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Course Selection Guide 2021-2022 Message to Parents and Students
I am honored and excited to be serving as the principal of the Bonny Eagle High School learning community! I am fortunate and blessed to be working with this fantastic faculty and staff who are fully committed to the idea that "We are one school and one team making a difference by reaching and teaching every learner every day and helping all students reach their full potential!" The 2021-2022 Course Selection Guide is designed to provide all students with information about course offerings, support services, graduation requirements, AP courses, vocational programs, and the Early College Aspirations Program.
The Course Selection Guide is also a resource for our families as they support and guide students to ensure their educational experience prepares their students to successfully transition after high school. The course descriptions in the guide provide information about each course which clarifies course outcomes and expectations.
All of our courses are aligned to content and industry standards. We are committed to preparing all students to be motivated, life-long learners who are prepared with the skills to be responsible and successful citizens. Proficiency-based teaching and learning refers to refining teaching practices that help us to prepare students to demonstrate knowledge and skills that are necessary for their transition after high school.
Our teachers provide instruction directly to students which will support them to meet the standards required to earn a high school diploma. Our teachers provide learning opportunities for students which are designed to help them learn new information, develop new skills, work collaboratively, think critically and creatively, as well as solve problems. It is important that students understand that schoolwork in and out of the classroom is designed to be connected to a specific learning target(s) or standard(s) and is important for their learning. All classes have clear learning targets and expectations that are transparent to all stakeholders.
On behalf of the faculty and staff, I want to thank our community for supporting education and the many learning opportunities provided for students. I want to assure the school community that we are committed to providing a safe teaching and learning environment and a welcoming place for all members of the school community. High school is an important time and should be a positive and rewarding experience for students and their families. I assure you the Bonny Eagle High School faculty and staff cares about your students, and we will do everything possible to ensure they are part of the Scot Pride tradition. As always, I am committed to each and every student at Bonny Eagle High School and will do everything in my power to help each of you “reach your full potential.”
Sincerely,
Greg Applestein
Principal
Administrative Team Greg Applestein, Principal Alicia Davis, Assistant Principal, Students A-K Thomas Noonan, Assistant Principal, Students L–Z Selena Leavitt, Dean of Students, Vocational Program Eric Curtis, Athletics/Activities Director
Table of Contents
3 Bonny Eagle School District Mission & BEHS Shared Vision 4 Support Services 5 Program of Studies 6 Academic Support Programs 7 Graduation Requirements, GPA & Graduation Requirements 8 Recommended Credits by Grade Level & Sample Schedule 9 Advisory/Capstone 10 Advanced Placement (AP) Courses & Early College Aspirations Program 11 NCAA Approved Core Courses 12 NJROTC and SAT Prep Courses 13 Career Education and Development Courses • Business / Extended Learning Opportunities / Family & Consumer Science 15 English Courses 18 Fine Arts Courses • Visual Arts / Theatre / Music 21 Health & Physical Education Courses 22 Mathematics Courses 24 Modern & Classical Language Courses 26 Science Courses 29 Social Studies Courses 31 Technology & Engineering Courses 34 Westbrook Regional Vocational Center (WRVC) Courses 36 Portland Arts & Technology High School (PATHS) Courses 38 BEHS Co-Curricular Activities & Athletic Programs
BEHS Shared Vision Statement
BEHS students, supported by the BEHS community, will become motivated, life-long learners who develop the skills to become responsible citizens through creativity and collaboration.
Guiding Principles
∙ A clear and effective communicator ∙ A Self-directed and lifelong learner ∙ A creative and practical problem solver ∙ A responsible and involved citizen ∙ An integrative and informed thinker
Bonny Eagle School District Mission
Vision: The Bonny Eagle School District in partnership with the community embraces a system of continuous improvement in a safe and supportive learning environment.
Mission: The mission of the Bonny Eagle School District is to help all students reach their full potential.
Strategic Goals: ∙ Highest Student Achievement ∙ Safe Learning Environment ∙ High Performance Organization
Core Beliefs: ∙ Accepting Responsibility ∙ Communicating Positively and Constructively ∙ Providing for Diverse Need ∙ Promoting Lifelong Learning ∙ Fostering a Safe, Caring, and Respectful Climate ∙ Collaborating for Continuous Improvement
Student Services
Main Contact Information: Phone 207.642.9080 or 207.929.3840 Fax 866.613.4451
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM THROUGH STUDENT SERVICES OFFICE Our mission is to implement a comprehensive developmental school-counseling program promoting student success through a focus on academic achievement, prevention and intervention activities, advocacy, and social/emotional and career development. Each student is assigned to a counselor. Students may meet with their counselor as needed. Parents/guardians are also encouraged to consult with a counselor concerning their student. Appointments are made through a Student Services secretary, or by contacting the counselor directly. The Student Services Office is open from 7:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. each school day.
DRUG & ALCOHOL COUNSELOR/SOCIAL WORKERS BEHS offers the services of a drug & alcohol counselor, school social worker, and a special education social worker. We provide assessments, referrals, individual counseling, and group counseling. We are also currently offering the services of contracted Licensed Clinical Mental Health Professionals who are able to see students and families for counseling. Most students who are eligible for MaineCare, Medicare, and private insurance may receive mental health services. The individual therapist can answer insurance questions. FMI regarding the referral process, please contact a counselor within the Student Services Office.
RELEASE OF STUDENT RECORDS It is the policy of MSAD #6 to provide for the confidentiality of all student education records that are maintained by MSAD #6, as required by both Maine law and the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), MSAD #6 designates the following information about students as directory information: name, the student’s participation in officially recognized activities and sports, height and weight of student athletes and grade level in school of students in extracurricular activities, date of attendance at MSAD #6 schools, and honors and awards received. BEHS also forwards educational records to any school upon the written request of the student or parent.
SYNERGY STUDENTVUE/ PARENTVUE PORTAL Parents and students have access to the Synergy StudentVue/ ParentVue portal, which allows them to track a student’s grades, assignments, attendance and assessments. Our StudentVUE is found on every school website at the top right as an A+ icon, or the bottom right in the black marble field as an A+ icon or under Quick Links listed as Synergy ParentVUE/StudentVUE. For assistance with obtaining passwords and other information, please contact our Student Services office at 207-648-7838 or 207-648-7816.
Program of Studies
In planning a program of studies, students should GIFTED/TALENTED PROGRAM consider requirements for graduation; scholastic Advanced placement, honors and fourth year language courses provide motivation and ability; post high school educational the academic rigor, diverse opportunities, and independent challenges for and career plans; special interests; the nature and the secondary student within the regular school setting. MSAD #6 also requirements of individual courses. participates in York County's Regional Fine Arts Program, which offers advanced and comprehensive training for identified students in five disciplines, led by professional teaching artists: Art: Oil Painting, Creative COLLEGE PREPARATORY PROGRAM Writing, Dance; Music: Voice Training; Theatre: Acting, Jazz Improvisation In addition to the high school graduation requirements, students who are planning a traditional college preparatory program are encouraged to complete another credit each in mathematics and science and at least two EARLY GRADUATION credits in a foreign language. We encourage students to choose additional A small number of students are allowed the option of earning a diploma course work that will assist them with studies in college and/or future after 3 or 3½ years of attendance at BEHS. Students who have earned 20 career goals. credits are eligible to apply for early graduation. Early graduation is not for everyone and needs the principal’s prior approval. Students should see their school counselor for an application if interested. HONORS PROGRAM
At Bonny Eagle our goal is to encourage every student to strive for STEM PROGRAM academic excellence. Students are encouraged to enroll in the more rigorous Honors courses for their core requirements. Please consult your At Bonny Eagle we are committed to developing multiple opportunities for current teacher for a better understanding of the material in an Honors all students to excel in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and level course. Teacher recommendations are encouraged, but not required. Math (STEM). We are designing pathways to help students develop skills, solve problems and explore career opportunities in STEM fields. Students can also create their own pathways. Students are encouraged to discuss ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) COURSES STEM options with their advisors and counselors when choosing their high Advanced Placement, or AP, is a program (sponsored by the College school courses and creating a post-secondary plan. More information can Board) of college-level courses and exams for secondary school students. be found in the BEHS – STEM Program Guide.
Over 90% of the colleges that most AP candidates will attend grant credit or advanced placement to students whose AP exam grades are STRETCH ACADEMY considered acceptable. Bonny Eagle offers many AP courses. Some
Honors courses, though not designated AP, follow a strong, challenging The Stretch Academy is designed to provide a rigorous academic course curriculum and prepare students to take the AP exam. More information is sequence for students who aspire to attend a selective post secondary available on page 10. Fee waivers may be available for those who qualify. setting after high school. Students who are interested should work closely
with their school counselor and teachers to develop a competitive CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION transcript that will include select Honors, Advanced Placement, and Early PROGRAMS (AKA VOC) College courses to provide academic preparation consistent with the individual student’s post secondary aspirations. Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are available to BEHS students through Portland Arts & Technology High School (PATHS) and Westbrook Regional Vocational Center (WRVC). These are mostly 2-year sequential programs, but there are also 1-year programs. Students have the option of attending WRVC or PATHS depending on the program they wish to pursue. Students should check with their school counselor to make sure they are taking the necessary courses for their post-secondary education and career goals. Students AND parents/guardians will sign a contract that outlines expectations for grades, attendance, and behavior. Enrolling in CTE programs counts as elective credit. Transportation for students is by the district’s transportation department. More information is available at the end of the book.
