WARD MELVILLE High School

COURSE OFFERING GUIDE 2016-2017 A Message from the Principal Dear Students, Ward Melville High School offers a rich selection of courses designed to help you not only fulfill graduation requirements, but also explore interests which might develop into career choices. The course selection process gives you the opportunity to decide which courses you want to pursue and to discuss these choices with your parents. We encourage you to speak to your guidance counselor, teacher, or a department chairperson to answer any questions concerning course selection. This Course Offering Guide contains a wide range of courses and programs to enrich you and your educational plan. It is imperative that you become familiar with your graduation requirements which are listed in this publication. If you are a student athlete and you are considering participating in collegiate sports, you should become very familiar with NCAA eligibility requirements. Please see the NCAA Eligibility website for more information. I encourage you to take courses that challenge you. Courses that, not only reflect your interests, but help you become a well-rounded individual. The elements of a good high school education include taking courses that make you think, help you explore your creativity, and expose you to new and different ideas. Remember, in the competitive environment and in these economic times you will want to take challenging courses that give you the edge you need to be successful. In addition to your classroom work, you should strive to participate in extra- curricular activities such as clubs, athletics, and music or theater arts. A good high school education includes you getting involved as an active participant. If you are, you will have a great high school experience. The dedicated faculty and staff at Ward Melville High School are always ready to help you attain your goals. Sincerely yours, Alan L. Baum, J.D. Principal WARD MELVILLE High School COURSE OFFERING GUIDE The mission of the Three Village Central School District, in concert with its families Grades and Course and community, is to provide an educational environment that will enable each student Requirements to achieve a high level of academic proficiency and to become a well-rounded individual who is an involved, responsible citizen. GRADING This Course Offering Guide includes information on graduation requirements, Report Cards: Report cards are made avail- department services and course offerings, pupil personnel services and guidelines, and able four times each year. Second and fourth quarter report cards are mailed home; first and extra-curricular activities. Students are urged to review the Course Offering Guide and third quarter report cards are available through communicate with their parents and guidance counselors in order to select courses, join the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. Copies will activities and plan for post secondary careers and study. only be mailed to those parents who specifically request, in writing, that report cards be mailed. Parents should note the teachers’ comments and Please note that all course information contained in this guide is subject the attendance report as well as the class grade. Grading Policy: Individual classroom teach- to change. Courses will only be offered if a minimum enrollment is maintained ers provide students with grading policies within as established by district administration and the Board of Education. Courses the first few class sessions. Students learn the will only be offered or allowed to run as determined by district personnel. percentage breakdown of those activities that are used in determining class grades. Reduc- Many factors are taken into consideration when this determination is made, ing a grade for disciplinary reasons is prohibited. such as number of students, course/section conflicts, staffing, student Grades may consist of assessments, homework, interest, program interests, and availability of resources. Classes/Sections projects, participation, etc. Grade changes are made only during may be cancelled at any time. the G.A.P. (grade adjustment period, which Please also note that we try very hard to accommodate every course is two weeks after the start of the next mark- request made. However, due to various constraints, not every request will ing period). Incompletes not changed during this G.A.P. are automatically turned into failures. be or can be honored. Seniors will be given preference if available seats are Incompletes earned as a result of not taking a limited. This may entail the removal of students from a class (sophomores Regents Exam will remain until the next adminis- first, juniors second) in order for a senior to satisfy graduation requirements. tration of the exam. Failure to take an administration of the Regents exam prior to the student’s Juniors receive secondary preference. graduation will result in an F or 0 being averaged into the course grade. Any student who believes that a quarter or final grade is incorrect must first contact and discuss the issue with the classroom CONTENTS teacher. Summer school grades are computed into Art Department 10 Music Department 23 the grade point average (GPA) utilizing the weighting system determined in the program of Awards & Ceremonies 5 Notes 36 studies. Please note: Summer school grades are computed into the GPA as separate courses. The Business Department 13 Other Services & Guidelines 7 higher Regents exam score replaces the lower one but is not calculated into the GPA. Diploma Requirements 9 Physical Education Department 25 Electives for Special Education 17 Sample Course Selection Planner 35 NCAA APPROVED COURSES The NCAA courses are maintained as a Emergency Closings 7 School Counseling & guide for prospective student athletes seeking NCAA initial eligibility. They are subject to change English Department 15 Pupil Personnel Services 6 at any time and without notice. Certification of a prospective student athlete is case-specific, and Family & Consumer Science 17 Science Department 26 the NCAA Eligibility Center has the authority Foreign Languages Department 18 Social Studies Department 30 to determine in its sole discretion whether the prospective student athlete has met all criteria. Grades & Course Requirements 3 Special Programs 5 The NCAA Eligibility Center reserves the right to review and remove courses that were previ- Graduation Requirements 8 Technology Department 33 ously approved from their Approved Courses list. Therefore, when choosing courses during Health Department 25 Telephone Numbers 7 the annual scheduling process, it is important for student athletes to refer to the most current list Mathematics Department 21 Transfer Student Information 9 of approved Ward Melville High School courses which are available on the NCAA website at www.ncaaeligibilitycenter.org. Grades & Course Requirements - 3 WEIGHTED COURSES COURSES FOR COLLEGE is removed from student records. Students may Ward Melville High School utilizes a nu- CREDIT NOT drop a course after the cut-off date. Note that the minimum course load must be maintained for meric grading system based on multiple levels WMHS has several partnerships with local each grade level. Study halls will be added for of weighting (Regents, Honors, and Advanced colleges and universities. Please note that Placement). Grade Point Averages are calcu- each college or university sets its own fees sophomores and juniors who drop classes. Level lated using a weighted grading system for all and deadlines. WMHS has no ability to alter the changes will, in addition, require the signature courses. college or university dates or fees. The college of the student’s parent/guardian, the classroom A weighting system as indicated below or university may also have a minimum number teacher and possibly, the chairperson. Schedule will be utilized in the determination of a stu- of students needed to participate in order for and level changes must be made by cutoff dates dent’s grade point average. the course to be offered for college credit at all. as published in the school calendar. Note: Students should be aware that Specific information will be shared in the classes Students who stop attending classes with- many competitive colleges develop their own that offer these programs. out going through the standard drop procedures, grade point averages based on high school i.e. parent and counselor and teacher permis- grades in the following areas: English, For- sion and administrative approval and program eign Languages, Mathematics, Science, and TEACHER OVERRIDE change, will be considered cutting and may earn Social Studies. Ward Melville High School’s Teachers can override a passing grade and a grade of “LC” (Loss of Credit). A grade of “LC” grade point average is based on all subjects assign the student a failing grade in cases where will be calculated into a student’s GPA as a “55” except Physical Education and any course the student fails two or more quarters of a year and will appear on the student’s transcript. graded “Pass” in a pass/fail course. All grades course or one or two quarters of a semester of “F” or “LC” are counted toward a student’s course. In cases where the teacher is consid- GPA. High school courses taken in 7th grade ering the use of an override failing grade, she/ CLASS LOAD will appear on the transcript but will not earn he will warn the parent IN WRITING at least five When budget or scheduling constraints dic- credit value or GPA weighting. weeks before the course ends. The teacher may tate, sophomores and juniors may be required to have at least one (1) study hall scheduled into NUMERIC GRADING SYSTEM also override a failing grade and assign a higher grade where it is warranted. A high school admin- their day. Based on a scale of 100 istrator will approve overrides. THREE LEVELS OF WEIGHTING: EARLY GRADUATION For a variety of reasons, juniors and seniors • AP: grade earned x 1.08 AUDITING Requests for auditing a class must be sub- sometimes request to graduate either six months • Honors: grade earned x 1.06 mitted in writing to the principal. Requests will be early (January of senior year) or one year early • Regents: grade earned x 1.00 (June of junior year). If the student graduates in reviewed by the principal, department chairperson, guidance chairperson and the classroom three years or less, the student is then respon- Grading Note: Please see your guidance teacher. Students who are approved to audit sible for meeting the graduation requirements of counselor for determining how course level a course will not be eligible to earn credit. The the year in which they graduate (e.g. A student changes are calculated.. guidelines for auditing are: who is supposed to graduate in 2014 but opts • There is room in the course; to graduate in 2013 would meet the graduation RANK IN CLASS • The student is accepted by the classroom requirements of the class of 2013 not 2014, if Ward Melville High School does not rank teacher; they are not the same). In order to be eligible for students. Post-secondary institutions and • The student is carrying the required course early graduation, students must consult with their scholarship corporations that require specific load for the grade level; counselor and complete a form that requires con- information regarding rank in class will be pro- • The audited class does not appear on the sultation not only with counselor, but also parents vided with that information. student’s transcript; and the appropriate Assistant Principal. • The student understands that no grade will PASS/FAIL be given for the course or any assignment; DUAL ENROLLMENT Students may request pass/fail for graded • The student understands that the teacher A student is considered “dual enrolled” when courses. Such a request must be made by the will not give the student any feedback or s/he is enrolled in courses at both Ward Mel- advertised deadline. Teachers may approve or comments; ville and at another educational institution and disapprove of a student request for pass/fail • The student understands that auditing is requesting that we grant high school credit at the teacher’s discretion. Students may take is a privilege that can be rescinded at the for coursework taken elsewhere. Dual enroll- graded courses on a P/F basis under the fol- discretion of the teacher; ment applies to students who have failed to meet lowing conditions: • The student understands attendance will be graduation requirements in the normal eight (8) 1. The course is in excess of the minimum taken. semesters of high school study. Students who course requirements for graduation; take courses at a post-secondary institution dur- 2. The student takes no more than two such NO PARTIAL CREDIT FOR A ing their regular high school years will not have courses per semester AND the student is the course or grades posted to their transcript, carrying the required course load for the YEAR COURSE nor will it count as one of the minimum courses grade level; No partial credit will be awarded for a full- required for graduation. A copy of the certifica- 3. All tests, coursework, and attendance year course unless administratively approved tion of completion of these courses will be sent to requirements are the same as if graded. prior to the start of the course. The “P” grade does NOT count toward post-secondary schools at the student’s request. the GPA, average, etc., but a grade of “F” The Bridge Program, affiliated with Suffolk Coun- DOES COUNT AS A “55”; ADDS, WITHDRAWALS, LEVEL ty Community College, offers seniors the oppor- 4. The decision to take P/F is irrevocable; CHANGES tunity to be dually enrolled and earn high school 5. Teacher signature is required; Students, with their parent’s/guardian’s writ- credit as well as college credit. 6. A COMPLETED Pass/Fail Request form ten permission, may drop courses prior to the with ALL appropriate signatures MUST published cut-off date (see school calendar). be timely filed in the Guidance Office. They must bring the parent’s/guardian’s note to their guidance counselor for processing. If the dropping of the course is approved, the course

Grades & Course Requirements - 4 BRIDGE ATHLETIC AND Special Programs High School seniors will have the opportunity EXTRA-CURRICULAR AWARDS to apply to a special program, BRIDGE, which al- Seasonal and end-of-the-year awards are BOCES OCCUPATIONAL lows them to complete up to one full year of high announced for all teams, clubs and organizations. school graduation requirements while attend- EDUCATION Technical and trade education courses are ing classes for college credit at Suffolk County ROTARY AWARDS also offered in a wide range of occupations by Community College. Juniors may apply for this The Stony Brook Rotary club recognizes two the Board of Cooperative Educational Services option for their senior year by obtaining an ap- students of the month. at three centers on a half-day basis. These pro- plication from his/her guidance counselor. Only grams are either one or two-year courses of students approved for the BRIDGE program will study and are usually entered in the junior or senior year. have college courses posted to their high school SENIOR AWARDS Local scholarships and department honors Students who are interested in this program transcript. Please contact the Office of School & are awarded to seniors at a spring ceremony. should see their counselor for further information Community Partnerships at North Country Ad- as soon as possible. Since registration is limited, Many of the scholarships require that students ministration Center to register for the BRIDGE the filing of the application does not guarantee submit applications at specified deadlines. Program. inclusion in the program. The counselor has complete descriptions of the programs, will arrange for a visit to the centers and distribute the applica- COURSE LEVEL CHANGE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Juniors and seniors who have achieved a tion forms. Students entering the second year of REQUEST PROCESS (APPEALS a two-year program must re-apply. cumulative grade point average of 90 or better PROCESS) Because of limited space requirements, not are invited to apply for membership. Notification all applications will be accepted. Acceptance is Students request courses for the next school of the application process will begin at the be- based on school record, attendance, BOCES year based on teacher recommendation and ginning of the second semester. A comprehen- visitation, and recommendation by the placement completion of all prerequisite requirements. A re- sive application detailing leadership, service and team (Principal, Ward Melville BOCES coordina- quest to change a recommended course level character must be completed by eligible appli- tor, and Guidance Chairperson). Students who are accepted into the program must be addressed through the appeals pro- cants and returned by a specified deadline. The cess. If a student or parent chooses to appeal must comply with the Three Village School Dis- National Honor Society advisor organizes a Fac- trict’s Attendance Policy (in all classes). Failure the recommended placement for the next school ulty Council of five voting members. All teachers, to comply will result in removal from BOCES. year, please adhere to the guidelines below. however, are invited to comment on any candi- Suspension from BOCES may result in suspen- If after you have consulted with your child’s date’s suitability for acceptance. Candidates sion from WMHS and suspension from WMHS junior or senior high school guidance counselor receiving a majority vote of the Faculty Council may result in suspension from BOCES. and still wish to appeal the course placement for will be inducted into the local Chapter at a spring AGRICULTURE: next year, please submit an evaluation packet ceremony. 1802 Animal Science to the Ward Melville High School Review Com- mittee. This packet should include the following BUSINESS OCCUPATIONS: items: VALEDICTORIAN, 1839 Fashion Merchandising SALUTATORIAN AND HONOR • Cover letter stating rationale for change re- COMMUNICATION OCCUPATIONS: quest. GRADUATES 1806 Art Design & Visual Communications • Report cards from current and two preceding A faculty honors committee will select a vale- 1807 Professional Photography/Digital years. dictorian, salutatorian and honor graduates. The 1833 Computer Technology & Repair 1834 Television, Video, Digital Film Production • Two or three of the most recent standardized criteria will include: 1880 Audio Production test scores (e.g. Terra Nova, Regents Exams, etc.). • Academic average • Any other information pertinent to placement. • Honors courses CONSTRUCTION OCCUPATIONS: • All appeals must be submitted by May 31, • Quality and strength of the program 1811 Plumbing/Heating 1812 HVAC: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning 2016.. • 3rd quarter of report card senior year. • Discipline and attendance record will be 1813 Carpentry/Home Improvement During the month of June, evaluation pack- 1814 Trade Electricity considered. ets will be reviewed. Parents will be contacted 1858 Welding shortly thereafter with the decision of Ward Mel- The faculty committee will choose three per- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS: ville’s Review Committee. We trust this process cent (3%) of the graduating class as the top honor graduates. 1818 Dental Assistant will serve to resolve placement issues for the 1819 Clinical Medical Assisting next school year. If you have any questions or 1821 Nurse Assisting concerns, please contact the Department Chair- GRADUATION EXERCISES 1822 Practical Nursing person. Participation in the graduation exercise will 1883 Pharmacy Technician be limited to those who have completed all of the 1886 Certified Personal Trainer STUDENT SCHEDULES requirements for a diploma or certificate. The cap SERVICE OCCUPATIONS: and gown in the school’s colors will be worn in Student schedules will be available on the 1823 Early Childhood Education the ceremony. For those who wish to participate, 1824 Cosmetology portal in August. the graduation rehearsal is mandatory. Gradua- 1825 Culinary Arts/Rest. Management 1849 Law Enforcement tion participation is voluntary. All students must 1895 Barbering Awards & Ceremonies adhere to prescribed behavior and dress code. Members of the National Honor Society will wear TRANSPORTATION OCCUPATIONS: DEPARTMENT AWARDS AND earned sashes at the ceremony. Honors Gradu- 1853 Auto Accessory Installation HONOR SOCIETIES ates will wear special cords and medals. 1826 Auto Body Repair/Refinishing 1827 Auto Technology Special awards are announced periodically 1828 Aviation Mechanics/Airframe for all departments, BOCES, etc., recognizing 1829 Aviation Careers/Prof. Pilot Train. school, local, state, and national achievements. 1830 Marine/Motorcycle Maintenance OTHER: 1841 Special Career Ed.

Awards & Ceremonies/Special Programs - 5 THREE VILLAGE ACADEMY Nine counselors and one Department SUMMER SCHOOL The Three Village Academy, located at Chairperson, staff the Guidance Department. Although the TVCSD does not currently the North Country Administration Building, Counselor caseloads are alphabetically as- run a summer school, local districts may ac- provides students in grades 9-12 with a non- signed, grades 10-12. In an effort to ensure commodate students who fail courses in their traditional, alternative education environment. program continuity, maximize counselor acces- programs at a cost to the individual student. The Academy is committed to the academic, sibility, and maintain the consistency of student Students should coordinate this process with emotional, and social growth for all students services, caseload assignments have been their guidance counselors before the last reg- and prepares them for a Regents or an carefully planned and balanced. Requests for ular day of school. If the student successfully Advanced Regents Diploma. Utilizing a team counselor changes cannot be honored, except completes a summer school class or passes a required state exam in the summer, it is the re- approach in a small group environment, the under extraordinary circumstances as deter- sponsibility of the student to notify the guidance Academy provides instruction using curriculum mined by building and guidance administration. counselor so that modifications can be made in and instructional methods that are relevant to Questions regarding the guidance program and counselor assignments should be directed the student’s schedule for the upcoming school students, complement their life experiences, year. and build on their strengths. The Academy to the Guidance Chairperson. In addition to promotes the development of meaningful counselors, two school psychologists, two social workers, a part-time transition coordinator, SUMMER INSTITUTES relationships and aims to understand and The Three Village CSD has a long-stand- two speech and hearing specialists, all work support those students who had difficulty ing policy in effect that does not grant credit with and assist students. Students are encour- succeeding in a traditional school environment. for participation and/or completion of any sum- aged to seek out these individuals. Frequently mer institute other than the approved summer SPECIAL EDUCATION these staff members can provide referrals if school for course failures. Some of the rea- The Special Education Department pro- additional or outside assistance is required. sons are as follows: there are a great number vides diverse support services for students with This personal contact and advisement is quite of summer programs nationwide, which ad- learning disabilities, language dysfunction, and helpful. dress many curriculum and interest areas such physical and emotional disabilities. Students as global language, dance, music, etc. Those receive remediation and reinforcement of aca- PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL programs utilize very different proficiency stan- demic skills taught in their mainstream classes. WORK SERVICES dards, are certified by many different organiza- For students who benefit from a structured (Located in the Student Counseling Office) tions, and in some cases are not certified at environment, the department offers a self-con- The school psychologists and social all. In order to be fair, the school district would tained program. workers provide counseling to students, and have to professionally evaluate each of these programs. We simply do not have the person- The Special Education program is de- provide support and consultation to parents. nel available to evaluate the quality of staff and signed to teach students through a diagnostic The social workers and psychologists also programs at the various summer institutes. and prescriptive process for specific learning serve as liaisons with outside therapists and Therefore, credit will not be granted for any of needs of students. An Individualized Educa- community agencies providing services to stu- these courses or programs. tional Program (IEP) will be developed within dents. In crisis situations, the psychologists a resource room environment or special edu- and social workers provide direct and consult cation class. services to students, staff, and families. The STUDENT RECORDS Parents, guardians, and students who are Alternate teaching strategies and testing psychologists complete testing when needed 18 years of age or older may have access to for the Committee on Special Education. So- techniques are used to promote academic all student records. To clarify their rights, they cial workers and psychologists provide a vari- success. Students usually attend the Re- are requested to contact the guidance depart- ety of group counseling programs. The social source Room one period a day. ment. Please see Board of Education Policy Placement in this program is determined by workers and psychologists also act as liaisons Student Records Regulation 5500-R for addi- the Committee on Special Education. Grades of for students in out-of-district placements. tional information. P (Pass) or F (Fail) may be used in this alternate system if it is in accordance with the student’s TRANSITION COORDINATOR TUTORING SERVICE IEP. For details regarding the Special Education (Located in the Guidance Office) The National Honor Society has estab- program, see a staff member in the Guidance or The Transition Coordinator will provide lished a free tutoring service, whereby stu- Special Education Departments. transition planning to assist the move from dents in need of assistance may be matched school to post-secondary life, taking into with a capable student tutor. Tutoring services School Counseling and consideration the individual student’s needs, are limited and not guaranteed. Please see Pupil Personnel Services preferences, potential, abilities, and interests. the National Honor Society Advisor.

