Programming Guide & Course

THOMAS DOWNEY HIGH S CHOOL A Modesto City School

PROGRAMMING GUIDE & COURSE DESCRIPTION CATALOG

TABLE OF CONTENTS MCS Website: mcs4kids.com 2 Administrative Team…………… 2 Counseling Staff………..……….. 2 Round-Up.....……………………. 2 MCS Requirements……………….. 3 How To Choose Classes…………. 3 Changing a Class………………… 4 P.E. Requirements………………… 5 Health Center Information….….. 5 Renaissance……………….…….. 5 Bell Schedule……………………… 6 Club Advisors…………………… 6 Graduation Requirements…………….…..… 7 College Preparation ………………………… 7 University of California & California State University Entrance A-G Requirements…….. 8 CSU Eligibility Index…………………………. 8 Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC)……….. 9 UC Entrance Requirements…………………. 9, 10 NCAA Eligibility………………………..……. 10 Extra Curricular Eligibility…………………… 11 A-G Approved Courses Offered 2015-16…. 12 College Planning Calendar …………………. 13 Sample 4-Year Academic Plan ……………… 14 Academic Planning Worksheet…………….. 14 Class Designations ………………………….. 15 Course Descriptions Agriculture………………………... 15 Business…………………………… 16 English…………………………….. 16 Foreign Language………………….. 18 Health…………………………...… 20 Math………………………………. 20 Physical Education………………… 23 Practical Arts……………………... 24 Science………………………….… 26 Social Science…………………….. 27 Visual and Performing Arts………. 28 Other Electives…………………… 31

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MODESTO CITY SCHOOLS WEBSITE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM

Richard Baum, Principal

Justin Krone, Associate Principal Curriculum and Instruction

Mary Lomax, Assistant Principal Pupil Services

Chris Chilles, Assistant Principal Student Supervision

Ossiel Ramirez, Administrator of Student and Family Support Services COUNSELING STAFF Leah Verderame 576-4241 Academic Counselor

Christine Hammell 569-2979 College Counselor

Michelle Luz 576-4236 Academic Counselor

Jana Osgood 576-4245 Academic Counselor

Tish Nuno-Traverso 576-4242 Academic Counselor Please see your student’s schedule for their assigned counselor in the fall of 2016. Or for more information please contact the Counseling Office at 576-4245.

ROUND-UP An Orientation Day called Round-Up is planned for sometime around the beginning of August at Downey. You should receive a packet in the mail describing it. Administrators, counseling staff, and others will be on hand to provide information about student programs, district, and site procedures.

On that day, you will visit a series of stations with the forms you received in your packet. You may purchase your Student Body card, yearbook, PE clothes, etc. at the stations. At the final station, you will pick up your new class schedule and a map of the school. You should visit your classrooms and familiarize yourself with the course at that time. Downey High’s student clubs and organizations will have information and materials available during Round-Up day. DON’T MISS OUT! 2 THOMAS DOWNEY HIGH SCHOOL

To Students and Parents: HOW TO CHOOSE CLASSES

Please read this Programming Guide carefully. It will help CHOOSE YOUR CLASSES WISELY. THERE IS LITTLE, IF you to select your classes for the next year and the three years following. ANY, OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE YOUR MIND AFTER YOUR BALLOT IS TURNED INTO THE HIGH SCHOOL. IF YOU 1. All ninth grade students must take six (6) classes. Ninth DON’T WANT TO TAKE A CLASS, DO NOT CHOOSE IT ON grade students are required to take a course in: English, YOUR BALLOT. Mathematics, Science, World Geography/Health and Physical Education. Some students will also be assigned When choosing courses to take for your freshman year, a support class in one or more subject areas. In addition, you must consider the following factors: you may select one (1) elective and two (2) alternative electives. Please mark your choices #1, #2, and #3, in Required Courses – All freshmen will have English, Math, order of your preference. Science, Physical Education, and World Geography/ 2. Students will receive an official ballot on which they are Health. (Check the Graduation Sample Programs) to mark selections. Please be sure to print student’s full

legal name on the front page and both student and parent should sign the back. College Preparation – If you plan to go to a state college 3. If students are enrolled in an 8th class, they must remain or university, you must have College Prep (CP) classes or in that class for the entire quarter/semester. Classes will higher all four years in high school. If you plan to go to a meet from 7:55 am to 2:55 pm. Late buses are available community college, these courses will be very helpful. at 3:30PM and 5:00PM. 4. To receive credit for activities such as athletics, Additional information: Entering high school is a signifi- students must sign up for an optional period. Students in cant step for both students and parents. Getting started competitive sports must also take a freshman P.E. class. and continuing on the right track is very important. We encourage you to contact your counselor for assistance with any problems or questions you might have.

MCS BOARD POLICY

Levels of

Course Offerings Students are responsible for completing all courses assigned to them on their official schedule of classes. Students can PRE–ADVANCED PLACEMENT (Pre-AP) – Students enrolled in be removed from assigned classes only by the principal or Pre-AP classes should have an excellent ability in reading his designee. comprehension and writing. The wide range and complexity of materials and concepts offers the more able student the Students who do not pick up their schedules in August or opportunity to understand the rich history of the various attend the first day of school will be dropped from their disciplines. Students in advanced courses will be expected to assigned courses and must re-enroll on the first day they read assigned literature, complete research papers, make oral return to school. presentations, design special projects, and work independently and in groups. The level is approved by the University of Unless specifically designated as quarter or semester classes, California for entrance upon graduation. all courses are a full year long.

COLLEGE PREPARATORY (CP) – Students enrolled in college MCS GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS prep classes should have a strong ability in reading comprehension and writing. It is highly recommended that the students in these classes have better than average study and organizational In order to receive a diploma of graduation, a student must skills. The students in college prep classes will be expected to complete the following graduation requirements: read assigned literature, complete written reports, and make oral presentations, design special projects, work independently Pass 230 units and in groups. (College Prep classes are approved by the University of California for entrance upon graduation.) Pass required courses

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MODESTO CITY SCHOOL’S REGISTRATION

PROCEDURES FOR CHANGING ASSIGNED COURSES – GRADES 9 - 12

Students are responsible for completing every course assigned to their official schedule of classes. Courses chosen at the time of registration will be assigned to the student’s official schedule of classes.

CLASS CHANGE PROCEDURES

All requests for class change will be made using the ‘Petition for Class Change’ form.

Parents, students or teachers can initiate changes. However, unless all information, including signatures is complete, forms will not be processed.

Semester Class:

A student may request to change one class for a dissimilar class ( example: from Algebra to Art or from Algebra to General Math, but not from Algebra to Algebra) with no penalty or restriction within the first 20 instructional days of a semester provided:

1. The student submits compelling reasons for the change. 2. The counselor approves the change into a new class. 3. The student shall be required to obtain the approval of a parent and the Associate Principal, Curriculum and Instruction or Assistant Principal, Pupil Personnel Services. 4. Students going from one class to a dissimilar class will not transfer a grade from previous class (example: a student going from Algebra to Art will start Art class without a previous grade).

After the deadline date to drop a course: 1. Students shall not drop courses unless, in the judgment of the Assistant Principal, Pupil Personnel Services, or the Associate Principal, Curriculum and Instruction, there are serious extenuating circumstances. 2. Students shall obtain parent approval. 3. Drops after the 20th day will result in a semester grade of “F”.

Quarter Classes (e.g. PE):

1. A student may change one class for a dissimilar class within the first 10 days of a quarter under the same provisions as listed under #1 of the semester class. 2. A student may not change a quarter class after the 10th school day. 3. Drops after the 10th day will result in a quarter grade of “F”.

Appeal Procedures:

Students may be allowed to appeal the decision of the Associate Principal, Curriculum and Instruction and/or Assistant Principal, Pupil Personnel Services.

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receive prescription or over-the-counter medication during HYSICAL DUCATION RESS REQUIREMENTS P E D school hours. This includes asthma inhalers and Epipens. Medications must be sent to school in the original 1. All students are expected to provide neat and clean prescription container. Medication cannot be brought to gym clothes at the beginning of each week. school and kept in lockers, purses or pockets. Also, medication must be checked in at the nurse’s office. 2. All students are expected to wear gym clothes for all Students may carry asthma inhalers or Epipens on their activity classes, unless other arrangements are person if their parent/guardian has completed the “School specified. Inhaler Procedures” or “Epipen Procedures” form and the 3. Recommended dress for physical education classes will student has demonstrated to the school nurse the ability to consist of the following items: properly use the inhaler or Epipen.

a. Trunk-type gym shorts (the school color is Sports Physical recommended) A physical examination is strongly recommended for each b. A standard white crew T-shirt with sleeves. freshman prior to the beginning of the school year. Any

c. White athletic socks (stripes are permissible). student planning to participate in a sports program or become a cheerleader must have a physical. A physical d. Tennis shoes with a lace or Velcro-type closing examination may be obtained from your private physician or are necessary. Sandals, slip-ons, heels, or shoes at the sports physical screening provided by Modesto City with buckles are not allowed (wide, flat rubber- Schools. The P.E. Department will notify students of the date soled tennis shoes are recommended). and location of the clinics. Also, watch for the date in the

e. Sweat suits are recommended during cold weath- sports section of The Modesto Bee. er (standard solid color cotton blend is prefera- ble). Health Problems

f. Leotards and tights may be used for dance and If your child has any health problems the school needs to be gymnastic classes. aware of, such as diabetes, heart problems, seizures, asthma, allergies requiring Epipen, ADHD, etc., please notify 4. All physical education clothing must be permanently the school Health Center staff at 576-4254 to ensure your marked for identification (student’s last name and first child is safe and successful in school. initial). The name should be written below the left shoulder on all T-shirts and sweatshirts. Leotards should

be marked on the inside. The name should be written on RENAISSANCE the middle of the left thigh when using shorts, sweat pants, and tights. Our commitment to excellence under Renaissance has given 5. Students will not be allowed to participate in a physical recognition to thousands of individuals including students, staff, and education class if they are not properly dressed. community members. It will continue to touch thousands more in the future. The purpose of the Renaissance Program is to recognize and reward those students who are achieving academic excellence HEALTH CENTER INFORMATION with tangible incentives and rewards. This fast growing program has brought honors and recognition for Thomas Downey High School Emergency Cards on a national and state level and is highly regarded by the City of Modesto. Renaissance involves the merging of our business Students will only be released from school to the parent, community with our educational system. Working together in a guardian, or person(s) listed on the registration card (with commitment to promoting academic excellence will benefit the proper ID). Please keep information on the registration card entire community. current. If you work outside Modesto proper, please leave the name and number of a local person whom we may contact. Students receive recognition for the following reasons: Call 576-4211 to update or change your home or work Silver Card - Straight A’s telephone number or that of the designated person(s) on the registration card. Blue Card - A’s & B’s or a 3.5 GPA or higher White Card - Increase GPA by 0.5 or better Immunizations from previous grading period Your child’s immunizations must be up-to-date before he or Gold Card - Perfect attendance for the grading period she can be enrolled in school. If additional immunizations are needed, they may be obtained from your physician or from the Incentives given are tee shirts, pins, food coupons, discounts at local Health Services Agency Immunization Department. The merchants, special guest speakers, talent shows, and a tremendously Immunization Department is located at 820 Scenic Drive. A fun Spring awards day called “Day on the Green”. fee of $10.00 is charged for each immunization and appointments are not necessary – please call 558-4818 for Renaissance also honors and recognizes two Downey teachers each more information and clinic hours. No one will be denied year as Teachers of Excellence where they are recognized at the immunization due to inability to pay. If you don’t know if Senior Scholarship Assembly and Graduation. your child’s immunizations are up-to-date, please call the school Health Center 576-4254.

Medication

You are required to complete a special form that must be signed by you and your physician in order for your child to A Modesto City School 5

HIGH SCHOOL BELL SCHEDULE

REGULAR SCHEDULE

Period From To Period From To

1 7:55 8:44 1 7:55 8:44 2 8:50 9:39 2 8:50 9:39 3 9:45 10:34 3 9:45 10:34 4th Lunch 10:40 11:15 4 10:40 11:29 5 11:21 12:10 5th Lunch 11:35 12:10 6 12:16 1:05 6 12:16 1:05 7 1:11 2:00 7 1:11 2:00 8 2:06 2:55 8 2:06 2:55

MINIMUM DAY and EARLY RELEASE SCHEDULE

Period From To Period From To 1 7:55 8:32 1 7:55 8:32 2 8:38 9:15 2 8:38 9:15 3 9:21 9:58 3 9:21 9:58 4th Lunch 10:04 10:15 4 10:40 11:29 5 11:21 12:10 5th Lunch 11:35 12:10 6 12:16 1:05 6 12:16 1:05 7 1:11 2:00 7 1:11 2:00 8 2:06 2:55 8 2:06 2:55

TDHS CLUB ADVISORS 2015-2016

The following list is subject to change:

Club Advisor, Room Club Advisor, Room Ag Mechanics Mike Schilperoort, Rm 103 Anime Club Deborah Grochau, Rm 95 Science Dan Harris, Rm 84 AVID Caren Brady, Rm 65 Snow Club Carlos Garrido, Rm 132 Band Club Joanne Neuffer, Rm 20 Support our Vets Kermit Albritton, Rm 96 Black Student Union (BSU) TBD Video Game Club Brad Beltz, Rm 78 Choir Club Joanne Neuffer, Rm 20 Classical Music Diana Taylor, Rm 85 Visual Media Tim Vesey, Rm 210 Color Guard Joanne Neuffer, Rm 20 Yearbook Rene Guevara, Rm 211 Creative Writing Kendall Graham, Rm 54

CSF K.Durham Rm 75 Dance Club Ginger Sharp, Dance Room

Disc Golf Club Jeff Wengel, Rm 200A

Drama Club Michael Johnson, Rm 21 Environmental Club Joel Ward, Rm 52

FBLA-Future Business Leaders of America Tony Ippolito, Rm 81 FCA-Fellowship of Christian Athletes Tony Ippolito, Rm 81 FFA-Future Farmers of America Susan Beatty Rm 101 Class Advisors FHA/HERO Chris May, Rm 30 GSA Alexander Adams, Rm 200B Hispanic Youth Lead. Council (HYLC) Luis Flores, Rm 64 Activities Director Bill Roe, Student Center ICC Luis Flores, Rm 64 ASB (Associated Student Body) Mike Johnson, Rm 22 Instrumentalists Club Joanne Neuffer, Rm 20 2016 (Seniors) Scott Underwood, Rm 133 Interact Club Castro & Green, Rm 33 2017 (Juniors) Angela Hensley Key Club Luis Flores, Rm 64 2018 (Sophomores) Kermit Albritton, Rm 96 Knights/Christ Gerry Castleberry, Rm 301 2019 (Freshmen) Philip Schmidt, Rm 113 Library Club Dan Stemig, Librarian Link Crew Bill Roe, Student Center Medical Biotech Elizabeth Jesberg, Rm 79 Navy Seal Chris Chilles NKLB Annette Green, Rm 34 PHAST Michael Johnson, Rm 201 Pura Vida Club—Autism Awareness Brandon Fromm, Rm 72 Renaissance Bill Roe, Student Center

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS COLLEGE PREPARATION GRADUATING CLASSES OF 2016-2019 College Preparation Program

Students planning to enroll in a college or university should make an appointment to see a college counselor to discuss programming to meet California State University and University of California entrance requirements (A-G).

