Vice President
Mrs. Angie Gates Secretary
Ms. Clare Roach Member
Mrs. K. Jaye Galloway Member
Mr. James L. Garrett Member
Mr. Jamie Woods Member
Administration
Dr. Jerry Thacker Superintendent of Schools
Mr. Aaron Leniski Chief Operating Officer
Mrs. Heather Short Asst. Superintendent for Instruction
Mr. Jerry Hawkins Executive Director of Business Services
Mr. Michael Lureman Director of Human Resources
Mrs. Lucha Ramey Director of Communications
Mr. Jason Snyder Director of Professional Development and Student Learning Ms. Gena Todd Director of Exceptional Education Penn High School
Mr. Sean Galiher Principal
Mr. Randy Williams Associate Principal
Mrs. Rachel Fry Assistant Principal
Mr. Josiah Parker Assistant Principal
Ms. Kat Bromen Assistant Principal
Mr. Dave Hall Assessment Coordinator
Mr. Brad Boyd Dean of Students
Mr. Jeff Hart Director of Athletics and Activities
Mrs. Bridget Williams Assistant Athletic Director
Ms. Marie Doan Assistant Athletic Director
Mr. John Gensic STEM Academy Leader
Mr. Glenn Northern Fine Arts & Communications Academy Leader
Mrs. Jeanie Mitchell Freshman Academy Leader
Mrs. Jodi Adkins Health & Human Services Academy Leader
Mrs. Polly Corpe Management & Business Academy Leader
Mrs. Danielle Black Early College Academy Leader
Mrs. Virginia Shafer Exceptional Education Academy Leader
Mrs. Kelley Watts World Languages Academy Leader
Ms. Caelea Armstrong Instructional Media Center Specialist
Mr. John Westra Director of Counseling Services
Mrs. Emily Lehman (A-K Grade 9) Counselor
Mrs. Marni Cronk (L-Z Grade 9) Counselor
Mrs. Lynn Stratford (A-Con 11-12) Counselor
Mrs. Sandy Hunter (Coo-Hal 10-12) Counselor
Mr. Shane Varga (Ham-Lan 10-12) Counselor
Mrs. Amanda Bates (Lao-Ow 10-12) Counselor
Ms. Madeline Watkins (Pa-Sk 10-12) Counselor Ms. Janiece FitzGerald (Sl-Z 10-12) Counselor
Mrs. Megan Bidigare Social Services Counselor
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Mission ·Our mission is to provide an educational environment for students to reach their highest academic achievement. We will prepare them to be responsible, healthy, contributing citizens who have acquired the skills to be lifelong learners ready to adapt to a changing world.
Vision ·Our curriculum is clearly defined, rigorous, integrated with technology, frequently assessed to reach every student, and supported by innovative teaching strategies. ·Our students are lifelong learners who demonstrate creativity, analytical problem-solving, and are engaged in positive social, emotional and healthy life skills. ·Our school climate is the result of communication and collaboration among the administration, parents, teachers, staff and students. A safe and personalized learning environment in our schools nurtures the whole child. ·Our personnel are highly trained individuals who model innovative best practices in all areas of their job assignment. Continuous opportunities for professional development are provided to support their performance at the highest level. ·Our creative and visionary leadership team exhibits responsible fiscal management that is committed to our mission and is accountable to the community. ·Our corporation seeks to collaborate with the greater Penn-Harris-Madison community in support of our mission.
Values ·We value learning as a priority and challenge all students to excellence through a continuous improvement model. ·We provide a healthy, safe, respectful and nurturing learning environment. ·We support continuous professional growth of a quality staff. ·We model a collaborative relationship among students, staff, and parents. ·We value community partnerships. ·We respect the uniqueness of each student. ·We demonstrate fiscal responsibility in support of our mission.
Goals ·Annually, all students will achieve proficiency in core academic areas as measured by state standards through multiple assessments. ·Annually, all students will demonstrate continuous academic progress through multiple assessments. ·All 10 th grade students will demonstrate mastery of the proficiencies on the Graduation Qualifying Exam ·Annually, expenditures will not exceed revenues as measured by the certified budget. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation Profile of a Graduate A graduate of Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation schools is expected to acquire the knowledge and skill to: Be an effective communicator who: ·Reads, comprehends, and analyzes material from a variety of sources. ·Communicates thoughts and ideas through writing, speaking, and performance. ·Applies active listening skills, seeking first to understand. ·Receives and evaluates information sources across a range of mediums. ·Communicates ideas effectively using a variety of media and the latest technology. ·Recognizes the necessity to tailor communication to meet the needs of an audience both locally and globally. ·Collaborates with others.
Be a thoughtful problem-solver who: ● Uses basic and advanced academic, social, and technological skills to solve problems. ● Thinks critically and creatively. ● Collects, analyzes and assesses source material as an informed thinker. ● Develops, evaluates, chooses and implements solutions to problems.
Be an effective contributor and collaborative team member who:
● Works cooperatively. ● Resolves disputes constructively. ● Works collaboratively towards a common good, a common challenge, which involves the contribution and exchange of ideas, knowledge or resources to achieve the goal. ● Perceives divergent viewpoints and responds with understanding. ● Treats others with dignity and respect. ● Functions responsibly as a member of a family, a social group and the larger global community.
Be a lifelong learner and contributing member of a society who:
● Seeks learning opportunities throughout life. ● Creates a personal vision and sets attainable goals for achievement. ● Assumes personal and social responsibility for actions. ● Continually acquires new skills necessary for success in the 21 st century and the global economy. Be a responsible citizen who:
● Understands the ideals and responsibilities of the American heritage. ● Is dedicated to democratic values and pursues the common good. ● Upholds legal rights and civic duties. ● Safeguards universal human rights and the dignity of all people.
Be a healthy individual who:
● Pursues a variety of healthy interests and maintains balance among them. ● Demonstrates a commitment to physical and emotional well-being. ● Exhibits self-regulating behavior. ● Confidently pursues his/her full potential. ● Expresses emotion constructively. ● Adapts to life changes. ● Exercises both body and mind.
Be a contemporary learner who:
● Effectively uses information and communications technology (ICT) and information literacy. ● Learns through digital networks. ● Learns through digital means, such as social networking, ICT (information & communications technology) literacy, technological awareness and simulation. ● Functions in social networks and contributes to the development of social and intellectual capital.
Penn High School Mission Statement
Penn High School instills in students the knowledge, skills and abilities required to be contributing members of the global community. We educate students through exemplary educational practices, effective communication, collaboration and cooperation in a safe, non-threatening environment. We embrace diversity and inspire students to reach challenging academic goals while conducting themselves with respect, with responsibility and with integrity. ACADEMIC PLANNING
Planning Your Schedule The Program of Studies, now available online, contains a wealth of information for the scheduling process. Whether your plans for life after high school involve work, apprenticeship, military, technical college, two-year or four-year college, your choices are important. Please take the time to explore your interests and formulate a map to reach your goals. Take time to check the prerequisites required for some classes. Applications are needed for some courses.
Your schedule is a full-year commitment, so courses must be chosen carefully. Your counselor will meet with you to finalize your choices.
Schedule Change Policy It is the school's position that schedule changes after the school year begins disrupt instructional time. Since staffing and the master schedule are determined by student course selection, students are expected to honor the commitment they make when selecting courses and the spring deadline for making schedule changes . There are, however, circumstances that warrant a schedule change. Schedule change requests prior to school starting must meet at least one of the following criteria:
Criteria for schedule changes: 1. Failure to meet course prerequisites 2. Failure to meet graduation requirements. 3. Change in college or career plans. 4. Course changes due to completion of summer school. 5. Inappropriate level placement. 6. Students earning a failing grade from the teacher the previous year. 7. Incomplete Schedule - not enough classes listed on schedule. 8. Schedule Conflict – two of the student’s selected courses are offered only during the same block.
Criteria for schedule changes after the start of school: 1.Extenuating circumstances, such as hardship or extended illness. 2.Changes in a course or a course level, if appropriate, are considered. The student, teacher, or parent may initiate the discussion for a course level change. In any case, and prior to any determination, the teacher, student, and parent must first have a conversation to determine the appropriate recommendation, and all three parties must sign a course level adjustment form which must be obtained from the school counselor. Academy leaders and counselors are involved as needed. 3.Course level changes must be completed as soon as possible in the semester. 4.Courses may not be changed or added after the second week of school. 5.Courses dropped after the fourth full week of school will result in a grade of W/F (withdraw/fail) on the student’s transcript. 6.Requests for teacher changes will not be honored. Penn High School Graduation Requirements
High School Courses Taken In Middle School High School courses offered to middle school students are meant to supplement middle school course offerings and to prepare students for four more years of rigorous high school coursework. The Indiana State Board of Education does not restrict high school credit to course work completed in Grades 9 through 12. Schools may elect to award high school credit to students who complete high school courses before entering Grade 9 if the course is fully equivalent to its high school counterpart. Parents may choose to have high school courses taken before grade nine voided from their student’s high school transcript. If parents choose this option, the student will not be given the opportunity to repeat the course at the high school level.
Graduation Requirements
Indiana Core 40 Expectations In the State of Indiana, all students entering the ninth grade are encouraged to work toward completing the requirements of a Core 40 diploma at a minimum . All Penn High School students are expected to meet the requirements of the Core 40 diploma. The Core 40 is a directed set of high school courses that will help prepare students for success, whether pursuing a career that requires four or more years of college, one or two years of post-secondary education in a business or technical college, or training through an apprenticeship program. Indiana's Core 40 is the default diploma for all Indiana High School students. ·Students must complete the Core 40 to be considered for admission to Indiana's four-year colleges, and the same courses are strongly recommended for admission to a two-year college or entry into the workplace. ·Students who complete the Core 40 requirements with a 2.0 GPA and who qualify for need-based financial aid may qualify for additional aid from the State of Indiana. ·Most Penn High School students take additional electives beyond their 40 required credits. Some courses not specified by Core 40 may be essential for successful completion of required academic studies. ·Please check specific colleges and universities for their world language requirements as well as their specific admissions requirements. While a world language is not a requirement for the Core 40, it may be a requirement for admission to some post-secondary institutions. ·For more details see the Graduation Requirements charts on the pages that follow.
Core 40 with Academic Honors Diploma The Indiana State Board of Education has established a Core 40 with Academic Honors Diploma. The diploma is intended to bring honor to those students who choose challenging courses and accumulate at least 47 credits in high school. To be eligible for this diploma, a student must have a grade point average of “B” (3.0) or above. No grade lower than a “C” in a required class may count toward the diploma. A gold seal is placed on the diploma and the student’s transcript notes the awarding of the Academic Honors Diploma. ·Students must be fully eligible at the end of the 7 th semester in order to wear the academic honors hood at senior recognition night and commencement. ·In the area of world language, students must take three years of one language or two years of one language and two years of another language. ·Students who earn less than a C in a required class may retake that class with a Penn teacher or online (world language courses cannot be taken online) for AHD purposes. Retaking courses does not replace the grade on the Penn High School transcript. ·For more details see the Graduation Requirement Chart for Core 40 with Academic Honors Diploma.
Core 40 with Technical Honors Diploma The Indiana State Board of Education has established a Core 40 with Technical Honors diploma. The diploma is intended to bring honor to those students who complete Core 40 requirements and a career-technical program. To be eligible for this diploma, a student must have a grade point average of “B” (3.0) or above. No grade lower than a “C” in a required course may count toward the diploma.
For more details see the Graduation Requirement Chart for Core 40 with Technical Honors Diploma.
General Diploma The core 40 is Indiana's graduation requirement. To graduate with less than Core 40, the following formal opt-out process must be completed:
·The student, parent/guardian and counselor must meet to discuss the student’s progress, career and course plan. ·At this meeting, the parent/guardian determines whether the student will achieve greater educational benefits by completing the general curriculum or the Core 40 curriculum. ·If the decision is made to opt-out of Core 40, the parent/guardian and counselor will sign a Diploma Track Change form . The form will be kept on file in the Counseling Center. Please refer to the Indiana General High School Diploma chart for further information about the general diploma.
Indiana General High School Diploma
Course and Credit Requirements
English/Language Arts 8 credits
English 9, English 10, English 11, English 12
Mathematics 4 credits
2 credits: Algebra I 2 credits: any math course (2 math or quantitative reasoning credits must be taken in 11th or 12th grade)
Science 4 credits
2 credits: Biology I 2 credits: any science course (at least 1 credit must be from a physical science or earth and space science course)
Social Studies 4 credits
2 credits: U.S. History 1 credit: U.S. Government 1 credit: any social studies course
Physical Education 2 credits
Health and Wellness 1 credit
College and Career Pathway Courses* 6 credits
Flex Credit 5 credits
To earn 5 Flex Credits a student must complete one of the following: ● Additional elective courses in a College and Career Pathway ● Courses involving work based learning, which may include the following courses: ○ Work Based Learning Internship ○ Work Experience ○ Custodial Internship ○ Peer Leaders ○ Professional career internship ○ Office Internship ○ Marketing, Theatre,Communication, Graphics, or TV Internships ● High school/college dual credit courses ● Additional courses in: ○ Language Arts ○ Social Studies ○ Mathematics ○ Science ○ World Languages ○ Fine Arts
Electives** 6 credits
40 Total State Credits Required
*Career Academic Sequence – Selecting electives in a deliberate manner to take full advantage of career exploration and preparation opportunities. ** Specifies the number of electives required by the state. High school schedules provide time for many more electives during the high school years. Schools may have additional local graduation requirements that apply to all students (updated 6/15/06) CORE 40
Course and Credit Requirements
English/ 8 credits Language Arts Including a balance of literature, composition and speech.
Mathematics 6 credits (in grades 9-12)
2 credits: Algebra I 2 credits: Geometry 2 credits: Algebra II Or complete Integrated Math I, II, and III for 6 credits. Students must take a math or quantitative reasoning course each year in high school.
Science 6 credits
2 credits: Biology I 2 credits: Chemistry I or Physics I or Integrated Chemistry-Physics 2 credits: any Core 40 science course
Social Studies 6 credits
2 credits: World History/Civilization or Geography/History of the World 2 credits: U.S. History 1 credit: U.S. Government 1 credit: Economics
Directed Electives 5 credits
World Languages Fine Arts Career and Technical Education
Physical Education 2 credits
Health and Wellness 1 credit
Electives* 6 credits (College and Career Pathway courses recommended)
40 Total State Credits Required
Schools may have additional local graduation requirements that apply to all students
* Specifies the number of electives required by the state. High school schedules provide time for many more electives during the high school years. All students are strongly encouraged to complete a College and Career Pathway (selecting electives in a deliberate manner) to take full advantage of career exploration and preparation opportunities. CORE 40 With Academic Honors (minimum 47 credits)
For the Core 40 with Academic Honors diploma, students must: ·Complete all requirements for Core 40. ·Earn 2 additional Core 40 math credits. ·Earn 6-8 Core 40 world language credits. (6 credits in one language or 4 credits each in two languages). ·Earn 2 Core 40 fine arts credits. ·Earn a grade of a “C” or better in courses that will count toward the diploma. ·Have a grade point average of a “B” or better. ·Complete one of the following: A.Earn 4 credits in 2 or more AP® courses and take corresponding AP® exams B.Earn 6 verifiable transcripted college credits in dual credit courses form the approved dual credit list C.Earn 2 of the following: 1. A minimum of 3 verifiable transcripted college credits from the approved dual credit list. 2.2 credits in AP® courses and corresponding AP® exams. 3. 2 credits in IB standard level courses and corresponding IB exams. D.Earn a composite score of 1250 or higher on the SAT and a minimum score of 560 on math and 590 on the evidence based reading and writing section. ** E.Earn an ACT composite score of 26 or higher and complete written section F.Earn 4 credits in IB courses and take corresponding IB exams.
CORE 40 with Technical Honors (minimum 47 credits)
For the Core 40 with Technical Honors diploma, students must: ·Complete all requirements for Core 40. ·Earn 6 credits in the college and career preparation courses in a state-approved College & Career Pathway and one of the following: 1. Pathway designated industry based certification or credential, or 2. Pathway dual credits from the approved dual credit list resulting in 6 transcripted college credits ·Earn a grade of “C” or better in courses that will count toward the diploma. ·Have a grade point average of a “B” or better. ·Complete one of the following:
A.Any one of the options (A-F) of the Core 40 with Academic Honors B.Earn the following scores or higher on WorkKeys; Reading for Information - Level 6, Applied Mathematics - Level 6, and Locating Information - Level 5. C.Earn the following minimum score(s) on Accuplacer: Writing 80, Reading 90, Math 75. D.Earn the following minimum score(s) on Compass: Algebra 66, Writing 70, Reading 80. Graduation Requirements Beginning With The Class Of 2023
The Great Recession in 2008 had profound impacts on our economy. While jobs are back, they are not the same ones lost during the recession. The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce report demonstrated that o ver 95% of jobs created during the recovery have gone to workers with at least some college education, while those with a high school diploma or less are being left behind . The high school diploma is what gets students started; it’s no longer the finish line. Students need to be equipped for a more demanding job market and postsecondary opportunities that differ from the status quo of a graduation test.
Until recently, Indiana’s approach to graduation requirements was a one-size-fits-all approach requiring every student to pass graduation qualifying exams (ISTEP). This approach required students who did not pass these exams to take remedial classes to prepare for and retake them. While these remedial classes were designed to help students, it frequently prevented students from taking classes that would help prepare them for college and career opportunities after high school. This requirement is still in effect for the graduating classes of 2019-2022.
With the passage of Graduation Pathways, students are now able to individualize their graduation requirements to align to their postsecondary goal. No longer must all students fit into the same academic mold, but rather, they can choose the options that best meet their postsecondary needs and aspirations. Students can create pathways that serve their educational interests and prepares them for postsecondary educational and career opportunities. Overall, this plan ensures that students are truly prepared to be successful in whatever they want to pursue after high school.
Beginning with the graduating class of 2023, students must satisfy at least one option from each of the three boxes listed in the table below in order to graduate. However, the graduating classes of 2019-2022 may satisfy graduation requirements by opting into the new Graduation Pathways if they did not meet the ISTEP requirement for graduation during the sophomore year.
Students may use the courses listed in the Penn High School Program of Studies that have been approved by the P-H-M School Board when completing the 40 credits required for graduation. Also, the board recognizes courses approved by the College Board, the Elkhart Area Career Center, as well as college and university courses for which students receive dual credit, and courses as specified by Indiana Code.
Penn High School will offer courses it deems relevant to the educational goals of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation and its students. These offerings will be contingent upon budgetary constraints, staff availability, and minimum student enrollment for such courses.
Please see the Graduation Requirement Charts for specific requirements.
Penn High School Graduation Requirements (Starting with Class of 2023)
Requirements Graduation Pathway Options 1) High School Diploma ● Core 40 designation; (Students must complete the course requirem ● Academic Honors designation; one of the following diplomas.) ● Technical Honors designation; ● General Diploma 2) Learn and Demonstrate Employability Learn employability skills standards through locally developed Skills programs. Employability skills are demonstrated by one the following: (Students must complete at least one of the ● Project-Based Learning Experience ; OR following employability experiences. ● Service-Based Learning Experience ; OR ● Work-Based Learning Experience.
3) Postsecondary-Ready Competencies ● Honors Designation : Fulfill all requirements of either the Acad (Students must complete at least one Technical Honors designation; OR of the following.) ● ACT: Minimum score of 18 in English, 22 in Math and 23 in Science; ● SAT: Minimum score of 480 in English and 530 in Math; OR ● ASVAB: Earn at least the minimum AFQT score of 31 to qua placement into one of the branches of the US military; OR ● State- and Industry-recognized Credential or Certification; OR ● Federally-recognized Apprenticeship ; OR ● Career-Technical Education Concentrator: Must earn a C average or higher in at least two/three advanced courses in a career pathway (class of ‘22-’24 = 2 courses, class of ‘25 = 3 courses-see Appendix for Career Pathways); OR ● AP® /IB/Dual Credit/ Exams: Must earn a C average or higher in three courses.
Smaller Learning Communities (SLCs) Penn High School has six Smaller Learning Communities (SLCs). The benefits of our SLCs include: ·Increased student attendance ·Increased student engagement ·Greater student achievement ·Increase in student positive behavior
Freshman Academy The Freshman Academy at Penn High School has been in place for over a decade. It was established with the purpose to help students acclimate to a large high school while giving smaller learning community support to ensure that all students thrive, graduate, and feel part of the greater school community. Penn High School can offer students the opportunities of a large school, with the personalization and strong relationships of a small school. Students are placed within teams and share the same core teachers (Math, English, Biology and Geography). Freshmen are encouraged to explore their interests and sign up for a large array of electives. The teacher teams utilize a common time to meet and discuss student concerns while looking to grow professionally in the context of the whole child. This endeavor is supported by dedicated freshmen counselors. The transition to high school is assisted by upperclassmen who work as freshman mentors meeting with freshmen in small groups throughout the first semester. Each core subject teacher meets in a professional learning community (PLC) to develop academically appropriate lessons as well as formative and summative assessments. All teachers are further supported by a reading coach, a math enrichment coach, and a literacy specialist. Adding to this professional team are physical education teachers who help with structuring fitness and movement to improve cognition. From the first day of school, students know they are part of a smaller learning community at Penn. They develop an identity and forge relationships with adults and students within their house. Achievement Academies After the freshman year, students choose one of four achievement academies, the Health and Human Services Academy, Fine Arts and Communications Academy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academy or the Management and Business Academy. We know that students in these academies will also realize the same benefits they saw in the freshman academy. The achievement academies were designed by students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members to help students bridge the gap between high school and the myriad of post-secondary options. Each of the achievement academies will help students concentrate their efforts on making a meaningful senior year with classes and projects designed specifically for each student. During the scheduling process each freshman will elect one of the four academies: ·The Fine Arts and Communications Academy ·The Health and Human Services Academy ·The Management & Business Academy ·The Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academy
The Achievement Academies at Penn High School have been designed to bring focus, rigor and relevance to students' high school course of study. Based on Federal and State Career Pathways models, students may choose one of four academies in which to study their sophomore, junior and senior years. Students will begin to consider the focus of their high school education when they complete their four year plan in the eighth grade. Students will choose their desired diploma-Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors, or Core 40 with Technical Honors and select courses that meet those requirements. Students will select their Penn Achievement Academy in Preparing for College and Careers (PCC) class.
Selection of an academy will not limit the courses a student may take. Students in each academy will be supported by a group of teachers in that academy, as well as community partners, to create an individualized learning plan that helps each student with his/her post-secondary goals. Students will be required to take a minimum of one elective within an academy per semester, beginning their sophomore year. Most students will select additional courses within their chosen academy to individualize their education to specific pathways related to post-secondary plans. Students will be encouraged to seek Capstone Courses and Work-Based Learning experiences, which include Registered Apprenticeship, Cooperative Education, Internship, School Based Enterprise, or Service Learning.
Early College Academy The Penn Academy for Early College is a program designed to offer students a unique opportunity to begin working toward college requirements while simultaneously fulfilling graduation courses at Penn High School. Penn High School is partnered with Ivy Tech Community College to offer a selection of courses, including dual credit courses, that can potentially earn a student college credits up to an Associate’s Degree by the time the student graduates from Penn High School. The four-year sequence of courses for Early College students is specific and required. Students may select elective courses when available. The mission of Penn’s Academy for Early College is to serve students who need extra support and guidance in order to prepare and pursue post-secondary educational opportunities. Most students are identified as potential candidates for this program in middle school based on specific criteria. Students may only select courses in the academy if they are members of the academy at the beginning of their freshman year. The Penn Academy for Early College is a four-year commitment. Work-Based Learning Penn High School encourages students to explore career pathways, and choose courses on a pathway that aligns with their future interests and post-secondary ambitions. Juniors and seniors who have earned a minimum of 4 credits on a related pathway have the opportunity to participate in Work-Based Learning (WBL). These experiences can include both inside and outside of the building components. Examples of WBL are: ● Registered Apprenticeship ● Professional Work Based-Management & Business ● Internship ● School-Based Enterprise ● Service Learning Students may apply in the Counseling Office. Please be prepared to self-report the pathway courses you have completed, which qualify you for this experience.
A student's four year plan will include these areas:
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
Freshman Academy Achievement Academy Achievement Academy Achievement Academy
English 9 (Honors) English 10 (Honors) English 11 (Honors, AP® ) English 12
(ACP, AP® , Ivy Tech)
Math (Honors) Math (Honors) Math ( AP® ) Math/Elective (ACP/ AP® )
Biology (Honors) ICP or Chemistry (H) Science Science/Elective
Geography & History of the Health/Elective US History Government/Economics
World (Honors) (AP® /ACP/Ivy Tech) ( AP® /ACP/Ivy Tech)
Physical Education AA Elective AA-Elective AA-Elective
Elective Elective Elective Elective
Elective Elective Elective Elective
Study Hall/PCC & Intro to Study Hall/Interactive Media Study Hall/ Work-Based Study Hall/Work-Based
Communications Learning Learning Graduation Exams The following is the information released from the Indiana Department of Education. More information will be made available as it is released. ·Starting with the class of 2019, students are required to take ISTEP+ exams in math, English, and science. All students in grade 10 will take the math and English ISTEP+ and any student enrolled in Biology I, regardless of grade, will take the science ISTEP+. Passing the math and English ISTEP+ exams will serve as a graduation requirement for the graduating classes of 2019-2022. Students in the graduating classes of 2019-2022 must meet the ISTEP requirement. However, students may elect to opt-in and complete a Graduation Pathway if they are unsuccessful on the ISTEP during their sophomore year. Graduation pathways will be required starting with the class of 2023. Information about Graduation Pathways is included in the diploma section of the Program of Studies.
Remediation Policy for ISTEP+ The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation is committed to providing additional services to students who demonstrate academic deficiency. Students whose performance levels on the ISTEP+ fall below the proficiency level as set by the State of Indiana are considered to be at risk of not meeting graduation requirements. Additionally, students who show poor progress on off-level testing and in academic performance in the classroom are also at risk and need to be provided additional educational opportunities. Students entering the ninth grade who have scored below the mathematics standard will be required to enroll in a specific program designed to meet basic math skills.
Students who have not passed their graduation ISTEP+ will be required to participate in specific remedial activities designed to improve their scores. However, Indiana’s approach to graduation requirements requiring every student to pass a graduation qualifying exam will end with the class of 2022. Students in the graduating classes of 2019-2022 must meet the ISTEP requirement or complete a Graduation Pathway. Graduation pathways will be required starting with the class of 2023.
Assessment Philosophy All students should know that: ·They will receive grades that are based upon multiple forms of assessment, such as tests, quizzes, projects, reports, collaborative work, presentations, laboratory reports and writing assignments. ·The way grades will be determined will be explained at the beginning of the course and with each assignment. ·Assessment practices will measure the extent to which a student has attained the standards of the course. ·They will have opportunities to produce work of which they are proud and, at the teacher’s discretion, opportunities will be given for self-correction and resubmission of work. ·They will have opportunities to know which test items they missed and why their answers were unacceptable. ·They will receive ample feedback to know how well they are doing and whether they should make changes in what they are doing. Grading Standards for Penn High School ·Student progress may be monitored by using Skyward. ·Report cards are issued at the end of each semester. The letter grades listed below are used to designate the student's progress. · Only semester grades are recorded on the permanent record and student’s official transcript. ·Penn High School is on a four point system to determine grade point average and all course grades are included in the grade point average.
GRADE GRADE POINT VALUE A 4.0 B 3.0 C 2.0 D 1.0 F 0.0 W/F 0.0 N Not calculated
Weighted Grades Advanced Placement ® (AP ® ) courses will be weighted on a 5.0 scale. Advanced College Project (ACP) courses will also be weighted on a 5.0 scale when students earn an A, B or C for the semester. Dual-credit classes and certain designated classes will be weighted on a 4.5 scale.
AP® and ACP classes will be weighted as follows: GRADE GRADE POINT VALUE A 5.0 B 4.0 C 3.0 D N/A F N/A
The following courses will be weighted on a 5.0 scale for the 2021-22 academic year: ● All Advanced Placement ® (AP ® ) courses ● All Advance College Project (ACP) courses
Students must complete weighted courses with a grade of ‘C’ or better and complete the accompanying exam or performance assessment in order to receive the weighted credit.
Dual-credit classes and certain designated classes will be weighted on a 4.5 scale. The following courses will be weighted on a 4.5 scale for the 2021-22 academic year: ● Symphonic Winds ● Symphonic Choir ● Advanced Orchestra ● Advanced Jazz Band ● Medical Statistics ● All dual-credit classes ● Automation Robotics I and II and FIRST Robotics Internship Students must complete weighted courses with a grade of ‘C’ or better and complete the accompanying exam or performance assessment in order to receive the weighted credit.
GRADE GRADE POINT VALUE A 4.5 B 3.5 C 2.5 D N/A F N/A
Incompletes Due to Excessive Absences Students who receive a grade of “Incomplete” must complete necessary make-up work no later than the first ten days of the subsequent grading period. Students who receive a grade of Incomplete because of prolonged illness or unusual circumstances must obtain approval from the Director of Counseling Services before the end of the ten-day period to extend the deadline.
Withdrawing from a Course Any course withdrawals after the fourth full week of the semester will result in a grade of "W/F" (Withdraw/Fail).
Course Repeats A student may want to repeat a course for no additional credit to meet necessary prerequisites in order to continue with the next course level in a sequence of courses. A student who receives a grade below a C may retake a course to re-qualify for the Academic Honors Diploma and/or Technical Honors Diploma. The repeated course is also calculated in the GPA but credit is earned only once for a course.
Report Cards Report cards are issued soon after the close of each semester.
Summer School Summer school information will be listed on our Penn High School website as it becomes available. Please visit us there at penn.phmschools.org.
Skyward Parents have access to Skyward on their personal computer. A password for the site is issued by the school. Both grades and attendance information are available to you with Skyward. Access Skyward through this link: https://skyweb.phmschools.org/StudentSTS/. Commencement Participation Policy Students must be within seven credits of completing all graduation requirements by the end of the first nine weeks of the second semester of their senior year to participate in the commencement ceremony.
NCAA and NAIA Eligibility Centers ·Register with the Eligibility Center in the junior year. ·Policies are different for all Divisions I, II, III, NAIA. ·The NCAA Eligibility Center covers Division I and II only. ·Students can pick up materials in the Counseling Center Career Resource Room.
Please consult the NCAA Clearinghouse web page for the most current information about preparing to participate in Division I or II college sports at: www.eligibilitycenter.org NCAA approved courses are signified with
NAIA information can be found at: www.playnaia.org
Penn High School CEEB Code: 152347
Fees Most student fees are course-specific and vary depending on the amount of consumable supplemental supplies needed to support mastery of learning objectives. Those fees are listed in the fee appendix in the digital version of the Program of Studies. This can be found on the Penn High School website under counseling beginning in February. In addition, all students are charged a digital fee of $22.50 to cover digital learning resources.
COUNSELING SERVICES
Web Address: http://penn.phmschools.org/counseling
Mission Statement In partnership with parents and the community, the Penn High School Counseling Center is committed to keeping students a priority and focusing on their health, well-being and educational growth. Through activities and programs, our students will find the services they need to pursue goals in their future. It is our goal to help students become responsible, contributing citizens. Your Counselors Penn High School has ten counselors. Two are assigned to our Freshman Academy, while six are assigned alphabetically to the upper three classes. Our Director is the counselor for students in alternative education settings - Pennway and Night School. All of the counselors at Penn High School meet the standards and licensing requirements for School Counselor by the State of Indiana, hold a master’s degree in Counseling and keep their licenses current. Two staff members are licensed by the Indiana Health Professions Bureau as Mental Health Counselors.
Please visit us on the Web to learn more about Counseling Services at Penn.
SAT® and ACT Most traditional four-year colleges require the SAT® or ACT as part of their admissions process. ·Registration for either test may be completed by using the paper registration form or by using the online registration service at collegeboard.com for the SAT® or act.org for the ACT. ·Registration, test dates and test sites are determined by the testing companies. They develop and score their own tests. ·A description of each test and a comparison of the two tests can be found on the Counseling page of the Penn-Harris-Madison website. ·We advise juniors who are currently taking geometry to take the SAT®/ACT in the spring of their junior year. ·We advise juniors who have already completed geometry to take the SAT®/ACT any time during the junior year. ·If you have a question about your registration, scoring or score reports contact the College Board or ACT directly.
·Students who have an Individual Education Plan (IEP) must complete a College Board/SSD or ACT accommodations request application two to three months before a test date . This procedure will be a point of discussion at annual case conferences. ·Test scores are sent to the student and the four colleges the students request on their registration form. ·When applying to colleges and universities the student is responsible to contact ACT.org or Collegeboard.com to request that the scores be sent. Scores are not on the Penn transcript. ·Students are advised to be at the test site early with sharpened pencils, a picture ID and proof of registration. ·No electronic devices are permitted during testing. ·Athletes must report SAT® or ACT scores directly to the NCAA Eligibility Center. Use the ‘9999’ number under the ‘sending scores area’ in the school section of the registration form so that your “official scores” will be sent to the Eligibility Center. The Eligibility Center will no longer accept scores from the high school. For more information, go to the section on NCAA. ·In order to be formally recruited or to make an official campus visit a college must have your SAT® or ACT results and a high school transcript.
College Application Procedures Penn High School utilizes Naviance to fulfill electronic college document requests in conjunction with the use of the Common Application. Both are secure online systems that allow students to order transcripts and submit applications electronically. Our staff sends the requested transcripts and the Secondary School Report to the colleges and universities requested by the student. With the Common Application, students must match their Naviance and Common Application accounts in order to connect the two programs for automatic updates. For both Common Application schools and schools with their own electronic application, students must make transcript requests in Naviance. Schools with their own application must be added by the student application list manually within Naviance, Common Application schools will automatically add to the list when the accounts are matched. Students will still submit applications through the Common Application program or directly to an institution but before doing so, schools must be represented accurately on the “Colleges I’m Applying To” list in Naviance. Students hoping to apply in early August must wait for confirmation from the Counseling Center when Naviance is ready to accept new applications and transcript requests for that academic year. Students are notified when the transcript has been sent and when the transcript has been received in Naviance.
·You must allow 10 school days for the Secondary School Report and Counselor Recommendation portions of the Naviance request to be completed.
Step 1 If using Common Application, match your Common Application and Naviance accounts to add schools to the Naviance application list. If applying directly to an institution, add those schools to the application list in Naviance manually. When schools are accurately listed in Naviance, applications can be submitted electronically.
Step 2 In Naviance, official transcript requests should be made for both Common Application and non-Common Application schools. Request transcripts (in Naviance) for all colleges/universities that will receive your application.
Step 3 Request official ACT or SAT results to be sent to colleges/universities requiring them as part of the application process. ACT scores can be requested online through www.act.org and SAT scores can be requested online at www.collegeboard.org. ACT/SAT® scores are not on the Penn High School diploma or transcript.
AWARDS
Honor Roll Students who earn between a 3.0 and a 3.49 grade point average with no grade below C are eligible for the Honor Roll.
High Honor Roll Students who earn between a 3.5 and 3.75 grade point average with no grade below C are eligible for the High Honor Roll.
Academic Excellence Students who earn a 4.0 grade point average are eligible for Academic Excellence.
Academic Letter An academic letter will be awarded to all students with a cumulative GPA >3.50 after their fourth and sixth semesters. The letter, with a lamp of knowledge, will be white with black and gold trim. Qualifying students who received letters after the fourth semester will receive a chevron after the sixth semester. The chevrons will match the academic letter in color and design. Academic letters will be presented in a public ceremony every January or February. National Honor Society Teachers at Penn participate in the selection of students that are juniors or seniors for National Honor Society, a national organization for the recognition of outstanding students. Membership in National Honor Society is an honor and is based equally upon scholarship (3.5 minimum), leadership, service and character.
Graduation with High Honors Students are eligible to be recognized as a graduate with High Honors based upon earning a 3.5 or above Cumulative GPA with no grades below a C. Students must be fully eligible at the end of the 7 th semester in order to be recognized at senior recognition night and commencement.
Latin Honors System Penn High School will transition to a Latin Honors System beginning with the graduating class of 2020. Students can receive the designation of Summa Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, and Cum Laude based on minimum GPA requirements. Students must have already completed seven semesters and/or be on track to receive an Academic or Technical Honors diploma at the time of graduation to receive a Latin designation.
Latin Designation GPA Minimum Required Diploma Type Definition
Cum laude 3.75 Core 40 With praise
Magna cum laude 4.00 Academic or Technical Honors With high praise
Summa cum laude 4.25 Academic or Technical Honors With highest praise
Recognition Who 2021 2022 2023
Latin Honors Designation in Commencement Program All Laude x x x
Graduation Recognition All Laude x x x
Graduation Speakers Valedictorians x x x
Transcript All Laude x x x
Remove Rank from transcript and report card All Students x
Scholarships
Colleges, businesses and industry, as well as civic, fraternal and educational groups offer scholarship opportunities. Students should consult with their counselor and visit the Scholarship area in the College/Career Resource Center (Room 115) for more information. A list of scholarships and applications are available in the CCRC, at the Counseling Center web page, and can also be accessed through Twitter by following @PennScholarship. Some of the awards require an examination; others require a written application or an interview. Students and parents are encouraged to do their own free scholarship search on any one of a number of scholarship sites available on the Internet like the Collegeboard’s Big Future website (bigfuture.collegeboard.org), FastWeb (fastweb.com) and FinAid (finaid.org).
In addition, students also have the ability to search for scholarships using Naviance. Partnering with Sallie Mae, Naviance provides students the opportunity to conduct a national scholarship search based on an individual student profile and scholarship filters.
In each of the past several years, Penn students have gathered over eight million dollars in scholarship monies.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Early Graduation Any student who wishes to graduate early must confer with their parents and counselor. Parents will be asked to send written permission that includes their approval, signature and date. Remaining required credits will be completed in summer school prior, or online through Independent Study during the student’s final year of high school.
For students who graduate from a publicly supported high school at least one year early, the Mitch Daniels Early Graduation Scholarship awards students who qualify $4,000 toward tuition and fees, and can be used at any eligible Indiana college.
Advanced Placement® (AP®) “AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the College Board. Used with permission.” Advanced Placement® courses are taught at the college level. They afford students an opportunity to earn high school credit as well as college credit and/or appropriate placement at the college level. In order to receive weighted credit and Advanced Placement® designation on transcripts, students must successfully complete both semesters of the Advanced Placement® course and complete the Advanced Placement® examination in that course . Students who choose to take an AP® course outside of Penn must also take the corresponding AP® examination to receive weighted grade/credit. In order to earn college credit, a student must attain a specific score on a national standardized examination, and attend one of the many colleges and universities who recognize students’ participation in the College Board’s Advanced Placement® Program. By selecting an AP® class during spring scheduling a student is making a firm commitment to complete this course the following school year. Students enrolled in an AP ® course are required to take the related national Advanced Placement ® examination in the spring. The estimated fees for Advanced Placement® exams are in the Fee Appendix. These are determined and set each year by The College Board® and are subject to change after this printing.
The following AP® courses are typically offered at Penn High School:
AP® Art History AP® Chemistry AP® Biology AP® Chinese AP® Calculus AB AP® Comparative Government & Politics AP® Calculus BC AP® Computer Science Principles AP® Capstone AP® Economics: Micro & Macro (AP® Seminar & AP® Research) AP® English Language and Composition AP® English Literature and Composition AP® Psychology AP® Environmental Science AP® Spanish AP® European History AP® Statistics AP® French AP® Studio Art: 3-D Design AP® German AP® Studio Art: Drawing AP® Human Geography AP® Studio Art: Painting AP® Music Theory AP® Studio Art: Photography AP® Physics I (C:Mechanics) AP® U.S. Government & Politics AP® Physics II (C:Electricity & Magnetism) AP® U.S. History AP® Physics - Algebra Based
Advance College Project (ACP) High School-based courses offered for dual credit through Indiana University. These courses are noted in the course descriptions using the symbol. ACP Biology ACP Brief Survey of Calculus ACP Cadet Teaching Experience ACP Calculus I ACP Calculus II ACP Composition & Literature ACP Political Science ACP Principles of Business Management ACP US History ACP Microeconomics ACP Macroeconomics
Dual Credit Courses
High School-based courses offered for dual credit through Purdue University , Ball State University , or Ivy Tech Community College . These courses are noted in the course descriptions using the associated symbols.
Project Lead the Way Classes Project Lead the Way (PLTW) classes will fulfill requirements for the Academic and Technical Honors Diplomas. Most classes listed below will meet the dual high school/college course credit requirement. The classes listed below also meet the requirements for the Directed Electives. All PLTW classes are based on national standards for math, science, communications and technology. Additional information can be found on the Project Lead the Way website PLTW.org.