Making choices and selecting options are COLLEGE APPLICATION ACADEMIC INTERVENTION skills essential to success in any field or en- Guidance counselors work with students SERVICES (A.I.S.) deavor. At Ward Melville, we pride ourselves in their junior year so that they can under- In addition to group and individual coun- in assisting students in developing these stand and prepare for college admissions. seling services provided by the various coun- skills. The guidance department plays an The more selective the college, the greater selors, psychologists, and social workers, essential part in this process. Each student the requirements for admission. It is the re- academic tutorial and remediation services is assigned his/her own counselor to help in sponsibility of the student to request that SAT are provided in academic areas for students the decision making process. Counselors are and ACT testing agencies send official test who have scored below minimum standards available to deal with personal and academic results directly to the colleges and universi- on state assessments, and/or have failed problems, as well as to provide guidance in ties to which they are applying. This may be courses. A.I.S. comes in different forms in- course selections and career and post high done when registering for these tests or at a cluding tutorials, in-class modifications, litera- school planning. Students may make guid- later date. Scores may also be sent to col- cy and writing labs, math tutorials, small group ance appointments as necessary, scheduling leges and universities by contacting the test- instruction, speech and language assistance, them during free periods. Counselors will also ing agency online. etc. Student records are regularly reviewed to initiate contact with students. determine A.I.S. placements.

School Counseling & Pupil Personnel Services - 6 Other Services and Guidelines Emergency Closings Telephone Numbers

IDENTIFICATION The Superintendent of Schools WMHS Main Office: 730-4900 Students are issued photo identi- may close the schools or dismiss stu- WMHS Main Office Fax: 730-4901 dents/staff early when hazardous fication cards. These cards are to be Dr. Alan L. Baum, Principal: 730-4908 weather or other emergencies threaten carried at all times and shown when Mrs. Erin Connolly health or safety. Parents are requested requested by members of the high Assistant Principal: 730-4909 to avoid calling schools on days of poor school staff. weather; it is important to keep school Mrs. Rosanne DiBella phone lines open. School closing Assistant Principal: 730-4970 LIBRARY INFORMATION and delayed starting times will be an- Mr. Kevin Finnerty CENTER nounced through School Messenger (a Assistant Principal: 730-4960 The Ward Melville High School Infor- phone and email notification system), Mr. Jay Negus mation Center is open from 7:00 a.m. to on the district website, and over local Dean: 730-4934 4:00 p.m. Students are expected to use the radio stations as soon as possible. The resources quietly, reading, doing research Mrs. Jennifer Trettner and studying. ID cards are necessary for following television/radio stations will Art/Technology Chairperson: 730-4399 signing out materials. Workstations are carry information regarding emergency Mr. Brian McAuliffe closings: available for student and faculty use, a English Chairperson: 730-4966 copy machine is available for reproduction Mrs. Liz Brecht of Information Center materials without 97.5 FM (WALK) Foreign Language Chairperson: 730-4965 charge. Students are charged replacement 103.9 FM (WRCN) costs if materials are not returned. The In- 880 AM News Radio (WCBS) Mrs. Linda Bergson formation Center seeks to be a fundamen- 1370 AM (WALK) Guidance Chairperson: 730-4940 tal part of the curriculum and act as the or Mrs. Maureen Kost virtual hub of the school community. The Health / PE Chairperson: 730-4988 collection consists of many virtual resourc- You may call us at 730-4050 Mr. Peter Melore es accessible remotely, 28,000 books, mi- or crofilm and video materials. Our goal is to Log on to our website at: Health, PE, Athletics and provide digital information 365 days a year, www.threevillagecsd.org Recreation Director: 730-4980 24 hours a day via remote access on the Mr. Donald Ambrose Internet and to otherwise support the cur- Weekend and vacation activities cancelled Math Lead Person: 730-4387 riculum integrating electronic and tradition- due to inclement weather. All building use Dr. Marnie Kula al materials in the most effective manner. for other purposes is also cancelled when Science Chairperson: 730-4929 schools are closed. Mr. Andrew Pelosi STUDY HALL Social Studies Lead Person: 730-4923 All sophomores and juniors are assigned to study halls when they are not Mrs. Laurance Marino assigned to a class or lunch. At times, Special Education Coordinating students may receive passes to go to the Chairperson: 730-4979 library, guidance office, or seek extra help Dr. Marnie Kula from teachers. Students who have been Science Research Director: 730-4352 approved for Late Arrival or Early Re- 730-4353 lease who are found in the building will FAX: be assigned a Study Hall. This applies Attendance Office: 730-4930 to all students (Grades 10 & 11). Guidance Office:730-4940 Information Center: 730-4920 Invictus (School Yearbook): 730-4383 Math Office:730-4388 Nurse’s Office: 730-4910 Student Counseling Office:730-4914 Psychologists: Mrs. Heather Salas Dr. Jose Salazar, PsyD Social Workers: Mrs. Glenda Gregory Mrs. Michelle Virga Continuing Education Anthony Prinzo: 730-4389 District Switchboard: 730-4000

Other Services/Emergency Closing/Telephone Numbers - 7 GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

LOCAL DIPLOMA**** REGENTS DIPLOMA REGENTS DIPLOMA WITH (SAFETY NET) ADVANCED DESIGNATION Required Courses & Credits Required Courses & Credits Required Courses & Credits English 4 English 4 English 4 Social Studies 4 Social Studies 4 Social Studies 4 Math** 3 Math** 3 Math** 3 Science** (including one life sci- Science**(including one life science Science**(including one life science 3 3 3 ence) and one physical science) and one physical science) Language other than English Language other than English Language other than English 1 1 3 (Foreign Language)* (Foreign Language)* (Foreign Language)*** Art and/or Music 1 Art and/or Music 1 Art and/or Music 1 Health .5 Health .5 Health .5 Physical Education 2 Physical Education 2 Physical Education 2 Electives 3.5 Electives 3.5 Electives 1.5 TOTAL CREDITS 22 TOTAL CREDITS 22 TOTAL CREDITS 22

REQUIRED REGENTS EXAMS REQUIRED REQUIRED REGENTS EXAMS FOR AN ADVANCED REGENTS EXAMS**** FOR A REGENTS DIPLOMA Safety Net Passing Score of 55 to 64 (passing score of 65 and above) REGENTS DIPLOMA (passing score of 65 and above)

English Language Arts Exam English Language Arts Exam English Language Arts Exam Integrated Algebra, Geometry, or Integrated Algebra, Geometry, or Integrated Algebra, Geometry and Algebra II/Trigonometry Algebra II/Trigonometry Algebra II/Trigonometry Regents Global History Exam Regents Global History Exam Regents Global History Exam Regents US History Exam Regents US History Exam Regents US History Exam One (1) Regents Science Exam (including One (1) Regents Science Exam (including Two (2) Regents Science Exams: one life science) one life science) 1 Life Science & 1 Physical Science Comprehensive Exam for Regents Special Education Safety Net Credit***

PLEASE SEE NYSED WEBSITE FOR ADDITIONAL DIPLOMA DESIGNATION CRITERIA. *Students are required to have completed one (1) unit of credit in a Language other than English (Foreign Language). **An integrated course in Mathematics / Science / Technology, may be used as the third requirement unit of credit in Mathemat- ics or Science. ***Students acquiring 5 units of credits in Art, Music, Business, Technology or Occupational Education may be exempt from the three (3) credit requirement and NYS Regents exam in those Foreign Languages in which a Regents exam is given. However, one (1) unit of Foreign Language credit is still required. Beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, the State Education Depart- ment has eliminated all Foreign Language Regents exams. Students can meet the assessment requirement in those languages for which no Regents exam is available by passing a locally developed (CERC Language) exam aligned to the Checkpoint B Learning Standards for Foreign Language. ****The low-pass “safety net” option of scoring between 55-64 on the required New York State Regents exams to earn a local diploma will continue to be available for students with disabilities. *****Please see your Guidance Counselor for alternate pathways to graduation. All students are eligible to be educated until they reach the age of 21 or until they satisfy the requirements of a High School Diploma, whichever shall occur first.

Graduation Requirements - 8 DIPLOMA REQUIREMENTS The Board of Education will determine the graduation requirements for the district in accordance with any specific Regulations of the Commissioner of Education. In order to satisfy graduation requirements, the building principal must certify that the student has met one of the following requirements:

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OPTIONS (SAFETY NET) TOPIC ELIGIBILITY KEY COMPONENTS • Students with disabilities must take the five required Regents exams. 55-64 Pass Students with disabilities. • May graduate with a local diploma if the score(s) on one or more of the required Regents Score Option exam(s) is between 55-64 • Students with disabilities who score between 45-54 on one or more of the required Regents exams* may graduate with a local diploma if they compensate with scores higher than 65 on Compensatory Students with disabilities. other Regents exams. Option • Attendance and course grade requirements. * English and Math scores must be at a score of 55 or higher.

NON-DIPLOMA HIGH SCHOOL EXITING CREDENTIALS CREDENTIAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS TYPE • Completes a career plan; demonstrates attainment of the commencement level Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) learning standards in the area of career exploration and development, Career integrated learning and universal foundation skills; satisfactorily completes the equivalent of 2 units of Development and Students with disabilities other study (216 hours) in Career and Technical Education coursework and work-based learning (including at Occupational Stud- than those who are assessed least 54 hours of work-based learning); and has at least 1 completed employability profile, OR using the NYS Alternate • Students meet criteria for a national work readiness credential. ies Commencement Assessment (NYSSA). Credential Credential may be a supplement to a regular diploma, or, if the student is unable to meet diploma standards, the credential may be awarded as the student’s exiting credential provided the student has attended school for not less than 12 years, excluding Kindergarten.

Skills and Achieve- Students with severe dis- All students with severe disabilities who attend school for not less than 12 years, excluding Kindergarten, abilities that are assessed using exit with this credential which must be accompanied by a summary of the student’s levels of achievement ment Commencement the NYS Alternate Assessment in academic and career development and occupational studies. Credential (NYSAA) TRANSFER STUDENT INFORMATION NOTE: According to Part 100 of the Commissioner’s Regulations, there are NO exemptions for students who transfer into a New York State high school prior to grade eleven (11). Students, who have been home schooled or who have been instructed in a public or private New York State high school, are NOT eligible for any of these waivers. TRANSFER STUDENTS (students who enter a New York State high school from another state or country) LOCAL DIPLOMA (AVAILABLE AS AN OPTION REGENTS ADVANCED DESIGNATION FOR CLASSIFIED AND DIPLOMA REGENTS DIPLOMA 504 STUDENTS) Must pass the following Regents Must pass the following Regents and Comprehensive Exams with a Exams with a grade of 65 or grade of 65 or higher: higher: • ELA • ELA • Integrated Algebra and Algebra II/Trigonometry and Geometry, Entering Grade 11 Principal may exempt an out- • Mathematics (1) • US History and Government in 2015-2016 of-state student from the Global • US History and Government • Science (2)*: (one life science & one physical science) History Regents Exam. • Science (1) • Comprehensive Language other than English exam (Foreign (Class of 2017) Principal may exempt an out-of- Language) state student from the Global His- Principal may exempt an out-of-state student from the Global History tory Regents Exam. Must have 65 Regents Exam. Must have 65 or higher on all others. or higher on all others. Entering Grade 12 Principal may exempt an out- Same as above. in 2015-2016 of-state student from the Global Principal may exempt an out-of- History and Science Regents state student from the Global His- Same as above. (Class of 2016) Exam. tory and Science Regents Exam.

*Students who seek to earn a Regents diploma with Advanced Designation may not be waived from the Regents exams in Science. A total of two (2) Science Regents are required for this type of diploma. A student transferring between high schools in grades eleven or twelve may be exempt from the Foreign Language requirements of three (3) units of credit in one (1) Foreign Language, for a Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation, if the language in which the student began a Foreign Language sequence in grade 9 or 10 is not offered in the school to which the student has transferred. In such cases, the student shall complete three (3) units of credit in Foreign Language but not necessarily in a single language. Any specific questions should be addressed directly with the Guidance Department.

Diploma Requirements/Transfer Student Information - 9 1206 STUDIO ART II Art Department Grade Level: 10-12 The Art Program provides a comprehensive and inclusive sequence of courses in the visual and pro- .5 Credit • Semester fessional arts. All courses provide an awareness of the particular area and its career opportunities. All Prerequisite: None art courses meet the Common Core standards and the National Core Art standards. This course will provide a 1/2 unit to satisfy the Art/ Music core requirement for graduation. A foundation NOTE: The CORE REQUIREMENT IN ART for Regents diploma students may be satisfied by in the fine arts is stressed with emphasis on the selecting one of the following 1-credit courses: elements and principles of art. Studio Art, AP Studio, Creative Crafts, or Media Arts. 1207 STUDIO ART I Comprehensive Visual Arts Three Unit Sequence (Regents Credit) Grade Level: 10-12 1. Core requirement plus 1 Credit • Year 2. Any other 2 art credits Prerequisite: None Studio Art is the recommended art course for all Comprehensive Visual Arts Five Unit Sequence (Regents Credit) students satisfying the Art/Music requirement for Same as above, plus any 2 additional art credits. graduation. This comprehensive course is designed for all students. It is an introductory program designed for everyone including the art major.

ART DEPARTMENT COURSE FLOW CHART 1208 CREATIVE CRAFTS I Grade Level: 10-12 ART CLASSES THAT CAN BE TAKEN GRADES 10-12 .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: None OR DO NOT REQUIRE A PREREQUISITE Creative Crafts I is an exciting art course that introduces students to both 2-D and 3-D art and design. This course provides an introduction to the basic craft areas of ceramics, mosaics, glass, stencil 1206 1207 1208 1209 techniques and sculpture. Studio Art II Studio Art I Creative Crafts I Creative Crafts II 1209 CREATIVE CRAFTS II 1210 1213 1219 Introduction to 1222 Grade Level: 10-12 Drawing & Painting Sculpture Graphic Design Photography .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: None 1224 1227 1228 1229 Fashion Design Creative Crafts II is an advanced crafts class that Commercial Photo Ceramics Interior Design & Illustration encourages problem solving and creativity as it focuses on design, hands-on creation and application of work. The course provides an advanced approach 1237 Video Film 1240 1269 to creating artworks in ceramics, glass, mosaics, Production Media Arts II Photojournalism stenciling and sculpture.

1210 DRAWING & PAINTING Grade Level: 10-12 1 Credit • Year ART CLASSES THAT CAN BE TAKEN GRADES 11 &12 Prerequisite: None OR REQUIRE A PREREQUISITE Drawing & Painting is for the student who enjoys art and for those students who plan on taking AP Studio or applying to college as an art major. This course 1220 Advanced 1221 Advertising Practices includes a wide variety of drawing and painting Graphic Design & Applications H experiences. Various techniques are taught in conjunction with understanding the elements and 1223 Advanced 1230 Advanced Fashion 1232 Advanced Interior principles of art and design. Art history is stressed Photography Design & Illustration Design as students explore historical references. Specific work in pencil, charcoal, pastels, watercolor, acrylics and mixed media are incorporated in problem 1258 Advanced Film 1262 AP Studio: solving assignments. Homework is a requirement. Production 3-D Design This course is a prerequisite to AP Studio.

1263 AP Studio: 1264 AP Studio: 1268 Film & Broadcast 1213 SCULPTURE 2-D Design Drawing Journalism H Grade Level: 10-12 .5 Credit • Semester All students planning on attending college for fine art, graphic design, communication design, Prerequisite: None fashion design, or architecture should consider taking This is an introductory course dealing with all visual Introduction to Graphic Design and AP Studio. elements as they relate to sculpture. The course provides the student with a better understanding of Please follow the College Majors/Career Paths suggested art course guide which can the creative process involved with three dimensional be found in guidance or in the art chairperson’s office. expression. Projects include working with a variety of materials such as wood, metal, plaster, clay and stone. Art history relevant to assignments will be discussed.

Art Department - 10 1219 INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHIC 1222 PHOTOGRAPHY 1229 FASHION DESIGN & DESIGN Grade Level: 10-12 ILLUSTRATION Grade Level: 10-12 .5 Credit • Semester Grade Level: 10-12 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: None .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: None This class will enhance the students knowledge and Prerequisite: None This full-year course deals with major areas of understanding of digital photography. The use of This course provides the student with a history of graphic communications, including advertising the camera as an art medium will be emphasized. fashion design through contemporary application. design, editorial design, graphic design and Basic knowledge of the camera and photographic Fashion in advertising and specific illustrative package design. Students will learn how and processes will be covered. Photography, the camera techniques will be the focus. Emphasis on drawing when to use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and as an inventive and creative medium, photographic and creative designing is stressed. InDesign. Students will be able to experiment with composition will be covered. Students will explore the typography, poster design, logo creation, t-shirt elements and principles of art through photography. design, packaging design and more. Students will Through the use of a digital lab, the photo students 1230 ADVANCED FASHION DESIGN work to build a college level portfolio. Actual client will be introduced to Adobe Photoshop as a tool for & ILLUSTRATION projects are used in an authentic atmosphere. Intro high impact digital images. Grade Level: 11-12 to Graphic Design constitutes Part I of the Ward .5 Credit • Semester Melville Advertising Design Academy (an optional Fashion Design and 1223 ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY Prerequisite: 3-year program offered at Ward Melville with an Illustration Grade Level: 11-12 articulation agreement with SUNY Farmingdale). This is an advanced course for students who .5 Credit • Semester have completed Fashion Design and Illustration. Prerequisite: Photography Students will investigate employment opportunities 1220 ADVANCED GRAPHIC DESIGN The use of the camera as an art medium will be Grade Level: 11-12 in fashion and will further develop skills used in the emphasized. Advanced knowledge of the camera fashion industry through a wide variety of projects. 1 Credit • Year and photographic processes will be covered with Prerequisite: Intro to Graphic Design an emphasis on digital photography. Students will Come be part of the exciting world of the graphic use their knowledge of the DSLR Camera to work 1232 ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN designer. Work on real-world projects for clients with a professional lighting kit. Students will use the Grade Level: 10-12 through the use of computer software including digital photo lab along with Adobe PhotoShop to .5 Credit • Semester Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Students create high quality photographic images. Prerequisite: Interior Design will learn about the exciting careers available to This course will build upon and examine advanced artists interested in the communications industry 1224 COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY skills and techniques introducing computer and investigate employment opportunities. This technology and 21st century skills while helping Grade Level: 10-12 class will help students as they build their college students to finalize their interior design portfolio with portfolio. The Advanced Graphic Design course .5 Credit • Semester more advanced work. Color harmonies, type of décor, is Part II of the Ward Melville Advertising Design Prerequisite: None materials, suitability of design and budgets will be Academy (an optional 3-year program offered at The use of the camera as an art medium will be explored. Ward Melville with an articulation agreement with emphasized. Basic knowledge of the camera and SUNY Farmingdale). photographic processes will be covered. Students will use their knowledge of the DSLR Camera to 1237 VIDEO FILM PRODUCTION 1221 ADVERTISING PRACTICES & work with a professional lighting kit. Commercial Grade Level: 10-12 photography is designed to bring together the 1 Credit • Year APPLICATIONS H medium of photography and the wide realm of Grade Level: 11-12 Prerequisite: None advertising. Students will be using the digital photo This course is designed to introduce the methods 1 Credit • Year • Honors lab along with Adobe Photoshop to enhance their and equipment, through the concept of video Prerequisite: Intro to Graphic Design photographic images. expression and analysis of the components of a Further explore the exciting world of the video production. Students use real-world tools: professional designers. This classs will provide Apple computers, Final Cut and Soundtrack students with the skills used in the Advertising 1227 CERAMICS Grade Level: 10-12 software. It is a “hands-on” course that will include and Communications industries. They will learn to script and treatment writing, story boarding, taping, communicate ideas graphically as they work with 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: None editing, and final presentation. History of film, critical clients. The history of design will be incorporated thinking, art criticism, and aesthetics are integrated. into class lessons and students will be asked to use This course is designed for the student to experience, different schools of design as inspiration to new through the various techniques and self-expression, ideas. This is a college level class and students the area of ceramics. Hand-built and wheel made 1240 MEDIA ARTS II are expected to work at a higher level. The work methods of making pottery will be taught. Glazing Grade Level: 10-12 and decorative procedures are included. produced in this class may be used in a students .5 Credit • Semester college application portfolio. The fee for this class Prerequisite: None is $140.00 which is determined by Farmingdale 1228 INTERIOR DESIGN Media Arts II is one of five core courses in Art that State University.The successful student will Grade Level: 10-12 will satisfy the Regents graduation requirements. receive three (3) credits from SUNY Farmingdale. .5 Credit • Semester This course will introduce the students to media Transcripts may be requested through SUNY Prerequisite: None arts through digital photography and graphic Farmingdale for a minimal fee. This class is Part III This course involves room planning, furnishing, communications. The student will have hands- of the Ward Melville Advertising Design Academy. and interior decorating. Suitability of design, color on experience with computers and mixed media harmonies, type of décor, and materials to use equipment, in the endeavor to communicate in interior decoration are covered. Application is thoughts and ideas creatively using up-to-date provided through drawings of floor plans, room technology. Students should be familiar with designs, and one and two point perspective full- using a digital camera and Photoshop. color drawings.