(Including the successful completion of Algebra or Secondary Math 1) Junior College Entrance Requirements

Graduation from high school, passing the OR California High School Proficiency Examination, or reaching the minimum age of 18 years are the only requirements for junior college admission. There are no subject or grade requirements. However, the better preparation a student has in high school, the better the chances for success at junior college.

CSU (California State University) Entrance Requirements

Students qualify for regular admission as a first-time freshman if they: Eight (8) Quarters 1. are a high school graduate, 2. have a qualifiable eligibility index (see following CSU Eligibility Index), and have completed, with grades of C or better, each of the courses in the comprehensive pattern of *college preparatory subject requirements (see “Subject Requirement”).

PROFICIENCY AND STATE

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA & CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

The chart below shows the subject requirements for admission to the University of California and California State University systems. (referred to as “a-g”) All courses must be CP, Pre AP or AP level and be on the UC a-g course list. Students must earn “C” grades or better and make up deficiencies in summer school or during the regular school year. a-g Subject Requirements Years Required a. HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE Two(2) years required, including one year of world history, cultures, and geography and one year of U.S. History or one-half year of U.S. History and one-half year of Civics or American Government. b. ENGLISH Four (4) years of college-preparatory English that includes frequent and regular writing and reading of classic and modern literature. c. MATHEMATICS Three (3) years of college preparatory mathematics that includes the topics covered in elementary and advanced algebra and two-and three-dimensional geometry. d. LABORATORY SCIENCE Two (2) years laboratory science providing fundamental knowledge in at least two of these three disciplines: biology, chemistry, and physics. e. LANGUAGE OTHER THAN Two (2) years of the same language other than English ENGLISH f. VISUAL AND PERFORMING One year including dance, drama/theatre, music or visual art. ARTS g. COLLEGE PREPARATORY In addition to those courses required in “a-f” above one year (two semesters) of college ELECTIVES preparatory electives are required, chosen from advanced visual and performing arts, history, social science, English, advanced mathematics, laboratory science, and language other than English.

ELIGIBILITY INDEX TABLE FOR CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES OR RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA

CSU Eligibility Index In addition, a student must The CSU Eligibility Index is subject to change due to qualify on the eligibility index. revisions to the SAT test. This eligibility index is the combination of high school grade point average (GPA) and test scores on either the American College Test (ACT) or the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The grade point average is based on grades earned during the final three years of high school (excluding physical education) and bonus points for each C or better in approved honors courses. Up to eight semesters of honors courses taken in the last two years of high school can be accepted. CSU may offer early, provision- al admission based on work completed through the junior year of high school and planned for the senior year.

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CSU SYSTEMWIDE TESTS REQUIRED OF MOST NEW STUDENTS

The English Placement Test (EPT) and the Entry Level  A score of “Conditional” on the CSU EAP taken in grade 11, Mathematics (ELM) are required of all incoming students PRIOR provided successful completion of the Expository Reading to enrolling in college classes unless students are exempt from and Writing Course or AP English Literature. the test(s). These are not admission tests, but a way to determine whether students are prepared for college work The CSU Entry Level Mathematics (ELM) Exam is designed to and, if not, to counsel students regarding how to strengthen assess and measure the level of mathematics skills acquired their preparation. Students might be exempt from one or both through three years of rigorous college preparatory mathmat- of the tests if they have scored well on other specified tests or ics coursework (Algebra I and II, and Geometry) of students completed appropriate courses. entering the California State University (CSU). The CSU ELM must be completed by all non-exempt entering under- The CSU English Placement Test (EPT) is designed to assess graduates prior to enrollment in any course, including remedi- the level of reading and writing skills of students entering the al courses. Students who score 50 or above on the ELM will be California State University. The CSU EPT must be completed placed in college-level mathematics classes. Specific policies by all non-exempt entering undergraduates prior to regarding retesting and placement will be determined by the enrollment in any course, including remedial courses. Students campus. Exemptions from the test are given only to those who score 147 or above on the EPT will be placed in college- students who can present proof of one of the following: level composition classes. Specific policies regarding retesting  A score of 23 or above on the ACT Mathematics Test. and placement will be determined by the campus. Exemptions  A score of 3 or above on the Advanced Placement Mathe- from the test are given only to those who present proof of one matics Examination (AB or BC). of the following  An Early Assessment Program (EAP) Status of Standard  A score of 3 or above on the Advanced Placement Statistics Exceeded and Standard Met examination.  Completion of a qualifying English community college  A score of “Exempt” on the CSU EAP taken in grade 11. course that satisfies the CSU General Education  A score of “Conditional” on the CSU EAP taken in grade 11, requirement (Area A2), provided such a course was completed with a grade of C or better provided the successful completion of a CSU approved 12th  A qualifying score on the National Standardized Tests: grade math course that has Algebra II as a prerequisite.

 SAT: 500 or more on the Critical Reading section; The EPT and ELM tests should be taken at the earliest oppor-  ACT: 22 or more on the English Test; tunity after admission to a California State University. To  AP: 3 ore more on either the Language & Composition or Literature & Composition exam. register for the test, visit www.ets.org/csu/registration

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC ELIGIBILITY IN THE LOCAL CONTEXT ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Under the Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) path- Subject Requirement way, the top 9% of the state's high school graduates are To satisfy the Subject Requirements, students must complete eligible for admission to the UC’s nine undergraduate high school courses with a grade point average defined by the campus. If you rank in the top 9 percent of students in Scholarship Requirement. This sequence of courses is also your California high school class — and your high school known as the "a-g" requirements. participates in the ELC program — you may be eligible for ELC designation. Students must take 15 units of high school courses to fulfill the Subject Requirements, and at least 7 of the 15 units must Identifying the top 9 percent of students is based on be taken in the last two years of high school. (A unit is equal GPA in UC-approved coursework completed in the to an academic year or two semesters of study.) 10th and 11th grades. To be considered for ELC, you must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and completed the Applicants from California High Schools: To satisfy the "a-g" following 11 UC approved "a-g" courses prior to the start requirements, the courses must appear on the school's of your senior year: UC-approved certified course list. The lists are also available on the World Wide Web at www.ucop.edu/doorways/list.  History/social science 1 year

 English 2 years  Mathematics 2 years Grade Point Average  Laboratory science 1 year To determine your eligibility, the University calculates your  Language other than English 1 year GPA in the "a-g" subjects by assigning point values to the grades you earn, totaling the points and dividing the total by  College-preparatory elective 4 year long the number of "a-g" courses. Points are assigned as follows: (chosen from the subjects listed above or another course approved by the university) A=4 points, B=3 points, C=2 points, D=1 point, and F=0 points. (Pluses and minuses are not calculated in the grade point After you enter your coursework and grades in the UC average.) Only the grades you earn in "a-g" subjects in the application, we'll compare your GPA to the historic top 10th and 11th grades - including summer sessions - are used to GPA for your school. If you meet or exceed that GPA, calculate your preliminary GPA. Courses you took in ninth you'll be designated ELC and it will be noted on your UC grade can be used to meet the Subject Requirement if you earned a grade of C or better, but they will not be used to application. Visit http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/ california-residents/index.html for further review and explanation. calculate your GPA.

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS continued NCAA ELIGIBILITY

Advanced Placement Courses: The University assigns extra Students planning to enroll in college as a freshman and want points for up to eight semesters of University-certified Ad- to participate in Division I or Division II athletics, must be certi- vanced Placement courses taken in the last three years of high fied by the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse. The Clearing- house ensures consistent interpretation of NCAA initial eligibil- school: A=5 points, B=4 points, C=3 points. No more than two ity requirements for all prospective student athletes at all yearlong UC-approved honors level courses taken in the 10th member institutions. grade may be given extra points. A grade of D in an honors or Students should start this process no later than the spring of advanced placement course does not earn extra points. their junior year in high school. It is the student's responsibility The courses must be in the following "a-g" subjects: history/ to make sure the Clearinghouse has the following documents it social science, English, advanced mathematics, laboratory needs to certify: science, language other than English, and visual and  A completed and signed student release form and fee performing arts. Also, they must be certified as Advanced  An official transcript mailed directly from every high Placement courses by the University. school attended. D and F Grades: If you have earned a D or F in an "a-g" course,  ACT or SAT scores (Student is responsible for requesting you must repeat the course with a grade of C or better. their test scores be sent directly to the Clearing- The original D or F grade will not be included in the GPA cal- house.) culation, and the new grade will be used. If you repeat a course in which you initially earned a grade of C, the second Visit www.ncaa.org for more comprehensive review and explanation grade will not be used. NCAA Divisions I and II initial eligibility require 16 core Test Score Total courses. See list below. Beginning August 1, 2016, NCAA Division I will require 10 If you took the SAT Exam: The University uses your highest ► core courses to be completed prior to the seventh semester scores in critical reading, math and writing from a single (seven of the 10 must be a combination of English, math or sitting. natural or physical science that meet the distribution requirements below). These 10 courses become "locked in" at the start of the seventh semester and cannot be retaken for GPA improvement.

DIVISION I - 16 Core Courses 4 years of English. ACT 3 years of mathematics (Algebra I or higher). If you took the ACT plus its Writing exam: 2 years of natural/physical science (1 year of lab if offered The University takes your highest math, reading, science and by high school). combined English/writing score from a single sitting and 1 year of additional English, mathematics or natural/ converts them to equivalent SAT scores (see link to concord- physical science. ance table). 2 years of social science. 4 years of additional courses (from any area above, foreign www.act.org/aap/concordance/estimate.html language or comparative religion/philosophy).

DIVISION II - 16 Core Courses 3 years of English. 2 years of mathematics (Algebra I or higher). 2 years of natural/physical science (1 year of lab if offered by high school). 3 years of additional English, mathematics or natural/ physical science. 2 years of social science. 4 years of additional courses (from any area above, foreign language or comparative religion/philosophy).

FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIPS

A college education is more important than ever. However during recent years, education costs have steadily risen. The good news is…financial aid is available. The primary goal of financial aid is to make student access to education opportunities possible by removing financial barriers which would ex- clude financially needy, but otherwise eligible, students from specific schools and programs. Financial aid is available through private, public, state, and federal student aid programs. Students should also apply directly for any scholarships spon- sored by individuals, organizations, and institutions for which they might qualify. For additional sources of scholarships and financial assistance see your college counselor.

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Thomas CA State University University of CA Downey High Entrance Entrance Requirements Requirements School Graduation (all classes must be CP level (all classes must be CP level Requirements or higher; grade MUST be C or higher; grade MUST be C or higher) or higher) 4 Years 4 Years 4 Years English 3 Years 3 Years 3 Years through Algebra Algebra (4 years recommended) Geometry Algebra Math Advanced Algebra Geometry Advanced Algebra

2 Years 2 years 2 Years 1 year life science 1 year life science (Biology or (3 years recommended) 1 year physical science or Anatomy) Laboratory Science 2 years integrated science 1 year physical science (Chemistry or Senior Year Physics) 3.5 years 2 Years 2 Years World Geo./Religions World History World History Social Studies World History U.S. History U.S. History U.S. History Government Government Government/Economics 2 Years 2 Years (3 years recommended) Foreign Language 1 Year In Career Tech (ROP) OR in the same language in the same language In a Foreign Language OR Visual Performing 1 Year 1 Year In a Visual Performing Art Art (visual or performing arts) (visual or performing arts)

Not Required, Not Included in Not Required, Not Included in Practical Art 1 semester GPA GPA Not Required, Not Included in Not Required, Not Included in P.E. 2 Years GPA GPA Not Required, Not Included in Not Required, Not Included in Health 1 Semester GPA GPA

1 Year 1 Year College Prep (CP) electives in College Prep (CP) electives in Electives 65 Credits History, English, Math, Foreign History, English, Math, Foreign Language, Science and Fine Arts Language, Science and Fine Arts

Total Credits 230 Credits 15 Full Year Courses 15 Full Year Courses (more for (more for competitive competitive campuses) NOTE: campuses) You must complete 11 of the 15 courses by end of junior year

Seniors (Class of 2016) must fulfill the Computer Literacy proficiency and meet all graduation requirements in order to receive a Thomas Downey High Diploma.

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COLLEGE PLANNING CALENDAR

Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

 Develop course plans for this year  Review your high school  Review your high school course  Reduce your list to 5 to 10

& next three years. course plans. plans. colleges.

 Begin writing high school resume  Ask your counselor about  Make plans to take PSAT.  Request SAT I, ACT, SAT II – keep track of all extra- taking the PSAT. registration forms.

August curricular activities, academic awards, community involvement, etc..

 Begin your high school years by  Explore the resources available  Check for any college fairs in  Work on your application essays. getting in the habit of doing your to you in your guidance office, your area.  Take the SAT 1, II and ACT, if best in all courses. school library, or career  Take the PSAT necessary.  Take the PSAT center.  Ask teachers to write

September recommendations.

 As you look ahead to college,  Continue to do your best in all  Begin to explore college  Take the SAT I, II and ACT, if

spend time on identifying the your courses. possibilities. necessary. following:  Continue to do your best in all  Give your counselor the school  Goals and values your courses. report forms.

 Academic interests and abilities  UC application due Nov. 30th. October  Activities and outside interests  File CSU application.  Personality and relationships  Scholarship application is due.  Begin applying for scholarships.

with others  Possible career interests  PSAT scores reports will be  Complete all your applications.

returned.  Take the SAT I, II and ACT, if  Make plans to visit colleges necessary.

November during your school vacations.  Pay attention to all deadlines.  Apply to community colleges.

 Start exploring financial aid  Attend a financial aid workshop possibilities. with your parents and submit your  Talk to your counselor about FAFSA. the possibility of taking SAT II  Explore all possible scholarship

December tests. opportunities.  Be sure to get your FAFSA/GPA Verification Form sent by March 2.

 Continue to evaluate your  Register for the SAT I, II and/or  Respond to all requests from

goals. ACT tests, if appropriate. colleges for additional information.  Talk to your counselor about  Consider taking AP exams next  If you have not done so already

January  Eventually, you will be required to the possibility of taking SAT II year. send in your FAFSA and GPA take admission tests that measure tests. verification form. skills in various areas. One of the  Consider taking AP exams things you can do now in an effort next year.

to be in the best position to succeed is to develop good  Take the SAT I either now or in  Consider taking AP exams. reading habits throughout your May.  Continue to do your best in all high school years. Those students your courses February who do so will find they have  FAFSA due March 2nd. higher scores.  Register for the SAT II tests, if  Fine-tune your list of college  Admission decisions arrive appropriate. possibilities.  Financial aid awards should arrive

 Begin writing to colleges and soon. universities you are interested in  Revisit any colleges, if necessary. about programs they offer and  Apply to community colleges, if you March to request information on have not already done so. scholarships.  May 1, deadline to accept an admission from a UC campus.

 Take the SAT I, if you did not in  Notify colleges of your plans March.  Take AP exams, if appropriate. April  Take AP exams, if appropriate.  Be sure to accept your financial aid  Plan your summer college visits. award.

 Take the SAT II tests, if  Take the SAT II tests, if GRADUATION! recommended, in any subjects recommended, in any subjects  If attending a 4 year college or you will not see again. you will not see again. university in the fall, submit a final

 Find a summer job, or take a  Find a job to continue saving for official transcript to the campus May summer enrichment course. college, or take a summer you will attend. enrichment course.  Find a job in an effort to meet your expected contribution to the cost of college.