Page 5 Academic Support Programs
ACADEMIC INTERVENTIONS SPECIAL SERVICES Hours: M-Th. 2 – 4 PM Dept Leader can be reached at ext 904 The Study Center is located in the new wing and provides free academic For those students with an identified disability, there are special education support for students who need help with assignments, tests, study skills, teachers known as case managers who monitor their progress. Teachers, projects, and class papers. Teachers and experienced tutors staff the parents, guardians or students themselves may complete a referral to Study Centers. Also, we have Teacher Interventionists available after special education if the student is not making adequate progress in a school in Math, Science, Social Studies and English to ensure all students regular education program of instruction. The process involves a meeting are academically successful. of the Individual Educational Plan (IEP) team. Parents, guardians and students are invited to be part of the IEP meeting. LITERACY PROGRAM AND REQUIREMENT Literary Specialist can be reached at ext 860 504 ACCOMODATIONS The mission of Bonny Eagle High School is for all students to become For those students with an identified disability that does not need a change motivated, life-long learners who develop the skills to become responsible in class placement, they may be eligible for accommodations to allow citizens. The literacy goal for a Bonny Eagle High School graduate is a equal access to educational programs. Please contact your school minimum 10th grade comprehension level. Any student who has not met counselor. that goal will be assigned to an appropriate trimester-long literacy course as available. The descriptions of the literacy courses are located with the English Department courses. BEHS ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM AT THE LEARNING CENTER (TLC) Director can be reached at 929-9171 GET IT @ YOUR LIBRARY Learning Center Philosophy Librarian can be reached at ext 850 Strong positive relationships are key to success in life. We believe that If you are in need of a good book or research materials get it at your powerful relationships with student peers and with adults will yield positive library. The BEHS library offers all that and more. We’re here to help you results. The Learning Center offers an educational experience designed to with research, lend you a laptop, get you online, suggest a book; you name develop the whole student. We foster a mindset that says "I will try, I will be it. Don’t miss what’s happening at your library. civil, and I will be true" to myself and to others. Students and staff at the Learning Center continually strive for success in a positive collaborative RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION learning relationship of academic and social discovery. Every day is an Response to Intervention (RTI) is a process that utilizes all resources “expedition”. The "project" is always continual improvement of ourselves as within a school in a collaborative manner to create a single, well-integrated an engaged community. system of instruction and interventions guided by student outcome data. RTI is preventive in nature, and is a multi-step process of providing high- Learning Center Mission quality, research-based instruction and interventions at varying levels of The Learning Center will build relationships among students, staff, and the intensity to students who struggle with learning and behavior. community that promote whole student growth, academic achievement, Interventions are matched to student needs (including specific curricular and guide multiple pathways towards college or career interventions, study center support, credit recovery classes, etc.) and readiness. Students will reach proficiency through rigorous, integrated, progress is closely monitored at each level of intervention to make authentic and personalized educational experiences. decisions about further instruction and/or interventions.
ILLNESS AND TUTOR School Nurse can be reached at ext 814 For those students who are faced with a lengthy illness at home or in the hospital for more than ten (10) consecutive school days, tutors may be available at no cost. Documentation from a medical professional is required. Prompt notification of need will result in a timely response by the school. Please contact the school nurse for more information.
Page 6 Graduation Requirements & GPA
GRADUATION REQUIREMENT Seniors who have satisfactorily completed all graduation requirements may WEIGHTED GRADES participate in the traditional graduation ceremony in June. Seniors who Weighted grades will be calculated as follows on a 4.00 scale. Weighting have not met the requirements will not be allowed to participate. will be added behind the scenes and will not appear on report cards. Required Credits...... 24.0 credits English ...... 4.0 credits Social Studies...... 3.0 credits* Math ...... 3.0 credits .2 additional points: Science ...... 3.0 credits** Pre-Approved College Courses Health ...... 0.5 credit Physical Education ...... 1.0 credit*** Honors Fine Arts...... 1.0 credit Financial Literacy ...... 0.5 credit**** Capstone ...... 1.0 credit .4 additional points: Electives...... 7.0 credits Advanced Placement Courses *Global Village, U.S. History, Government & Economics **1 Life, and 2 Physical Science College Courses beyond AP Level (example Calculus III) ***Foundations of Wellness ****Financial Awareness, On Your Own or JMG-Personal Finance
GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA) GPA is calculated at the end of each trimester. Courses that are defined as Honors, Advanced Placement, pre-approved technical programs or approved college courses will carry an additional weight for grade point average (GPA) purposes. GPAs are calculated using a 4.00 scale of quality points. Weighted grade GPAs will be used for the following purposes: • To determine extra-curricular & athletic eligibility • To determine National Honor Society eligibility
Graduation Recognition
Beginning with the class of 2020, Bonny Eagle High School will be recognizing students using a Latin Honors System. This will replace the current Top Ten Percent and Honor Cord recognitions for seniors. Latin Honors Systems are commonly used by colleges and universities. It sets a bar for achievement that all students have an opportunity to reach, rather than drawing an arbitrary line at a certain place in class rank. The class of 2020 will wear cords at graduation and be recognized for achieving Latin Honors Status. The school will plan a ceremony honoring all students who achieve magna cum laude or summa cum laude status. Honor Recognition Cumulative GPA Single Gold: Cum Laude 3.4 or higher Double Gold: Magna Cum Laude 3.7 or higher Triple Gold: Summa Cum Laude 3.9 or higher
Page 7 Recommended Credits by Grade Level & Sample Class Schedule
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Total English 1 1 1 1 4
Math 1 1 1 3 Global Village 1 1 US History 1 1 Government .5 .5 Economics .5 .5 Lab Earth Science 1 1 Lab Biology 1 1
Physical Science 1 1 Health .5 .5 Physical Education .5 .5 1 Fine Arts .5 .5 1 Financial Literacy .5 .5 Capstone .25 .25 .25 .25 1 Electives (Up to:) 2.5 2.5 3.0 6.0 14.0 Total 6 - 7.75 6 - 7.75 6 - 7.75 6 - 7.75 24 – 31
Bonny Eagle High School has a block schedule consisting of five classes each trimester and three trimesters each year. Students may earn .5 credit for each trimester. Classes that are one credit continue over two trimesters. AP courses and NJROTC are year long courses and are worth 1.5 credit. Below is a sample grade 9 schedule.
Trimester 1 Trimester 2 Trimester 3
Block 1 English 9 A English 9 B Lab Earth Science B
Block 2 Selected Math Topics Algebra I A Algebra I B
Block 3 Wood Tech I Global Village A Global Village B
Block 4 Lab Earth Science A Spanish I A Spanish I B
Block 5 Chorus Chorus Foundations of Wellness
All students will have the opportunity to choose their courses during the In order to make these changes, students are expected to make an scheduling process each spring. As a result of this process, all students appointment with their school counselor PRIOR to the start of the class are expected to follow their chosen schedule. they wish to change. After the first full day of classes, there is a limited two day add/drop period. For extenuating circumstances, please see your Changes will be honored only for sound educational purposes, including: school counselor. • Not having taken a prerequisite for the course • Two courses scheduled simultaneously Schedule changes after the add/drop period will result in a W (withdraw), • Less than 4 courses per trimester WM (withdraw medical) or WF (withdraw fail) on the student’s transcript. • Replacing a study hall with a course
Note: Students who withdraw from Early College Aspirations Program
courses or AP4All courses will receive a WF on their transcript.
*NO STUDENT MAY DROP A COURSE WITHIN THE LAST THREE WEEKS OF A TRIMESTER
Page 8 SNYC/ Capstone
PURPOSE OF CAPSTONE The Capstone project is a Bonny Eagle High School graduation MOST IMPORTANTLY, no matter what form your Capstone Project takes, requirement, which links with the Maine Guiding Principles and the Bonny you should focus on an area that you are passionate about, you will be Eagle vision that will help connect student learning to post-secondary life. proud of and will have FUN doing! Capstone Project Option Descriptions WHAT IS THE CAPSTONE PROJECT? Service Oriented Option 1: Students choosing this area will devote a minimum of 25 hours toward a community service / service learning The Bonny Eagle High School Capstone Graduation Project is a school project. For instance, students may develop and implement a unique board approved event at the end of your high school career, linked directly promotion for raising funds for the local food bank, a community clean up to the Maine Guiding Principles and Bonny Eagle High School vision. This effort, field trips or seminars of interests on topics about the environment, is an exciting and dynamic culminating graduation requirement that calls homeless, elderly homes, clothing drives or even begin their own non-profit upon you to develop an individual project of your choice that demonstrates to address a community need. the skills you have developed as a self directed and lifelong learner. Self-Development Option 2: Through this project, each senior will exhibit his/her skills as an effective communicator (both written and spoken), quality worker, and an integrative Students choosing this option will work to develop a skill and demonstrate and informed thinker. it; to construct or create something you are committed to or passionate about. Examples may include design and build a model of a physical The main idea of Capstone is YOU. The intent is to connect your learning to a personal interest that you, the student, believe may be relevant to the product, perform or produce a play you have written or choreographed, next stage of your life. develop a technology or mechanically based idea for actual use. Examples might include: 4-H, Scouts, Music/Theatre involvements, environmental or The goal is to encourage and motivate you to engage in a project that agricultural interests researched and explored with compelling research relates to your post high school interests, goals and aspirations. data. Write a computer program for application, write, edit and produce a Students will select from one of the four project options. Each option is video, organize a major event or begin a business. different and provides you with an opportunity to explore areas of specific Career-Exploration Option 3: Students who choose this option will interests, as well as demonstrates your personal strengths. it will include complete an internship or job shadow experience, in a career field that the research and development of a major product or project over your four student plans to pursue after high school. Students will begin by years of high school. Learning often takes place beyond the walls of the researching career areas of interest. After identifying a career area of classroom. You may have opportunities to go outside of the school for your interest, the student will research and identify a local company or research, development and process. organization that will sponsor them for an internship or job shadow options. Suggestions to assist you in selecting areas of interest for your Capstone Self-Design / Combination Option 4: For students who would like to Project may include: combine two or more options, Self-design will allow student to direct their Animal Care/Shelters/Colleges/Community Agencies/Computer/Tech Capstone experience. In addition, this option may incorporate employment related business/Environmental Centers/Fitness Centers/Gyms/Hair experiences or small group (2-4) of students who want to work together. Salons/Health Care Facilities/Historical Societies / Culinary/ Hotels / Societies /Restaurants/Hospitality/Jewelers/Law/Legal Services/Libraries/Mechanics/Body Shops/Garages /Retail/Clothing/Theatres/Music/Trades (plumbing, carpentry, electrical, metal works, manufacturing) Visual Arts/Photography
Page 9 AP Courses & Early College Aspirations Program
ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES (AP) Advanced Placement (AP) is a program (sponsored by the College Board) of college-level courses and exams for secondary school students. Over 90% of the colleges that most AP candidates will attend grant credit or advanced placement to students whose AP exam grades are considered acceptable. Bonny Eagle offers many yearlong AP courses. AP exams are given at BEHS in May. Fee waivers may be available for those who qualify. Successful completion of an AP class can mean college credit at most colleges. BE offers the following AP courses:
AP COURSE: PREREQUISITE: AP English Literature & Composition Honors English 11 or English 11 or AP Language & Comp AP English Language & Composition Honors English 10 or English 10 AP Biology Biology & Chemistry (Honors recommended) AP Chemistry Algebra II and Lab Chemistry AP Physics Calculus and Honors Lab Physics Recommended AP Statistics Algebra II AP Calculus A/B, B/C Honors Precalculus & Trigonometry AP Government & Politics No Prerequisite AP U.S. History Honors U.S. History Recommended AP Studio Art: 2-D Design Advanced Art and/or recommendation AP Studio Art: 3-D Design Advanced Art and/or recommendation AP Studio Art: Drawing Advanced Art and/or recommendation AP Human Geography Global Village
AP4ALL is a program available to all public school students in Maine, offered by the Maine Department of Education. AP4ALL provides online Advanced Placement courses free of charge to any student residing in a Maine school administrative unit who is educated at the public expense. These are yearlong online courses, which run from early September through one week after the scheduled date of the AP Exam for the course. AP4ALL courses follow the same calendar, regardless of a student’s own school calendar, and they satisfy all College Board Advanced Placement course requirements. Please check out the website for a full list of class options http://www.ap4all.org. For more information, please see your school counselor or check the AP4ALL website.