Art Department - 11 1258 ADVANCED FILM 1263 AP STUDIO: 2-D DESIGN 1268 FILM & BROADCAST PRODUCTION Grade Level: 11-12 JOURNALISM H Grade Level: 11-12 1 Credit • Year • AP Grade Level: 11-12 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: Studio Art, Studio Art II, 1 Credit • Year • Honors Prerequisite: Video Film Production Drawing and Painting, Graphic Design, Prerequisite: Video Film Production This course is designed to help build upon and Media Art II or Permission of the Art This course is designed to help build upon and examine advanced styles and techniques in Chairperson. examine advanced styles and techniques in video and film production. Attention is directed This course is a college level course open to 11th video, film and broadcast television. Attention is toward creation of a strong portfolio of student and 12th grade students who seek advanced directed toward the creation of a strong portfolio work. Students learn to author, create and burn work in 2-D design. The preparation of an art of student work and an authentic experience DVD’s of their final portfolio. Projects include portfolio for College Board submission and art thus allowing the students to create their own student research, creation and submission of school admission is emphasized. All work will films, become involved with filming and editing work toward existing scholarships. Entrance be produced using references from art history school events and ultimately supporting a school into this course is dependent upon successful while focusing on the elements and principles television studio. completion of Video Film Production. of art. This is a high-level, labor-intensive class that encourages students to use their own voice 1269 PHOTOJOURNALISM 1262 AP STUDIO: 3-D DESIGN in their works of art. The student who takes this (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) class will have the choice to submit an application Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 10-12 for the Advanced Placement Exam. There is 1 Credit • Year • AP a fee for students to submit their Portfolio to .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: Sculpture, Ceramics or the College Board for AP credit. Students are Prerequisite: None permission of the Art Chairperson responsible for taking photos of all their work to Photojournalism documents the emotion, drama, This course is a college-level course open to 11th be used in the AP digital portfolio. Homework is suspense and excitement of real-life events and 12th grade students who seek advanced a requirement. Required summer assignments. and people. Students will explore the power of level work in 3-D design. The preparation of an Please see Ward Melville Website for AP Studio photojournalistic photography through the use of art portfolio for College Board submission and art summer assignments. (Students must show DSLR cameras, while exploring basic photography school admission is emphasized. All work will be the Art Chairperson their portfolios and skills and techniques. As part of the course produced using references from art history while must have the signature approval of the Art requirements, students will be asked to photograph focusing on the elements and principles of art. Chairperson for course acceptance.) live Ward Melville events, such as sporting events, This is a high-level, labor-intensive class that student life acitivities and other school happenings, encourages students to use their own voice and focusing on telling a story through photography. think outside the box. The student who takes this 1264 AP STUDIO: DRAWING class will have the choice to submit an application Grade Level: 11-12 for the Advanced Placement Exam. There is a 1 Credit • Year • AP fee for students to submit their Portfolio to the Prerequisite: Studio Art, Studio Art II, College Board for AP credit as well as additional Drawing and Painting, or Permission of the costs to the student to have their artwork shot Art Chairperson in digital form. Homework is a requirement. This course is a college level course open to 11th Required summer assignments. Please see and 12th grade students who seek advanced Ward Melville website for AP Studio summer work in Drawing and Painting. The preparation assignments. (Students must show the Art of an art portfolio for College Board submission Chairperson their portfolios and must have and art school admission is emphasized. All work the signature approval of the Art Chairperson will be produced using references from art history for course acceptance.) while focusing on the elements and principles of art. This is a high-level, labor-intensive class that encourages students to use their own voice in their works of art. The student who takes this class will have the choice to submit an application for the Advanced Placement Exam. There is a fee for students to submit their Portfolio to the College Board for AP credit. Students are responsible for taking photos of all their work to be used in the AP digital portfolio. Homework is a requirement. Required summer assignments. Please see Ward Melville Website for AP Studio summer assignments. (Students must show the Art Chairperson their portfolios and must have the signature approval of the Art Chairperson for course acceptance.)

Art Department - 12 1141 FINANCIAL LITERACY I Business Department Grade Level: 10-12 The Three Village Business Department encompasses a comprehensive program of challenging .5 Credit • Semester courses in career preparation and technological literacy, enriched with a variety of extra-curricular Prerequisite: None activities. Half and full-year Regents level and Honors level credit courses compliment academic Learn about basic financial responsibilities including study and provide opportunities for students to satisfy many of the commencement level Common career decisions. Explore ways to maximize earning potential and manage your money, including pay, Core standards. Courses are designed to prepare students for post-secondary study and/or entry- benefits, taxes, and banking. Gain insight into level employment. investing money, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and retirement planning. NOTE: Making extensive use of modern technology, the Business Department is the source for learning a va- For students who have successfully passed the riety of computer applications to enhance productivity both in school and in the business environment. required Integrated Algebra Regents Exam, Financial For those students who choose to pursue a post-secondary business major, the following courses will Literacy I and II may be used to fulfill one unit of Math. Any student may take Financial Literacy I as a have an option for college credit through SUNY Farmingdale. Business Organization & Management, Business elective. Accounting, Marketing, and Financial Literacy II. 1142 FINANCIAL LITERACY II Grade level: 10-12 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT COURSE FLOW CHART .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: Financial Literacy I or COLLEGE CREDIT SEQUENCE permission of instructor Acquire essential skills for the wise use of credit, 1116 BUSINESS ORGANIZATION including managing credit and debt. Develop strategies 1112 ACCOUNTING H 1117 MARKETING H & MANAGEMENT H for managing resources and personal risks, including (offered every 3 years 2017-18) (offered every 3 years 2018-19) (offered every 3 years 2016-17) renting, buying a house or a car, family decisions 1 Credit • Grades: 10, 11, 12 1 Credit • Grades: 10, 11, 12 1 Credit • Grades: 10, 11, 12 and insurance. Explore ethical issues, including (OPTION TO RECEIVE 3 (OPTION TO RECEIVE 3 (OPTION TO RECEIVE 3 COLLEGE CREDITS WITH FEE) COLLEGE CREDITS WITH FEE) consumer rights and responsibilities. NOTE: For COLLEGE CREDITS WITH FEE) students who have successfully passed the required Integrated Algebra Regents Exam, Financial Literacy I and II may be used to fulfill one unit of Math. Any student that has completed Financial Literacy I or 1134 SPORTS AND 1141 FINANCIAL with permission of the Instructor, may take Financial 1118 BUSINESS LAW 1120 WORK-BASED ENTERTAINMENT LITERACY I Literacy II as a Business elective. For a fee of $140.00 .5 Credit - FALL Semester LEARNING MARKETING .5 / 1 Credit - Semester/Year .5 Credit (fee determined by Farmingdale University and is Grades: 10, 11, 12 .5 Credit - FALL Semester Grades: 10, 11, 12 Grades: 10, 11, 12 Grades: 10, 11, 12 subject to change) students may receive college credit through Farmingdale State University upon satisfactory completion of the course. Students receive a standard 1142 FINANCIAL SUNY transcript. In order to earn one credit of Math, LITERACY II 1145 CAREER 1164 INTRODUCTION students must successfully complete Financial Literacy .5 Credit • Grades: 10, 11, 12 PORTFOLIO TO BUSINESS I as well as Financial Literacy II. (RECEIVE 1 MATH CREDIT .5 / 1 Credit - Semester/Year .5 Credit IF BOTH I AND II ARE Grades: 10, 11, 12 Grades: 10, 11, 12 COMPLETED) 1145 CAREER PORTFOLIO Grade Level: 10-12 .5 Credit / 1 Credit • Semester / Year 1116 BUSINESS ORGANIZATION & 1120 WORK-BASED LEARNING Prerequisite: None MANAGEMENT H Grade Level: 10-12 Take charge of your future! Through extensive self- Grade Level: 10-12 .5 Credit / 1 Credit • Semester/Year assessment testing, you will have the opportunity to explore careers that match your interest, personality 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: None and work style. You will research careers and find Prerequisite: None Students will learn about the world of work and career the requirements of the position, working conditions, This is an introductory management course that opportunities. Students will understand firsthand about salary, etc., as well as prepare to pursue a particular explores the structure of business, management the skills and educational requirements necessary for career. You will create resumes, compose cover skills and operations within the global marketplace. career areas in which they are interested. Through letters, complete job applications, and prepare for Topics include management systems, corporate this program, students will be able to play an integral the job interview process. You will also receive infrastructure, and employee motivation. For a fee of part in designing their own high school program and assistance in how to obtain a workplace experience. $140.00 (fee determined by Farmingdale University in choosing courses they should take to reach their Upon completion of this course, students will have and is subject to change), students will receive prepared a New York State Career Plan for their career objective. This course satisfies the Career Plan college credit through Farmingdale State University grade level. This course satisfies the Career Plan upon satisfactory completion of the course. Students and CDOS Learning Standards components of the and CDOS Learning Standards component of the receive a standard SUNY transcript. CDOS Commencement Credential. CDOS Commencement Credential.

1118 BUSINESS LAW 1164 INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS Grade Level: 10-12 1134 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT Grade Level: 10-12

.5 Credit • FALL Semester MARKETING .5 Credit • Semester Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: None Emphasis is on the individual as s/he encounters .5 Credit • Semester Introduction to Business introduces students to the business law in his/her personal and family life and Prerequisite: None world of business, including the concepts, functions, occupational life. From the study of business law, In this course, you learn how marketing principles are and skills required for meeting the challenges of students should gain genuine respect and intelligent applied to the sports and entertainment industries. operating a business in the 21st century on a local, application for a segment of the law that affects Marketing theory is reinforced through the use of national, and/or international scale. It will help prepare them both at home and at work. Topics include actual business examples. Topics include marketing them for more meaningful and beneficial interaction The Individual and the Legal Environment, The with business. Units will include planning a business, concepts, market research, business ownership, Legal Covenant, Personal Property, Real Property, business environment, management, marketing Transportation and Travel, Paying for Goods and advertising, business law, sports technology and and advertising, financial management, information Services, Family Protection, Employment and career opportunities. Students will also engage in a systems and technology, career exploration and Agency Relationship and Business Ownership. variety of simulation activities and research. contemporary business problems and developments.

Business Department- 13 research (including a formal research paper), and English Department presentations are also requirements of the course. The skills developed in 10 Honors align closely to The English program has been recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English as a New York State Common Core Standards. Literary Model of Excellence for senior high school comprehensive language arts programs. Subject offerings Genres Studied: Shakespearean, Classical, and include traditional full-year courses for grades 10 and 11 and a variety of semester courses in writing, Modern Drama, Contemporary World Literature, literature, film, and public speaking. Co-curricular student publications, such as Kaleidoscope, the 19th Century British Novel, American and British school newspaper, and Cinnabar, the literary magazine, offer additional opportunities for participation 20th Century Novel, Autobiography/Memoir, in writing and publishing. Both publications have consistently received the highest ratings from the Poetry, Short Story, Non-Fiction/Informational NCTE, the Columbia School Press Association, JEA, and NSPA. Texts. This course is designed to prepare students for AP level work. Students may take either or both of the AP Exams in English for potential credit from their colleges. However, the College Board strongly advises that students check with their colleges, because college course credit or advanced placement based on either exam depends on the particular freshman 0110 ELA 11 English course(s) offered by the individual student’s college. NCAA Approved Grade Level: 11 Tenth and eleventh grade students must be enrolled in a full-year English course and may take 1 Credit • Year electives only in addition to that course. Prerequisite: ELA 10 or English 10 H This course examines the range of American For seniors, the full-year AP Literature and Composition course offers a comprehensive language Literature from the 17th century contemporary arts experience, including a literature core, research and reference skills, and continued development fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama, in addition in essay writing. Seniors who do not take AP Literature and Composition must take Writing at the to American art and various media. A close study Threshold, a one semester course. To complete their senior English requirement, they may choose will be made of language and its uses to create from any other English elective. meaning. A thematic approach will focus on the cultural and social developments that have ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SEQUENCE occurred throughout American history and how they have shaped us into the nation we are REGENTS HONORS / AP today. Units of study include the following: The LEVEL LEVEL ENGLISH ELECTIVES* Human Spirit and the Natural World; Search for Self: Individuality and Identity; A Troubled Nation: Voices of Freedom and Oppression; Poetry of Hope, Darkness, and Imagination; The Dream and Cinema: History and Criticism Reality. Assignments in this class are designed ELA 10 English 10 H Comics and the Graphic Novels to reflect the NYS Common Core Standards. Contemporary Issues in Literature Assessments include the following: a researched Dramatic Literature argument, rhetorical analysis, personal/college From the Page to the Screen essay, synthesis essay, oral presentations, Great Works of Literature H Common-Core-based multiple choice questions, Independent Writing for Publication H journaling, participation and note taking, as well ELA 11 AP English Language & Composition Journalism as tests, quizzes, and other projects. Students will Journalism II take the NYS Regents exam in June. Literature of Sports News Literacy 0112 WRITING AT THE THRESHOLD Poetry of Hip Hop Writing at the NCAA Approved AP English Literature & Public Speaking Threshold Composition ANY SENIOR NOT TAKING AP Grade 12 ONLY Shakespeare LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION MUST (Semester) Writing Fiction and Poetry TAKE THIS COURSE Grade Level: 12 + .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: None Elective* This semester course focuses on writing skills (Semester) *Some electives are restricted to seniors that offer a foundation for the kinds of writing experiences students will encounter in college and beyond. These experiences include the 0106 ELA 10 0107 ENGLISH 10 H personal essay and the extended essay using NCAA Approved NCAA Approved research. The course will help students become Grade Level: 10 Grade Level: 10 skilled readers of prose written in a variety of 1 Credit • Year 1 Credit • Year • Honors disciplines and rhetorical contexts, and become Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: Students must have an 85 skilled writers who compose for a variety of ELA 10 develops students’ abilities in all areas average in English 9 H and/or teacher purposes, audiences, expectations, and subjects. of the language arts, including speaking, critical recommendation. An integral part of the course is the development thinking and viewing, written communication and ELA 10 Honors is focused on a comprehensive of research skills that enable students to evaluate, literary comprehension skills. Major areas of focus array of writing and reading endeavors that use, and cite source material. Attention is given are: reading comprehension and closereading develop critical thinking, written expression, and to various aspects of the writing process, such techiques for fiction, informational texts and literary comprehension. Major areas of focus as brainstorming, drafting, and revising. Both poetry, evaluating and developing arguments, include: reading comprehension and close-reading formative and summative assessments are and analyzing and responding to literary texts. techniques for fiction, informational texts (non- used, including journal writing, drafts, finished Mechanics and vocabulary development are fiction), and poetry; evaluating arguments and compositions, presentations, and projects. also components of the course. Students will developing rhetorical techniques; synthesizing be assessed via exams, essays, homework information; analyzing and responding to literature, assignments, presentations, classwork, journaling and the development of an academic lexicon. and other projects. Listening, speaking, and critical viewing skill, English Department - 14 0115 AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND satire. Students will be evaluated on homework, 0134 CINEMA: HISTORY & CRITICISM COMPOSITION tests, writing assignments and independent reading. Grade Level: 11-12 NCAA Approved The final assessment will measure the student’s .5 Credit • Semester mastery of the works and genre studied. Grade Level: 11 Prerequisite: ELA 10 or English 10 H 1 Credit • Year • AP recommended. Prerequisite: Students must have an 85 0127 THE LITERATURE OF SPORTS This course is designed for academically oriented average in English 10 H and/or teacher - TRIUMPHS, CHAMPIONSHIPS AND students who are interested in studying the history recommendation. UNDERDOGS and development of American cinema. Students This course emphasizes close interpretive reading (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) will view both silent and sound films and study of texts from different genres, periods, and authors Grade Level: 10-12 innovators like Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, and effective writing in a variety of rhetorical modes. .5 Credit • Semester Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Students will apply the language of discourse to the George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola. The texts under study and to their own writing process. Prerequisite: None Sports are an exciting and meaningful aspect of course offers students the opportunity to analyze Important concepts studied include diction, syntax, the contributions of leading directors, develop style, tone, voice, imagery, point of view and American life that offer important themes to reflect on, such as, heroism, pride, identity, perseverance, critical viewing skills and learn about cinematic rhetorical and literary devices. Reading selections terms and trends. Students will be evaluated on include nonfiction prose, such as personal essays, and camaraderie. Sports bring people together and create a sense of community and team spirit the basis of readings, tests, written film reviews, biography and autobiography, history, criticism, and a research paper. and political, science and nature writing, along through common interests and shared bonds. Fans admire competitors’ skills and talents, applaud with a selection of major American novels, plays 0136 FROM THE PAGE TO THE and poetry. Composition assignments include great victories, and revel in underdog stories of triumph. This course will explore the value of SCREEN expository, analytical, and argumentative modes, Grade Level: 11-12 with attention to the evaluation and synthesis of sports stories in our society and how people relate .5 Credit • Semester primary and secondary source material. Students to one another through sports stories. Students will will be evaluated on oral presentations, tests, read, write, and discuss topics in sports that relate Prerequisite: None homework, written assignments, outside reading to and advance an understanding of our culture The objective of this course is to introduce students from the perspective of sports. Course reading to the adaptation process. Students will read and research papers. NOTE: students will be may include, but not be limited to, the following novels, plays, short stories, and poems that have required to complete a summer reading assignment texts: Friday Night Lights, Moneyball, The Natural, been translated to film. After watching the screen in preparation for this course. Students may earn college credit based on the College Board AP Seabiscuit, Miracle, The Boys of Winter, Shoeless version, students will analyze the adaptation English Language and Composition Exam results. Joe, Fair Ball, and assorted essays and stories process based on a comparison between the There is a fee to take the AP Exam. from Ernest Hemingway, Peter Gammons, Tom written work and the film. Specifically, students will Verducci, Buster Olney, and Bob Costas. evaluate what changed and why via discussion, written work, and presentation. In addition, the 0123 SHAKESPEARE 0128 WRITING: FICTION & POETRY process of storyboarding will be examined. The (Please Note: This course may not be NCAA Approved final project will require students to adapt a genre offered every year) of their choice. NCAA Approved Grade Level: 10-12 10-12 .5 Credit • Semester Grade Level: 0138 LITERACY PORTFOLIO .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: None This course is for students who seek the opportunity Grade Level: 12 Prerequisite: None to write stories and poems. The course offers .5 Credit • Fall Semester This course is designed for students who students the chance to exercise their imaginations, enjoy studying some of Shakespeare’s great Prerequisite: ELA 11 and administrative improve their writing skills, and develop writing works, including the tragedies, comedies, and placement. techniques, as well as critical sensitivity to the use romances. The course emphasizes the cultural This course is required for seniors who must pass of written language. Students will learn to work contributions of Shakespearean drama and its the English Regents as part of their graduation with others as part of a writing community and will relevance in today’s world. Students will learn requirements or who need credit and is by be expected to share their work with classmates. about Elizabethan mores, jargon, attitudes and placement only. Reading, listening, and writing In addition, students are strongly encouraged philosophies and study blank verse, puns and skills including vocabulary, sentence and paragraph to submit their works for publication and for anachronisms. The course offers the student the development, organization and mechanics competitive judging. Students will be evaluated on opportunity to interpret literature, to experience are emphasized through a variety of sources. the basis of homework, reading logs, mini portfolios, professional oral and dramatic presentations and Students will be evaluated on written assignments, and a major course portfolio. to write literary analysis essays on Shakespearean homework, class work, and a portfolio. Students texts. Students will be evaluated on the basis of in this class will receive credit for Writing at the written assignments, and dramatic renderings. 0129 PUBLIC SPEAKING Threshold. NCAA Approved Grade Level: 10-12 0125 GREAT WORKS OF 0142 AP ENGLISH LITERATURE .5 Credit • Semester LITERATURE H AND COMPOSITION Prerequisite: None NCAA Approved NCAA Approved This course is for students who wish to develop Grade Level: 12 Grade Level: 11-12 and improve their speaking and listening skills. The .5 Credit • Semester • Honors 1 Credit • Year • AP course introduces students to the tools of effective Prerequisite: Students must have an 85 Prerequisite: English 10 H or AP English speech making, including vocal skills, body language, average in ELA 11 or AP English Language Language and Composition or Teacher and conquering “stage fright.” Among the types of and Composition or a minimum score of Recommendation speeches that students will write and deliver are an 85 on the ELA 11 Regents, or teacher This course is designed to introduce students to great demonstration speeches, famous speeches, and recommendation. works that have endured and continue to inspire and persuasive speeches and debates. They will also This comprehensive course engages students in captivate readers. The literature is chosen from a present scenes from published plays. Students will the careful reading of literature to sharpen their variety of historical periods and cultures. Students also present oral interpretations of poems and other awareness of language and their understanding will explore several literary genres, including tragedy, literature. The final exam consists of delivering a of the writer’s craft, a work’s historical and short stories, modern realistic drama and fiction, and speech. cultural context, and critical theory. Students will