Engineering: ·Introduction to Engineering Design (9-12) ·Principles of Engineering (10-12) ·Digital Electronics (10-12) ·Civil Engineering & Architecture (10-12) ·Aerospace Engineering (11-12) ·Engineering Design & Development (12) Biomedical Science: ·Principles of Biomedical Sciences (9-12) ·Human Body Systems (10-12) ·Medical Interventions (11-12) ·Biomedical Innovation Capstone (12) Computer Science: ·Introduction to Computer Science (9-12) · AP® Computer Science Principles (11-12)
Elkhart Area Career Center (EACC) The Elkhart Area Career Center offers a variety of career and technical education programs intended to provide the student with the skills necessary to directly enter the job market after graduation or provide preparation for more advanced study at a technical school. The programs are available only to juniors and seniors. Tuition for the Elkhart Area Career Center programs is paid for by the PHM system. Once a student commits to an EACC program it is expected that they finish the year.
Interested students need to: ·Return a completed application to the Penn Counseling Office. Applications are available in the Guidance Office. ·(First Year Students Only) Attend the EACC Open House. The open house is intended to inform students of the available programs and to help the student make an informed decision about making this type of commitment. ·Be aware of equipment, supplies and uniforms, which might be required for the course for which they are applying. Financial assistance is available. ·Make sure that their schedule for class in the upcoming school year includes the Elkhart Area Career Center.
Acceptance into the EACC program will be based upon space availability, academic progress, attendance and behavior. Students must apply annually to the EACC for acceptance.
A detailed description of the courses offered at the Elkhart Area Career Center is available in the reception area of the Counseling Office.
Elkhart Area Career Center Program Clusters Go to www.myeacc.org for detailed information. Course numbers listed are AM/PM classes.
Business Technology ·Computer Networking/PC Maint. I & II 1433/1434-1533/1534 (DOE course: Computer Technology Support I - 5230 & Networking II-Servers II - 5257) Graphics and Media ·Commercial Photography I & II 1405/1406-1505/1506 (DOE course: Commercial Photography -5570 & Graphic Design & Layout - 5550) ● Interactive Media 1461/1462 (DOE Course: Interactive Media 5232) ·Graphic Design I & II 1413/1414-1513/1514 (DOE course: Graphic Design & Layout/Graphic Imaging & Technology - 5550/5572) ·Audio/Video Production I & II 1421/1422-1521/1522 (DOE course: Radio & Television I & II-5986/5992) Manufacturing and Engineering ·Mechanical Drafting & Design I & II 1439/1440-1441/1442 (DOE course: Mechanical Drafting & Design I & II - 4836/4838) ●3D Computer Animation & Visualization 1539/1540 (DOE course: 3D Computer Animation & Visualization 5530) ● Mechatronics I & II 1483/1484 & 1583/1584 (DOE course: Industrial Technical Maint 5686 & 5688) ·Manufacturing Technology I & II 1407/1408-1507/1508 (DOE course: Precision Machining I & II - 5782/5784) ·Welding 1419/1420-1519/1520 (DOE course: Welding Technology I & II - 5776/5778) ·Automation & Engineering Technology I & II 1493/1494-1593/1594 (DOE course: Industrial Automation & Robotics I & II - 5610/5612) Service Industry ● Intro to Health Careers 1427/1428 (DOE course: Health Science Education I - 5282) ● Pre-Nursing w/CNA Concentration 1445/1446 (DOE course: Health Science II-Nursing - 5284) Seniors only ● Medical Assisting I & II 1411/1412-1511/1512 (DOE course: Health Science Education I & Health Science II - Special Topics - 5282/5286) ·Cardiology I & II 1455/1456-1457/1458 (DOE course: Health Science II Special Topics 5286/Emergency Medical Services - 5210) ● Careers in Sports Medicine I 1474/1475 (DOE course: Health Science II: Athletic Training - 5290) ● Careers in Sports Medicine II 1574/1575 (DOE course: Health Science II Special Topics: Athletic Training - 5286) ● Early Childhood Education I & II 1431/1432-1531/1532 (DOE course: Early Childhood Education I & II - 5412/5406) ● Education Professions I & II 1476/1477-1576/1577 (DOE course: Education Professions I & II 5408/5404) ·Cosmetology I & II 1401/1402-1501/1502 (DOE course: Cosmetology I & II 5802/5806) ·Firefighting I&II 1486/1487-1586/1587 (DOE course: Fire & Rescue I & II - 5820/5826) ·EMT: Emergency Medical Technician 1488/1489 (DOE course: Emerg. Med. Services - 5210) Seniors only ·Law Enforcement 1491/1492 (DOE course: Criminal Justice I - 5822) ·CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 1467/1468 (DOE course: Criminal Justice II Advanced - 5824) ·Culinary Arts & Hospitality I & II 1415/1416-1417/1418 (DOE course: Culinary Art & Hospitality I & II - 5440/5346) ·Dental Health Careers 1470/1471 (DOE course: Dental Health Careers - 5203) ·Creative Outdoor Management I & II 1435/1436-1535/1536 (DOE course: Landscape Management I & II 5136/5137) ·Veterinary Careers I & II 1443/1444-1543/1544 (DOE course: Veterinary Careers I & II - 5211/5212) Transportation ·Agriculture Mechanics 1403/1404 (DOE course: Agriculture Power Structure & Technology - 5088) ·Automotive Service Technology I & II 1478/1479-1480/1481 (DOE course: Automotive Service Technology I & II - 5510/5546) ·Automotive Refinishing 1497/1498 (DOE course: Automotive Collision Repair II - 5544) ·Motorcycle/Outdoor Power Technology I & II 1423/1424-1523/1524 (DOE course: Recreational & Mobile Equipment I & II - 5842/5844) ·Diesel Service Tech I & II 1451/1452-1551/1552 (DOE course: Diesel Service Technology I-5620/5624) ·Automotive Collision Repair 1453/1454 (DOE course: Automotive Collision Repair I - 5514) Construction ·Construction Trades I & II 1466/1464-1566/1564 (DOE course: Construction Trades I & II 5580/5578) ADVANCED CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION (CTE) PROGRAM
Penn# 0672/0673 A College Based Dual Credit Program: Penn students may participate in a supplemental postsecondary educational program if eligibility requirements are met. A junior or senior attending Penn High School may enroll in postsecondary credit classes at approved institutions and earn high school credit as well as post-secondary credit. Counselors will provide students with information on the application procedure if requested. Juniors and Seniors (All Listed Courses are Tuition Free for Penn Students) These courses are weighted on a 4.5 scale if a “C” or better is earned .
Academic & Technical Honors Diploma : All classes from Bethel, IUSB, Ivy Tech Community College, Purdue Polytechnic Institute and Southwestern Michigan College may be applied to the requirements for these Honors Diplomas.
CORE 40 : All classes listed may be applied as Directed Electives for the CORE 40 Diploma.
Students may take dual credit classes at Bethel, IUSB, Ivy Tech, Purdue Polytechnic or Southwestern Michigan. The classes listed below are a sampling of those courses that are offered. Students must work with Mrs. Ball and the Post Secondary Institute for scheduling, requirements, and expectations. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Ball at [email protected] with any questions you may have.
Business Administration ____Introduction to Business ____Income Tax ____Microcomputer Operating ____Business Law ____Payroll Accounting Systems ____Business Communication ____*Intro to Microcomputers ____Network Fundamentals ____Principles of Management ____Information Systems ____*Introduction to Computing ____Principles of Marketing Fundamentals ____ Introduction to Programming ____Financial Accounting ____Logic, Design, Programming ____Managerial Accounting ____Web Site Development
Information Technology Management Various classes
Communication ____Intro to Public Relations ____*Intro to Mass Communications ____Intro to Interpersonal Communications ____Introduction to Advertising School of Public & Social Services ____*Intro to Criminal Justice ____Sanitation and First Aid Systems ____Basic Food Theory and Skills ____Introduction to Criminology ____Youth and Family Treatment ____Introduction to Law ____*Introduction to Interpersonal Enforcement Communication
Early Child Education ____Intro to Early Childhood Education ____Understanding Special Needs Children ____Nutrition, Health and Safety for Early Childhood ____Curriculum in Early Childhood Classroom
School of Fine Arts and Design ____Basic Photography ____Fundamentals of Design ____Three-Dimensional Design ____Fundamentals of Imaging ____Design Theory ____Video and Sound ____Drafting and Construction ____Intro to Computer Graphics ____Introduction to Interior Design ____Production in Editing
School of Health Sciences
____Health, Safety & Nutrition ____Medical Law & Ethics ____*Medical Terminology ____Introduction to Health Careers ____Dementia Care ____*First Aid & Emergency Care ____CNA (Certified Nursing ____*Nutrition for Health Assistant-Seniors only)
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences ____Survey of Biotechnology ____Fundamentals of Nanotechnology
School of Technology Automotive ____Steering and Suspension ____Electrical and Electronics II ____Two and Four Wheel Alignment ____Manual Drivetrains ____Powertrain Service ____Engine Repair ____Engine Principles and Design ____Automatic Transmission ____Engine Performance I ____Engine Performance II ____Electrical and Electronics I ____Engine Performance III ____Braking Systems ____Driveability Diagnosis
Design Technology ____Technical Graphics ____Descriptive Geometry ____CAD Fundamentals ____Construction Materials and ____Mechanical Graphics Specifications ____Architectural Design I Electronics and Computer Technology ____Intro to Electronics and Projects ____Computer Troubleshooting II ____Digital Fundamentals ____Introduction to Robotics ____Networking ____Programmable Controllers I ____Computer Troubleshooting ____Programmable Controllers II
Industrial Electrician ____Computer Fundamentals for ____Motors and Motor Controls Technology ____Basic Electricity ____Intro to National Electrical Code ____Electrical Circuits ____Electrical Wiring Fundamentals/
NEC Code
Heating and Air Conditioning ____Heating Fundamentals ____Refrigeration II ____Refrigeration ____Basic Electricity ____Duct Fabrication & Installation ____Basic Shop Mechanics ____Heat Pump Systems ____Special Topics-Residential ____Heating Service Wiring
Engineering Technology ____Technical Graphics Communication ____Electricity Fundamentals ____Human Behavior in Organizations ____Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming ____Materials & Processes I ____Introduction to Constraint Based Molding ____Materials & Processes II ____Information Technical Architecture
Electrical Engineering Technology ____Gateway to Elect. Engr. Tech. ____Technology and the Individual
Industrial Technology ____Industrial Organizations Management ____Industrial Supply Chain
Organizational Leadership and Supervision ____Human Behavior in Organizations ____Electronics Career Academy ____Applied Leadership ____Precision Production Technology ____Leadership Principles ____Computer Aided Drafting & ____Emergency Med Services Academy Design Academy ____Fire Science or EMS-Paramedic. ____Mechatronics Technology
Students must be 18 by June for Fire Science and EMS programs. PHARMACY TECHNICIAN TRAINING (IUSB Extended Learning Services--Certification Program-seniors only)
MICHIANA BEAUTY COLLEGE or VOGUE BEAUTY - Cosmetology (Penn# 0692 & 0693 & 0672 & 0673 )
*Refers to the Indiana Core Transfer Library (CTL) A full explanation of the CTL is available at www.transferIN.net/ctl or Google Core Transfer Library.
Code of Conduct Students enrolled in courses that involve extra-curricular activities are subject to the terms of the Penn High School Code of Conduct. Students found in violation of the Code of Conduct will not suffer grade penalties. However, they may be subject to consequences detailed in the Code of Conduct.
Student Assistants (Course number 1805-1849) A junior or senior in good standing may help a teacher during one block in place of their study hall. Students should apply through the Counseling Center prior to scheduling. No credit is awarded. This is a volunteer position. Good grades and a clean disciplinary record are required. Not everyone who requests a student assistantship will be selected.
Student Interns (Course number 1850) Juniors and seniors in good standing may work as a student intern in any of the offices at Penn. Application can be filled out in the Counseling Center. Interns receive credit and take their intern assignment as they would an elective class. Interns retain their study hall. Only students with unremarkable discipline and attendance will be considered. As part of this Work-Based Learning experience, students will complete a number of components resulting in a portfolio.
Kingsmen Tutor Internship (Course number 0661 , 1851, 1865) Kingsmen Tutor Internship provides students with opportunities to tutor peers and assist a teacher during the school year in the classroom. Tutors will receive training and attend monthly meetings with the Kingsmen Tutor Leaders. The internship is considered volunteer experience earning approximately 70 volunteer hours per semester, if taken for no credit. Many college admission offices and scholarship committees are looking for this kind of long term service. We strongly advise you to take this class as an elective for credit, but it can also be taken in place of a study hall for no credit. The grade will be based on homework assignments, attendance and teacher evaluations. Kingsmen Tutors will be placed in classrooms for various subjects including but not limited to foreign language, Algebra I and II, Geometry, Biology, ICP, English and Chemistry. As part of this Work-Based Learning experience, students will complete a number of components resulting in a portfolio. Peer Leaders (Course number 1603) Students (Grades 10-12) may earn 2 credits for work and interaction with students having moderate and severe disabilities. Students will provide 5 blocks over two weeks of in-class and/or community based instructions to disabled students under the personal supervision and direction of the course instructor or classroom teaching staff. As part of this Work-Based Learning experience, students will complete a number of components resulting in a portfolio. A complete description of this course may be found in the Multidisciplinary Courses.
Foreign Exchange Penn High School welcomes all foreign exchange students who live within the P-H-M school district. We believe that a foreign exchange program can do much to create a better understanding between young people of different countries. For enrollment of a foreign exchange student at Penn, it is necessary that the student is enrolled in a high school in his home country and is residing with a resident of the Penn-Harris-Madison school district. We also expect application in the spring prior to enrollment, with a deadline of May 1 st. Foreign exchange students must enroll for the entire school year (August – June).
The staff at Penn High School stands ready to assist the foreign exchange student in any way possible to make the transition a comfortable one. Special effort will be made to enter the student into classes comparable with their ability and interest. It is expected that foreign exchange students are able to communicate in English. Students are encouraged to take electives in areas that may be new to them. Foreign exchange students receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the school year, not a Penn High School diploma. Foreign exchange students are always encouraged to take part in school activities-clubs, athletics, band and chorus, and other school wide events.
Several services not provided by the school to foreign exchange students include free lunches, books, class rings, yearbooks, caps and gowns and the cost of field trips. These are all provided by the host parent unless otherwise indicated. The school is not responsible for recruiting families from its area to provide homes for students.
Freshman Mentors Upperclassmen interested in serving as role models and guiding freshmen through their first year of high school can apply to be part of the Freshman Mentor program. Each mentor is assigned a group of 5-6 freshman students whom they will get to know personally during the Freshman Connections class. Mentors participate in training sessions each semester in preparation for leading freshmen through a number of activities designed to build community and ease the transition into high school life. The program’s focus on building positive relationships and life skills benefits peer leaders and freshmen alike. Applications are available through the freshman counselors in the Counseling Office.
Pharmacy Technician Training This program is presented in cooperation with the Extended Learning Services Program at IUSB, Memorial Hospital and Elkhart General Hospital. 1 Semester 1-2 Credits Grade 12 Tuition: Tuition will be free for Penn Students Textbooks/Fees: Students must purchase their own textbooks and materials—approximately $200. Students must also complete an application and provide a $25 application fee. Prerequisite: Pass pharmacy technician math test. Other: Students must provide their own transportation. Classes will take place at South Bend Memorial Hospital or Elkhart General Hospital. Classes meet 6-8:30 PM on 10 Mondays and Thursdays Student schedules are individualized. Students may enroll for one or two credits—depending upon the blocks available in the individual student schedule. Students are released from high school during the regular school day and will make-up the time during the evening Pharmacy Technician Classes.
Penn High School Course Numbers: First Semester Second Semester One Period (afternoon) 690 691 Two Periods (afternoon) 672 673 One Period (morning) 696 697 Two Periods (morning) 696 & 694 697 & 695
Additional Information regarding the Pharmacy Technician Program may be obtained by emailing: [email protected]. This program has been designed and taught by experienced, practicing pharmacists. By successfully completing this class and paying a certification fee, you can become state certified upon graduation from high school. Successful completion of this class will qualify you for an “entry-level” position. This is not a college credit program—this is a Pharmacy Technician Certification Program. You are required to attend all classes. If, due to an emergency, you miss a class, it will be your responsibility to gather notes from other students to obtain the information you need. There will be no make-up quizzes for missed classes. A minimum grade of 65% on each exam will be required to pass the course. An overall grade of 70% is required to pass the course. IUSB requires 80% attendance to pass the course. The contents of the training program include specific training duties required to assist a pharmacist in the technical functions associated with the practice of pharmacy, and shall include, at a minimum the following Understanding the duties and responsibilities of the technician and the pharmacist, including the standards of patient confidentiality and ethics governing pharmacy practice, Tasks and technical skills, policies, and procedures related to the technician’s position, Working knowledge of pharmaceutical-medical terminology, abbreviations, and symbols commonly used in prescriptions and drug orders, Working knowledge of the general storage, packaging, and labeling requirements of drugs, prescriptions, or drug orders, Ability to perform the arithmetic calculations required for the usual dosage determinations, Working knowledge and understanding of the essential functions related to drug purchasing and inventory control, The record keeping functions associated with prescriptions and drug orders
Pennway Alternative School Pennway Alternative day school offers a 9th-12th grade Core 40 diploma program in a smaller classroom setting across from Penn High School’s main campus. Participation is by counselor recommendation only.
Pennway Night School The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation offers the Pennway Night School which provides coursework toward a high school Core 40 diploma for students over the age of 18 and beyond their senior cohort living in or outside PHM boundaries. Night School provides a comprehensive core curriculum of AdvancED-approved courses delivered through the Plato software program. Individuals who have a GED, are currently enrolled at another high school and not beyond their graduation date are not eligible.
Independent Study Penn High School offers students the opportunity to take a variety of online courses through Independent Study. Students will engage in rigorous online course work delivered through Edmentum Plato, a computer software learning and curriculum program. Independent Study provides a comprehensive core curriculum of AdvancED- approved courses. Participation is by counselor recommendation and registration only.
EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION
Exceptional Education services are available to students who are eligible according to the Federal and State guidelines and who have current Individual Education Plans (I.E.P.s) specifying the type and amount of services to be provided. These services include, but are not limited to, the following:
Consultation Services The student is served in the general education classroom with consultation and support from the exceptional education teacher. Accommodations are made individually through case conference decisions.
Resource Services The student is served in the general education classroom but receives regular, direct support from the exceptional education teacher. Resource services can be provided for 20% of the school day or less.
Part-Time Exceptional Education Services The student is served by an exceptional education teacher for 21% to 60% of the school day. Classes are offered in an exceptional education setting and taught by an exceptional education teacher.
Full-Time Exceptional Education Services The student is served by an exceptional education teacher for more than 60% of the school day. Full-time programs are provided to students who have such significant exceptional education needs that they cannot benefit from instruction with only part-time support. Full-time services include three program options.
Applied Courses Students who elect applied courses are served by an exceptional education teacher in an exceptional education setting. These courses contain modified curriculum. These courses on their own do not meet the state proficiency requirements for a diploma. These students are working on a vocational tract towards earning a Certificate of Completion.
The Functional Life Skills Program This program is an activity/community based program designed to make students with significant disabilities as independent as possible within the school and community environments. Whenever appropriate, students receive their training in general education settings with non-disabled peers. Students do not earn course credit toward a diploma but will receive a Certificate for Completion of the Individual Education Plan and participate in graduation ceremonies. Indiana Certificate of Completion Course of Study Effective with the students who enter high school in 2018-19 school year (class of 2022)
The Course of Study for the Certificate of Completion is a framework for aligning curriculum to grade level standards while meeting the individual goals and transition needs stated in the student’s Individual Education Plan (IEP).
Minimum total 40 credits/applied units: It is expected that these requirements are met through enrollment combination of general education courses for credit, modified general education courses in which non-cre applied units are earned and special education courses in which non-credit applied units are earned.
Life Skills* Applied**
LS Language Arts I English/ Language Applied English 9 LS Language Arts II (8 Units) Applied English 10 Applied English 11 Applied English 12
Practical Math I Mathematics Applied Math I Practical Math II (4 Units) Applied Math II
LS Science Science Applied Biology (4 Units)
LS Social Studies Social Studies Applied Geography (4 Units) Applied Civics and Money Matters
Adaptive PE Physical Educatio PE or Adaptive PE (2 Units)
Daily Living Skills Health and Wellne Applied Health and Wellness (1 Units) Community Living Employability Careers Education and Training (10 Units) Work Experience Personal Management General education coursework driven by transition go Employability Skills Work Experience
General Education Elective Electives General Education Electives (7 Units)
Certificate of Completion Transition Portfolio
Students earning a certificate of completion fulfill at least one of the following (aligned with transi goals): 1.Career Credential : Complete an industry-recognized certification, one-year certificate or state-approve alternative 2.Career Experience : Complete project- or work-based learning experience or part time employment 3.Work Ethic Certificate : Earn a Work Ethic Certificate (criteria to be locally determined) 4.Other Work Related Activities : As determined by the case conference committee
*Life Skills is intended for students who need more supported Exceptional Education level courses. ** Applied is intended for students who need more rigorous Exceptional Education courses.
analyze readings for content and give students the skills they need to fully EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION meaning. This class is designed for understand the English language, as well students who need an alternative to the as, the ability to read and interpret a COURSE DESCRIPTIONS general education English 9 class. variety of literature selections. Students Placement is made on the analyze readings for content and Penn# 1201 recommendation of the case conference meaning. This class is designed for APPLIED ENGLISH 9 committee. This course is for students students who need an alternative to the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 working towards a Certificate of general education English 10 class. Grade Level: 9 Completion. Placement is made on the Prerequisite: Must be recommended recommendation of the case conference in the Individual Education Plan Penn# 1203 committee. This course is for students Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1002 APPLIED ENGLISH 10 working towards a Certificate of Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Completion. This course contains a modified Grade Level: 10 curriculum. This course is designed to Prerequisite: Must be recommended in Penn# 1205 give students the skills they need to fully the Individual Education Plan APPLIED ENGLISH 11 understand the English language, as well Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1004 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 as, the ability to read and interpret a Course Description: Grade Level: 11 variety of literature selections. Students This course contains a modified Prerequisite: Must be recommended curriculum. This course is designed to in the Individual Education Plan Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1006 Penn# 1283/1285/1287 Penn# 1209 Course Description: CORRECTIVE READING I, II & III APPLIED GEOGRAPHY This course is designed for those Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 AND HISTORY OF THE WORLD students in Exceptional education who Prerequisite: Must be recommended Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade need an alternative to the general in the Individual Education Plan Level: 9/10 education curriculum. Everyday English Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1120 Prerequisite: Must be recommended skills will be emphasized in the course. Course Description: in the Individual Education Plan Placement in this course is made on the This is a supplemental course that Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1570 recommendation of the case conference provides students with individualized Course Description: committee. Students in this course are instruction designed to support success This course contains modified working towards a Certificate of in completing coursework aligned with curriculum. This course is designed Completion. the Indiana Academic Standards for for those students in exceptional English/Language Arts focusing on the education who need an alternative to Penn# 1207 Reading Standards for Literature and the general education Geography and APPLIED ENGLISH 12 Nonfiction. History of the World course. This Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Placement in the course is made on the course will examine the human and Grade Level: 12 recommendation of the case conference physical geography of the seven Prerequisite: Must be recommended committee. This course is a remediation continents of the world. Students will in the Individual Education Plan course as well as an elective course . learn map skills and vocabulary Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1008 related to world geography. Course Description: Penn# 1265 Placement is made on the Applied English 12, an integrated English LEARNING STRATEGIES recommendation of the case course based on the Indiana Content Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade conference committee. This course is Connectors English/Language Arts in Level: 9-12 geared towards individual skill needs. Grades 9-10 and applicable Prerequisite: Must be recommended Students in this course are working employability skills. This course is a in the Individual Education Plan towards a Certificate of Completion. study of language, literature, Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0500 composition, and communication Course Description: focusing on literature with an appropriate This course is highly recommended for Penn# 1213 level of complexity for each individual 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students APPLIED CIVICS student. Students analyze, compare, and with exceptional education needs. Basic Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade evaluate a variety of classic and Skills Development is a multidisciplinary Level: 12 contemporary literature and nonfiction course based on the Indiana Content Prerequisites: Must be recommended texts, including those of historical or Connectors for basic skills development in the Individual Education Plan cultural significance. Students write in grades 9th-12th. Must be Weight: 4.0 IDOE# 1508 narratives, responses to literature, recommended in the Individual Course Description: academic responses (e.g. analytical, Education Plan by the case conference This course contains modified curriculum. persuasive, expository, summary), and committee. This is an elective course. It This course is designed to be paired with research tasks when appropriate. is designed to teach students a system Money Matters. It is a course that Students analyze and create visual of strategies to plan, execute and outlines our government in a student information in the form of pictures, evaluate their performance on the friendly manner. graphs,charts, and tables. Students write academic expectations that they and deliver grade-appropriate multimedia encounter at Penn High School. Penn# 1216 presentations and access online Students learn specific strategies to be APPLIED MONEY MATTERS information. independent learners. Teaching Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade methodology emphasizes generalization Level: 11/12 of the strategies to the academic classes Prerequisites: Must be recommended the students are taking. in the Individual Education Plan Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1514 Mathematics. Placement is made on the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: Course Description: This course recommendation of the case conference 10 contains modified curriculum. This course committee. This course is for students Prerequisites: Must be recommended is designed for those students in working towards a Certificate of in the Individual Education Plan exceptional education who need an Completion. Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 3024 alternative to the general education Course Description: Economics course. Students are This course contains modified curriculum, acquainted with economic systems, Penn# 1237 which focuses on the ISTAR IDOE supply and demand, consumer spending, APPLIED BIOLOGY I Biology standards. This course is and budgeting. Placement is made on the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: designed for those students who need an recommendation of the case conference 9-10 alternative to the general education committee. Students in this course are Prerequisites: Must be recommended science courses. Students explore the working towards a Certificate of in the Individual Education Plan nature of science, structures and Completion. Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 3024 functions of living systems and changes Course Description: in living systems. Students will learn Applied Biology is a modified science content through interactive relationships Penn# 1235 course based on the following core between living organisms and the APPLIED MATH I topics: Std. 1 Cellular Structure and environment. Students will learn content Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: Function, Std. 2 Matter Cycles and through a multi-sensory approach with 9-10 Energy Transfer, Std. 3 Interdependence differentiated instruction based on student Prerequisite: Must be recommended of Organisms, Std. 4 Inheritance & needs. Students may be recommended in the Individualized Education Plan Variation in Traits, and Std. 5 Evolution. to take a second year in this course of Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 2560 Multi-sensory learning and differentiated study. The Biology ISTAR assessment will Course Description: instruction should focus on developing be administered during the student’s 10 th Applied Mathematics provides students student understanding that scientific grade year. Enrolled students are with individualized instruction designed to knowledge is gained from observation of pursuing a Certificate of Completion. increase math related competencies natural phenomena and experimentation, and/or mathematics coursework aligned by designing and conducting Penn# 1229 OR 1230 with Indiana’s Content Connectors for investigations guided by theory, and by APPLIED HEALTH AND WELLNESS Mathematics. Placement is made on the evaluating and communicating the results Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 recommendation of the case conference of those investigations according to Grade Level: 9-12 committee. This course is for students accepted procedures. Students will Prerequisite: Must be recommended working towards a Certificate of address approaching standards for the in the Individualized Education Plan Completion. Science and Engineering Process Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 3506 Standards (SEPS) as well as the Content Course Description: Penn# 1236 Connectors for the Indiana State Health & Wellness , a course based on APPLIED MATH II Standards for Biology. Students may take Indiana’s Academic Standards for Health Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: Applied Biology 1B to continue content at & Wellness, provides the basis to help 11-12 a slower pace. Students will be assessed students adopt and maintain healthy Prerequisite: Must be recommended through Indiana’s Alternate Measure behaviors. Through a variety of in the Individualized Education Plan (IAM) in 10th grade year to measure instructional strategies, students practice Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 2560 student achievement and growth the development of functional health Course Description: according to Indiana’s Content information. Students will determine Applied Mathematics provides students Connectors aligned to the Indiana personal values that support health with individualized instruction designed to Academic Standards. behaviors and develop the essential skills increase math related competencies necessary to adopt, practice, and and/or mathematics coursework aligned Penn# 1238 maintain health-enhancing behaviors. with Indiana’s Content Connectors for APPLIED BIOLOGY II This course provides students with the knowledge and skills of health and punctuality, critical thinking/problem environments. All courses in this wellness core concepts, analyzing solving, social cues, adaptability and work section are for students completing a influences, accessing information, ethic)are taught in order to enhance Certificate of Completion. Students interpersonal communication, successful employment . Students receive a high level of support. decision-making and goal-setting skills, create a personal resume, participate in health-enhancing behaviors, and health classroom vocational activities, complete Penn# 2202 and wellness advocacy skills. job interest surveys and develop interview LIFE SKILLS skills. This class is a prerequisite for the Semesters: 2 Penn# 0503 Work Experience Program. Placement is Grade Level: 9-12 APPLIED PHYSICAL EDUCATION I & II made on the recommendation of the case Prerequisites: Must be recommended Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 conference committee. This course is for in the Individual Education Plan. Grade Level: 9 students working towards a Certificate of Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0500 Prerequisite: Case conference Completion. Course Description: committee and medical statement on This multidisciplinary course provides file Penn# 1239 1240 1241 1242 1243 1244 students the opportunity to continue to Weight: 4.0 1245 1246 develop basic skills including writing, IDOE: 3542 & 3544 WORK EXPERIENCE (WBL) math, organizational, and interpersonal Course Description: Semesters: 2 Variable Credit Grade skills. Students will work on home living Alternative for requirement. This course Level: 11-12 skills such as cooking, cleaning, and offers students with special mental, Prerequisites: Must be recommended laundry, as well as a variety of physical, sensory, or neurological in the Individual Education Plan. employability skills. Students will also problems lifetime fitness and health Weight: 4.0 learn about personal care, health, and related activity. The program will include IDOE: 5974 safety. Skills will be emphasized for each within the least restrictive environment, a Course Description: student based on their Individualized variety of developmental activities, These courses are designed to give Education Program (IEP) in line with games, sports, and rhythms appropriate students in exceptional education an content connectors. Community based to the interests, capabilities, and opportunity to gain work experience instruction may also be used to practice limitations of the student. Opportunities through in school or community jobs. daily living skills. This course is for will be given for students to achieve This program provides the first students working towards a Certificate of fitness concepts, fitness for enjoyment opportunity for students to experience Completion. and social interaction, as well as different real world requirements for success in forms of movement and an aquatics unit. the workplace. Job coaching and Penn# 2200 frequent evaluations are used to teach LS BIOLOGY I Penn# 1266 students employability/workforce Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: CAREER INFORMATION readiness skills (communication, 9-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade organization, teamwork, punctuality, Prerequisites: Must be recommended Level: 9-10 critical thinking/problem solving, social in the Individual Education Plan Prerequisites: Must be recommended cues, adaptability and work ethic). Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 3024 in the Individual Education Plan Placement is made on the Course Description: Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0522 recommendation of the case conference Lifeskills Biology is a modified science Course Description: committee. course based on the following core This course is designed to introduce topics: Std. 1 Cellular Structure and students to many career fields and LS CLASSES Function, Std. 2 Matter Cycles and options, and to teach students to match These classes contain a modified Energy Transfer, Std. 3 Interdependence their interests, abilities and lifestyle curriculum. They are designed to of Organisms, Std. 4 Inheritance & choices to compatible careers. make students with significant Variation in Traits, and Std. 5 Evolution. Employability/workforce readiness skills disabilities as independent as possible Multi-sensory learning and differentiated (communication, organization, teamwork, within school and community instruction should focus on developing student understanding that scientific of those investigations according to Prerequisites: Must be recommended knowledge is gained from observation of accepted procedures. Students will in the Individual Education Plan natural phenomena and experimentation, address approaching standards for the Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1508 by designing and conducting Science and Engineering Process Course Description: investigations guided by theory, and by Standards (SEPS) as well as the Content Students develop skills on their personal evaluating and communicating the results Connectors for the Indiana State environment, community and world of those investigations according to Standards for Biology. Practical around them. Instruction is centered on accepted procedures. Students will application will be a primary focus to the development of individual student and address approaching standards for the promote independent living skills and their use of the resources available. Science and Engineering Process personal safety in the community. Standards (SEPS) as well as the Content Students will be assessed through Connectors for the Indiana State Indiana’s Alternate Measure (IAM) in 10th Penn# 2204 Standards for Biology. Practical grade year to measure student LS LANGUAGE ARTS 9 application will be a primary focus to achievement and growth according to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: promote independent living skills and Indiana’s Content Connectors aligned to 9 personal safety in the community. the Indiana Academic Standards. Prerequisites: Must be recommended Students may take Lifeskills Biology 1B to in the Individual Education Plan continue content at a much slower pace. Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1002 Students will be assessed through Penn# 1233 Course Description: Indiana’s Alternate Measure (IAM) in 10th LS MATH Students develop reading and writing grade year to measure student Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade skills. Students are taught at their achievement and growth according to Level: 9-12 academic level and supported with a high Indiana’s Content Connectors aligned to Prerequisites: Must be recommended amount of support. The class is focused the Indiana Academic Standards. in the Individual Education Plan on everyday Language Arts skills. Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 2560 Penn# 2224 Course Description: LS BIOLOGY II This course contains modified curriculum. Penn# 2226 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: This course is designed for those LS LANGUAGE ARTS 10 10-12 students in exceptional education who Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: Prerequisites: Must be recommended need an alternative to the general 10 in the Individual Education Plan education mathematics courses. It Prerequisites: Must be recommended Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 3024 focuses on developing math skills for real in the Individual Education Plan Course Description: life situations such as measurement, Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1004 Lifeskills Biology is a modified science money skills, time, basic addition and Course Description: course based on the following core subtraction, and more. A variety of Students develop reading and writing topics: Std. 1 Cellular Structure and materials are used in individual and group skills. Students are taught at their Function, Std. 2 Matter Cycles and instruction. This course is geared towards academic level and supported with a high Energy Transfer, Std. 3 Interdependence individual skill needs. Students in this amount of support. The class is focused of Organisms, Std. 4 Inheritance & course are working towards a Certificate on everyday Language Arts skills. Variation in Traits, and Std. 5 Evolution. of Completion. Students will be working Multi-sensory learning and differentiated on IAM standards. Penn# 2212 instruction should focus on developing LS LANGUAGE ARTS 11 student understanding that scientific Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade knowledge is gained from observation of Penn# 2208 Level: 11 natural phenomena and experimentation, LS SOCIAL STUDIES Prerequisites: Must be recommended by designing and conducting Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade in the Individual Education Plan. investigations guided by theory, and by Level: 9-12 Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1006 evaluating and communicating the results Course Description: Students receive focused instruction on made on the recommendation of the case be emphasized in this course is based on reading through the use of current events. conference committee. Indiana’s standards and Content Specific curriculum is used to Connectors and the student’s accommodate the individual student at Penn# 2222 Individualized Education Programs (IEP). their reading level. Creative and timely LS EMPLOYABILITY Skills selected for developmental work materials are used to engage all learners. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade provide students with the ability to Level: 11-12 continue to learn in a range of different Penn# 2228 Prerequisite: Must be recommended life situations and may be applied using LS LANGUAGE ARTS 12 in the Individualized Education Plan instructional practices related to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0522 community based instruction. Placement 12 Course Description: is made on the recommendation of the Prerequisites: Must be recommended The LS Employability course provides case conference committee. This course in the Individual Education Plan. students with opportunities to learn about is for students working towards a Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1008 themselves including interests, strengths Certificate of Completion. Course Description: and needed supports while exploring Students receive focused instruction on various traditional and nontraditional Penn# 2214 reading through the use of current events. occupations and careers. Students LS COMMUNITY LIVING Specific curriculum is used to develop skills in employability, and career Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade accommodate the individual student at decision making and planning. Level: 9-12 their reading level. Creative and timely Opportunities are provided for students to Prerequisite: Must be recommended materials are used to engage all learners. observe and participate in various job in the Individualized Education Plan situations through opportunities such as Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5330 Penn# 2220 community based instruction, internships, Course Description: LS WORK EXPERIENCE (WBL) mock interviews, and guest speakers. Life LS Community Living is recommended for Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: Skill portfolio and resume development all students as life foundations for 11-12 experience and career-related independent community living. This Prerequisite: Must be recommended assessments may also be provided to course builds knowledge, skills, attitudes, in the Individualized Education Plan students. and behaviors that students will need as Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 they complete high school and prepare to Course Description: Penn# 2210 take the next steps toward adulthood in These courses are designed to give LS EDUCATION AND TRAINING today’s society. The course includes the students in exceptional education an Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 study of interpersonal standards, lifespan opportunity to gain work experience Grade Level: 11-12 roles and responsibilities, individual and through in school or community jobs. Prerequisite: Must be recommended family resource management, and Content connectors as standards for in the Individualized Education Plan financial responsibility and resources. classes not on diploma track. This Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0500 Placement is made on the program provides the first opportunity for Course Description: recommendation of the case conference students to experience real world LS Education and Training is a committee. This course is for students requirements for success in the multidisciplinary course that provides working towards a Certificate of workplace. Job coaching and frequent students continuing opportunities to Completion. evaluations are used to teach students develop basic skills including: (1) reading, employability/workforce readiness skills (2)writing, (3) listening, (4) speaking, (5) Penn# 2206 (communication, organization, teamwork, mathematical computation, (6) study and LS PERSONAL MANAGEMENT punctuality, critical thinking/problem organizational skills, and (7) Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade solving, social cues, adaptability and work problem-solving skills, (8) employability Level: 9-12 ethic). This course is for students working skills, which are essential for high school Prerequisite: Must be recommended towards a Certificate of Completion achievement and postsecondary in the Individualized Education Plan and/or Diploma Track. Placement is outcomes. Determination of the skills to Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5364 Course Description: LS Personal Management is a course which focuses on essential life skills. This course addresses knowledge and skills needed for positive and productive relationships in career, community, and family settings. Major course topics include communication skills; leadership, self-determination, teamwork, and collaboration; conflict prevention, resolution, and management; building and maintaining relationships; and individual needs and characteristics and their impacts on relationships.