EARLY COLLEGE ASPIRATIONS PROGRAM (ECAP) What is Early College Aspirations Program? Early College Aspirations Program (ECAP), is an opportunity for students to earn credit outside of the normal school day. Students are able to take courses through Southern Maine Community College (SMCC), University of Southern Maine (USM), University of Maine @ Orono (UMaine), Saint Joseph’s College (SJC), York County Community College (YCCC), UMaine Fort Kent, Husson University and University of New England (UNE). Students will receive ONE elective credit on their transcript at the successful completion of the course. A letter grade will appear on the BEHS transcript and the grade will count towards class rank and GPA. College courses are weighted at the honors level.
Why should I take an Early College Aspirations class? This is your opportunity to challenge yourself with a college-level class. It also gives you a chance to get a feeling for what its like to be a college student and have a taste of the college experience. PLUS, it’s (almost) FREE college credit! A typical 3-credit college course would cost between $250-$1000 or more PLUS books and associated fees. Through Early College Aspirations, the cost is significantly reduced or free.
How do I sign up? If you are a junior or senior, and at least 16 years old, this is worth checking out! A list of courses is available in the Student Services Office and on the colleges’ websites. Even if you don’t think you are eligible for an early college class, schedule an appointment with your school counselor to see what we can work out!
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NCAA Approved Core Courses
The following is the current list of Bonny Eagle High School courses that are approved core courses for NCAA eligibility. This list is subject to change (by the NCAA) at any time. Each course name is a link to the course descriptions listed under each department section in this Course Selection Guide. For more information on NCAA eligibility, please visit the NCAA Eligibility Center website at: http://web1.ncaa.org/ECWR2/NCAA_EMS/NCAA.jsp
English Courses Math Courses English 9 Algebra I Honors English 9 Geometry English 10 Honors Geometry Honors English 10 Algebra II English 11 Honors Algebra II Honors English 11 Calculus AP Language & Composition AP Calculus English 12 Discrete Math Topics Honors English 12 Precalculus AP Literature & Composition Trigonometry Probability & Statistics
AP Statistics Social Studies Courses
Global Village Science Courses Honors Global Village U.S. History Lab Earth Science Honors U.S. History Honors Lab Earth Science AP U.S. History Lab Biology Government Honors Lab Biology Honors Government AP Biology AP U.S. Government & Politics Lab Chemistry Economics Honors Lab Chemistry Honors Economics AP Chemistry The Rise of Modern Europe and the West Lab Physics The World Wars and Cold War Conflicts Honors Lab Physics Vietnam War AP Physics Psychology Human Anatomy & Physiology Sociology Aquatic Biology Mock Trial Maine Studies Current World Events: -Crime & Punishment in America -Camden Conference in the Classroom AP Human Geography
Language Courses French I, II, III, IV Latin I, II, III, IV Spanish I, II, III, IV, V
Page 11 Course Descriptions NJROTC , SAT Prep & JMG (CED)
NJROTC – HS0103A, HS0103B, JMG COURSES JMG B – HS0100B HS0103C Two/Three Trimesters/1-1.5 credit Naval Junior Reserve Officer Grades 9-12 Training Program Prerequisite. Successful completion JMG A – HS0100A of JMG A One Year /1.5 credit Two/Three Trimesters/1-1.5 credit Grades 9-12 Grades 9-12 This is the 2nd part to the JMG program. Bonny Eagle students taking NJROTC for Prerequisite. Completed In this section you move from learning the first time will be in level 1. Returning Application, Interview and about one’s strengths and move to students will either take level 2, 3 or 4. Specialists approval. making a plan for the rest of high school The Naval Science 2, 3 and 4 courses Do you like helping your community? Do and beyond. Community service and also include annual training in Behavioral you want to learn about the career helping others remains a main focus with Awareness and continued emphasis on opportunities in your community? Do you physical fitness. many opportunities to help those in our like to learn in a hands-on setting? community. ● Understand ways to resist negative peer pressure and support others. This course is a two trimester course Learning Standards: CED 2, 3 NCDG CM 1,2,3,4 ● Appreciate the ethical values that dedicated to helping students create underlie good citizenship. positive relationships with their peers, ● Develop leadership potential and learn teachers, and community members. JMG Personal Finance – HS0101 to live and work cooperatively with Through team building competitions, One Trimester/.5 credit others. discussions, hands-on projects, and Grades 11-12 (10th grade by teacher ● Think logically and communicate recommendation) effectively both orally and in writing. volunteer activities we learn the social Prerequisite. Successful completion ● Become familiar with military history as skills necessary to be successful in of JMG it relates to America’s culture and with today’s workforce. In this course JMG students who have the history, purpose, and structure of completed JMG A or B will have the Last year some of our favorite volunteer opportunity to learn about personal finance the military services. projects included carving 300 pumpkins ● Understand the importance of high through hands on projects and group work. school graduation to a successful for Camp Sunshine, helping the hungry in While in the course students will still have future. our community, and going to Thomas opportunities to do help others in our ● Learn about college and other College for our annual convention. JMG community. Topics covered include: advanced educational and A will focus on finding your strengths and managing a checking account, establishing employment opportunities and develop interests and working on your and maintaining good credit, buying a car, the skills necessary to work effectively interpersonal skills to help you do better renting an apartment, evaluating as a member of a team. in school and the work force. Come join insurances, filing income tax returns, and budgeting. For more information visit the the JMG family and help us find more Massabesic school website at: ways to connect to our community! Learning Standards: CED 3, 4 NCDG CM 1,2,3,4 Learning Standards: CED 1, 3 NCDG CM 1,2,3,4 Massabesic High School Program of Studies 2020-2021
SAT Prep – HS0102 One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 9-12 Students in this class will learn and practice proven SAT testing strategies, as well as the format, scoring and content of the test. This class involves going over a large amount of practice SAT material. Some class time is spent on developing a target SAT score and a personal plan of College & Career Readiness study to continue studying after the A college and career ready student possesses trimester is over. If you are stressed out the content knowledge, strategies, skills, and about the test or just want to be as techniques necessary to be successful in a prepared as possible, this class is for postsecondary, career and work setting. you. As in other departments, we are in the process of adapting a performance based grading system. Our courses are all designed to prepare students for college and career readiness. As we transition to this system, standards and performance indicators are subject to change
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Course Descriptions Career Education & Development (CED)
Accounting I A – HS0105A EXTENDED LEARNING BUSINESS COURSES Accounting 1 B – HS0105B OPPORTUNITIES (ELO) One Trimester/.5 credit (each) Grades 9-12 Hey you! Yes, you! What can we Did you know the largest area of study in Extended Learning do to help you prepare for your colleges and universities across the Opportunities (ELO) is a program future? No matter what field you United States is some type of business offered to juniors and seniors. The intend to pursue from aeronautics related courses. Whether it be curriculum is designed to prepare to construction, from medicine to Management, Marketing, Finance, Sales students for every aspect of entering and finance, from education to or many other areas, business related succeeding in the workplace and focuses owning your own business we courses continue to be the top choice for on post high school planning for have courses that are relevant to many students. All these choices have career/college readiness. your career path. Check them out, one thing in common, they ALL will then, come on down and talk REQUIRE students to take Accounting with us about what we can do for Courses. Get a leg up on your future School to Work Experience I – you! classmates. The exact same concepts HS0300A, HS0300B and principles you will find in the College One Trimester/Up to .5 credit (each) classroom are taught here at BEHS. Grades 11-12 Microsoft Office – HS0104 Accounting at the post secondary level Prerequisite: 16 years old & One Trimester/.5 credit can be extremely challenging, so why not employed or seeking employment Grades 9-12 Students will participate in class Think about how much you use Google start your journey now and make life instruction related to the World of Work every day at school. All the time, right? easier for yourself in the and Careers. *Part of your time may also When you leave high school you will future. Accounting is also great for be on a work site. Your teacher probably say goodbye to Google and anyone who wants to learn the concepts /coordinator will meet with your work site of maintaining your financial records and hello to MicroSoft Office. MicroSoft supervisor during the trimester. The work Office is the software program that most tracking your money. If you were going to requirement is on a part time basis, major in a foreign language in college, companies use today. In fact, the person usually 15 to 24 hours per week. This interviewing you for a business job may wouldn’t you take that language in High may be a first-time work experience or School? ask if you know how to use MicroSoft reflect your career interests. The Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Impress Course Standards: CED Standard 1 employed student must have reliable them by saying that you mastered these transportation and maintain good skills in high school! Completing this attendance at school and work. The course will allow you to confidentially Entrepreneurship & Marketing – school, employer, student, and parents enter the work world knowing how to use HS0201 enter into a collaborative training the software program that dominates the One Trimester/.5 credit agreement. business world. Grades 10-12 Section HS0300A students will assess Have you ever thought about wanting to their skills and demonstrate how to find, Course Standards: CED Standard 1 work for yourself or being your own apply for and secure employment or boss? Do you have a unique idea for a career options. Law and You – HS0107 business and want to know what it takes Section HS0300B will research further on One Trimester/.5 credit to start up a business? Entrepreneurship post high school career and work Grades 9-12 is the term used of someone who strikes planning with a variety of resources and This course covers valuable topics that out on their own to start their own opportunities to research and plan for most young adults will encounter in the business. Something all Entrepreneurs training, education and career choices. need to understand is the importance of next few years. Study will cover true Course Standards: CED 1,2,3 situations that show how personal and marketing. The best ideas and products in the world would not succeed without business law impacts the lives of young people and adults. This course will help the understanding of marketing concepts. Work Experience- On the Job There is a saying in business, “You don’t you achieve an understanding of legal Training – HS0302 principles you will use throughout your sell the steak, you sell the sizzle! One Trimester Work/ 1 credit life. Units covered will be: Crimes & ”Marketing is all about selling the “Sizzle” Grades 11-12 Torts, contract and consumer law, of the business of our choice. You will Students may earn credit for work marriage/divorce, renting and complete a Business Plan for the experience. In addition to your daily employment law, including business of your choice from start to class you may be employed by a Bona discrimination. Textbook discussion, finish; the end goal is to have a product Fide business in accordance with a videos, on-line research, movies, current you could “take to the bank”. Some of the student-trainee work agreement court cases and guest speaker will be richest people in the world are all recognized by the Maine Bureau of Labor used throughout the course. Entrepreneurs, WHY NOT YOU? Standards. If you secure a part time job,