English Department - 15 read widely and deeply; works are chosen from 0154 DRAMATIC LITERATURE 0159 NEWS LITERACY a variety of periods and genres. Representative NCAA Approved (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) authors include Sophocles, Shakespeare, Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 10-12 Bronte, Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Wharton, Achebe, .5 Credit • Semester .5 Credit • Semester Morrison, and O’Brien. Writing assignments will None None focus on the critical analysis of literature and Prerequisite: Prerequisite: This course is designed for students who are Students will learn the basic concepts of news will stress essays in exposition and argument, considering Theater, English or Communications literacy. They will learn the importance of news but may include poetry, drama, short fiction, as a college major. The course also offers students literacy for citizens in today’s democracy. They will and other modes. Students will be evaluated on an opportunity to perform and study dramatic study both print and broadcast journalism, working essays, literary journals, oral presentations, tests, literature and to critique selected performances. towards an understanding of the influence of the homework, outside reading, and a major research The students will explore themes in contemporary, 24-hour news cycle. This course will teach students paper. NOTE: students will be required to American dramatic literature. Representative how to be objective consumers of news media. complete a summer reading assignment in playwrights include O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Students will be assessed through tests, quizzes, preparation for this course. Students may Simon, Shepard, Henley, Mamet and Albee. projects, writing, journaling and presentations. earn college credit based on the College Board AP Students will be evaluated on homework, in-class Reading and writing skills align with the NYS English Literature & Composition Exam results. dramatic presentations, tests and a final project. Common Core Standards. There is a fee to take the AP Exam. SUNY Stony Brook College Credit might be available for a fee through the ACE program. 0156 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN 0161 THE POETRY OF HIP HOP: LITERATURE A STUDY OF TECHNIQUES 0151 INDEPENDENT WRITING FOR NCAA Approved AND THEMES PUBLICATION H Grade Level: 12 (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) Grade Level: 10-12 .5 Credit • Semester Grade Level: 12 .5 Credit • Fall Semester • Honors Prerequisite: None .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation This semester course focuses on relevant Prerequisite: None This course is designed for talented language arts adolescent experiences and issues. The course This semester course is designed for the student students who wish to write for specific publications will help students become stronger critical who has a strong interest in poetry. Students will or contests (e.g. Scholastic Magazine, National thinkers and writers through their connections study hip hop as a poetic form emphasizing the Council of Teachers of English Achievement Awards, to and discussions of various texts. Students techniques used by rappers, emcees, and lyricists. college writing competitions, and national and will become aware of the interactions among a Coursework will include analyzing lyrics from hip local publications.) Students will write in a variety of writer’s purpose, audience, expectations, and hop’s “Golden Age” for a deeper understanding genres including short stories, one-act plays, poetry, subjects. Our possible titles include: Perks of of complex rhyme schemes and wordplay. An personal narratives and essays on topics specified by Being a Wallflower, Looking for Alaska, Thirteen exploration of the connections between hip hop contest sponsors. Students will learn how to prepare Reasons Why, The Glass Castle, and The Pact. artists and traditional writers such as Shakespeare, their manuscripts for submission to publishers and Students will be evaluated on journals, quizzes, Coleridge, Browning, and Hughes will further the prepare a writing portfolio suitable for submission with essays, projects, and a portfolio. analysis of poetic devices. Hip hop will also be a college application or for special writing seminars studied as a poetic tool that explores the social ills, and conferences. Evaluation will be based on the 0157 COMICS AND THE GRAPHIC experiences, and ideas of a culture. Students will student’s writing samples, evidence of revision, NOVEL be evaluated on tests, projects, written work, and manuscript submissions and the timely completion Grade Level: 11-12 participation. of all competition and writing portfolio requirements. .5 Credit • Semester Sophomores and juniors must take this course Prerequisite: None 2315 LITERACY concurrently with their full-year English 10 or 11 Today’s graphic novels tell rich life accounts and Grade Level: 10-11 course. Seniors may take this course in addition to examine world events. In this course you will study 0 Credit • Year a full-year English course or with a required semester the language of graphic art and will examine how Administrative placement. English core course. This course may be repeated for Prerequisite: the visual aspect of graphic novels deepens stories The Literacy program is designed to meet students’ elective credit. being told. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, individual academic needs while also fostering by Scott McCloud will be the primary text for learning learning through group discussions and activities. 0152 JOURNALISM about sequential storytelling. We also will read A focus of the 10th and 11th grade programs is NCAA Approved graphic novels such as The Complete Persepolis, to prepare students for the NYS Common Core Grade Level: 10-12 by Marjane Satrapi and The Complete Maus: A Standards by building on skills, learning styles .5 Credit • Semester Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman. Students will be and increasing confidence. Furthermore, a goal expected to read independently in addition to the None of the program is to help students to succeed in Prerequisite: course texts. Student assessments will include tests, Journalism is a semester course designed to their academic classes. Literacy offers support with essays, and a final project. prepare students to become knowledgeable media literature, essays, projects, etc. as assigned through producers and consumers, which is essential to academic core classes. Literacy is an Academic our democracy. Students explore their own news 0158 JOURNALISM II Intervention Service (A.I.S.) class and is offered only literacy before examining First Amendment Rights (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) as a non-credit-bearing, pass/fail class. and Scholastic Press Rights. Journalistic writing Grade Level: 10-12 and news gathering techniques are studied as .5 Credit • Semester a segue into experimenting with news, feature, Prerequisite: Journalism and opinion writing. Students learn to prepare This course is a continuation of ideas and skills that articles for publications. Students are evaluated were introduced in Journalism. We will continue our on projects, presentations, articles, journal writing, study of First Amendment Rights and Scholastic and participation. Press Rights. Emphasis will be placed on journalistic writing and news gathering, allowing students the opportunity to create more in depth news and feature articles. Students are evaluated on projects, presentations, articles, and participation.

English Department - 16 Electives for Special Education 2520 COOKING 2522 RECREATION AND LEISURE Grade Level: 10-11 STUDIES .5 Credit • Semester Grade Level: 10-11 Prerequisite: Administrative placement. .5 Credit • Semester This course is an introduction to cooking. Prerequisite: Administrative placement. It begins with the vocabulary associated Students will review activities of with cooking such as the names of cooking engagement for reasons as varied tools, applicances, and high frequency as relaxation, competition, or growth. foods used in cooking. The learner is then Lessons will be designed to develop taken through lessons on reading recipes, awareness of community events and the locating ingredients, measuring, pouing, basic living skills needed to participate mixing and cutting. All throughout the successfully with the greatest level of course, safety in the kitchen is embedded independence. Students will prepare for into instruction. various experiences by learning more about what can be accessed in the community and within their own day-today lives.

Family and Consumer Science

1402 FOOD PREPARATION & 1404 FOOD SCIENCE 1407 GOURMET FOODS NUTRITION NCAA Approved Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 11-12 .5 Credit • Semester .5 Credit • Semester 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: None Gourmet Foods is for individuals who Food Preparation and Nutrition is a course (Course meets third unit of Science for have an interest in the culinary field, and for students interested in developing skills Graduation) the course provides the opportunity to ac- in food preparation techniques that are re- Food Science is an applied Food Science tively develop advanced culinary skills. lated to contemporary food trends while curriculum and when completed will Gourmet Foods introduces students to incorporating issues related to health and fulfill the third unit of Science at the various culinary techniques and traditions fitness. Students will demonstrate safe commencement level for graduation necessary for the preparation of gourmet food preparation procedures using current in New York State. Living in a rapidly cuisine. There is the opportunity to ex- food trends and present in aesthetic fash- changing and increasingly complex world, plore available, quality foods in the global ion. Instruction comprises understanding this course is designed to reinforce and market and apply them to the preparation purchasing, nutritional trends, packaging enhance a student’s knowledge of science of food. Opportunities allow the student and consumer reviews including the farm through the study of food and nutrition. to gain experience tasting foods and then to table concepts. Lab experiences bring Students will be involved in hands-on comparing and analyzing the foods and the student through the steps of recipe laboratory activities which verify science ingredients so as to develop preferred analyzing, ingredients, menu planning, concepts. Curriculum disciplines include methods of preparation. Advanced culi- purchasing, preparation techniques and Food Biochemistry, Food Microbiology, nary skills improve through the use of food visually pleasing presentations. The fast and the Future of Food Science. terminology/techniques, recipe analyzing, growing career paths for the food and and meal planning, proper use of equip- nutrition field include careers in product ment, and execution of culinary skills. The development and testing, culinary expe- fact growing career paths for the food and rience professions such as instructors, nutrition field include careers in product restaurant ownership and media presen- development and testing, culinary experi- tation and various publication develop- ence professions such as instructors, res- ments. taurant ownership and media preparation, and various publication developments.

Electives for Spec Ed / FACS - 17 0509 FRENCH V H Foreign Languages Department NCAA Approved 12 Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, the State Education Department eliminated all Foreign Grade Level: 1 Credit • Year • Honors Language Regents Exams. Students can meet the assessment requirement, for an Advanced Satisfactory completion of Designation Regents Diploma, by passing a locally developed exam aligned to the Check- Prerequisite: French IV. point B Learning Standards for Foreign Languages. This newly developed exam that replac- This course cannot be taken es the prior New York Regents Exam(s), is now referred to as, the Comprehensive Exam after French D H. This course includes the further development for Regents Credit (CERC). This department offers a variety of courses in different languag- of listening, conversation, reading and writing es at varying levels. Students will continue to study languages introduced in grades seven, skills. Expository and critical prose writing eight and nine and may choose an additional language at the high school level. The depart- will include interpretation and analysis. Major ment is committed to excellence in language instruction and committed to cultural diversity. emphasis is given to conversational skills based on current issues. SUNY Stony Brook College Credit is available for a fee through the ACE FOREIGN LANGUAGES SEQUENCE 10-12 program. FRENCH • ITALIAN • SPANISH AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 0508 FRENCH C H NCAA Approved Grade Level: 10 GRADE 10 GRADE 11 GRADE 12 1 Credit • Year • Honors Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of French II - Teacher Recommendation French C H prepares students to enter the upper Course III (CERC) Course IV * Course V H * levels available in the different languages (D H, AP/College Credit). The foreign language will be used almost exclusively for the development of conversational skills. Literature, current Course C H (CERC) Course D H * Course AP * periodicals, and cultural activities may be included to give students a complete view of the language and people they are studying. The Comprehensive Exam for Regents Credit will be part of the final exam of the course. Spanish I Spanish II Spanish III 0522 FRENCH D H NCAA Approved ASL I ASL II ASL III Grade Level: 11 (coming 2017-2018) 1 Credit • Year • Honors Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of French C H or Teacher Recommendation This course is designed for the student who • Not all courses are offered in all languages. has successfully completed French C H and • Teacher recommendation is required for continued study at the Honors level. will prepare students to enter AP (or college • College Courses: SUNY Stony Brook - French, Italian, & Spanish. level foreign language). Students will work on all language proficiencies on a daily basis, with a major emphasis on advanced grammar and the development of fluency. Current materials 0507 FRENCH III 0516 FRENCH IV will be used i.e. newspapers, magazines, films NCAA Approved NCAA Approved and the Internet. Literature and writing will add Grade Level: 10 Grade Level: 11 to the experience. Several cultural projects will 1 Credit • Year 1 Credit • Year be used for the assessment of skills. SUNY Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of Stony Brook College Credit is available for a fee French II French III through the ACE program. French V is NOT an At this level, students will reinforce the basic At this level, the foreign language will be option after this course. vocabulary and skills through a re-emphasis of used almost exclusively for the development the checkpoints ‘A’ and ‘B’ proficiencies covered of conversational skills. Basically, it involves 0510 AP FRENCH reading and discussions of content issues. in Courses I and II. Extensive use of the target NCAA Approved language is required. Primarily, the student will be Consideration is given to the student’s ability Grade Level: 12 participating in conversational activities designed to use the foreign language to express his/ to help him/her pass the necessary speaking her thoughts on a variety of subjects. Other 1 Credit • Year • AP requirements of the Comprehensive Exam for activities include the learning of customs Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of Regents Credit. Reading and discussion of and cultural activities via current periodicals French D or permission of Chairperson. short articles and stories will help the student’s and trips to plays and films. SUNY Stony This is an intense conversational, structural, reading comprehension as well as composition. Brook College Credit is pending and might be and composition course with selected advanced Grammar instruction is an important component. available for a fee through the ACE program. readings. Students are expected to take the At the end of this course, the student will have AP Exam. SUNY Stony Brook College Credit is completed the foreign language requirement for available for a fee through the ACE program. a Regents diploma. The Comprehensive Exam for Regents Credit will be the final exam of the course.

Foreign Language Department - 18 0705 SPANISH I 0709 SPANISH V H 0910 ITALIAN III NCAA Approved NCAA Approved NCAA Approved Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 12 Grade Level: 10 1 Credit • Year 1 Credit • Year • Honors 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of This level of language is designed for those of Spanish IV. This course cannot be Italian II students who wish to acquire an elementary taken after Spanish D H. At this level, students will reinforce the basic knowledge of a foreign language and the vocabulary and skills through a re-emphasis of corresponding culture. It is a basic course with This course includes the further development of vocabulary and structural emphasis designed to listening, conversation, reading and writing skills. the checkpoints ‘A’ and ‘B’ proficiencies covered cover the checkpoint ‘A’ competency level of the Expository and critical prose writing will include in Italian I and II. Extensive use of the target second language requirement of the New York interpretation and analysis. Major emphasis is language is required. Primarily, the student will be State Regents Action Plan. given to conversational skills based on current participating in conversational activities designed issues. SUNY Stony Brook College Credit is to help him/her pass the necessary speaking 0706 SPANISH II available for a fee through the ACE program. requirements of the Comprehensive Exam for NCAA Approved Regents Credit. Reading and discussion of short articles and stories will help the student’s reading Grade Level: 10-12 0708 SPANISH C H 1 Credit • Year comprehension as well as composition. Grammar NCAA Approved Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of instruction is an important component. At the end Spanish I Grade Level: 10 of this course, the student will have completed Spanish II of the LOTE sequence is designed 1 Credit • Year • Honors the foreign language requirement for a New York to increase the student’s knowledge and Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of State Regents diploma. The Comprehensive understanding of the LOTE and the corresponding Spanish II and teacher recommendation. Exam for Regents Credit will be the final exam culture. This level offers an extensive review of Spanish C H prepares students to enter of the course. the checkpoint ‘A’ proficiencies as well as an the upper levels available in the different introduction of the checkpoint ‘B’ required by the New York State Regents Syllabus. languages (D H, AP/College Credit). The foreign 0911 ITALIAN IV language will be used almost exclusively for the NCAA Approved development of conversational skills. Literature, 0707 SPANISH III current periodicals, and cultural activities may Grade Level: 11 NCAA Approved be included to give students a complete view of 1 Credit • Year Grade Level: : 10-12 the language and people they are studying. The Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of 1 Credit • Year Comprehensive Exam for Regents Credit will be Italian III Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of part of the final exam of the course. At this level, Italian will be used almost exclusively Spanish II for the development of conversational skills. The course will include current topics for discussion At this level, students will reinforce the basic 0722 SPANISH D H vocabulary and skills through a re-emphasis of as well as for written reaction. The student will NCAA Approved the checkpoints ‘A’ and ‘B’ proficiencies covered develop skills in all four competencies: speaking, in Courses I and II. Extensive use of the target Grade Level: 11 listening, writing and reading. The student will language is required. Primarily, the student will be 1 Credit • Year • Honors learn to express his/her ideas on a variety of participating in conversational activities designed Prerequisite: Satisfactory Completion of subjects. Projects will be used to assess the to help him/her pass the necessary speaking Spanish C H or Teacher Recommendation development of skills. SUNY Stony Brook College requirements of the Comprehensive Exam for This course is designed for the student who has Credit is pending and might be available for a fee Regents Credit. Reading and discussion of successfully completed Spanish C H. It will prepare through the ACE program. short articles and stories will help the student’s students to enter AP Spanish. Students will work reading comprehension as well as composition. on all language proficiencies on a daily basis, with 0912 ITALIAN V H Grammar instruction is an important component. a major emphasis on advanced grammar and the NCAA Approved development of fluency. Current materials will be At the end of this course, the student will have Grade Level: 12 completed the foreign language requirement for used such as newspapers, magazines, films and 1 Credit • Year • Honors a Regents diploma. The Comprehensive Exam the Internet. Literature (short stories, novels and for Regents Credit will be the final exam of the poetry) and writing will add to the experience. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of course. Several cultural projects will be used for the Italian IV. This course cannot be taken assessment of skills. SUNY Stony Brook College after Italian D H. 0719 SPANISH IV Credit is available for a fee through the ACE program. This course includes the further development NCAA Approved of listening, conversation, reading and writing Grade Level: : 11 skills. Expository and critical prose writing 0710 AP SPANISH will include interpretation and analysis. Major 1 Credit • Year NCAA Approved Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of emphasis is given to conversational skills Grade Level: 12 based on current issues as well as readings Spanish III 1 Credit • Year • AP At this level, the foreign language will be used from current periodicals and informational/ Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of almost exclusively for the development of educational websites. The language lab will be conversational skills. Basically, it involves reading Spanish D or permission of Chairperson. utilized to develop speaking skills and students and discussions of content issues. Consideration Students must meet with the AP teacher to will be expected to actively participate in all class is given to the student’s ability to use the foreign pick up Summer assignment in June. This activities to develop fluency. The target language language to express his/her thoughts on a variety is an intense conversational, structural, and will be utilized exclusively. SUNY Stony Brook of subjects. Other activities include the learning composition course with selected advanced College Credit is available for a fee through the ACE of customs and cultural activities via current readings. Students are expected to take the AP program. periodicals and trips to plays and films. Emphasis Exam. SUNY Stony Brook College Credit is available on grammatical concepts and a focus on the 4 for a fee through the ACE program. skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. SUNY Stony Brook College Credit is available for a fee through the ACE program.