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SAMPLE FOUR-YEAR ACADEMIC PLAN

SUBJECT AREA 9TH GRADE 10TH GRADE 11TH GRADE 12 GRADE

ENGLISH (40) English (10) English (10) English (10) English (10) MATHEMATICS (20) Math (10) Math (10) Math (10) ALGEBRA or SECONDARY MATH I (10) *Credit will be granted for Algebra taken in 7th/8th grade with a C or better.

SOCIAL SCIENCE (35) World Geography / World History (10) US History (10) US Government (5) World Religions (5) Economics (5) SCIENCE (20) Earth Science (10) Biology (10)

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (20) PE (10) PE (10) VISUAL & PERFORMING ART (10) Visual/Perf. Art Elective or *Foreign Language may also fulfill Foreign Language (10) this requirement for graduation PRACTICAL ART (5) Practical Art Elective (5) HEALTH (5) Health (5) ELECTIVES (65) Elective (5) Elective (10) Elective (10) Elective (10) Elective (10) Elective (10) Elective (10) TOTAL CREDITS NEEDED FOR GRADUATION (60) (60) (60) (60) (230)

In order to receive a diploma of graduation from Downey High School students must: 1. Pass a minimum of 230 units. 3. Meet the District Computer Literacy requirement. 2. Pass required core courses. 4. Pass the California State High School Exit Exam.

ACADEMIC PLANNING WORKSHEET

SUBJECT AREA 9TH GRADE 10TH GRADE 11TH GRADE 12 GRADE

ENGLISH (40)

MATHEMATICS (20) ALGEBRA or SECONDARY MATH I (10)

SOCIAL SCIENCE (35)

SCIENCE (20)

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (20)

VISUAL & PERFORMING ART(10)

PRACTICAL ART (5)

HEALTH (5)

ELECTIVES (65)

TOTAL CREDITS NEEDED FOR GRADUATION (230)

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CLASS DESIGNATIONS

The information below is designed to clarify College Preparatory-level classes: Advanced Placement (Pre-AP and AP) - placement procedures in all core academic College Preparatory classes are designed for level classes: These are advanced classes classes (English, math, science, and social students preparing for entrance into a two or that are designed to provide advanced or science) for high school students. four-year college or university. These classes accelerated instruction for students wishing meet the requirements for college or to gain college credit while in high school. CLASS DESIGNATIONS university entrance. Placement in College College credit is determined by the results of The following class designations reflect the Prep classes are determined by teacher AP examinations. The Pre-AP designated level of academic rigor in core academic clas- recommendation and relevant academic classes are freshman and sophomore classes ses of English, math, science, and social sci- information. that prepare students to enroll in AP courses. ence: Students do not earn college credit in Pre-AP

Success Skills classes: These classes are classes. Placement in Pre-AP or AP classes is determined by the course prerequisites and designed for students who are performing teacher recommendation. below grade level and who need additional time for skills development in order to have the best chance of success graduating with a high school diploma.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

AGRICULTURE Duration: 2-4 Semesters *MEETS CSU ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS ONLY AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS 1-2 Course Description: Vocational Education in Agriculture is Course # AGR00100 Grade Level: 9-10 organized instruction which prepares individuals for Duration: 1 Year employment in agriculture and may also prepare them for Course Description: Students will use a classroom and advanced training, leading to an agricultural career requiring laboratory-type situation to cover the principles and education at a postsecondary level. This course is an applications of agricultural mechanics. Work habits and individualized program of study for junior and senior students attitudes will be stressed with emphasis on careers in with definite career goals or interest. The course of study will agriculture. Areas of instruction will include: safety, tools, reflect the student’s areas of interest. Participation in FFA measurement, drawing, woods, welding concrete, metal work/ leadership activities will reinforce the learning process of sheet metal, electricity, rope, and plumbing. Recommended these students. Recommended Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: None INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE SCIENCE 1-2 AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS 3-4 COLLEGE PREPARATORY Course #: AGR00900 Grade Level: 10, 11 * meets A-G college entrance requirements Duration: 1 Year Course # AGR01400 Grade Level: 9 *MEETS CSU ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS ONLY Duration: 1 Year Course Description: Students will use a classroom and Course Description: Agriculture Education is organized laboratory-type situation to cover the principles, care of, and instruction which prepares individuals for employment in maintenance of small gas and diesel engines. Work habits and agriculture and may also prepare them for advanced training, attitudes will be stressed with emphasis on careers in leading to an agricultural career requiring education at a agriculture. Areas of instruction will include: use of equipment postsecondary level. It is recommended that a student be manuals, equipment maintenance, and types of engines, oxy- involved in a Supervised Occupational Program and in FFA acetylene welding, arc welding, measurement, drawing, activities that deal with plants and/or animal science. This safety, and project construction. Recommended course will emphasize the Modesto City Schools requirement Prerequisites: Agricultural Mechanics 1-2 of Physical Science. (This course uses extensive laboratory work to emphasize observation and hypothesis techniques.) Recommended Prerequisites: None AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS 5-6

Course #: AGR01000 Grade Level: 11, 12 INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE SCIENCE 3-4 Duration: 1 Year COLLEGE PREPARATORY *MEETS CSU ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS ONLY * meets A-G college entrance requirements Course Description: Students will use a classroom and Course # AGR01500 Grade Level: 10-12 laboratory-type situation to cover the principles of surveying, power hydraulics, equipment maintenance, oxy-acetylene Duration: 1 Year welding, arc welding, MIG and TIG welding. Project Course Description: Agriculture Education is organized construction will emphasize project drawing, measurement instruction which prepares individuals for employment in and cost analysis. Work habits and attitudes will be stressed agriculture and may also prepare them for advanced training, with emphasis on careers in agriculture. leading to an agricultural career requiring education at a Recommended Prerequisites: Agricultural Mechanics 3-4 postsecondary level. It is recommended that a student be involved in a Supervised Occupational Program and in FFA

activities that deal with animals and/or plants. INDIVIDUAL STUDIES FOR AGRICULTURE Recommended Prerequisites: Integrated Agriculture Science Course #: AGR01200 Grade Level: 11-12 1-2 with a “C” or higher.

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INTEGRATED AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGY services, its management and structure, and engage in the * meets A-G college entrance requirements daily operations of running a business. Emphasis is placed on Course # AGR00401 Grade Level: 11-12 using current business software, communications, and the Internet for business transactions. This simulation takes the Duration: 1 Year teacher outside the traditional instructional paradigm and Course Description: Ag Biology is a one year, laboratory places the students on the front lines of the business world. science course designed for the college-bound student with Recommended Prerequisites: Computer 1-2 or Teacher career interests in agriculture. Using agriculture as the Recommendation learning vehicle, the course emphasizes the principles, central concepts and interrelationships among the following topics: the molecular and cellular aspects of life, the chemical and ENGLISH structural basis of life, energetics of life, growth and reproduction in plants and animals, evolution of modern plants and animals, animal behavior, ecological relationships among PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT/GATE ENGLISH 1-2 plants, animals, humans and the environment, nutrition in Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes animals, health and diseases in animals, and the similarities Course # ENG10000 Grade Level: 9 between animals and humans. The course is centered around Duration: 1 Year an extensive laboratory component in order to connect the big Course Description: This pre-university course is designed for ideas of life science with agricultural applications, earth and highly motivated students performing at or above grade level physical science principles, and other curricular areas, in language arts. The curriculum supports the California including written and oral reporting skills. Recommended Language Arts Content Standards and is geared for students Prerequisites: Integrated Ag Science 1-2, 3-4 or Biology who plan to attend a four-year college or university immediately after high school graduation. This course BUSINESS requires students to read extensively from District-approved and advanced placement literature lists to meet or exceed BUSINESS LAW content area standards in writing, to work independently, and Course # BUS06100 Grade Level: 10-12 (or permission of to demonstrate higher-level critical thinking skills in their instructor) written and oral work. The focus of the course is critical Duration: 1 Year analysis in preparation for the international AP English Course Description: This course is designed to help the Language and Literature Composition courses in the junior and student develop an awareness and understanding of legal senior years. Recommended Prerequisites: Recommendation information used by the consumer in conducting everyday of 8th grade English teacher and completion of summer activities. Topics covered include contracts, warranties, reading/writing assignments. rights of both employers and employees, credit, and making decisions regarding the outcome of actual court cases PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT/GATE ENGLISH 3-4 involving both criminal and civil law. Recommended Prerequisites: None Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course #ENG10700 Grade Level: 10

Duration: 1 Year COMPUTER LITERACY 1-2 Course Description: This pre-university course is designed for * meets graduation requirement thru Class of 2016 highly motivated students performing at or above grade level Course #COM07401, COM07402 in language arts. The curriculum supports the California Grade Level: 9-12 Language Arts Content Standards and is geared for students Duration: Year/Semester who plan to attend a four-year college or university Course Description: A semester long course in which students immediately after high school graduation. This course learn about computers; terminology, use, capabilities and requires students to read extensively from District-approved limitations; and use computer application software tools for and advanced placement literature lists, to meet or exceed word processing, data base, spread sheet, presentation content area standards in writing, to work independently, and software and internet access. Students learn how to use a to demonstrate high –level critical thinking skills in their software package, are then asked to replicate a document, written and oral work. The focus of the course is critical modify a document, and create an original document. District analysis in preparation for the international A/P English prepared supplements and recommended tests are used to Language and Literature Composition courses in the junior and assist the teacher and students with the instructional portion senior years. Recommended Prerequisites: Pre-AP English 1- of the use of the software packages. Students completing the 2 or CP1-2 with “C” or higher, teacher recommendation, and course should be able to use a computer for completion of completion of summer reading/writing assignments. tasks required by other instructors. Recommended Prerequisites: None ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes VIRTUAL BUSINESS Course # ENG11400 Grade Level 11th Course # BUS05200 Recommended Grade Level: 11-12 Duration : 1 year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: This is a college level course designed Course Description: A Virtual Business is a simulated business for highly motivated students performing above grade level in that is set up and run by students to prepare them for working language arts as active, critical readers with sophisticated in a real business environment. With the guidance of a teacher writing skills. The curriculum supports the California Language (“consultant”) and real-world business partners, the students Arts Content standards and is geared for students who plan to determine the nature of their business, its products and attend a four-year college or university immediately after high

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school graduation. This course requires students to read Course Description: The goal of the Expository Reading and extensively from district-approved and advanced placement Writing Course is to prepare college-bound seniors for the literature lists, to meet or exceed content area standards in literacy demands of higher education. Through a sequence of writing, to work independently, and to demonstrate higher- fourteen rigorous instructional modules, students in this level critical thinking skills in their written and oral work. The yearlong, rhetoric-based course develop advanced proficiency focus of the course is critical rhetorical analysis in preparation in expository, analytical, and argumentative reading and for the international AP English Language and Composition writing. The cornerstone of the course-the assignment exam. Recommended Prerequisites: Pre-AP English 3-4 or template-presents a process for helping students read, CP English 3-4 with “C” or higher, teacher recommendation, comprehend, and respond to nonfiction and literary texts. and completion of summer reading/writing assignments. Modules also provide instruction in research methods and documentation conventions. Students will be expected to increase their awareness of the rhetorical strategies employed ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LITERATURE AND by authors and to apply those strategies in their own writing. COMPOSITION They will read closely to examine the relationship between an Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes author’s argument or theme and his or her audience and Course #: ENG12200 Grade Level: 12 purpose; to analyze the impact of structural and rhetorical Duration: 1 Year strategies; and to examine the social, political, and philosophical assumptions that underlie the text. By the end Course Description: This course is designed for highly of the course, students will be expected to use this process motivated students performing above grade level in language independently when reading unfamiliar texts and writing in arts. It is a college-level course that engages students in the response to them. Course texts include contemporary essays, “careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative newspaper and magazine articles, editorials, reports, literature.” This class will explore mature, adult-level, biographies, memos, assorted public documents, and other thought-provoking works of high literary value which nonfiction texts. The course materials also include modules encompass a variety of genres, time periods, and language on two full-length works (one novel and one work of styles. All students are expected to “read deliberately and nonfiction). Written assignments and holistic scoring guides thoroughly, taking time to understand a work’s complexity, to conclude each unit. absorb its richness of meaning, and to analyze how that meaning is embodied in literary form. In short, students in an Advanced Placement English Literature course should read COLLEGE PREPARATORY ENGLISH 1-2 actively. The works taught require careful deliberative Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes reading, and the approach to analyzing and interpreting them involves students in learning how to make careful observations Course #ENG10200 Grade Level: 9 of textual detail, establish connections among their Duration: 1 Year observations, and draw from those connections a series of Course Description: This course is designed for highly inferences leading to an interpretive conclusion about the motivated students performing at or above grade level in work’s meaning and value.” language arts. The curriculum of this course is geared for students who plan to attend a four-year college or university Quality writing is a must and “should be an integral part of an immediately after high school graduation. This course Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition requires students to read extensively from District-approved course.” Writing assignments will “focus on the critical literature lists, to write research papers as well as other analysis of literature and include expository, analytical, and compositions, to work independently, and to demonstrate argumentative essays. Critical essays make up the bulk of higher-level critical thinking skills in their written and oral student writing.” The approaches to writing will vary, from work. The course is a literature-based comprehensive English notebook response to in-depth reaction papers. Most course, built around twelve thematic or skills-based units, in assignments will be relatively brief, but thorough. In essence, each of which are embedded critical reading, composition and the goal of this course is “to increase students’ ability to grammar instruction, listening and speaking skills, and explain clearly, cogently, even elegantly, what they vocabulary development strategies. Students who perform understand about literary works and why they interpret them poorly in this course will have their placement reviewed. as they do. To that end, writing instruction will include Recommended Prerequisites: Recommendation of 8th grade attention to developing and organizing ideas in clear, English teacher pending on-site high school assessment. coherent, and persuasive language.” Moreover, writing is a shared experience as students work together to develop and revise their critical-thinking skills. Students in this class are COLLEGE PREPARATORY ENGLISH 3-4 expected to take the Advanced Placement examination. Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes (Language borrowed from AP Course Description, English, May 1998- 99. The College Board.) Course # ENG10900 Grade Level: 10 Recommended Prerequisites: AP English Language and Duration: 1 Year Composition or CP English 5-6 with a “C” or higher, teacher Course Description: This course is designed for highly recommendation, or a 3 or higher on the AP Language Test, motivated students performing at or above grade level in completion of summer reading/writing assignments. language arts. This course requires students to read Summer Project: Read 2-4 novels and complete related extensively from District approved literature lists, to write assignments as directed by instructor. research papers as well as other compositions, to work independently, and to demonstrate higher-level critical thinking skills in their written and oral work. This course is a EXPOSITORY READING AND WRITING COURSE literature-based comprehensive English course, built around Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes twelve thematic or skills-based units, in each of which are Course # ENG16500 Grade Level: 12 embedded critical reading, composition and grammar instruction, listening and speaking skills, and vocabulary Duration: 1 Year A Modesto City School 17