Course Standards: CED Standard 1,2 Course Standards: CED 3 you will be able to work 10-24 hours per week. As an employee you will perform
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Financial Awareness – HS0710 Culinary Arts – HS0202 Food Safety Internship – HS0303 Satisfies the Financial Literacy One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit graduation requirement Grades 10-12 Grades 11-12; not recommended for One Trimester/.5 credit Prerequisite: Foods for Wellness Vocational students already enrolled Grades 11-12 This advanced foods course includes a in Culinary Arts This is a required course that is designed detailed study of American and foreign Prerequisite: Foods for Wellness, to give students the knowledge and skills cooking techniques. Students will work in Culinary Arts, teacher to make financial decisions that will lead teams to prepare nutritious appetizers, recommendation to success in personal life, education, salads, soups, breads, meats, garnishes This course provides students with the work and citizenship roles. Topics and gifts from the kitchen. Students will opportunity to dive deeper into the world include: Money Management, Borrowing, explore career paths in the foodservice of food safety. Students will complete a Earning, Power, Financial Services and industry through lab participation, self-paced study through the National Insurance. This course can also be demonstrations, group and individual Restaurant Association's 7th Edition applied to Social Studies credit. projects and reflections. Coursebook, culminating in a chance to
Course Standards: CED 4, Social Studies 4 Course Standards: CED 3 take the nationally recognized ServSafe FACS: 8.1.1, 8.2.7, 8.5.2, 8.5.4, 8.5.12, 8.5.14 Food Manager test. Students who
successfully pass the test will receive their Food Manager certification, Advanced Financial Awareness – The World of Children – HS0203 HS7511 One Trimester/.5 credit potentially boosting their employment Prerequisite: Financial Awareness Grades 10-12 opportunities right out of high OR On Your Own OR JMG Personal Prerequisite: Health school. Interns will assist other students Finance Students will study children and learn enrolled in the Foods for Wellness This is an elective course that is some of the skills necessary to pursue a classes with knife skills, food safety, designed to give students enhanced career in education, social work or health kitchen basics and beginning cooking knowledge and skills to make thorough, care. Students will also study parenting skills. Interns will also be provided the practical, and thoughtful financial and the effects on child development. opportunity to cook, and create their own decisions that will lead to the highest Class requirements include but are not dishes during class labs. chance at success in personal life, limited to child observations, a parent Course standards: CED 2 and Food Safety TBD education, work and citizenship roles. interview, 48 hours with a computerized BE Career and Education Development Graduation Topics include in-depth college and baby and a six hour child care internship. Standard Education, Career and Life Roles The goal of this class is to develop career planning, comprehensive The Homestead and the Kitchen budgeting techniques, and advanced strategies that can be used to promote – HS0109 financial planning strategies. This course the healthy growth and development of One Trimester/.5 credit can also be applied to Social Studies children of all ages. Grades 10-12 credit. Course Standards: CED 2 FACS: 4.2.1, 4.3.6, 15.1.2, 15.2.4 Prerequisite: Foods for Wellness
Course Standards: CED 4, Social Studies 4 This will be a cross-curricular class, with students spending 6 weeks with the On Your Own: Life Planning & Technology and Engineering Department FAMILY & CONSUMER Management Skills – HS0204 and 6 weeks with Family and Consumer SCIENCE COURSES Satisfies the Financial Literacy Sciences. For the T/E component, graduation requirement students will learn about the hands-on One Trimester/.5 credit applications of homesteading and food Family and Consumer Science Grades 11-12 (10th grade by teacher production. This could include education empowers individuals recommendation) hydroponics, tools for maple syrup and families to manage the This financial planning course will help producing, developing/maintaining a challenges of living and working make the transition from high school to garden/plants, designing and building a in a diverse society. Our unique life after BE easier by giving the student a greenhouse, designing and building solid foundation in independent living and focus is on families, work, and cooking methods, and/or other hands-on money management skills. Topics projects that will assist in the their interrelationship. included are: Career explorations and understanding of homestead living and decision making, costs of secondary producing food and sustainability for daily Foods for Wellness – HS0108 education, protecting your identity, life. During the six weeks in Family One Trimester/.5 credit checking and savings accounts, credit, Grades 9-12 Consumer Sciences, the students will This course explores the fundamentals of buying a car, renting an apartment, discuss and perform a variety of cooking delicious, healthy foods. Working evaluating insurance options, filing homesteading kitchen ideas, including in groups, the students will learn basic income taxes and creating and living with food preservation and meat processing, cooking skills, nutrition information to a budget. The final project is a personal beekeeping, gardening, foraging, maple financial plan designed by the student. make more informed food choices, and syrup production, homemade body care acquire consumer skills to make the most Course Standards: CED 4 and cleaning products, and sewing and of their food dollars. The course knitting basics. emphasizes the value of working as a Course standards: TBD productive, unified team. Meal planning is an important element. The students will plan, prepare and evaluate a breakfast, lunch and guest dinner.
Course Standards: CED 1 FACS: 8.2,9.3,14.2
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Course Descriptions English Courses
The English Department’s English 10 A – HS1200A Program of Studies is designed to ENGLISH COURSES One Trimester/.5 credit REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION Grade 10 help all students acquire the Prerequisite: English 9 A&B skills and knowledge outlined in English 9 or Honors English 9 Building on the skills and knowledge the English and Language Arts English 10 or Honors English 10 developed in English 9A & B, students section of the Common Core English 11 or Honors English 11 or AP will continue to improve their reading, Standards. English Language & Composition writing and language skills. Students will English 12 or Honors English 12 or AP complete four units of study: an During the course of their four years at English Literature & Composition interdisciplinary study of the Holocaust BEHS, students will read widely in a centered on Elie Wiesel’s Night, an variety of genres: the short story, poetry, exploration of a variety of types on non- the novel and non-fiction. Also, all English 9 B – HS1100B fiction, a study of a variety of types of students will have the opportunity to One Trimester/.5 credit poetry and an argumentative essay. Each develop writing skills in a variety of Grade 9 unit will involve expository writing. In modes, in particular argumentation and Prerequisite: English 9 A addition students will use the Sadlier- exposition. Students will complete two literature units Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level E to and two writing units. Students will read strengthen their vocabulary. Students will Honors courses in grades 9-12 and two and analyze two texts: a self-selected continue to develop their skills in Advanced Placement courses are offered text and one play, Romeo and Juliet. expository and personal writing, including to those students willing to take on these Students will write a literary analysis constructed responses and on-demand challenges. essay and an argumentative essay, with essays. a focus on the writing process. Students Whichever courses students choose, Course Standards: BE 1B,C, 2A, 4 will continue to include a study of classes are geared to teach students to grammar and vocabulary. read insightfully, write clearly and Course Standards: BE 1A,C, D,E, 2A, 3A,B, 4C,G English 10 B – HS1200B logically, access information in a variety One Trimester/.5 credit of ways, and increase their knowledge of Grade 10 American and world cultures. Prerequisite: English 10 A Honors English 9 A – HS1101A Students will complete three units of Literacy Program One Trimester/.5 credit study: the novel, drama and research. Students who have not yet met the Grade 9 This course allows motivated students to Novels may include Cisneros’s The required reading goal will be assigned to challenge themselves in reading, writing House on Mango Street, Golding’s The one of five literacy strategy classes. All Lord of the Flies and/or a variety of fiction Literacy classes are focused around a and discussion. Students will complete four units of study: writing, the novel, texts. Drama may include Shakespeare’s high-interest young adult novel and Julius Caesar, Othello or an equivalent designed to not only improve over-all drama and vocabulary. Novels and drama may include Never Let Me Go and classic text of equal literary merit. In reading abilities but also equip students addition students will use the Sadlier- with skills and knowledge they can easily Antigone, with an emphasis on literary analysis and MLA formatted research. Oxford Vocabulary Workshop to transfer to other classes Students will review the essay format strengthen their vocabulary. Students will with a required expository writing piece. complete a research paper on a poet of In addition, students will use the Sadlier- their choice. English 9 A – HS1100A Oxford Vocabulary Workshop. Summer Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,F, 3A,B,C, 5A,B One Trimester/.5 credit Grade 9 reading will be required.