Penn# 2100 AND/OR 2101 SASS INDEPENDENT STUDY/STUDY HALL Semesters: 1 or 2 Credits: variable Grade Level: 9-12 Course Description: Self Management and Social Skills. Students in the Exceptional Education program will gain credits through on-line learning. Students will be working on the credits needed as discussed in a case conference. Students will receive a high level of support. Placement is made on the recommendation of the case conference committee. This course is a noncredit behavioral support class. Students will automatically be emphasis of the experience is on enrolled in this course. applying skills developed through Course Description: instruction from an adult mentor and MULTIDISCIPLINARY Interactive Media prepares students for learning new career competencies at careers in business and various the internship site. Activities can be COURSES industries working with interactive media tailored to the unique needs and products and services. This course interests of the students. Internships Penn# 1871 emphasizes the development of digitally may be paid or unpaid. A teacher PREPARING FOR COLLEGE & generated or computer-enhanced monitors students in their field CAREERS (PCC) WITH 1873 products using multimedia technologies experiences. Students should enroll in Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 including their Chromebooks, cell the Internship class because the Grade Level: 9 phones, digital cameras, tripods, and program provides an opportunity for a Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5394 more. They will be learning about student to experience all aspects of “real Course Description: various art and design elements, digital world” requirements for success and the Students will automatically be photography techniques, 2D and 3D program is a means of linking academic enrolled in this course. animation, video production and editing learning with career and community The focus of this course is on the impact as well as the creation, planning and experiences. As part of this of today's choices on tomorrow's maintaining of a webpage. A project Work-Based Learning experience, possibilities. Topics will include based approach and applications students will complete a number of exploration of personal aptitudes, through authentic settings such as components resulting in a portfolio. interests, principles and goals; life and work-based observations and service career exploration; college and/or learning experiences are appropriate. military planning; employability skills; Penn# 0690-0699 personal financial literacy; transferring PENN ADVANCED CTE COLLEGE school skills to life and work and good Penn# 0680, 0681, 0682, 0683, 0684, CREDIT decision making. This course will 0685, 0686, 0687- 1 block (A College-Based Dual Credit provide a strong foundation for 0674, 0675, 0679- 2 blocks Program) becoming an involved, independent, and WORK BASED LEARNING Semesters: 1 or 2 Credit: responsible student, employee and INTERNSHIP (WBL) 1/block/semester citizen. Students will create and apply Semesters: 1 or 2 Credits: Grade Level: 11-12 critical thinking strategies in areas of 1/block/semester Prerequisite: Meet Individual College time management, media literacy, Grade Level: 11-12 admission requirements learning styles, study skills, career Prerequisite: Any One CTE Course Weight: 4.5 planning, money management, resource Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 Course Description: utilization. Course Description: Students may enroll in Advanced Students must provide their own CTE College Credit for 1, 2, 3 or 4 Penn# 1877 transportation. Work Based Learning periods. Student schedules are INTERACTIVE MEDIA Internship is a career course that is individualized according to the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade designed to provide opportunities for student’s interests. Student is Level: 10-12 students to explore careers that require responsible for all costs associated Weight: 4.00 IDOE: 5232 additional degrees, certifications or with the college course. Students training beyond high school. The have the opportunity to enroll in a class at a local college through the Penn elements that students need to apply in Adult Program under the personal Advanced CTE CC Program at Penn their composing and proofreading. supervision and instruction of the YAP High School. This is an opportunity for Students will complete timed essays director. students to begin college coursework patterned off the SAT® rhetorical while still in high school. An analysis and ACT argumentative Penn# individualized schedule and plan will be synthesis. The course also includes ELD I (1655) developed for each participant. Juniors practice of SAT®/ACT math and science ELD II (1656) and seniors choose an area that skills, as well as test-taking strategies to ELD III (1657) matches their intended college major, improve performance on these WITH LANGUAGE LAB their career plan or personal interest important tests. The SAT®/ACT course Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade area. Participating colleges are Bethel builds on the work students are doing in Level: 9-12 College, IUSB, Ivy Tech, Purdue their other English, math, and science Recommendation: WIDA Scores Polytechnical, Southwestern Michigan courses. Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1012 College (Niles/Dowagiac), Michiana Course Description: Beauty College and Vogue. Each Penn# 1603 Basic Skills Development is a student will enroll through Penn High PEER LEADERS (WBL) multidisciplinary course which provides School and a local college. Each Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade students continuing opportunities to student will receive college credit from Level: 10-12 develop the basic skills including: (1) the particular post-secondary institution Prerequisite: Interview with course reading, (2) writing, (3) listening, (4) and high school credit from the Penn instructor speaking, (5) mathematical Advanced CTE CC Program. Students Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 computation, (6) note taking, (7) study will pay the textbook cost for that Course Description: and organizational skills, and (8) particular college (same as if the student This course is designed to give high problem-solving skills that are essential had graduated from high school and school students the opportunity to for high school course work was attending the college). See the interact with and learn about people with achievement. Determination of the skills Penn Accelerated College Program disabilities. Students will provide 5 to be emphasized in this course is section for details. Students must blocks over two weeks of in-class and/or based on the Indiana State provide their own transportation. community based instruction to students proficiencies, individual school Complete details are listed in the with moderate and severe disabilities corporation general curriculum plans, Penn Advanced CTE College Credit under the personal supervision and and student Individualized Learning Program section. direction of the course instructor or Plan (ILP). Credits earned in this classroom teaching staff. course are elective credits. For further information regarding ENL services, Penn# 1885 Penn# 1611 please contact your Guidance SAT®/ACT PREP PEER LEADERS- YAP (WBL) Counselor or ENL Coordinator. Semesters: 2 Credits: 0 Grade Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 10-12 Level: 11-12 Penn# 1658 Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0532 Prerequisite: Peer Leaders- 1603 LANGUAGE LAB Course Description: Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 WITH ELD The SAT®/ACT course helps students Course Description: Semesters: 2 Grade Level: 9-12 to develop the reading, language, This course is designed to give high Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0500 writing, math, and science skills that are school students the opportunity to Recommendation: WIDA Scores foundational for success in college and interact with people with disabilities and Course Description: the professions. The class provides learn how to work with them. Students Students enrolled in the International opportunities to practice close reading of will provide 5 blocks over two weeks of Seminar class focus on the active informational, narrative, persuasive, and in-class and/or community based application of language in order to literary texts, and includes review of the instruction to students with moderate address global issues & problems. writing conventions and organizational and severe disabilities in the Young Students stay abreast of current world events through weekly readings. They Penn# 1605 & 1607 Penn# 1869 recount, explain, argue and discuss AP® CAPSTONE: COMMUNICATION & PUBLIC current issues in a seminar format. As a AP® RESEARCH & AP® SEMINAR RELATIONS INTERNSHIP (WBL) team, these students use mass-media (A 2 year course - 1605 first) Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade to craft, publish, and distribute new Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 Grade Level: 10-12 stories about contemporary topics and Level: 11-12 Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 problems on a PNN mass-media Weight: 5.0 IDOE: 0551 & 0552 Course Description: channel. Course Description: This internship – which is focused on In AP® Seminar, students investigate promoting the events and people of Penn# 0661 BBBS: 0662 real-world issues from multiple Penn High School and the WITH 1851 OR 1865 perspectives, gathering and analyzing Penn-Harris-Madison School KINGSMEN TUTOR INTERNSHIP information from various sources in Corporation – is designed for students (WBL) order to develop credible and valid who wish to apply the practices of public Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade evidence-based arguments. Students relations (written and visual) in order to Level: 11-12 gain experience and build a portfolio. who earn scores of 3 or higher in AP® Prerequisite: Application, interview, Students should already have a strong Seminar and AP® Research and on teacher recommendations, clean understanding of writing, journalistic and four additional AP® Exams of their disciplinary and attendance record public relations principles, or students Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 choosing will receive the AP® need to have strong graphic Course Description: Capstone Diploma. Students who earn design/videography skills and a Kingsmen Tutor Internship provides scores of 3 or higher in AP® Seminar command of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe students with opportunities to tutor and AP® Research but not on four Illustrator, InDesign, and/or videography peers and assist a teacher during the additional AP® Exams will receive the skills, including Adobe Premiere Pro. school year in the classroom. Tutors will AP® Seminar and Research Certificate. Students will implement media relations receive training and attend monthly AP® Seminar may also be taken as a strategies such as crafting press meetings with the Kingsmen Tutor stand-alone option. releases, writing news/features articles, Leaders. If you take second semester or producing graphic designs or videos In AP® Capstone Research, students for no credit then this internship is to promote Penn/P-H-M events/people cultivate the skills and discipline considered volunteer experience, through social/traditional media. necessary to conduct independent earning approximately 70 volunteer research in order to produce and defend hours in the semester. Many college a scholarly academic thesis. Students admission offices and scholarship who earn scores of 3 or higher in AP® committees are looking for this kind of Seminar and AP® Research and on long term service. We strongly advise you to take this class as an elective, but four additional AP® Exams of their it can also be taken in place of a study choosing will receive the AP® hall. The grade will be based on Capstone Diploma. Students who earn homework assignments, attendance and scores of 3 or higher in AP® Seminar teacher evaluations. Kingsmen Tutors and AP® Research but not on four will be placed in classrooms for various additional AP® Exams will receive the subjects including but not limited to AP® Seminar and Research Certificate. foreign language, Algebra I and II, AP® Seminar may also be taken as a Geometry, Biology, ICP, English and stand-alone option. AP® Seminar Chemistry. would be taught to Juniors; AP® Research would be taught to Seniors. Evolution - mechanism for change over PENN HIGH SCHOOL Penn# 2306 time and the unity and diversity of life. ALGEBRA I (PAEC) In the spring, students will take Indiana Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 PENN ACADEMY EARLY Statewide Testing for ILEARN in Grade Level: 9 Biology. COLLEGE (PAEC) Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2520 COURSE INFORMATION Course Description: Penn# 2305 The Mathematics standards for Algebra GEOMETRY (PAEC) I are made up of 5 strands: Real Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 9TH GRADE COURSE Numbers and Expressions; Functions; Grade Level: 9 linear equations, Inequalities, and Prerequisites: Algebra I INFORMATION Functions; Systems of Equations and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2532 Inequalities; Quadratic and Exponential Course Description: Equations and Functions; and Data This course is for students enrolled in Penn# 2301 Analysis and Statistics. Algebra I is a the Early College Program. The ENGLISH 9 ( PAEC) required course for graduation. curriculum will be the standards for Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Geometry and an in-depth review of Grade Level: 9 Algebra topics preparing the students Penn# 2319 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1002 for Algebra II Honors their sophomore BIOLOGY I (PAEC) Course Description: year. Geometry is designed to study Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 English 9 PAEC focuses on increasing the pattern and structure of geometry Grade Level: 9 student understanding of our common using the techniques of inductive and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3024 humanity through literature. This is deductive reasoning. The properties Course Description: accomplished through a synthesis of and relationships of geometric figures The course highlights how biology literature, composition, research, will include the study of angles, lines, applies to and potentially improves grammar, usage, mechanics, public planes, congruent and similar triangles, human life. To help students develop speaking and vocabulary; formative trigonometric ratios, polygons, and into productive and responsible and summative assessments will follow circles. An understanding of proof and citizens, they will make connections in all of the above areas. Along with logic will be developed and formal between biological concepts and real students becoming stronger writers, proof will be emphasized. A scientific life applications. Through regular use of speakers, listeners and readers, they calculator is required. Science and Engineering Practices, will also be better equipped for even inquiry laboratory investigations, data more rigorous future English classes analysis, demonstrations, reading, Penn# 2308 for college credit. Unique to PAEC research, group discussion, and ALGEBRA II English 9, students will have the computer simulations, Early College Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 opportunity to use project-based, Biology Honors provides a study of four Grade Level: 9 authentic learning across the major themes: Biochemistry and Cells - Prerequisite: Algebra I curriculum.. Organic molecules, cellular Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2522 components and functions. Ecology - Course Description: study of the relationships between The Mathematics standards for Algebra living organisms and the environment. II are made up of 5 strands: Complex Genetics - study of the molecular basis Numbers and Expressions; Functions; of heredity and inheritance of traits. Systems of Equations; Quadratic Equations and Functions; Exponential projects presented in the 10th GRADE COURSE & Logarithmic Equations and classroom INFORMATION Functions; Polynomial, Rational, and Other Equations and Functions; and Penn# 2311 Data Analysis, Statistics, and IVYT 111 STUDY SKILLS (PAEC) Penn# 2315 Probability. Students who complete this WITH 1871C/1873C PCC ENGL 095 INTEGRATED READING & course will enroll in Geometry 728. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 WRITING (PAEC) A scientific calculator is required and Grade Level: 9 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 students will gain experience using the Weight: 4.5 DOE# 0500 Grade Level: 10 graphing calculator. DOE: Basic Skills Development Prerequisites: English 9 College Credits: 3 Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1004 Penn# 2309 Course Description: DOE- English 10 SPANISH 1 (PAEC) Enhances success in college by College Credits: 3 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 assisting students in obtaining skills Course Description: Grade Level: 9 necessary to educational, career and English 10 PAEC is designed to Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2120 life objectives. Students will create and prepare students for success in future Course Description: apply critical thinking strategies in dual credit classes, building on the Spanish 1 EC is designed to prepare areas of time management, media literary and study skills they developed highly capable, motivated students to literacy, learning styles, study skills, in English 9 PAEC. This course also achieve dual credit through Ivy Tech in career planning, money management, pushes students to be prepared for the their junior or seniors. This course resource utilization. Accuplacer and PSAT tests, of which a introduces students to the Spanish certain level of competency is required language by practicing the basic for college credit classes. In addition to language acquisition skills of reading, the curriculum developed by Penn Penn# 2307 writing, listening, and speaking on a teachers, Ivy Tech’s Integrated Reading GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF daily basis. The goal of Spanish 1 EC and Writing Course will also be used to THE WORLD, (PAEC) is to establish a solid foundation in the help make the above goals achievable. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Spanish language as well as to apply Students analyze and respond through Grade Level: 9 various strategies for learning a reading, writing, speaking, and listening Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1570 language. Within this context, Spanish to a variety of fiction and non-fiction Course Description: 1 EC provides students with pieces of literature, as well as Honors Geography focuses on opportunities to: informational texts, giving students the integrating the spatial and ecological ● Comprehend new language necessary skills to be successful, geographic perspectives. Using critical through dialogues, clip art, college-level readers and writers. rhymes, visuals, and video thinking, and analysis the course aims ● Practice communication to allow students to study the through listening exercises, interdependence of the Earth’s physical paired activities, and group and human systems, putting humans Penn# 2303 activities and the earth in context. The course INTEGRATED CHEMISTRY AND ● Answer questions and express supplements these perspectives with PHYSICS ( PAEC) personal opinions both verbally historic, economic, civic and cultural Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 and in writing perspectives to frame a distinctly Grade Level: 10 ● Compare languages and geographic way of looking at the world. Prerequisites: Biology 1 cultures through grammar Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3108 study, pronunciation, art, and Course Description: readings in authentic settings The course is required for students ● Demonstrate all language skills entering the Early College Program through a variety of tasks and and prepares students for taking dual credit science classes through Ivy Tech Prerequisites: Passing score on the Penn# 2323 Community College. This English Accuplacer Tests OR “C” or SPANISH II (PAEC) interdisciplinary science class higher in ENG 095 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 investigates themes of chemistry and Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4528 Grade Level: 10 physics through a real world, DOE- Digital Applications & Prerequisites: Spanish I project/lab-based approach which Responsibility Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2122 emphasizes scientific inquiry and College Credits: 3 Course Description: process skills. The course will primarily Course Description: Spanish 2 EC is the continuation of focus on the following themes: Motion, Introduces the physical component and preparing the students to achieve dual Energy, Properties of Matter, Chemical operations of microcomputers. Focuses credit through Ivy Tech in their junior Reactions, and Science in Society. on computer literacy and provides and senior years. This course hands-on training in four areas of continues to focus on the important microcomputer applications software: Penn# 2317 OR 2318 skills of reading, writing, listening, and word processing, electronic TOPICS OF HISTORY (PAEC) speaking while studying new tenses. spreadsheets, database management Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Special emphasis will be placed on and presentation software. Use of a Grade Level: 10 open-ended writing as well as oral professional business computer Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1538 proficiency that includes studying and application program is encouraged. Course Description: applying pronunciation rules. Within US History Detectives is designed to this context, Spanish 2 EC provides introduce Early College students to the students with opportunities to: Penn# 2321 History of the United States with an ● Comprehend new language ALGEBRA II (PAEC) investigative approach. In this course through dialogues, clip art, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 students will ask probing questions rhymes, visuals, video, and Grade Level: 10 surrounding iconic mysteries from games Prerequisites: Geometry America's past. This course has ● Practice communication Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2522 students to step into the shoes of a through listening exercises, Course Description: history detective and tackle some of paired activities, and group This course is for students with above history's toughest mysteries. Students activities average performance in math. It will evaluate conflicting evidence by ● Answer questions and express expands on the topics of Algebra I and examining sources, evaluating the personal opinions both verbally provides further development of the context of those source, including and in writing concepts of a function, domain and identifying the differences between ● Compare languages and range. Reviews linear equations, then and now. Additionally, students cultures through grammar inequalities, graphing, and factoring are expected to examine multiple study, pronunciation, art, and algebraic expressions. Concentrates sources to see what other sources say readings in authentic settings on properties of integer and rational about the information found in primary ● Demonstrate all language skills exponents, systems of linear source documents. This course through a variety of tasks and equations, radicals, radical equations, requires close reading of primary projects presented in the quadratic equations, functions including sources to establish what the source classroom their graphs, and applications. says, its bias, tone, etc. The intent of Compared to Algebra II, the pace of this course is to equip students with Penn# 2326 OR 2327 this course is accelerated and topics research tools that they can use CINS 101 INTRODUCTION TO are covered in greater depth. Students throughout their academic and lifetime MICROCOMPUTERS (PAEC) will gain experience using the graphing careers. Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 calculator. A scientific calculator is Grade Level: 10 required and a graphing calculator is highly recommended. 11th GRADE COURSE description, narration, comparison, Course Description: INFORMATION analysis, persuasion, and Covers major themes and events in argumentation. A research paper is history including exploration of the New required. Numerous in-class writing World; the colonial period; causes and Penn# 2345 activities are required in addition to results of the American Revolution; the EARLY COLLEGE STUDY TABLES extended essays written outside of development of the federal system of (PAEC) class. E112 continues the work of 111, government; the growth of democracy; Semesters: 2 emphasizing the persuasion and early popular American culture; Grade Level: 11 argumentation aspects of writing. territorial expansion; slavery and its Weight: 4.0 Unique to EC English 111/112 is the effect; reform movements, Course Description: cross-curricular project based learning sectionalism; causes and effects of the Students in the Penn Academy of Early incorporated. Civil War, the post-Civil War period; College will participate in a study hall western expansion, industrial growth of class that serves the unique the nation and its effects; immigration Penn# 2333 college-bound population. Early and urban discontent and attempts at CHEM 101 INTRODUCTION TO College teachers will lead the class and reform; World War I; the Roaring CHEMISTRY ( PAEC) provide students with resources such Twenties; social and governmental Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 as tutors, access to technology, and changes of the thirties; World War II Grade Level: 11 individual instruction to help students and its consequences; the growth of Prerequisites: Demonstrated succeed. Students will participate in the the federal government; social competency through appropriate Penn Freshman Mentoring program upheaval in the sixties and seventies; assessments or a passing score on and PCC, Penn College and Career and recent trends in conservatism, the math Accuplacer or PSAT. Exploration, course through the globalization, and cultural diversity. resource time. Weight: 4.5 DOE# 3066 DOE- Chemistry II College Credits: 3 Penn# 2337/2338 Penn# 2329/2330 Course Description: SPAN 101 SPANISH LEVEL 1 / SPAN ENGL 111 ENGLISH COMPOSITION / An introductory course that includes 102 SPANISH LEVEL 2 (PAEC) ENGL 215 RHETORIC AND the science of chemistry and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade ARGUMENT (PAEC) measurement, atomic theory and the Level: 11 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 periodic table, chemical bonding, Prerequisites: Passing score on the Grade Level: 11 equation writing and balancing, English Accuplacer Tests OR “C” or Prerequisites: Passing score on the stoichiometry, gases and acids/bases. higher in ENGL 095 English Accuplacer Tests OR “C” or Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2124 higher in ENG 095 DOE-Spanish III Penn# #2331/2332 Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1006/1098 College Credits: 8 HIST 101 SURVEY OF AMERICAN DOE- English 11 / Advanced Course Description: HISTORY I / HIST 102 SURVEY OF Composition Ivy Tech Span 101/102 is a dual credit AMERICAN HISTORY II (PAEC) College Credits: 6 course designed to introduce students Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Course Description: to the Spanish language and focuses Level: 11 English composition is designed to on all four language skills: listening, Prerequisites: Topics of History, develop students’ abilities to think, speaking, reading, and writing. Passing score on the English organize, and express their ideas Students will move more quickly Accuplacer Tests OR “C” or higher clearly and effectively in writing. This through grammar topics that they have in ENG 095 course incorporates reading, research been introduced to in their first two Weight: 4.5 DOE: 1542 and critical thinking. Emphasis is years of preparatory study. It is also DOE- United States History placed on the various forms of designed for students to speak Spanish College Credits: 6 expository writing such as process, in class as much as possible. Students will study more challenging grammar extemporaneous, or manuscript presents an in-depth study of functions, that includes multiple tenses and delivery. quadratic, polynomial, radical, and moods. Ivy Tech Span 101/102 rational equations, radicals, complex provides students with the opportunity numbers, systems of equations, Penn# 2341/2343 to Master basic Spanish vocabulary rational fractions and exponential and MATH 136 COLLEGE ALGEBRA / and grammar, Understand simple oral logarithmic functions. Ivy Tech Credit MATH 137 TRIGONOMETRY WITH communication about familiar topics, may be earned. Topical areas of study ANALYTIC GEOMETRY (PAEC) Speak in complete sentences about include: Quadratic, polynomial, rational Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 specific topics, Ask and answer and radical equations, Complex Grade Level: 11 questions on everyday topics in the Numbers, Exponential and logarithmic Prerequisite: Algebra II and a present tense, Write simple standard functions, Radicals and rational passing score on the Math expressions, complete sentences and expressions, Graphs of equations and Accuplacer or PSAT short paragraphs, Read and discuss functions, Variation, and Systems of Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2564/2566 simple paragraphs and articles which equations. DOE-Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry may include literary and cultural works, College Credits: 6 Understand cultural traits and 12th GRADE COURSE Course Description: geography of the Spanish speaking 136 Presents an in-depth study of INFORMATION world, Demonstrate knowledge, functions, quadratic, polynomial, understanding and appreciation of the radical, and rational equations, Spanish language and cultures of the Penn# 2346/2369 radicals, complex numbers, systems of Spanish-speaking world. ENGL 206 INTRODUCTION TO equations, rational fractions and LITERATURE / ENGL 202 CREATIVE exponential and logarithmic functions. WRITING (PAEC) 137 Presents an in-depth study of right Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Penn# 2339 OR 2340 triangle trigonometry, oblique triangles, Grade Level: 12 COMM 101 FUNDAMENTALS OF vectors, graphs of trigonometric Prerequisites: ENGL 111/215 PUBLIC SPEAKING (PAEC) functions, trigonometric identities and Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1124 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 equations and complex numbers in DOE-Advanced English/Language Grade Level: 11 rectangular and polar/ trigonometric Arts Prerequisites: Passing score on the forms, rectangular and polar College Credit: 6 English NextGen Tests coordinates and conics. Course Description: Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1078 ENGL 206 Development of basic DOE- Advanced Speech and strategies for critically reading and Communication Penn# 2389 interpreting poetry, fiction, and drama; College Credits: 3 MATH 136 COLLEGE ALGEBRA introduction to the premises and Course Description: (PAEC) motives of literary analysis and critical Comm 101 is the study and application Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade methods associated with various of fundamental concepts and skills for Level: 11-12 literary concerns through class effective public speaking, including Prerequisites: Algebra II and discussion and focused writing audience analysis, outlining, research, Geometry assignments. ENGL 202 This course delivery, critical listening and Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2564 introduces students to opportunities for evaluation, and use of appropriate DOE-Pre-Calculus self-expression in one or more literary technology. Students deliver different College Credit: 3 genres - fiction, poetry, drama, and the types of oral and multimedia COURSE DESCRIPTION: creative essay. Creative writing will be presentations, including speeches to This course is designed for students conducted using a workshop model; inform, to entertain, and to persuade that need additional work in Algebra students will share their writing with through the use of impromptu, before attempting Pre-calculus. College Algebra – Ivy Tech 136 each other and collaborate in response groups to give and receive feedback. living organisms. Addresses solve estimation problems and to solve applications of biology in a global optimization problems. Applies Penn# 2347 OR 2348 community. differential calculus to sketch curves POLS 101 INTRODUCTION TO and to identify local and global AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND extrema, inflection points, POLITICS (PAEC) increasing/decreasing behavior, Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Penn# 2367 concavity, behavior at infinity, horizontal Grade Level: 12 MATH 135 FINITE MATH (PAEC) and vertical tangents and asymptotes, Prerequisites: Demonstrated Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade and slant asymptotes. Applies the competency through appropriate Level: 12 concept of Riemann sums and assessment or earning a grade of Prerequisites: MATH 136/MATH 137 antiderivatives to find Riemann “C” or better in ENGL 095. Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2530 integrals. Applies the fundamental Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1540 DOE-Finite Mathematics theorem of calculus to solve initial DOE- United States Government College Credit: 3 value problems, and to find areas and College Credit: 3 Course Description: volumes and the average values of a Course Description: This course is designed for college function. Studies federalism, theories of origins bound students. Topics include solving and purposes of government and other and graphing linear equations and aspects of the American government inequalities, elementary set theory, Penn#2351/2352 including interest groups, political matrices and their applications, linear SPAN 201 SPANISH LEVEL III / SPAN parties, and the electoral process. programming, and elementary 202 SPANISH LEVEL IV (PAEC) Emphasis is placed on constitutional probability. This is a standard finite Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade backgrounds and the organization and mathematics course. Ivy Tech Credit Level: 12 functions of the executive, legislative, may be earned. Prerequisites: Spanish 102 /201 or and judicial segments of the national demonstrated competency through government, civil liberties and civil Penn# 2353 appropriate assessment; rights, public opinion, media, MATH 211 CALCULUS I (PAEC) demonstrated earning a grade of bureaucracies, and domestic and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade “C” or better in ENGL 095 Integrated foreign policy. Level: 12 Reading and Writing. Prerequisites: Demonstrated Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2126 Penn# 2355 competency through appropriate DOE- Spanish IV BIOL 101 INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY assessment or successful College Credit: 6 (PAEC) completion Math 136 College Course Description: [IDOE 2126] Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Algebra and Math 137 Trigonometry Spanish is the primary medium of Grade Level: 12 with Analytic Geometry. instruction. The goal of the course is to Prerequisites: Demonstrated Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2527 continue the development and competency through appropriate DOE- Calculus reinforcement of the skills of the target assessment or earning a grade of College Credit: 4 language: listening, speaking, reading “C” or better in ENGL 095 Integrated Course Description: and writing at an intermediate level. Reading and Writing. Reviews the concepts of exponential, The course continues the study of Weight: 4.5 DOE# 3026 logarithmic and inverse functions. grammar and syntax, vocabulary DOE- Biology II Studies in depth the fundamental building, and Spanish and Latin College Credit: 3 concepts and operations of calculus American civilizations, cultures, and COURSE DESCRIPTION: including limits, continuity, literature through discussion and Introduces the basic concepts of life. differentiation including implicit and written and oral reports. Includes discussion of cellular and logarithmic differentiation. Applies organismal biology, genetics, evolution, differential calculus to solve problems ecology, and interaction among all in the natural and social sciences, to Penn# 2365/2366 GENS 279 GENERAL STUDIES CAPSTONE COURSE (PAEC) Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade Level: 12 College Credits: 3 Course Description: For the Early College Capstone Project, students will develop a semester-long multimedia project guided by an early college staff member. Students will be mentored in this endeavor, culminating in a reflective final project and presentation at the end of the semester which highlights one or multiple aspects of their education throughout their tenure in the Early College program at Penn, as well as potentially directing them toward their future path. This course will require both independent study and class instruction. public speaking, and vocabulary. Penn High School. This is an elective FRESHMAN ACADEMY Assessments include narrative writing, course; it does not satisfy the state summary writing, thesis-based essays, English graduation requirement. This and journal writing. Students will study elective will help students start their novels, short stories, poetry, drama and educational career here at Penn High Penn# 0301 informational texts. Students will be School on a positive note. ENGLISH 9 expected to complete independent Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade reading and writing, both in the Level: 9 Penn# 0905 summer and during the school year. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1002 BIOLOGY I English 9 Honors students will Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade complete multiple writing requirements The focus of this course is to increase Level: 9 including process papers and timed student understanding of our common Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3024 writing. humanity through literature and to Course Description: develop reading, writing and speaking The course highlights how biology has Penn# 0355 skills. A synthesis of all the both personal and global implications in DEVELOPMENTAL READING I components of language arts is human lives. To help students develop Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade emphasized: literature, composition, into productive and responsible Level: 9 research, grammar, usage, mechanics, citizens, they will make connections Prerequisite: Test results, teacher public speaking, and vocabulary. between biological concepts and real referral, and counselor Assessments include narrative writing, life applications. Through regular use recommendation summary writing, thesis-based essays, of Science and Engineering Practices, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1120 and journal writing. Students will study laboratory investigations, projects, Course Description: novels, short stories, poetry and drama reading, research, group discussion, This course is intended to support and and informational texts. English 9 computer simulations, and videos, enhance a student’s experience with students will complete multiple writing Biology I provides a study of four major the Penn High School Freshman requirements including process papers themes: Biochemistry and Cells – Academy curriculum by helping and timed writing. organic molecules, cellular components students develop an understanding of and functions, Ecology – study of themselves as readers and writers relationships between living organisms Penn# 0305 while acquiring the strategies used by and the environment, Genetics – study ENGLISH 9 HONORS highly effective readers and writers. of heredity and inheritance of traits, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade The goal is to use contemporary, Evolution - mechanism for change over Level: 9 high-interest, accessible texts as the time and the diversity of life. In the Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1002 foundation around which and through spring, students will take Indiana Course Description: which students build personal literacy Statewide Testing for ILEARN in This course is designed for the highly identities and literacy processes. The Biology. motivated student who has goal is not to teach specific texts or to demonstrated a high reading level and re-teach English 9 curriculum. Instead, a reasonable mastery of written and students who leave this course will Penn# 0907 spoken English. The focus of this better understand themselves as BIOLOGY I HONORS course is to increase student readers and writers and, therefore, will Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade understanding of our common be more strategic about how they Level: 9 humanity through literature and to approach reading, writing, and learning Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3024 continue communication and skill tasks. Armed with this newfound Course Description: development. A synthesis of all the confidence, students will find Students with an A or B in any 8th components of language arts is themselves more prepared to engage grade science should take this emphasized: literature, composition, successfully with the many learning course. The course highlights how research, grammar, usage, mechanics, opportunities that are offered here at biology has both personal and global mean for the future? How does Analysis and Statistics. Algebra 1 is a implications in human lives. To help geography shape the past, present and required course for graduation. students develop into productive and future?” The primary subject matter is responsible citizens, they will make the Earth’s surface and the processes Penn# 0713 connections between biological that shape it; the historical context ALGEBRA II HONORS concepts and real life applications. connecting people and environments; Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Through regular laboratory the skills necessary to read maps, Level: 9 investigations, projects, reading, graphs and other geographic data; and Prerequisite: Algebra I and research, group discussion, computer the skills required to conduct research Geometry simulations, and videos, Biology I and improve writing skills. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2522 Honors provides a study of four major Course Description: themes: Biochemistry and Cells Penn# 1169 Students with an A or B in Algebra –organic molecules, cellular GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF and Geometry should take this components and functions, Ecology – THE WORLD HONORS course. The Mathematics standards the study of relationships between Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade for Algebra II are made up of 5 strands: living organisms and the environment, Level: 9 Complex Numbers and Expressions; Genetics – the study of heredity and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1570 Functions; Systems of Equations; inheritance of traits, Evolution- the Course Description: Quadratic Equations and Functions; mechanism for change over time and Honors Geography focuses on Exponential & Logarithmic Equations the diversity of life. integrating the spatial and ecological and Functions; Polynomial, Rational, geographic perspectives. Using critical and Other Equations and Functions; Penn# 1105 thinking, analysis and assessments the and Data Analysis, Statistics, and GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF course aims to allow students to study Probability. This course is for students THE WORLD the inter-dependency of the Earth’s with superior performance in math. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade physical and human systems, putting Compared to Algebra II, the pace of Level: 9 humans and the earth in context. The this course is accelerated and topics Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1570 course supplements these are covered in greater depth. Students Course Description: perspectives with historic, economic, will gain experience using the graphing Students develop and use the six civic and cultural perspectives to frame calculator. A scientific calculator is elements of geography to better a distinctly geographic way of looking required and a graphing calculator is understand current events and issues at the world. highly recommended. facing the world today. These elements are: The World in Spatial Terms, Penn# 0717 Penn# 0725 Places and Regions, Physical ALGEBRA I ALGEBRA II ACCELERATED Systems, Human Systems, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Environment and Society, and the Uses Level: 9 Grade Level: 9 of Geography. Students will Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2520 Prerequisite: Algebra I demonstrate an understanding of these Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2522 elements of geography in the context of The Mathematics standards for Algebra Course Description: world history, primarily from 1450 to the I are made up of 5 strands: Real The Mathematics standards for Algebra present. This geographic and historical Numbers and Expressions; Functions; II are made up of 5 strands: Complex framework provides students a unique Linear Equations, Inequalities, and Numbers and Expressions; Functions; insight. This course will focus on Functions; Systems of Equations and Systems of Equations; Quadratic fundamental questions, such as Inequalities; Quadratic and Exponential Equations and Functions; Exponential “Where is something? Why is it there? Equations and Functions; and Data & Logarithmic Equations and How did it get there? How does it Functions; Polynomial, Rational, and interact with other things? What does it Other Equations and Functions; and successful in this course should take gain experience using a graphing Data Analysis, Statistics, and Pre-Calculus Accelerated. A scientific calculator. Probability. Students who are calculator is required and students will ENGLISH
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English 9 English 10 AP English English 12: Honors Honors Language and (311) Ivy Tech 111/215 (305) Composition (398/399) (315) Use 398 to schedule
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English 11 ACP English Honors/ Composition ACP US (325) History ACP English Seminar Literature (320) (326) Use 325 to schedule NOTE: Students must take four years of English, selecting one or required course from each grade or level. In addition to the required AP English classes, students may also take Language and classes from the electives list. Composition/ AP US History AP English Seminar Literature and (327) Composition (329) English Electives
Ivy Tech Communication 101: Debate Journalism Fundamentals of Public (9-12) (9-12) Speaking /Speech Dual Credit (349) (333) (9-12) (2339/2340) 1 Semester
Adv. Speech & Composition Communications (Debate II) Radio & Television I & Creative (10-12) (10-12) Writing (353) (369) (10-12) (339)
Student Seminar in Film Literature Publications Radio & Television II and and Recording Arts (Spectrum) Telecommunications Internship (10-12) (10-12) (11-12) (373/374) (341) (371) 1 Semester
Student Sports Journalism TV Broadcast Internship Publications (10-12) (11-12) (Yearbook) (393) (161) (10-12) (337)
Mythology (12) (397) ENGLISH this course pushes students to mastery processes. The goal is not to teach of College Board Standards for College specific texts or to re-teach English Success. This course emphasizes curriculum. Instead, students who Penn# 0307 complexity of thought over difficulty of leave this course will better understand ENGLISH 10 tasks. It is for students who are themselves as readers and writers and, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade motivated, who are willing to work hard, therefore, will be more strategic about Level: 10 who enjoy challenges, and who are how they approach reading, writing, Prerequisites: English 9 able to work independently. Students and learning tasks. Armed with this Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1004 analyze a variety of fiction and newfound confidence, students will find Course Description: non-fiction pieces of literature, as well themselves more prepared to engage This course will give students an as informational texts, to explore the successfully with the many learning opportunity to improve and practice characteristics of quality writing. opportunities that are offered here at their basic communication skills Students write responses to literature, Penn High School. This is an elective through reading, writing, listening, and argumentative compositions, and course; it does not satisfy the state speaking. Students will learn how to sustained research assignments. English graduation requirement. This present their ideas logically and Students deliver grade-appropriate oral elective will help students continue coherently, how to present appropriate presentations with attention to their educational career here at Penn supporting details, and how to draw audience and purpose and access, High School on a positive note. conclusions. Comprehension of analyze, and evaluate online vocabulary, literature, non-fiction, information. Students will complete Penn# 0313 informational texts and poetry are core several formal writing assignments ENGLISH 11 components of the course. Students including essays of personal Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade write responses to literature, experience, literary analysis and Level: 11 argumentative compositions, and research, as well as timed writing Prerequisite: English 10 sustained research assignments. essays given as unit summative Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1006 Students deliver grade-appropriate oral assessments. Course Description: presentations with attention to English 11 surveys American literary audience and purpose and access, Penn# 0379 themes, emphasizing major writers and analyze, and evaluate online DEVELOPMENTAL READING II their works in relation to historical information. Each semester students Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade periods and common motifs. The will write process papers and timed Level: 10-12 literary styles and genres of the major essays as unit summative Prerequisite: Test results, teacher literary movements will be studied. assessments. referral, and counselor Readings will be derived from a variety recommendation of sources, including required novels Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1120 Penn# 0311 and plays. Several literary selections Course Description: ENGLISH 10 HONORS will emphasize cultural diversity. This course is intended to support and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Students will analyze literature through enhance a student’s experience with Level: 10 discussion and writing. A variety of the Penn High School curriculum by Prerequisites: English 9 learning techniques and helping students develop an Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1004 student-centered activities involving understanding of themselves as Course Description: oral communication, critical thinking, readers and writers while acquiring the English 10 Honors is designed to peer editing, collaboration, prewriting, strategies used by highly effective prepare students for success in future drafting and revision will be used. readers and writers. The goal is to use AP classes, as well as success in Reading and writing will be treated as contemporary, high-interest, accessible college and careers in general. This interrelated processes in the study texts as the foundation around which course is fundamentally different from of the American experience. SAT and through which students build the regular English 10 course in that vocabulary study will be included. personal literacy identities and literacy IU- HIST-H 105 American History I / Penn# 0327/1161 Penn# 0315 HIST-H 106 American History II AP® ENGLISH LANGUAGE & AP® ENGLISH LANGUAGE & College Credits: 6 COMPOSITION/ COMPOSITION Course Description: AP® US HISTORY SEMINAR Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade This is a college course designed for Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 Grade Level: 11 capable juniors who meet the Level: 11 Prerequisites: English 10 standards of academic rigors and Prerequisite: English 10 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1056 success equaling those of a college Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1056/1562 Course Description: freshman. Students will receive 2 HS Course Description: Advanced Placement® Language and Credits in English 11 Honors & 2 HS Enrollment in AP® Language/AP® Composition is modeled after a college Credits in ACP US History. Although U.S. History Seminar signals a decision freshman composition course designed this course is offered to meet Indiana’s to begin studying language and history for motivated juniors who are state standards for US History credit, at the college level. Students will committed to the study of writing and its applicants must meet guidelines receive 2 Credits in AP® Lang & 2 who have the determination to gain prescribed by Indiana University. college credit or Advanced Placement® Credits in AP® US History. Students will earn six credit hours that in English while still in high school. Advanced Placement® courses are are accepted at not only Indiana Study is centered on the analysis and modeled after college freshman University, but all other state schools creation of non-fiction essays. The courses and are designed for as well as over 700 colleges and purpose of the course is to develop the motivated students who have the universities across the country. The student’s ability to compose essays desire and determination to gain student will be awarded a weighted which demonstrate fluency, clarity, and Advanced Placement® credit while still grade for the history portion of the accuracy. Students will read and in High School. This seminar will class. The course will focus on various analyze significant works of American integrate literature with history and will themes beginning with the age of literature, predominantly nonfiction, encompass history and literature from exploration and continuing through the from the pre-colonial era through the the Age of Exploration to present-day Reagan presidency. Students will present time, emphasizing major America. In addition, the course will focus on these themes through various writers and their works in relation to emphasize collaborative learning, strategies including reading primary historical and literary periods, themes, providing students with the opportunity and secondary sources, and historical and literary terms. Students who enroll to further develop both their practical, writing projects and presentations. in this course must possess strong problem-solving skills and their ACP United States History is a course writing and critical thinking skills as analytical skills. Finally, students will that allows students an in-depth study demonstrated by their work in previous redefine their ability to respond to of the history of our great nation. English classes. All students enrolled in non-fiction texts with fluency, clarity, Students are awarded three credit this course will take the AP® and accuracy. Students who enroll in hours per semester for earning a C or this course must possess strong writing Language and Composition exam in better. Students must meet admission and critical thinking skills as the spring. requirements to attend Indiana demonstrated by their work in previous University if they are taking the course English and Social Studies classes. Penn# 0320/1179 for I.U. credit. The course will also ENGLISH 11 HONORS and ACP US develop students’ skills in writing, HISTORY SEMINAR WITH 1182 critical thinking, literary analysis, and Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 Grade close reading. Texts that support the Level: 11 historical context will be explored Prerequisite: English 10 AND meet including poetry, short stories, novels, I.U. admissions requirements etc. Students will be asked to work Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1006/1542 individually as well as collaboratively throughout the year. Course Description: Penn# 0321 Penn# 0398/0399 Each semester of ACP (Advance ENGLISH 12 ENGLISH 12: IVY TECH College Project) is a dual credit course Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade offered through Indiana University and Level: 12 Level: 12 transferable to more than 400 colleges Prerequisite: English 11 Prerequisite: English 11 and universities nation-wide, meaning Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1008 Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1008 that the course fulfills the credit Course Description: Ivy Tech- ENGL 111 English requirements for Penn High School’s This course is a culminating language Composition & 215 Rhetoric and English 12 and for college-level English arts experience for seniors. It seeks to Argument (W131, college-level freshman pursue these essential questions: What College Credits: 6 composition in the fall and L202, are the antecedents of modern media Course Description: college-level sophomore literary representations in our culture? How do English composition is designed to analysis in the spring.) Students are modern media representations affect develop students’ abilities to think, awarded three college credit hours for culture and society? What problems do organize, and express their ideas each semester in which they earn a we see with representations of race, clearly and effectively in writing. This grade of C or better, so they start class, gender and sexuality in modern course incorporates reading, research building college transcripts and earning media? Students will be challenged to and critical thinking. Emphasis is college credit while still in high school. summarize, analyze, and synthesize placed on the various forms of By participating in the ACP program, reading, speaking, viewing, and expository writing such as personal, students can prepare themselves for listening experiences through the comparison, analysis, persuasion, and the rigors of college classes at their writing process. Students will write argumentation. Students wishing to own pace by taking one or two classes frequent informal writing pieces, as well take the class for dual credit need to per semester in high school. Indiana as formal, full-process essays that meet the IVY Tech requirements for University carefully screens applicants include multiple drafts and revisions. admission. This course focuses entirely so that those who are accepted are Students will write grade-appropriate on non-fiction texts and writing. This is likely to be successful. ACP courses fictional narrative, responses to not a literature course. A research are carefully monitored by Indiana literature and media, historical/ paper is required. Numerous in-class University, and the instructors are research-based reports, and create writing activities are required, in specially trained so that the classes at and deliver multimedia presentations. addition to extended essays written the high school mirror what is offered The curriculum will be a rich mixture outside of class. ENGL 215 continues on the college campus. The program that includes classic literature, poetry, the work of 111, emphasizing the offers challenging material for the music, sports and current events, persuasion and argumentation aspects college-bound student. mythology, art, film, television, and of writing. other popular culture texts and media. This will be a unique class environment that requires an interactive, engaged Penn# 0329 Penn# 0325/0326 approach by the student; in return, the AP® ENGLISH LITERATURE & ACP COMPOSITION & LITERATURE instructor will provide relevant, exciting COMPOSITION Semesters:1 or 2 Credits:1 or 2 content that ranges from Homer to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Grade Level: 12 Edgar Allan Poe to Christopher Nolan. Level: 12 Prerequisites: English 11 AND IU Ultimately, this course can unlock the Prerequisites: 11th Grade English admission requirements potential for students to become Course Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1124 producers of media rather than mere Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1058 IU- ENG-W 131 Reading, Writing, & consumers of it. Course Description: Inquiry I / ENG-L 202 Literary Advanced Placement® English Interpretation Literature and Composition is a course College Credits: 3-6 based on the content established and copyrighted by the College Board. IVY TECH COMM 101 Fundamentals Counts as 1 English/Language Arts Because the AP® English Literature of Public Speaking credit and Composition course aligns to an College Credit: 3 Course Description: introductory college-level literature and Course Description: This course is for students interested in writing curriculum, AP® English This is a dual-credit course that will further developing their speaking skills. Literature and Composition is designed allow students an opportunity to earn 3 Increased emphasis will be placed on for the able and ambitious high school college-level credits. COMM 101 logical thinking, analysis, research, student who is committed to the close introduces fundamental concepts and statistics, persuasion and study of literature and who has the skills for effective public speaking, argumentation, as they apply to the desire and determination to gain including audience analysis, outlining, current National Debate Topic. Specific college credit or advanced placement research, delivery, critical listening and emphasis will be given to advanced in English while still in high school. The evaluation, presentational aids, and forms of affirmative cases and negative course focuses on reading, analyzing, use of appropriate technology, class strategies. and writing about imaginative literature lecture, class discussion, student (fiction, poetry, drama) from various presentations, and other active learning Penn# 0333 periods. Students engage in close techniques will be used in this course. JOURNALISM reading and critical analysis of A prerequisite is required for the Ivy Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade imaginative literature to deepen their Tech portion of the course. Level: 9-12 understanding of the ways writers use Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1080 language to provide both meaning and Penn# 0349 Course Description: pleasure. As they read, students DEBATE I In addition to encouraging students to consider a work’s structure, style, and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade develop civic literacy and an themes, as well as its use of figurative Level: 9-12 understanding of the power of today's language, imagery, and symbolism. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1070 media, this course will provide students Writing assignments include expository, Counts as 1 English/Language Arts with the theoretical and practical analytical, and argumentative essays credit background in the field of journalism that require students to analyze and Course Description: with an emphasis on training for interpret literary works. All students In this course, speaking skills will be eventual work on school productions. enrolled in this course will take the developed with specific emphasis on Students will realize the importance of AP® Literature and Composition exam logical thinking, analysis, research, accuracy, objectivity and conciseness in the spring. NOTE: Students will statistics, persuasion and in journalistic endeavors and will complete a summer reading argumentation. The course will cover become media consumers. Students assignment. The summer reading will the following types of public speaking: will practice extensively the techniques be posted online and will be available two-person debate, Lincoln-Douglas of newsgathering, interviewing, writing from current AP® Literature instructors. debate, extemporaneous and and copy editing. Students will also Students enrolled in AP® Literature are impromptu speaking, and Student learn about effective design of expected to have all summer reading Congress. publications, advertising, photography, completed by Labor Day. and broadcasting.