ENGLISH continued... is required for students who are reading at least two grade levels below 9th grade level, or who have scored below the development strategies. Recommended Prerequisites: 30th percentile in a standardized test of reading ability. Recommendation of 9th grade English teacher, CST score of Teacher recommendation is also a factor in placing students in basic or above. this course. nonfiction texts. The course materials also include modules on two full-length works (one novel and one work of COLLEGE PREPARATORY ENGLISH 5-6 nonfiction). Written assessments and holistic scoring guides Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes conclude each unit. Course # ENG11600 Grade Level: 11th Duration: 1 year ACADEMIC LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 9 Course Description: This course is designed for the highly ACADEMIC LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 10 motivated students performing at or above grade level in language arts. The curriculum supports the California ACADEMIC LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 11 Language Arts Content Standards and is geared for students Course # ENG13430 Grade Level: 9 who plan to attend a four year college or university Course # ENG14430 Grade Level: 10 immediately after high school graduation. This course requires Course # ENG15340 Grade Level: 11 students to read extensively from district-approved literature Duration: 1 Year lists, to meet or exceed content are standards in writing to Placement: Placement will be based on 1) years enrolled in work independently , and to demonstrate higher-level critical U.S. schools, 2) results from CST, CELDT, and 3) district thinking skills in their written and oral work. Recommended assessments. Prerequisites: Recommendation of 10th grade English teacher, CST score of basic or above. Course Description: Objectives of this course are to further develop effective writing skills as demonstrated in multi- paragraph composition, to further develop advanced critical COLLEGE PREPARATORY ENGLISH 7-8 reading skills and increase the development of oral Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes communication skills to gaining proficiency and language Course # ENG12400 Grade Level: 12 acquisition. Special emphasis will include building academic Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary words, word analysis, reading Duration: One Year comprehension, writing strategies and applications plus Course Description: This course is designed for highly developing their oral skills through speech. Prerequisites: motivated students performing at or above grade level in English Language Learner not in need of accelerated language arts. The curriculum supports the California intervention. Language Arts Content Standards and is geared for students who plan to attend a four-year college or university immediately after high school graduation. This course requires students to read extensively from district-approved literature FOREIGN LANGUAGE lists, to meet or exceed content area standards in writing, to work independently, and to demonstrate higher-level critical thinking skills in their written and oral work. Recommended AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE I Prerequisites: Recommendation of 11th grade English teacher, Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes CST score of basic or above. Course # FOR26500 Grade Level: 9-12 Duration: 1 Year SUCCESS SKILLS Course Description: This introductory course, open to all Course # ELE62300 Grade Level: 9-12 students who wish to learn a manual, natural language is intended to develop limited facility in each of the following Duration: 1 Year areas: reading, writing, listening, thinking, signing, Course Description: This course is designed to help students computing. Major emphasis is on the development of the be successful in school by integrating Success Skills into the ability to sign fluently with accurate hand shape, placement, curriculum. Major units include Tutorials, Time Management, palm orientation and movement as well as basic facial markers Writing Skills, Study Skills, Listening Skills, Textbook/Content and visual gestural communication skills, while fostering an Area Reading Strategies, Test-taking Skills, Note-taking, appreciation for American Sign Language and Deaf culture. Memory Techniques, Choosing College & Careers, Life Skills, Recommended Prerequisites: None and School Culture. Recommended Prerequisites: None

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II READ 180 AND READ 180 SUPPORT (2 HR BLOCK) Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # ENG12700 & 12710 Grade Level: 9 Course # FOR26600 Grade Level 10-12 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: The course is designed as a one-year Course Description: This course is designed for students who intervention with the goal of bringing students to grade level have successfully completed ASL Level I. Students will develop or above in reading through direct instruction program communication skills with emphasis on ability to sign fluently, designed to improve word attack skills, increase using accurate hand shape, placement, palm orientation, comprehension and fluency, and build vocabulary. Instruction movement, basic ASL grammar principles and facial markers. will also include strategies for reading and writing in the Students will acquire knowledge and appreciation of American content areas, note taking, and related study skills for Sign Language and Deaf Culture. Recommended academic success. Recommended Prerequisites: This course Prerequisites: ASL I or equivalent

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FRENCH I and through communication-based instruction they will Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes develop the ability to: greet and respond to greetings; Course # FOR20400 Grade Level: 9-12 introduce and respond to introductions; engage in conversations; express likes and dislikes; make requests; Duration: 1 Year obtain information; understand some ideas and familiar Course Description: This course is an entry level French details; begin to provide information. Students will develop course. Students will acquire a basic understanding of culture an understanding and appreciation of the culture. and through communication-based instruction they will Recommended Prerequisites: None develop the ability to: greet and respond to greetings; introduce and respond to introductions; engage in conversations; express likes and dislikes; make requests; SPANISH II obtain information; understand some ideas and familiar Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes details; begin to provide information. Students will develop Course # FOR20100 Grade Level: 9-12 an understanding and appreciation of the culture. Duration: 1 Year Recommended Prerequisites: None Course Description: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Spanish I. Students will expand FRENCH II upon the knowledge gained in Spanish I and will develop the Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes ability to: make requests; express their needs; understand Course # FOR20500 Grade Level: 9-12 and express important ideas and some detail; describe and compare; use and understand expressions indicating emotion. Duration: 1 Year Students will continue to gain understanding and appreciation Course Description: This course is designed for students who of the culture. Recommended Prerequisites: Successful have successfully completed French I. Students will expand completion of Spanish I. (Teacher recommendation or a grade upon the knowledge gained in French I and will develop the of C or better.) ability to: make requests; express their needs; understand and express important ideas and some detail; describe and compare; use and understand expressions indicating emotion. SPANISH III Students will continue to gain understanding and appreciation Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes of the culture. Recommended Prerequisites: Successful Course # FOR20200 Grade Level: 9-12 completion of French I. (Teacher recommendation or a grade Duration: 1 Year of C or better.) Course Description: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Spanish II. Students will expand FRENCH III upon the knowledge gained in Spanish II and will develop the Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes ability to: clarify and ask for and comprehend clarification; Course # FOR20600 Grade Level 9 - 12 express and understand opinions; narrate and understand Duration: 1 year narration in the present, past, and future; identify, state, and understand feelings and emotions. Students will increase their Course Description: This course is designed for students who understanding and appreciation of the culture. Recommended have successfully completed French II. Students will expand Prerequisites: Successful completion of Spanish II. (Teacher upon the knowledge gained in French II and will develop the recommendation or a grade of C or better.) ability to: clarify and ask for and comprehend clarification; express and understand opinions; narrate and understand narration in the present, past, and future; identify, state, and SPANISH IV understand feelings and emotions. Students will increase their Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes understanding and appreciation of the culture. Recommended Course # FOR20300 Grade Level: 9-12 Prerequisites: Successful completion of French II. (Teacher recommendation or a grade of C or better.) Duration: 1 Year Course Description: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Level III. Students will develop FRENCH IV excellence in the major communication skills and will acquire Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes knowledge and appreciation of the culture of the target Course # FOR20700 Grade Level 9 - 12 language. Recommended Prerequisites: Successful completion of Spanish III. Duration: 1 year Course Description: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed French III. Students will develop SPANISH FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS 3 proficiency in the major communication skills and will acquire Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes knowledge and appreciation of the culture of the target Course # FOR24500 Grade Level: 9-12 language. Recommended Prerequisites: French III Duration: 1 Year Course Description: This is an entry level Spanish course for SPANISH I native speakers of Spanish. The course is the first in a series of Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes three levels leading to the A.P. Spanish Language exam (Level 5). It addresses the language arts content standards of reading Course # FOR20000 Grade Level: 9-12 and literary response and analysis, writing, writing Duration: 1 Year conventions, listening and speaking. It is designed to Course Description: This course is an entry level Spanish strengthen communicative ability in Spanish in the course. Students will acquire a basic understanding of culture interpersonal, presentational and interpretative modes. Cross-

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE continued... Literature and Culture exam through the analysis and appreciation of Spanish Literature and the historical and cultural comparisons and cross-curricular connections are cultural contexts in which the works were written. The integrated throughout the course. Recommended curriculum incorporates many of the elements of a college- Prerequisites: Good communicative skills in oral Spanish; level Spanish composition and literature program and covers basic reading skills in English or Spanish. the authors and literary works included in the Advanced Placement Spanish Literature examination. It will also discuss historical and cultural factors that influenced these works. SPANISH FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS 4 Students are expected to engage with the literature in a Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes personal and analytical way, further develop critical thinking Course # FOR24600 Grade Level: 9-12 skills and increase their mastery of the language. In contrast Duration: 1 Year to Spanish for Spanish Speakers VI/AP Spanish Language and Culture and in preparation for the AP Literature exam, this Course Description: This course is the second in a series of course will focus more strongly on literary analysis, writing three levels of Spanish for Spanish Speakers leading to the AP analytical essays and will include review of the entire Spanish Language exam (Level 5). It addresses the language curriculum. Recommended Prerequisites: Spanish for arts content standards of reading and literary response and Spanish Speakers VI/AP Spanish Language teacher analysis, writing, writing conventions, listening and speaking. recommendation. It is designed to strengthen communicative ability in Spanish in the interpersonal, presentational and interpretative modes.

Cross-cultural comparisons and cross-curricular connections are integrated throughout the course. Recommended HEALTH Prerequisites: Completion of Spanish for Spanish Speakers 3 or teacher recommendation. HEALTH * meets graduation requirement SPANISH FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS 5 (3RD YEAR) Course # HEA60301/60302 Grade Level: 9 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Duration: 1 Semester Course # FOR24710 Grade Level: 11-12, or permission of Course Description: Health is a required course that includes instructor instruction in alcohol, tobacco, and drug education, family Duration: 1 Year life, AIDS, nutrition, first aid, disease, and mental and Course Description: This course will provide a standard of emotional health. Recommended Prerequisites: None Spanish literacy necessary for future university courses and career paths. The course addresses the language arts content standards of reading and literary response and analysis, writing, writing conventions, listening and speaking. It is designed to strengthen communicative ability in Spanish in the MATHEMATICS interpersonal, presentational, and interpretative modes. ADVANCED ALGEBRA Cross-cultural comparisons and cross-curricular connections are integrated throughout the course. Recommended Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Prerequisites: Completion of Spanish for Spanish Speakers 4 Course # MAT36400 Grade Level: 9-12 or teacher recommendation. Duration: 1 Year Course Description: Advanced Algebra is an intermediate AP SPANISH LANGUAGE algebra course. Areas of emphasis are linear equations and inequalities, matrices, quadratic equations, functions, and Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes series and sequences. Recommended Prerequisites: Course # FOR21800 Grade Level: 11-12 Geometry with a grade of “C” or higher. Duration: 1 Year Course Description: Advanced Placement Spanish is an advanced Spanish course designed to prepare students to take ADVANCED PLACEMENT CALCULUS (AB) and pass the Advanced Placement Spanish language Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes examination. This course covers the equivalent of a third Course # MAT35700 Grade Level: 11-12 year college course in advanced Spanish writing and Duration: 1 Year conversation. It encompasses aural/oral skills, reading comprehension, grammar and composition. Recommended Course Description: Advanced Placement Calculus is a full Prerequisites: Spanish III with teacher recommendation, or year of work in calculus and related topics which is Spanish IV, or Pre-AP Spanish III. comparable to a first semester course in a college or university. Most of the class is devoted to topics in differential and integral calculus. It is expected that students who take AP SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE this course will seek college credit by taking the AP Calculus Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes AB Test. Students should have thorough knowledge of college Course # FOR24800 Grade Level: 11-12 preparatory mathematics including algebra, axiomatic geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry (rectangular and Duration: 1 Year polar coordinates, equations, and graphs, lines, and conics). Course Description: AP Spanish Literature and Culture is the The typical student should have previously completed second part of an intensive two-year course (initiated in successfully Algebra, Geometry, Advanced Algebra, and Pre- Spanish for Spanish Speakers VI/AP Spanish Language) designed Calculus. Recommended Prerequisites: Pre-Calculus/Pre-AP to prepare native Spanish speaking and other qualified Pre-Calculus with a “C” or higher. *Course work of transfer students to take and pass the Advanced Placement Spanish students will be evaluated for equivalency.

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ADVANCED PLACEMENT CALCULUS (BC) PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT GATE PRE-CALCULUS Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # MAT39000 Grade Level: 12 Course # MAT35800 Grade Level: 10-12 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: Advanced Placement Calculus course is a Course Description: Pre-Calculus is a College Preparatory full year of work in calculus and related topics which is course for students who have successfully completed Advanced comparable to a second semester course in a college or Algebra. It prepares students for success in Calculus and higher university. It is expected that students who take this course mathematics. Units of instruction include the graphing of will seek college credit by taking the AP Calculus BC test. polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, Topics covered in the course will include: Functions, Graphs, trig functions and identities, vectors, polar equations and and Limits, Derivatives, Integrals, and Polynomial limits. Recommended Prerequisites: Pre-AP Advanced Approximations and Series. Prerequisite: AP Calculus (AB). Algebra with “C” or higher. *Course work of transfer students will be evaluated for equivalency. PRE-CALCULUS

Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes ADVANCED PLACEMENT STATISTICS Course # MAT35900 Grade Level: 10-12 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Duration: 1 Year Course # MAT36000 Grade Level 11-12 Course Description: Pre-Calculus is a College Preparatory Duration: 1 Year course for students who have successfully completed Advanced Course Description: AP Statistics is a course that includes Algebra. It prepares students for success in Calculus and higher topics that prepare college bound students for mathematics in mathematics. Units of instruction include the graphing of both liberal arts majors and mathematics/engineering majors. polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, The course content includes descriptive statistics, probability, trig functions and identities, vectors, polar equations and probability distributions, estimates and sample sizes, limits. Recommended Prerequisites: Advanced Algebra with experimental designs, correlation and regression, and “C” or higher. statistical inference. Recommended Prerequisites: Advanced Algebra with “C” or better. *Course work of transfer students will be evaluated for equivalency. PRE AP SECONDARY MATH I Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # MAT49111/49112 Recommended Grade Level: 9 FINANCIAL MATH Course # MAT39310 Grade Level: 12th only Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: For the high school Pre-AP Secondary Course Description: Financial Math is a course designed to Math I course, instructional time should focus on six critical introduce students to the mathematics involved in daily life areas: (1) extend understanding of numerical manipulation to and a basic look into finances involved with running a small algebraic manipulation; (2) synthesize understanding of business. Personal finance units include bank accounts, credit, functions; (3) deepen and extend understanding of linear and investment. Business applications include accounting, relationships; (4) apply linear models to data that exhibit a marketing, inventory, and sales. Recommended linear trend; (5) establish criteria for congruence based on Prerequisites: 12th Grade only rigid motions; and (6) apply the Pythagorean Theorem to the coordinate plane. The scope of this course is limited to linear and exponential expressions and equations as well as some FINITE MATH: COLLEGE ENTRANCE PREP MATH work with absolute value, step, and functions that are Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes piecewise-defined. Students will learn to think critically in a Course # MAT39900 Grade Level: 12 mathematical way with an understanding that there are many Duration: 1 Year different ways to a solution and sometimes more than one Course Description: This course will focus on higher level right answer in applied mathematics. The Mathematical math topics, such as matrices, linear programming, finance, Practice Standards and Content Standards are connected in instruction and prescribe that students experience set theory, probability, statistics, game theory, and logic. mathematics as a coherent, useful and logical subject that Recommended Prerequisites: Advanced Algebra, teacher makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations. recommendation, conditionally exempt on EAP. *Course work Recommended Prerequisites: Successful completion of of transfer students will be evaluated for equivalency. Secondary Math I Honors Junior High and teacher recommendation. PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT GATE ADVANCED ALGEBRA Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes PRE AP SECONDARY MATH II Course # MAT36200 Grade Level: 9-12 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Duration: 1 Year Course # MAT49211/49212 Recommended Grade Level: 9-10 Course Description: Pre-AP/GATE Advanced Algebra is an Duration: 1 Year intermediate algebra course. Areas of emphasis are linear equations and inequalities, matrices, quadratic equations, Course Description: The focus of Pre AP Secondary Math II is functions, and series and sequences. Recommended on quadratic expressions, equations, and functions; comparing Prerequisites: Pre-AP Geometry with a “C” or higher and their characteristics and behavior to those of linear and Algebra II Readiness Test 32 or higher. exponential relationships from Pre AP Secondary Math I as organized into 6 critical areas, or units. The need for extending the set of rational numbers arises and real and