This course is designed to prepare all Course Standards: BE 1A,C,D, 2A, 4C,G Honors English 10 A – HS1201A students for post-secondary instruction. One Trimester/.5 credit Grade 10 Students will complete three units of Prerequisite: English 9 A&B study: writing, the novel and vocabulary. Honors English 9 B – HS1101B Building on the skills and knowledge Novels may include Harper Lee’s To Kill One Trimester/.5 credit developed in English 9A & B and the a Mockingbird and John Steinbeck’s Of Grade 9 Honors challenge, students will continue Mice and Men with an emphasis on Prerequisite: English 9 A to improve their reading, writing and literary analysis. Students will review the This class builds on the skills and language skills. Students are responsible essay format with a required expository knowledge developed in Honors 9A. for completing a summer reading writing piece. In addition, students will Students will complete three literature assignment and submitting this material use the Sadlier-Oxford Vocab Workshop. units and two writing units. Students will on the first day of class. They will read and analyze two novels: Catcher in Course Standards: BE 1A,C,D, 2A, 4C,G complete four units of study: an the Rye and a self-selected text and one interdisciplinary study of the Holocaust play, Romeo and Juliet. Students will centered on Elie Wiesel’s Night, an write a literary analysis essay and an exploration of a variety of types on non- argumentative essay, with a focus on the fiction (drawn from both the Glencoe writing process. Students will continue to textbook and contemporary sources), and include a study of grammar and study of a variety of types of poetry, and vocabulary. an argumentative essay. Students will
Course Standards: BE 1 A,C,1D,1E, 2 A, 3 A,B, 4 C,G use the Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level G to strengthen their
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vocabulary. In addition students will Honors English 11 A – HS1301A English 12 A – HS1400A continue to develop their skills in One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit expository and personal writing, including Grade 11 Grade 12 constructed responses and on-demand Prerequisite: English 10 A&B Prerequisite: English 11 A&B essays. This course is designed to provide This course is designed to prepare all motivated students the opportunity to students for post-secondary instruction. Course Standards: BE 1B,C, 2A, 4 read broadly and write often. Students Students will read and analyze a variety Honors English 10 B – HS1201B will read and analyze a wide variety of of fiction and non-fiction. This reading will One Trimester/.5 credit challenging fiction from the American include selections from 40 Best Essays, a Grade 10 literary canon, including essays by Ralph novel that students will read as part of a Prerequisite: English 10 A Waldo Emerson and Henry David book group, and Shakespeare’s Students will complete three units of Thoreau and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The MacBeth. Students will use informal study: the novel, drama, argumentation, Great Gatsby. Students will write literary class discussions and formal written and research. Novels may include analyses and a formal argumentative literary analysis to voice their exploration Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, essay. This class includes a formal study of these texts. Students will keep a Golding’s The Lord of the Flies and/or a of grammar. Vocabulary will be studied in Writer’s Notebook and create their own variety of fiction texts. Drama will include context. Students are required to personal narrative/college application at least one Shakespearean play (Julius complete reading over the summer in essay. This class includes a formal study Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or preparation for this course. of grammar. Vocabulary will be studied
Othello). In addition students will use the Course Standards: BE 1C,D,E, 2B, 3A,B,C,D, 4A,C,F,G in context. While some time will be Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop devoted to personal writing, expository Level G to strengthen their vocabulary. writing will be a major component of this Students will write often, included Honors English 11 B – HS1301B class. constructed responses. Students will One Trimester/.5 credit Grade 11 Course Standards: BE 1B,C,D, 2A, 4C,D,E,F,G complete both a source-based argumentative essay and a New England Prerequisite: English 11 A research paper, in which they trace a This course continues the study of English 12 B – HS1400B common theme in a New England American literature. However, the focus is on non-fiction and writing using One Trimester/.5 credit painter, poet and artist. Grade 12 academic sources. These readings will Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,F, 3A,B,C, 5A,B be the basis of a synthesis essay, as well Prerequisite: English 12 A This course is designed to prepare all as shorter literary analyses. Students will students for post-secondary instruction. also write and present a persuasive While English 12A focuses on fiction and English 11 A – HS1300A speech. This class also continues the One Trimester/.5 credit narrative, this class will focus on the Art formal study of grammar as it pertains to of Argument. A significant portion of class Grade 11 student writing and vocabulary in context. Prerequisite: English 10 A&B time will be devoted to rhetorical analysis In preparation for college-level work, Course Standards: BE 2D, 3A,B,C,D, 4C,F,G, 5A,B,C of model essays and speeches. In students will continue to improve their addition, students will complete multiple reading and writing skills. They will read drafts of two major assignments: an and analyze Fitzgerald’s The Great English 11B- ELA Pathways – argumentative essay, and an Gatsby, and Miller’s Death of a Salesman HS1303B argumentative research paper on a book or another American play that explores One Trimester/.5 credit of their choice. This class includes a the concept of the American Dream. Grade 11 formal study of grammar. Vocabulary will Students will write literary analyses, and Prerequisite: English 11 A be studied in context. In this Pathway option, students who an argumentative essay. This class also Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,C,D,E, 3A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B,C includes a formal study of grammar. attend Westbrook Regional Vocational Vocabulary will be studied in context. Center as a junior may earn their 11B English credit through the completion of a Course Standards: BE 1C,D,E, 2B, 3A,B,C,D, 4A,C,F,G Honors English 12 A – HS1401A digital portfolio that compiles the reading, One Trimester/.5 credit writing, speaking, and listening work Grade 12 completed in their WRVC Tech 1 Prerequisite: English 11 A&B English 11 B – HS1300B program. Students in this program will This course is designed to challenge One Trimester/.5 credit work with the Pathways English teacher students who have a passion for reading Grade 11 to create the digital portfolio, following a and writing. Students will read and Prerequisite: English 11A checklist of assignments that analyze a variety of fiction from British The focus of this trimester will be the and world literature. Selections will reading of non-fiction texts and the use of demonstrate specific grade 11 ELA standards and performance indicators. include Beowulf, Shakespeare’s Macbeth multiple sources to craft persuasive and and Hamlet and a selection of poetry. informative texts, including a multi-genre Students will edit and revise the written work in their portfolios as needed, Students will use informal class synthesis essay. Students will also write discussions and formal written literary and present a persuasive speech. This following standard MLA format and citations. At the successful completion of analysis to voice their exploration of the class also includes preparation for the text. Nonfiction reading will focus on SAT and a continuation of the study of the portfolio, students will earn a .5 English 11B credit. published essays by writers such as grammar and vocabulary in context. Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,F, 3A,B,C, 5A,B George Orwell, David Sedaris, and Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,F, 3A,B,C, 5A,B Langston Hughes. From this study, students will create their own personal
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Course Descriptions English Courses narrative/college application essay. This Journalism A – HS1608A genres will result in a portfolio of class includes a formal study of grammar One Trimester/.5 credit completed writing. and vocabulary will be studied in context. Grades 9-12 This course serves as an introduction to Course Standards: BE 4B,D,E,G The class will include some review of the SAT and college placement tests. news reporting and writing skills. Topics covered include news writing, feature Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,C,D,E, 3A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B,C writing, editorial writing, photography, AP English Language & layout and design, and related skills Composition A, B & C – involved in putting out a newspaper. HS1500A, HS1500B, HS1500C Honors English 12 B – HS1401B Students enrolled in this class will help One Trimester/.5 credit (each) One Trimester/.5 credit Grade 11 or instructor’s consent produce The Eagle Times, BEHS’s Prerequisite: English 10 A&B or Grade 12 award-winning newspaper and maintain Prerequisite: English 12 A Honors 10 A&B the newspaper website. Required to complete summer This course is designed to build on the reading and to take AP exam in May. skills and knowledge student’s gain in Course Standards: BE 4A,B,C,F,G, 5A,B,C This introductory, college-level advanced 12A. Students will read and analyze a placement course requires that students variety of fiction from British and world Broadcast Journalism B – read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of non-fiction literature. Selections may include HS1608B Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities or an One Trimester/.5 credit prose selections written in a variety of equivalent text, Orwell’s 1984, and Grades 9-12 periods, disciplines, and rhetorical Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western This class builds upon the skills learned contexts, as well as selected major works in Journalism A and will revolve around of American literature. Through close Front. Other titles will be included as time reading and frequent writing, students will and student interest allow. Students will students producing video and podcasts for publication on the website of the deepen their knowledge of how writers write literary analyses, argumentative school newspaper, behstimes.org. create meaning in their work. A writing essays and an argumentative research Students may take this class without process format, with an emphasis on paper on a book of their choice. This having completed Journalism A with the frequent writing conferences and multiple class includes a formal study of grammar permission of the instructor. The class drafts, will help students strengthen their and vocabulary will be studied in context. own writing skills. can also be taken more than once during The class will include some review of the a student’s four years at BEHS Standards: Beyond the state required standards and covers a college level curriculum. SAT and college placement tests. Instruction will help students work towards meeting the following course Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,C,D,E, 3A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B,C standards: AP English Literature & Course standards: BE 4A,B,C,F,G, 5A,B,C, 6A,B Composition A, B & C – HS1501A, English 12B- ELA Pathways – HS1501B,HS1501C One Trimester/.5 credit (each) HS1403B One Trimester/.5 credit Grade 12 or instructor’s consent Grade 12 Creative Writing I – HS1606 Prerequisite: English 11 A&B, Prerequisite: English 12 A One Trimester/.5 credit Required to take the AP exam in In this Pathway option, students who Grades 9-12 May. attend Westbrook Regional Vocational This course is designed to help students This year-long course allows motivated Center as a senior may earn their 12B improve their writing skills in an students the opportunity for college level English credit through the completion of a interactive writers’ workshop format. work while still in high school. To this digital portfolio that compiles the reading, Students will write in multiple genres that end, the course follows the requirements writing, speaking, and listening work may include poetry, short stories and one as articulated in the College Board's AP completed in their WRVC Tech 2 act plays as well as multiple prompted English course description. The class program. Students in this program will writing exercises. An oral presentation of includes the study of British Literature, work with the Pathways English teacher student work is expected and a portfolio frequent lengthy reading assignments, of their work is to be kept. frequent writing assignments (both timed to create the digital portfolio, following a checklist of assignments that Course Standards: BE 4B,D,E,G. essays and longer out of class essays), demonstrate specific grade 12 ELA the formal study of grammar, and the study of the Bible as Literature. standards and performance indicators. Students will edit and revise the written Creative Writing II – HS1607 Course Standards: Beyond the state required standards and covers work in their portfolios as needed, One Trimester/.5 credit a college level curriculum following standard MLA format and Grades 9-12 citations. At the successful completion of While building on experiences gained in the portfolio, students will earn a .5 Creative Writing I, students will continue English 12B credit. to improve their writing skills in Creative
Course Standards: BE 1C,D, 2A,C,D,E, 3A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B,C Writing II. Once again, an interactive writers’ workshop format will be utilized. Collaborative writing will assist in strengthening writing skills and individual opportunities for longer independent works will be assigned. In addition, a variety of student assignments in multiple