Foreign Language Department - 19 0905 ITALIAN C H 1004 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE I E.N.L. – ENGLISH AS A NEW NCAA Approved (ASL I) LANGUAGE Grade Level: 10 NCAA Approved 1901 ENL BEGINNER 1 Credit • Year • Honors Grade Level: 10-12 1902 ENL INTERMEDIATE Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of 1 Credit • Year 1903 ENL ADVANCED Italian II and teacher recommendation. Prerequisite: None 1904 ENL SUPPORT Italian C H prepares students to enter the upper This course is designed to introduce the student 1906 ENL BEGINNER CONTENT levels available in the different languages (D H, to American Sign Language (ASL) which is the Grade Level: 10-12 AP/College Credit). The foreign language will natural and visual-gestural language used by 0 Credits • Year be used almost exclusively for the development deaf and hard of hearing people in the United English as a New Language (ENL) is a course of conversational skills. Literature, current States of America and Canada. ASL is a designed to meet the unique and special needs periodicals and cultural activities may be language with grammar and syntax. Developing of students who do not speak English as their included to give students a complete view of the ASL skills can be very useful, especially when native language. To improve the students’ language and people they are studying. This the student learns to communicate, socialize fluency in English and facilitate the transition course is taught at and beyond Checkpoint ‘C’ and/or work with deaf and hard of hearing to American culture and academic life, the (NYS Designation of Instructional Level.) The people. This course incorporates beginning English as a New Language class focuses Comprehensive Exam for Regents Credit will be levels of communication techniques, basic signs upon the following skills: speaking, listening, part of the final exam of the course. and finger spelling, principles of grammar and comprehension, writing, reading, vocabulary sentence structure, non-manual behaviors and and culture. There are three levels of ENL: development of conversational skills. Strong 0906 ITALIAN D H beginning, intermediate and advanced. All emphasis is placed on the value of receptive and potential students are screened using a state NCAA Approved expressive language functions. Grade Level: 11 test and remain in the program until they satisfy state requirements for exiting. 1 Credit • Year • Honors Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of 1006 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II Italian C H or Teacher Recommendation (ASL II) This full-year course is designed for the student NCAA Approved who has successfully completed Italian C H. Grade Level: 10-12 Italian D H will prepare students for increased 1 Credit • Year fluency in Italian and will allow students to Prerequisite: ASL I enter senior year, AP/ college credit Italian. (Students wishing to enroll in ASL II second Students will work on all language proficiencies semester, after ASL I, must request both on a daily basis, with major emphasis on courses in your initial request). advanced grammar and the development of Course II of the American Sign Language fluency. Current materials will be used such sequence is designed to promote continued as current periodicals, films and the Internet. development of skill and knowledge of ASL and Literature and writing will add to the experience. its corresponding culture. ASL is the natural, Several cultural oral projects will be used for visual-gestural language of the deaf and hard of the assessment of skills. SUNY Stony Brook hearing people in the United States and Canada. College Credit is available for a fee through the In ASL II, students with proficiency in American ACE program. Sign Language I will pursue increased skill in the sign and sentence structure of ASL, as well 0915 AP ITALIAN as the development of fluid finger spelling and NCAA Approved the non-manual behaviors that constitute the Grade Level: 12 language. Everyday conversational skills in a wider variety of settings, as well as a deepened 1 Credit • Year • AP knowledge of the deaf culture, will be strongly Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of emphasized so that students will be able to Italian D H or permission of Chairperson. function comfortably in many different situations AP Italian is an intense conversational, structural in the deaf community. Lessons are designed and composition course with selected advanced to be presented in ASL and the use of voice is readings. Students will utilize the language avoided. exclusively in the class and will be expected to complete several written assignments weekly as well as a variety of oral assignments in the language lab. The course will prepare students for fluency in the language as well as for the AP Exam which is given in May. Students are expected to take the AP Italian Exam. SUNY Stony Brook College Credit is available for a fee through the ACE program.

Foreign Language Department - 20 0408 COLLEGE ALGEBRA Mathematics Department NCAA Approved Grade Level: 12 MATH COURSE OFFERINGS LEADING TO 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: Completion of 2 Math REGENTS AND ADVANCED REGENTS DIPLOMA Credits. - For Seniors Only - This course is for Seniors who have passed Integrated Algebra and will not be pursuing the 0411 0448 0467 Integrated Algebra Geometry Algebra II / Trig Advanced diploma. It is designed to prepare JUNIOR HIGH students for local college placement exams. Algebra A with spring 0445 0468 semester support Geometry’ Algebra II / Trig’ A heavy emphasis will be placed on algebraic 0492 with Lab with Lab skills without the use of a calculator.

0411 INTEGRATED ALGEBRA 0444 0453 (with spring semester support period 0492) Algebra / JUNIOR HIGH Intermediate Math NCAA Approved Geometry (No Advanced Algebra I CC (No Advanced Diploma) Grade Level: 10-12 Algebra I CC’ Diploma) 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: Algebra A This is a course in Algebra that prepares 0448 0467 students to take the Common Core Algebra Geometry Algebra II / Trig Regents. Students enrolled in this course 0416 0445 0468 must also register for the Spring Semester Pre-Calculus Geometry’ Algebra II / Trig’ Integrated Algebra Support period (0492). with Lab with Lab

0416 PRE-CALCULUS NCAA Approved 0480 0408 Grade Level: 12 Algebra 2 College Algebra 1 Credit • Year (No Advanced (No Advanced Diploma) Diploma) Prerequisite: Successful completion of Geometry & Algebra II / Trigonometry This course is designed to provide students with a clear understanding of the idea of functions. Emphasis is placed on using functions as models for real-world behavior as ADVANCED, HONORS, AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT well as topics necessary for the study of a first semester college level Calculus course. Topics MATH COURSE OFFERINGS include: linear functions, exponential functions, logarithmic functions, quadratic functions, data 0462 fitting, transformation of functions, polynomial 0449 0420 Algebra II / functions, rational functions, trigonometry, Pre-Calculus H AP Calculus AB Trig H limits and introduction to Calculus (derivatives). College credit may be awarded through Suffolk County Community College with tuition paid 0450 0450 through the Excelsior Program. Calculus A H Calculus A H

0420 AP CALCULUS AB 0435 NCAA Approved AP Computer Grade Level: 12 0463 Science Algebra II / Trig H 1 Credit • Year • AP Theory Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus H College Board AP Syllabus on limits, 0437 derivatives, and integrals. AP Statistics 0422-11 AP Calculus BC 0421 AP CALCULUS BC with Lab NCAA Approved 0421 Grade Level: 12 AP Calculus BC 1 Credit • Year • AP Prerequisite: Calculus A H Note: Students may not take this course in 0434 addition to 0422 Multivariable Calc College Board AP Syllabus emphasizing & Linear Algebra Integration and infinite series.

Mathematics Department - 21 0422-11 AP CALCULUS BC 0444 ALGEBRA / GEOMETRY 0462 ALGEBRA II / TRIGONOMETRY H (FOR 11TH GRADERS) – WITH LAB NCAA Approved NCAA Approved NCAA Approved Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 10 Grade Level: 11 1 Credit • Year 1 Credit • Year • Honors 1 Credit • Year • AP Prerequisite: Integrated Algebra, Prerequisite: Geometry H Prerequisite: Algebra II / Trigonometry Algebra I CC or Algebra I CC’ This is a course in Algebra 2 with a focus Honors Theory This is a full-year course which will cover on derivations and challenging extensions This version of AP Calculus BC is the College topics in Algebra and Geometry. of topics in the Common Core Standards. Board Syllabus covering derivatives, integrals Students take the Algebra 2 Common Core and infinite series. There is an alternating day 0445 GEOMETRY’ Regents exam in June. lab that accompanies this course. (WITH A LAB COMPONENT) Grade Level: 10-12 0463 ALGEBRA II / TRIGONOMETRY H 0434 MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS 1 Credit • Year THEORY AND LINEAR ALGEBRA Prerequisite: 75 or Lower in Algebra I CC NCAA Approved NCAA Approved or teacher recommendation Grade Level: 10 Grade Level: 12 This course meets 5 periods a week with 1 Credit • Year • Honors an additional lab period every other day 1 Credit • Year • Honors Prerequisite: Geometry H Theory to promote success on the Common Core This is a course in Algebra 2 with a focus Prerequisite: AP Calculus BC Geometry Regents. Topics are the same as on derivations and challenging extensions This will serve as a course in calculus in three those covered in Geometry. of topics in the Common Core Standards. dimensions (and beyond) with an emphasis on Students take the Algebra 2 Common Core vectors, matrices and linear transformations. Regents in June. College credit may be awarded through Stony 0448 GEOMETRY Brook University with tuition paid through the NCAA Approved ACE Program. Grade Level: 10-12 0467 ALGEBRA II / TRIGONOMETRY 1 Credit • Year NCAA Approved 0435 AP COMPUTER SCIENCE Prerequisite: Above 75 in Algebra I CC Grade Level: 11 This is a course in Geometry that prepares NCAA Approved 1 Credit • Year students to take the Common Core Geometry Prerequisite: Grade of 90 or higher in Grade Level: 10-12 Regents. 1 Credit • Year • AP Geometry Algebra II / Trigonometry H This is a full-year course which covers topics Prerequisite: 0449 PRE-CALCULUS H Theory or Algebra II / Trigonometry H or that are included in the Algebra 2 Common NCAA Approved Core Standards. Students take the Algebra 2 teacher recommendation. Grade Level: 11 Common Core Regents in June. PLEASE NOTE: IF SEATS ARE 1 Credit • Year • Honors LIMITED, PREFERENCE WILL BE Prerequisite: Algebra II / Trigonometry H GIVEN TO 11TH AND 12TH GRADERS. 0468 ALGEBRA II / TRIGONOMETRY’ This is a course in Pre-Calculus and an introduction (WITH A LAB COMPONENT) This version of AP Computer Science will follow to Calculus which will cover the natural logarithm, NCAA Approved the College Board Syllabus covering problem sequences and series, functions and foundations solving, design strategies and methodologies, of calculus that are necessary for success in Grade Level: 11 organization of data, approaches to processing AP Calculus AB. There will be a balance of 1 Credit • Year data, analysis of potential solutions, and ethical assessments that require a TI-83/84 Calculator; Prerequisite: Grade of 80-89 in Geometry and social implications of computing. The course and quizzes/tests that require pencil and paper This is a full-year course which meets 5 periods will utilize Java. reasoning only. a week with an additional lab period every other day and covers topics that are included 0437 AP STATISTICS Algebra 2 Common Core Standards. Students 0450 CALCULUS A H take the Algebra 2 Common Core Regents in NCAA Approved NCAA Approved June. Grade Level: 10-12 Grade Level: 11 1 Credit • Year • AP 1 Credit • Year • Honors 0480 ALGEBRA 2 Prerequisite: Geometry H or 9 H Theory Prerequisite: 95-100 in Algebra II / NCAA Approved or Pre-Calc H or Calculus A H Trigonometry H Grade Level: 11 PLEASE NOTE: IF SEATS ARE This is an introduction to Calculus with the 1 Credit • Year LIMITED, PREFERENCE WILL BE necessary background in Pre-Calculus for Prerequisite: 65-79 in Geometry GIVEN TO 11TH AND 12TH GRADERS. future success in AP Calculus BC. This is a full-year course covering functions, The purpose of the AP course in statistics is coordinate geometry, first and second degree to introduce students to the major concepts equations, modeling, rational expressions, and tools for collecting, analyzing and drawing 0453 INTERMEDIATE MATH exponential and logarithmic functions, and conclusions from data. Students will be exposed NCAA Approved elementary trigonometry. to four themes: exploring data, planning a study, Grade Level: 12 anticipating patterns utilizing probability theory, 1 Credit • Year and statistical inference. This will be a hands-on Prerequisite: Algebra / Geometry or course where students will participate in many Geometry. - For Seniors Only - projects and explorations. Students successfully This is a full-year course for students who completing this course may receive credit for a have satisfied the Algebra I Common Core one (1) semester Statistics course in college, requirements, but are not pursuing the provided they qualify on the AP Exam. There is Advanced Diploma. This course will cover a fee to take the AP Exam. topics in Algebra, Trigonometry, and modeling.

Mathematics Department - 22 1336 CHAMBER ENSEMBLE H Music Department Grade Level: 11-12 1 Credit • Year • Honors The music program welcomes all students who are interested in expanding their understanding and Prerequisite: NYSSMA Levels 5 or 6. skills. Our performance ensembles give students the opportunity to directly experience significant Student entrance by Audition ONLY. musical works in a variety of styles. Students are proud to present their work through performances Limited to 30 students. in our schools, community and at major festivals. Students may elect to study music theory and Music for this course is from the standard concert musical styles in our Comprehensive Foundations of Music courses, and AP Music Theory. Many literature of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic WMHS graduates are performing successfully with professional and university ensembles. Extending and 20th Century time period. Admission to your musical education through high school creates a life-long opportunity to participate in music Chamber Ensemble is by audition ONLY. Students who have achieved NYSSMA Levels ensembles and to more fully understand and appreciate music of all styles. Please speak with a music 5 or 6 will be considered. Concepts relating to teacher or contact the music office if you have questions about our music program. musical content, structure and style, sonata NOTE: STUDENTS WHO PLAN A 5-UNIT MAJOR SEQUENCE IN MUSIC MUST COMPLETE TWO allegro form and style differentiation in each historical period will be studied. Requirements: (2) OF THE FOLLOWING: COMPREHENSIVE FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC I, COMPREHENSIVE One evening rehearsal per week; weekly group FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC II, OR AP MUSIC THEORY AS WELL AS THREE (3) YEARS IN A lesson; five daily rehearsals; and traditional WMHS MUSIC ENSEMBLE (BAND, CHORUS, ORCHESTRA OR JAZZ). evening school performances. Students will perform with the Ward Melville Symphony 1307 WOMEN’S CHORAL ENSEMBLE 1309 CAMERATA H Orchestra. Additional special performances Grade Level: 10 Women Grade Level: 11-12 may be added during the school year. Students 1 Credit • Year 1 Credit • Year • Honors receive reasonable prior notification of at least Prerequisite: Prior Choral experience or Prerequisite: Admission by audition and one month for all performances. Evaluation is by audition. prior high school choral experience. based upon performance tests, preparation of This choral ensemble is intended for Admission by audition only for grades assigned material, the quality of participation at lessons and at the above-mentioned required sophomore women. Emphasis will be on 11-12. developing vocal techniques, choral ensemble Mature control of the voice, sight-singing concert events and required placement in techniques, and improvement of individual ability and a high-level of auditory perception. 1310. musicianship. Repertoire chosen will be from Repertoire is difficult and covers as much music of the 16th through the 21th Century as possible in the spectrum of classical and 1311 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA H and will encompass many different styles. jazz styles. Class is restricted to 40 students. Grade Level: 10-12 Evaluation will be based upon the preparation Requirements: Daily attendance plus one of assigned material and the extent and quality 2-hour rehearsal every Thursday evening. 1 Credit • Year • Honors of participation at rehearsals, sectionals, Evaluation: Preparation of assigned material Prerequisite: NYSSMA Level 6. Entrance and performances. Evaluation will include and extent and quality of participation at by Audition and teacher recommendation performances scheduled during and outside rehearsals, sectionals, and performances. ONLY. Limited to 30 students. of school hours. Students selecting this Evaluation will include performances scheduled Music for this course is from the standard string course should have prior choral experience during and outside of school hours, travel, and and full orchestra concert literature. Wind and and be able to demonstrate an understanding a full commitment to the ensemble. percussion players are chosen from the Wind of tempo, rhythm, pitch, and musical notation. Ensemble. Admission to Chamber Orchestra is by audition only. Concepts relating to musical content, structure and style, sonata allegro form, 1308 CONCERT CHOIR 1310 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and style differentiation in each historical period Grade Level: 10-12 Men • 11-12 Women Grade Level: 11-12 will be studied. Requirements: One evening 1 Credit • Year 1 Credit • Year rehearsal per week; weekly group lesson; five Prerequisite: Prior Choral experience or Prerequisite: Ability to perform on a string daily rehearsals; and traditional evening school by audition. instrument. Limited to 30 students. performances. Additional special performances The Concert Choir is intended for grades 10- Students will experience full orchestra and may be added during the school year. Students 12 men and grade 11-12 women. Emphasis string orchestra literature from the Baroque receive reasonable prior notification of at least will be upon continuing the development of through the Concert music of today. Wind one month for all performances. Evaluation is vocal and choral techniques, the improvement and percussion players are selected from the based upon performance tests, preparation of of individual musicianship, particularly sight- Symphonic Band. Members are eligible to assigned material, the quality of participation at singing skills, and the performance of more audition for County and Statewide organizations. lessons and at the above-mentioned required difficult repertoire. Evaluation will be based Requirements: Five (5) weekly rehearsals, concert events. upon the preparation of assigned material weekly group lesson, traditional evening school and the extent and quality of participation at performances. Additional special performances rehearsals, sectionals, and performances. may be added during the school year. Students 1312 SYMPHONIC BAND Evaluation will include performances scheduled will receive prior notification of at least one Grade Level: 11-12 during and outside of school hours. Students month for all performances. Evaluation is 1 Credit • Year selecting this course should have prior choral based upon performance tests, preparation of Prerequisite: Previous High School Band experience and be able to demonstrate an assigned material, the quality of participation at experience or recommendation of the understanding of tempo, rhythm, pitch, musical lessons and at the above-mentioned required Junior High School Band Director. notation, and a desire to further their musical concert events. Students selecting this course The Symphonic Band will study music drawn skills and singing ability. should have prior orchestra experience and from a variety of styles. Members are eligible be able to demonstrate an understanding of for other ensembles and may audition for tempo, rhythm, pitch, and musical notation. County and Statewide organizations. Evaluation will be based upon the preparation of assigned material and the extent and quality of participation at rehearsals, sectionals and performances. Evaluation will

Music Department - 23 include performances scheduled outside of 1317 COMPREHENSIVE 1335 CHAMBER ENSEMBLE 10 H school hours. Students selecting this course FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC I Grade Level: 10 should have prior band experience and be Grade Level: 10-12 1 Credit • Year • Honors able to demonstrate an understanding of 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: Previous membership in tempo, rhythm, pitch, and musical notation. Prerequisite: None good standing in the Ward Melville Students in Symphonic Band are encouraged The course concerns itself with the rudiments Chamber Ensemble or by audition and to participate in the voluntary after school of music, beginning harmony and counterpoint. required placement in 1339. Marching Band Program. A wide range of materials reflecting all eras of history are studied. In addition, students will work with music notation and production 1339 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA 1313 WIND ENSEMBLE H software in the music technology classroom. Grade Level: 10 Grade Level: 10-12 Approach: Rhythmic and melodic dictation, 1 Credit • Year 1 Credit • Year • Honors sight-singing, keyboard exercises, composition, Prerequisite: Ability to perform on a Prerequisite: Previous membership in arranging, score reading and conducting. A string instrument. good standing in the Wind Ensemble or variety of musical forms and styles will be Students will experience full orchestra and by audition. explored. string orchestra literature from the Baroque A broad range of advanced materials for Wind NOTE: Students who plan a 5-unit major through the concert music of today. Wind Ensemble and Concert Band will be studied. sequence in Music must complete two (2) of and percussion players are selected from Members are strongly encouraged to participate the following: Comprehensive Foundations of the tenth grade band. Members are eligible in voluntary Marching Band. They are eligible for Music I, Comprehensive Foundations of Music to audition for County and Statewide other ensembles and may audition for County and II or AP Music Theory. organizations. Requirements: Five (5) weekly Statewide organizations. Evaluation will be based rehearsals; weekly group lesson; traditional event school performances. Additional special upon the preparation of assigned material and the 1318 COMPREHENSIVE extent and quality of participation at rehearsals, performances may be added during the FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC II school year. Students receive reasonable sectionals and performances. Evaluation will Grade Level: 11-12 include performances scheduled outside of school prior notification of at least one month for 1 Credit • Year all performances. Evaluation is based upon hours. Requirement: One Evening rehearsal per Prerequisite: Completion of week - Tuesdays. performance tests, preparation of assigned Comprehensive Foundations of Music material, the quality of participation at lessons I or by special permission of the music and at the above-mentioned required concert 1315 JAZZ LAB II faculty based upon a suitable evaluation. events. Students selecting this course should Grade Level: 10-12 The course continues to explore the concepts have prior orchestra experience and be able 1 Credit • Year developed in Comprehensive Foundations of to demonstrate an understanding of tempo, Prerequisite: Previous membership in Music I. A wide range of materials reflecting rhythm, pitch, and musical notation. good standing in Jazz Lab I or by audition. all eras of history is studied including:

Requirements: Membership in one other rhythmic and melodic dictation, sight-singing, major performing group. (Exception: Elec. keyboard exercises, composition, arranging, 1337 CONCERT BAND Bass, Piano and Guitar). Enrollment limited for score reading and conducting. In addition, Grade Level: 10 bass, guitar, piano and drums. Emphasis on students will work with music notation and 1 Credit • Year ensemble playing and improvisation. Evaluation production software in the music technology Prerequisite: Ability to perform on a will be based upon the preparation of assigned classroom. A variety of musical forms and band instrument. material and the quality of participation at styles will be explored. Students will prepare Concert Band students will study music drawn rehearsals and performances. Evaluation will a comprehensive presentation on a major from a variety of styles. Members are eligible for include performances scheduled outside of musical work that encompasses all theoretical other ensembles and may audition for County and school hours. and historical topics covered throughout the Statewide organizations. Evaluation will be based year. NOTE: Students who plan a 5-unit major upon the preparation of assigned material and the sequence in Music must complete two (2) of the extent and quality of participation at rehearsals, 1316 JAZZ LAB III H following: Comprehensive Foundations of Music sectionals and performances. Evaluation will Grade Level: 10-12 I, Comprehensive Foundations of Music II or AP include performances scheduled during and 1 Credit • Year • Honors Music Theory. outside of school hours. Students selecting this Prerequisite: Previous membership course should have prior band experience and be in good standing in Jazz Lab III or by 1334 AP MUSIC THEORY able to demonstrate an understanding of tempo, audition. Grade Level: 11-12 rhythm, pitch, and musical notation. Students in Requirements: One evening rehearsal per 1 Credit • Year • AP Concert Band are encouraged to participate in week, plus daily classes. Must be a member Prerequisite: Permission of the the voluntary Marching Band Program. of one other performance group. (Exception: instructor is required. Elec. Bass, Piano and Guitar). Students will Areas of study include aural skills, harmony, study various jazz, Latin and Rock styles counterpoint, analysis and composition with 1367 EXPLORATORY MUSIC Grade Level: 10-12 through performance and analysis. Ensemble a strong emphasis on creative application of 1 Credit • Year techniques, improvisation and ear training will the concepts learned. A major objective of this Prerequisite: Administrative approval. be stressed. Evaluation will be based upon the course is the development of critical listening Students will experience and explore various preparation of assigned material and the extent and thinking skills which will enhance each musical concepts and genres through hands- and quality of participation at rehearsals, student’s musical understanding. Independent on instruments and singing. sectionals and performances. Evaluation will research and creative projects are required. include performances scheduled outside of This is a rigorous course which is recommended school hours. for serious music students who have acquired at least basic performance skills in voice or on an instrument. Students may earn college credit or placement based on the College Board AP Music Theory Exam which is offered in May. There is a fee to take this exam.