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MATHEMATICS continued... functions that are piecewise-defined. Students will learn to think critically in a mathematical way with an understanding complex numbers are introduced so that all quadratic that there are many different ways to a solution and equations can be solved. The link between probability and sometimes more than one right answer in applied data is explored through conditional probability and counting mathematics. The Mathematical Practice Standards and methods, including their use in making and evaluating Content Standards are connected in instruction and prescribe decisions. The study of similarity leads to an understanding of that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful right triangle trigonometry and connects to quadratics through and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make Pythagorean relationships. Finally Circles, with their quadratic sense of problem situations. Recommended Prerequisites: algebraic representations, round out the course. The Successful completion of Math 8 and teacher recommendation. Mathematical Practice Standards apply throughout each course and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and SECONDARY MATH II logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes problem situations. The Standards for Mathematical Practice Course # MAT49200 Recommended Grade Level: 10 complement the content standards so that students Duration: 1 Year increasingly engage with the subject matter as they grow in Course Description: The focus of the Secondary Math II mathematical maturity and expertise throughout the course is on quadratic expressions, equations, and functions; elementary, middle, and high school years. Recommended comparing their characteristics and behavior to those of linear Prerequisites: Successful completion of Pre AP Secondary and exponential relationships from Secondary Math I. This Math I or Secondary Math 1 JH and teacher recommendation. course includes standards from the conceptual categories of Number and Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, and PRE AP SECONDARY MATH III Statistics and Probability. For the Mathematics II course, Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes instructional time should focus on five critical areas: (1) extend the laws of exponents to rational exponents; (2) Course # MAT49331/49332 Recommended Grade Level: 11 compare key characteristics of quadratic functions with those Duration: 1 Year of linear and exponential functions; (3) create and solve Course Description: In the Pre AP Secondary Mathematics III equations and inequalities involving linear, exponential, and course students will integrate and apply the mathematics they quadratic expressions; (4) extend work with probability; and have learned from their earlier courses. This course includes (5) establish criteria for similarity of triangles based on standards from the conceptual categories of Number and dilations and proportional reasoning. The Standards for quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, and Statistics and Mathematical Practice complement the content standards so that students increasingly engage with the subject matter as Probability. Standards that were limited in Secondary they grow in mathematical maturity and expertise throughout Mathematics I and Secondary Mathematics II no longer have the elementary, middle, and high school years. Recommended those restrictions in Mathematics III. For the Pre-AP Prerequisites: Successful completion of Secondary Math I and Mathematics III course, instructional time should focus on four teacher recommendation. critical areas: (1) apply methods from probability and statistics to draw inferences and conclusions from data; (2) expand SECONDARY MATH III understanding of functions to include polynomial, rational, and radical functions; (3) expand right triangle trigonometry to Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes include general triangles; and (4) consolidate functions and Course # MAT49300 Recommended Grade Level: 11-12 geometry to create models and solve contextual problems. Duration: 1 Year The Standards for Mathematical Practice complement the Course Description: In the Secondary Mathematics III course content standards so that students increasingly engage with students will integrate and apply the mathematics they have the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and learned from their earlier courses. This course includes standards from the conceptual categories of Number and expertise throughout the elementary, middle, and high school Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, and Statistics and years. Recommended Prerequisites: Successful completion of Probability. Standards that were limited in Secondary Pre AP Secondary Math II and teacher recommendation Mathematics I and Secondary Mathematics II no longer have those restrictions in Mathematics III. For the Mathematics III course, instructional time should focus on four critical areas: SECONDARY MATH I (1) apply methods from probability and statistics to draw Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes inferences and conclusions from data; (2) expand Course # MAT49100 Recommended Grade Level: 9-12 understanding of functions to include polynomial, rational, Duration: 1 Year and radical functions; (3) expand right triangle trigonometry Course Description: For the high school Mathematics to include general triangles; and (4) consolidate functions and Integrated I course, instructional time should focus on six geometry to create models and solve contextual problems. critical areas: (1) extend understanding of numerical The Standards for Mathematical Practice complement the manipulation to algebraic manipulation; (2) synthesize content standards so that students increasingly engage with understanding of functions; (3) deepen and extend the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and understanding of linear relationships; (4) apply linear models expertise throughout the elementary, middle, and high school to data that exhibit a linear trend; (5) establish criteria for years. Recommended Prerequisites: Secondary Math II and congruence based on rigid motions; and (6) apply the teacher recommendation. Pythagorean Theorem to the coordinate plane. The scope of this course is limited to linear and exponential expressions and equations as well as some work with absolute value, step, and

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MATH 180 COURSE II ATHLETICS - (AFTER SCHOOL SPORTS PROGRAM) Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: No Course # MAT95381/95382 Recommended Grade Level: 9 Courses below; Grade Level: 9-12 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Quarter each Course Description: MATH 180 Course II is a math class Course Description: This course offers the student the using a comprehensive system of curriculum, instruction, and opportunity to participate in organized athletic competition. assessment, to equip struggling students with the knowledge, This course studies the physical, emotional, intellectual, social reasoning, and confidence to be prepared for Secondary Math. and health aspects of athletic competition. Recommended Prerequisites: None Math 180 Course II is built from a carefully sequenced and paced progression of content. There are 9 blocks of Boys’ Sports Program: instruction featuring high-interest themes. The focused Fall: content helps students make connections while learning to  Varsity Football think algebraically. Recommended Prerequisites: Students  Sophomore Football placed in this course have scored below 700 on the Scholastic  Freshman Football Math Inventory (SMI) Quartile test.  Water Polo  Varsity Soccer  Jr. Varsity Soccer  Cross Country PHYSICAL EDUCATION Winter:  Varsity Basketball ADAPTED PE  Sophomore Basketball Course # PE47101/PE47102 Grade Level: 9-12  Freshman Basketball Duration: 1 Quarter  Wrestling Course Description: This course offers the student the Spring: opportunity to participate in organized physical activities.  Varsity Baseball This course studies the physical, emotional, intellectual, social  Sophomore Baseball and health aspects of physical activities. Recommended  Freshman Baseball Prerequisites: IEP Team Approval  Track—Varsity & JV  Tennis  Swimming—Varsity & JV CARDIO FITNESS  Golf Course # PE47301/PE47312 Grade Level: 9-12 Duration: 1 Quarter Girls’ Sports Program: Fall: Course Description: An intermediate/advanced physical  Golf education class that specializes in developing and  Varsity Water Polo strengthening cardio fitness through activities ranging from  Varsity Volleyball team sports to individual exercise.  Frosh/Soph Volleyball Recommended Prerequisites: None  Tennis  Cross Country DANCE 1-2  Spiritleading Winter: Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes  Varsity Basketball Course # PE45401/PE45402 Grade Level: 9-12  Frosh/Soph Basketball Duration: 2 Semesters  Spiritleading Course Description: Engagement in activities directed toward Spring: the refinement and master of dance skill and vocabulary,  Softball—Varsity & JV artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural  Soccer—Varsity & JV contest, aesthetic valuing, and the application and  Swimming performance of learned knowledge in composition and  Track & Field technical mastery. Recommended Prerequisites: None

DANCE 3-4 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes DANCE PRODUCTION Course # PE45501/PE45502 Grade Level: 9-12 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Duration: 2 Semesters Course # PE45601/PE45602 Grade Level: 9-12 Course Description: Engagement in activities directed toward Duration: 2 Semesters the refinement and mastery of dance skill, vocabulary, Course Description: Engagement in activities directed toward anatomy, artistic perception, creative expression, historical the refinement and mastery of dance skill, artistic perception, and cultural context, aesthetic valuing, and the application creative expression, historical and cultural context, aesthetic and performance of learned knowledge in composition and valuing, and the application and performance of learned technical mastery. Recommended Prerequisites: Dance 1-2, knowledge in composition and technical mastery. Teacher approval. Recommended Prerequisites: Beginning Dance, Teacher approval, audition

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION, continued tools. Instructional training in areas such as plans and blueprints, ordering material, work layout, woodworking machines and related occupational information will be presented. This is a beginning course in woodworking. GENERAL PE Recommended Prerequisites: None Course # PE48001/PE48002 Grade Level: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Duration: 1 Quarter Course Description: The purpose of the General Physical CONSTRUCTION/WOODWORKING TECHNOLOGY 3-4 Education & Advanced Physical Education Class is to provide Course # IND30800 Grade Level: 10-12 the student with a variety of activities and experiences. The Duration: 1 Year class is designed to meet the needs of the student and allow Course Description: This is an advanced course in the student to develop a sense of well-being, self-esteem, construction/woodworking technology. Additional instruction cooperation, and confidence throughout the school year. The will be provided in each of the beginning Construction/ aim is to enable the student to become physically educated, Woodworking Technology 1-2 areas as well as advanced fit, able to enjoy a variety of physical activities and training in hand tools, machinery, equipment, and committed to lifetime health and physical well-being. It is an woodworking joinery. This course also introduces cabinet ongoing process of articulated and sequential development of construction, as well as drawer and door construction. skills, talents, attitudes, and behaviors. Recommended Recommended Prerequisites: Construction/Woodworking 1-2 Prerequisites: None FOODS AND NUTRITION 1-2 TENNIS, BEGINNING Course # HOM25200 Grade Level: 9-12 Course # PE46101/PE46102 Grade Level: 9-12 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Quarter Course Description: Students will be given guidelines for Course Description: This course is designed to introduce and good nutrition, food safety, and sanitation. They will learn teach the 5 basic strokes of tennis, rules and strategies for basic skills associated with reading and applying recipes, playing the game of tennis. Recommended Prerequisites: including proper measuring and preparation techniques. None Students will also learn basic American regional foods as well as ethnic foods from around the world. Recommended Prerequisites: None WEIGHT TRAINING, BEGINNING Course # PE45301/PE45302 Grade Level: 10-12 Duration: 1 Quarter FOODS AND NUTRITION 3-4 Course Description: This course is designed to teach the Course # HOM25300 Grade Level: 10-12 student the basic skills and benefits of weight training. Duration: 1 Year Students will understand the way the cardio-muscular system Course Description: This course will give students in-depth, works; muscle system works, and how physical conditioning hands-on experiences in nutrition, sanitation, safe food takes place in the body. Terminology will be covered and handling, and meal planning. Students will apply advance student will gain a knowledge of proper and safe use of food preparation techniques and meal planning. Students will equipment. Recommended Prerequisites: None compare food preparation techniques, meal etiquette, and food traditions of different cultures. They will learn effective WEIGHT TRAINING, ADVANCED leadership skills and learn how to organize and structure work individually and in teams. In addition, students will also Course # PE47301/PE47302 Grade Level: 10-12 identify pre-professional associations and careers in the food Duration: 1 Quarter and nutrition industries. Recommended Prerequisites: Foods Course Description: This is a self-directed weight training and Nutrition 1-2 program. Students using the knowledge gained from basic weight class and teacher direction will develop their own workout programs for lifting five days-a-week. The dangers of GRAPHIC DESIGN 1-2 (see Visual & Performing Arts) steroids usage to the human body will be included. Guidance GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 3-4 by the teacher will be given to each student toward setting Course # IND33300 Grade Level: 10-12 and accomplishing individual goals. Recommended Duration: 2 Semesters Prerequisites: Complete Beginning Weight Training Course Description: Course Description: Graphic

Communication 3-4 provides intermediate training in the offset printing process and in the following areas of the PRACTICAL ARTS printing industry: job planning and layout, type composition and reproduction, desktop/electronic publishing, proofreading, camera-ready copy preparation, line CONSTRUCTION/WOODWORKING TECHNOLOGY 1-2 photography, halftone photography, darkroom techniques, Course # IND30700 Grade Level: 9-12 plate preparation, offset inks, paper, press fundamentals, and shop safety. Course content is structured through lecture- Duration: 1 Year laboratory experiences as related to individual assigned Course Description: This is an introductory course to the projects. The contents of this course can be linked to the construction industry that will allow students to learn how to School to Career programs and can be used to develop career use portable and stationary woodworking equipment in a pathways for students. Recommended Prerequisites: Graphic proper and safe manner. The student will learn about wood Communication 1-2 Modesto Junior College 2 + 2 Articulation properties, fastenings, finishes, and the proper use of hand

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GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 5-6 SPEECH Course # IND33500 Grade Level: 11-12 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Duration: 2 Semesters Course # ENG14500, Grade Level: 9-12 Ability Level: GATE-X-Y Course Description: Graphic Communication 5-6 provides Duration: 1 year advanced training in the following areas of the Printing Course Description: This course provides an introduction to Industry: orientation and laboratory safety, art and copy, the fundamentals of public speaking and debating; special image generation/composition, photo conversion and attention is given to the development of poise and self continuous tone photography, image carriers and transfer, confidence in front of an audience. binding and finishing, economics and management, and career selections. Course content is structured through lecture- laboratory experiences as related to individual assigned INFANT CARE 1-2 projects. The contents of this course can be linked to the Course # HOM26400 Grade Level: 9-12 School to Career programs and can be used to develop career Duration: 1 Year pathways for students. Recommended Prerequisites: Graphic Course Description: Students will learn and apply basic Communication 3-4 knowledge and practical skills in the areas of child Modesto Junior College 2 + 2 Articulation development, care and guidance by observing and working with infants and toddlers on a daily basis. Recommended GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 7-8 Prerequisites: None Course # IND33700 Grade Level: 12 Duration: 2 Semesters PARENTING EDUCATION 1-2 Course Description: Graphic Communication 7-8 provides job Course # HOM26300 Grade Level: 9-12 entry-level training in the areas of art and copy, desktop/ Duration: 1 Year electronic publishing, image generation/composition, photo- Course Description: Students learn and apply theoretical conversion and continuous tone photography, image carriers knowledge and practical skills in the development, care and and transfer, binding and finishing, and economics and guidance of children. Recommended Prerequisites: Cal Safe management. Course content is structured through lecture- State Program Required laboratory-field trip experiences as related to individual and group assigned projects. The contents of this course can be linked to the School to Career programs and can be used to AVID 9, 10, 11 develop career pathways for students. Recommended Course # ELE87300, ELE87400, ELE87900 Grade Level 9-11 Prerequisites: Graphic Communication 5-6 Duration: 1 Year Modesto Junior College 2 + 2 Articulation Course Description: This course is an elective class for students who are college bound. While concurrently enrolled DESKTOP PUBLISHING/PHOTO JOURNALISM (The Realm) in a college prep course of study, students learn strategies to Course # ENG15300 Recommended Grade Level: 10-12 enhance success. To ensure success in college prep course Duration: 1 Year (May be repeated two additional years for credit) work, students work individually, as well as in tutor led collaborative groups. Test-taking strategies, and self Course Description: This course is designed to allow the awareness are stressed. In addition, the course includes students to learn about the related fields of computer college motivational activities. Recommended Prerequisites: technology and photography. This knowledge of design Teacher recommendation. techniques and photography will expose the students to the components in producing newsletters, yearbooks, posters, programs, or brochures. The students will 1) gain a basic AVID SENIOR SEMINAR understanding of the principles of desktop publishing, 2) Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes recognize how graphic design contributes to the Course # ELE74900 Grade Level: 12 communication process, 3) be able to design and produce a Duration: 1 Year high school yearbook incorporating desktop and photographic techniques, 4) be prepared for entry-level work at a print Course Description: The AVID Senior Seminar is the show, desktop publishing company, newspaper production culmination of a student’s years in the AVID program. The department or other company utilizing desktop publishing for course involves substantial critical reading and writing, internal or external publications, 5) be able to take on preparation for external exams such as Advanced Placement assignments and responsibilities that will allow them to meet and International Baccalaureate, and weekly Socratic deadlines for publication, 6) receive the skills necessary to seminars. Students enrolled in the Senior Seminar are required produce photographs suitable for publication. Recommended to complete weekly timed writings, and analytical discourses Prerequisites: None in subjects across the curriculum. In addition, students are required to make oral presentations to the class on topics related to college entrance, contemporary issues, and social JOURNALISM 3-4 (YEARBOOK) concerns. Recommended Prerequisites: Previous enrollment Course # ENG27000 Grade Level: 10-12 in AVID lower-level courses for three years. Enrollment in at Duration: 1 Year least one honors, Advanced Placement, or International Course Description: Students registered in this course will Baccalaureate course. produce the school yearbook while gaining journalism experience and some experience in the allied fields of photo- journalism, art, pictorial essay construction merchandising, bookkeeping, and editing. Recommended Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. A Modesto City School 25