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VISUAL ARTS COURSES Media Art I: Illustrator– HS9125 AP Studio Art: One Trimester/.5 credit 2-D Design–HS9301A, HS9301B, Grades 9-12 HS9301C Art I: Survey – HS9121 This course is an introduction to the foundations of media art through learning 3-D Design – HS9303A, HS9303B, One Trimester/.5 credit HS9303C Grades 9-12 Adobe Illustrator (a vector image software). This is a survey course designed for Students will build their portfolio and Drawing–HS9302A, HS9302B, students who wish to have a basic practice skills in Adobe Illustrator HS930C introduction to visual art. This course Emphasis will be placed on creating One Year (each)/1.5 credit (each) effective design layouts and will be Grades 11-12 includes an exploration of the foundation of Prerequisite: At least 3 visual/media art arts with an introduction to a variety of demonstrated by creating a variety of courses media and methods in two and three digital artworks. College credit can be earned if you dimensions. Instruction is based on the Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3 take the AP exam in May. student’s needs and teacher’s strengths, This course enables highly motivated with an emphasis on skill development, students to engage in college-level work in problem solving and art appreciation. Media Art I: Photoshop – HS9126 studio art while still in high school. Digital portfolios will be introduced along One Trimester/.5 credit Advanced Placement work includes Grades 9-12 with the software for creating works of art. significantly more time and dedication than In this course students will learn to Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 effectively pair traditional and digital most high school courses; therefore, the techniques and tools as a method for program is intended for students seriously committed to the study of art. visual communication and expression. Art I: 2D – HS9122 Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 One Trimester/.5 credit Students will learn software such as Adobe Grades 9-12 Photoshop and will use digital cameras, This Art I course explores different media scanners and digital drawing tablets to disciples in two dimensions. Students will create visual statements and works of art. THEATRE COURSES increase their understanding and Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 appreciation of art through both responding Unified Theatre – HS9128 and making two dimensional visual One Trimester/.5 credit images. Disciples explored could include Media Art I: Video – HS9127 Grades 9-12 but is not limited to: painting, drawing, One Trimester/.5 credit *Teacher or counselor recommendation printmaking, collage, scratchboard, and Grades 9-12 required to enroll in this course.* mixed media.. Unified Theatre is a special focus theatre Students will learn and develop skills in Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 digital video production. Both individual course in which students with and without and group projects will be created. disabilities will participate in improvisational Students will create a narrative short film; a theatre games and hands-on drama Art I: 3D – HS9123 silent film; a commercial; an interview; and activities. Through these games and One Trimester/.5 credit activities, students will develop and Grades 9-12 a final, free choice film. Students will learn how to shoot well-composed video, record improve on important life skills including This Art I course involves the creation of self-awareness, self-management, social artistic pieces in three dimensions. audio for dialogue and sound effects, and edit footage using Adobe Premiere Pro. awareness, relationship skills, empathy, Students are introduced to several effective communication, collaboration, traditional sculpture methods that may The students will learn how to write a screenplay, draw a storyboard, and use problem-solving, decision-making, and include materials such as clay, stone, flexibility. The course welcomes students metals, found objects and 3D printed creativity as they produce projects that deliver distinct messages. Student films who would like to develop these skills as forms. Students will participate in group well as students who would like to role and individual critiques to further engage in may be displayed on BETV. model these skills. The course does not critical and expressive dialogue. This class Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 require that students perform in front of an will also have an emphasis on research as audience. a way to deepen each student’s understanding and comprehension of Honors Advanced Art – HS9300 Course Standards: VPA 2,4 techniques and artistic appreciation. One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 11-12 Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3 Prerequisite: At least 3 visual/media arts Film Appreciation – HS9129 courses One Trimester/.5 credit This is a course designed for self- Grades 9-12 Art 1: Photography – HS9124 motivated and experienced visual/media This is a trimester class for the student that One Trimester/.5 credit art students. Emphasis is placed on has an interest in learning about the Grades 9-12 portfolio development based on individual development of film as an art form. An in- This course is an introduction to the strengths. depth study is made of the “cinematic foundations of visual art through the lens of language” used by filmmakers to tell photography. Students will also study the 3 Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 stories. The student will view, analyze, and aspects of exposure, develop creative critique various films as they learn how to thinking and art appreciation skills, and watch movies as an active viewer, interpret build/add to an online portfolio. “cinematic language,” and understand the
Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3 impact of film on society.
Course Standards: VPA 3,4
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Theatre I – HS9103 MUSIC COURSES and it will encompass topics from One Trimester/.5 credit Radiohead to African Music to Bach to Grades 9-12 Gregorian chant. Students will be Theatre I is an introductory course in which Concert Band – HS9108A, encouraged to develop a much more students will participate in a variety of HS9108B, HS9108C creative and educated perspective on theatre-based experiences. They will One Year or minimum of two music through: listening, discussions, develop skills in creative expression consecutive trimesters/1 credit with readings, writings, and projects. Students through both performing and technical instructor’s consent 1.5 credit Grades 9-12 will also have the opportunity to theatre (set and costume design and Prerequisite: MS Band or instructor’s attend a few music performances construction). Students will act in a consent. Requires attendance at all throughout the semester. children's play that tours to SAD 6 concerts. Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 elementary schools. Participating in the The instrumental music program is open to Literacy Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy: .RL.9-10.1 Research Project .W.9-10.2,4 Research Project many aspects of theatre will provide a all students that have had some previous greater understanding of theatre as an art experience playing a band instrument. All form, theatre’s role in society, and theatre’s groups perform several concerts each ability to make us better human beings. year. The Band performs at local Music Fundamentals & Theory – Course Standards: VPA 1, 2, 3, 4 community events, sporting events, as well HS9106 as select festivals statewide and in One Trimester/.5 credit neighboring states. Students enrolled may Grades 9-12 Theatre II – HS9104 Prerequisite: Band, Guitar, Chorus, One Trimester/.5 credit audition for various state and national Select Chorus, Piano Lab, Music Grades 9-12 ensemble groups. All instrumental groups Appreciation or instructor’s consent. Prerequisite: Theatre I perform a variety of musical styles and This class will introduce students to the Theatre II is designed for students who focus on the individual’s role as part of the fundamentals of written music and basic to wish to further their knowledge of theatre, ensemble. Students are able to take the intermediate music theory and will be with an emphasis on the writing and course at four different assessment levels particularly beneficial for students who are development of an original performance to ensure progress is being made in their planning on pursuing music as a career. piece. Students will continue to develop musicianship, regardless of the number of Students will learn and apply knowledge of acting skills through work with monologues times they have taken the course. Students musical notation, symbols and terminology. and will explore directing as a new unit of are encouraged to repeat this course as Students will analyze music using their study. The class will be guided in writing many times as necessary as the ensemble understanding of pitch, rhythm, form, their own performance piece about issues is dependent upon all group members. texture and harmony. that are relevant to the class. This project Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3 culminates in an evening performance for the community. Students who have not taken Theatre I but have extensive theatre Ukelele – HS9118 Songwriting – HS9209 background must obtain written permission One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 9-12 One Trimester/.5 credit from the instructor prior to registering. Grades 10-12 Designed for the student who has limited Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 Study the craft of writing music through or no musical experience, but has an analyzing songs in a variety of styles and interest in learning the basics of music genres. Students will learn about the through playing the ukulele. It will serve as Stagecraft – HS9105 creative craft of writing music by acquiring an introduction to the ukulele, music One Trimester/.5 credit familiarity with music terminology, melody Grades 9-12 notation, music theory, and music history. writing, and lyric writing. Students will learn The class focuses on helping the student Stagecraft provides a hands-on learning through classroom discussions and experience creating the scenery, lighting, develop a basic understanding of music. examples as well as project oriented As a performance based class, students props, and costumes for a Bonny Eagle assignments, and the creation of a final Drama production in the fall, winter, or will be required to perform on a regular portfolio of their written music. It is spring. It is designed for students who are basis. Students should have their own encouraged that students be able to play interested in learning about theatre but do ukulele, but some school owned ukuleles an instrument or sing, but it is not required. not want to perform. Students will learn are available for those without one. Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 how to analyze and interpret dramatic Course Standards: VPA 1, 2, 3, 4. literature and express that understanding through design and construction of scenery, props, lighting, and costumes. Music Appreciation – HS9110 Concert Band/Vocal Music – Students will learn to use technology to One Trimester/.5 credit HS9111 research, develop, and document design Grades 9-12 One Year/1.5 credit choices. Participation in the class will This class is designed for the student with Grades 9-12 little or no training in music with an interest Designed for those students who will be provide a greater understanding of the members of both band and chorus. non-performance aspects of theatre as an in learning more about how music works and how to talk about it. The class will Students will split their time between the art form. Students will be exposed to the two performance groups. See course various possibilities for careers available serve as an introduction to music history, notation, theory, criticism and aesthetics. descriptions under “Chorus” and “Concert behind the scenes in entertainment Band” for additional details. industries. Students with little or no musical training and those with many years of musical Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 training will benefit from this class. The
course will build on the foundation of modern music and current musical trends,