Music Department - 24 1622 HEALTH ISSUES & TRENDS Health Department (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) The health curriculum in the Three Village Central School District is the result of a 30+ year effort on Grade Level: 11-12 the part of the department’s instructional staff. This dynamically changing program is under constant .5 Credit • Semester revision in order to keep abreast of the current relevant concerns of the health sciences and to meet Prerequisite: 1607 or 1611 the needs of our student population here at Ward Melville High School. This course will build on the concepts taught in the All students attending Ward Melville High School are required to take one of the mandatory health 10th grade health program. Health Issues and courses. 1607: Health Education: Human Sexuality/Family Living OR 1611: Critical Health Issues H. Trends is the answer to the question most health students have... “Why isn’t health a full-year course?” 1607 HEALTH EDUCATION: special emphasis will be placed on teen and Health Issues and Trends is an important class to HUMAN SEXUALITY / FAMILY LIVING local issues. The class will focus on the following help students make positive health choices as they topics: Quality Research, GMO’s, Supplements, transition from Ward Melville. The course will provde Grade Level: 10 Nutrition, Bioethics, Lifestyle Diseases, Chemical .5 Credit • Semester Substances, Family Life, and Sexually Transmitted new information and activities regarding relationships, Prerequisite: None Infections. Students will be evaluated on class personal choices, sexuality, respect, how to access This course is developed and presented through work, research, debates, essays, computer community resources in a new area, violence, LGBT, the utilization of various teaching methods and applications, written and oral exams and portfolio transgender, Insurance, chemical substance issues, learning activities. This program focuses on many work. campus resources, birth choices, birth control, and contemporary health issues. Areas of study include personal sexual choices. Personal views, acceptance not only the NYS mandated topics of chemical 1621 NUTRITION TODAY of differences, and respecting others is a large part of substances, but will also include such important being on your own and will be explored. This course is topics as relationships, parenting, stress, lifestyle (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) assessed based on portfolio and projects. diseases, AIDS, safety, nutrition, and sexually Grade Level: 10-12 transmitted diseases. A twenty-session strand .5 Credit • Semester on Human Sexuality/Family Living is included in Prerequisite: 1607 or 1611 HEALTH EDUCATION - this course. The Board of Education philosophy This nutrition course will provide basic scientific stressing abstinence is an important component of principles of nutrition needed in order to maintain BASIC / GENERAL our District’s Human Sexuality/Family Living strand. and enhance health, prevent disease, enhance Students will be evaluated on the basis of course work, written assignments, projects, portfolios and performance, and distinguish between what is fact 2626 BASIC HEALTH EDUCATION written exams. or fiction in products, news, and other media. Stu- Grade Level: 10-12 dents will learn how to utilize up-to-date and current .5 Credit • Alternate Days • Year 1611 CRITICAL HEALTH ISSUES H nutritional information while analyzing their personal Prerequisite: By Recommendation and Grade Level: 10 intake. In addition, students will learn nutritional Documentation. .5 Credit • Semester • Honors claims, disorder eating, obesity and weight management, food-borne diseases, the food industry, res- Prerequisite: None 2537 GENERAL HEALTH EDUCATION taurant and cafeteria wars, food allergies, clean eat- This is an Honors Class. This class is designed for Grade Level: 10-12 ing, farm-to-table, chemistry of food, and the future students who desire to have more of a challenge .5 Credit • Alternate Days • Year of our food supply. College Credit might be possible. in the area of health education. This course meets By Recommendation and the requirements for the state mandate. Students This course does not satisfy the Health requirement Prerequisite: will learn about current and critical health issues, for graduation. Documentation. Physical Education Department PHYSICAL EDUCATION - ADAPTIVE / BASIC / GENERAL Four (4) years of high school physical education instruction are required by New York State for graduation. Students receive a ½ credit per year. If a student fails a physical education course, he/ 1712 BASIC PHYSICAL EDUCATION she must “double up” in a subsequent semester or year. One quarter of swimming instruction is Grade Level: 10-12 required for sophomores. If a student is unable to participate in Physical Education due to medical .5 Credit • Alternate Days • Year reasons, he/she must bring in a doctor’s note with a diagnosis to: (1) the assigned P.E. teacher, (2) Prerequisite: By Recommendation and the Nurse, and (3) the Chairperson of the Physical Education Department. The student will be given Documentation. a written work program to follow and complete for the duration specified on the doctor’s note. Failure to follow these regulations will result in possible failure of the class. 1713 GENERAL SOPHOMORES JUNIORS / SENIORS PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1724 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 10 1720 PHYSICAL EDUCATION Grade Level: 10-12 – FEMALES Grade Level: 11-12 .5 Credit • Alternate Days • Year .5 Credit • Alternate Days • Year Prerequisite: By Recommendation and Documentation. 1725 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 10 Prerequisite: None – MALES This course is designed to follow the Grade Level: 10 progression of the high school physical 1726 ADAPT. .5 Credit • Alternate Days • Year education curriculum through the New PHYSICAL EDUCATION Prerequisite: None York State Standards as well as the Three Grade Level: 10-12 This course is designed to follow the Village Central School District. During this .5 Credit • Alternate Days • Year progression of the high school physical course, students will develop the skills By Recommendation and education curriculum through the New and knowledge necessary to participate Prerequisite: York State Standards as well as the Three successfully in lifetime, team, and individual Documentation. Village Central School District. During this sport activities. Semester sessions are course, students will develop the skills broken down into 5-week units where and knowledge necessary to participate students will engage in lessons that are successfully in lifetime, team, and individual designed to improve overall health, skills, sport activities. Students will be exposed to and physical fitness levels in a variety of various units within each semester. physical education activities.

Health/Physical Education Department - 25 0309 AP BIOLOGY Science Department NCAA Approved Grade Level: 12 The Science Department aims to capture the enthusiasm of our students and direct their interests, cu- 1 Credit • Year • AP riosity and past experiences toward the understanding of biological and physical phenomena. Instruc- Prerequisite: Students must have an tion will assist students in learning and applying scientific concepts, principles and theories pertaining average of 90 in Science and positive to the physical setting and the living environment, and in recognizing the historical development of teacher recommendations. Students ideas in science. The diverse course offerings in the department will provide science literacy, college must have completed the entire Science readiness, and intellectual challenge. sequence of Living Environment, Chemistry, and Physics before taking SCIENCE SEQUENCE this AP Science course. Courses may be

Note: The following information applies to Living Environment, Biology Honors, Chemistry, Chemistry taken concurrently by seniors and only if Honors, Physics and Physics Honors and AP Physics 1-2. approved by the Chairperson. These courses conclude with a Regents Exam. Successful completion of the Laboratory Program is a AP Biology is an introductory college- prerequisite for admission to the Regents Exam. Students must complete 1200 minutes of lab experience, level course. Students cultivate their write a satisfactory report for each lab exercise and demonstrate lab proficiency. understanding of biology throuh inquiry-based investigations as they explore the following topics: evolution, cellular processes, energy GRADE ACCELERATED / HONORS REGENTS and communication, genetics, information transfer, and ecological interations. Like AP Chemistry, the AP Biology course is Science 8 Science 7 7 (Life Science) (Physical Science) designed to be taken after a first-year course in high school biology. It aims to provide students knowledge of the facts, principles EarthSmart Science 8 8 Earth Science and processes of biology; understanding of (ES) (Life Science) the means by which biological information is collected, how it is interpreted and how Living EarthSmart one formulates hypotheses from available 9 Earth Science Environment (ES) data and makes further predictions; and understanding that science is a human endeavor with social consequences. College Living 10 Chemistry H or Chemistry R or Environment level textbooks, laboratory experiments and writing assignments are an integral part of the course. Students will also be responsible 11 AP Physics 1 or Physics H or Physics R Chemistry H or Chemistry R for independent study outside of classroom discussions. This course meets for one period daily and two periods every other day and + Electives + Electives may include a summer assignment. Students are encouraged to take the AP Exam for college credit or advanced placement. There 12 AP Biology or AP Chemistry or A.P.E.S. Physics H or Physics R is a fee for this exam. or or

AP Physics C or AP Physics 2 or Forensics H + Electives +/- AP Course 0313 CHEMISTRY (PHYSICAL SETTING / CHEMISTRY) NCAA Approved 0306 LIVING ENVIRONMENT 0308 LIVING ENVIRONMENT Grade Level: 10-11 EXTENDED NCAA Approved 1 Credit • Year (Please Note: This course does not run Grade Level: 10-11 Prerequisite: Regents Living Environment every year.) 1 Credit • Year Chemistry Regents is a challenging course Grade Level: 10 Prerequisite: None that involves a substantial use of math 1 Credit • Year Instruction will focus on understanding important including ratios and algebraic problem solving. Prerequisite: Recommendation by relationships, processes, mechanisms and Instruction will focus on the understanding of guidance counselor and science teacher application of concepts in biology. The core chemistry concepts, relationships, processes, mechanisms, models, and applications. The for this extended time section of Regents curriculum analyzes major concepts involving the unity and diversity in life, transmission of core topics are: atomic concepts, periodic Living Environment. Students may not traits from generation to generation, evolutionary tables, moles/stoichiometry, chemical bonding, self-select into this course. theory, reproduction and development, the physical behavior of matter, kinetics/equilibrium, Living Environment Extended is intended for dynamic equilibrium that sustains life, ecology organic chemistry, oxidation-reduction, nuclear students needing more time and attention in and the impact human decisions and activities chemistry and acids, bases and salts. The a smaller classroom setting to complete the have on the physical and living environment. successful completion of the laboratory program course. Students who struggled with Earth This course meets for one period daily and two is a prerequisite for admission to the Regents Science, failed the course and Regents exam periods every other day and culminates with the exam. Students must complete 1200 minutes may be well suited for the Bio-Extended. The State Regents exam. The successful completion of lab experience, write a satisfactory report additional class time is necessary in order for of the laboratory program is a prerequisite for for each lab exercise and demonstrate lab our most struggling students to be successful admission to the Regents exam. Students must proficiency. This course meets for one period in the course and on the Living Environment complete 1200 minutes of lab experience, write daily and two periods every other day. Regents exam. This course meets for a double a satisfactory report for each lab exercise and period everyday. demonstrate lab proficiency.

Science Department - 26 0314 CHEMISTRY H 0317 PHYSICS (PHYSICAL as considerable laboratory work. Calculus is NCAA Approved SETTING / PHYSICS) used. Math courses Calculus, AP Calculus AB or AP Calculus BC should be taken previously or Grade Level: 10 NCAA Approved 1 Credit • Year • Honors concurrently. Students will be expected to take Grade Level: 11-12 the AP Exam - Physics “C” for possible college Prerequisite: Regents Living Environment. 1 Credit • Year credit or advanced placement. This course Students must have at least a 90 average Prerequisite: Regents Living Environment meets for one period daily and two periods in science and math. Positive teacher and Chemistry. Students may not take every other day and may include a summer recommendations are necessary. assignment. There is a fee for the AP Exam in Chemistry Honors is an honors curriculum Chemistry concurrently with Physics. May. that goes above and beyond the Regents In this cycle-culminating course, the practical curriculum. This course is designed for students aspects of physical laws will be stressed with an exceptional ability in science. It is in addition to theory. The basic method of 0321 CURRENT ISSUES IN SCIENCE extremely rigorous and utilizes a college level presentation will be lecture discussion with (Please Note: This course does not run textbook. This course is recommended for those closely correlated lab activities. The main topics covered will be forces and motion, waves and every year.) who are capable of advanced independent work NCAA Approved and oriented toward a possible scientific career. light, electricity and magnetism and atomic and It focuses primarily on group discussions and nuclear physics. The successful completion Grade Level: 10-12 laboratory analysis of the following topics: atomic of the laboratory program is a prerequisite for .5 Credit • Semester orbital theory, quantum mechanics, periodicity, admission to the Regents exam. Students must Prerequisite: None. bonding theories and molecular shapes, organic complete 1200 minutes of lab experience, write This half-year survey course allows students compounds, reaction rates and equilibria, and a satisfactory report for each lab exercise and to explore current topics in Science and apply the driving forces behind different chemical demonstrate lab proficiency. This course meets their knowledge to everyday application and reactions. Laboratory data from student work for one period daily and two periods every other understanding of discoveries. This course is used wherever possible to develop concepts day. satisfies the Life Science requirement. and support theories. Considerable emphasis will be placed on the use of mathematics in 0318 PHYSICS H the development of these topics. This course 0325 EXPLORATIONS IN also concludes with the Regents exam. The NCAA Approved MICROBIOLOGY successful completion of the laboratory program Grade Level: 11-12 (Please Note: This course does not run is a prerequisite for admission to the Regents 1 Credit • Year • Honors every year.) exam. Students must complete 1200 minutes Prerequisite: Regents Living Environment, of lab experience, write a satisfactory report NCAA Approved Regents Chemistry, and students must for each lab exercise and demonstrate lab Grade Level: 11-12 have a 90 average in science and math. proficiency. This course meets for one period .5 Credit • Semester daily and two periods every other day. Positive teacher recommendations Prerequisite: Successful completion of are necessary. Students can not take Regents Earth Science. 0315 AP CHEMISTRY chemistry and physics concurrently. In this course, students will apply knowledge from NCAA Approved This course is designed for students who want biology and chemistry in contextual applications a challenge beyond regents level physics. It Grade Level: 12 related to everyday life as they learn lab is extremely rigorous and is recommended for techniques of sterile procedures, recombinant 1 Credit • Year • AP those who are capable of advanced work. The DNA technology, and the maintenance of Prerequisite: Students must have a basic course material will be similar to Regents bacteria, bacterial viruses, yeast and slime minimum 90 average in science and Physics but in much greater depth and at a mold in cultures. They will perform controlled, math, positive teacher recommendations greater level of sophistication. Evaluation will open-ended experiments designed to illustrate and permission of Department include reports, lab work, research projects, principles of genetics, development, evolution Chairperson. Students must have and tests. The successful completion of the lab and human health issues. Literature searches, program is a prerequisite for admission to the completed the entire Science sequence lectures and class discussions will be used to Regents exam. Students must complete 1200 develop the concepts. Guest lectures will be of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics before minutes of lab experience, write a satisfactory taking this AP science course. The AP given by research microbiologists. This course report for each lab exercise and demonstrate satisfies the Life Science requirement. Chemistry course is designed to be taken lab proficiency. This course meets for one period ONLY after the successful completion of a daily and two periods every other day. first course in high school chemistry. The 0328 L.I. ECOLOGY advanced work in chemistry should not 0319 AP PHYSICS C (Please Note: This course does not run displace any other part of the student’s every year (Please Note: This course does not run .) science curriculum. It is highly desirable NCAA Approved every year.) that a student have a course in secondary Grade Level: 10-12 school physics and a four-year college NCAA Approved .5 Credit • Semester preparatory program in math. Courses Grade Level: 12 may be taken concurrently by seniors only 1 Credit • Year • AP Prerequisite: Successful completion of if approved by the Chairperson. Prerequisite: Students must have a Earth Science Regents Exam. Field trips are This course will include topics usually found in minimum 90 average in science and math, mandatory. Class size is limited. a rigorous first year college chemistry course: positive teacher recommendations and If you enjoy hiking and learning in an outdoor thermodynamics, qualitative and quantitative permission of Department Chairperson. classroom, you might consider taking Long analyses, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, Students must have completed the entire Island Ecology. The course material is built around 4 mandatory field trips that will take you bonding, solution and equilibrium chemistry. Science sequence of Living Environment, Students will be encouraged to take the AP from the salt marshes of the North Shore to Exam for possible college credit or advanced Chemistry, and AP Physics 1-2 before the Sunken Forest of Fire Island, and through placement. This course meets for one period taking this AP Science course. Courses the bog and dwarf forest of the Pine Barrens. daily and two periods every other day and may may be taken concurrently only if approved In addition to checking out one of the ten “Last include a summer assignment. There is a fee by the Chairperson. Great Places” in the U.S. here on Long Island, for the AP Exam in May. This challenging calculus-based course will you will also learn about serious environmental include topics on mechanics, electricity and problems concerning preservation of ground magnetism found in a rigorous college physics water and beach erosion. This course satisfies course. Additional selected topics will be offered. the Life Science requirement. The course requires concentrated efforts in reading, analysis and problem solving as well Science Department - 27 0329 ASTRONOMY AP Physics 1 is an algebra-based physics course 0352 CONSUMER CHEMISTRY NCAA Approved analogous to a first-semester college physics Grade Level: 11-12 course in mechanics. It will cover Newtonian Grade Level: 11-12 mechanics, including rotational dynamics and .5 Credit • Spring Semester .5 Credit • Semester angular momentum, work, energy, power, Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: None mechanical waves and sound. Electric circuits This general chemistry course is designed This survey of the universe is for students who will be introduced and topics in modern physics around activities that emphasize the role of have good reading comprehension and can will be covered so that students will be prepared chemistry in the lives of consumers. The goal understand elementary Algebra and Geometry. to take the AP Physics 1 exam in May and is to establish an understanding of chemical The subject matter will cover some descriptive or the Physics Regents exam in June. Students principles within the contextual framework of observational astronomy, the basic laws governing will take part in inquiry-based laboratory social, political, economic and ethical issues. astronomical bodies and end with a discussion of experiments and explore physics concepts Students will investigate links to concerns such the exciting frontiers of astronomy such as black hands-on, strengthening scientific problem as conserving chemical resources, nuclear holes and pulsars. solving skills. The course has a strong emphasis chemistry, food chemistry, and environmental on math. The completion of AP Physics 1 also chemical waste concerns. 0330 FORENSIC SCIENCE fulfills the requirements to sit for the Regents exam. AP students will take the Physics Regents NCAA Approved 0353 APPLIED SCIENCE exam in June and are encouraged to take the AP Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 11-12 Exam as well. This course meets for one period .5 Credit • Semester daily and two periods every other day and may .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: Successful completion of include a summer assignment. There is a fee to Prerequisite: None take the AP Exam. Applied Science is designed to teach students Living Environment. general principles of science, the relationship Forensic Science is the application of the natural 0349 AP PHYSICS 2 of science to their lives, and the application of sciences to an investigation of physical evidence scientific skills to real world problems. Science found at crime scenes. It will attempt to capture NCAA Approved related issues of a local, national or global scale the student interest by applying science skills to Grade Level: 12 will be selected from topics such as environmental a contemporary popular professional field in law 1 Credit • Year • AP concerns, animal behavior, science and crime, enforcement. Students will analyze evidence in disasters, marine science, food and nutrition, the laboratory as pertinent topics are discussed Prerequisite: Students must have a 90 average in science and math. Positive teacher science waste concerns, and technology. This in lectures. Materials for laboratory testing will be course satisfies the Life Science requirement. presented as unknowns whenever possible. recommendations are required as well as completion of Living Environment Regents 0340 AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 0355 HUMAN ANATOMY and Chemistry Regents. Students must have NCAA Approved NCAA Approved completed Physics H or AP Physics 1. Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 11-12 AP Physics 2 is a second year, algebra-based .5 Credit • Semester 1 Credit • Year • AP physics course analogous to a second-semester Prerequisite: Living Environment Prerequisite: Students must have a college physics course in electromagnetism. It will cover thermodynamics, fluid statics and This course is an introduction to the minimum of a 90 average in science, dynamics, electrostatics, DC circuits and RC musculoskeletal system of the human body, and positive teacher recommendations and circuits, magnetism and electromagnetic builds on knowledge from biology. Students will permission of the Department Chairperson. induction, geometric and physical optics, and learn details of thee bones, ligaments, muscles Students must have completed the entire quantum physics, atomic and nuclear physics. and other soft tissues of the human body. Emphasis will also be on learning common injuries science sequence of Living Environment, Students will take part in inquiry-based laboratory experiments and explore physics concepts hand- to the musculoskeletal systems, orthopedic Chemistry, and Physics before taking on, strengthening scientific problem solving skills. evaluation protocols and treatment/rehabilitation this AP Science course. Courses may be This course has a strong emphasis on math and methods, through hands-on participation. This taken concurrently only if approved by the students must have completed either Physics H class also introduces students to biomechanics or AP Physics 1 before enrolling in this course. and will provide an opportunity to acquire the Chairperson. knowledge and understanding necessary to apply This course will provide students with the scientific AP students will take the AP Physics 2 exam in scientific vocabulary and principles to critically principles, concepts and methodologies required May. This course meets for one period daily and analyze human movement/performance. Juniors to understand relationships in the natural world two periods every other day and may include a and Seniors Only can also take this course for in order to identify and analyze environmental summer assignment. There is a fee to take the three (3) undergraduate college credits through problems both natural and human-made, evaluate AP Exam. Adelphi’s University in the High School Program the relative risks associated with these problems, when taken for Honors level credit. and examine alternative solutions for resolving 0351 ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY and/or preventing them. Readings from an NCAA Approved advanced level textbook and extensive lab work 0357 HUMAN ANATOMY H are an integral part of the course. Students are Grade Level: 11-12 NCAA Approved encouraged to take the AP Exam. This course .5 Credit • Semester Grade Level: 11-12 meets for one period daily and two periods every Prerequisite: None .5 Credit • Semester • Honors other day and may include a summer assignment. Chemistry has a great impact on the environment. There is a fee to take the AP Exam in May. This course is designed to investigate the role Prerequisite: Living Environment of chemistry in the environment. Topics include This course is an introduction to the treatment of oil spills, toxic waste cleanup, waste musculoskeletal system of the human body, and 0348 AP PHYSICS 1 builds on knowledge from biology. Students will NCAA Approved water treatment and soil chemistry. Chemical concepts will be introduced and students will learn details of the bones, ligaments, muscles and Grade Level: 11-12 investigate links to environmental concerns other soft tissues of the human body. Emphasis 1 Credit • Year • AP such as conserving chemical resources, nuclear will also be on learning common injuries to the musculoskeletal systems, orthopedic evaluation Prerequisite: Students must have a 90 chemistry, food chemistry and nutrition, and environmental chemical waste concerns. protocols and treatment/rehabilitation methods, average in science and math. Positive teacher through hands-on participation. This class also recommendations are required as well as introduces students to biomechanics and will completion of Living Environment Regents provide an opportunity to acquire the knowledge and Chemistry Regents. Students cannot take and understanding necessary to apply scientific vocabulary and principles to critically analyze Chemistry and Physics concurrently. human movement/performance. Students are encouraged to enroll in this challenging class