SCIENCE Students should have a strong background in Algebra. Many laboratory experiments are done using chemicals to prepare ADVANCED PLACEMENT BIOLOGY students for college laboratory work. Recommended Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Prerequisites: CP Biology and Algebra with “C” or higher in Course # SCI54600 Grade Level: 11-12 both. *Course work of transfer students will be evaluated for equivalency. Duration: 1 year Course Description: The AP Biology course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually COLLEGE PREPARATORY BIOLOGY taken by biology majors during their first year. A. P. Biology Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes should include those topics regularly covered in a college Course # SCI53600 Grade Level: 10-11 biology course for majors. The two main goals of A. P. Biology Duration: 1 Year are to help students develop a conceptual framework for modern biology and to help students gain an appreciation of Course Description: This laboratory science course is science as a process. A. P. Biology is a course intended for designed for the college-bound student as an introductory students who are able to do college-level work while still in course in biological science. This course is a standards-based high school. In order to get college credit, students must course that addresses biology from a molecular perspective. It complete the course work and pass the College Board involves extensive laboratory work as well as the extensive use Examination. The College Board Examination is very rigorous. of the scientific method through the collection of data and In order to best prepare students for the exam the course is observation. Recommended Prerequisites: CP Earth Science intense and fast paced. College level work is expected of with a “C” or higher and completion of or concurrent students and grading will reflect that expectation. enrollment in Algebra. Recommended Prerequisites: CP Biology or Pre-AP Biology or CP Chemistry or Pre-AP Chemistry with “C” or higher and COLLEGE PREPARATORY EARTH SCIENCE teacher recommendation. *Course work of transfer students Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes will be evaluated for equivalency. Course # SCI52700 Grade Level: 9 Duration: 1 Year ADVANCED PLACEMENT CHEMISTRY Course Description: This is a course that combines earth Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes science and physics. This course covers physical laws and Course # SCI54700 Grade Level 11-12 properties of the earth. Students will do extensive lab work that involves making observations and constructing hypotheses Duration: 1 year from data collected. Labs and activities are integral to the Course Description: The AP Chemistry course is designed to course. Recommended Prerequisites: Pre-Algebra and/or be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually “C” or higher in Grade 8 physical science. taken during the first college year. For some students, this course enables them to undertake , as freshmen, second-year work in the chemistry sequence at their institution or to HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOLGY register in courses in other fields where general chemistry is a Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes prerequisite. For other students, the AP Chemistry course Course # SCI55100 Grade Level: 11-12 fulfills the laboratory science requirement and frees time for other courses. Recommended Prerequisites: CP Biology or Duration: 1 year Pre-AP Biology or CP Chemistry or Pre-AP Chemistry with “C” Course Description: This laboratory science course will cover or higher and teacher recommendation. the structure and function of the human body. Students will learn about all of the organ systems and how they work together. This is an introductory level course designed for ADVANCED PLACEMENT PHYSICS students pursing a career in the medical or life science field. Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes It is a 2 + 2 course in which students will earn college credit at Course # SCI54800 Grade Level: 11-12 MJC if they earn a “B” or better in the class. Recommended Duration: 1 year Prerequisites: CP Biology with a “C” or higher and teacher Course Description: This is a college-level introductory recommendation. *Course work of transfer students will be physics course that prepares the student to take the Advanced evaluated for equivalency. Placement Physics examination. The topics covered include mechanics, kinetic theory, thermo dynamics, electricity and PHYSICS magnetism, and waves and optics. Recommended Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Prerequisites: CP Biology or Pre-AP Biology or CP Chemistry or Pre-AP Chemistry and Pre-Calculus with “C” or better and Course # SCI55200 Grade Level: 11-12 teacher recommendation. *Course work of transfer students Duration: 1 year will be evaluated for equivalency. Course Description: This is a standards based course in high school physics. This course covers physical laws and physical properties. The student should be a strong reader as well as be COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHEMISTRY enrolled in Algebra or higher. The course involves extensive Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes laboratory work that is directed by the use of the scientific Course # SCI53300 Grade Level: 11 method. Recommended Prerequisites: Earth Science, Biology, Duration: 1 year Chemistry *Course work of transfer students will be evaluated Course Description: This is a course designed for the college for equivalency. bound student. This course utilizes mathematics to solve chemical problems in organic and inorganic chemistry.

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PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT CHEMISTRY ADVANCED PLACEMENT EUROPEAN HISTORY Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # SCI53100 Grade Level 10-11 Course # SOC56900 Grade Level: 10 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: This is a course designed for the Gifted Course Description: This course is designed to increase the and Talented student. This course utilizes mathematics student’s understanding of European history from 1450 to the through logarithms to solve chemical problems in organic and present with the ultimate goal of having each student pass the inorganic chemistry. Students should have a strong background AP examination in May. It is expected that all students in Algebra and Trigonometry. Many laboratory experiments are enrolled in this course take the AP exam. An AP style exam will be given to those students choosing not to take the AP done using chemicals to prepare students for college exam. All sections of the AP exam reflect college level laboratory work. Recommended Prerequisites: Pre AP programs in terms of subject matter and approach. Thus, Physical Science and Algebra with “C” or higher OR Pre-AP students in class will need to demonstrate a knowledge of Biology with teacher recommendation. basic chronology and of major events and trends from

approximately 1450 (the High Renaissance) to the present. PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT BIOLOGY Students are expected to demonstrate the ability to analyze Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes historical evidence and express that understanding in writing. Course # SCI54200 Grade Level : 10-11 Students are also expected to demonstrate an understanding Duration: 1 year of some of the principal themes in European history, and the ability to express that understanding in writing. Course Description: This laboratory science course is Recommended Prerequisites: Teacher recommendation. designed for the Gifted and Talented student as an introductory course in biological science. This course is a standards based course that addresses biology from a ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY molecular perspective. It involves extensive laboratory work as Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes well as the extensive use of the scientific method through the collection of data and observation. Students will do a research Course # SOC57400 Grade Level: 11 project that involves individual problem-solving and Duration: 1 Year organizational skills. Recommended Prerequisites: Pre-AP Course Description: The Advanced Placement Program in Physical Science and Algebra with “C” or better. United States History is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in united States PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT PHYSICS History. The program prepares students for intermediate and Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes advanced college courses by making demands upon them Course # SCI52500 Grade Level: 9 equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college Duration: 1 year courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials— Course Description: This is a standards based introductory their relevance to given interpretive problem, their course in high school physics. This course covers physical laws reliability, and their importance—and to weigh the evidence and physical properties. This will provide students with the and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. An knowledge to continue further study in science. The student advanced Placement United States History course should thus should be a strong reader as well as be enrolled in Algebra or develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the higher. The course involves extensive laboratory work that is basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and directed by the use of the scientific method. Recommended evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. This course Prerequisites: Junior High School H/G Physical Science and is designed for students who are capable and willing to Algebra with “C” or higher in both. *Course work of transfer complete an intensive course survey of United States History students will be evaluated for equivalency. from the colonial period to modern times in preparation for the Advanced Placement college exam. Recommended Prerequisites: AP European History or CP World History and teacher recommendation. SOCIAL SCIENCE ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT PSYCHOLOGY POLITICS Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # SOC54610 Grade Level: 11-12 Course # SOC57900 Grade Level: 12 Duration: 2 Semesters Duration: 1 Year Course Description: The AP Psychology course is designed to Course Description: Advanced Placement United States introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of Government and Politics offers students an opportunity to the behavior and mental processes of human beings and other participate in an analytical study of government and politics. animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, The course is a study of state, district, and AP concepts and principles, theories and phenomena associated with each of analysis of specific governmental issues and examples. While the major subfields within psychology. They also learn ethics many approaches to the course are possible, through any and research methods used by psychologists in their applied approach students should become acquainted with the variety science and practice. Recommended Prerequisites: Teacher of theoretical perspectives, and explanations for various recommendation. behaviors and outcomes. U. S. Government and Politics requires that students learn facts and concepts, and understand typical political processes. Students will be required to interpret and apply political

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SOCIAL SCIENCE, continued year college or university. Recommended Prerequisites: Completion of CP World History with a grade of “C” or higher. relationships between people and institutions and among different institutions. In addition to studying government in COLLEGE PREPARATORY WORLD HISTORY grade twelve, students master fundamental economic concepts, compare economic systems, and study the principles Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes of micro and macro economics. Through the application of Course # SOC5710 Grade Level: 10 graphs, statistics and equations, students further their Duration: 1 Year understanding of economic institutions. Course Description: Students in grade ten study major Advanced Placement classes require extra time on the turning points that shaped the modern world, from the late student’s part for reading the materials, completion of a large 18th century through the present, including the cause and number of short and long written assignments, and research. course of the two world wars. They trace the rise of The Advanced Placement course does not include a specific democratic ideas and develop an understanding of the unit on state and local government; however, many of the historical roots of current world issues, especially as they topics and concepts will be presented in a general study of the pertain to international relations. They extrapolate from the pattern of intergovernmental relationships. Recommended American experience that democratic ideals are often Prerequisites: AP U. S. History or CP U. S. History and teacher achieved at a high price, remain vulnerable are not practiced recommendation. *Course work of transfer students will be everywhere in the world. Students develop an understanding evaluated for equivalency. of current world issues and relate them to their historical, Summer Project: Students should expect to complete a geographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts. summer project in preparation for their later studies. The Students consider multiple accounts of events in order to scope and type of the project shall be at the discretion of the understand international relations from a variety of individual instructor. perspectives. This course is intended for students who read at or above grade level, can work independently, and successfully complete a formal research project. COLLEGE PREPARATORY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND Recommended Prerequisites: Completion of CP English 1-2 ECONOMICS with a grade of “C” or higher and concurrent enrollment in CP Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes English 3-4 or Pre-AP English 3-4; meets District CST Incentive Course # SOC58200 Grade Level: 12 Plan. Duration: 1 Year Course Description: Students in grade twelve pursue a deeper WORLD GEOGRAPHY AND WORLD RELIGIONS understanding of the institution of American government. They compare systems of government in the world today and Course # SOC56701 Grade Level: 9 analyze the life and changing interpretations of the Duration: 1 Semester Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the current state of Course Description: Students in the ninth grade will examine legislative, executive and judiciary branches of the the five themes of geography and understand the impact that government. In addition to studying government in grade geography has had on human development and events. twelve, students master fundamental economic concepts, Students will also examine the geographic location, cultural compare economic systems, and study the principles of micro characteristics, historical development, major beliefs and and macro economics. Through the application of graphs, impact on world historic events of the six major world statistics and equations, students further their understanding religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, of economic institutions. This course is intended for students and Sikhism. This class is required for graduation. who read at or above grade level, can work independently, Recommended Prerequisites: None and successfully complete a formal research project. Students enrolled in this course plan to attend a four year college or university. Recommended Prerequisites: CP U. S. History with a grade of “C” or higher. *Course work of transfer students will be evaluated for equivalency. VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ART 1-2 COLLEGE PREPARATORY UNITED STATES HISTORY Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # ART02500 Grade Level: 9-12 Course # SOC57600 Grade Level: 11 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: Learn what the elements of art are. Course Description: Students in grade eleven study the Learn how to manipulate these elements creatively in major turning points in American History during the 20th drawings, paintings, designs and sculptures. Discover where century. Following a review of the nation’s beginnings and artists acquire ideas and how to communicate these ideas the impact of the Enlightenment on U.S. democratic ideals, clearly to viewers by using the principles of art. Study students study the development of the nation culturally, significant historical art periods and some of the contributing economically, and politically. They learn that the United artists. Become aware of the influence of many cultures on States has served as a model for other nations and that the our creative impressions. Learn about career opportunities in rights and freedoms we enjoy are not accidents, but the result the Visual Arts. Develop skills in evaluation and aesthetic of a defined set of political principles that are not always judgment. A variety of studio projects using numerous basic to citizens of other countries. This course is intended techniques and media are required. This is a prerequisite for students who read at or above grade level, can work course for all other art classes. This course meets the fine independently and successfully complete a formal research arts entrance requirements for the University of California and project. 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DRAWING AND PAINTING Course Description: The Graphic Design course will explore Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes the ever changing trends in the global field of design and its Course # ART02900 Grade Level 10-12 application in print (two dimensional), product and environmental (three dimensional). Students will understand Duration: 1 Year the impact of the arts and design throughout history and in Course Description: This course is an advanced art course various cultures. This course is UC approved and is eligible for with emphasis on continued development and emphasis of “f” credit. Students will learn methods and theory such as Drawing and Painting course study. Recommended elements and principles of design to enhance their artistic Prerequisites: Art 1-2 vision and style. Through two and three dimensional design projects students will develop problem solving skills, artistic AP, STUDIO ART perception, critical thinking, and self reflection. Art critiques and presentations will provide opportunities for students to Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes grow as artists. Learning and using current versions of the Course: ART04100 Grade Level 11-12 industry standard software Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Duration: 2 Semesters, can be repeated for credit Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Acrobat will provide Course Description: The AP Studio Art program provides an students with a professional environment and the associated opportunity for the visually gifted to excel and receive responsibilities as graphic designers. Graphic Design 1-2 also recognition on a national scale. It also makes it possible for includes the history and developments of major printing highly motivated high school students to do college level process; application layout and design as it pertains to a work . AP Studio Art is not based on a written exam; instead variety of substrates; environmental considerations and the student is asked to submit a portfolio of work. Portfolios restrictions; as well as the legal restrictions as they relate to are evaluated by specially trained high school and university the field of Graphic Design and intellectual property as a art instructors. The portfolio is graded separately and then whole. Recommended Prerequisites: None combined into the final composite score. The sections include: #1 Breadth which is a variety of experiences in using the PHOTOGRAPHY 1-2 formal, technical, and expressive means available to an artist. #2 Concentration is twelve pieces of artwork based on a Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes theme. #3 Quality is five actual works of art demonstrating Course # ART03600 Grade Level: 10-12 excellence in a work of art. Slides of art and actual artwork Duration: 1 Year will comprise the portfolio to be submitted. Recommended Course Description: Learn aesthetics by examining and Prerequisites: Art1-2, Pre-AP or IB Art, consent of instructor discussing photographs taken by professionals, classmates, and the student’s own works, during class critiques. Learn HISTORY AND ART OF FLORAL DESIGN techniques (how to take, develop, print, and finish photographs) through handling of cameras, films, lenses, Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes exposures, filters, electronic flash, chemicals, formulas and Course #: ART69010 Grade Level: 10-12 enlargers. Learn composition by concentrating on selective Duration: 2 Semesters focus, leading lines, depth, center of interest, value and Course Description: History and Art of Floral Design provides contrast. Experience a series of assignments including candid an introduction to the artistic and creative approach to Floral photography, action photos, existing light pictures, Design. This includes aesthetic valuing through a series of portraiture, multiple exposures, and close-up photography. projects in various media including tempera, paint, flowers, Students are not required to own a camera; 35mm cameras glass and tile. Students will be introduced to the elements can be checked out for classroom use. Recommended and principles of visual art such as line, shape, form, color, Prerequisites: None. balance, and an emphasis using floral based projects to explore the connections, relations and application of Floral VIDEO ARTS AND PRODUCTION 1-2 Design. Assignments will be based on abstract two and three dimensional designs, color theory, and an analytical critique of Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes various Floral Art work using design vocabulary while Course # IND03800 Grade Level: 9 -12 developing technical skills in Floral Art. Recommended Duration: 1 Year Prerequisites: None Course Description: This course is designed to give students the opportunity to use modern technology to express FLORAL DESIGN II themselves creatively by writing and directing their own short films. Students will learn every aspect of filmmaking Course #: ART05500 Grade Level: 10-12 including screenwriting, directing talent, still and motion Duration: 1 Year picture acquisition, professional production and post Course Description: In Floriculture/Design, the students will production software and techniques, linear and non-linear explore the floriculture industry on a more technical and editing, video camera techniques, television production, advanced level. Students will expand upon their creative studio based and field (location) video production, digital expression, aesthetic valuing, perceptions, and historical and storytelling, digital animation, and special effects. Students cultural context. The art elements and principles of design will will also gain career preparation skills by working in teams on serve as a foundation for each unit covered. Recommended projects. This course also gives the student the opportunity Prerequisites: History and Art of Floral Design to acquire the technical knowledge and requisite skills needed for successful entry level employment in the motion picture GRAPHIC DESIGN 1-2 industry, other media related occupations, and/or advanced Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes post secondary studies. The contents of this course can be linked to the School to Career programs and can be used to Course # IND29010 Grade Level: 9-12 develop career pathways for students. Prerequisites: None Duration: 1 Year