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Piano Lab – HS9113 Chorus – HS9115A, HS9115B, Auditioned Treble Choir– HS9120 One Trimester/.5 credit HS9115C Second & Third Trimesters/1 credit Grades 9-12 One Year or minimum of two Grades 9-12 Piano lab is a performance-based class consecutive trimesters/1 credit with Prerequisite: Acceptance by audition open to beginner and advanced beginner instructor’s consent and/or instructor’s consent piano students. Through online sites, a Grades 9-12 *Students will be expected to modern electronic piano lab, small group Prerequisite: Required to participate participate in both second and third in one performance per trimester and and individual instruction, and hands on may be required to sing individually trimesters practice, students will learn the basics or in small groups as part of a Treble choir is a performance based class necessary to play the piano. Students will final exam. for soprano and alto voiced students learn and apply knowledge of musical Chorus is a non-auditioned performance seeking to work at a more advanced level notation, symbols and terminology to based class in which students are exposed and perform more frequently than that of perform music with greater complexity as to various styles of music. All students at chorus. Through ear training, sight the course progresses. singing, and music theory students will any level of musicianship are Course Standards: VPA 2 welcome. Students will learn and be prepare 3+ part music for various expected to demonstrate basic sight performances throughout the year. singing, music theory, and aural skills as Auditions for treble choir will take place Guitar Class – HS9114 well as proper choral singing technique as toward the end of the first trimester. One Trimester/.5 credit we work together to prepare and perform Students in treble choir will be highly Grades 9-12 three and four part music. encouraged to audition for the District 1 Designed for the student who has limited to Honors Festival as well as the Maine All Course Standards: VPA 1,2 State Festival. intermediate musical experience, and who has the interest in learning the basics of Select Chorus – HS9116A, Course Standards: VPA 1,2 music and playing guitar. It will serve as an introduction to the guitar, music notation HS9116B, HS9116C One Year/1.5 credit and TAB reading, music theory, music Grades 9-12 Yearbook Production – HS9210A, history and songwriting. Developed to help Prerequisite: Acceptance by audition HS9210B students work at their own pace at a or instructor’s consent Two Trimesters/.5 credit (each) variety of different levels, and focuses on *Participation in this course will take Grades 10-12 helping the student with little musical students out of class frequently If you are unable to take both sections training, develop a basic understanding of (occasionally two+ times during the of this course, you must speak to the week) and will include some evening teacher so they may sign off on a one music through learning how to play the and weekend events. guitar at a beginning/intermediate level. trimester waiver. Select chorus is a performance-based This is a two trimester course, you must Students will be recommended songs to class for students seriously seeking to learn and perform weekly, and they will sign up for both yearbook production A and work at a more advanced level and B. This course is designed to teach the also be encouraged to choose songs that perform more frequently than that of they would like to learn. With three skills necessary to produce the school chorus. Through ear training, sight singing, yearbook, which offers a complete record different levels it ensures that all students music theory and piano lessons, students are progressing in their musicianship of an entire school year. Students will will prepare 4+ part music for various study layout and design techniques. regardless of the number of times they performances throughout the year. have taken the course (Note: there is also Students will learn strategies of planning, Auditions for Select Chorus will take place marketing (ad sales) and distribution of the an advanced guitar class also offered) on or about early Spring. Students in select Students should have their own guitar, but yearbook. Students will work independently chorus are expected to audition for the and in small groups. Students will be some school owned guitars are available District 1 Honors Festival as well as the for those without one. required to meet four publication deadlines Maine All State Festival. from September through March, as well as Course Standards: VPA 1, 2, 3, 4 Course Standards: VPA 1,2 sell business advertisements. Students will learn good work habits and are 100% responsible for all phases of our yearbook Vocal/Instrumental Lab – HS9119 publication. One Trimester/.5 credit This is an elective credit not, a Fine Art Grades 9-12 credit. This course is designed for students who have little or no experience playing musical Course Standards: VPA 1,2,3,4 ED C instruments. Students will be taught how to read music notation and play an instrument of their choice, brass, woodwind, percussion and/or strings (subject to availability and/or teacher approval) and voice. Students will work towards weekly goals on their own and with daily instruction from the teacher. The culmination of this course will be a performance of solo repertoire picked for the students ability and a research project on their chosen instrument. *Students interested in learning guitar or piano should sign up for Guitar/Piano Class. Page 20 Health & Physical Education Courses Course Descriptions
The Health & Physical Education Health – HS2105 Collaborative & Territorial Programs at BEHS are designed One Trimester/.5 credit Activities – HS2101 to increase the knowledge and Grades 9-12 One Trimester/.5 credit skills that students need to be Designed to give students the knowledge Grades 9-12 and skills to succeed physically, mentally healthy individuals. Students Prerequisite: Found of Wellness and socially in life. Students will develop Offers students the opportunity to will learn how to protect their the skills needed to practice and maintain participate in a variety of sports stressing health by learning new health-enhancing and safe behaviors. fitness, personal and social interaction, information, seeking good Skills include: determining the reliability and knowledge of each activity. friendships and advice, and and validity of media and health Examples of activities include: speedball, taking responsibility for their resources; being able to communicate basketball, team handball, volleyball, own wellness, which can be effectively by using refusal and conflict floor hockey, softball, ultimate frisbee, instrumental to a healthy, active, resolution skills; recognizing influences kickball, and table tennis. and balanced approach to life. on health behavior; setting goals, healthy Course Standards: 5A,B,C,D, 7A,C, 8A,B,C Students in all of the Health and decision-making; and advocating for health. This will be done by incorporating Physical Education classes at BEHS will be assessed using the information from the ten content areas of health: mental health & suicide Lifetime & Recreational Maine Learning Results. Activities – HS2102 prevention; alcohol, tobacco and other One Trimester/.5 credit drugs; family life and sexual health; Foundations of Wellness – Grades 9-12 media/technology and consumer health; Prerequisite: Found of Wellness HS2100 injury prevention and safety; and One Trimester/.5 credit Offers students the opportunity to communicable and chronic diseases. participate in a variety of sports they can Grades 9-12 Designed to help students build the Course Standards: 1C,E,F,G, 2A,B, 3A, , 4B,C,D,F enjoy individually or as a group. knowledge and confidence necessary to Students will develop team building, problem solving, and leadership skills. assess their own fitness levels. Students Advanced Health create their own fitness program Education – HS2200 This course will stress the importance of including aerobic activity, weight and One Trimester/.5 credit being physically active, and focus on the strength training, and focus on specific Grades 10-12 many ways it can improve their overall muscle groups. Students learn about the Prerequisite: Basic Health health throughout their life. Examples of five components of fitness: Designed to provide students with activities include: cooperative games, cardiovascular endurance, muscular experience in advanced health concepts. tennis, ultimate frisbee, capture the flag, strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, The students will gain AHA certification in golf, fitness, volleyball, basketball, and body composition. Examples of CPR/AED/First Aid for Adults, Infants, badminton, and yoga. and Children. Students will also gain activities include: aerobic exercises, core Course Standards: 5A,B,C,D, 7A,C, 8A,B,C strengthening techniques, weight training knowledge and understanding of additional topics such as mental and daily fitness logs. health/stress; safety and injury Course Standards: 1A,D, 4E, 6A,B,C, 7B prevention; health policies and Outdoor & Leadership- HS2104 community health; growth & One Trimester/.5 credit Fitness Planning & Group Grades 9-12 Exercise – HS2103 development, health careers, Prerequisite: Found of Wellness One Trimester/.5 credit environmental safety, health advocacy This course is designed to help students Grades 9-12 and other innovative health practices and build the knowledge and confidence Prerequisite: Found of Wellness topics. necessary to assess their own fitness This course is designed to help students Course Standards: 1H,I,J, 2C, 4A,C levels. Students create their own fitness build the knowledge and confidence program including aerobic activity, weight necessary to assess their own fitness and strength training, and focus on levels. Students create their own fitness specific muscle groups. Students learn program including aerobic activity, weight about the five components of fitness: and strength training, and focus on cardiovascular endurance, muscular specific muscle groups. Students learn strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, about the five components of fitness: and body composition. Examples of cardiovascular endurance, muscular activities include: aerobic exercises, core- strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, strengthening techniques, weight training, and body composition. Examples of and daily fitness logs. activities include: aerobic exercises, core- strengthening techniques, weight training, Course Standards: 5A,B,C,D, 7A,C, 8A,B,C and daily fitness logs.
Course Standards: 5A,B,C,D, 7A,C, 8A,B,C
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Students are required to pass Geometry A – HS4202A Algebra II A – HS4301A three courses for the BEHS One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit graduation requirement. The Grades 9-10 Grades 10-12 Prerequisite: Algebra I A&B Prerequisite: Geometry A & B Math Department encourages all In this course, students study geometry In this course, students will study the students to take four courses using deductive reasoning. The topics of following topics: real numbers, problem because it is the recommendation study include: definitions, logic, solving, equations, inequalities, graphs, of many colleges. theorems, basic geometric relationships, systems of equations and inequalities, angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, polynomial equation and functions, triangles and congruence. This course factoring, complex numbers, quadratic Selected Topics for Algebra – will go more in depth and have a greater functions and polynomial functions. HS4101 emphasis on logic and formal proofs. Course Standards: BE: 1A,B, 2A,B,C, 3C, 5A,C One Trimester/.5 credit Grade 9 Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2A, 4A,B,D Prerequisite: Pre-Algebra or instructor recommendation Algebra II B – HS4301B In this course, students will reinforce the Geometry B – HS4202B One Trimester/.5 credit standards necessary to be ready for One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 10-12 Algebra I. Students will work with Grades 9-10 Prerequisite: Algebra II A expressions and solving simple equations Prerequisite: Geometry A In this course, students will study the and inequalities in one variable. In this course, students will study following topics: real numbers, problem
Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2A,B,C, 3C geometry using deductive reasoning. The solving, equations, inequalities, graphs, topics of study include: definitions, logic, functions, (rational, radical, exponential, theorems, quadrilaterals, similarity, right and logarithmic) sequences and series Selected Topics for Geometry – triangle trigonometry, circles, solids, area and probability. HS4201 One Trimester/.5 credit and perimeter, volume, and coordinate Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2A,B,C, 3A Grade 9 geometry. Prerequisite: Algebra 1A Course Standards: BE: 1A, 4A,B,C,D In this course, students will reinforce Honors Algebra II A –HS4302A Grades 10-12 knowledge on simplifying and evaluating –HS4103A Grade 9 expressions. Students will develop skills Honors Geometry A –HS4203A One Trimester/.5 credit in solving equations and converting One Trimester/.5 credit Prerequisite: Geometry A&B between forms of linear equations, Grades 9-10 In this course, students will study the graphing multiple types of linear Prerequisite: Algebra I A&B same topics as in Algebra II with a In this course, students study geometry equations, solving systems by graphing, greater emphasis on certain topics. using deductive reasoning. The topics of These topics include: real numbers, and using the slope, distance, and study include: definitions, logic, problem solving, equations, inequalities, midpoint formulas. theorems, basic geometric relations, graphs, functions, systems of equations
Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2B,C, 3C, 4B angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, and inequalities, factoring, complex triangles and congruence. This course numbers, quadratic function and will go more in depth and have a greater polynomial functions. Algebra I A – HS4102A emphasis on logic and formal proofs. Course Standards: BE: 1A,B, 2A,B,C, 3C,5A,C One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 9 Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2A, 4A,B,D Prerequisite: Pre-Algebra In this course, students will reinforce their Honors Algebra II B –HS4302B Grades 10-12 skills in statistics and solving equations Honors Geometry B –HS4203B –HS4103B Grade 9 and inequalities. Students will develop One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit skills in writing and graphing and writing Grades 9-10 Prerequisite: Algebra II A linear equations and inequalities and Prerequisite: Geometry A In this course, students will study the writing linear functions. In this course, students study geometry same topics as in Algebra II with a using deductive reasoning. The topics of Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2A,B,C, 3C, 5A greater emphasis on certain topics. study include: definitions, logic, These topics include: real numbers, theorems, quadrilaterals, similarity, right problem solving, equations, inequalities, triangle trigonometry, circles, solids, area graphs, functions, (rational, radical, Algebra I B – HS4102B & perimeter, volume and coordinate One Trimester/.5 credit exponential, and logarithmic) sequences Grades 9 geometry. This course will go more in and series and probability. Prerequisite: Algebra I A depth and have a greater emphasis on In this course, students will focus on logic and formal proofs. Course Standards: BE: 1A,B, 2A,B,C, 3A solving and writing systems of linear equations and inequalities, laws of Course Standards: BE: 1A, 4A,B,C,D exponents and radicals and operations with polynomials.