Penn# 0353 Penn# 2339 OR 2340 Penn# 0337 CRITICAL THINKING AND ADVANCED SPEECH AND STUDENT MEDIA- YEARBOOK ARGUMENTATION COMMUNICATION Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade Level: 10-12 Level: 10-12 Level: 9-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1086 Prerequisite: Debate I Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1078 Counts as Fine Arts credits for Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1074 Academic Honors diploma Course Description: exercises aimed at expanding and facets of production, and they will This course emphasizes creative and polishing writing style. Students will be develop a portfolio of work that will informative writing as well as magazine encouraged to submit their work to include news-writing, broadcast design techniques. The yearbook class Spectrum, Penn’s literary magazine. production, multimedia stories, and is responsible for the entire production This is an elective English course that storytelling in new and emerging of the school yearbook- a full 300 may be selected in addition to the media. Students will learn all aspects pages. The course heavily focuses on required English courses. of production in the PNN television writing, online page design, business studio, and in the second semester, communication, and photography. Penn# 0341 they will produce a daily news show for Students must be able to self-discipline STUDENT MEDIA- SPECTRUM pnn.phmschools.org . This publications and attend events such as plays, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade class lays the groundwork for further concerts, dances, athletic events, and Level: 10-12 study in this field (and for Radio & academic events. Each student will Prerequisite: Creative Writing and Television II, 0371). More information have their own individual Composition can be found at massmediastudies.net . responsibilities; evaluation will be Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1086 based upon completion of these Counts as Fine Arts credits for Penn# 0371 responsibilities. In order to meet Academic Honors diploma RADIO & TELEVISION II deadlines, some work for select Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade students will continue past the end of Students who have taken Level: 10-12 the school year by a handful of weeks. Composition/Creative Writing may elect Prerequisite: Radio & TV I and Students signing up for this course to enroll in Student Media- Spectrum. Application must also be aware that leaving this This course, designed for the serious Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5992 course will require a lengthy and writing student, continues to focus on Course Description: strenuous process, so full-year the goals of journal writing, personal After taking Radio & Television I 0369, commitment is essential. Students will narrative, fiction and poetry, with the these publications students will also need to sell advertising space as a addition of the publication of Spectrum, continue their work in the PNN Studio part of the curriculum. This course can Penn’s literary magazine. Students will and at pnn.phmschools.org . This class be taken multiple times. be involved in every aspect of the runs the newsroom and studio for 180 publishing process from the collection days, and they are responsible for of work, to editing, to lay-out, and, providing Penn High School complete Penn# 0339/0340 finally, to disbursement. Some coverage of school news. These CREATIVE WRITING & after-school time may be necessary as students shoot 90 shows per year, and COMPOSITION deadlines approach. This is an elective compete in state and national Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade English course that may be selected in competitions. As a requirement of the Level: 10-12 addition to the required English class, students are expected to work Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1092&1090 courses. This course can be taken outside of school hours to cover events Counts as English/Language Arts multiple times. that include extra-curricular functions at credits Penn High School and in Saint Joseph Course Description: Penn# 0369 County. Students can enroll in local This course is designed for the student RADIO & TELEVISION I production internships, and if eligible, who enjoys writing and is interested in Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade may take the class for dual credit. More developing an awareness of and Level: 9-12 information can be found at techniques for effective creative Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5986 massmediastudies.net. expression in both prose and poetry. Course Description: Students will be required to complete In this introductory class to mass media Penn# 0373 OR 0374 semester projects, compose short and journalism, students will develop FILM LITERATURE stories, keep journals on a regular media literacy through instruction and Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade basis, and complete various writing practice. Students will engage in all Level: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1034 news shows for pnn.phmschools.org . Penn# 0393 Course Description: This publications class lays the SPORTS JOURNALISM Beginning with media literacy, students groundwork for further study in this field Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade participating in this class will not only and other publications classes such as Level: 10-12 develop a critical analysis of the MASS MEDIA / TECH COMM II, 0371. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1086 moving picture medium, but they will More information can be found at Counts as Fine Arts credits for also produce independent film projects. massmediastudies.net. Academic Honors diploma Students will examine production from Course Description: the authoring of screenplays all the Penn# 0397 Students will promote athletics at Penn way through the production, and THEMES IN LITERATURE- High School and provide information post-production stages of film creation. MYTHOLOGY about Penn athletics through a variety Instruction will be provided through Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade of ways. Students will produce content selected readings, and the study of the Level: 10-12 for sports publications and a Penn history of filmmaking, utilization of Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1048 athletics website. Sports journalism various technologies, lab work, and Counts as English credits for all students will also create a recruiting time in the field producing independent diplomas center website that would post profiles film projects. Students will have the Course Description: and video highlights of Penn opportunity to screen their work in Are you the type of student who reads student-athletes to showcase athletes competitions and film festivals. The the latest Rick Riordan, fantasy, or to college recruiters. In addition, class will culminate with Penn High Harry Potter novel late into the night? students will produce profiles of Penn School’s own Film Festival held in May. Or perhaps you’re a student who has student-athletes and create media More information can be found at been waiting for a chance to take notes to be distributed to local and http://massmediastudies.net. Mythology to learn about those state media, promoting Penn characters and cultures you’ve been student-athletes for all-state honors. Penn# 0161 missing out on. For any of you who fit Students will also be involved in video TV BROADCAST INTERNSHIP (WBL) one of these categories, or those who interviews with Penn student-athletes, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade are simply interested in delving into putting together video highlight Level: 12 something new, the new Myth elective packages featuring Penn Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 is for you. This course is designed for student-athletes, and broadcasting Course Description: those students who wish to examine Penn athletic events. Students will also In this class, students may develop common ideas and themes from market Penn athletic events. media literacy through instruction and various cultures. The course will practice, and they engage in all facets include traditional Greek and Roman Penn# of production in the PNN television mythology, but will branch out to ELD I (1655) studio. Students may also participate include Norse, Celtic, Egyptian, Asian, ELD II (1656) in a professional internship with local North American, South American ELD III (1657) Media companies. Members of the (including Mayan and Aztec), and WITH LANGUAGE LAB class produce a variety of projects in African. One aim of the course is to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade the studio, and they take them from show common concerns and beliefs Level: 9-12 concept to complete. Students develop among the various cultures and make Recommendation: WIDA Scores a portfolio of work that includes connections to modern life today. In Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 1012 television productions, news segments, addition, the course strives to give Course Description: music videos, public service students an underlying knowledge from Basic Skills Development is a announcements, commercial spots, live which to draw in the future. multidisciplinary course which provides broadcasts, and multimedia stories. students continuing opportunities to Students gain experience in all aspects develop the basic skills including: (1) of production in the PNN television reading, (2) writing, (3) listening, (4) studio, and they sometimes produce speaking, (5) mathematical computation, (6) note taking, (7) study and organizational skills, and (8) problem-solving skills that are essential for high school course work achievement. Determination of the skills to be emphasized in this course is based on the Indiana State proficiencies, individual school corporation general curriculum plans, and student Individualized Learning Plan (ILP). Credits earned in this course are elective credits. For further information regarding ENL services, please contact your Guidance Counselor or ENL Coordinator.
Penn# 1658 LANGUAGE LAB- WITH ELD I-III Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 9-12 Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 0500 Prerequisite: WIDA Scores Course Description: Students enrolled in the International Seminar class focus on the active application of language in order to address global issues & problems. Students stay abreast of current world events through weekly readings. They recount, explain, argue and discuss current issues in a seminar format. As a team, these students use mass-media to craft, publish, and distribute new stories about contemporary topics and problems on a PNN mass-media channel .
provide students with the basic skills and techniques in sculpture and Penn# 0113/0114 ceramics. Clay, plaster, cardboard, CERAMICS V & VI VISUAL ARTS textiles, and other 3-dimensional Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 All visual art courses meet the Fine materials may be explored. Through Grade Level: 11-12 Arts requirement of the Core 40 these art experiences, young adult Prerequisite: Ceramics III-IV Diploma with Academic Honors artists will find gratification in creating Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4040 three-dimensional works of art. Our Course Description: goal is one in which students gain an This course is a continuing study and Penn# 0149 appreciation for the arts, and learn how development of ceramic skills and INTRODUCTION TO the arts can be integrated into other techniques, emphasizing the TWO-DIMENSIONAL ART areas of study. development of individual style. Semesters: 1 Credit: 1 Traditional and contemporary clay Grade Level: 9-12 Penn# 0109/0110 sculpture will be applied as students Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4000 CERAMICS I & II work on free form ceramics and the Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 potter's wheel to create a series of Introduction to 2-Dimensional Art is a Grade Level: 9-12 nonfunctional and functional pottery. 1-semester course intended to provide Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4040 students with the basic skills and Course Description: Penn# 0115/0116 techniques in drawing, painting, design This is a 2-semester course where you CERAMICS VII & VIII and printmaking. The 2/D course will will learn to make your childhood mud Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 help students generate new ideas, pies into a creative and useful artwork. Grade Level: 12 develop artistic skills, and foster Your artwork will not only be a Prerequisite: Ceramics V-VI student imagination. Pencil, chalk, decorative piece of art, but you will be Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4040 charcoal, colored pencil, marker, able to use it in your daily life or give it Course Description: tempera, acrylics, oil pastels and to someone as a gift of love. Students Ceramic students participating in this scratchboard may be some of the will explore coil, slab, pinch, drape and class are urged to create high quality materials students will explore. Our sculpture techniques to construct artwork to be put into their portfolio. goal is one in which students gain an animal sculptures, bowls, boxes, This class is designed for a student appreciation for the arts, and learn how masks, teapots, tiles and vessels that who wants to research a variety of the arts can be integrated into other have a strong sense of color and techniques beyond previous levels to areas of study. texture designs. develop a personal concentration in their own style of artwork. Penn# 0150 Penn# 0111/0112 INTRODUCTION TO CERAMICS III & IV Penn# 0117/0118 THREE-DIMENSIONAL ART Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 DRAWING I & II Semesters: 1 Credit: 1 Grade Level: 10-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 9-12 Prerequisite: Ceramics I-II Grade Level: 9-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4002 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4040 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4060 Course Description: Course Description: Course Description: Students who have previously This course is a further study of clay, Intro to 2-D or 3-D Art is received credit in ceramics or glazing, staining and design recommended. This course is an sculpture can not take this course. techniques. Wheel thrown pottery will introduction to the basic skills and This course is not intended for students be introduced. Independent studio techniques of drawing and with previous credit in ceramics or practices emphasizing creativity and composition. Emphasis will be placed sculpture. Introduction to exploration into the realm of clay as on the elements of structure: line, 3-Dimensional Art is the next phase of pottery will be applied to non functional shape, form, space, value, texture, and the introductory course intended to and functional ware. color as well as principles of arrangement. Students will explore Assignments may include: landscape, includes 2-point perspective, form various media such as pencil, charcoal, life drawing, architectural and fashion building, and lighting volume. The pastels, pen and ink, watercolor, design, illustration printmaking majority of the semester will be marker, and printmaking techniques. techniques such as linoleum, intaglio traditional (on paper) and ending using Assignments may include: still life and monoprints, and mixed media. This Adobe Photoshop for digital painting. drawing, portraiture, perspective course combines particularly well with Graphic Design semester. Students will drawing, figure drawing, printmaking, AP Studio Art senior year. work traditionally (on paper), learning scratchboard, graphic and abstract how to visually communicate with type, design. Students will be required to Penn# 0123/0124 form language, silhouette and visual keep a sketchbook. DRAWING VII & VIII pun. Students will also learn the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 process designers use to solve design Penn# 0119/0120 Grade Level: 12 problems, how composition works, and DRAWING III & IV Prerequisite: Drawing V & VI basic color theory. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4060 Grade Level: 10-12 Course Description: Penn# 0133/0134 Prerequisite: Drawing I & II This course is a continuing study of GRAPHIC DESIGN I & II Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4060 drawing and design techniques. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Course Description: Students that advance to this level Grade Level: 10-12 This course is a further study of the have more project choices and are Prerequisite: Visual elements and principles of drawing and encouraged to develop a more Communication OR 2D portfolio design. Students will explore a wide personal style/focus. Students will be review range of techniques as it applies to the required to keep a sketchbook Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4086 various media. Assignments may quarterly and shoot 1 roll of film per Course Description: include: landscape, life drawing, semester for visual references. Graphic Design is a commercial art architectural and fashion design, Assignments may include: landscape, field where visuals are used to solve illustration printmaking techniques such life drawing, architectural and fashion “design problems” and to communicate as linoleum, intaglio and monoprints, design, illustration printmaking to a mass audience. Thinking is made and mixed media. Students will be techniques such as linoleum, intaglio visual! Graphic designers create required to keep a sketchbook and monoprints, and mixed media. products for clients such as movie quarterly and shoot 1 roll of film per posters, currency, signage, business semester for visual references. Penn# 0183/0184 logos, web graphics, promotional VISUAL COMMUNICATION materials, t-shirt designs, billboards, Penn# 0121/0122 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 cereal boxes, DVD/CD cases, and DRAWING V & VI Grade Level: 9-12 anything else you see on a shelf! Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4086 Students will operate in a professional Grade Level: 11-12 Course Description: studio setting with an emphasis on Prerequisite: Drawing III & IV This class is to prepare students for the applying design theory, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4060 Entertainment Design and/or Graphic problem-solving, critical thinking, and Course Description: Design course trees offered here at marketing. Students will use hands-on This course is a continuing study of Penn, covering the core fundamentals drawing mediums and design on the drawing and design techniques. in both. Each course tree will have its computer with Adobe Students that advance to this level own semester’s focus. Note-taking, Photoshop/Illustrator! have more project choices and are problem-solving, time management, encouraged to develop a more and critical thinking skills will be put to personal style/focus. Students will be use. Entertainment Design semester. Penn# 0135/0136 required to keep a sketchbook Students will learn the core GRAPHIC DESIGN III & IV quarterly and shoot 1 roll of film per fundamentals used by artists to create Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 semester for visual references. from the imagination alone. This Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Graphic Design I & II Prerequisites: Approval of Instructor Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4086 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Grade Level: 11-12 Course Description: Course Description: Prerequisite: Photography I & II Second year students will operate as a This internship course is intended for Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4062 community workhorse designing the serious-minded student who wishes Course Description: real-world products for real clients . to: (1) work on an independent basis in Students must have access to a Client work includes in-house and an attempt to build a college/institute digital camera along with their community needs. Many projects are portfolio, (2) contribute by becoming 35mm manual camera. Students will individual while others are class-wide the creative director for our In-House further explore black and white 35mm and competitive. Students will work Agency projects. This student will be photography. Students will focus on directly with clients demonstrating the point person in charge of leading building their skills using creative professionalism through: Face to face some of our advanced graphic design controls of aperture, shutter speed, interviews, following client briefs, students as they work on community film, and focusing. Emphasis will be meeting and exceeding client needs, and non-for-profit projects. They will be placed on composition, lighting, subject adjusting products based on client instrumental in working with the matter, and darkroom techniques. feedback, meeting deadlines, and instructor as they develop strong Students will begin to explore digital applying training in a professional lab leadership skills. This course may be photography. setting. available for dual credit. As part of this Work-Based Learning experience, students will complete a number of Penn# 0137/0138 components resulting in a portfolio. GRAPHIC DESIGN V & VI Penn# 0173 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Penn# 0141/0142 AP® 2D ART & DESIGN: Grade Level: 11-12 PHOTOGRAPHY I & II PHOTOGRAPHY Prerequisite: Graphic Design III & IV Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4086 Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 12 Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4062 Prerequisite: Photography III & IV Third year students will operate as a Course Description: Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4050 community workhorse designing Intro to 2-D or 3-D Art Course Description: real-world products for real clients . recommended. Student must have Students will further explore the world Client work includes in-house and access to a 35mm SLR manual of digital photography creating portfolio community needs. Many projects are camera. Students will explore the basic quality works and gaining essential individual while others are class-wide principles of black and white 35 mm photoshop skills. The Advanced and competitive. Students will work photography. Shutter speed, aperture, Placement® ( AP®) Studio Art program directly with clients demonstrating depth of field, ASA/ISO film speed, enables highly motivated students to professionalism through: Face to face lighting, processing and developing do college-level work in studio art while interviews, following client briefs, techniques will be taught. Emphasis still in high school. The program is meeting and exceeding client needs, will be placed on lighting, composition, intended to help students build a adjusting products based on client subject matter, and dark room professional portfolio that can be feedback, meeting deadlines, and techniques. Other methods for making submitted for entrance to an Art applying training in a professional lab visual images will be explored such as College, University, or Institute as well setting. pinhole photography, photograms, as scholarship opportunities. hand coloring, and toning. Students will Guidelines for Advanced Placement® Penn# 0139 gain familiarity with the history of Studio Art portfolios have been GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERNSHIP photography. designed to accommodate a variety of (WBL) interests and approaches to art. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Penn# 0143/0144 Students must submit 24 pieces that Grade Level: 12 PHOTOGRAPHY III & IV will be evaluated on the basis of quality This course gives students the subtractive, and constructive processes (student’s most successful works with opportunity to expand upon the using such materials as clay, respect to form and content,) methods of painting learned in cardboard, paper, foam board, wire, concentration (sustained, deep, and beginning painting. Students will plaster, found objects, paper mache’, multi-perspective investigation of a experiment with new techniques and etc. student-selected topic,) and breadth (a begin to develop a personal style. range of ideas and approaches to Penn# 0127/0128 art-making.). Portfolios will be Penn# 0105/0106 SCULPTURE III & IV submitted for evaluation at the end of PAINTING V & VI Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 the semester to the AP® College Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Grade Level: 10-12 Board. Automatic portfolio submission, Level: 11-12 Prerequisite: Sculpture I & II however, does not guarantee college Prerequisite: Painting III & IV Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4044 credit. This decision is determined by Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4064 Course Description: the individual school. It is highly Course Description: Application, and 2nd semester recommended that you reference this This course is a continuing study of enrollment required. This course is a link regarding the AP® Studio Art 2-D painting principles and techniques further study of sculpture with Design Portfolio: emphasizing the development of an emphasis on the human form and the http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ap individual style. Assignments will be relationships of size, space and forms c/members/exam/exam_information/ open-ended and student driven, while in the environment. Students carve a 2134.html attempting to create a personal sculpture from soapstone. Other portfolio. assignments may include: clay, plaster, Penn# 0101/0102 cardboard, wood carving, paper PAINTING I & II Penn# 0107/0108 mache’ sculptures, constructism bust, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 PAINTING VII & VIII and creating 3-Dimensional building, Grade Level: 9-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade etc. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4064 Level: 12 Course Description: Prerequisite: Painting III & IV Penn# 0129/0130 Intro to 2-D or 3-D Art Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4064 SCULPTURE V & VI recommended. This course is an Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 introduction to the basic principles of This course is a continuing study of Grade Level: 11-12 painting. Students will have an painting principles and techniques Prerequisite: Sculpture III & IV opportunity to explore various emphasizing the development of an Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4044 techniques associated with watercolor, individual style. Assignments will be Course Description: tempera, acrylics, and oil paints. open-ended and student driven, while Application, and 2nd semester Connections will be made between attempting to create a personal enrollment required. This course is a historically significant painters and portfolio. continuing study of sculptural principles periods of art. First year painting and techniques emphasizing the students will learn to merge the brush Penn# 0125/0126 development of an individual style. stroke with their imagination. SCULPTURE I & II Student assignments may include: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 realistic clay bust, alabaster sculpture, Penn# 0103/0104 Grade Level: 9-12 wax sculpture, found objects in metal, PAINTING III & IV Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4044 plaster, and casting of the human form, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Course Description: wood carving, glass creations etc… Grade Level: 10-12 This course introduces the basic Prerequisite: Painting I & II principles and techniques of sculpture Penn# 0131/0132 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4064 using a variety of materials. SCULPTURE VII & VIII Course Description: Assignments will include sculptural Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 techniques and methods of additive, Grade Level: 12 Prerequisite: Sculpture V & VI why works of art function in context, drawing, painting, computer, or graphic Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4044 considering such issues as patronage, design that can be partially used senior Course Description: gender, and the function and effects of year. The submission fee is waived. Application, and 2nd semester works of art. This program is intended for students enrollment required. This course is an seriously committed to studying art in advanced study of sculpture principles Penn# 0167 drawing, painting, computer, and and techniques emphasizing advanced PRINTMAKING graphic design. Students participating materials, tools, and sculpting Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 in the program should strive to produce methods. Grade Level: 10-12 high quality artwork, and their Prerequisites: Drawing I & II OR submitted portfolios should reflect this Penn# 0155/0156 Graphic Design I & II OR effort. The guidelines for Advanced ART HISTORY & ADVANCED ART Introduction to 2D & 3D Art Placement® Studio Art portfolios have HISTORY Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4066 been designed to accommodate a Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Course Description: variety of interests and approaches to Grade Level: 10-12 This is a one semester class designed art and design. There are three Prerequisite: Intro to 2-D or 3-D for students that want to explore a required sections to the portfolio: Art recommended. variety of art techniques that can be quality (student’s most successful Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4024 & 4020 expressed through printmaking. Some works with respect to form and Course Description: background in drawing and experience content,) concentration (sustained, Through lectures, slide presentations, in development of drawing skills and deep, and multi-perspective videos, guest speakers, and special art the understanding of the elements and investigation of a student-selected projects, art history students will principles and what make a good topic,) and breadth (a range of ideas develop an appreciation for art history composition will prove to be most and approaches to art-making.) This and cultures. Students will classify helpful in making effective printmaking course is a great opportunity to apply major styles of art and artists, and projects. The most important factors for art scholarships and prepare for develop a foundation for understanding are willingness to draw, experiment, try, senior year and a future in the fine arts the historical progression of art. In and meet goals. Many different types of field. * There is no AP® credit until addition, students will search for printmaking will be explored. Some of senior year. It is highly recommended meaning and significance in art history these may include: rubbings, eraser that you reference this link regarding by exploring studio techniques and block, stencils, glue prints, various the AP® Studio Art 2-D Design processes related to historical periods. types of linoleum blocks, etching, Portfolio:/exam _ information/2134.htm mono-prints and mono-types. l Penn# 0165 Penn# 0151/0152 Penn# 0153 AP® ART HISTORY ADVANCED TWO-DIMENSIONAL AP® DRAWING Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 ART Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 11-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 12 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4025 Grade Level: 11 Prerequisites: Advanced This course is weighted on a 5.0 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4004 Two-Dimensional Art OR Drawing V scale. Course Description: & VI Course Description: Drawing, Painting, Computer Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4048 In this course, students examine and Illustration & Graphics. Course Description: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ap critically analyze major forms of artistic The Advanced Placement® ( AP®) c/members/exam This course is open expression from the past and the Studio Art program enables highly to Juniors as a prerequisite to the AP® present from a variety of cultures. motivated students to do college-level While visual analysis is a fundamental Senior Studio. Juniors will not submit work in studio art while still in high tool of the art historian, art history their portfolio until their senior year. school. The program is intended to emphasizes understanding how and Students will create a portfolio in help students build a professional portfolio that can be submitted for portfolio that can be submitted for Students will create part of their entrance to an Art College, University, entrance to an Art College, University, portfolio that can be partially used their or Institute as well as scholarship or Institute as well as scholarship senior year. The submission fee is opportunities. Guidelines for Advanced opportunities. Guidelines for Advanced waived. This program is intended for Placement® Studio Art portfolios have Placement® Studio Art portfolios have students seriously committed to been designed to accommodate a been designed to accommodate a studying art in sculpture or ceramics. variety of interests and approaches to variety of interests and approaches to Students participating in the program art. Students must submit 24 pieces art. Students must submit 24 pieces should strive to produce high quality that will be evaluated on the basis of that will be evaluated on the basis of artwork, and their portfolios should quality (student’s most successful quality (student’s most successful reflect this effort. The guidelines for works with respect to form and works with respect to form and Advanced Placement® Studio Art content,) concentration (sustained, content,) concentration (sustained, portfolios have been designed to deep, and multi-perspective deep, and multi-perspective accommodate a variety of interests and investigation of a student-selected investigation of a student-selected approaches to art and design. There topic,) and breadth (a range of ideas topic,) and breadth (a range of ideas are three required sections to the and approaches to art-making.). and approaches to art-making.). portfolio: quality (student’s most Portfolios will be submitted for Portfolios will be submitted for successful works with respect to form evaluation at the end of the semester evaluation at the end of the semester and content,) concentration (sustained, to the AP® College Board. Automatic to the AP® College Board. Automatic deep, and multi-perspective portfolio submission, however, does not portfolio submission, however, does not investigation of a student-selected guarantee college credit. This decision guarantee college credit. This decision topic,) and breadth (a range of ideas is determined by the individual school. is determined by the individual school. and approaches to art-making.) This It is highly recommended that you It is highly recommended that you course is a great opportunity to apply reference this link regarding the AP® reference this link regarding the AP® for art scholarships and prepare for Studio Art 2-D Design Portfolio: Studio Art 2-D Design Portfolio: senior year and a future in the fine arts http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ap http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ap field. * There is no AP® credit until c/members/exam/exam_information/ c/members/exam/exam_information/ senior year. It is highly recommended 2134.html 2134.html that you reference this link regarding the AP® Studio Art 3-D Design Portfolio: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ap c/members/exam/exam_information/ Penn# 0154 Penn# 0157/0158 2135.html AP® 2D ART & DESIGN: PAINTING ADVANCED THREE-DIMENSIONAL Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 ART Penn# 0175 Grade Level: 12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 AP® 3D ART & DESIGN Prerequisites: Advanced Grade Level: 11-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Two-Dimensional Art OR Painting V Prerequisites: 2 years of ceramics Grade Level: 12 & VI OR sculpture, OR approval of Prerequisites: Advanced Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4050 instructor Three-Dimensional Art Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4006 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4052 The Advanced Placement® ( AP®) Course Description: Course Description: Studio Art program enables highly Ceramics or Sculpture . This course is Ceramics or Sculpture . The motivated students to do college-level open to Juniors as a prerequisite to the Advanced Placement® ( AP®) Studio work in studio art while still in high AP® Senior Studio Art program enables highly motivated school. The program is intended to Sculpture/Ceramics. Juniors will not students to do college-level work in help students build a professional submit their portfolio until senior year. studio art while still in high school. Candidates of AP® Studio Art – Senior With the intro class under your belt you everything you’ve learned in the form of Year will submit a portfolio of work for are now ready! Entertainment Design I a full re-design of an existing novel or evaluation at the end of the semester in covers content reserved mainly for short story. Students will have amassed either 3-D Design Portfolio, Sculpture trade schools and colleges and is a strong portfolio of college-grade work or Ceramics. The program is intended unofficially classified as intensive. You’ll and will have the introductory training for students seriously committed to begin solving design problems like a necessary for transition into art/trade building a professional portfolio that will concept artist/engineer! We will be schools supporting the entertainment gain them entrance, with possible designing creatures, environments, industry. scholarship, to an Art College, props, and characters all digitally in University, or Institute. Students Adobe Photoshop using digital Penn# 0179/0180 participating in the program will strive painting. As a designer you’ll learn the ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN V & VI to produce high quality artwork, and process of visual research, how to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 their submitted portfolios should reflect incorporate biology/anatomy for original Grade Level: 11-12 this effort. The guidelines for Advanced creature design, the ideation process of Prerequisite: Entertainment Design Placement® Studio Art portfolios have exploring solutions to solving design I & II been designed to accommodate a problems, designing with form Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4082 variety of interests and approaches to language and silhouette and working Course Description: art. There are three required sections with an efficient workflow. All projects This class expands upon the skill set to the portfolio: quality (student’s most are simulated as if from a client and learned during Year 1, focusing more successful works with respect to form your job is to deliver what the client on Design. A variety of additional digital and content,) concentration (sustained, wants within a deadline. Students will methods and creative methods will be deep, and multi-perspective use also learn advanced rendering explored under the theme of “World investigation of a student-selected skills such as sub-surface scattering, Building.” Linear perspective will topic,) and breadth (a range of ideas ambient occlusion, and hard/soft expand to cut-away set design. and approaches to art-making.) surface material rendering. Environment designs will include Portfolios will be submitted for time/seasonal variations. Form building evaluation at the end of the semester Penn# 0177/0178 will expand to material re-skin and to the AP® College Board. Automatic ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN III & IV anatomical functionality studies. portfolio submission, however, does not Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Vehicle/mecha designs will attempt to guarantee college credit. This decision Grade Level: 11-12 solve real-world problems. Second is determined by the individual school. Prerequisite: Entertainment Design semester will finally summarize It is highly recommended that you I & II everything you’ve learned in the form of reference this link regarding the AP® Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4082 a full re-design of an existing novel or Studio Art 3-D Design Portfolio: Course Description: short story. Students will have amassed http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ap This class expands upon the skill set a strong portfolio of college-grade work c/members/exam/exam_information/ learned during Year 1, focusing more and will have the introductory training 2135.html on Design. A variety of additional digital necessary for transition into art/trade methods and creative methods will be schools supporting the entertainment Penn# 0171/0172 explored under the theme of “World industry. ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN I & II Building.” Linear perspective will Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 expand to cut-away set design. Penn# 0169 Grade Level: 10-12 Environment designs will include PORTFOLIO EXIT PROJECT Prerequisite: Visual Communication time/seasonal variations. Form building Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 OR 2D portfolio review will expand to material re-skin and Grade Level: 11-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4082 anatomical functionality studies. Prerequisite: Teacher Approval Course Description: Vehicle/mecha designs will attempt to Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4004 solve real-world problems. Second Course Description: semester will finally summarize Junior or Senior art students who wish to pursue visual art as a career choice in college, are encouraged to enroll in, “Portfolio Exit Project.” Topics covered in this course will include: artist statement, written and creatively produced resume´, matted and digitally produced student portfolio of work. All Art Studio majors will present professionally prepared portfolios for review by a committee of art professionals including local artists, college faculty, and local art businesses. Completed portfolios will then be sent to the student’s college/institute of choice, as they compete for admittance and scholarship.
Penn# 0800 FINE ARTS CONNECTIONS CAPSTONE Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4026 Course Description: This course is for the senior Fine Arts & Communications Academy member who wishes to complete an academy capstone project. A capstone project will focus on the student’s interest and/or college and career goals. The Capstone project or recital will be designed by the student and instructor. The instructor will serve as a mentor, guiding the student through the design, planning, execution and evaluation of a relevant capstone project.
January) for the marching band. The band performs several times during the BAND year. Penn# 0823 PERCUSSION STUDIES All band courses meet the Fine Arts Penn# 0839 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade requirement of the Core 40 Diploma ADVANCED CONCERT BAND Level: 9-12 with Academic Honors. Attendance Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Prerequisite: Successful completion at concert performances is required. Level: 10-12 of three years in Middle School band Prerequisite: Audition as a percussionist or currently Penn# 0817 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4170 enrolled in Percussion Studies FRESHMAN INTERMEDIATE Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4162 CONCERT BAND Symphonic Band . This advanced Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade concert band class is available by The Intermediate Percussion Studies Level: 9 audition to Penn students who play a class is comprised of students who Prerequisite: Successful completion band instrument at an upper have completed three years of middle of middle school band intermediate to advanced level. school band as a percussionist or have Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4168 Emphasis is placed on tone, technique successfully completed previous years Course Description: development and sightreading. of percussion studies. Students meet Freshman Concert Band . This Advanced performance techniques are as a separate class to learn percussion developmental course is open to all emphasized. Participation in the techniques and reading skills for a wide freshmen students who play a band ISSMA Solo/Ensemble contest is variety of percussion instruments and instrument at an intermediate level. encouraged. Serious band literature is literature. All students will perform with Emphasis is placed on tone, technique selected from a variety of periods in one of three concert bands (817, 819 or development and sight reading. music history. Private lessons are 839)for all concerts and contests. Participation in the ISSMA highly encouraged. There will be 4-5 required Solo/Ensemble contest is encouraged. performances throughout the year. Interested students may audition (in Penn# 0841 January) for the marching band. The ADVANCED CONCERT BAND Penn# 0825 band performs several times during the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade ADVANCED PERCUSSION STUDIES year. Level: 10-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Prerequisite: Audition Level: 9-12 Penn# 0819 Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4170 Prerequisite: Audition INTERMEDIATE CONCERT BAND Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4162 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Symphonic Winds. This advanced Course Description: Level: 10-12 band is considered the top concert The Advanced Percussion Studies Prerequisite: Any PHM band course band at Penn High School. The band class is comprised of students who Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4168 represents Penn High School in public have completed three years of middle Course Description: performances and competitions. school band as a percussionist or have Concert Band . This concert band Advanced performance techniques are successfully completed previous years class is open to all Penn students who emphasized. Serious band literature is of Intermediate Percussion Studies or play a band instrument at an selected from a variety of periods of Advanced Percussion Studies. intermediate proficiency or better. music history. Private lessons are Students meet as a separate class to Emphasis is placed on tone, technique required. All State Band participation is learn percussion techniques and development and sight reading. highly encouraged. This ensemble reading skills for a wide variety of Participation in the ISSMA typically performs more concerts than percussion instruments and advanced Solo/Ensemble contest is encouraged. other Penn Concert Bands. literature. All students will perform with Interested students may audition (in one of two concert bands (839 or 841) for all concerts and contests. There will be several required performances participation in a concert band. successful performances. Private throughout the year. Private lessons Bassists should be enrolled in an lessons are strongly encouraged for are required. orchestra class. Emphasis is placed on successful participation in this technical development and ensemble. This course is designed to Penn# 0827 sight-reading skills. Jazz theory and offer advanced instrumental performers INTERMEDIATE JAZZ ENSEMBLE improvisation are included in the an opportunity to study and perform Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade course of study. The group performs chamber music literature. String Level: 9-12 several times each year. Students with Quartet, wind/string combinations, and Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in previous instrumental study may en roll. other chamber literature will be studied, Symphonic or Concert Band and arranged, rehearsed, and performed. permission of instructor These groups could perform many Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4164 Penn# 0849 times per year at various places in the Course Description: INSTRUMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC community. Wind players must be in a concert band Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade class; bassists must be in an orchestra Level: 10-12 class; percussionists must be in a Prerequisite: Audition percussion class Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4162 This course is available to students Course Description: also enrolled in a concert band class. Emphasis is placed on tone, instrument Pianists and guitarists may audition and bow technique development, into the ensemble without participation sight-reading, and advanced in a concert band. Bassists should be performance techniques. Participation enrolled in an orchestra class. in ISSMA Solo & amp;Ensemble Emphasis is placed on technical contest is highly encouraged as these development and sight-reading skills. activities develop elements of Jazz theory and improvisation are musicianship. Serious string and full included in the course of study. The orchestra literature is selected from a group performs several times each variety of periods in music history. year. Students with previous Students will have opportunities to instrumental study may enroll. experience live performances by professional musicians during and Penn# 0829 outside of the school day. A limited ADVANCED JAZZ ENSEMBLE number of public performances may Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade serve as a culmination of daily Level: 10-12 rehearsal and musical goals. Students Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in will participate in performance Symphonic or Concert Band and opportunities outside of the school day audition that support and extend learning in the Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4164 classroom. Students must perform with Course Description: expression and technical accuracy on a Wind players must be in a concert large and varied repertoire of orchestral band class; bassists must be in an literature that is developmentally orchestra class; percussionists must be appropriate. Evaluations of music and in a percussion class music performances are included. This course is available by audition to Students are required to attend students also enrolled in a concert regularly scheduled evening band class. Pianists and guitarists may rehearsals, as well as extra rehearsals, audition into the ensemble without which are designed to insure musically Orchestra Sequence
String Orchestra (9-12) (831)
Concert Orchestra 9-12 (847)
Philharmonic Orchestra 9-12 (834)
Chamber Orchestra 9-12 (857)
Symphonic Orchestra 10-12 (833) ORCHESTRA Concert Orchestra is for Penn students Penn# 0833 who play a string instrument at an SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA All orchestra courses meet the Fine Arts intermediate proficiency or better. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade requirement of the Core 40 Diploma with Emphasis is placed on tone, technique Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Audition Academic Honors. Attendance at development and sight- reading. concert performances is required. Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4174 Participation in ISSMA Solo/Ensemble Course Description: contest is highly encouraged as these This advanced orchestra class is Penn# 0831 activities develop elements of available by audition to string STRING ORCHESTRA musicianship. Music is selected from musicians at an upper intermediate to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 classical, popular, folk, and new string advanced level. Emphasis is placed on Grade Level: 9-12 literature. Private lessons are highly Prerequisite: Successful completion tone, instrument and bow technique encouraged. A limited number of public of middle school orchestra development, sight-reading, and performances serve as a culmination of Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4172 advanced performance techniques. daily rehearsal and musical goals. Course Description: Participation in ISSMA Solo & Students must participate in String Orchestra is for students who amp;Ensemble contest is highly performance opportunities outside of play a string instrument at an encouraged as these activities develop the school day; these support and intermediate level. Emphasis is placed elements of musicianship. Serious on tone, technique development and extend learning in the classroom. string and full orchestra literature is sight- reading. Participation in ISSMA Students must perform, with selected from a variety of periods in Solo/Ensemble contest is highly expression and technical accuracy, a music history. Students will have encouraged as these activities develop large and varied repertoire of orchestral opportunities to experience live elements of musicianship. Music is literature that is developmentally performances by professional selected from classical, popular, folk, appropriate. Evaluations of music and musicians during and outside of the and new string literature. Private music performances are included. school day. A limited number of public lessons are highly encouraged. A performances may serve as a limited number of public performances Penn# 0857 culmination of daily rehearsal and serve as a culmination of daily CHAMBER ORCHESTRA musical goals. Students will participate rehearsal and musical goals. Students Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade in performance opportunities outside of must participate in performance Level: 9-12 the school day that support and extend Prerequisite: Audition opportunities outside of the school day; learning in the classroom. Students Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4162 these support and extend learning in must perform with expression and the classroom. Students must perform, Course Description: Chamber Orchestra. This orchestra technical accuracy on a large and with expression and technical accuracy, performs a wide variety of string varied repertoire of orchestral literature a large and varied repertoire of classical, popular, and small ensemble that is developmentally appropriate. chamber music. Emphasis is placed on Evaluations of music and music developing advanced skills and performances are included. The orchestral literature that is musicianship. Members are chosen by Symphonic Orchestra will participate in audition, and are encouraged to developmentally appropriate. Concert Tours, Festivals, and the participate in the ISSMA Solo & Evaluations of music and music Ensemble Contest, ASTA All-State ISSMA State and District Contests. performances are included. Orchestra, private lessons and the Students are required to attend South Bend Youth Symphony. Select regularly scheduled evening Penn# 0847 members of this ensemble will be rehearsals, as well as extra rehearsals, CONCERT ORCHESTRA invited to join the Full Orchestra for its which are designed to insure musically Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Spring Concert Cycle, which would successful performances. Private Grade Level: 9-12 include Monday Night Rehearsals from lessons are strongly encouraged for Prerequisite: Audition Weight: 4.0 February through April. successful participation in this DOE# 4172 ensemble. Course Description: Penn# 0834 PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 9-12 Prerequisite: Audition Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4174 Course Description: Emphasis is placed on tone, instrument and bow technique development, sight-reading, and advanced performance techniques. Opportunities to participate in ISSMA Solo & Ensemble contests are available as these activities develop elements of musicianship. Serious string orchestra literature is selected from a variety of periods in music history. Students will have opportunities to experience live performances by professional musicians during and outside of the school day. A limited number of public performances may serve as a culmination of daily rehearsal and musical goals. Students will participate in performance opportunities outside of the school day that support and extend learning in the classroom. Students must perform with expression and technical accuracy on a large and varied repertoire of orchestral literature that is developmentally appropriate. Evaluations of music and music performances are included. Students are required to attend regularly scheduled evening rehearsals, as well as extra rehearsals, which are designed to insure musically successful performances. This course is designed to offer intermediate-advanced instrumental performers an opportunity to study and perform string music literature, with an opportunity to play chamber music in small ensembles.