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VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS, cont... DRAMA 5-6 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes

Course # ENG16600 Grade Level: 10-12 3D COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION Duration: 1 Year Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Pending Course Description: This course is designed for students who Course # IND04311, # IND04312 Grade Level: 9-12 have successfully completed Drama 3-4 (or equivalent) and Duration: 2 semesters wish to further their work in theater. The stress will be on Course Description: In this course, students will learn the performance, through scene work, monologues, audition skills and techniques of professionals to create realistic 3D preparation, improvisation, and competitive events. Directing graphics and animation for still photography, marketing, video will also be emphasized. Recommended Prerequisites: Drama games, video production, and more using the latest in cutting- 3-4, or teacher recommendation edge industry standard software including Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Mudbox, and Adobe Photoshop. Students will learn about 3D modeling and animation, materials and DRAMA 7-8 mapping, dynamic texturing and sculpting, real-time bump Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes mapping, graphic design, digital photography, particle systems Course # ENG17800 Grade Level: 10-12 and special fx, lighting and cameras, rendering, character Duration: 1 Year modeling and animation, and facial modeling and animation. Course Description: This course is designed for students who Students will demonstrate and apply what they learn through a have successfully completed Drama 5-6 (or equivalent) and series of creative and engaging projects. Students will also wish to further their work in theater. The stress will be on learn how to apply math and science to graphics and performance, through scene work, monologues, audition animation in a simulated environment. The course gives preparation, improvisation, and research. Directing will also students the opportunity to acquire greater technical be emphasized. Recommended Prerequisites: Drama 5-6, or knowledge and requisite skills needed for successful entry teacher recommendation level employment as a: 3D Animator, 3D Modeler, 3D Lighting Specialist, 3D Texture Arties, Game Level Designer, Special Effects Artist, Video post Production Artist, Architect, or THEATRE STAGECRAFT PRACTICUM 3-8 Engineer. The contents of this course can also be linked to Course # ENG15200 Grade Level: 10-12 the School-to-Career programs and can be used to develop Duration: 1 Semester career pathways for students. Recommended Prerequisites: None Course Description: This course is designed as a semester practicum in theater arts for those who are interested in further demonstrating elements of performance and DRAMA 1-2 production skills. The emphasis is on preparation and Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes execution of the play for public performance. Students with backgrounds in all aspects of theatre will receive experiences Course # ENG14800 Grade Level: 9-12 in public performances. Recommended Prerequisites: Duration: 1 Year Theatre Stagecraft 1-2 or Drama 1-2, or teacher Course Description: This course is designed to introduce recommendation. students to the art of acting and to develop a foundation in the theater arts. The students will study acting through exercises, improvisation, movement, scene study and ADVANCED TREBLE CLEF (Women’s) CHOIR “Knightengales” analysis, character development and production. Students will * meets A-G college entrance requirements learn about the structure of drama styles of acting and the Course #: MUS41300 Grade Level: 9-12 history of theater. Through the reading of text books and a Duration: 1 Year variety of dramatic works, writing scripts, design performance, and lectures students will have a basic Course Description: This choir emphasizes advanced understanding of the history of theater and the acting ensemble singing for sopranos and altos. Flexibility in musical profession. This course meets the Fine Arts entrance style and vocal technique is most important. This choir requirement for the University of California and California performs frequently throughout the year. Recommended State University. Recommended Prerequisites: None Prerequisites: Must be able to sing in the soprano or alto voice; teacher permission to enroll.

DRAMA 3-4 BASS CLEF (Men’s) CHOIR “KNIGHTS CHOIR” Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # ENG15100 Grade Level: 10-12 Course #: MUS41400 Grade Level: 9-12 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Drama 1-2 (or equivalent) Course Description: This choir is open to students grades 9-12 and wish to further their work in theater. The stress will be who like to sing. No experience is necessary. The class on performance, through scene work, monologues, audition includes rehearsal and performance of unison through four- preparation, improvisation, and competitive events. Directing part music for tenor and bass voices. Recommended will also be emphasized. Recommended Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Must be able to sing in the tenor or bass voice. Drama 1-2, or teacher recommendation.

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CHOIR 1-8 GUITAR 1-2, 3-4 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course # MUS41000 Grade Level: 9-12 Course # MUS40011 Grade Level: 9-12 Duration: 1 Year Duration: 1 Year Course Description: This course is a vocal music class for Course Description: This course is open to students who mixed voice production, music theory, music appreciation, and demonstrate an interest in learning to play the acoustical its practical application in rehearsal and performance of guitar for self-enjoyment and as an aide in accompanying choral literature. From this basic vocal music course, various themselves either in individual or group singing. The course smaller ensembles are formed through audition. will include basic chords used on the guitar, tuning the Recommended Prerequisites: None. instrument, basic music theory as related to guitar, melodic playing, barre chords, and tablature. Prerequisites: None CONCERT CHOIR “MADRIGALS” Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes JAZZ BAND 1-8 Course # MUS41100 Grade Level: 9-12 Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Duration: 1 Year Course # MUS40500 Grade Level: 9-12 Course Description: This course is designed to give vocal Duration: 1 Year students the unique experience of working on various areas of Course Description: This year-length course is open to all vocal literature. The group will be chosen by audition. grade levels by audition only. It is designated to teach young Recommended Prerequisites: Permission of instructor musicians to play in varied jazz idioms. It places an emphasis on improvisation, as well as reading printed music. Recommended Prerequisites: Enrollment in Band 1-8 or INTERMEDIATE TREBLE CLEF (Women’s) CHOIR “Gloriana” permission of instructor and audition. Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course #: MUS41200 Grade Level: 9-12 ORCHESTRA 1-8 Duration: 1 Year Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Course Description: This class is for beginning and intermediate singers, grades 9-12, and is open to sopranos and Course # MUS40800 Grade Level 9-12 altos. The class will cover unison through three-part harmony Duration : 1 year and basic musicianship, offering a variety of musical styles Course Description: This course is orchestral (ensemble) from classics through pops. The choir performs at concerts and training at an advanced level. The course includes drill on festivals. Treble Clef members may audition for Concert Choir, fundamentals, advanced orchestra literature, sight-reading, Advanced Treble Clef Choir, and Chamber Choir after this and rehearsal to improve general playing technique. introductory choir experience. Recommended Prerequisites: Outstanding orchestra literature of advanced grade will be Must be able to sing in the soprano or alto voice. performed. The orchestra performs at concerts and festivals. Recommended Prerequisites: Recommendation of instructor. awareness are stressed. In addition, the course includes BAND 1-8 Course # MUS40300 college motivational activities. Recommended Prerequisites: Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes Teacher recommendation. BAND 1-8 (PE) #MUS42801 / BAND 1-8 (MARCHING) #MUS42901 Grade Level: 9-12 Duration: 1 Year Eligible for Physical Education Credits: 2.5 units (1 QTR) per year Course Description: Marching Band includes the development OTHER ELECTIVES of marching and music techniques. Symphonic Band reviews fundamentals, performs outstanding musical selections of intermediate/advanced levels, and offers advanced technique on a chosen instrument. Certain co-curricular school activities AVID 9, 10, 11 AND SENIOR SEMINAR (SEE PRACTICAL ARTS) will be required. Some of the activities include fall football games and competitions, winter and spring concerts and AVID TUTOR festivals. Recommended Prerequisites: Permission of Course # ELE62500 Grade Level: 11-12 instructor; student must meet academic/participation Duration: 1 Year eligibility requirements first quarter. Course Description: This course is designed for students to assist AVID teachers at either the high school or junior high COLOR GUARD 1-8 school in working with AVID students in tutorials. To become Course # MUS40700 Grade Level: 9-12 an AVID tutor, interested students must have good study skills, a 2.5 or higher GPA, and the desire to help others to be Duration: 1 Year successful in a challenging environment. Recommended Course Description: This course is an auxiliary visual unit to Prerequisites: The student must be enrolled in Advanced the Marching Band. In the winter and spring, the class will Algebra or above and be in CP or AP English. perform and compete as a separate unit. Flags, rifles, and other visual props will be utilized. Dance performance will be CAREER EXPLORATION PAL: PEER ASSISTED LEARNING a large part of the class. Certain co-curricular activities will PROGRAM be required. Recommended Prerequisites: Meet academic/ participation eligibility requirements during quarters in which Course # ELE63700 Grade Level 10-12 Physical Education credit is earned. Duration: 1 semester

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OTHER ELECTIVES, continued WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION Course # WEX61100, 61500, 61600, 61700, 61800, 61900 Course Description: This course is designed for students who Grade Level: 11-12 have an interest in working with special education students to assist them in obtaining the highest quality of high school Duration: 2 to 8 Quarters experience possible. Prior to working with assigned students, Course Description: Students learn the academic skills PALS will complete a one-day training on behavior needed for career exploration, job search, job retention, and management, medical awareness, interpretation of I.E.P. consumerism. Work Experience Education is an educational goals and objectives and record keeping. program which enables a student to participate in a planned instructional program consisting of learning objectives PALS will attend classes with their assigned students, help them find their way around campus, increase their acquired at a job site and in the classroom. Recommended socialization with regular education students, and/or Prerequisites: Must have paid employment. participate in their community-based instruction programs. Students may repeat the course for a total of 20 units in combination with School Services. Prerequisites: Students must submit an application and be screened by a teacher or psychologist.

DRIVER EDUCATION Course # ELE60101/ELE60102 Duration: 1 Quarter (held 8th period only) ROP Grade Level: Students on track for graduation and who are at least 15 1/2 years of age at the time of course completion. School-to-Career Education Course Description: Driver Education provides the student with a knowledge of the Vehicle Code and other laws relating 11th & 12th Grade Only to the operation of automobiles and responsibilities and consequences that go with the privilege of driving. This course acquaints students with safety rules and laws regarding cars, motorcycles, and bicycles. The student will learn about auto maintenance, consumerism, insurance, driving techniques, and safety. Recommended Prerequisites: Students must have earned sufficient credits to be on-line for REGIONAL OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAMS (ROP) graduation. Credits required: Freshman year: 1st semester: Regional Occupational Programs (ROP) training courses are 30; 2nd semester: 60. Sophomore year, 1st semester: 90; 2nd offered in several areas including Business, Consumer/Home semester: 120. Junior year, 1st semester: 150; 2nd semester: Economics, Health Services and Industrial Technology. ROP 175. Senior year, 1st semester: 205; 2nd semester: 230. enables high school students and adults to develop marketable occupational skills, abilities, attitudes, and work habits in order to upgrade skills or obtain a job. The ROP reinforces SCHOOL SERVICE basic academic skills —-reading, writing, computation, verbal Course # ELE87101/87102 Grade Level 11-12 communication, problem solving, and critical thinking. All Duration: 1 quarter course studies are work-related and reflect the most current Course Description: Students who enroll in school service developments in business and industry. Students who may be provided the opportunity to meet with the public, file, successfully complete a ROP course are prepared for entry- collate, duplicate and perform other clerical tasks. (This level employment, advanced training and/or enrollment in a course may be repeated for a maximum of 20 units.) community college, university, or technical school. Whether a Recommended Prerequisites: None student plans to work full time, or part time and continue in school, a ROP course teaches the skills to get and keep a worthwhile job. TEACHING ASSISTANT Course # ELE63501/63502 Grade Level 11-12 What about high school credit? Students who successfully Duration: 1 semester complete ROP are awarded credits applicable to graduation by the school for each semester of ROP completed. Students are Course Description: This course is designed for students with eligible for 5 units of credit for each hour of instruction per demonstrated competence in a subject area and who desire to semester act as a tutor or instructional aide in a classroom setting.

Students will be assigned based on need and specific requests How important is attendance? ALL STUDENTS are required from teachers. Students will be expected to prepare for and expected to maintain a satisfactory attendance record. tutorial sessions and be willing to work with both individual High school students must be aware that truancies and students and small groups. (Students may repeat the course tardies will be handled according to Modesto City School for a total of 20 units in combination with School Services). District policies. ALL STUDENTS enrolled in ROP are Recommended Prerequisites: The student must demonstrate expected to adhere to the Modesto City School District high performance in the course to be tutored and must have at Student Conduct Code. Discipline problems will be handled least a 2.5 grade point average in the prior semester with no according to district policies. F’s or U’s. What if class is canceled? Occasionally, an ROP class meeting must be canceled. On these occasions, high school ROP students must report to the home school Attendance Office.