Science Department - 28 for Honors credit. Honors students must also and fees, please visit their web page at http:// InSTAR® H (0323, 0341, 0346) complete two (2) additional case studies (1 per admissions.adelphi.edu/high-school-students/ This three-year program is designed for quarter) demonstrating their knowledge and high-school-program/and click on the frequently motivated, academically talented secondary understanding of an anatomical structure, injury, asked questions link. students who wish to become acquainted treatment and rehabilitation plan of their choice. with some of the basic skills required for ad- Juniors and Seniors Only can also take this 0362 KNOW YOUR FOOD course for three (3) undergraduate college credits vanced careers in science research. Grade Level: 10-12 through Adelphi’s University in the High School ® The sophomore year (InSTAR I, course Program when taken for Honors level credit .5 Credit • Semester #0323) focuses on the use of the scientific (PED 167 - First Aid and Injury Control). For more Prerequisite: None information regarding this option, credit transfers Know Your Food is a basic food science course method, hypothesis design and testing, de- and fees, please visit their web page at http:// that will introduce students to important issues velopment of scientific writing skills, and the admissions.adelphi.edu/high-school-students/ surrounding the food supply of the nation and proper use of statistical methods for data high-school-program/ and click on the frequently the world. The course will cover how scientists analysis. Presentation of individual and asked questions links. use biology, chemistry, sociology and psychology group research projects in a variety of for- to enhance our understanding of the importance mats, including poster, oral, and PowerPoint 0356 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY of food sources on the human condition. Topics style, helps hone students’ skills and get NCAA Approved such as food production, processing, composition, them “thinking on their feet.” choices, safety, and marketing will be discussed. 11-12 ® Grade Level: This course will provide background in current The junior year (InSTAR II, course .5 Credit • Semester food concerns and future food solutions in a #0341) is largely devoted to developing a Prerequisite: Human Anatomy and changing global community. It will be instructive to long-term research project, usually through Living Environment. everyone who needs to eat, and anyone planning a mentor, which leads to submission to the careers as dieticians, nutritionists, food scientists, This course investigates how the systems of the Intel Science Talent Search in the fall of the human body change and adjust to the physical marketers, or food service managers in the hospitality industry. This course satisfies the Life senior year. Students are exposed to a wide demands of exercise. This course builds upon range of scientific disciplines to find their knowledge of medical terminology and the Science requirement. areas of interest. Other activities include human musculoskeletal system from Human Anatomy. Topics include how muscles work, in-house experiments, the submission of 0363 FORENSIC SCIENCE H novel research to the Long Island Science cardiac anatomy and function, measurement of NCAA Approved heart rate, blood pressure and EKG, respiratory & Engineering Fair, the Long Island Science anatomy and lung capacity, physiological Grade Level: 11-12 Congress, Toshiba Exploravision and appli- measurement of physical fitness and body 1 Credit • Year • Honors cation to the Simons Fellowship Program. composition, nutrition for performance and study Prerequisite: Regents Living Environment Senior year (InSTAR® III, course #0346) of the various performance enhancing drugs and Regents Chemistry. is based on students having completed an commonly used in sports. A field trip to Adelphi’s Forensic Science through Syracuse University Human Performance Lab will culminate the Project Advance (SUPA) focuses on the application independent research project by the start of semester. Juniors and Seniors Only can take of scientific methods and techniques to crime and school. Seniors are required to submit this this course for three (3) undergraduate college law. Recent advances in scientific methods and research to the Intel Science Talent Search credits through Adelphi’s University in the High principles have had an enormous impact upon in November. Other opportunities include School Program when taken for Honors level law enforcement and the entire criminal justice submission of research to the Siemens com- credit. system. In this honors course, scientific methods petition in October, and the Long Island Sci- specifically relevant to crime detection and ence and Engineering Fair and Long Island 0358 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY H analysis will be explored. Successful completion Science Congress In December. Additional- of Regents Living Environment and Regents NCAA Approved ly, students prepare poster and PowerPoint Chemistry is required. Some topics will include Grade Level: 11-12 fingerprinting, microscopic investigations, DNA, displays for presentation to the sophomore .5 Credit • Semester • Honors drug chemistry and toxicology, and glass and soil and junior classes and in-house science Prerequisite: Human Anatomy and comparisons. For an optional fee of $440.00 (as fairs. determined by Syracuse University and subject Living Environment. All students are required to participate to change), students may receive four (4) college This course investigates how the systems of the in selected science competitions and fairs human body change and adjust to the physical credits upon satisfactory completion of the course. throughout the year. Please note the pro- demands of exercise. This course builds upon Students receive a Syracuse University transcript. knowledge of medical terminology and the gram requires substantial work outside of class, usually including weekends and va- human musculoskeletal system from Human 0364 ANIMAL SCIENCE Anatomy. Topics include how muscles work, cations. Grading is based on effort and time- cardiac anatomy and function, measurement of Grade Level: 11-12 liness of submissions, including research heart rate, blood pressure and EKG, respiratory .5 Credit • Semester projects as assigned. Admission to InSTAR® anatomy and lung capacity, physiological Prerequisite: Living Environment III requires signed approval by the Director measurement of physical fitness and body This elective is intended for students considering of the program. This approval is based on composition, nutrition for performance and study careers involving animals, including various student performance in both 10th and 11th of the various performance enhancing drugs environmental careers, veterinary medicine and grade, obtaining a research mentor no later commonly used in sports. A field trip to Adelphi’s animal care or for students who just want to be Human Performance Lab will culminate the educated pet owners. The course will involve than spring of the junior year, and meeting semester. Students are encouraged to enroll in intensive biology and anatomy and would be all requirements of the institution at which this challenging class for Honors credit. Honors best for students having already taken Living the research will be conducted by the end of students must also complete two (2) additional Environment. Much of the course will focus on the junior year. case studies (1 per quarter) demonstrating their wild animals–especially local wildlife, endangered knowledge and understanding of one particular and invasive species. It will also cover domestic by system, measurement and analysis of the pets and their care and will include guest life function it is responsible for a baseline, speakers such as vets, breeders, and others who disease state (if applicable) and treatments for specialize in particular species. Career options improvement. Juniors and Seniors Only can in fields that involve animals will be explored. also take this course for three (3) undergraduate The course will involve extensive hands on work college credits through Adelphi’s University in with animals and may not be suited for students the High school Program (PED 150 - Scientific with severe allergies to pet dander. This course Foundations of Physical Activity). For more satisfies the Life Science requirement. information regarding this option, credit transfers

Science Department - 29 0206 GLOBAL HISTORY AND Social Studies Department GEOGRAPHY II NCAA Approved The Social Studies Department offers a broad-based program designed to expose students to Grade Level: 10 the numerous areas encompassed by the field. While maintaining academic rigor, we endeavor to provide an interesting program for students of all abilities. To achieve this we offer, in addition to 1 Credit • Year required New York State courses, a diversified elective program. Prerequisite: None Global History is a two-year program divided All students must pass the Regents Exam in Global History and Geography (two-year course) and into nine units. The two-year program is United States History and Government (one-year course). Further, all students must take a fourth based on the assumption that competency year of Social Studies which is comprised of a semester course in Economics and a semester for citizenship in the next century is based course in Participation in Government. on knowledge of historical analysis, political science, sociological analysis, geographic The following courses meet this requirement: intellectual skills, and economic systems. At the conclusion of this two-year program, ECONOMICS REQUIREMENT students will take the Global History and Economics , Economics H, AP Comparative Government & Politics; AP United States Government & Geography Regents exam which is a Politics, and AP Human Geography. graduation requirement. PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENT (P.I.G.) American Presidency, AP Comparative Government & Politics, AP United States Government & 0209 UNITED STATES HISTORY Politics, Civil War, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice H, Great Moral Questions, Herstory: Women in AND GOVERNMENT History, United States Middle East Relations, and Vietnam War & U.S. History. NCAA Approved Grade Level: 11 1 Credit • Year SOCIAL STUDIES SEQUENCE Prerequisite: None This program will investigate the formation of TO SATISFY GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS our governmental system in the latter part of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the present. It will historically study the United GRADE REGENTS ACCELERATED/HONORS States emergence as an industrialized nation following the Civil War and as a modern world power. Students will learn the social, political and economic forces at work in our dynamic society, and the place of the United States in the world community. At the end of the course, Global History & 9 AP World History I students will take the United States History Geography I and Government Regents exam which is a graduation requirement.

0211 AP UNITED STATES HISTORY NCAA Approved Grade Level: 11 Global History & 1 Credit • Year • AP 10 Geography II AP World History II Prerequisite: Students must have a minimum average of an 85 in AP World History or a minimum of a 90 average in Global History & Geography or recommendation of Department Chairperson; Teacher Recommendation; 11 U.S. History & Government AP U.S. History We will reference the standardized test scores (e.g. Terra Nova/ELA) This course examines the history of the United States from the colonial period to the present. Through extensive reading in both primary and secondary sources, the student is expected Economics to comprehend the themes that have made AP Comparative + one half year AP U.S. American history unique. While the emphasis 12 Government Government elective will be on political, social and economic & Politics & Politics (PIG) developments, some attention will be given to cultural and intellectual movements. The student will also be expected to learn the skills of analyzing P.I.G. SOCIAL STUDIES ELECTIVES the work of major historians (historiography) and American Presidency SOCIAL STUDIES ELECTIVES of critically evaluating historical issues. A number AP Comparative Gov’t & Politics AP Human Geography of quizzes, essays, short-answer exams and AP US Gov’t & Politics AP Psychology “paper” assignments will be given each quarter. Civil War Economics H Students will be prepared to take the AP Exam Criminal Justice General Psychology in May (there is a fee to take the AP Exam) and Criminal Justice H Holocaust the Regents Exam in United States History and Great Moral Questions Intro to Sociology Government in June. NOTE: Students will Herstory: Women in History Mock Trials U.S. Middle East Relations be required to complete a summer reading Vietnam War & U.S. History assignment in preparation for this course. An exam on this assignment will be given at the beginning of the school year.

Social Studies Department - 30 0213 ECONOMICS 0221 INTRODUCTION TO methods and materials will be utilized to develop NCAA Approved SOCIOLOGY an understanding of the principles and values of our legal system. Experts in the field of law Grade Level: SENIORS ONLY NCAA Approved enforcement and hands-on field trips are part of .5 Credit • Semester Grade Level: 10-12 the curriculum. This course satisfies the required Prerequisite: None .5 Credit • Semester P.I.G. requirement for graduation. This half-year course offers students the Prerequisite: None opportunity to explore the choices and decisions Sociology will familiarize students with the basic 0225 HERSTORY: WOMEN IN that people make about how to use the world’s concepts utilized in understanding society and the limited resources. The goal is to help students HISTORY place that we, as individuals, fit in that society. The NCAA Approved utilize a practical and sensible approach that can course will examine patterns of social behavior, be applied to real-life situations. Using interactive individual relationships to these patterns and the Grade Level: 10-12 projects, this course will highlight important consequences of human interactions. Special .5 Credit • FALL Semester matters in economic systems. Students will attention will be given to discussion of the : None study the role of entrepreneurs in the American Prerequisite socialization process, deviance and criminology, Using both a chronological and a thematic economy, will create their own business and inequity, gender, race as well as family and the approach, this course explores influential women market it to consumers. They will also participate educational process. The course will examine and their experiences from the early 18th in a stock market simulation that will allow them institutions in our society that are the basis and Century to the Modern Era. Explore how women to examine the risk/reward of investments. Topics tools of social control. In addition, students will such as personal finance will be addressed and and women-led movements have shaped history. explore past and possible future patterns of social Students will explore how primary sources students will also attend a credit card workshop. change. This course MIGHT be available for credit Other economic concepts in both microeconomics reveal and conceal women’s history. Evaluate from Suffolk County Community College for a fee. the limitations on sources that historians have and macroeconomics will give students a well- Final determination will be made at the beginning rounded understanding of their role in society traditionally used to write histories. Discuss why of the course, and students may then have the the stories of women are less prominent than and how it relates to the overall economy. This opportunity to seek college level credit, or take it men’s stories and analyze women’s roles in course meets the Economics requirement for for WMHS credit alone. graduation. political, economic, and social history. Several short Thinkpieces™ and a second quarter 0222 VIETNAM WAR & U.S. HISTORY project will be assigned. This course satisfies 0214 GREAT MORAL QUESTIONS NCAA Approved the required P.I.G. requirement for graduation. NCAA Approved Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 11-12 .5 Credit • FALL Semester 0226 MOCK TRIALS .5 Credit • Semester Prerequisite: None NCAA Approved Prerequisite: None This course is a one-semester Social Studies Grade Level: 11-12 This course will deal with some of the great elective that analyzes the decade of the 1960s .5 Credit • SPRING Semester moral questions that have faced Western as a major turning point in the history of the society and continue to plague us today. Genetic United States. This course examines political Prerequisite: 0224 - Criminal Justice or engineering, abortion, capital punishment, the and cultural changes of the era referred to as concurrently. effects of technology, drugs, and weapons the “long 1960s (1954-1975)”, with a major focus This interactive course takes students beyond of mass destruction are among some of the on the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, traditional classroom instruction. Students will topics with which the student will deal with. In including factors that influenced the escalation research and present cases in a courtroom an atmosphere of mutual respect, students will and Vietnamization phases of the war. Challenges environment. Students participate in all functions learn to share the ideas of others and approach of the political leadership, the civil rights of the courtroom and try real cases. The final each issue from several perspectives. This movement, the counterculture, student radicalism, project for this course is an all-day trial. course does not provide answers, but it is all gender relations, and popular culture will also be about asking questions. Students will complete examined. Legacies of the 1960s and the Vietnam 0228 THE CIVIL WAR topical written analysis through which they will War will also be addressed. respond to wide-ranging class discussions, NCAA Approved guest speakers, written material and media 11 12 0223 THE HOLOCAUST Grade Level: - presentations. Several short Thinkpieces™ and .5 Credit • FALL Semester NCAA Approved a second quarter project will be assigned. This : None course satisfies the required P.I.G. requirement Prerequisite Grade Level: 10-12 This course is a survey of the American Civil for graduation. .5 Credit • SPRING Semester War and Reconstruction. This crucial time period Prerequisite: None in our nation’s history will be examined through 0218 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY The world is painfully aware of the practice of a variety of means including documentaries, NCAA Approved genocide. However, this awareness has not Hollywood movies, primary source and text Grade Level: 10-12 halted this process. The events tell us “what” readings. The development of sectionalism and .5 Credit • Semester happened, but they do not answer “why” it the role slavery played in support of states’ rights happened. Through readings, documentaries, and the cause of the war will be examined as will Prerequisite: None presentations, testimonies, and video, this class the political and economic development of the Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior. This course explores will explore the roots of genocide and its practice. North and South prior to the war. A thorough look how you develop into the kind of person you The primary case study will be the destruction of at the war will follow as the course will examine are, how you are affected by both your heredity the European Jews, known as The Holocaust. the military aspects of the war and the effects it and your environment. Topics studied include: This course is also offered for college credit had on all sections of society. Emancipation as a child development, intelligence and creativity, through the SUNY Suffolk Excelsior Program. turning point in the war will be closely examined personality, sex role socialization, learning, as well with an emphasis on Abraham Lincoln. memory, motivation, emotion, and abnormal 0224 CRIMINAL JUSTICE The course will conclude with a discussion on behavior. Students are responsible for subject Reconstruction and how the Civil War and the matter covered in the text, readings, discussions, NCAA Approved fight for civil rights continues to the present day. and films. Unit exams will be given to determine 11-12 achievement. Student experiments, though not Grade Level: Several short Thinkpieces™ and a second required, are welcome and encouraged. By the .5 Credit • Semester quarter project will be assigned. This course end of the course, the student should understand Prerequisite: None satisfies the required P.I.G. requirement for how to observe and evaluate behavior; and as This course provides the foundation of our legal graduation. a result, understand much about his/her own system. Students will gain an understanding of behavior. This course MIGHT be available for credit from Suffolk County Community College how laws evolved and continually affect our lives. for a fee. Final determination will be made at the Current events are constant topics for classroom beginning of the course, and students may then discussion. Students have the opportunity have the opportunity to seek college level credit, to research real and hypothetical cases and or take it for WMHS credit alone. apply New York State Penal Law. A variety of