ELECTIVE MUSIC
All elective music courses meet the Penn# 0845 Fine Arts requirement of the Core 40 AP® MUSIC THEORY Diploma with Academic Honors Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Music Theory I & II or Penn# 0843/0844 pass the Final Exam for Music MUSIC TECHNOLOGY I & II Theory I & II Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4210 Level: 10-12 Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4202 Advanced Placement® Music Theory is Course Description: designed for the able and ambitious Piano keyboard experience is high school student who is committed helpful, but not necessary. This to the close study of music structure course will take an in-depth look at the and who has the desire and growth of the synthesizer and other determination to gain college credit or electronic instruments that have so Advanced Placement® in music while greatly changed our contemporary still in high school. To qualify to enroll music. Students will study the to AP® Music Theory, the student development of sound reinforcement must successfully complete Music and electronic music, and gain Theory I (course numbers 815 & 816), experience in MIDI, programming, or possess a solid background in the sequencing, and audio recording. skill areas of rhythm and notation Computer technology will be reading (bass clef and treble clef) as recognized as the fast changing well as scales and major key foundation of recording arts. signatures. The focus of study is centered on techniques for aural and Penn# 0815 written analysis of music literature. All MUSIC THEORY AND students enrolled in the course will take COMPOSITION the Advanced Placement® Music Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Theory exam in the spring. Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Basic music reading and notation skill. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4208 Course Description: This course is a study of the elements in music including aural and visual concepts in notation. Students study the structure of music and the underlying elements of how music works. All this information is applied through music composition or writing. Computers and software are utilized in this classroom.
diverse styles of choral literature Cantabile Chorus. This intermediate appropriate in difficulty and range for choir is designed to develop CHORAL MUSIC the students. Students develop the intermediate level singing techniques, ability to understand and convey the sight-reading skills and music theory All choral music courses meet the composer’s intent in order to connect concepts. Activities in this class create Fine Arts requirement of the Core 40 the performer with the audience. the development of quality repertoire in Diploma with Academic Honors Students must participate in the diverse styles of choral literature Attendance at concert performances performance opportunities outside of appropriate in difficulty and range for is required. the school day that support and extend the students. Students develop the learning in the classroom. No audition ability to understand and convey the Penn# 0801 is required. composer’s intent in order to connect BEGINNING CHORAL the performer with the audience. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Penn# 0805 Students must participate in Level: 9-12 INTERMEDIATE CHORAL performance opportunities outside of Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4182 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade the school day that support and extend Course Description: Level: 10-12 learning in the classroom. No audition Singing Kingsmen. This boy’s course Prerequisite: Beginning Chorus- is required. is designed to introduce and develop Singing Kingsmen or permission of basic singing techniques, sight-reading instructor Penn# 0809 skills and basic music theory concepts. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4186 ADVANCED CHORAL Activities in this class create the Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade development of quality repertoire in the Singing Kingsmen. This intermediate Level: 10-12 diverse styles of choral literature men's choir is designed to develop Prerequisite: Audition appropriate in difficulty and range for intermediate level singing techniques, Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4188 the students. Students develop the sight-reading skills and music theory Course Description: ability to understand and convey the concepts. Activities in this class create Bella Voce. This advanced choir composer’s intent in order to connect the development of quality repertoire in studies advanced level singing the performer with the audience. the diverse styles of choral literature techniques, sight-reading skills and Students must participate in appropriate in difficulty and range for music theory concepts. Activities in this performance opportunities outside of the students. Students develop the class create the development of quality the school day that support and extend ability to understand and convey the repertoire in the diverse styles of choral learning in the classroom. No audition composer’s intent in order to connect literature appropriate in difficulty and is required. the performer with the audience. range for the students. Students Students must participate in develop the ability to understand and performance opportunities outside of convey the composer’s intent in order Penn# 0803 the school day that support and extend to connect the performer with the BEGINNING CHORAL learning in the classroom. No audition audience. Students must participate in Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade is required. Student must supply own performance opportunities outside of Level: 9-12 performance shirt and shoes. the school day that support and extend Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4182 learning in the classroom. *Students Course Description: Penn# 0807 meet as a class on alternate study hall Bel Canto Chorus. This course is INTERMEDIATE CHORAL periods. designed to introduce and develop Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade basic singing techniques, sight-reading Level: 10-12 skills and basic music theory concepts. Prerequisite: Beginning Chorus or Activities in this class create the permission of instructor development of quality repertoire in the Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4186 Course Description: Penn# 0811 Penn# 0814 ADVANCED CHORAL ADVANCED CHORAL Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 11-12 Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Audition Prerequisites: Audition AND Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4188 enrollment in Singing Kingsmen, Bel Course Description: Canto Chorus, Cantabile, or Bella Concert Choir. This advanced mixed Voce choir studies advanced singing Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4180 techniques, sight-reading skills and Course Description: music theory concepts. Activities in this VIVA VOCE. This advanced-level choir class create the development of quality is a group of 24-36 auditioned singers repertoire in the diverse styles of choral that also must be enrolled in Concert literature appropriate in difficulty and Choir and/or Women’s Chorale. This range for the students. Students choir specializes in early/Renaissance develop the ability to understand and music and contemporary music of living convey the composer’s intent in order composers. Each year, this choir will to connect the performer with the commission music from composers to audience. Students must participate in write music specifically for this performance opportunities outside of ensemble. Music literacy skills, the school day that support and extend including sight-singing and rhythmic learning in the classroom. *Students reading, will be taught alongside music meet as a class on alternate study hall repertoire. periods.
Penn# 0813 ADVANCED CHORAL Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Audition AND enrollment in Bella Voce or Concert Choir Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4180 Course Description: Rhapsody. This group of advanced singers performs show, folk and swing music. The group is available for civic and community functions and makes numerous appearances during the year. Students develop the ability to understand and convey the composer’s intent in order to connect the performer with the audience. Students must participate in performance opportunities outside of the school day that support and extend learning in the classroom.
presented at this time. Student must participate in a concert performance as DANCE supply own dance apparel and shoes. a culminating activity at the end of the course. Student choreography will be Penn# 0853/0854 presented at the time. Student must All dance courses meet the Fine DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY III & IV supply own dance apparel and shoes. Arts requirement of the Core 40 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Diploma with Academic Honors. Level: 11-12 Attendance at concert performances Prerequisite: Dance Choreography I is required. & II Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4142 Penn# 0835/0836 Course Description: DANCE PERFORMANCE I & II This course is designed to continue Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade development at an intermediate Level: 9-12 advanced level of ballet, modern, tap Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4146 and jazz. This course will continue the Course Description: development of dance composition This course is designed to introduce while making connections to visual arts and develop understanding of dance as well as dramatic and literacy arts. concepts and terminology, and to Students will explore texture and tone develop beginning skills in ballet, jazz, color, create and play with rhythms and modern and tap dance technique. syncopation, explore emotion and Beginning choreographic elements and character discovery. Several principles will be introduced. Student performance opportunities will be given will participate in a performance as a throughout the year to increase the culminating activity at the end of the student's appreciation of the role of a course. Student must supply own choreographer as well dance as a form dance apparel and shoes. of art. Student must supply own dance apparel and shoes. Penn# 0837/0838 DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY I & II Penn# 0850/0851 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade ADVANCED DANCE I & II Level: 10-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Prerequisite: Dance Performance I & Level: 11-12 II Prerequisites: Dance Choreography Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4142 I & II AND Audition Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4146 This course is designed to continue Course Description: development and application of ballet, This course is designed to continue the modern, jazz, and tap techniques, advanced development of ballet, concepts, and terminology. modern, jazz and tap techniques. This Intermediate choreographic elements course includes the study dance and principles will be studied. Students anatomy, dance nutrition, the elements will create and perform original of dance choreography as well as choreography. They will participate in a advanced dance terminology. Students concert performance as a culminating will create and perform original activity at the end of the course. choreography. This course provides for Student choreography will be more performance opportunities at school and in the community. They will
create characters through scripted and will be held outside the school day. improvised activities. More in-depth Field trip expenses vary. THEATRE practice will be done with the voice All theater courses meet the Fine including articulation, enunciation, Penn# 0347/0348 Arts requirement of the Core 40 volume, stress, speed, pitch, inflection, TECHNICAL THEATRE I & II Diploma with Academic Honors and intonation. Acting theory and script Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade analysis will be explored and put to use Level: 9-12 Penn# 0343/0344 in the performance of monologues, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4244 THEATRE ARTS I & II scenes and plays. Study will also Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade include theatre history, the audition This course is for students who want to Level: 9-12 process, and career opportunities learn about the many technical aspects Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4242 within the theatre world. Students will of play production. Instruction will Course Description: complete a written evaluation of a live combine technical theatre theories of This course is for students who want theatre performance using design, construction, operation, and an introduction to theatre through predetermined criteria. Students safety. Students will have opportunities acting and performance. Areas of study collaborate with Advanced Acting to develop skills with scenery, lighting, will include voice and diction, students to put on a production. sound, properties, costumes, and observation, pantomime, improvisation Required audition, rehearsals, or make-up. Study will include script and character development. Student performances may be held outside of analysis and the evaluation of live activities will include daily theatre the school day. Field Trip expenses theatre. Career opportunities in games, vocal and physical warm-ups. may vary. technical theatre arts will be explored. Students will learn to create characters In addition to class time, students will through the use of movement, Penn# 0383/0384 be required to participate in some out gestures, facial expression, and ADVANCED ACTING I & II of class projects. Field trip expenses language in improvised and scripted Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade vary. activities. Some study of early theatre Level: 11-12 history and Shakespeare will provide Prerequisites: Advanced Theater Penn# 0381/0382 students with a historical and cultural Arts I & II ADVANCED TECHNICAL THEATRE I context. Performance evaluations will Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4250 & II be required in class. Written evaluation Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade of a live performance will be required. Students enrolled in Advanced Acting Level: 10-12 Field trip expenses may vary. Required will be cast in productions performed to Prerequisite: Technical Theatre I & II audition, rehearsals, or performances meet educational needs of students in Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4252 may be held outside of the school day. other classes and at other grades and Course Description: also be performed for the general Students enrolled in Technical Theatre Penn# 0345/0346 public. Students will research, create, will actively lead and supervise in the ADVANCED and perform characters through script process of designing, building, THEATER ARTS I & II analysis, observation, collaboration and managing, programming, drafting and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade rehearsal. These Activities will implementing the technical aspects of a Level: 10-12 incorporate elements of theater history, production. These activities will Prerequisite: Theatre Arts I & II culture, analysis, response, creative incorporate elements of theatre history, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4240 process and integrated studies. culture, analysis, aesthetic response, Course Description: Additionally, students explore career creative process and integrated This course is for students who want a opportunities in the theater by studies. Additionally, students deeper knowledge of acting and attending plays, meeting actors and investigate technical theatre careers, performance. Students will practice discussing their work, and becoming and develop a plan for potential using the voice, body and mind to theatre patrons in their communities. employment or further education Required rehearsals and performances through audition, interview or presentation of a portfolio. Students also attend and critique theatrical productions and serve on production crews. Field trip expenses vary.
Penn# 1864 (1860 -0 credit) THEATRE INTERNSHIP (WBL) Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Course Description: This internship focuses on theatre management, giving students hands-on experience maintaining and preparing both a proscenium stage theatre and a black box theatre. Students will learn how to do basic maintenance with audio and visual cables, hang and focus lighting equipment, place and route sound on stage, troubleshoot control surfaces, build sets, and learn the inner workings of a theatre.
This class will offer a set routine that ELECTIVE PHYSICAL will encompass total-body muscle EDUCATION COURSES fitness, as well as cardiovascular PHYSICAL EDUCATION & fitness. Students will utilize muscle Classes in Advanced PE can be fitness and cardiovascular machines HEALTH DEVELOPMENT taken a second time for credit. (no free weights). Students proper Students need to be in good work habits and good time FITNESS: Mind~Body~Academics standing for dress and management skills. Correct technique participation, receiving A or B in for weight training will be introduced PHYSICAL EDUCATION (9) the course the first time. Teacher and implemented by all students, discretion can be implemented. whether beginners or experienced Penn# 0501/0502 lifters. Throughout the semester PHYSICAL EDUCATION I & II students will gain an understanding of Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Penn# 0537/0538 (for credit) how to develop each muscle group, Level: 9 0551/0552 (for no credit) how to maximize workout benefits, how Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3542 & 3544 ) 0525/0526 (“0”Hour) to monitor and assess progress, and Course Description: 0529/0530 (Football) how to achieve personal goals. Near Required attire: Gold shirt & Black 0555/0556 (PE-9) the end of the semester, students will shorts. Secondary Physical Education PHYSICAL CONDITIONING determine and utilize their own muscle I & II are based on health-related Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 fitness routine. fitness and developing the skills and Grade Level: 9-12 To take course a second time: student habits necessary for a lifetime of Prerequisite: Desire to tryout and/or must have earned an “A” or “B” in activity. This course includes the five participate on a Penn athletic team Fitness I the first time. components of physical fitness. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 Activities such as aerobic activity, Course Description: Penn# 0509 AND/OR 0510 aquatics, team sports, recreational This is a performance based class and FITNESS II sports, individual and dual sports will participants will be expected to work Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 be used to create an interest in through a prescribed workout under the Grade Level: 11-12 developing and maintaining physical guidance of a Certified Strength and Prerequisite: B or better in Fitness I fitness. Students will evaluate their Conditioning Coach. Student-athletes OR teacher approval own fitness level through a fitness will learn a variety of techniques that Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 assessment fall and winter. Students can be used to improve all aspects of Course Description: will complete nutrition, fitness and physical fitness and performance. This will be a continuation of skills wellness through interactive physical Students will explore how to improve learned in Fitness I, new individualized education in a blended learning upper, lower, and core body flexibility, programs, continued learning of muscle environment. Vital knowledge will be strength and power. They will work on groups and workouts to aid in lifetime conveyed through this learning to stay ways to improve agility, speed, and fitness. The course will offer individualized programs for physical fit, healthy and happy while creating nutrition. extended opportunities in class for improvement. Correct techniques for use of weights and three different participation. Penn# 0505 AND/OR 0506 programs for weight training will be FITNESS I introduced and implemented. An Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 individualized program will be set up to Grade Level: 10-12 meet each student's needs. Machine Prerequisite: B or better in Physical weights and cardiovascular machines Education I & II OR teacher approval will be utilized, not free weights. To Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 take course a second time: student Course Description: must have earned an “A” or “B” in retrieve three diving rings placed 5 yds Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 Fitness II the first time. apart in 4-7 fee of water; resurface; and Course Description: swim 5 yds to the side of pool. This Swim Test includes: 4 laps of pool, Penn# 0533 AND/OR 0534 course provides participants with the Tread water for 5 minutes, Comfortable XFIT knowledge, skill, and practice needed swimming in deep water for long Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 to become well-trained and effective periods of time. Water Activities is a Grade Level: 10-12 lifeguards at pools and at a waterfront one-semester course where students Prerequisites: B or better in environment. Certificates are given. may enhance their physical fitness Physical Education I & II OR teacher through water related activities. approval Penn# 1858 (1857 0 credit) Students use their swimming ability to Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 PENN LIFEGUARD INTERNSHIP play a variety of water games and team Course Description: (WBL) challenges such as water polo, ultimate XFIT is a strength and conditioning Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 torpedo, water basketball, diving board program. It is not sport specific and Grade Level: 11-12 games and water soccer. Students promotes general overall physical Prerequisite: Waterfront lifeguard have the opportunity to be introduced fitness. XFit workouts call for certification, CPR for the to scuba diving and experience an participants to work hard and fast with professional lifeguard certification, actual dive in the pool. Students will little rest. Competence will be required first aid certification, AED create and present their own pool in cardiovascular/respiratory certification. game. endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 power, speed, agility, balance, Course Description: Penn# 0507 AND/OR 0508 (Coed) coordination and accuracy. A This course is intended to help develop 0547 AND/OR 0548 (Girls) combination of athletic conditioning, strong skills and work ethic in student ADVANCED TEAM SPORTS plyometrics, Olympic weightlifting, lifeguards. Students will be responsible Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 medicine ball and dumbbell training, for ensuring the safety of facility Grade Level: 10-12 some swimming is possible, body patrons by preventing and responding Prerequisite: Physical Education I & weight movements, running and jump to emergencies. Students will perform II roping will be used. The workouts are lifeguard surveillance, rescue Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 always varied. Application must be techniques, emergency preparations, Course Description: filled out and approved by teacher in and head, neck and back management Advanced Team Sports promotes order to take XFit twice. skills. Students will perform various lifelong physical activity through team maintenance duties to meet class sports. Students will incorporate daily Penn# 0513 AND/OR 0514 standards and the duties of a lifeguard. fitness into a lifetime routine. This LIFEGUARD TRAINING Students will also be expected to elective will feature advanced Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 participate in mandatory in-service fundamentals, techniques, and Grade Level: 10-12 training. Student interns will be highly strategies of the following activities: Prerequisite: B or better in Physical recommended for paid lifeguard softball, tennis, flag football, ultimate Education I & II AND Pass Swim Test positions through Penn High School frisbee, indoor soccer, volleyball, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 Aquatics. basketball, and recreational sports. Course Description: To take a course a second time: Swim Test consists of: 550 yard swim Penn# 0521 AND/OR 0522 student must have earned an “A” or “B” including breaststroke & front crawl WATER ACTIVITIES in ATS the first time. with rhythmic breathing, swim 20 yds., Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 **We do offer a female section as well surface dive to a depth of 7 ft., retrieve Grade Level: 10-12 as the coed option. a 10 lb. object, return to surface, and Prerequisite: Physical Education I & swim 20 yds. back to the starting point, II AND Pass Swim test OR Case exit without ladder ( 1 minute, 40 Conference Committee seconds). Swim 5 yds; submerge and recommendation Penn# 0541 AND/OR 0542 is a lifetime commitment by analyzing taping technique labs and modality BASKETBALL-Recreational individual risk factors and health use. Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 decisions that promote health and Grade Level: 11-12 prevent disease. A variety of Penn# 0557 Prerequisite: B or better in Physical instructional strategies and current HEALTH SCIENCE Education I & II OR teacher approval events will bring this course to life. EDUCATION II: ATHLETIC Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3560 Peer class discussions also make this TRAINING 2 Semesters 2 Credits Course Description: a don't miss class. Grades: 11-12 This one semester course is designed Prerequisite: Health to meet the fitness needs of both boys Penn# 0517 OR 0518 Science Education I and girls who want to use the sport of ADVANCED HEALTH EDUCATION Weight: 4.0 DOE # 5290 basketball for cardiovascular exercise. Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 COURSE DESCRIPTION: Extended With the class focus on basketball Grade Level: 10-12 laboratory experience at a qualified game play, students will use half of the Prerequisite: Health & Wellness clinical site designed for students to daily class time in half court 5 on 5 Education assume the role of a student athletic competition and the other half of class Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3500 trainer assistant and practice using the on full court 5 on 5 competition. All Course Description: technical skills and information students will demonstrate basketball Advanced Health Education is a health previously learned in the classroom. game play knowledge and take turns elective course for those students who This course prepares students with the with officiating responsibilities of the full may be interested in a health related knowledge, skills and attitude essential court game. Daily sportsmanship is career. Students will study the history for providing basic care under the required. Course can only be taken one of medicine, systems of the body, direction of licensed Athletic Trainers. time each semester. bones and muscles, CPR, Torts, risk appraisals and current health trends. Penn# 0559 Careers in health are researched, HEALTH SCIENCE HEALTH explored and job shadowed. Canvas EDUCATION II: PHYSICAL work and job interviews are also THERAPY 2 Semesters 2 Credits Penn# 0515 OR 0516 included. Grades: 11-12 HEALTH & WELLNESS EDUCATION Prerequisite: Health Science Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Penn# 0535 Education I Grade Level: 10 HEALTH SCIENCE EDUCATION I Counts as 3rd science course Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3506 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 4.0 DOE # 5215 Course Description: Grade Level: 10-12 COURSE DESCRIPTION: Extended All things talked about in Health apply Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5282 laboratory experience at a qualified to everyday life, now and forever. Course Description: clinical site designed for students to Health Education is designed to foster Physical Therapy/Athletic Training. assume the role of a physical therapy knowledge and attitudes leading to Health Science Education I is a course assistant and practice using the wellness and healthy lifestyles choices. designed to provide a foundation of technical skills and information This course includes wellness, mental skill development to health careers. previously learned in the classroom. health and mental illness, stress Students will receive an introduction to This course prepares students with the management, CPR, dating relationships healthcare systems, anatomy, knowledge, skills and attitude essential (including dating violence), human physiology and medical terminology. for providing basic care under the sexuality, pregnancy and sexually Laboratory experiences are organized direction of licensed Physical transmitted infections, suicide, and planned around the activities Therapists. nutrition, and drug and alcohol associated with the student's career education, including prescription drugs objectives. This course will include and vaping. This course assists CPR/AED/First Aid Certification and students in understanding that health
SOCIAL SCIENCES developments in the arts, religion, and evolution. Students will develop and social life. hone critical writing, reading, and thinking skills throughout the course as Penn# 1165 Penn# 1137 they examine America from the late AP® EUROPEAN HISTORY AP® HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 19th century to the start of the 21st. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Geography and History Prerequisites: Geography and of the World History of the World Penn# 1131 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1572 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1556 AP® U.S. HISTORY Course Description: Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 The purpose of this course is to In AP European History, students Grade Level: 11 introduce students to the systematic investigate significant events, Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1562 study of patterns and processes that individuals, developments, and Course Description: have shaped human understanding, processes from approximately 1450 to Advanced Placement® United States use, and alteration of the Earth’s the present. Students develop and use History provides students with the surface. Students employ spatial the same skills, practices, and methods equivalent of a college-level survey of concepts and landscape analysis to employed by historians: analyzing United States history from the Age of analyze human social organization and primary and secondary sources; Exploration to the present. The course its environmental consequences. They developing historical arguments; emphasizes in-class essays and also learn about the methods and tools making historical connections; and document-based writings to assess geographers use in their science and utilizing reasoning about comparison, student understanding. practice. All students enrolled in this causation, and continuity and change over time. European History takes course will take the AP® Human Penn# 1157/1158 several field trips per year in order to Geography exam in the spring. ACP U.S. HISTORY study different art movements. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Penn# 1103 Grade Level: 11 WORLD HISTORY AND Penn# 1109 Prerequisite: Must meet I.U. CIVILIZATION U.S. HISTORY admissions requirement Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1542 Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 11 IU- HIST-H 105 American History I / Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1548 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1542 HIST-H 106 American History II Course Description: Course Description: College Credits: 6 This course is designed to give a This course examines the American Course Description: panorama of history from earliest times experience through a thematic This is a college course designed for to 1900. It covers the traditional approach of America's political, social, capable juniors who meet the societies of the West, Asia, and Africa. and economic history. The objective standards of academic rigors and The course is designed to show the will be to investigate what is the success equaling those of a college continuity of history; forces and ideas American experience and its constant freshman. Although this course is that have shaped history; and offered to meet Indiana’s state standards for US History credit, its This is a college course designed for Grade Level: 11-12 applicants must meet guidelines capable juniors who meet the Prerequisite: AP® Human prescribed by Indiana University. standards of academic rigors and Geography Students will earn six credit hours that success equaling those of a college Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1550 are accepted at not only Indiana freshman. Students will receive 2 HS Course Description: University, but all other state schools Credits in English 11 Honors & 2 HS GIS- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION as well as over 700 colleges and Credits in ACP US History. Although SYSTEMS. This course is designed to universities across the country. The this course is offered to meet Indiana’s introduce students to various GIS student will be awarded a weighted state standards for US History credit, technologies. Students will be made grade for this course. The course will its applicants must meet guidelines aware of career opportunities in this focus on various themes beginning with prescribed by Indiana University. field and be provided with the skills the age of exploration and continuing Students will earn six credit hours that necessary to pursue further study and through the Reagan presidency. are accepted at not only Indiana employment in the areas of Students will focus on these themes University, but all other state schools development and utilization of GIS. through various strategies including as well as over 700 colleges and With these goals in mind, students will reading primary and secondary universities across the country. The use computer applications such as sources, and historical writing projects student will be awarded a weighted Google Earth and ArcGIS software to and presentations. ACP United States grade for the history portion of the complete modules designed to help History is a course that allows students class. The course will focus on various them understand, analyze, and an in-depth study of the history of our themes beginning with the age of interpret information from GIS maps. great nation. Students are awarded exploration and continuing through the Furthermore, this course will aid the three credit hours per semester for Reagan presidency. Students will development of problem solving, data earning a C or better. Students must focus on these themes through various analysis, interpretation of spatial meet admission requirements to attend strategies including reading primary relationships as well as gaining Indiana University if they are taking the and secondary sources, and historical empathy for the geography of the course for I.U. credit. Students enrolled writing projects and presentations. student’s surroundings, as well as in ACP US History for IU credit must ACP United States History is a course aspects of globalization. pay the additional hourly fee assessed that allows students an in-depth study by Indiana University to cover the cost of the history of our great nation. Penn# 1167/1168 of six credit hours. Students receiving Students are awarded three credit free and reduced lunches can have this hours per semester for earning a C or IVY TECH U.S. HISTORY fee waived. See the ACP US History better. Students must meet admission Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 instructor for more details. requirements to attend Indiana Grade Level: 11 University if they are taking the course Weight: 4.5 DOE# 1542 for I.U. credit. The course will also HIST 101 Survey of American Penn# 1179/0320 develop students’ skills in writing, History I / HIST 102 Survey of ACP US HISTORY and ENGLISH 11 critical thinking, literary analysis, and American History II HONORS SEMINAR WITH 1182 close reading. Texts that support the College Credits: 6 Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 historical context will be explored Course Description: Grade Level: 11 including poetry, short stories, novels, HIST 101, SURVEY OF AMERICAN Prerequisite: English 10 AND meet etc. Students will be asked to work HISTORY I - Covers major themes and I.U. admissions requirements individually as well as collaboratively events in history including exploration 6 college credits throughout the year. of the New World; the colonial period; Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1542/1006 causes and results of the American IU- HIST-H 105 American History I / Revolution; the development of the HIST-H 106 American History I Penn# 1141 OR 1142 federal system of government; the Course Description: INTRODUCTION TO GIS growth of democracy; early popular Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 American culture; territorial expansion; slavery and its effect; reform providing students with the opportunity organizations, political science movements, sectionalism; causes and to further develop both their practical, research, and text. effects of the Civil War. problem-solving skills and their HIST 102, SURVEY OF AMERICAN analytical skills. Finally, students will Penn# 1138 HISTORY II - Covers major themes redefine their ability to respond to AP® U.S. GOVERNMENT & including the post-Civil War period, nonfiction texts with fluency, clarity, and western expansion, industrial growth of accuracy. Students who enroll in this POLITICS the nation and its effects, immigration course must possess strong writing Semesters: 1 (2nd sem. only) and urban discontent and attempts at and critical thinking skills as Credits: 1 reform, World War I, the Roaring demonstrated by their work in previous Grade Level: 12 Twenties, social and governmental English and Social Studies classes. Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1560 changes of the thirties, World War II Course Description: and its consequences, the growth of AP® U.S. Government and Politics Penn# 1115 OR 1116 the federal government, social provides a college-level, non partisan U.S. GOVERNMENT upheaval in the sixties and seventies, introduction to key political concepts, Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 and recent trends in conservatism, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, Grade Level: 12 globalization, and cultural diversity. roles, and behaviors that characterize Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1540 the constitutional system and political Course Description: culture of the United States. Students United States Government provides a will study U.S. foundational documents, Penn# 1161 / 0327 framework for understanding the Supreme Court decisions, and other AP® US HISTORY/ purposes, principles, and practices of texts and visuals to gain an AP® ENGLISH LANGUAGE & constitutional representative understanding of the relationships and COMPOSITION SEMINAR democracy in the United States. interactions among political institutions, Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 Responsible and effective participation processes, and behaviors. They will Grade Level: 11 of citizens is stressed. Students will also engage in disciplinary practices (The seminar will be taught in a understand the nature of citizenship, that require them to read and interpret 2-period block.) politics, and government and data, make comparisons and Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1562/1056 understand the rights and applications, and develop Course Description: responsibilities of citizens and how evidence-based arguments. In addition, Students will receive 2 HS Credits in these are part of United States students will complete a political US History & 2 HS Credits in government. Students will examine science research or applied civics English. Enrollment in AP® how the United States Constitution project. The required project adds a protects rights and provides the Language/AP® U.S. History Seminar civic component to the course, structure and functions of various signals a decision to begin studying engaging students in exploring how levels of government. Using primary language and history at the college they can affect, and are affected by, and secondary resources, students will level. Advanced Placement® courses government and politics throughout articulate, evaluate, and defend are modeled after college freshman their lives. positions on political issues and events. courses and are designed for As a result, they will be able to explain motivated students who have the the role of individuals and groups in desire and determination to gain government, political, and civic Penn# 1139 Advanced Placement® credit while still activities and the need for civic and ACP POLITICAL SCIENCE in High School. This seminar will political engagement of citizens in the IU- POLS-Y 103 Introduction to integrate literature with history and will United States. Students will examine a American Politics encompass history and literature from variety of literary resources throughout Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 the Age of Exploration to present-day the semester from reputable news Grade Level: 12 America. In addition, the course will emphasize collaborative learning, Prerequisite: Meet IU admission of government in promoting greater Penn# 1121 OR 1122 requirements efficiency and equity in the economy. ECONOMICS College credits: 3 There are two AP® tests associated Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1540 with this course. Grade Level: 12 Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1514 ACP Political Science is a 100 level Penn# 1183 Course Description: college course designed for capable ACP MICROECONOMICS Economics is a one-semester course of seniors who meet the standards of 1 Semester 1 Credit study required for graduation. This academic rigors and success equaling Grade: 11-12 course is designed to acquaint those of a college freshman. Although Weight 5.0 DOE# 1514 students with the basic principles of IU Credit given this course is offered to meet Indiana’s theory and application. This course of This is a Quantitative state standards for U.S. Government study is designed to increase the Reasoning course credit, its applicants must meet student's understanding of different Course Description: guidelines prescribed by Indiana ACP Microeconomics - This classifications of economic University. In this college course course will focus on scarcity, organization; the market system and its students are invited to share the view opportunity cost, competitive functions of production; distribution; of the political science researcher and non-competitive market and consumption; the general business looking into the microscope. What pricing, and interdependence cycle; and the role of government, as an analytical core. makes citizens tick? How do they make labor, business, consumers, banking Individual sections apply this decisions? How do people organize and credit in the economy. core to a variety of current themselves and express their various economic policy problems, interests? How do they decide what such as poverty, pollution, role government ought to play in their excise taxes, rent controls, lives, and what happens if they and farm subsidies. Students disagree about such fundamental Penn# 1123/1124 are awarded three credit hours for earning a C or issues? Do people make rational AP® MACRO & MICRO ECONOMICS better. Students must meet decisions when they vote? What does Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 admission requirements to it mean to be rational? Does the Grade Level: 11-12 attend Indiana University if democratic process "work"? The Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1564/1566 they are taking the course for course will employ a blended learning Course Description: I.U. credit. format. IU will provide content via video AP® Economics is a two-semester lectures and unit exams. The course of study which fulfills the Penn# 1185 classroom teacher will provide economic graduation requirement. This pedagogical support to facilitate the ACP MACROECONOMIC course in Macroeconomics and 1 Semester 1 Credit application, analysis, and evaluation of Microeconomics is designed to give Grade: 11-12 the content prescribed by I.U. NOTE: students a thorough understanding of Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1514 Students are awarded three credit the principles of economics. In IU Credit given hours per semester and a weighted Macroeconomics students will learn to This is a Quantitative grade for earning a C or better. measure economic performance, Reasoning course Course Description: Students must pay the additional hourly national income, price determination, ACP Macroeconomics - This fee assessed by Indiana University to the financial sector, inflation, cover the cost of three credit hours. course is focused on measuring and unemployment, stabilization policies, explaining aggregate economic Students receiving free and reduced economic growth, and international performance, money, monetary lunches can have this fee waived. See trade and finance. In Microeconomics policy, and fiscal policy as an the ACP Political Science instructor for the primary emphasis is on the nature analytical core. Individual sections more details. and functions of product markets and apply this core to a variety of current the study of factor markets and the role economic policy problems, such as inflation, unemployment, and economic growth. Students are female students participate in class This course includes an in-depth study awarded three credit hours for discussions differently? Do students of of (1) the concept of happiness (2) the earning a C or better. Students the same ethnicity always sit together cultural differences of happiness (3) must meet admission requirements in the high school cafeteria? Why does researched techniques connected with to attend Indiana University if they the youngest child always seem to get happiness (4) the linguistics of are taking the course for I.U. credit. away with everything? Sociology has emotion (5) brain research (6) the role answers to all of these questions. The of creativity in happiness (7) the role of goal of this course is to help you philosophy and religion in happiness. Penn# 1125 OR 1126 develop your sociological imagination. This course covers Indiana State PSYCHOLOGY It is to learn to see the world around Standards for psychology and Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 you sociologically and to give tools and sociology. Grade Level: 10-12 concepts to help you analyze what you see. This course is organized around a Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1532 Penn# 1153 OR 1154 series of hands-on, and in-class Course Description: ANTHROPOLOGY exercises. Each is designed to Have you ever wondered why people Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 introduce students to a different act differently in a crowd compared to Grade Level: 10-12 sub-field, to familiarize you with by themselves? Have you ever tried to Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1502 different analytical techniques, and to figure out what is the best environment Course Description: learn new theories and concepts. In for studying in or how someone that Anthropology gives students this class, you will work individually, in seems so happy could have perspectives concerning patterns of pairs, and in small groups. depression? Psychology, the scientific culture among people. The course study of human behavior, provides an introduces the anthropologist’s Penn# 1609 opportunity for students to gain insights processes of observing and analyzing TOPICS in PSYCHOLOGY: The into behavior patterns and our human behavior. Topics studied include SCIENCE of HAPPINESS adjustments to social environments. (1)theories and principles of cultural Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 The course will help students in gaining formation, growth, function, and Grade Level: 10-12 a better understanding of themselves change; (2) the relationship of culture Weight: 4.0 DOE# 0514 as well as others as it considers such to environment; and (3) the relationship Course Description: topics as: group behavior, the effects of between cultural background and This course, based on Berkley’s “The sleep and drugs, human development behavior. over the course of a life span, memory Science of Happiness” course and Harvard’s most popular course “The and abnormal psychology. This class Penn# 1180 Psychology of Happiness” provides for will be largely project based and ETHNIC STUDIES the study of the psychology and assess students as they learn to do the Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 science of happiness. This course work of Psychologists. Grade Level: 9-12 provides students the opportunity to Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1516 study researched methods of Penn# 1127 OR 1128 Course Description: happiness and practice those methods, SOCIOLOGY Ethnic Studies provides opportunities engaging in personal and primary Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 to broaden students’ perspectives research of what works. Additionally, to Grade Level: 10-12 concerning lifestyles and cultural embrace the most complete set of skills Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1534 patterns of ethnic groups in the United possible, students will study the cultural Course Description: States. This course will either focus on concepts of the good life, the linguistics If you have ever thought about why is a particular ethnic group or groups, or of emotional health. Finally, students society this way, how did we get this use a comparative approach to the will engage in both primary and way, and how do I fit in, then this study of patterns of cultural secondary research to create a course is for you. We will examine development, immigration, and comprehensive plan of action to move topics such as: Why do male and assimilation, as well as the forward in life with purpose and joy. contributions of specific ethnic or cultural groups. The course may also include analysis of the political impact of ethnic diversity in the United States.
Penn# 1181 INDIANA STUDIES Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade Level: 9-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1518 Course Description: Indiana Studies is an integrated course that compares and contrasts state and national developments in the areas of politics, economics, history, and culture. The course uses Indiana history as a basis for understanding current policies, practices, and state legislative procedures. It also includes the study of state and national constitutions from a historical perspective and as a current foundation of government. Examination of individual leaders and their roles in a democratic society will be included and students will examine the participation of citizens in the political process. Selections from Indiana arts and literature may also be analyzed for insights into historical events and cultural expressions. HEALTH & HUMAN Penn# 1151 OR 1152 Major issues facing America and the CITIZENSHIP AND CIVICS world are the focus of the course: for SERVICES ACADEMY Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 example, the economy, constitutional Grade Level: 9-12 questions, energy policy, the CAPSTONE COURSE: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1508 environment, poverty, education, Course Description: defense, foreign affairs, terrorism, and Penn# 1171/1172 Citizenship & Civics is an overview of trade. The course will examine both SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIOLOGY & citizenship roles and responsibilities events in the daily news and ongoing ANTHROPOLOGY designed to help students become current issues. Students will read about Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 independent thinkers and topics, view special news programs, Grade Level: 12 conscientious citizens. This course and discuss the issues that arise from Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1534/1502 deals with political trends and behavior these activities. Group projects, written Course Description: which citizens consider relevant to the analysis, and oral reports will also be Students will receive 1 HS Credit in most pressing issues of the day. required. Text covering various topics, Sociology & 1 HS Credit in as well as history textbooks, Anthropology. Gandhi said, “Be the magazines and newspaper articles, Penn# 1135 change you wish to see in the world” as television programs, and the IMC will AP® PSYCHOLOGY he recognized the need to improve the all serve as main sources for study. world in which he lived. Social justice Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 provides this opportunity to look at Grade Level: 11-12 Penn# 1155 social and cultural issues locally, Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1558 nationally, and globally. Sociology will Course Description: AP® COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT focus on the society in which we live by This college-level course is designed & POLITICS examining topics such as inequalities for qualified students who wish to Semesters: 1 (2nd Sem. only) of race and ethnicity, gender and age, complete studies in secondary school Credits: 1 social status, and culture. The course equivalent to a college psychology Grade Level: 12 expands beyond the United States to introductory course. This course Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1552 look at anthropology, the science of introduces students to the systematic Course Description: humankind. Specific focus will be put and scientific study of the behavior and The AP® course in Comparative on culture including education, mental processes of human beings and Government and Politics introduces political/economic institutions, religion, other animals. Students are exposed to students to fundamental concepts used and family. Various traditions, beliefs, the psychological facts, principles, and by political scientists to study the values, social institutions, art, and the phenomena associated with each of processes and outcomes of politics in a impact of humans on other humans will the major subfields within psychology. variety of country settings. The course be considered. During the duration of Students will be able to understand aims to illustrate the rich diversity of the course students are required to go psychological principles and be able to political life, to show available outside of the classroom and do as apply them to their daily lives and the institutional alternatives, to explain Gandhi said by providing service to real world. differences in processes and policy others. An intricate element of the outcomes, and to communicate to course is to apply the knowledge students the importance of global political and economic changes. In learned in class to others locally, Penn# 1129 OR 1130 addition to covering the major concepts nationally, and globally through service CURRENT PROBLEMS, ISSUES, that are used to organize and interpret learning. AND EVENTS what we know about political Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 phenomena and relationships, the Grade Level: 10-12 course should cover specific countries Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1512 and their governments. Six countries Course Description: form the core of the AP® Comparative Government and Politics course: The AP® course in Comparative China, Great Britain, Iran, Mexico, Government and Politics/Current Nigeria, and Russia. By using these Issues introduces students to six countries, the course can move the fundamental concepts used by political discussion of concepts from abstract scientists to study the processes and definition to concrete example, noting outcomes of politics in a variety of that not all concepts will be equally country settings. This course will also useful in all country settings. This provide students an opportunity to course does not fulfill US Govt observe the social life through the requirement. media. The course aims to illustrate the rich diversity of political life, to show available institutional alternatives, to Penn# 1175 OR 1176 explain differences in processes and LAW EDUCATION policy outcomes, and to communicate Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 to students the importance of global Grade Level: 11-12 political and economic changes. In Prerequisite: US Government or addition to covering the major concepts approval that are used to organize and interpret Weight: 4.0 DOE# 1526 what we know about political Course Description: phenomena and relationships, the Law Education provides an course should cover specific countries understanding of the American legal and their governments. Six countries system and its basis in the United form the core of the AP® Comparative States Constitution. The course is Government and Politics course: designed to promote an understanding China, Great Britain, Iran, Mexico, of society and its system of laws by Nigeria, and Russia.1 By using these indicating how citizens may effectively six countries, the course can move the function within the law. Units of study discussion of concepts from abstract will include Constitutional law, criminal definition to concrete example, noting law, and civil law. Ways of dealing with that not all concepts will be equally interpersonal conflict in order to secure useful in all country settings. This constructive change are included, course does not fulfill US Govt along with the development of critical requirement. thinking and problem solving skills. Case studies, field trips, simulations, and mock trials will be used in this course whenever feasible.