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Teachers will notify high school students in advance of HISTORY & ART OF FLORAL DESIGN ROP transportation cancellations, holidays, etc. Meets UC and CSU Entrance Requirements: Yes * Meets Grad Requirements: Practical Arts/Visual & Transportation Provided for High School Students Performing Arts Information concerning any transportation for high school Location: Thomas Downey High School students, being provided to/from ROP courses is sent to high Description: The History and Art of Floral Design provides an school students prior to starting class in the fall. If entering introduction to artistic and creative perception including ROP mid-year, check with site Counseling Office for current aesthetic valuing through a series of projects in various media ROP transportation schedule or call 576 - including tempera, pencil, flowers, tile, and a variety of 4096. Transportation is not provided to training sites with papers. Students are also introduced to the elements and the exception of local hospital areas. principles of visual art design such as line, shape/form, color, balance, and emphasis using a series of floral-based projects Assessment Services and Classroom Assistance — ROP to explore the connections, relations, and application to visual students with barriers to successful completion of training arts design. Students will research and study floral trends to (i.e., physical/mental disabilities, limited English understand and develop an appreciation for floral design proficiency, personal difficulties) are eligible for vocational within historical and cultural, formal and casual, ceremonial assessment services and extra assistance in the and traditional, including an understanding that floral designs classroom. ROP instructors or counselors should make are affected by society, culture, history, politics, and referrals to the Vocational Evaluation Center, c/o School-to- economic influence. Various assignments based on abstract Career Education Office, 576-4024. two and three dimensional designs, historical culture and theory, color theory, and analytical critiques of various floral What about finals? ROP instructors schedule a art works using design vocabulary in conjunction with comprehensive final examination/demonstration of skills, development of technical skills in floral art will serve as a abilities, and work habits according to the final examination foundation for more complex works such as multi-part floral schedule of the district. Final examinations are required in designs and creative expression through wedding all ROP courses. consultations.

What about job placement assistance? ROP instructors ADVANCED FLORICULTURE ROP help all students to prepare resumes and to learn job-search * Meets Grad Requirements: Practical Arts/Visual & techniques. Upon satisfactory course completion, all ROP Performing Arts students are provided Certificates of Proficiency. Location: Thomas Downey High School Description: The advanced floral design class is designed to Community Classroom and Cooperative Vocational Ed give the student advanced design techniques including Many ROP courses provide students opportunities to acquire wedding, sympathy and high-style floral design. This includes occupational skills through non-paid practical experience at everlasting flowers, oriental style of design, contemporary an actual business or industry site. After basic classroom design and techniques, and harvest and distribution. This training, many students are placed at worksites throughout class also goes into greater detail of operating a retail flower the community and are trained by skilled employees. shop and covers careers and continuing education. Individualized plans for training are used among the Recommended Prerequisites: History and Art of Floral student, the employer, and the instructor. Students must Design. attend scheduled formal classroom instruction each week in addition to their community classroom or cooperative vocational education work station assignment. Work permits are required of all students ( under the age of 18) BUSINESS in cooperative paid vocational education. Our Partnerships — Curriculum, equipment and materials COMPUTER PROGRAMMING I, II for ROP courses are updated regularly with guidance from Location: Modesto High School industry-based advisory committees composed of local Description: This course is offered as the first course in business persons from specific occupational areas. computer programming. It is intended to train students in the basic skills needed to operate a networked computer system How do you benefit? Students receive college credit for and to write programs using visual basic and htm The course course work completed in high school. Students receive also introduces internet access, computer graphics, and web advanced placement at Modesto Junior College/Columbia page design. Qualified graduates of this course should be at College or Delta College skipping introductory college entry level for a number of jobs in the programming field, web courses. page design, and computer graphics. An advanced section is available. Prerequisites: None recommended AGRICULTURE MEDICAL OFFICE OCCUPATIONS 1-2, 3-4 STRUCTURAL AG WELDING Location: Thomas Downey High School Location: Thomas Downey High School Description: This course will provide you with an opportunity Description: This course covers electric, MIG, TIG, and oxy- to learn about the many different careers in the Medical acetylene welding. The proper adjustment and use of Office Occupations field, and a solid start on your way to the equipment will be practiced. Strong emphasis is placed on career of your choice. The introduction to Medical Office the instruction and participation of project design, project Occupations course will provide you with the necessary construction, and cost of materials. Participation in the knowledge and skills to enter the field of medical Future Farmers of America (FFA) will reinforce skill business. Medical Admissions Clerk training is included within development. Prerequisites: Ag Mechanics the introductory course. After completion of classroom work,

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students will be placed in a hospital or medical office for through work stations to obtain a range of experiences in on-the-job experience. Recommended Prerequisites: marketing. There will also be in-store classroom work which Keyboarding, and/or ROP Office Occupations, Hospital/ will cover various sales techniques, use of the cash register, Health Occupations, or consent of instructor. Mature making proper change, store security, customer relations, and juniors or seniors and parental consent. receiving/checking methods. Students will meet in a classroom and work in stores located throughout the LAUNCH YOUR OWN BUSINESS community including Vintage Faire Mall. Students have the Location: Enochs High School opportunity to participate in the vocational student Description: This course is tailored for future business organization, DECA, an association of marketing students. owners while preparing all students for the workforce of Recommended Prerequisites: Retail Sales/Merchandising, tomorrow. Students will take creative ideas for products Fashion Merchandising, Sales Clerk Training, or approval of and services and determine how to recognize opportunities instructor. for business. During this course, students will look at entrepreneurial trends, evaluate where to start or buy a FASHION MERCHANDISING AND DESIGN business, and assess global opportunities. Students learn to Location: Gregori High School research and plan the venture including marketing Description: Students study careers applicable to the apparel strategies, sales force management, legal issues, developing and accessories industry. The areas of instruction include and maintaining human resources. Students will prepare a fashion buying, sales techniques, advertising, wardrobing, competitive business plan and complete the course with an fashion trend analysis, design, visual marketing, and interior introduction of successful business operation. Students may design. Students explore careers in fashion marketing and also participate in cooperative vocational education, management through in-class and lab activities. The course (jobsite training). Additionally, students have the offers community classroom and cooperative vocational opportunity to participate in the vocational student education as an option to students. The course may also organization, DECA, an association of marketing students. include fashion show production as a culmination to the year's Prerequisites: None study. Students have the opportunity to participate in the vocational student organization, DECA, an association of EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES marketing students. Recommended Prerequisites: None Location: Enochs High School Description: This newly updated course provides students ADVANCED FASHION & HOME MERCHANDISING & DESIGN with employable skills that are transferable to any career Location: Gregori High School direction. Students learn personal techniques and Credits: 10-20 (2 hour block required) this is a 2+2 course strategies for employment within our local articulated with FASMR 254. Description: Students expand community. Once students establish a skills foundation they on previously acquired skills in the fashion industry while are placed in an entry level position at a business within our learning new skills. Students will understand the fashion community for practical application. This course teaches industry through the knowledge of business communications professional communication, ethical business practices, relations, job seeking skills, customer service, professional confidence in personal decisions, problem solving, flexibility selling, fashion and interior design, visual merchandising/ and organization of personal marketing tools for display, merchandising fashion, management skills, marketing employment search. This course allows students the math, distribution, careers in the industry, field trip and opportunity to participate in the vocational student participation in community classroom/cooperative education. organization, DECA, an association of marketing students. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the Prerequisites: None vocational student organization, DECA, an association of marketing students. Recommended Prerequisites: Fashion RETAIL SALES & MARKETING Merchandising/Design (ROP) or Introduction to Fashion and Location: Enochs High School Home Merchandising/Design or approval of instructor. Description: Students will learn skills related to retail sales/marketing in the areas of visual marketing, sales clerk, cashier/checker, grocery courtesy clerk, catalog/ CONSUMER/HOME ECONOMICS credit clerk, and receiving. Students will train in various training stations in the community. An effort will be made to provide on-the-job training over and above that received CULINARY ARTS I by regular employees. Classroom work will include the Location: Thomas Downey High School competencies needed to be successful in the retail industry Description: Students are prepared for entry-level and will be individualized as much as possible. Training occupations as assistant cooks, bakers, assistant pantry stations must be consistent in their effort to treat students workers, assistant line cooks, counter person, cafeteria as trainees rather than regular employees. Students have workers, food servers, cashiers and/or institutional dish-up the opportunity to participate in the vocational student persons. A major emphasis is on service, sanitation, care and organization, DECA, an association of marketing students. maintenance of equipment. Prerequisites: Negative TB test. Recommended Prerequisites: Retail Sales, Sales Clerk Training, or permission of instructor and clean record. CULINARY ARTS II Location: Thomas Downey High School RETAIL SUPERVISOR Description: More advanced training in same areas as Location: Enochs High School Culinary Arts I; continue to be trained for entry-level Description: The students will learn advanced skills related occupations as assistant cooks, bakers, assistant pantry to retail marketing in the areas of display, sales, check out, workers, assistant line cooks, counter person, cafeteria inventory, receiving, cashier, and other areas. They will workers, food servers, cashiers and/or institutional dish-up work in various stations of a local store and will rotate

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persons. A major emphasis is on service, sanitation, care scheduled classroom meetings in addition to their training and maintenance of equipment. Prerequisites: Culinary stations. Students must complete urine drug screening prior Arts I to placement at a training station. Recommended Prerequisites: Biology preferred. CULINARY ARTS III Location: Thomas Downey High School NURSING ASSISTANT PRECERTIFICATION PROGRAM Description: Students receive instruction in preparation of Location: Davis High School *** SENIORS ONLY specialty dishes that require greater skills and time than Description: This is a two semester course. The first 12 food prepared in Culinary Arts I and II. Included is weeks are spent in basic nurses training in the classroom. instruction in advanced meat cutting and cookery and After completing 100 hours of hands-on training in a sauces. Students prepare stocks, sauces and various types convalescent hospital, students will receive training in acute of soups. Also included are learning activities that involve care clinical setting. Students meet theoretical and practical menu planning, buying, the storage of food, portion control requirements for state-issued certificate; Nurse Assistant will and restaurant accounting. Prerequisites: Culinary Arts II provide students with a strong foundation for a career in nursing. This course will prepare students for entry-level placement in nursing or in home care. State certification for CULINARY ARTS CAREER CO-OP ROP (2 HOUR) Nursing Assistant and Home Health Aide will enable students Location: Thomas Downey High School to work in long-term facilities, acute hospitals or through Description: Students receive advance/paid training as private nursing agencies. Students must demonstrate hands- cashiers/checkers. Students also receive advanced training on nursing skills before being placed at a training station. related to commercial foods in the areas of assistant food Recommended Prerequisites: Science, and Hospital/Health service/clerk, assistant chef, storeroom clerk, window/ Service Occupations (ROP) or Ancillary Health Service counter clerk, pastry chef, pantry chef, school lunch cook, Occupations. Seniors only. banquet chef, food buyer and meat cutter. Students train in various stations in the Culinary Arts kitchen as well as local area restaurants. Prerequisites: Culinary Arts I or II CRIMINAL JUSTICE ***SENIORS ONLY or III. Location: Davis High School Description: Students enrolled in Criminal Justice obtain entry-level skills for police and security-related COSMETOLOGY ***SENIORS ONLY occupations. Students are exposed to; careers in law Location: Local Cosmetology School. enforcement; federal, state, and local justice systems, and Description: Students must complete 1600 clock hours of specified California laws. Included in this course are mock technical instruction and practical operations to qualify to trials and actual experiences in criminology labs, penal take the State Cosmetology License Examination. Training institutions, law enforcement training facilities, and with law includes chemistry, anatomy, physiology, hair cutting, enforcement personnel including lawyers, probation officers, styling, make up techniques, facials and manicuring. police officers, judges, etc. Recommended Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Must PASS entrance test at ROP cosmetology C average or better, Seniors have priority site.

INTRODUCTION TO FIRE PROTECTION ***SENIORS ONLY Location: Davis High School HEALTH SERVICES Description: Students will be provided with an overview of fire protection and career opportunities enabling them to

acquire entry-level knowledge along with some job shadowing HOSPITAL/HEALTH SERVICE OCCUPATIONS experience. Students learn the history of fire protection, fire Location: Davis High School losses, public and private fire protection services, fire Description: Students explore a variety of medical/health protection functions, systems and equipment, along with care careers as related to their interests, aptitudes, and emergency incident management and operations. Students abilities. Students study basic medical practices, anatomy, must be able to provide their own transportation. physiology, chemistry, as well as receive exposure to Recommended Requisites: Chemistry medical occupations at community job sites in various departments of hospitals including emergency rooms, pediatrics, geriatrics, obstetrics, etc. Students must still attend scheduled classroom meetings in addition to their INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY training stations. Students must demonstrate hands-on nursing skills before being placed at a training station. GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION LABORATORY (1 HR) Students must complete urine drug screening prior to Location: Thomas Downey High School placement at a training station. Recommended Description: Students will learn to manipulate the technology Prerequisites: Biology preferred. and software to produce commercial quality layouts which could be used for traditional print production or publication HOSPITAL & HEALTH ANCILLARY SERVICE OCCUPATIONS on the world-wide web. Students will also develop Location: Davis High School marketable skills in major areas of production. Description: Students explore a variety of medical/health Recommended Prerequisites: None care careers as related to their interests, aptitudes, and abilities. Students study basic medical practices, anatomy, VIDEO AND MEDIA PRODUCTION ROP (1 HR ) physiology, chemistry, as well as receive exposure to Location: Thomas Downey High School medical occupations at community job sites in various non- Description: Video and Media Production ROP gives the nursing departments of hospitals including pharmacy, x-ray, student the opportunity to acquire the technical knowledge physical therapy, veterinary, etc. Students must still attend

A Modesto City School 35 and requisite skills needed for successful entry level employment in media related occupations and/or advanced post-secondary studies. It provides training in still and motion picture acquisition, non-linear editing, presentation graphics and systems (electronic & print), sound and lighting design, digital animation, special effects and titling, multimedia workflows, as well as studio based and field (location) video production. Course content is structured through lecture- laboratory experiences as it relates to individual and group projects. Each student will complete a portfolio of his/her work. Required Prerequisites: Successful completion of Art 1 -2, GRC 1-2, Photography, Video Arts and Production, or an equivalent course with a “C” or higher grade, or teacher approval.

ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY Location: Thomas Downey High Construction Site Description: This class is designed to give the student entry- level skills for employment as a residential electrician. Subjects covered include electrical fundamentals, residential wiring for new construction, electrical service installation, troubleshooting, and an instruction to electrical/ commercial electrical. Recommended Prerequisites: Electronics 1-2 and course in Algebra or Math I. Academic deficiencies will be addressed during the course.

CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY 1-2 Location: Thomas Downey High Construction Site Description: This course is designed to provide in-depth, hands-on experience in all major facets of the construction trades. This course covers safety; use of hand, small power, and power tools; measurement; print reading; estimating; planning and design; construction math; construction materials; finishes and coating; and a wide variety of analytical and construction skills needed to build a house. Students will have attained the skills to be job ready when they complete the course. Prerequisites: Construction/Woodwork Tech 1-2

CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY 3-4 Location: Thomas Downey High Construction Site Description: This is a continuation of the Construction 1-2 class, and provides the student an opportunity to act as a "supervisor" since many of the skills needed to construct a building have already been mastered. After completion of this class, the student will have "apprenticeship" skills or will be job ready. Therefore, all construction skills will have been covered, and future employment will solely be determined by the student's skill level attained and the desire to work. Prerequisites: Construction Technology 1-2

CABINET CONSTRUCTION 1 ROP Location: Modesto High School Course Description: This course is designed to give students job entry level skills for the cabinet making trade. The course is structured in segments designed flexibly enough to serve students with limited background in woodworking, and students with considerable training and experience. The built- in flexibility allows students to advance at their own rate, thus achieving maximum personal development. In addition to general areas such as shop safety, hand tools, power machinery, wood joints, and finishing techniques, the curriculum focuses strongly on personal development, problem solving, design, basic drafting techniques, basic plan reading, and attitudinal skills. The Cabinet Construction I course prepares students either for entry into the trade upon graduation from high school or for more advanced training.

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