Social Studies Department - 31 0232 U.S. MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS evaluation will include exams and essays. This social structure and gender structure; Cultural NCAA Approved course is a rigorous one which requires a significant and intellectual developments and interactions amount of reading and writing. It is recommended among and within societies; Changes in function Grade Level: 11-12 for serious students who have a desire to further and structures of states and in attitudes towards .5 Credit • FALL Semester their political education and have demonstrated states and political identities. The AP World History Prerequisite: None a talent for social studies. The student will be II course addresses skills in two categories: Those This course will explore the past and present encouraged to take the AP Exam in Comparative addressed by any rigorous history course, such relationships between the United States and countries Government. There is a fee to take the AP Exam. as: constructing and evaluating arguments, using of the Middle East, including political, economic, and If a student drops this course or changes levels documents and other primary data, and developing religious differences. A comprehensive exploration after the deadline, he/she must take the required the ability to assess issues of change and continuity will provide a common thread for the students to Government and Economics courses second over time. Those addressed by a world history ultimately “stitch” together an explanation for modern semester. NOTE: Students will be required to course, such as; seeing global patterns over time U.S. / Middle Eastern hostilities and America’s War complete a summer reading assignment in and space, developing the abilities to compare on Terror. The students will be expected to engage preparation for this course. An exam on this within and among societies. AP World History II in current event and topical class discussions, as well assignment will be given in the first few weeks offers an approach that allows students to gain a as complete course readings, geographic activities, of the school year. historical perspective by guiding students through and a final term paper. Several short Thinkpieces™ the steps a historian would take in analyzing and a second quarter project will be assigned. This historical events worldwide. The AP World History course satisfies the required P.I.G. requirement for 0240 AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY II course is offered as a two-year sequential course graduation. NCAA Approved beginning in the 9th grade year and concluding with Grade Level: 12 the AP Exam in May of the 10th grade year. There 1 Credit • Year • AP is a fee to take the AP Exam. 0235 AP PSYCHOLOGY In addition to the AP Exam, students will be NCAA Approved Prerequisite: None required to take the NYS Global History and Grade Level: 10-12 AP Human Geography will teach students about the Geography Regents exam at the end of 10th grade. .5 Credit • Semester • AP patterns and processes that explain how and why Students will be encouraged to take the SAT II in we live where we do. We delve into how humans World History. NOTE: Students will be required Prerequisite: None have changed the Earth, been changed by the The topics covered and requirements in this to complete a summer reading assignment in Earth, and how they have interacted with each preparation for this course. An exam on this course are the same as in General Psychology other on the Earth. Topics will include: population (0218). In order to prepare for the AP Exam in May assignment will be given in the first few weeks and demographics, culture, political organization of of the school year. and earn AP credit, students will be responsible space, agriculture and rural land use, industrialization for assignments in addition to their regular class and economic development, and cities and urban work; students will write a series of brief papers to land use. Critical analysis, significant research and 0248 CRIMINAL JUSTICE H prepare them for AP Free Response Questions, thesis writing are emphasized. This course satisfies NCAA Approved and will also be responsible to take exams based the reequired economics requirement for graduation. on text material they will have read on their own. Grade Level: 11-12 There is a fee to take the AP Exam. .5 Credit • Semester • Honors 0243 AP UNITED STATES Prerequisite: None 0237 THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY GOVERNMENT & POLITICS This course provides the foundation of our legal NCAA Approved NCAA Approved system. Students will gain an understanding of 11-12 how laws evolved and continually affect our lives. Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: 1 Credit • Year • AP Current events are constant topics for classroom .5 Credit • SPRING Semester discussion. Students have the opportunity to : None Prerequisite: None research real and hypothetical cases and apply Prerequisite This course will deal with a detailed analysis of the This course will enhance student understanding New York State Penal Law. A variety of methods American Political System including its three main of the United States government, specifically and materials will be utilized to develop an branches; the political party system in America, the Executive Branch. Students will examine the understanding of the principles and values of Constitutional origins of our government, state and our legal system. Experts in the field of law process utilized for electing the President, and local government, as well as a unit on civil rights enforcement and hands-on field trips are part of analyze the efficacy of this procedure. Past and and civil liberties in a democratic society. Regular the curriculum. This course satisfies the graduation current Presidents of the United States will be evaluation will include essays and objective exams. requirement for Participation in Government. dicussed, along with the achievements and critical This course is a rigorous one, which requires a decisions of their administrations. Basic civil values significant amount of critical thinking and writing College credit is available through LIU/Post, and analytical concepts will be reinforced. Through and is recommended for serious students who depending on enrollment (fee is determined by study of the American Presidency, students will have demonstrated talent for social studies in the LIU/Post and is subject to change) and upon develop a fuller understanding of policy issues, past. The student will be encouraged to take the AP satisfactory completion of the course. Professors how decisions are made at the federal level, the Exam in American Government. There is a fee to from LIU/Post give guest lectures throughout the consequences of those decisions and how this take the AP Exam. If a student drops this course or semester that are relevant to class discussion and knowledge will allow them to be fully engaged changes levels after the deadline, he/she must take instruction. citizens becoming more involved in the political the required Government and Economics courses process.Several short Thinkpieces™ and a second semester. NOTE: Students will be required 0249 ECONOMICS H second quarter project will be assigned. This to complete a summer reading assignment in NCAA Approved course satisfies the required P.I.G. requirement preparation for this course. An exam on this for graduation. assignment will be given in the first few weeks Grade Level: 11-12 of the school year. .5 Credit • Semester • Honors 0238 AP COMPARATIVE Prerequisite: None GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 0245 AP WORLD HISTORY II This introductory Economics course will survey NCAA Approved NCAA Approved contemporary problems included in Micro and 10 Macroeconomics, scarcity, supply and demand, Grade Level: 11-12 Grade Level: such as unemployment, inflation, energy, pollution, 1 Credit • Year • AP 1 Credit • Year • AP welfare, etc. For each issue, the course seeks to Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: AP World History I. Teacher identify how the problem affects the public, and to This course introduces students to the comparative recommendation for continued placement develop the basic economic tools of analysis needed study of major political systems, including in this course will be required. to understand the problem and its potential solutions. presidential and parliamentary democracies, as The AP World History II course highlights six over College credit is available through LIU/Post, well as communist states, with an emphasis on arching themes: Impact of interaction among major depending on enrollment (fee is determined by LIU/ the United Kingdom, Mexico, Russia, China, Iran, societies; the relationship of change and continuity Post and is subject to change) and upon satisfactory and Nigeria. Through a current events portfolio, across the world history periods covered in the completion of the course. Professors from LIU/Post students will gain an understanding of the present- course; Impact of technology and demography give guest lectures throughout the semester that are day international political environment. Regular on people and the environment; Systems of relevant to class discussion and instruction. Social Studies Department - 32 1519 ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING III Technology Department Grade Level: 11-12 The Technology Department is dedicated to the advancement of technology, career awareness and 1 Credit • Year preparation. Students can select courses representing a wide range of opportunity and personal en- Prerequisite: Architectural Drafting II This course is designed to provide the student with richment. These enriched curriculum sequences are linked to career exploration, internship possibili- advanced experience in the field of architecture ties and cooperative work experiences. All classes meet the Common Core standard. and building construction. It specifically relates to advanced residential and non-residential structures. Students will build models and design com- TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT COURSE FLOW CHART mercial structures. TECHNOLOGY CLASSES THAT CAN BE TAKEN GRADES 10-12 1520 ENGINEERING DRAFTING II 1501 1515 1517 1522 11-12 WOODWORKING DESIGN & DRAWING FOR ARCHITECTURAL WOODWORKING Grade Level: TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTION DRAFTING I & CAD TECHNOLOGY II 1 Credit • Year Prerequisite: Drawing & Design for Pro- 1550 1553 1523 1528 PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER duction or Technical Drawing & C.A.D. or KNOW YOUR CAR AUTO TECHNOLOGY I ENGINEERING MAINTENANCE & REPAIR Architectural Drafting I Engineering Drafting II focuses on the design 1555 1570 CISCO I: MECHATRONICS 1576 and application of ideas and drawings related to INTRO TO NETWORKS H ENGINEERING I & II H ROBOTICS H engineering subjects. Advanced solutions to mechanical drawing problems are covered on the drawing board and the computer C.A.D. systems. Autodesk’s Inventor and Autocad will be used for most class work. Students will have an opportunity to make the products they draw on a milling TECHNOLOGY CLASSES THAT CAN BE TAKEN AS JUNIORS & SENIORS machine and lathe. AND REQUIRE A PREREQUISITE

1518 1520 1548 1521 ENGINEERING DRAFTING III ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING 1529 WOODWORKING DRAFTING II DRAFTING II AUTO TECHNOLOGY II TECHNOLOGY III Grade Level: 11-12 1 Credit • Year 1554 1557 1571 COMPUTER CISCO II: MECHATRONICS Prerequisite: Engineering Drafting II MAINTENANCE & REPAIR II ROUTING & SWITCHING H ENGINEERING III & IV H Engineering Drafting III provides the serious drafting student an opportunity to complete a 3-year sequence in Mechanical Drawing/Engineering Drawing. The course relates to advance solutions to engineering drafting problems, such as cams, gears, oblique projections, and complex develop- TECHNOLOGY CLASSES THAT CAN BE TAKEN AS JUNIORS & SENIORS ments with the use of a computer C.A.D. System AND REQUIRE A PREREQUISITE and Autodesk’s Inventor.

1519 1521 1549 1572 ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING WOODWORKING MECHATRONICS 1522 WOODWORKING TECHNOLOGY II DRAFTING III DRAFTING III TECHNOLOGY IV ENGINEERING V H Grade Level: 10-12 1 Credit • Year 1501 WOODWORKING TECHNOLOGY I 1517 ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING I Prerequisite: None Grade Level: 10-12 & COMPUTER ASSISTED DESIGN Each student will investigate the current woodworking technologies used in manufacturing, production .5 Credit • Semester (C.A.D.) and construction through a hands-on curriculum. Prerequisite: None Grade Level: 10-12 This hands-on class teaches students how to 1 Credit • Year safely use basic hand and power tools. Students Prerequisite: None 1523 KNOW YOUR CAR will research, design and develop various prod- This is a course designed to acquaint the student Grade Level: 10-12 ucts using wood. with the design and drafting of residential struc- .5 Credit • Semester tures as well as teach basic drafting techniques. Prerequisite: None 1515 DESIGN & DRAWING FOR This course introduces C.A.D. (Autodesk’s Archi- Know Your Car is a half-year course designed to PRODUCTION tectural Desktop) as a drafting and design tool. teach students how to be a responsible driver in Grade Level: 10-12 Consider 1515 DDP, above, for your first architec- today’s society. Students will learn: how to get and 1 Credit • Year tural experience. keep their license; how to research and purchase Prerequisite: None new and used vehicles; how to shop for insurance Design & Drawing for Production (DDP) introduces and financing; learn to select a reputable car ser- 1518 ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING II vice facility; and what to do in an accident. Know students to the field of technical drawing by using Grade Level: 11-12 problem solving techniques to creatively design, Your Car is a limited hands-on course where stu- analyze and critically evaluate real-world mechani- 1 Credit • Year dents will learn the basics of car care focusing on cal problems. This will aid the students in terms of Prerequisite: Architectural Drafting I or preventive maintenance and the basic systems of organization, planning and problem solving by using D.D.P. or Technical Drawing and C.A.D. a modern vehicle. (A vehicle is the most expensive math, science and technology skills. Students create This course is designed to provide the student purchase students will make up to this point. This 2-D and 3-D prototypes to evaluate and analyze de- with additional experience in the field of archi- class is a must for all young drivers!). sign solutions through the use of computer aided de- tecture and building construction. It specifically sign programs such as AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit relates to advanced residential and non-resi- as well as hand constructed models. DDP is the first dential structures. Students will construct proj- in a series of drafting courses offered through Ward ects designed in previous classes, such as their Melville, and is a necessity for any student interested “Dream House” from the DDP class. in architectural or engineering fields. This course fulfills the Art and Music requirement for graduation.

Technology Department - 33 1528 AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY I 1553 COMPUTER MAINTENANCE ville Mechatronics Academy. In Part 1 of the academy, students begin with an introduction to computer aided Grade Level: 10-12 & REPAIR I design with the Autodesk suite of software including 1 Credit • Year Grade Level: 10-12 Auto-Cad and Inventor culminating with each student Prerequisite: None .5 Credit • Semester compiling their work into a professional portfolio. Us- Automotive Technology is a class designed to intro- Prerequisite: None ing CAD, students explore 2D and 3D modeling con- duce students to a career in automotive repair and This course is designed for all students who wish to cepts and will produce rapid prototypes of their de- maintenance. This is achieved not by driving the ve- learn the basic understanding of components or com- signs using a 3D printer. In the Mechatronics lab is hicle but by opening the hood and discovering how it puter peripherals (motherboard, CD ROM drive, etc.) where they will begin traning on the setup and safe works. Auto Tech is a hands-on class where students and to be able to diagnose malfunctions and make use of manual engine lathes, milling machines, and will be introduced to the many systems in a vehicle and the appropriate repairs. This includes functions such other relevant fabrication equipment including a CNC shown how to service, troubleshoot and repair them. as replacing hard drives, chips, upgrading memory, re- plasma-cutting machine. Students can earn 2 SUNY This class teaches essential automotive skills, encour- placing power supplies, etc. Students will learn to use College Credits for completing this one-year course. ages the development of good work habits and em- reference manuals, make repairs to individual com- phasizes safety. Plus, a strong emphasis is stressed puters, and explore career opportunities in the area 1571 MECHATRONICS on proper maintenance schedules. Auto Tech is in- of computer maintenance and repair. Students may tended for beginners who need a sound foundation take this course for Business or Technology credit. ENGINEERING III & IV H in the fundamentals of automotive repair. It will also (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) help students who have experience in automotive ser- 1554 COMPUTER MAINTENANCE Grade Level: 11-12 vice and repair who want to increase their skills. This 1 Credit • Year • Honors class is a must for any student interested in a career & REPAIR II in this or any automotive related field. Metal welding Grade Level: 10-12 Prerequisite: Mechatronics I & II H and fabrication is also covered. FYI - The automotive .5 Credit • Semester Mechatronics III & IV H constitutes Part II of the Ward Melville Mechatronics Academy. In the second year field is currently experiencing an extreme shortage of Prerequisite: Computer Maintenance & experienced technicians, especially on Long Island! of the Ward Melville Mechatronics Academy, stu- Further career advancement can be found at many Repair I dents continue expanding their knowledge of 3D local colleges and technical schools. This is a continuation of Computer Maintenance & solid modeling prototyping with increasingly difficult Repair I. On-screen tutorials of a virtual computer are CAD drawings culminating with a professional portfo- used in preparation for the A+ or MCSE Certification. lio. Using CAD, students will produce rapid prototypes 1529 AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY II of their designs using a 3D printer. Once again, the Grade Level: 11-12 1555 CISCO I: INTRODUCTION TO students will then transfer to the Mechatronics lab NETWORKS H where they will use the blueprints of the products 1 Credit • Year they designed to fabricate these products using en- Prerequisite: Automotive Technology I Grade Level: 10-12 gine lathes, milling machines and various pieces of Automotive Technology II is a hands-on class designed 1 Credit • Year • Honors fabrication equipment including a CNC wood router for the serious automotive student who wishes to con- Prerequisite: None and a CNC plasma cutting machine. Students com- tinue his/her training in the automotive industry. Auto The Cisco CCNET-Introduction to Networks course is pleting this course will earn an additional 3 SUNY Tech II students will be brought through all the systems designed for students who are seeking entry-level College Credits. of a vehicle in greater detail. Students will also learn jobs in the networking industry or hope to fulfill pre- how to troubleshoot and repair electrical systems, in- requisites to pursue more specialized networking 1572 MECHATRONICS cluding OBDII, using diagnostic equipment. Students careers. Cisco Introduction to Neworks provides an will also cover body repair; including sheet metal weld- integrated and comprehensive coverage of network- ENGINEERING V H ing, fabrication, and arc, gas; MIG and TIG welding. FYI: ing topics, ranging from the fundamentals to ad- (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) The automotive field is currently experiencing an ex- vanced applications and services, while providing Grade Level: 11-12 treme shortage of experienced technicians, especially opportunities for hands-on practical experience and on Long Island and this course allows students an op- career skills development. Students learn the basics 1 Credit • Year • Honors portunity to explore this field in greater detail. of routing, switching, and adanced technologies that Prerequisite: Mechatronics III & IV H emphasize critical thinking, provlem solving, col- Mechatronics V H is the third and final year of the acad- 1548 WOODWORKING TECHNOLOGY III laboration, and the practical application of skills. By emy. Students in Mechatronics V H will once again con- utilizing hands-on labs and CISCO® Packet Tracer tinue expanding their knowledge of 3D solid modeling Grade Level: 11-12 simulation-based learning activities, students de- prototyping with increasingly difficult Autodesk Inventor 1 Credit • Year velop critical thinking and complex problem solving drawings culminating with a professional porfolio. Using CAD students explore 3D modeling concepts and will Prerequisite: Woodworking II skills. The curriculum also helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation produce rapid prototypes of their designs using a 3D This two-period course allows the student to spend printer. Students will now focus strictly on the producing maximum time on furniture designing, joinery and for success in networking-related careers and degree programs. (Cisco Introduction to Networks is the and programming of “G” code for the use in modern cabinet making. This course also serves as the first CNC equipment. Using the blueprints and “G” code, year in a two-year vocational woodworking sequence. first part of a two-year program designed to prepare students for a CCNET Certification.) they will move into the lab once again to apply the skills learned to fabricate the products they have designed. 1549 WOODWORKING TECHNOLOGY IV 1557 CISCO II: ROUTING AND Grade Level: 11-12 SWITCHING H 1576 ROBOTICS (FIRST ROBOTICS) 1 Credit • Year Grade Level: 11-12 (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) Prerequisite: Successful completion of 1 Credit • Year • Honors Grade Level: 10-12 Woodworking Technology III Prerequisite: Cisco I: Intro to Networks H 1 Credit • Year • Honors The second year of the vocational woodworking se- The Cisco Routing and Switching teaches compre- Prerequisite: None quence will include the following: construction pro- hensive networking concepts and skills, (from basic The Robotics Engineering course provides a compre- cesses, cabinet framing, hardware installation, appli- networking skills, programming switches and rout- hensive study of engineering concepts including phys- cation of finishes, cabinet laminating and boarding, ers), to more complex configurations and network ics, programming, mechanical systems, electrical, and interior trim. design. Students will learn advanced skills to pre- and electronic systems. The objective of this course pare for the Cisco CCENT Certification. The recom- is to introduce the students to programming as well 1550 PRINCIPLES OF ENGINEERING H mended CCNA Introduction to Networks and Routing as complex problem solving strategies. This course and Switching courses supports student flexibility by will involve students in the development, building, and Grade Level: 10-12 helping students prepare for the CCENT Certification programming of a robot. Students will work hands-on 1 Credit • Year • Honors exam after two courses, and helps them prepare for in teams to design, build, program, and document the CCNA Certification exam. Prerequisite: None their progress. Topics may include motor control, gear POE is a course designed to introduce students to ratios, torque, friction, sensors, timing, program loops, the fascinating world of engineering through case 1570 MECHATRONICS logic gates, decision-making, timing sequences, pro- studies and problem solving. Students will apply ENGINEERING I & II H pulsion systems, and binary number systems. math, science and ELA skills to research and design (PENDING BOARD APPROVAL) as they solve real-world engineering problems. Using Grade Level: 10-12 state-of-the-art computers, software and machines, students will construct scale models to test and re- 1 Credit • Year • Honors vise their solutions to assess success. This course Prerequisite: None helps prepare students for our high-tech global so- Mechatronics is a full-year, one-credit engineering ciety by stimulating interest in and providing access course that integrates mechanical engineering and to careers in Engineering and Technology. POE can computer aided design and industry standards. Me- replace the third credit in Math or Science sequence. chatronics I & II H constitute Part 1 of the Ward Mel-

Technology Department - 34 WARD MELVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 2016-2017 Student Course Selection Planner SAMPLE PLEASE CIRCLE NEXT YEAR’S GRADE LEVEL: 10 11 12 Student Name :______Student I.D. #: ______(Last Name, First Name, M.I.) Current Counselor: ______Student Cell #: ______Please list all the requested courses for the 2016-2017 School Year. Please indicate by asterisk (*) which course(s) you would remove if there were a scheduling conflict. You must include the full course name, course code, and course level. Some requests may not be satisfied. All AP and Honors course requests MUST have teacher signatures. Course Course Level Course Title Credit Teacher Signature Required for AP or H Code R, H or AP 0110 R ELA 11 1.0 0209 R United States History & Government 1.0 1227 R Ceramics 1.0 0707 R Spanish III 1.0 0313 R Chemistry 1.0 1720 R Physical Education .5 1164 R Introduction to Business .5 1268 H Film & Broadcast Journalism H 1.0 Mrs. Sharon Smith 9008 Lunch - 1st Semester 9009 Lunch - 2nd Semester

Total Credits 7.0 Total Courses 8

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Notes - 36 BOARD OF EDUCATION William F. Connors, Jr., President Irene Gische, Vice President Deanna Bavlnka Inger Germano Dr. Jeffrey Kerman Jonathan Kornreich Susanne A. Mendelson Kathy Sampogna, District Clerk Joseph Hines, WMHS Student Representative CENTRAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATION Cheryl Pedisich, Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Carlson, Assistant Superintendent for Business Services Gary Dabrusky, Ed.D, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Kevin Scanlon, Assistant Superintendent for Educational Services WARD MELVILLE ADMINISTRATION Alan L. Baum, J.D., Principal Mrs. Erin Connolly, Assistant Principal Mrs. Rosanne DiBella, Assistant Principal Mr. Kevin Finnerty, Assistant Principal Mr. Jay Negus, Dean

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