Penn# 1177 AP® COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 2 Semesters 2 Credits Grades: 10-12 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 1552 Course Description:
a toddler/parent experience (1 - 3 year preventing divorce, and how to olds) and play school program (3 - 4 handle family crises effectively are FAMILY AND CONSUMER year olds). also studied. SCIENCE EDUCATION Penn# 1005 Penn# 1001 OR 1024 Penn# 1017 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION II HUMAN AND SOCIAL SERVICES I INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade Level: 10-12 Grades: 11-12 Grade Level: 9-12 Prerequisite: Early Childhood Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5336 Counts as Health & Wellness Education I Course Description: requirement with 2 other courses Double block class- 1 period daily An introductory/exploratory course Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5364 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5406 for students interested in careers in human and community services and Course Description: Course Description: This is an introductory course that is other helping professions. Areas of This course emphasizes the exploration include family and social especially relevant for students developmental stages of children services, youth development, and interested in careers that involve beginning with the pre-school child. adult and elder care, and other interacting and working with people. It Emphasis is placed on designing and for-profit and non-profit services. is also valuable for all students, as it implementing learning activities for provides everyday life and children preparing to enter communication skills. Topics covered kindergarten. Laboratory experiences Penn# 1012 include personality, positive character are divided between a pre-school INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING AND traits, heredity and your environment. located in Penn High School and INTERIOR DESIGN Students will gain skills and knowledge elementary school experiences. Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 as it pertains to building positive and Students intern in elementary schools Grade Level: 10-12 productive relationships in various more than 60 hours. Penn’s Counts as Fine Arts requirement for aspects of life, such as career, Playschool 2 offers an additional 60+ Academic Honors diploma community and various relationships. hours of work with pre-school age Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5350 Other main topics include positive children. This is an excellent course Course Description: communication skills, conflict for students with interest in education This introductory course is essential for prevention and resolution, as well as and related career paths. students interested in academic digital responsibility. enrichment or a career within the housing, interior design, or furnishings Penn# 1003 OR 1022 industry. The class focuses on several Penn# 1023 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND aspects of the home, primarily its EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION I WELLNESS interior environment. Units of study Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 include architectural styles, universal Grade Level: 9-12 Grades: 10-12 design, with a strong emphasis placed Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5412 Counts as Health & Wellness on the Elements of Design, Color, and requirement with 2 other courses Course Description: the Principles of Design. Students will Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5366 This course is designed to explore the Course Description: create and design their own room stages of a child's development from This course is designed to help based on the concepts learned in conception through childhood. It guide the student in making family class. includes a study of the responsibilities and life decisions currently and in and decisions involved in effective the future. Changing roles in society parenting. Emphasis is given to the and relationships with others are physical, emotional, intellectual and examined with emphasis on preparation for marriage. The social growth of the child. Student responsibilities of family members, directed learning opportunities include preventing problems in marriage, Penn# 1011 OR 1014 Prerequisite: Culinary Arts & Course Description:culinary ADULT ROLES AND Hospitality I Sewing. Fashion and Textiles Careers RESPONSIBILITIES Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5346 prepares students for occupations and Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Course Description: higher education programs of study Grade Level: 10-12 In this course, students will continue to related to fashion, apparel, and other Counts as Health & Wellness expand their culinary skills with both textiles management, production, and requirement with 2 other course s cooking and baking. They will explore services. Extensive sewing and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5330 various careers in the food industry as tailoring is included in this higher level. Course Description: well as study global cuisine and Expect to sew daily and to purchase This course is structured to provide a prepare several dishes from a variety required tools, fabric and notions for practical study of the decisions of countries. Additional units include projects. necessary for learning to live menu planning and catering. independently. It primarily focuses on Penn# 1029 making decisions pertaining to areas FASHION & TEXTILES such as post-secondary education, Penn# 1025 CAREERS II career exploration, financial literacy, INTRODUCTION TO FASHION Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 housing, and being a wise consumer. & TEXTILES Grade Level: 11-12 The financial unit places an emphasis Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Prerequisite: Fashion & Textiles on savings, checking, budgeting and Grade Level: 9-12 Careers I wise use of credit. Counts as a fine arts requirement Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5421 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5380 Course Description: Penn# 1007 Course Description: This is a specialized marketing course CULINARY ARTS & HOSPITALITY I Sewing. This course has a providing instruction in the marketing of Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 project-based approach that integrates apparel and accessories of all kinds. Grade Level: 9-12 instruction and laboratory experiences Emphasis is placed on oral and written Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5440 including application of selection, communications, problem solving and Course Description: production, alteration, repair, and critical thinking skills as they relate to Nutrition and Wellness enables maintenance of apparel and textile apparel design, selling, pricing, students to learn the basics of working products. Emphasis on helping the distribution, fashion promotion, visual in the kitchen, with a focus on safety student interpret and follow instructions merchandising, fashion cycles, fashion and sanitation, proper equipment use from commercial patterns to wearable theories, and career opportunities in and following a recipe. It empowers and non-wearable projects is also the fashion industry. Instructional them to apply these skills in their included. This course is hands on strategies may include a school-based everyday lives. This course uses a lab sewing and it will be necessary for the enterprise, computer/technology setting for practical application of food student to complete a minimum of four applications, real and/or simulated preparation. Units of study include projects with supplies purchased by the occupational experiences, and projects yeast breads, fruits, meats, poultry, student. Students provide their own in the marketing functions. cakes, cookies, candies, vegetables, fabric and supplies for projects. pastries, cheese, rice and pasta. Other Penn# 1013 OR 1016 units include regional foods, eggs, INTRODUCTION TO CULINARY quick breads, soups, and food Penn# 1027 ARTS & HOSPITALITY preservation. FASHION & TEXTILES Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 CAREERS I Grade Level: 9-12 Penn# 1009 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5438 CULINARY ARTS & Grade Level: 10-12 Course Description: HOSPITALITY II: Culinary Arts Prerequisite: Introduction to Hospitality Management prepares Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Fashion & Textiles students for employment in the Grade Level: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5420 hospitality industry. It provides the foundations for study that leads to a full spectrum of hospitality careers. This is a broad-based course that introduces students to all segments of hospitality, what it includes, and career opportunities that are available exposes students to current trends and current events within the industry. Some goals of this course are for students to able to: identify current trends in hotel and service industry, distinguish the difference between hospitality and tourism, and understand sales and merchandising from both a tourist and occupational point of view.
BUSINESS- MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS ACADEMY
include experiences in silk screening Penn# 0269 OR 0270 Penn# 0205 and airbrush techniques as well as DIGITAL APPLICATIONS AND COMPUTER ILLUSTRATION AND activities in designing product RESPONSIBILITY GRAPHICS packaging and commercial displays or Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 exhibits. Grade Level: 9-12 Grade Level: 9-12 Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4528 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4516 Penn# 0229 Ivy Tech- CINS 101 Introduction to Course Description: PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING Microcomputers Students are introduced to the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 College Credits: 3 computer's use in visual Grade Level: 9-12 Course Description: communication. The focus of the Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5914 Do you need to brush up on your course is on basic computer Course Description: computer skills? Would you like to be terminology and use, mastering Principles of Marketing take place proficient in Microsoft Office? Look no fundamental skills, and developing every day of your life and in every job further, you can take CINS here at efficient working styles. These skills you will hold. This is a class designed Penn and learn those skills, which will are then developed by creating work to teach students not only about the make you a more competitive person in with imaging, drawing, interactive and various functions of marketing, but also the job market! Students will use page layout software. The course how each function fits with the others. Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access includes organized learning Throughout the course, students will software to create and produce letters, experiences that incorporate a variety learn about marketing in a global tables, reports, graphics applications, of visual art techniques as they relate economy, sports and entertainment spreadsheets, and database projects. to the design and execution of layouts marketing, fashion merchandising, Students will also create projects using and illustrations for advertising, E-commerce, developing a new PowerPoint. Along with the skills displays, promotional materials and product, professionalism, and also will acquired in this course, students will instructional manuals. This course also be able to create an advertising complete a professionalism unit that covers advertising theory and campaign and learn about possible can be incorporated and utilized preparations of copy, lettering, posters, careers in Marketing. Voluntary throughout a student’s high school, vector illustrations, graphics and logos, Membership in a Marketing Club college, and professional experience. and artwork in addition to incorporation (DECA) Not open to students who have taken of photographic images. 2327. Dual credit is available with Communication skills will be Penn# 0255 qualifying scores. emphasized through the study of SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT effective methods used to design MARKETING products that impart information and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 ideas. Advanced instruction might Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisites: Principles of Penn# 0207 OR 0208 Penn# 0211 OR 0212 Marketing PERSONAL FINANCIAL INTRODUCTION TO Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5984 RESPONSIBILITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP Course Description: Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Students taking this course will build Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 10-12 upon their prior knowledge of Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4540 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5967 marketing and learn how to apply it Ivy Tech- BUSN 108 Personal Course Description: directly to sports, recreation and Finance Introduction to Entrepreneurship class entertainment industries. Students will College Credits: 3 here at Penn. Introduction to apply what they are learning directly to Course Description: Entrepreneurship is designed to give marketing sports and entertainment This is a personal finance course that students the skills they need to activities here at Penn High School for introduces students to banks and the effectively plan, market, finance, and a more hands-on learning experience. use of banking services (checking manage a small business. This course Optional participation in the Career and accounts, savings accounts, etc.) It covers topics such as: planning, Technical Student Organization of also introduces students to the world of knowing customers and competitors, DECA will be made available. credit, how to use credit and the actual finding a location, developing a costs of using credit. Students will also marketing plan, small business be introduced to insurance. Students assistance, franchising and finances. will learn about vehicle, banking, Students will create an original business plan throughout the semester Penn# 0233 homes, budget, debt and investments. for the business of their choice. STRATEGIC MARKETING Voluntary Membership in a Marketing Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Club (DECA) Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Principles of Penn# 0237 Marketing or DECA Membership PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5918 MANAGEMENT Penn# 0209 Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 10-12 BUSINESS LAW & ETHICS Recommended for all DECA students. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4562 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 A continuation and expansion on the Course Description: Grade Level: 10-12 Marketing class. In this class we will Principles of Business Management Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4560 explore the marketing mix in more focuses on the roles and Course Description: detail and work with local companies responsibilities of managers as well as Business and Personal Law is a with real marketing problems. Students opportunities and challenges of business course that provides an will be responsible for more hands-on ethically managing a business in the overview of the legal system. Topics projects and critical thinking about free-enterprise system. Students will covered include: Basics of the Law, marketing for businesses, careers in attain an understanding of Contract Law, Employment Law, marketing and how entrepreneurs need management, team building, Personal Law, and Consumer Laws and use marketing. Students will be leadership, problem-solving steps and and Rights. Both criminal and civil trial conducting different forms of marketing processes that contribute to the procedures are presented. research, creating an in-depth achievement of organizational goals. Instructional strategies should include marketing plan for an existing The management of human and mock trials, case studies, field trips, company, and producing effective financial resources is emphasized. guest speakers, and Internet projects. advertising campaigns. Voluntary Membership in a Marketing Club (DECA). Penn# 0235 OR 0236 have the opportunity to interview with a Penn# 1850 INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS local accounting firm for an internship. OFFICE STUDENT INTERNSHIP Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 (WBL) Grade Level: 9-12 Penn# 0215 Semesters: 1 or 2 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4518 ADVANCED ACCOUNTING Credit: 1 per semester of Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 completion A great introductory course for any Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 11-12 students interested in business. This Prerequisite: Introduction to Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 course will briefly cover economics, Accounting Course Description: entrepreneurship, management, Quantitative Reasoning Course Athletic & Student Activity Office, marketing, law, risk management, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4522 Bookstore, Academy Offices, banking, personal finance, and careers Course Description: Counseling Office, IMC, Main Office. in business. The importance and This course is designed for the student Penn High School Office Internships application of business etiquette and who plans to begin work following high provide opportunities for students to ethics are included. Introduction to school graduation or for the student assume office assistant duties and Business will include problem-based who plans to continue his or her responsibilities within the school projects and group work. education beyond high school. building. Students are expected to Students have the opportunity to conduct themselves in accordance with develop employable skills as an a professional office setting. Students Penn# 0213 accounting clerk. Students gain a must report on time, always meet the INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING deeper knowledge of accounting which PHS dress code, must always display Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 is highly useful for those who plan to PHS ID, follow directions from adult Grade Level: 10-12 major in accounting or some other area supervisors, properly greet visitors, and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4524 of business at the college level. The meet all other high school office rules Course Description: student will learn to interpret and and expectations. Specific This course presents the complete analyze all types of financial responsibilities may vary from office to accounting cycle for keeping records statements. Students will obtain a office. Some of the required for both a service-type business and a broad understanding of business responsibilities, for all students, include merchandising business. Instruction is activities and develop decision-making completion of writing assignments, given on the principles and methods of skills. Students will be provided with career research assignments and recording business transactions, the opportunity to apply accounting creating a professional correspondence preparation of financial reports, and practice and theory on automated letter. In order to be one of the office interpretation of records. Other topics computer systems. It provides student interns in Athletics/Student included are petty cash, sales tax, bad knowledge that can be applied in the Activity, Bookstore, Division Offices, debts, depreciation, and notes and workforce or education beyond high Guidance Office, IMC and the Main interest. A practice set is also school. Business software programs Office, students must enroll in course included. Students will find this course such as: Microsoft Excel along with 1850. helpful in keeping business records as QuickBooks will be implemented into well as their own personal financial this course. Course provides students records. It provides knowledge that with advanced accounting knowledge Penn# 0203 OR 0204 can be applied in the workforce or and skills needed for college degrees INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER education beyond high school. The in business. Membership into the SCIENCE (PLTW-CSE) software program Excel is used Accounting Club. Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 throughout the course. Provide Grade Level: 9-10 students with accounting knowledge Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4803 that is essential for any business Course Description: degree or profession. Students will Introduction to Computer Science allows students to explore the world of computer science. Students will gain a applications and games using the broad understanding of the areas programming language, Visual Basic Penn# 0221 composing computer science. 2012. COMPUTER SCIENCE III: Designed to be the first computer PROJECTS, GAMES, & DESIGN science course for students who have Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 never programmed before, Introduction Penn# 0219 Grade Level: 11-12 to Computer Science is a good starting COMPUTER SCIENCE II Prerequisite: Computer point of the Computer Science Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Science II or Teacher Approval Pathway. Students work in teams to Grade Level: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5252 create apps for mobile devices using Prerequisites: Computer Course Description: MIT App Inventor®. They explore the Science I This course is designed for students impact of computing in society and Counts as 3rd science course with a serious interest in computer build skills in digital citizenship and Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5236 science and related career fields. This cyber-security. Beyond learning the Ivy Tech- SDEV 140 Introduction to course will continue to develop various fundamentals of programming, Software Development techniques from previous programming students build computational-thinking College Credits: 3 classes. Students will explore C# and skills by applying computer science to Course Description: work on game development using collaboration tools, modeling and This course is designed for students current frameworks and toolkits such simulation, and data analysis. In with a greater interest in computer as Unity and Visual Studio. Students addition, students transfer the science and related career fields. This have the opportunity to design unique understanding of programming gained course will develop and explore various projects in teams and individually. in App Inventor to text-based techniques from previous programming programming in Python® and apply classes and apply them using the Penn# 0222 their knowledge to create algorithms for programming language, C++ in a COMPUTER SCIENCE III: games of chance and strategy. console environment using Visual CYBERSECURITY 2 Semesters 2 Credits Studio. Grade: 10-12 Prerequisites: Computer Penn# 0239 Science I OR Teacher Penn# 0217 NETWORKING I Approval COMPUTER SCIENCE I 2 Semesters 2 Credits Counts as 3rd science course Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grades: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5253 Grade Level: 9-12 Prerequisites: IT Support I Course Description: Counts as 3rd science course Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5234 Computer Science III: IVY TECH - NETI 105 or Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4801 Cybersecurity introduces the NETI 115 secure software development Ivy Tech- SDEV 120 Computing Course Description: process including designing Logic Students are introduced to local and secure applications, writing College Credits: 3 wide area networks, home secure code designed to Course Description: networking, the IEEE/OSI Model, withstand various types of This course is designed for students network protocols, transmission attacks, and security testing with no previous programming media and network architecture/ and auditing. It focuses on the experience, who are good problem topologies. Security and data security issues a developer integrity are introduced and solvers, who have acquired basic faces, common security emphasized throughout this course, vulnerabilities and flaws, and Windows skills and are interested in which offers students the critical security threats. The course computer science or related career information needed to successfully explains security principles, fields. This course will help students move into a role as an IT strategies, coding techniques, learn how to plan, create and debug professional supporting networked and tools that can help make their own interactive Windows computers. software fault tolerant and resistant to attacks. is a hands-on learning environment. Students who qualify and successfully Penn# 0615 Penn# 0223 complete the course may receive three INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACP CADET TEACHING: (3)college credits from Indiana SUPPORT I EDUCATION PROFESSIONS I University Bloomington or IUSB Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 (Indiana University South Bend). The Grade Level: 9-12 Grade Level: 11-12 college credit will be granted, at a Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5230 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 5408 reduced tuition rate. It is the choice of Ivy Tech- INFM 109 Informatics IU- EDUC-F 200 Examining Self As the student to take the class for high Fundamentals & ITSP 135 Teacher OR school credit only or for both high Hardware/Software Support Ivy Tech- EDUC 101 school and college credit. Students are College Credit: 7 College Credits: 3 not required to pay the college tuition, if Course Description: Course Description: they choose the high school credit only This course allows students to explore This elective course provides students option. Students must have a GPA of how computers work. Students learn in grades eleven (11) or twelve (12) 2.7 to receive college credit. Students the functionality of hardware and organized exploratory teaching Must Provide Their Own Transportation software components as well as experiences in grades kindergarten (K) to Elementary and Middle Schools. suggested best practices in through grade nine (9). All teaching Students will be visiting all schools in maintenance and safety issues. experiences are preplanned by the the district set up by teacher first Through hands-on activities and labs, high school teacher and the semester. students learn how to assemble and cooperating teacher(s) who are configure a computer, install operating interested in supervising prospective systems and software, and teachers. This course provides a Penn# 0231 troubleshoot hardware and software balance of class work relating to: (1) ADVANCED CADET TEACHING: problems. classroom organization, (2) classroom EDUCATION PROFESSIONS II management, (3) the curriculum and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 instructional process, (4) observations Grade Level: 12 Penn# 1852 of teaching, and (5) instructional Prerequisite: ACP Cadet Teaching INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY experiences. Students will explore a Experience & Teacher Approval SUPPORT II: CAPSTONE variety of issues. Self-exploration will Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5404 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 be blended with concrete analysis of Course Description: Grade Level: 10-12 the teaching profession. Teaching will Students will be placed in various Prerequisites: Information be scrutinized from diverse schools within the PHM Corporation for Technology Support I perspectives, integrating key concepts the entire year. Assignments are Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5231 with real life experiences. Teaching completed outside of class and turned Course Description: methods will be incorporated in the in on the due date which is cited on the IT Support Interns will learn how to course to permit students to encounter course syllabus. This course is offered troubleshoot computers and maintain different methods of learning. After first block and or second block of each technology equipment. Objectives of completing a series of in-class day. Students Must Provide Their Own this course include IT support for preparations and assignments, Transportation to Elementary and teacher laptops, student & teacher students will be matched with PHM Middle Schools. Chromebooks and maintaining the teachers for a cadet teaching technology infrastructure to help meet experience. While with the teacher Penn# 0225 Penn High School technology. In they: assist with group work, class BUSINESS-RELATED CLASSROOM addition, students will learn Linux, presentations, bulletin boards, library EXPERIENCE-CAPSTONE COURSE cyber security, and server skills. work, individual help, reading Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 assignments, and many other areas. It Grade Level: 11-12 Prerequisite: Application AND must provide their own presentation software. Students are concurrent enrollment in 0227 transportation paired up with a mentor from the St. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 6162 Joseph County business community; Course Description: Penn# 0657 (with 0658) students are immersed in real-life This class meets Gold Days during ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW learning experiences with the “A” Lunch. Business Related VENTURES CAPSTONE opportunity to take risks, manage the Classroom Experience is the Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 results, and learn from the outcomes. classroom component of the Business Grade Level: 12 Students can take a second period Related Work Experience program. Prerequisites: Introduction to study hall (use 0658) along with this The instruction in this class is related to Entrepreneurship AND Digital course. the student's on-the-job training Applications and Responsibility program and career goals. General AND Application instruction will center on topics such as Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5966 personality and self-improvement, Ivy Tech ENTR 101 The Entrepreneur Penn# 0265 OR 0266 human relations, communication skills, and the Enterprise & ENTR 105 ACP PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS money and business management, Entrepreneurial Marketing and MANAGEMENT taxes, refinement of skills and career Market Research Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 exploration. College Credits: 6 Grade Level: 11-12 Course Description: Prerequisite: Meet IU admission This class meets first block every requirements Penn# 0227 (w/1341/1342 SH) day. This is an off-site experience that IU- BUS-B 190 Principles of BUSINESS-RELATED WORK is run through St. Joe County Startup Business Admin EXPERIENCE Moxie Program. The class meets every College Credits: 3 Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 day from 7:30-9:00. The class meets Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4562 Grade Level: 11-12 at various locations throughout the Course Description: Prerequisite: Application AND year. Applications can be found at Principles of Business Administration is concurrent enrollment in 0225 www.moxieinthemaking.org. a college-level course that prepares Weight: 4.0 DOE# 6162 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures students to plan, organize, direct and Course Description: Capstone introduces entrepreneurship, control the functions and processes of Students interested in business related and develops skills and tools critical for a firm or organization and to perform careers - general office assistant, starting and succeeding in a new business-related functions. Students bank/credit union teller, receptionist, venture. The entrepreneurial process of are provided opportunities to develop accounting/bookkeeping, opportunity recognition, innovation, attitudes and apply skills and recordkeeping, data entry, value proposition, competitive knowledge in the areas of business sales/selling/retail, clerk, cashier, etc. advantage, venture concept, feasibility administration, management, and should enroll in Business Related Work analysis, and “go to” market strategies finance. Individual experiences will be Experience. Business Related Work will be explored through mini-case based upon the student’s career and Experience is an on-the-job training studies of successful and unsuccessful educational goals. Students enrolled in program for young men and women. entrepreneurial start-ups. Additionally, ACP Principles of Business The student will receive a minimum of topics of government and legal Administration will have the opportunity 15 hours of training each week, will be restrictions, intellectual property, to earn college credit through IU at a paid at least the minimum wage, and franchising location, basic business reduced tuition cost. will earn four credits for this accounting, raising startup funding, experience. The Business Related sales and revenue forecasting, and Work Experience program allows business plan development will be students to apply their skills, to explore presented through extensive use of career possibilities, and to receive one word processing, spreadsheet and year of work experience. Students Penn# 0267 computer scientists, and engineers to BANKING & INVESTMENT bring ideas to life. CAPSTONE Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 11-12 Prerequisite: Advanced Accounting Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5258 Course Description: Banking and Investment Careers addresses the need of schools in areas that have workforce demand in the finance industry. It analyzes and synthesizes high-level skills needed for a multitude of careers in the banking and investment industry. Students learn banking, investment, and other finance fundamentals and applications related to financial institutions, business and personal financial services. The course provides students with work based learning experiences to acquire and apply knowledge and skills in one or more careers in the industry.
Penn# 0261 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE PRINCIPLES (PLTW CSP ) Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 11-12 Prerequisite: Introduction to Computer Science OR Computer Science I Counts as a math course Counts as 3rd science course Weight: 5.0 DOE# 4568 Course Description: The AP® Computer Science Principles course will introduce you to the essential ideas of computer science and show how computing and technology can influence the world around you. Students will creatively address real-world issues and concerns while using the same processes and tools as artists, writers,
Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 ANALYTICAL ALGEBRA II Grade Level: 10-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 MATHEMATICS Prerequisite: Algebra II (0724) Grade Level: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2532 Prerequisite: Algebra I Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2524 Penn# 0718 The Mathematics standards for Course Description: ALGEBRA I Geometry are made up of 5 strands: This course is designed for students Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Logic and Proofs; Points, Lines, who do not have an Algebra II credit Grade Level: 10-12 Angles, and Planes; Triangles; and are planning on earning a Core 40 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2520 Quadrilaterals and Other Polygons; Diploma. Analytical Algebra II should Course Description: Circles; Transformations; and focus on the application of The Mathematics standards for Algebra Three-dimensional Solids. Algebra mathematics in various disciplines I are made up of 5 strands: Real skills will be reviewed and remediated including business, finance, science, Numbers and Expressions; Functions; in this course. career and technical education, and Linear Equations, Inequalities, and social sciences. This course covers Functions; Systems of Equations and most of the traditional Algebra II Inequalities; Quadratic and Exponential standards, but the focus is on the Equations and Functions; and Data Penn# 0724 application of algebraic concepts rather Analysis and Statistics. ALGEBRA II than theoretical concepts. This course Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 is for those students who may plan to Grade Level: 10-12 go to college but not necessarily Prerequisite: Algebra I Penn# 0728 majoring in a heavy Math-related field. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2522 GEOMETRY *Parents must sign a form for students Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 to be enrolled in this course that will The Mathematics standards for Algebra Grade Level: 11-12 inform the parents that the enrollment II are made up of 5 strands: Complex Prerequisite: Algebra II (0724) in Analytical Algebra II might affect the Numbers and Expressions; Functions; Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2532 student’s acceptance into particular Systems of Equations; Quadratic Course Description: postsecondary programs or institutions. Equations and Functions; Exponential The Mathematics standards for & Logarithmic Equations and Geometry are made up of 5 strands: Functions; Polynomial, Rational, and Logic and Proofs; Points, Lines, Other Equations and Functions; and Penn# 0789 Angles, and Planes; Triangles; Data Analysis, Statistics, and COLLEGE ALGEBRA Quadrilaterals and Other Polygons; Probability. Students who complete this Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Circles; Transformations; and course will enroll in Geometry 728. Grade Level: 11-12 Three-dimensional Solids. Algebra A scientific calculator is required and 3 College Credits can be earned skills will be reviewed and remediated students will gain experience using the Prerequisites: Algebra II and in this course. graphing calculator. Geometry Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2564 IVY TECH- MATH 136 College Penn# 0726 Algebra GEOMETRY ACCELERATED Penn# 0710 Course Description: This course is designed for students Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2564 that need additional work in Algebra Also register for 0732. This course Course Description: before attempting Pre-calculus. extends the foundations of algebra and Also register for 0736. Pre-Calculus College Algebra – Ivy Tech 136 functions developed in previous extends the foundation of algebra and presents an in-depth study of functions, courses to new functions. The course functions developed in previous quadratic, polynomial, radical, and includes concepts that must be courses to new functions and to a more rational equations, radicals, complex mastered prior to enrollment in a advanced level. Pre-Calculus is made numbers, systems of equations, college-level calculus class. A up of the Following strands: Complex rational fractions and exponential and functional approach provides a means Numbers, Functions, Quadratic, logarithmic functions. Ivy Tech Credit for examining linear, quadratic, higher Polynomial and Rational Equations and may be earned. Topical areas of study degree, rational relationships and Functions, Exponential and Logarithmic include: Quadratic, polynomial, rational logarithmic functions. A scientific Equations and Functions. This course and radical equations, Complex calculator is required and a graphing is designed to provide students with a Numbers, Exponential and logarithmic calculator is highly recommended. strong foundation for Calculus. This functions, Radicals and rational course is preparing the students for expressions, Graphs of equations and ACP Calculus 215. A scientific functions, Variation, and Systems of calculator is required and a graphing equations. calculator is highly recommended.
Penn# 0759 Penn# 0732 Penn# 0736 FINITE MATH TRIGONOMETRY TRIGONOMETRY ACCELERATED Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Grade Level: 12 Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 10-12 IVY TECH- MATH 135 Finite Math Prerequisite: Algebra II and Prerequisite: Algebra II Accelerated 3 College Credits can be earned Geometry OR Honors Prerequisite: Algebra II and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2566 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2566 Geometry or Pre-Calculus Course Description: Course Description: Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2530 Also register for 0753. Trigonometric Also register for 0735 Trigonometry Course Description: relationships will be developed from an Accelerated provides students with the This course is designed for college understanding of the circular function skills and understandings that are bound students. Topics include solving and their properties and graphs. necessary for advanced manipulation and graphing linear equations and Inverse trig functions, trig equations of angles and measurement. inequalities, elementary set theory, and identities, the Law of Sines and Trigonometry consists of: Conics, Unit matrices and their applications, linear Cosines and applications of trig Circle, Periodic Functions, Identities, programming, and elementary functions will be studied. The course Polar Coordinates and Vectors. probability. This is a standard finite also includes arithmetic and geometric Trigonometry provides the foundation mathematics course. sequences. for common periodic functions that are encountered nearly all STEM disciplines. This course is preparing the students for ACP Calculus 215. Penn# 0753 PRE-CALCULUS Penn# 0735 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 PRE-CALCULUS ACCELERATED Penn# 0733 Grade Level: 10-12 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 PRE-CALCULUS HONORS Prerequisite: Algebra II and Grade Level: 10-12 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Geometry Prerequisite: Algebra II Accelerated Grade Level: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2564 OR Honors Prerequisite: Algebra II Honors Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2564 of functions, limits, graphs, continuity, Penn# 0787 Course Description: derivatives, and integrals of those ACP BRIEF SURVEY OF CALCULUS Also Register for 0738. Pre-Calculus functions and their applications. I Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 is an Honors course that extends the Students who apply, qualify and Grade Level: 11-12 foundation of algebra and functions successfully complete the course will Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus AND developed in previous courses to new receive five Indiana University credits meet IU admission requirements functions and to a more advanced that may be transferable to other Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2527 level. Pre-Calculus is made up of the colleges. It is required that each IU- MATH-M 119 Brief Survey of following strands: Complex Numbers, student has a graphing calculator. Calculus I Functions, Quadratic, Polynomial and NOTE: In order to receive weighted College Credits: 3 Rational Equations and Functions, credit on transcripts, students must Course Description: Exponential and Logarithmic Equations successfully complete both semesters This course is an in-depth study of and Functions. This course is of the course and take the I.U. final functions, graphs, limits, continuity, designed to provide students with a exam. An hourly fee for 5 credits will be derivatives, and integrals of those strong foundation for Calculus. This assessed by Indiana University for functions and their applications. It course is preparing the students for students opting for college credit. provides rigorous instruction in AP® Calculus AB and for students mathematical modeling concepts and who expect math to be a major skills presented in the context of component of their college courses. A real-world applications. It may be Penn# 0769 scientific calculator is required and a taken for college credit for students ACP CALCULUS II graphing calculator is highly pursuing a liberal arts program in Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 recommended. college. NOTE: In order to receive Grade Level: 11-12 weighted credit on transcripts, students Prerequisite: ACP Calculus M215 OR must successfully complete both AP® Calculus AB AND meet IU Penn# 0738 semesters of the course and take the admission requirements TRIGONOMETRY HONORS I.U. final exam. An hourly fee for 3 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2544 Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 credits will be assessed by Indiana IU- MATH-M 216 Calculus II Grade Level: 10-12 University for students opting for College Credits: 5 Prerequisite: Algebra II Honors college credit. Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2566 This course is an in-depth study of Course Description: advanced techniques in integration, Also register for 0733. Trigonometry volumes of solids of revolution, Penn# 0765 is an Honors course that provides sequences and series. Students who ACP CALCULUS I students with the skills and qualify and successfully complete the Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 understandings that are necessary for course will receive five Indiana Grade Level: 11-12 advanced manipulation of angles and University credits that may be Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus measurement. Trigonometry consists transferable to other colleges. It is Accelerated OR Honors AND meet of: Conics, Unit Circle, Periodic required that each student has a IU admission requirements Functions, Identities, Polar Coordinates graphing calculator. NOTE: In order to Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2527 and Vectors. Trigonometry provides receive weighted credit on transcripts, IU- MATH-M 215 Calculus I the foundation for common periodic students must successfully complete College Credits: 5 functions that are encountered nearly both semesters of the course and take Course Description: all STEM disciplines. This course is the I.U. final exam. An hourly fee for 5 This is a college Calculus course, preparing the students for AP® credits will be assessed by Indiana which is comparable to the length and University for students opting for Calculus AB. difficulty of a first semester college college credit. calculus course. It is an in-depth study sequences and series, differential the Counseling Office and the Math Penn# 0737 equations, topics in three-dimensional Instructional Leader. There will be a fee AP® CALCULUS AB space and vectors. It is required that payable to Ball State University for Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 each student has a graphing calculator. Dual Credit. Grade Level: 10-12 A student may gain college credit with Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus Honors a successful score on the AP® exam. Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2562 NOTE: In order to receive weighted Course Description: Penn# 0771 OR 0772 credit and the Advanced Placement® This is a college Calculus course. It is PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS designation on transcripts, students designed for students who have Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 must successfully complete both demonstrated a superior performance Grade Level: 11-12 semesters of the Advanced in math. The pace of this course is Prerequisite: Algebra II and Placement® course and take the more accelerated and the content Geometry Advanced Placement® examination in depth is greater than in Honors Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2546 that course. courses. The course includes Course Description: advanced integration and differentiation This course includes the concepts and techniques. The use of a graphing skills needed to apply statistical calculator is central to the course. techniques in the decision-making Students should be prepared to do a Penn# 0747/0749 process. Students will learn the basics self-paced intensive Pre-Calculus MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS & about populations and samples and review during the summer prior to DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS how to design, implement, collect and entering the course. It is required that Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 interpret a study, and learn the basics each student has a graphing calculator. Grade Level: 12 of hypothesis testing. The course is A student may gain college credit with Prerequisite: AP® Calculus BC designed around in-class use of a successful score on the AP® exam. Ball State- MATH 267 Multivariable graphing calculators in addition to NOTE: In order to receive weighted Calculus / MATH 374 Differential simple hand calculations. credit and the Advanced Placement® Equations designation on transcripts, students College Credits: 6 must successfully complete both Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2544 Penn# 0767 semesters of the Advanced Course Description: AP® STATISTICS Placement® course and take the Topics include three-dimensional vector Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Advanced Placement® examination in calculus, Gauss’s theorem, Green’s Grade Level: 10-12 that course. theorem, and Stoke’s theorem. Prerequisite: Algebra II and Introduction to nth-order ordinary Geometry differential equations, equations of Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2570 order one, elementary applications, Penn# 0745 Course Description: linear equations with constant AP® CALCULUS BC This course is for mathematically able coefficients, nonhomogeneous students who can work at a fast pace Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 equations, undetermined coefficients, and wish to complete studies in high Grade Level: 11-12 variation of parameters, linear systems school, equivalent to a one-semester, Prerequisite: AP® Calculus AB of equations, and the Laplace non-calculus based college course in Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2572 transform. This course includes the use introductory statistics. It is Course Description: of graphing calculators and computer recommended for juniors or seniors This is a second year course that software. This course is offered as who will be exposed to four broad complies with and exceeds the College distance learning through Ball State conceptual themes: exploring data by Board standards. It is an in-depth University. Students will participate observing patterns and departures from study of advanced techniques of during the school day. The course patterns; planning a study to decide integrations, improper integrals, requires special registration through what and how to measure; producing student taking Algebra I Lab must also The CCR Bridge: Math Ready course models using probability and be enrolled in Algebra I during the will include and reinforce the Algebra 1, simulation; and using statistical same academic year. Geometry, Algebra 2 and Statistics inference to confirm models. The use skills. This course emphasizes of computer software and graphing understanding of math concepts rather calculator technology will be an integral Penn# 0773 than just memorizing procedures. Math part of the course. It is required that MATH 10 Ready students learn the context each student has a graphing calculator Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 behind the procedure: why to use a with statistical capabilities (the TI-83 or Grade Level: 10-12 certain formula or method to solve a TI-84 is recommended. A student may Prerequisite: Must have attempted problem, for example. This equips gain college credit with a successful Algebra 1 them with higher-order thinking skills in score on the AP exam. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2531 order to apply math skills, functions Course Description: and concepts in different situations. Math 10 is a two-semester course The content of this course is designed designed to reinforce and elevate the to enhance students’ math skills so that Algebra 1 and 7th and 8th grade they are ready for college-level math geometry knowledge and skills assignments. Penn# 0775 necessary for students to successfully Counts as a Mathematics Course for all ALGEBRA I LAB complete high school mathematics diplomas. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 courses beyond Algebra 1 and Grade Level: 9 essentials for passing the state's Prerequisites: Students are placed graduation qualifying exam in Penn# 1790 in the course based on standardized mathematics. Enrollment will be MEDICAL STATISTICS test scores (NWEA, or ISTEP) and/or contingent upon diagnostic results of Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 teacher recommendation performance in Algebra I and/or Grade Level: 12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2516 mathematics competency Prerequisite: AP® Statistics Course Description: assessments. The standards for this Weight: 4.5 DOE# 2543 Algebra I Lab is a mathematics support course are aligned to the state Course Description: course for Algebra I. The course standards that students need to master This is a second year course that provides students with additional time for success with the state's graduation applies statistics into the field of to build the foundations necessary for qualifying exam in mathematics and science and medicine. The topics that high school math courses, while the next level math courses. are covered are regression analysis, concurrently having access to rigorous, Counts as a Mathematics Course for ANOVA, nonparametric, Chi-Square, grade-level appropriate courses. The the General Diploma only or as an and statistical processes. In addition to five critical areas of Algebra I Lab align Elective for the Core 40, Core 40 with these topics, students will learn specific with the critical areas of Algebra I. Academic Honors and Core 40 with concepts that pertain to medical Relationships between Quantities and Technical Honors diplomas. research that will help any student Reasoning with Equations; Linear and wanting to study a science field or Exponential Relationships; Descriptive medicine. Students will also learn the Statistics; Expressions and Equations; Penn# 0739 basics of abnormal psychology, and Quadratic Functions and Modeling. CCR BRIDGE: MATH medical terminology, and read However, whereas Algebra I contains Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 autobiographies that support specific exclusively grade-level content, Grade Level: 12 illnesses that are studied during class. Algebra I Lab combines standards from Prerequisite: Algebra II and Students must have a graphing high school courses with foundational Geometry calculator for this class. In order to standards from the middle grades. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2514 receive weighted credit for this class, Algebra I Lab is designed as a support Course Description: students must successfully complete course for Algebra I. As such, a the STEM data analysis project given to them each semester.
personal and global i mplications i n modeling and diagramming for SCIENCE human l ives. It examines central understanding, and researching themes of biology i ncluding medical case studies, students apply biochemistry, genetics, evolution, concepts associated with Human ecology, and human physiology. Anatomy & Physiology. Students will Penn# 0935 Students taking this course will understand the structure, organization AP® BIOLOGY investigate biological concepts while and function of the various components Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 developing critical thinking and problem of the healthy body in order to apply Grade Level: 10-12 solving skills. This course meets this knowledge in all health related Prerequisites: Biology I and Indiana University fields. All students must participate in Chemistry I (or concurrent biological the laboratory dissections. Students enrollment in Chemistry I) departmental standards. To earn five pursuing a medical career in college Weight: 5.0 DOE# 3020 college credits a student must enroll are highly recommended to take two Course Description: following the IU-ACP application years of high school chemistry. Advanced Placement Biology is a procedure, make a necessary tuition ® Students can take anatomy and a challenging college-level course which payment, and earn a C or better i n the class. This course fulfills a science second year of chemistry in the same follows College Board Entrance year. This course fulfills a science Examination guidelines for Advanced requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with requirement for all diplomas. Placement® Biology. The AP® Biology Technical Honors. course and the AP® Biology Examination stress biological facts, the Penn# 0915 synthesis of those facts into concepts, INTEGRATED CHEMISTRY-PHYSICS themes and science processes. The Penn# 0913 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 major areas of study are evolution, ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY Grade Level: 10 energy and systems. Students taking Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Prerequisite: Algebra I (or AP® Biology engage in college-level Grade Level: 11-12 concurrent enrollment in Algebra I). laboratory work . Prerequisite: Biology I and Chemistry I Biology I is recommended. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5276 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3108 Penn# 0965 Course Description: Course Description: ACP BIOLOGY Course Description: The course is Integrated Chemistry-Physics is a Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 intended primarily for students course focused on the following core Grade Level: 11-12 interested in medical-related careers. topics: motion and energy of Prerequisite: Biology I AND Students will investigate concepts macroscopic objects; chemical, Chemistry I AND meet IU admission related to Health Science, with electrical, mechanical and nuclear requirements energy; properties of matter; transport emphasis on interdependence of Weight: 5.0 DOE# 3090 systems and contributions of each of energy; magnetism; energy IU- BIOL-L 100 Humans and the system to the maintenance of a healthy production and its relationship to the Biological World body. The course introduces students environment and economy . Instruction College Credits: 3 to the cell, and covers tissues, will focus on developing student Course Description: integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and understanding that scientific knowledge This college-level course emphasizes nervous systems as an integrated unit. is gained from observation of natural how biology has both Through extensive anatomy phenomena and experimentation by understanding, laboratory dissections, designing and conducting investigations guided by theory and by evaluating and communicating the results of those investigations according to accepted procedures. The course will prepare students to complete future coursework in Penn# 0919 Penn# 0923 Chemistry I and Physics I. This course CHEMISTRY I HONORS CHEMISTRY II fulfills a science requirement for Core Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 11-12 Core 40 with Technical Honors. Prerequisites: Biology I AND an “A” Prerequisite: Chemistry I in Algebra Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3066 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3064 Course Description: Penn# 0921 Course Description: Chemistry II expands and deepens the CHEMISTRY I Chemistry lets you understand the understanding of concepts studied in Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 world around you. It helps you to Chemistry I. Additional emphasis will Grade Level: 10-12 understand what you eat, what you be placed on molecular structure, Prerequisites: Biology I and wear, and what you observe. It is often thermodynamics, acid-base theories, Algebra I called the central science as it hydrolysis, kinetics, equilibrium, and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3064 connects many other sciences. redox reactions. Experiments requiring Course Description: Chemistry I Honors is designed for the quantitative calculations and formal Chemistry lets you understand the college-bound student interested in a written reports will be performed in the world around you. It helps you to science career (medical related, laboratory. It differs from AP® understand what you eat, what you engineering, etc.), and/or who has a Chemistry in that not all AP® wear, and what you observe. It is often high interest in science. The honors Chemistry topics will be studied, or will called the central science as it level of chemistry has a much deeper not be studied at the depth at which connects many other sciences. In this application of mathematics and the they would be assessed on the AP® course you will study matter, energy, pace is much faster than Chemistry I. exam. This course fulfills a science counting and measuring atoms and You will often be expected to requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with their compounds, atomic structure and independently apply and extend your Academic Honors and Core 40 with chemical reactions. The concepts will knowledge to new situations. In this Technical Honors. Students taking be presented through laboratory course you will study matter, energy, regular Chemistry I are required to experiments that will involve making counting and measuring atoms and take Chemistry II before taking AP® observations and predictions, their compounds, atomic structure, Chemistry. collecting data, analyzing data, and chemical reactions and bonding. The communicating results. Problem concepts will be presented through solving skills, critical thinking and laboratory experiments that will involve multiple representations of knowledge making observations and predictions, Penn# 0937 will be stressed. Upon successful collecting data, analyzing data, and AP® CHEMISTRY completion of this course and if you communicating results. Problem Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 are planning a career in a health, solving skills, critical thinking and Grade Level: 11-12 medical or STEM field, you are multiple representations of knowledge Prerequisites: Chemistry I and strongly encouraged to take Chemistry will be stressed. Upon successful Pre-Calculus (or pre-Calc II during your junior or senior year. completion of this course you will be concurrently) This course fulfills a science well prepared and encouraged to take Weight: 5.0 DOE# 3060 requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with Chemistry II and /or AP® Chemistry Course Description: Academic Honors and Core 40 with during your junior or senior year. This Chemistry, Advanced Placement® is a Technical Honors. course fulfills a science requirement for course which follows College Board Core 40, Core 40 with Academic entrance examination guidelines for Honors and Core 40 with Technical Advanced Placement® chemistry. Honors. Topics included are atomic and molecular structure, equilibria, oxidation-reduction, thermochemistry, things beyond the edge of our Solar electrochemistry, kinetics and System); Lives and Deaths of Stars; acid-base chemistry. This course also Spectroscopy; H&R Diagram; Cosmic Penn# 0945 includes extensive college-level Time Scale; Time Travel (Relativity); AP® ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE laboratory work stressing data Life in the universe; Interstellar Space acquisition and interpretation. Travel; and the History of Manned Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Students are required to keep a Space Flight. This course fulfills a Grade Level: 11-12 laboratory manual. Students prepare science requirement for Core 40, Core Prerequisites: Chemistry OR Earth/Space Science for and are required to take the AP® 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 3012 Chemistry Exam given in May. To with Technical Honors. Course Description: succeed in this course, students should The AP® Environmental Science be highly motivated, organized, and have good study habits. College credit course is a more advanced study of Penn# 0943 will be earned upon successful topics in environmental science. The ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE completion of the AP® Exam. Dual goal of the AP® Environmental Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Science course is to provide students credit through Ivy Tech is also available Grade Level: 11-12 at no cost. Check specific colleges and with the scientific principles, concepts, Prerequisite: ICP OR and methodologies required to universities for their policies. There is a Chemistry I short summer assignment over basic understand the interrelationships of the Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3010 natural world, to identify and analyze Chemistry I principles. This course Course Description: fulfills a science requirement for Core environmental problems both natural Environmental Science introduces and human-made, to evaluate the 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and fundamental environmental and Core 40 with Technical Honors. relative risks associated with these ecological issues. Students will do problems, and to examine alternative laboratory investigations as well as solutions for resolving and/or participate in group & class discussions preventing them. Considerable Penn# 0925 to debate pertinent topics. Many emphasis is placed on outdoor field ASTRONOMY laboratory activities take place outside investigations as well as on indoor Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 will require walking to an outdoor laboratory study. Students are required laboratory. Outside reading and Grade Level: 10-12 to take the AP® Environmental research may be required as well as Prerequisite: Geometry Science Examination upon completion reading from the text. Students will do Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3092 of the course in order to receive the a significant amount of writing to Course Description: weighted grade. It is necessary to have demonstrate their understanding. Astronomy provides for the in-depth reading and study skills at a high Some concepts that will be covered investigation of astronomy. The course enough level to read and comprehend include: Ecology, The Atmosphere, is a comprehensive, sequential, college-level text and write college Conservation, Water, and Energy. The practical application course that utilizes level papers and reports. This course goal of the course is to prepare the P-H-M Digital Video Theater fulfills a science requirement for Core students to be literate citizens capable (formerly the Planetarium) in the study 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and of using their knowledge of of the: Celestial Sphere; Celestial Core 40 with Technical Honors. Coordinates; Constellations; Solar environmental science to make System; Moon and Moon Phases; decisions to solve problems and make Eclipses; Sun as a star; Theories on personal, social and ethical decisions the origin of our Solar System, Milky that will have consequences for theirs Way Galaxy, and Universe; Scale and future generations. This course Models of: Earth-Sun, Solar System to fulfills a science requirement for Core our nearest star Alpha Centauri, and 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and our Galaxy; Stellar Astronomy (all the Core 40 with Technical Honors. Penn# 0929 Penn# 0963 Penn# 0933 PHYSICS I AP® PHYSICS I – C: MECHANICS PHYSICS II Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 12 Prerequisites: Chemistry I AND Prerequisites: Chemistry I AND Prerequisite: Physics I AND Algebra II (or concurrent enrollment Calculus I (or concurrent enrollment Pre-Calculus (or concurrent in Algebra II) in Calculus I) enrollment in Pre-calculus) Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3084 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 3088 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3086 Course Description: Course Description: Course Description: Physics is the study of the behavior Physics I AP® -C Mechanics is an Physics II is an advanced level of and interactions of matter and energy advanced and very rigorous first level physics designed particularly for in space and time. Physics I is of physics designed particularly for students intending to pursue university designed particularly for students students intending to pursue university studies in any of the fields of intending to pursue university studies in studies in any of the fields of mathematics, science, or engineering. any of the fields of mathematics, mathematics, science, or engineering. This course is the second half of the science, or engineering (including This course is Calculus based and algebra based physics sequence. This architecture.) This course is the content uses differential and integral calculus. physics course utilizes guided inquiry equivalent of AP®-C Mechanics, but This physics course utilizes guided and student-centered learning does not include the calculus. Topics inquiry and student-centered learning techniques to foster the development of include kinematics, kinetics, gravitation, techniques to foster the development of critical thinking skills. Students will be circular motion, conservation of energy critical thinking skills. Students will be challenged with more complex and momentum, rotational dynamics, challenged with more complex problems in all topic areas, and be statics, and fluid mechanics. Students problems in all topic areas, and be given opportunities to further develop are challenged with more complex given opportunities to further develop creative problem solving skills, data problems in each of these areas. creative problem solving skills, data analysis procedures, and experimental Approximately 33% of the course time analysis procedures, and experimental design techniques. Emphasis is on is laboratory related with a particular design techniques. Emphasis is on problem solving techniques, laboratory emphasis on error analysis and the problem solving techniques, laboratory techniques, and applications of explanation of anomalous behavior. techniques, and applications of interactive software for data acquisition The depth of the laboratory work interactive software for data acquisition and processing. They will also develop frequently involves reconsideration of and processing. They will also develop skills in the application of interactive the experimental results over a period skills in the application of interactive software and the use of state-of-the–art of weeks or months. Emphasis is software and the use of state-of-the–art laboratory instruments and techniques. placed on problem-solving, laboratory laboratory instruments and techniques. Topics include oscillations, techniques, and applications of Topics include; Kinematics, Projectile electrostatics, current, DC circuits, interactive software for data motion, Forces, Energy, Momentum, magnetism, electromagnetism, acquisition, processing and modeling. Rotational Motion, and Oscillations. thermodynamics, optics, and modern Enrollment in the Junior year is This course fulfills a science physics. encouraged, so that students may elect requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with This course fulfills a science to enroll in Physics II or AP® E&M in Academic Honors and Core 40 with requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with their Senior year. This course fulfills a Technical Honors. Academic Honors and Core 40 with science requirement for Core 40, Core Technical Honors. 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 with Technical Honors. Penn# 0969 Students will be challenged with more personal needs and social issues. This AP® PHYSICS I: ALGEBRA complex problems in all topic areas, course fulfills a science requirement for BASED and be given opportunities to further Core 40, Core 40 with Academic 2 Semesters 2 Credits Grades: develop creative problem solving skills, Honors and Core 40 with Technical 10-12 data analysis procedures, and Honors. Weight: 5.0 DOE# 3080 experimental design techniques. Prerequisites: Algebra II Emphasis is on problem solving IVY TECH - PHYS 101 techniques, laboratory techniques, and This is a Quantitative Reasoning Penn# 0951 OR 0952 applications of interactive software for course FORENSIC SCIENCE COURSE DESCRIPTION: data acquisition and processing. They AP® Semesters: 1 Credits: 1 Physics1 is a course based on the will also develop skills in the application Grade Level: 10-12 content established and copyrighted by of interactive software and the use of Prerequisites: ICP OR Chemistry (or the College Board. The course is not i state-of-the–art laboratory instruments concurrent enrollment in Chemistry) ntended to be used as a dual credit and techniques. Topics include Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3092 course. AP® Physics 1: Algebra oscillations, electrostatics, current, DC Course Description: based is equivalent to a first- circuits, magnetism, electromagnetism, semester college course in Forensic science is a laboratory-based and AC circuits. This course is algebra-based physics. The course course that integrates aspects of equivalent to a one semester, covers Newtonian mechanics biology, chemistry and physics to introductory Electricity & Magnetism (including rotational dynamics and interpret physical evidence from crime angular momentum); work, energy, college course. This course fulfills a scenes. In this class students will learn and power; mechanical waves and science requirement for Core 40, Core how physical evidence is collected and sound. It will also introduce electric 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 handled and perform laboratory circuits. with Technical Honors. investigations to analyze the evidence. The final project will involve collecting Penn# 0947 and analyzing evidence from a mock AP® PHYSICS II – C: ELECTRICITY & Penn# 0941 crime scene to solve a case. In the MAGNETISM EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE process, students will develop and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 improve their analytical and problem Grade Level: 12 Grade Level: 11-12 solving skills, which are imperative to Prerequisites: AP® Physics I OR Prerequisite: ICP OR Chemistry I (or any profession. This course fulfills a Physics I with concurrent enrollment concurrent enrollment in Chemistry science requirement for Core 40, Core in Calculus I) 40 with Academic Honors and Core 40 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 3088 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3044 with Technical Honors. Course Description: Course Description: AP® E&M is an advanced level of Earth and Space science is a science physics designed particularly for elective for juniors and seniors. Topics Penn# 0955 students intending to pursue university include: gems/minerals, OCEANOGRAPHY studies in any of the fields of earthquakes/plate tectonics, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 mathematics, science, or engineering. fossil/dinosaurs, space/astronomy, and Grade Level: 11-12 This course is Calculus based and a atmospheric science/weather Prerequisite: ICP OR Chemistry I good understanding of differential, prediction. Students have opportunities Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3092 integral, and vector calculus is to gain an understanding of the history Course Description: required. This physics course utilizes of the development of the earth and Oceanography is a Core 40 science guided inquiry and student-centered space sciences, to explore the uses of elective for juniors and seniors. Topics learning techniques to foster the knowledge of the earth and its include: geology, geography, development of critical thinking skills. environment in various careers, and to investigate problems related to earthquakes/plate tectonics, oceanic weather/climate, coral reefs, history of the scientific foundation for subsequent there is no fee for credits associated our planet, and deep-water exploration. courses. This course is designed for with PLTW for students enrolled at Students will have opportunities to gain 9th - 12th grade students. College IUPUI. This course fulfills a science an understanding of the history of our credit is offered if students obtain a requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with oceans, to research the oceanic satisfactory score on the EoC and a Academic Honors and Core 40 with life-forms, and research problems satisfactory grade in the course. This Technical Honors. related to personal needs, social course fulfills a science requirement for issues, and both human and economic Core 40, Core 40 with Academic decisions that affect our planet. The Honors and Core 40 with Technical Penn# 0961 goal of this class is to have students Honors. PLTW MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS recognize the powerful impact of the (MI) oceans and how they affect our daily Penn# 0911 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 lives. Students will become equipped PLTW HUMAN BODY SYSTEMS Grade Level: 10-12 with the knowledge and skills they (HBS) Prerequisites: PBS AND (HBS or need to make educated decisions in Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Anatomy & Physiology) the future about our oceanic planet. Grade Level: 10-12 Counts as science course This course fulfills a science Prerequisite: PBS Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5217 requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with Counts as science course Course Description: Academic Honors and Core 40 with Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5216 Medical Interventions is the third Technical Honors. Course Description: course in the PLTW Biomedical Human Body systems is a hands-on Sciences program. In this year long BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE project based Project Lead the Way course, students investigate a variety (PLTW) course. Students examine the of interventions involved in the interactions of human body systems as prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Penn# 0909 they explore identity, communication, disease as they follow the life of a PLTW PRINCIPLES OF power, movement, protection, and fictitious family. The course is a BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (PBS) homeostasis. Students design “How-To” manual for maintaining Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 experiments, investigate the structures overall health and homeostasis in the Grade Level: 9-12 and functions of the human body, and body. Students explore how to prevent Prerequisite: Biology I (or current use data acquisition software to and fight infection; screen and evaluate enrollment in Biology I) monitor body functions such as muscle the code in human DNA; prevent, Counts as science course movement, reflex and voluntary action, diagnose and treat cancer; and prevail Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5218 and respiration. Exploring science in when the organs of the body begin to Course Description: action, students build organs and fail. Through these scenarios, students Principles of Biomedical Sciences is a tissue on a skeletal manikin, work are exposed to a range of interventions hands-on project based Project Lead through interesting real world cases related to immunology, surgery, the Way (PLTW) course. Students and often play the roles of biomedical genetics, pharmacology, medical investigate various health conditions professionals to solve medical devices, and diagnostics. This course including heart disease, diabetes, mysteries. This course is designed for is designed for 10th - 12th grade sickle-cell disease, 10th , 11 th or 12 th grade students. students. College credit is offered hyper-cholesterolemia, and infectious College credit is offered through IUPUI through IUPUI for students that earn an diseases. The activities and projects for students that earn an EOC score of EOC score of a 6 and above and a introduce students to human a 6 and above and a satisfactory grade satisfactory grade in the course. The physiology, medicine, and research in the course. The credit is accepted credit is accepted as a 100 level processes. This course provides an as a 100 level science elective. IUPUI science elective. IUPUI offers letters of overview of all the courses in the offers letters of completion to students completion to students attending other Biomedical Sciences program and lays attending other colleges. Currently colleges. Currently there is no fee for credits associated with PLTW for Weight: 4.0 DOE# 3092 Core 40 with Technical Honors students enrolled at IUPUI. This course Course Description: diplomas. This course may be taken fulfills a science requirement for Core Nanotechnology is the fastest growing two years in a row. 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors and field of scientific research dealing with Core 40 with Technical Honors. technology that is 1,000,000 times smaller than the diameter of the average human hair. This course will use modeling and laboratory investigations to learn how properties Penn# 0967 of materials change as they progress PLTW BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION from the macroscale, through the (BI) microscale, to the nanoscale. As we do Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 this, we will learn how things like Grade Level: 12 biosensors, nanomagnets and Prerequisites: MI computer and cell phone microchips Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5219 are made. Along the way we will Course Description: discuss and investigate practical Biomedical Innovation is a capstone applications which are currently being course designed to give students the used and those which are being opportunity to design innovative developed for use in the near future. solutions for the health challenges of the 21 st century as they work through progressively challenging open ended Penn# 0953 problems, addressing topics such as SCIENCE RESEARCH clinical medicine, physiology, INDEPENDENT STUDY biomedical engineering, and public Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 health. They have the opportunity to Grade Level: 11-12 work on an independent project and Prerequisites: Recommendation may work with a mentor or advisor from from Science teacher AND Physics I a university, hospital, physician’s office (or concurrent enrollment in Physics or industry. Throughout the course the I) students are expected to present their Weight: 4.5 DOE# 3008 work to an adult audience that may Course Description: include representatives from the local This course is designed to provide business and health care community. students with unique opportunities for This course fulfills a science independent, in-depth study of one requirement for Core 40, Core 40 with specific scientific problem. Students will Academic Honors and Core 40 with develop research skills and a familiarity Technical Honors. with the laboratory procedures used in research. Students will be expected to complete a science project that will be Penn# 0949/0950 exhibited in a science fair or NANOTECHNOLOGY comparable competition and/or Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 end-of-course project such as a Grade Level: 11-12 research paper and poster presentation Prerequisites: Biology and ICP or of their findings. This course counts as Biology and Chemistry (or a science course for Core – 40, concurrent enrollment in Chemistry) Core-40 with Academic Honors and
Penn# 0643 Ivy Tech AGRI 102 Agribusiness and ANIMAL SCIENC E Farm Management Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 AGRICULTURE College Credits: 3 Grade Level: 10-12 Course Description: Prerequisite: Biology I or This dual credit course presents the permission of instructor Penn# 0644 concepts necessary for managing College Credits: 3 INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE, agriculture-related businesses such Counts as 3rd science course FOOD, AND NATURAL RESOURCES lawn and garden centers, landscape Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5008 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 nurseries, lawn care services, Ivy Tech AGRI 103 Animal Science Grade Level: 9-12 greenhouses, animal supply stores, pet Course Description: Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5056 care shops, farm supply stores, This year long course provides Course Description: produce markets, livestock production, students with an overview of the field of (INT AGFNR) Introduction to machinery repairs and environmental animal science. Students will study Agriculture, Food and Natural consulting firms. Concepts covered large and small animal species. Topics Resources is a prerequisite to and a include: identification of careers; safety to be addressed include: careers in foundation for all other agricultural management; entrepreneurship; the animal science, animal science, classes. The nature of this course is to planning, organizing, controlling and anatomy, physiology, genetics, provide students with an introduction to directing of an agribusiness; effects of reproduction, nutrition, common the fundamentals of agricultural government organizations; economic diseases and parasites, management science and business. Topics to be principles; credit; record keeping; practices for the care and maintenance covered include: animal science, plant budgeting; fundamentals of cash flow; of animals, social and political issues and soil science, food science, the tax system; insurance; marketing; related to the animal industry, and horticultural science, agricultural cooperatives; purchasing; technology; aquaculture. Guest speakers, field business management, landscape human resources; management; trips, practical skills laboratories, management, natural resources, business relations and responsibilities. multimedia projects, and actual "hands agriculture power, structure and Guest speakers, field trips, on'' experience with animals will aid in technology, leadership development, laboratories, and business simulation course instruction. Students may use supervised agricultural experience and projects will aid in course instruction. this course to meet one of the career opportunities in the area of Students may use this course to meet requirements for the Academic or agriculture, food and natural resources. one of the requirements for the Technical Honors Diploma if they fulfill Counts as an elective Course for the Academic or Technical Honors Diploma the following: Students completing the Core 40, Core 40 with Academic if they fulfill the following: Students course with a grade of “C” or higher will Honors and Core 40 with Technical completing the course with a grade of earn free college credit from Ivy Tech Honors diplomas. “C” or higher will earn free college Community College Indiana. Any credit from Ivy Tech Community student earning dual credit may apply College Indiana. Any student earning those credits to the academic or Penn# 0647 dual credit may apply those credits to technical honors diploma. AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT the academic or technical honors Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 diploma. Penn# 0649 Grade Level: 10-12 NATURAL RESOURCES Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5002 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 10-12 Counts as 3rd science course Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5180 Penn# 0659 Ivy Tech AGRI 164 Landscape Ivy Tech AGRI 115 Natural HORTICULTURE SCIENCE Design I Resources Management Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 College Credits: 3 College Credits: 3 Grade Level: 10-12 Course Description: Course Description: Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5132 Landscape Management is a year-long This dual credit course provides Ivy Tech AGRI 116 Survey of course that provides the student with students with a background in natural Horticulture an overview of the field of landscape resource management. Students are College Credits: 3 management. Students are introduced introduced to career opportunities in Course Description: to the procedures used in the planning natural resource management and This course provides students with an and design of landscapes, the related industries, the history of the overview of the field of horticulture principles and procedures involved with forest industry and forest policy, the science. It addresses the biology and landscaping construction, the importance and uses of forest plants, technology involved in the production, determination of maintenance factors which influence the processing, and marketing of schedules, communications, and development of forests, forest horticulture plants (such as flowers, management skills necessary in improvement and management, proper houseplants, landscape plants, fruits, landscaping operations and the care care and use of forest tools, effects of nuts and vegetables) and their and use of equipment utilized by management practices on the products. Topics covered include: landscapers. Students will design and environment, soil conservation reproduction and propagation of plants, be involved in the installation of the practices, water and its importance, plant growth, growth media, Penn High School Building Trades hazardous waste management, native greenhouse management, marketing, house landscape. Students will also be wildlife, waterfowl and fish concepts, production of herbaceous, involved with the operation and management, surveying and map use, woody and nursery stock plants, fruit, management of the Penn High School management of recreational areas, nut and vegetable production and pest greenhouse. Junior and senior outdoor safety, weather, and energy management. Students will be students will have the opportunity to resources. Guest speakers, field trips, involved in the management and earn Accredited Horticulturist practical skills laboratories, and natural operation of the Penn High School Certification from the Indiana Nursery resource improvement projects will aid greenhouse. Students may use this and Landscape Association and in course instruction. Students will be course to meet one of the requirements Landscape Industry Certified Technical involved with the Water Watchers of for the Academic or Technical Honors Certification from the Professional Indiana, River Watch Project and the Diploma if they fulfill the following: Landscape Network (PLANET). Environmental and Natural Resources Students completing the course with a Students completing the course with a Management Career Development grade of “C” or higher will earn free grade of “C” or higher will earn free Competition. Students may use this college credit from college credit from Ivy Tech Community course to meet one of the requirements Ivy Tech Community College Indiana. College Indiana. Any student earning for the Academic or Technical Honors Any student earning dual credit may dual credit may apply those credits to Diploma if they fulfill the following: apply those credits to the Academic or the Academic or Technical honors Students completing the course with a Technical honors diploma. diploma. grade of “C” or higher will earn free college credit from Ivy Tech Community College Indiana. Any student earning Penn# 0651 dual credit may apply those credits to LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT the academic or technical honors Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 diploma. Grade Level: 10-12 Quantitative Reasoning Course Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5136 Penn# 0645 ADVANCED LIFE SCIENCES: ANIMALS Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 11-12 Prerequisite: Biology I, Chemistry I & Animal Science Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5070 Ivy Tech AGRI 107 Advanced Animal Science College Credits: 3 Course Description: Students should not take this class concurrently with Animal Science. This year long Advanced Credit Examination (ACE) course allows students to investigate concepts that enable them to understand animal life and animal science as it pertains to companion animals. Students interested in careers in Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Technology, Biotechnology, and Life Sciences will be challenged through instruction, including laboratory and fieldwork. They will recognize concepts associated with animal taxonomy, life at the cellular level, organ systems, genetics, evolution, ecology, and historical and current issues in animal agriculture. Students will have the opportunity to “test out” of Animal Science 106 at Purdue University. This end of course assessment will grant students who successfully complete the test the opportunity to earn Purdue University College Advanced credit (at minimal cost) and move directly into more advanced level science and agricultural science studies. This course fulfills a Core 40 science requirement for the General Core 40, Core 40 with Academic Honors or the Core 40 with Technical Honors high school diploma.
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Project Lead the Way (PLTW) software. Students use the design Students will work both individually and PLTW (Project Lead the Way) helps process, applying math, science, and in teams to design solutions to a variety students develop the skills needed to engineering standards to hands-on of problems using 3D modeling succeed in our global economy. PLTW projects. Models of product solutions software. Students use the design courses are aligned with State are created, analyzed and process, applying math, science, and Standards for Math and English communicated using Autodesk engineering standards to hands-on Language Arts, Next Generation Inventor. This course also works in a projects. Models of product solutions Science Standards, and other national variety of project based learning are created, analyzed and and state standards. Courses and activities such as The Innovation communicated using Autodesk units are designed to complement math Challenge, Canstruction, and Mission Inventor. This course also works i n a and science courses. Courses can to Engineer. variety of project based l earning meet requirements for the Core 40 activities such as The Innovation Academic Honors Diploma and Challenge, Canstruction, and Mission Technical Honors Diploma. Penn# 0606 to Engineer. PLTW INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN (IED) Penn# 0605 All Girls PLTW INTRODUCTION TO Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 ENGINEERING DESIGN (IED) Grade Level: 9-12 Penn# 0607 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4802 PLTW PRINCIPLES OF Grade Level: 9-12 Ivy Tech- DESN 101 Intro to Design ENGINEERING (POE) Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4802 Technology Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Ivy Tech- DESN 101 Intro to Design College Credits: 3 Grade Level: 10-12 Technology Course Description: Pre/Co-requisite: Introduction to College Credits: 3 (IED) Introduction to Engineering and Engineering Design (IED) Course Description: Design is an introductory course, which Counts as 3rd science course (IED) Introduction to Engineering and develops student problem solving skills Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5644 Design is an introductory course, which with emphasis on the development of Ivy Tech- DESN 104 Mechanical develops student problem solving skills three-dimensional (3-D) solid models. Graphics with emphasis on the development of College Credits: 3 three-dimensional (3-D) solid models. Course Description: Students will work both individually and Principles of Engineering (POE) is a in teams to design solutions to a variety course that focuses on the process of of problems using 3D modeling applying engineering, technological, scientific and mathematical principles in the design, production, and such as an airfoil, propulsion systems, and Penn# 0613 operation of products, structures, and a rocket. They l earn orbital PLTW DIGIT AL ELECTRONICS (DE) systems. This i s a hands-on course mechanics concepts and apply these by Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 designed to provide students i nterested creating models using industry- Grade Level: 10-12 in engineering careers to explore standard software. They also apply Pre/Co-requisite: POE aerospace concepts to alternative experiences related to specialized Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5538 fields such as civil, mechanical, applications such as a wind turbine and Ivy T ech- EECT 1 12 Digital electrical and materials engineering. parachute. Students simulate a Fundamentals Students will engage i n research, progression of operations to explore a College Credits: 3 development, planning, design, planet, i ncluding creating a map of the Course Description: production, and project management to terrain with a model satellite and using Digital Electronics is a course of study simulate a career i n engineering. The the map to execute a mission using in applied digital logic that an autonomous robot. topics of ethics and the i mpacts of encompasses the design and engineering decisions are also application of electronic circuits and addressed. Classroom activities are devices found in video games, Penn# 0655 organized to allow students to work i n watches, calculators, digital cameras, teams and use modern technological PLTW CIVIL ENGINEERING AND and thousands of other devices. processes, computers, CAD software, ARCHITECTURE (CEA) Semesters: 2 Instruction includes the application of and projection systems i n developing Credits: 2 engineering and scientific principles as and presenting solutions to engineering Grade Level: 10-12 well as the use of Boolean algebra to problems. Pre requisite: POE /Co- solve design problems. Using Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5650 computer software that reflects current Ivy Tech- DESN 105 Architectural Design industry standards, activities will I provide opportunities for students to College Credits: 3 design, construct, test, and analyze Penn# 0653 Course Description: simple and complex digital circuitry. PLTW AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Civil Engineering and Architecture Software will be used to develop and (AE) introduces students to the fundamental evaluate the product design. This Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 design and development aspects of civil course engages students in critical Grade Level: 10-12 engineering and architectural planning thinking and problem-solving skills, Pre requisite: POE activities. Application and design /Co- time management and teamwork skills. Counts as 3rd science course principles will be used in conjunction Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5518 with mathematical and scientific Course Description: knowledge. Computer software Penn# 0608 Aerospace Engineering ignites programs (Revit) will allow students PLTW ENGINEERING DESIGN & students’ learning in the fundamentals opportunities to design, simulate, and DEVELOPMENT (EDD) of atmospheric and space flight. evaluate the construction of buildings and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Aerospace Engineering is one of the communities. During the planning and Grade Level: 12 specialization courses in the PLTW design phases, instructional emphasis Pre requisite: Engineering program. The course will be placed on related /Co- AE or CEA or DE deepens the skills and knowledge of an transportation, water resource, and or permission from instructor Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5698 engineering student within the context environmental issues. Activities will include Course Description: of atmospheric and space flight. the preparation of cost estimates, Engineering Design and Development Students explore the fundamentals of structure design, surveying, model is an engineering research course in flight in air and space as they bring the building, as well as a review of regulatory concepts to life by designing and procedures that would affect the project testing components related to flight design. which students work in teams to Robotics Classes (FRC 11th and 12th Compete and cooperate in Alliances at research, design, test, and construct a grade years). Students get to Design, tournaments, Earn a place in the World solution to an open-ended engineering build, and program robots, Apply Championships, Qualify for problem. The product development life real-world math and science concepts, scholarships at over 100 cycle and a design process are used to Develop strategic problem solving, colleges/universities guide the team to reach a solution to organizational, and team building skills, *There will be evening and weekend the problems. The team presents and Compete and cooperate in Alliances at commitments to participating in this defends their solution to a panel of tournaments, Earn a place in the World class. Students will ride a school outside reviewers at the conclusion of Championships, Qualify for bus and stay overnight at certain the course. The EDD course allows scholarships at over 100 competitions. students to apply all the skills and colleges/universities knowledge learned in previous *There will be evening and weekend pre-engineering courses. This course commitments to participating in this also engages students in critical class. Students will ride a school thinking and problem-solving skills, bus and stay overnight at certain Penn# 0609 time management and teamwork skills, competitions. AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS I a valuable set for students’ future Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 careers. Grade Level: 11-12 Penn# 0612 (0616 - 0 Hour) Prerequisite: Application required FIRST TECH CHALLENGE FTC 10 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5610 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 This course is weighted on a 4.5 Grade Level: 10-12 scale if taken with Penn FIRST ROBOTICS: Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4728 Robotics Internship I. Course Description: Ivy Tech- INDT 113 Basic Electricity Penn# 0602 (0614 - 0 Hour) Students can choose to take this College Credits: 3 FIRST TECH CHALLENGE FTC 9 course as a 0 hour class or a normal Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 class. 0 hour class will meet outside This course is designed to give Grade Level: 9 the school day. FTC is designed for students an experience in the Design Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4794 students to work together solving an Process as it relates to building a Course Description: engineering problem. Teams of competition robot. Since 1998 this Students can choose to take this students are responsible for designing, class has participated in the FIRST (for course as a 0 hour class or a normal building, and programming their inspiration and recognition of Science class. 0 hour class will meet outside competition robots. Competitions are and Technology) Competition. the school day. FTC is designed for held throughout Indiana and the nation. Students will dedicate the entire year students to work together solving an Students will learn and use the design learning the necessary skills and engineering problem. Teams of process to guide their work in class. processes needed to contribute to students are responsible for designing, Families will be expected to attend building Penn High School’s FRC building, and programming their informational meetings in the evenings. Robot, “The Black Knight!” competition robots. Competitions are Many skills and processes are learned Experiences such as 3D Modeling, 3D held throughout Indiana and the nation. in FTC to build the individual towards Printing, Machining, Welding, Wiring, Students will learn and use the design an effective team member for the Programming, Assembling, Controlling, process to guide their work in class. Robotics Classes (FRC 11th and 12th and Driving are all topics of study. Families will be expected to attend grade years). Students get to Design, Students that successfully complete informational meetings in the evenings. build, and program robots, Apply both classes Automation & Robotics Many skills and processes are learned real-world math and science concepts, and Penn FIRST Robotics Internship in FTC to build the individual towards Develop strategic problem solving, will receive a weighted grade. an effective team member for the organizational, and team building skills, *Students should plan to take both Prerequisite: Application required enterprise “The Black Knight” FRC Automation & Robotics as well as Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Robot in all facets of operations, Penn FIRST Robotics Internship. This course is weighted on a 4.5 including marketing, fundraising, and scale if taken with Automation & community outreach. Students that Penn# 0610 Robotics I. successfully complete both classes AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS II Course Description: Automation & Robotics and Penn Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 This course is offered as a 0 hour FIRST Robotics Internship will receive Grade Level: 12 class. Students will report to class a weighted grade. Prerequisite: Automation & outside of the school day. Classes will *Students should plan to take both Robotics I AND Application meet at 7:30am on Gold Days and Automation & Robotics II as well as Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5612 3:30pm to 5:30 pm one day per week. Penn FIRST Robotics Internship II. This course is weighted on a 4.5 This class is offered in conjunction with scale if taken with Penn FIRST the Automation & Robotics I & II Robotics Internship II. classes. Robotics Internship students Ivy Tech- ADMF 122 Automation participate in Penn’s school-based ARCHITECTURE: Mechatronics Electrical Systems enterprise “The Black Knight” FRC College Credits: 3 Robot in all facets of operations, Penn# 0604 including marketing, fundraising, and Course Description: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I community outreach. Students that This course is designed to give Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 successfully complete both classes students an experience in the Design Grade Level: 9-12 Automation & Robotics and Penn Process as it relates to building a Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5640 FIRST Robotics Internship will receive competition robot. Since 1998 this Ivy Tech- DESN 101 Intro to Design a weighted grade. class has participated in the FIRST (for Technology *Students should plan to take both inspiration and recognition of Science College Credits: 3 Automation & Robotics I as well as and Technology) Competition. Course Description: Penn FIRST Robotics Internship I. Students will dedicate the entire year Architectural Drafting and Design I learning the necessary skills and gives students a basic understanding Penn# 0678 processes needed to contribute to of the detailing skills commonly used PENN FIRST ROBOTICS building Penn High School’s FRC by architectural technicians. Areas of INTERNSHIP II (WBL) Robot, “The Black Knight!” study include: sketching, proper use of Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Experiences such as 3D Modeling, 3D equipment, geometric constructions, Grade Level: 11-12 Printing, Machining, Welding, Wiring, and general residential design. This Prerequisite: Penn First Robotics Programming, Assembling, Controlling, course includes the creation and Internship I AND Application and Driving are all topics of study. interpretation of construction Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Students that successfully complete documents. Methods of geometric This course is weighted on a 4.5 both classes Automation & Robotics construction, three-dimensional scale if taken with Automation & and Penn FIRST Robotics Internship drawing techniques, and sketching will Robotics II. will receive a weighted grade. be presented as well as elementary Course Description: *Students should plan to take both aspects of residential design and site This course is offered as a 0 hour Automation & Robotics as well as work. Areas of emphasis will include class. Students will report to class Penn FIRST Robotics Internship. print reading and drawing. This course outside of the school day. Classes will also provides students with a basic meet at 7:30am on Gold Days and Penn# 0677 understanding of the features and 3:30pm to 5:30 pm one day per week. PENN FIRST ROBOTICS considerations associated with the This class is offered in conjunction with INTERNSHIP I (WBL) operation of a computer-aided design the Automation & Robotics I & II Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 (CAD) system. They will be expected classes. Robotics Internship students Grade Level: 11-12 to complete several projects relating to participate in Penn’s school-based command topics. Topics include: 2D Grade Level: 11-12 Engineering, Architecture, Electronics drawing commands, coordinate Prerequisites: Architectural Design and Robotics. Students will use the systems, editing commands, paper and II design process and documentation model space, inquiry commands, Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5650 process while producing hands-on layers, plotting, text, and basic Ivy Tech- DESN 105 Architectural projects. dimensioning. Design I College Credits: 3 Course Description: MANUFACTURING: Penn# 0656 Course Description: CEA Non PLTW ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II introduces students to the fundamental Penn# 0625 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 design and development aspects of ADVANCED MANUFACTURING I Grade Level: 10-12 civil engineering and architectural Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Architectural Design I planning activities. Application and Grade Level: 9-12 Weight: 4.5 DOE# 5652 design principles will be used in Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5608 Ivy Tech- DESN 105 Architectural conjunction with mathematical and Course Description: Design I scientific knowledge. Computer Advanced Manufacturing I is designed College Credits: 3 software programs should allow to provide students with a basic Course Description: students opportunities to design, understanding of the precision Architectural Design II builds on the simulate, and evaluate the construction machining processes used in industry, concepts of Architectural Design I and of buildings and communities. During manufacturing, maintenance, and presents a history and survey of the planning and design phases, repair. The course instructs students in architecture with a focus on the instructional emphasis should be industrial safety, terminology, tools and creative design of buildings in a studio placed on related transportation, water machine tools, measurement and environment. This course covers site resource, and environmental issues. layout. Students will become familiar analysis, facilities programming, space Activities should include the with the setup and operation of power planning, conceptual design, and the preparation of cost estimates as well as saws, drill presses, lathes, milling proper use of materials. Students will a review of regulatory procedures that machines, grinders, welding and an develop presentation drawings, give would affect the project design. introduction to CNC (computer oral presentations, and critique works. controlled) machines. Generation of form and space is addressed through basic architectural theory, related architectural styles, TECHNOLOGY: design strategies, and a visual Penn# 0627 representation of the student's design Penn# 0603 ADVANCED MANUFACTURING II process. This course will focus on COMPUTERS IN DESIGN & Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 advanced Computer Aided Design PRODUCTION Grade Level: 10-12 (CAD) techniques. It includes an Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Prerequisite: Advanced overview of modeling, graphical Grade Level: 9-12 Manufacturing I manipulation, part structuring, and Weight: 4.5 DOE# 4800 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5606 modeling strategies. Various Ivy Tech- DESN 101 Intro to Design Course Description: Architectural software packages and Technology Advanced Manufacturing II is a more applications will be used. College Credit: 3 in-depth study of skills learned in Course Description: Advanced Manufacturing I, with a Computers in Design and Production is stronger focus in CNC Penn# 0654 a course that specializes in design setup/operation/programming. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III using code and 3D modeling while Classroom activities will concentrate on Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 addressing various topics in precision set-up and inspection work as well as machine shop calculations. laboratory experiences that develop a Prerequisite: Introduction to Students will develop skills in advanced variety of skills in Gas Metal Arc Construction or Introduction to machining and measuring parts. welding, Flux Cored Arc Welding, Gas Engineering Design Tungsten Arc welding, Plasma Cutting Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5578 and Carbon Arc Cutting. This course is Course Description: Penn# 0620 designed for individuals who intend to Construction Trades II is a specialized WELDING TECHNOLOGY I pursue careers as Welders, course that builds on the fundamentals Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Technicians, Sales Reps, Designers, acquired in the Introduction to Grade Level: 10-12 Researchers or Engineers. Emphasis Construction class to further Prerequisite: Advanced is placed on safety at all times. OSHA understand the technological Manufacturing I standards and guide-lines endorsed by processes used in the building trades Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5776 the American Welding Society (AWS) industry. Students will learn common Course Description: are used. Instructional activities processing and assembly methods and Welding Technology I includes emphasize properties of metals, safety employ those techniques to create a classroom and laboratory experiences issues, blueprint reading, electrical wide variety of projects. that develop a variety of skills in principles, welding symbols, and oxy-fuel cutting and Shielded Metal Arc mechanical drawing through projects welding. This course is designed for and exercises that teach students how Penn# 0633 (with 1357) individuals who intend to make a to weld and be prepared for college VOCATIONAL BUILDING career as a Welder, Technician, Sales, and career success. TRADES I Designer, Researcher or Engineer. (4 Blocks) Emphasis is placed on safety at all Semesters: 2 Credits: 6 times. OSHA standards and guidelines CONSTRUCTION: Grade Level: 11-12 endorsed by the American Welding Prerequisite: Application required Society (AWS) are used. Instructional Penn# 0629 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4830 activities emphasize properties of CONSTRUCTION TRADES I Course Description: metals, safety issues, blueprint Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Transportation will be provided to reading, electrical principles, welding Grade Level: 9-12 the construction site and back to the symbols, and mechanical drawing Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5580 school. st nd through projects and exercises that Course Description: Students will spend 1 and 2 periods teach students how to weld and be Construction Trades I is an entry-level every day at the Building Trades site. prepared for college and career course that emphasizes the use of This course is designed to give success. This course qualifies for the tools, materials, and techniques used students practical experiences in the General, Core 40 with Academic in the construction industry. Students different phases of house construction Honors and Core 40 with Technical will learn how to safely operate various through the building of a house on a Honors diplomas. hand and power tools. Joinery and site near the school. Students will gain assembly methods will also be studied. some knowledge and experience in Students will use these methods to house wiring, plumbing, heating, Penn# 0622 produce a wide variety of projects. concrete and masonry work, painting, WELDING TECHNOLOGY II drywall application, landscaping, and (Double Block) carpentry. After successful completion Semesters: 2 Credits: 4 of this course, students should be Grade Level: 11-12 Penn# 0631 prepared to enter some phase of the Prerequisite: Welding Technology I building trades. This class will help CONSTRUCTION TRADES II Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5778 with future projects in your home! Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Course Description: Students will earn an OSHA 10 Grade Level: 10-12 Welding Technology II is a 2 block certification. Students will need a basic class. It includes classroom and set of tools. Students are responsible for their own transportation to the construction site and back to school after class.
Penn# 0635 (with 1357) VOCATIONAL BUILDING TRADES II (4 Blocks) Semesters: 2 Credits: 6 Grade Level: 12 Prerequisite: Vocational Building Trades I AND application Weight: 4.0 DOE# 4832 Course Description: Transportation will be provided to the construction site and back to the school. Students will spend 1 st and 2 nd periods every day at the Building Trades site. Students will have the same opportunities that they had in Vocational Building Trades I. Students will be able to specialize in a specific area of house construction, with an emphasis on the installation, operation, and maintenance of HVAC systems. After successful completion of the course, students will be prepared to enter some phase of the building trades. Students will earn an OSHA 10 certification. Students will need a basic set of tools. Students are responsible for their own transportation to the construction site and back to school after class. WORLD LANGUAGES
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Sign Language GAPP· Electives: S111pportInternship 475 (482) 111i-11 1 ,[Not for World Lam,guage (11-12) credit} 1 events, ask and answer simple or responding to an offer of help, and questions and participate in brief expressing preferences pertaining to WORLD LANGUAGES guided conversations related to their everyday life, understand main ideas needs and interests, read isolated and facts from simple texts over With the exception of Spanish for words and phrases in a situational familiar topics, read aloud with Spanish Speakers, all World context, such as menus, signs, and appropriate intonation and Language courses qualify for CORE schedules, comprehend brief written pronunciation and, write briefly in 40 and Academic Honors Diploma. directions and information, read short response to given situations, for Students may qualify for Core 40 narrative texts on simple topics and, example postcards, personal notes, without world language; however, write familiar words and phrases in phone messages, and directions, as many colleges require 2 years of appropriate contexts and respond in well as write letters using culturally World Language for admission. writing to various stimuli. Additionally, appropriate format and style. Please check with individual students learn about nonverbal Additionally, students become familiar colleges for admissions communication, such as gestures and with major geographical features, requirements. body language, about awareness of historical events, and political current events in the cultures, the structures of the countries being For students to receive Academic major holidays and geographical studied, familiar with different aspects Honors, students must take the features of the countries being studied, of the culture, including the visual arts, class in a traditional classroom greeting and leave taking behaviors in architecture, literature and music, using setting and not through any online a variety of social situations, the the foreign language where program. appropriate way to respond to appropriate, able to extend and introductions and use courtesy respond to hospitality as a host or behaviors and, appropriate etiquette in guest and, aware of time expectations, a variety of social settings such as arriving for appointments and social engagements Penn# 0401 FRENCH I Penn# 0403 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 9-12 FRENCH II Penn# 0405 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2020 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Course Description: Grade Level: 10-12 FRENCH III Level I French provides instruction Prerequisite: French I Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 enabling students to discuss the many Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2022 Grade Level: 11-12 reasons for learning languages and to Course Description: Prerequisite: French II develop an understanding of the Level II French enables students to Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2024 people who speak them. Students are participate in classroom and Course Description: able to apply effective strategies for extracurricular activities related to the Level III French provides instruction language learning and show a language studied as well as to enabling students to understand and willingness to experience various participate in conversations dealing appreciate other cultures by comparing aspects of the cultures. Within this with daily activities and personal social behaviors and values of people context, the course provides students interests. Students will be able to ask using the languages being learned. with opportunities to respond to and questions regarding routine activities, Students must be willing to initiate and give oral directions and commands and participate in conversations on a participate in discussions concerning to make routine requests in the variety of topics, relate a simple these cultures. In addition, students classroom and in public places, narrative about a personal experience will be able to respond to factual and understand and use appropriate forms or event, interact in a variety of interpretive questions and interact in a of address in courtesy expressions and situations to meet personal needs, variety of social situations, such as be able to tell about daily routines and such as asking permission, asking for expressing regrets, condolences, and complaints, and using more than rote make judgments, give presentations on study and the study of the cultures in memory formula phrases, read for cultural topics including: (1) traditions, which the language is spoken. In comprehension from a variety of (2)historical and contemporary events, addition, students are able to initiate authentic materials, such as and (3) major historical and artistic and participate in conversations on advertisements in newspapers and figures, paraphrase or restate what current or past events that are of magazines, and cartoons and personal someone else has said, read for significance in the foreign culture, correspondence, read short literary comprehension from a variety of longer develop and propose solutions to selections of poetry, plays, and short authentic materials, such as issues and problems that are of stories, complete authentic forms and newspapers and magazine articles, concern to members of their own documents and take notes that require novels, and essays, as well as make culture and the foreign culture being familiar vocabulary and structures, judgments about what is read, write studied, demonstrate an understanding write paraphrases, summaries, and well organized compositions on a given of the principal elements of nonfiction, brief compositions, describe different topic and, begin using the language articles in newspapers, magazines, and aspects of the culture, using the foreign creatively in writing simple poetry and e-mail on topics of current and language where appropriate, including: prose historical importance to members of the (1)major historical events, (2) political Students are also aware of the culture, analyze the main plot, subplot, structures, (3) value systems, (4) visual relationship between various art forms characters and their descriptions, roles, arts, (5) architecture, (6) literature, and in at least one major historical period, and significance in authentic literary (7)music and, seek help in a crisis aware of the major literary, musical, texts, create stories and poems, short situation and participate appropriately and artistic periods and genres of at plays, and skits based on personal at special family occasions, such as least one of the cultures in which the experiences and exposure to themes, birthdays, weddings, funerals, and language is spoken, able to adjust ideas, and perspectives from the anniversaries speech appropriate to the situation and foreign cultures and, summarize the audience and, able to participate content of an article intended for native appropriately in a variety of specific speakers in order to discuss the topics circumstances which could include in writing for speakers of the language. Penn# 0407 public meetings, attending concerts, Additionally, students gain a general FRENCH IV and using public transportation knowledge of the major literary and Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 artistic movements within the cultures Grade Level: 11-12 where the foreign language is spoken, Prerequisite: French III become aware of the relationships, in Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2026 Penn# 0408 these periods among the various art Course Description: AP® FRENCH forms and, demonstrate near native Level IV French enables students to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 behaviors, using the appropriate verbal participate in classroom and Grade Level: 12 and nonverbal cues in a variety of extra-curricular activities related to the Prerequisite: French III cultural contexts, that reflect both peer language studied, such as Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2032 group and adult activities within the presentations to the student body and Course Description: cultures studied. to parent groups and taking leadership Advanced Placement® French enables roles in language clubs. Students must students to participate in activities be willing to participate in beyond the classroom that could conversations with native and include concerts, theatre Penn# 0409 advanced non-native speakers, either performances, and community GERMAN I in their community or in the school. activities. Students are willing to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 This course also enables students to participate in conversations with native Grade Level: 9-12 respond to factual and interpretive speakers in the community and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2040 questions, interact in complex social promote among their peers, and Course Description: situations, and express opinions and others, the benefits of foreign language Level I German provides instruction Prerequisite: German I comprehension from a variety of enabling students to discuss the many Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2042 authentic materials, and short literary reasons for learning languages and to Course Description: selections which include fairy tales, develop an understanding of the Level II German enables students to short stories and books of appropriate people who speak them. Students are participate in classroom and length for third year students. able to apply effective strategies for extracurricular activities related to the language learning and show a language studied as well as to willingness to experience various participate in conversations dealing Penn# 0415 aspects of the cultures. Within this with daily activities and personal GERMAN IV context, the course provides students interests. Students will be able to ask Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 with opportunities to respond to and questions regarding routine activities, Grade Level: 11-12 give oral directions and commands and participate in conversations on a Prerequisite: German III to make routine requests in the variety of topics, relate a simple Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2046 classroom and in public places, narrative about a personal experience Course Description: understand and use appropriate forms or event – orally or written, interact in a Level IV German students will learn of address in courtesy expressions and variety of situations to meet personal 20th Century German history and be able to tell about daily routines and needs, understand main ideas and advanced grammar topics; students will events, ask and answer simple facts from simple texts over familiar read authentic works from the 19 th & questions and participate in brief topics, read aloud with appropriate 20th Centuries, including poetry, short guided conversations related to their intonation and pronunciation, and give stories and plays; students will write needs and interests, read isolated short formal presentations, write briefly lengthy essays and creative pieces. words and phrases in a situational in response to given situations, for The German IV class is conducted in context, such as menus, signs, and example write letters using culturally German and students will speak schedules, comprehend brief written appropriate format and style. German. directions and information, read short Additionally, students become familiar narrative texts on simple topics and, with different aspects of the culture write familiar words and phrases in appropriate contexts and respond in Penn# 0416 writing to various stimuli. Additionally, AP® GERMAN students learn, about nonverbal Penn# 0413 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 communication, such as gestures and GERMAN III Grade Level: 12 body language, about awareness of Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Prerequisite: German III current events in the cultures, the Grade Level: 11-12 Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2052 major holidays and geographical Prerequisite: German II Course Description: features of the countries being studied, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2044 Advanced Placement® German greeting and leave taking behaviors in Course Description: enables students to participate in a variety of social situations, the Level III German provides instruction activities beyond the classroom that appropriate way to respond to enabling students to understand and could include concerts, theatre introductions and use courtesy appreciate other cultures by comparing performances, and community behaviors and, appropriate etiquette in social behaviors and values of people activities. Students are willing to a variety of social settings using the languages being learned. participate in conversations with native Students must be willing to initiate and speakers in the community and participate in discussions concerning promote among their peers, and Penn# 0411 these cultures. In addition, students others, the benefits of foreign language GERMAN II will be able to respond to factual and study and the study of the cultures in Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 interpretive questions and interact in a which the language is spoken. In Grade Level: 10-12 variety of social situations, read for addition, students will be able to initiate and participate in conversations 3+ weeks to be determined understand and use appropriate forms on current or past events that are of approximately one year before travel. of address in courtesy expressions and significance in the foreign culture, Course is limited to 18 participants A be able to tell about daily routines and develop and propose solutions to course in humanities provides for the events, ask and answer simple issues and problems that are of study of content drawn from history, questions and participate in brief concern to members of their own philosophy, literature, languages, and guided conversations related to their culture and the foreign culture being the arts. The Penn GAPProgram needs and interests, read isolated studied, demonstrate an understanding includes an in-depth study of the words and phrases in a situational of the principal elements of nonfiction, German Language, Culture and context, comprehend brief written articles in newspapers, magazines, and History. Broad emphasis will be placed directions and information, read short e-mail on topics of current and on the National Standards for Foreign narrative texts on simple topics and, historical importance to members of the Language Learning. The students will write familiar words and phrases in culture, analyze the main plot, subplot, live with host families, attend school appropriate contexts and respond in characters and their descriptions, roles, and travel. It is through these activities writing to various stimuli. Additionally, and significance in authentic literary and experiences that students will gain students learn about nonverbal texts, create stories and poems, short an understanding of the target communication, such as gestures and plays, and skits based on personal language; develop insight into the body language, about awareness of experiences and exposure to themes, nature of the culture and communicate current events in the cultures, the ideas, and perspectives from the in a language other than English. major holidays and geographical foreign cultures and, summarize the Pre-trip preparations and course work features of the country being studied, content of an article intended for native will help the students develop an greeting and leave taking behaviors in speakers in order to discuss the topics understanding of the German a variety of social situations, the in writing for speakers of the language. language, its culture and its rich history appropriate way to respond to Additionally, students gain a general and how to actually apply it to the introductions and use courtesy knowledge of the major literary and human environment. behaviors and, appropriate etiquette in artistic movements within the cultures a variety of social settings where the foreign language is spoken, become aware of the relationships, in Penn# 0425 these periods among the various art JAPANESE I Penn# 0431 forms, and demonstrate near native Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 JAPANESE II behaviors, using the appropriate verbal Grade Level: 9-12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 and nonverbal cues in a variety of Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2060 Grade Level: 10-12 cultural contexts, that reflect both peer Course Description: Prerequisite: Japanese I group and adult activities within the Level I Japanese provides instruction Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2062 cultures studied . enabling students to discuss the many Course Description: reasons for learning languages and to Level II Japanese enables students to Penn# 0475 develop an understanding of the participate in classroom and GERMAN AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP people who speak them. Students are extracurricular activities related to the PROGRAM (GAPP) able to apply effective strategies for language studied as well as to Semesters: 1 (Summer) Credits: 1 language learning and show a participate in conversations dealing Grade Level: 10-11 willingness to experience various with daily activities and personal Prerequisites: German II AND aspects of the cultures. Within this interests. Students will be able to ask application context, the course provides students questions regarding routine activities, Counts as an Elective for all with opportunities to respond to and participate in conversations on a diplomas give oral directions and commands and variety of topics, relate a simple Weight: 4.0 DOE# 0514 to make routine requests in the narrative about a personal experience Course Description: classroom and in public places, or event, interact in a variety of situations to meet personal needs, correspondence, complete authentic Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2068 such as asking permission, asking for forms and documents and take notes Course Description: or responding to an invitation, and that require familiar vocabulary and Level V Japanese is an advanced expressing preferences pertaining to structures, write paraphrases, study of the Japanese language and everyday life, understand main ideas summaries, and brief compositions. culture.Some independent study may and facts from simple texts over be required. familiar topics, read aloud with appropriate intonation and Penn# 0435 pronunciation and, write briefly in JAPANESE IV Penn# 0417 response to given situations, for Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 SPANISH I example postcards, personal notes, Grade Level: 12 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 and phone messages, as well as write Prerequisite: Japanese III Grade Level: 9-12 letters using culturally appropriate Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2066 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2120 format and style. Additionally, students Course Description: Course Description: become able to extend and respond to Level IV Japanese enables students to Level 1 Spanish introduces students to hospitality as a host or guest and, participate in classroom and the Spanish language by practicing aware of time expectations, such as extracurricular activities related to the reading, writing, listening, and speaking arriving for appointments and social language studied. Students must be skills on a daily basis. The goal of level engagements. willing to participate in conversations 1 is to establish a solid foundation in with native and advanced non-native the Spanish language. Students will speakers, either in their community or learn strategies to become effective in the school. This course also enables language learners. Within this context, Penn# 0433 students to respond to factual and the course provides students with JAPANESE III interpretive questions, interact in opportunities to comprehend new Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 complex social situations, and express language through dialogues, clip art, Grade Level: 11-12 opinions and make judgments, write rhymes, visuals, and video, practice Prerequisite: Japanese II well organized compositions on a given communication through use of Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2064 topic, begin using the language technology, answer questions and Course Description: creatively in writing simple poetry and express personal opinions both Level III Japanese provides instruction prose and conversation, seek help in a verbally and in writing, compare enabling students to understand and crisis situation and participate languages and cultures through appreciate other cultures by comparing appropriately at special family grammar study, pronunciation, art, and social behaviors and values of people occasions, such as birthdays, readings in authentic settings, using the languages being learned. weddings and anniversaries. Students demonstrate all language skills through Students must be willing to initiate and will also become able to adjust speech a variety of tasks and projects participate in discussions concerning appropriate to the situation and presented in the classroom. these cultures. In addition, students audience and able to participate will be able to respond to factual and appropriately in a variety of specific interpretive questions and interact in a circumstances which could include Penn# 0445 variety of social situations, such as public meetings, attending concerts, SPANISH I ACCELERATED expressing regrets, condolences, and and using public transportation. Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 complaints, and using more than rote Grade Level: 9 memory formula phrases, read for Penn# 0427 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2120 comprehension from a variety of JAPANESE V Course Description: authentic materials, such as Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Spanish I Accelerated is designed to advertisements in newspapers and Grade Level: 12 prepare highly capable, motivated magazines, and cartoons and personal Prerequisite: Japanese IV students for future AP study and Level II is to expand students’ ability to about the Spanish-speaking population examination. This course is the first in talk about school activities, living in the of the United States. a series of accelerated courses. city, one’s daily routine, and other Through a compacted curriculum, topics that the student might use in real students will learn more vocabulary life. As the library of useful vocabulary Penn# 0421 and more grammatical structures than grows for the student, so does the SPANISH III is typically possible in a regular level I ability to talk and write about more Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 language class. Students need to have topics in a more authentic way. The Grade Level: 11-12 an adeptness for applying effective course provides the students with Prerequisite: Spanish II language learning strategies, as opportunities to comprehend new Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2124 demonstrated on a language aptitude language through dialogues, clip art, Course Description: test administered prior to enrollment visuals, and video, practice Level III takes what the student learned and show a willingness to experience communication through listening in Levels I and II and builds upon it. various aspects of the cultures. exercises, paired activities, and We continue to practice the language Students will move quickly through the through the use of technology, answer by reading, writing, listening, and basic language acquisition skills of questions and express personal speaking Spanish on a daily basis. listening, speaking, reading, and opinions both verbally and in writing, The goal of Level III is to expand writing. Within this context, Spanish I compare languages and cultures students’ ability to talk about different Accelerated provides students with through grammar study, pronunciation situations in life. The students explore opportunities to comprehend new and cultural information, demonstrate the world of Spanish art, getting a job, language through dialogues, clip art, all language skills through a variety of going on vacation, and other authentic rhymes, visuals, and video, practice tasks and projects situations. As the library of useful communication through listening vocabulary grows for the student, so exercises, paired and group activities, does the ability to talk and write about and through using technology, answer more topics in a more authentic way. questions and express personal Penn# 0453 Sentence structure becomes more opinions both verbally and in writing, SPANISH II ACCELERATED sophisticated. The students talk about compare languages and cultures Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 the present, the past, and the future. through grammar study, pronunciation, Grade Level: 10 The course provides the students with art, and readings in authentic settings, Prerequisites: Spanish I opportunities to comprehend new demonstrate all language skills through Accelerated or teacher language through dialogues, clip art, a variety of tasks and projects recommendation visuals, and video, practice presented in the classroom. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2122 communication through listening Course Description: exercises, paired activities, and This accelerated course is designed to through the use of the language Penn# 0419 continue to prepare the students for the laboratory, answer questions and SPANISH II AP Program in their senior year. More express personal opinions both Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 material will be covered than in the verbally and in writing, compare Grade Level: 10-12 regular Spanish 2 program with the languages and cultures through Prerequisite: Spanish I goal of further enhancing the grammar study, pronunciation, art, and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2122 development of the basic skills of cultural information, demonstrate all Course Description: listening, speaking, reading, and language skills through a variety of Level II takes what the student learned writing. Oral proficiency and sentence tasks and projects, write more in the in Level I and builds upon it. We structure are emphasized. Students target language, describe different continue to practice the language by continue to learn about the countries aspects of the culture using technology reading, writing, listening, and speaking where Spanish is spoken, as well as where appropriate. Spanish on a daily basis. The goal of write about more topics in a more characters and their descriptions, roles, authentic way in Spanish. Sentence and significance in authentic literary Penn# 0455 structure becomes even more texts, create stories and poems, short SPANISH III ACCELERATED sophisticated. The students talk about plays, and skits based on themes, Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 the various countries they study using ideas, and perspectives from the Grade Level: 11 the verb tenses in Spanish they are foreign cultures, summarize the content Prerequisite: Spanish II Accelerated practicing or learning. The course of an article, a story, and to discuss or teacher recommendation provides the students with these topics in Spanish Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2124 opportunities to comprehend new Course Description: language through dialogues, clip art, This accelerated course is designed to visuals, and movies, practice NOTE: American Sign Language is continue prepare the students for the communication through listening not counted as World Language AP Program in their senior year. More exercises, paired activities, the use of credit by all colleges. Students are material will be covered than in the technology, as well as native speakers, responsible for checking. regular Spanish 3 program with the answer questions and express goal of further enhancing the personal opinions both verbally and in development of the basic skills of writing, compare languages and listening, speaking, reading, and Penn# 0437 cultures through grammar study, writing. Oral proficiency and sentence AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE I pronunciation, art, and cultural structure are emphasized. Students Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 information, demonstrate all language continue to learn about the countries Grade Level: 10-12 skills through a variety of tasks and where Spanish is spoken, as well as Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2156 projects, write more in the target about the Spanish-speaking population Course Description: language, read more in the target of the United States. American Sign Language I introduces language using both short novels and American Sign Language (ASL) and essays, describe different aspects of the Deaf community. It focuses on the culture using the foreign language. frequently used signs through a Penn# 0423 functional-notional approach and SPANISH IV discusses cultural features of the Deaf Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Penn# 0424 community. Emphasis is placed on the Grade Level: 11-12 AP® SPANISH receptive and expressive skills. In the Prerequisite: Spanish III Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 areas of reading, composition, and Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2126 Grade Level: 12 receptive and expressive Course Description: Prerequisite: Spanish III OR communication skills, students have Level IV takes what the student learned Spanish III Accelerated the opportunity to develop visual acuity, in Levels I, II, and III and builds upon it. Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2132 follow brief verbal instructions, We continue to practice the language Course Description: understand short statements, by reading, writing, listening, and Advanced Placement® Spanish questions, and dialogues, originate speaking Spanish on a daily basis. enables students to participate in short descriptions from prompts, read The goal of Level IV, however, is to activities beyond the classroom. and discuss texts written by Deaf expand the students’ ability to talk Students must be willing to participate authors about their experiences, read about cultural differences in the world. in conversations, promote the benefits and discuss the history of the Deaf The students explore the history, art, of foreign language study and the study community, begin to understand the political development, and cultural of the cultures in which the language is current Glossing system used to write traditions of Spain, South America, and spoken. In addition, students will be ASL. Students also learn to recognize Central America. As the library of able to initiate and participate in the difference between the pathological useful vocabulary grows for the conversations on current or past and psychological definitions of student, so does the ability to talk and events, analyze the main plot, subplot, deafness, dispel common myths associated with deafness and ASL, ASL and, begin to write in gloss their Penn# 0481-0485 recognize the widespread use of ASL own simple dialogues, poetry, and AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE throughout the United States, and translations INTERNSHIP (WBL) develop an understanding of the Semesters: 1 or 2 Credits: 1 or 2 intricate relationship between Grade Level: 12 languages and cultures in general. Prerequisite: American Sign Penn# 0441 Language III AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE III Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Course Description: Penn# 0439 Grade Level: 11-12 This class is offered to ASL students AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II Prerequisite: American Sign that desire to continue in the profession Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Language II as either a teacher of the Deaf, an Grade Level: 10-12 Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2162 interpreter or a speech pathologist. Prerequisite: American Sign Course Description: Student will be placed by the Language I American Sign Language III continues corporation Deaf H/H consult teacher. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2158 to develop expressive and receptive Placement will be made in coordination Course Description: signing skills as well as cultural to the students availability and age of American Sign Language II continues awareness. Vocabulary will be placement (Level of school k-12) and the focus on frequently used signs reviewed and increased from previous availability in and outside our through a functional-notional approach courses. Emphasis will be placed on corporation. Students will be placed and the cultural features of the Deaf non-manual grammar. Students will through a screening and will be community. Emphasis is placed on a interact with member(s) of the Deaf required to adhere to a contract of more advanced level of learning the community. Class will be conducted in conduct. receptive and expressive ASL; ASL will be the language used by communication skills in American Sign the teacher and students in the Language. In the areas of reading, classroom. composition, and receptive and Penn# 0447 expressive communication skills, CHINESE I students are given opportunities to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Penn# 0443 understand longer and more intricate Grade Level: 9-12 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE IV grammatical features as they occur in Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2000 Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 context, watch and understand short Course Description: Grade Level: 12 stories, dialogues, and poetry in ASL, This beginning class introduces Prerequisite: American Sign continue to develop visual students to the Chinese Mandarin Language III discrimination, begin to understand language and the culture with Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2164 various dialects of ASL by interacting emphasis on producing modern, Course Description: with ASL users with the Deaf authentic communication. In this American Sign Language IV continues community, begin to use classifiers two-semester course, Hanyu Pinyin will to develop expressive and receptive appropriately, perform original be taught in the first semester. signing skills. Issues, current or else, in translations from English to ASL, Although the textbook will use ASL and Deaf culture are shared increase awareness of common simplified Chinese characters, the throughout the course. Students will experiences within the Deaf traditional Chinese characters will also explore the use of literature and community, continue to study the be taught. The course is designed for storytelling in ASL. Students will also history of ASL and the Deaf students who don't know Hanyu Pinyin incorporate non-manual grammatical community, begin to examine the and have had little exposure to features and classifiers into their current linguistic research done in ASL, Chinese language. Upon the signing. ASL will be used at all times by continue the mastery of the current completion of this course, students will everyone in the classroom. Glossing system used in texts to write be able to develop basic proficiencies in listening, speaking, reading and develop oral proficiencies in topics Course Description: writing on the topics studied. Students studied. They will be able to read and This course provides intermediate-level will also develop understanding of the write paragraphs, statements, and training in spoken and written Chinese culture, philosophy and lifestyles of the dialogues. Computer-assisted in cultural context, based on language Chinese speaking countries through technology and online course materials skills developed in Chinese III. By learning of the various Chinese are an integral part of the instruction in increasing students' vocabulary and festivals, songs and poems, and this class. their knowledge of sentence patterns, engaging in some cultural activities, the course focuses on speaking and games and crafts. Computer-assisted writing in coherent and well-formed Penn# 0457 technology and online course materials paragraphs. By the end of the CHINESE III are an integral part of the instruction in semester students should be able to Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 this class. (1)carry out rather fluent conversations Grade Level: 10-12 about daily activities, (2) write Prerequisites: Chinese II compositions of 300-500 characters on Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2004 subjects of their daily life and personal Penn# 0449 Course Description: experiences. The course is also CHINESE II The two-semester course is designed to improve students’ abilities Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 continuation of Chinese 2. While to communicate effectively and Grade Level: 9-12 continuing to strengthen the skills of appropriately in real life social contexts. Prerequisites: Chinese I OR speaking, writing, listening, and reading In addition, some computer-assisted heritage language learners (those with Mandarin Chinese, the course also technology and online course materials who come from Chinese or bilingual continues to incorporate the study of are an integral part of the instruction to home background) who know Hanyu Chinese culture and history. By enhance oral and listening proficiency. Pinyin (PRC) and at least 50 - 100 increasing students' vocabulary and Students who are interested in taking Chinese Characters. their knowledge of sentence patterns, Chinese SAT II subject test will get help Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2002 the course will promote students to in identifying their strength and Course Description: obtain advanced reading and writing weakness in four aspects through The two-semester course is a skills. Level III Chinese is also some practice material. With the continuation of Chinese I. The course designed to improve students’ abilities assistance from the teacher, students aims at further developing fundamental to communicate effectively and will develop a study plan so as to language skills. All four skills appropriately in real life social contexts. ensure the success of the Chinese SAT (speaking, reading, listening and In addition, some computer-assisted II subject test. writing) will be emphasized and learned technology and online course materials in communicative context. Students are are an integral part of the instruction to expected to actively participate in class enhance oral and listening proficiency. by engaging in interactive activities and Students who are interested in taking Penn# 0469 reading and writing practices. Both Chinese SAT II subject test currently or AP® CHINESE simplified and traditional Chinese in the future year will get help in Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 character forms will be taught in class. learning about the test and preparing Grade Level: 12 Students will also develop the test. Prerequisite: Chinese III understanding of the culture, Weight: 5.0 DOE# 2014 philosophy and lifestyles of the Course Description: Penn# 0467 Chinese speaking countries through Advanced Placement® Chinese CHINESE IV learning of the various Chinese Language & Culture course is Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 festivals, songs and poems, and continuation of Chinese 3. The course Grade Level: 11-12 engaging in some cultural activities, objective is to further improve students' Prerequisites: Chinese III games and crafts. Upon the proficiency in listening, speaking, Weight: 4.0 DOE# 2006 completion of this course, students will reading, and writing skills to be ready for the AP® Chinese exam held every May. Students enrolled in this course will also have the maximum exposure to Chinese cultural elements that are integrated in the process of learning the language. The primary goal of this course is to enable students to communicate through the exploration of topics reflecting multiple aspects of Chinese society and culture. Each unit of study comprises vocabulary, sentence patterns, text analysis, application of vocabulary and patterns, supplementary reading, and finally, writing assignments and tests. Students should be able to achieve the following objectives: Develop communicative competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, Understand the textbook lessons and supplementary materials and participate in discussions of the cultural aspects of the readings in Chinese. Use the knowledge gained through course materials to develop critical thinking and writing skills to compose essays in Chinese on given topics, Use the Chinese language to communicate effectively both in the school setting and in real-life situations, Use the Chinese language as they seek clarifications through the use of communication and language learning strategies that are running elements of the course, and carry on a conversation or a discussion with other students in class. Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 Penn# 1603 Course Description: WORK BASED LEARNING PEER LEADERS (WBL) Kingsmen Tutor Internship provides (WBL) Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 students with opportunities to tutor Grade Level: 10-12 peers and assist a teacher during the Prerequisite: Interview with course school year in the classroom. Tutors Penn# 0680, 0681, 0682, 0683, 0684, instructor will receive training and attend monthly 0685, 0686, 0687- 1 block Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 meetings with the Kingsmen Tutor 0674, 0675, 0679- 2 blocks Course Description: Leaders. If you take second semester WORK BASED LEARNING This course is designed to give high for no credit then this internship is INTERNSHIP (WBL) school students the opportunity to considered volunteer experience, Semesters: 1 or 2 interact with and learn about people earning approximately 70 volunteer One Block: 1 credit per semester with disabilities. Students will provide 5 hours in the semester. Many college Two Blocks: 2 credits per semester blocks over two weeks of in-class admission offices and scholarship Grade Level: 11-12 and/or community based instruction to committees are looking for this kind of Prerequisite: One CTE Course students with moderate and severe long term service. We strongly advise Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 disabilities under the personal you to take this class as an elective, Course Description: supervision and direction of the course but it can also be taken in place of a Students must provide their own instructor or classroom teaching staff. study hall. The grade will be based on transportation. Professional Career homework assignments, attendance Internship is a career course that is Penn# 1611 and teacher evaluations. Kingsmen designed to provide opportunities for PEER LEADERS- YAP (WBL) Tutors will be placed in classrooms for students to explore careers that require Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 various subjects including but not additional degrees, certifications or Grade Level: 11-12 limited to foreign language, Algebra I training beyond high school. The Prerequisite: Peer Leaders- 1603 and II, Geometry, Biology, ICP, English emphasis of the experience is on Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 and Chemistry. applying skills developed through Course Description: instruction from an adult mentor and This course is designed to give high learning new career competencies at school students the opportunity to Penn# 1869 the internship site. Activities can be interact with people with disabilities and COMMUNICATION & PUBLIC tailored to the unique needs and learn how to work with them. Students RELATIONS INTERNSHIP (WBL) interests of the students. Internships will provide 5 blocks over two weeks of Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade may be paid or unpaid. A teacher in-class and/or community based Level: 10-12 monitors students in their field instruction to students with moderate Weight: 4.0 IDOE: 5974 experiences. Students should enroll in and severe disabilities in the Young Course Description: the Internship class because the Adult Program under the personal This internship – which is focused on program provides an opportunity for a supervision and instruction of the YAP promoting the events and people of student to experience all aspects of director. Penn High School and the “real world” requirements for success Penn-Harris-Madison School and the program is a means of linking Penn# 0661 BBBS: 0662 Corporation – is designed for students academic learning with career and WITH 1851 OR 1865 who wish to apply the practices of community experiences. As part of this KINGSMEN TUTOR INTERNSHIP public relations (written and visual) in Work-Based Learning experience, (WBL) order to gain experience and build a students will complete a number of Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade portfolio. Students should already have components resulting in a portfolio. Level: 11-12 a strong understanding of writing, Prerequisite: Application, interview, journalistic and public relations teacher recommendations, clean principles, or students need to have disciplinary and attendance record strong graphic design/videography skills and a command of Adobe of production in the PNN television Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, studio. Students may also participate Course Description: and/or videography skills, including in a professional internship with local Athletic & Student Activity Office, Adobe Premiere Pro. Students will Media companies. Members of the Bookstore, Academy Offices, implement media relations strategies class produce a variety of projects in Counseling Office, IMC, Main Office. such as crafting press releases, writing the studio, and they take them from Penn High School Office Internships news/features articles, or producing concept to complete. Students develop provide opportunities for students to graphic designs or videos to promoting a portfolio of work that includes assume office assistant duties and Penn/P-H-M events/people through television productions, news segments, responsibilities within the school social/traditional media. music videos, public service building. Students are expected to announcements, commercial spots, live conduct themselves in accordance with Penn# 1239-1246 broadcasts, and multimedia stories. a professional office setting. Students WORK EXPERIENCE (WBL) Students gain experience in all aspects must report on time, always meet the Semesters: 2 Variable Credit of production in the PNN television PHS dress code, must always display Grade Level: 11-12 studio, and they sometimes produce PHS ID, follow directions from adult Prerequisites: Must be news shows for pnn.phmschools.org . supervisors, properly greet visitors, and recommended in the Individual This publications class lays the meet all other high school office rules Education Plan. groundwork for further study in this field and expectations. Specific Weight: 4.0 and other publications classes such as responsibilities may vary from office to IDOE: 5974 MASS MEDIA / TECH COMM II, 0371. office. Some of the required Course Description: More information can be found at responsibilities, for all students, include These courses are designed to give massmediastudies.net. completion of writing assignments, students in exceptional education an career research assignments and opportunity to gain work experience Penn# 1864 (1860 -0 credit) creating a professional correspondence through in school or community jobs. THEATER INTERNSHIP (WBL) letter. In order to be one of the office This program provides the first Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 student interns in Athletics/Student opportunity for students to experience Grade Level: 10-12 Activity, Bookstore, Division Offices, real world requirements for success in Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Guidance Office, IMC and the Main the workplace. Job coaching and Course Description: Office, students must enroll in course frequent evaluations are used to teach This internship focuses on theatre 1850. students employability/workforce management, giving students hands-on readiness skills (communication, experience maintaining and preparing organization, teamwork, punctuality, both a proscenium stage theatre and a Penn# 0481-0485 critical thinking/problem solving, social black box theatre. Students will learn AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE cues, adaptability and work ethic). how to do basic maintenance with INTERNSHIP (WBL) Placement is made on the audio and visual cables, hang and Semesters: 1 or 2 Credits: 1 or 2 recommendation of the case focus lighting equipment, place and Grade Level: 12 conference committee. route sound on stage, troubleshoot Prerequisite: American Sign control surfaces, build sets, and learn Language III Penn# 0161 the inner workings of a theatre. Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 TV BROADCAST INTERNSHIP (WBL) Course Description: Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Penn# 1850 This class is offered to ASL students Level: 12 OFFICE STUDENT INTERNSHIP that desire to continue in the profession Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 (WBL) as either a teacher of the Deaf, an Course Description: Semesters: 1 or 2 interpreter or a speech pathologist. In this class, students may develop Credit: 1 per semester of Student will be placed by the media literacy through instruction and completion corporation Deaf H/H consult teacher. practice, and they engage in all facets Grade Level: 11-12 Placement will be made in coordination to the students availability and age of This course is weighted on a 4.5 placement (Level of school k-12) and scale if taken with Automation & availability in and outside our Robotics II. corporation. Students will be placed Course Description: through a screening and will be This course is offered as a 0 hour required to adhere to a contract of class. Students will report to class conduct. outside of the school day. Classes will meet at 7:30am on Gold Days and Penn# 0677 3:30pm to 5:30 pm one day per week. PENN FIRST ROBOTICS This class is offered in conjunction with INTERNSHIP I (WBL) the Automation & Robotics I & II Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 classes. Robotics Internship students Grade Level: 11-12 participate in Penn’s school-based Prerequisite: Application required enterprise “The Black Knight” FRC Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974 Robot in all facets of operations, This course is weighted on a 4.5 including marketing, fundraising, and scale if taken with Automation & community outreach. Students that Robotics I. successfully complete both classes Course Description: Automation & Robotics and Penn This course is offered as a 0 hour FIRST Robotics Internship will receive class. Students will report to class a weighted grade. outside of the school day. Classes will *Students should plan to take both meet at 7:30am on Gold Days and Automation & Robotics II as well as 3:30pm to 5:30 pm one day per week. Penn FIRST Robotics Internship II. This class is offered in conjunction with the Automation & Robotics I & II classes. Robotics Internship students participate in Penn’s school-based enterprise “The Black Knight” FRC Robot in all facets of operations, including marketing, fundraising, and community outreach. Students that successfully complete both classes Automation & Robotics and Penn FIRST Robotics Internship will receive a weighted grade. *Students should plan to take both Automation & Robotics I as well as Penn FIRST Robotics Internship I.
Penn# 0678 PENN FIRST ROBOTICS INTERNSHIP II (WBL) Semesters: 2 Credits: 2 Grade Level: 11-12 Prerequisite: Penn First Robotics Internship I AND Application Weight: 4.0 DOE# 5974
INDEX
Message from the Principal ...... 1 School Board and Administration ...... 2 Important Telephone Numbers ...... 4 PHM Mission, Vision, Values ...... 5 PHM Profile of a Graduate ...... 6 Mission Statement ...... 7 Academic Planning Planning Your Schedule ...... 8 Schedule Change Policy ...... 8 Penn High School Graduation Requirements ...... 9 High School Courses Taken in Middle School ...... 9 Class of 2020-2022 Graduation Requirements ...... 9 Indiana Core 40 Expectations ...... 9 Indiana Core 40 w/Academic Honors ...... 9 Indiana Core 40 w/Technical Honors ...... 10 General Diploma ...... 10 Core 40 ...... 12 Graduation Requirements Beginning with the Class of 2023 ...... 14 Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) ...... 15 Freshman Academy ...... 15 Achievement Academies ...... 16 Early College Academy ...... 16 Work Based Learning ...... 17 Four Year Plan ...... 17 Graduation Exams ...... 18 Remediation Policy ...... 18 Assessment Philosophy ...... 18 Grading Standards for Penn High School ...... 19 Weighted Grades ...... 19 Incompletes Due to Excessive Absences ...... 20 Withdrawing From a Course ...... 20 Course Repeats ...... 20 Report Cards ...... 20 Summer School ...... 20 Skyward……………...... 21 Commencement Participation Policy ...... 21 NCAA Athletic Eligibility Policy ...... 21 Fees...... 21 Counseling Services Mission Statement ...... 21 Your Counselors ...... 22 The SAT ® and ACT ...... 22 College Application Procedures ...... 22 Awards Honor Roll ...... 23 High Honor Roll ...... 23 Academic Excellence ...... 23 Academic Letter ...... 23 National Honor Society ...... 24 Graduation with High Honors ...... 24 Latin Honors System ...... 24 Scholarships...... 24
Special Programs Early Graduation ...... 25 Advanced Placement ®...... 25 Advanced College Project ...... 26 Dual Credit Courses ...... 26 Project Lead the Way Classes ...... 26 Elkhart Area Career Center ...... 27 Advanced CTE Program ...... 29 Code of Conduct ...... 32 Student Assistants ...... 32 Student Interns ...... 32 Kingsmen Tutor Internship ...... 32 Peer Leaders ...... 32 Foreign Exchange ...... 33 Freshman Mentors ...... 33 Pharmacy Technician Training (Seniors only) ...... 33 Pennway Alternative School ...... 34 Pennway Night School ...... 34 Independent Study ...... 34
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Exceptional Education ...... 35 Multidisciplinary Courses ...... 44 Early College Academy ...... 47 Freshman Academy ...... 53 English...... 59 Art...... 66 Band...... 75 Orchestra...... 78 Elective Music ...... 80 Choir...... 82 Dance...... 85 Theatre...... 87 Physical Education ...... 90 Health...... 93 Social Sciences ...... 94 Family & Consumer Sciences ...... 104 Business...... 108 Mathematics...... 116 Science...... 122 Agriculture...... 131 Engineering & Technology...... 135 World Languages ...... 142
Work Based Learning ...... 153 Four Year Plan Sheet ...... 156 Pathways Addendum ...... 157 Index...... 167