Course Standards: BE: 1A,B, 2A,B,C, 3A,C
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Pre-Calculus* – HS4511 AP Statistics A, B & C – which focus on real-life applications. One Trimester/.5 credit HS4507A, HS4507B, HS4507C Some of the topics that will be explored Grades 10-12 Three Trimesters/1.5 credit are mathematical logic and reasoning Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B Grades 10-12 (where you meet up with Lewis Carroll), This course will take an in depth look at Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B. computer logic networks, combinatorics topics from previous courses and make Students are required to take the AP and probability, and graph theory (moving connections to calculus. Students will exam in May. Students will study statistics in four parts: things from one point to another, explore and extend knowledge of linear, handshaking and even predicting the quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, and organizing data, producing data, probability, and inference. Students will weather). Technology is used throughout polynomial functions, including the course. This course provides a good transformations, compositions, graphs, use graphing calculators to study all topics. With the completion of this course foundation for higher level mathematics. regression models and zeros. This This course receives honors credit. course is a prerequisite to calculus. This students will be able to receive credit course receives honors credit. from USM for a fee. Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2A, 3A,4D, 5C
Course Standards: BE: 1A 5A,B,C,D,M Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2A,C, 3A,B,C, 5A
Trigonometry* – HS4512 Calculus A & B* – HS4504A, Upon successful completion of One Trimester/.5 credit HS4504B Probability & Statistics A & B, Grades 10-12 One Trimester (each)/.5 credit (each) AP Statistics, Calculus A & B, Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B Grades 11-12 This course explores trigonometry and Prerequisite: Precalculus and and/or AP Calculus, make connections between trigonometry Trigonometry students will be able to receive and previous courses. Students will Calculus A will cover the calculus of real credit from USM for a fee explore angles and how trigonometric variables, it will introduce the concept of functions are applied to the unit circle, a limit and apply it to the definition of a apply trigonometric concepts to derivative in one variable. It will also problems, explore the unique cover the rules and properties of Discrete Math Topics B* – characteristics of the graphs of each differentiation. HS4513B trigonometric function, and recognize and One Trimester/.5 credit apply trigonometric identities. This course Calculus B will continue the study of Grades 10-12 is a prerequisite to calculus. This course calculus of real variables. Students will Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B receives honors credit. cover the applications of derivatives and Do you have an interest in cryptography well as the properties, rules, and or computers? Then this course is for Course Standards: BE: 1A,B, 2A,B,C, 3A,C, 4A,C applications of integrals. Students will you! Some of the topics that will be also look at areas and volumes of explored in this course are: mathematical revolution. induction, recursion, modular arithmetic, Probability & Statistics A* – Course Standards: BE: 1A, 2B,C, 3A,B, 4A,C cryptography, sorting algorithms, and HS4506A number systems. Technology is used One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 10-12 throughout the course. This course provides a good foundation for higher Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B AP Calculus A, B & C – A college level course that examines the HS4505A, HS4505B, HS4505C level mathematics. Discrete A is not a following topics: graphs and charts, Three Trimesters/1.5 credit prerequisite. This course receives honors normal distributions, regression and Grades 10-12 credit.
correlation, sampling, and basic Prerequisite: Precalculus and Course Standards: BE: 1A,B, 3A, 4A,B probability. This course receives honors Trigonometry. Students are required credit. to take the AP Calculus A/B or AP
Calculus B/C exam in May. Course Standards: BE: 1A, 5A,B,C,D This course covers all the material of both AP Calculus A/B and B/C. Students study the following topics: pre-calculus Probability & Statistics B* – review, limits, derivatives and integrals HS4506B with appropriate applications, the Trimester/.5 credit calculus of parametric and polar Grades 10-12 equations, and infinite series. Prerequisite: Prob & Stats A This course follows Probability and Stats Course standards: BE: 1A, 2B,C, 3A,B,Y, 4A,C A. With the completion of both courses students will be able to receive credit from USM for a fee. This course Discrete Math Topics A* – continues with probability, distributions, HS4513A One Trimester/.5 credit estimation, and hypothesis testing. This Grades 10-12 course receives honors credit. Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B
Course Standards: BE: 1A, 5A,B,C,D Are you looking for something a little
different? Do you have an interest in computers, logic, or problem solving?
Then this course is for you! Discrete Math *Receives Honors Credit contains mathematical topics not usually covered in typical high school courses,
Page 23 Modern & Classical Language Courses Course Descriptions Students are advised that many each lesson. Students study in depth Latin I A & B – HS5100A, colleges administer a foreign more sophisticated verb structures, HS5100B language proficiency test, which including past and future tenses and the Two Trimesters/1 credit Grades 9-12 determines a student’s placement conditional mode. Students read and view a variety of French texts and short This course will provide a strong in a language. The test might foundation for the study of Latin literature. show an adequate proficiency in stories. Class is primarily conducted in French. Students will gain basic grammar skills the language and fulfill the and learn basic vocabulary to be able to school’s Modern and Classical Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B translate basic Latin sentences and Language requirement, removing simple readings. This includes being able the necessity of taking a course at to tell the difference between nouns and the college level. French IV A & B* – HS5203A, verbs, and how to decline first and HS5203B second declension nouns and conjugate Two Trimester /1 credit first and second conjugation verbs in the French I A & B – HS5102A, Grades 10-12 present, perfect, and future tenses. While HS5102B Prerequisite: French III A&B or this course focuses on developing skills Two Trimesters /1 credit instructor’s consent to translate Latin, students will also study Grades 9-12 The goal with French IV is to expand and Roman culture, its influence over its This course provides an introduction to reinforce the skills learned in previous neighbors, and its continuing influences French language and the culture of French levels. Students augment their today. The course will also include French-speaking regions. Students ability to use the French language by English readings about Roman develop listening, speaking, reading, and reading and listening to more mythology and historical events that writing skills. Students demonstrate sophisticated materials. They will learn would influence Rome’s development into person-to person communication by to use all verb tenses and modes and one of the Ancient World’s super powers. using basic vocabulary to discuss people most pronouns. Students will and activities in the present. Students will Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B communicate ideas, discuss various read, listen, and view a variety of topics and write with greater detail in authentic resources and will study the French. Students will read pieces by Latin II A & B – HS5101A, workings of French in relation to English. select classic and contemporary authors. HS5101B The study of French culture is sometimes Two Trimesters/1 credit Class is exclusively conducted in French. Grades 9-12 discussed in English. This course receives honors credit. Prerequisite: Latin I A&B or
Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B instructor’s consent This course will continue to build on the grammar foundation that was laid in Latin French II A & B – HS5103A, French V A & B* – HS5300A, I, and to increase the student’s HS5103B HS5300B vocabulary. It includes a focus on Two Trimesters /1 credit Two Trimesters/1 credit translation of increasingly more difficult Grades 9-12 Grades 11-12 Latin sentences. This includes being able Prerequisite: French I A&B or Prerequisite: French IV A&B or to conjugate verbs from all the instructor’s consent instructor’s consent This course further develops basic skills conjugations in all the tenses, as well as This upper level class is tailored to the start to learn the various uses of the introduced in French I. We will review needs of the students who have already previous content and introduce new ablative case. Also students will continue taken four levels of French, or with to study Roman culture and daily life. vocabulary and structures. Students instructor’s permission. Students practice vocabulary, expressions and This course will also cover the period of augment their ability to use the French the Republic and its eventual downfall. grammatical structures in order to read, language by reading and listening to write and understand communicative Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B more sophisticated materials. Students functions in the past and present tense. are asked to communicate ideas, discuss Students use various authentic French various topics, and write with greater language resources to identify and Latin III A & B – HS5200A, details in French. Students will read HS5200B understand main ideas and details in works by select classic and contemporary Two Trimesters/1 credit familiar topics related to Francophone authors. This course receives honors Grades 10-12 culture. credit. Prerequisite: Latin II A&B or
Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D, 4E, 5A,B Course Standards: WL.2A,B, 2C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B instructor’s consent This course will complete the study of grammar, which is necessary for French III A & B – HS5201A, translating Latin passages, and will HS5201B Students are advised to take at least continue to build on the students’ existing Two Trimesters/1 credit (each) three levels of one foreign language at vocabulary. In this course, students will Grades 10-12 BEHS. The foreign language curricula be translating and reading from adapted Prerequisite: French II A&B or are aligned with the national standards Latin authors, such as Livy and Cicero. instructor’s consent set forth by the American Council Also in this class students will start the This course further reinforces the four for the Teaching of Foreign Languages study of the Roman emperors from basic skills of speaking, listening, (ACTFL) and the Maine Graduation Augustus to Nero. reading, and writing. Vocabulary is taught Requirements. through more challenging materials and Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B the study of culture is an integral part of
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Latin IV A & B* – HS5202A, Spanish III A & B – HS5204A, HS5202B HS5204B Two Trimesters/1 credit Two Trimesters/ 1 credit Grades 10-12 Grades 10-12 Prerequisite: Latin III A&B or Prerequisite: Spanish II A&B or instructor’s consent instructor’s consent This course is an intensive reading and This course further reinforces the four translating course focusing on Caesar basic skills of speaking, listening, and Pliny and Latin poets such as Ovid, reading, and writing. Vocabulary is taught Catullus, Horace and Virgil. Students will through more challenging materials and continue to build their vocabulary and the study of Hispanic-American cultures refine their translating skills. This class is an integral part of each lesson. will also continue the studies of the Students study in depth, more emperors and will examine the fall of the sophisticated verb structures such as Roman Empire and its impact on subjunctive and the conditional modes, Western Civilization. and regularly review all indicative tenses. This course receives honors credit. Students read a variety of tests and short
Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B stories. The use of a Spanish/English dictionary and a verb reference text is encouraged in and out of class. Various Spanish I A & B – HS5104A, media are used in this course. HS5104B Two Trimesters/1 credit Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B Grades 9-12 This course provides an introduction to the Spanish language and the culture Spanish IV A & B* – HS5205A, and history of Spanish speaking HS5205B countries. Students start to develop Two Trimesters /1credits listening, speaking, reading, and writing Grades 10-12 skills in the present tense in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish III A&B or instructor’s consent Students will study the workings of This course expands and reinforces the Spanish in relation to English. skills learned in previous Spanish levels. Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B Students augment their ability to use the Spanish language by reading and listening to more sophisticated materials. Spanish II A & B* – HS5105A, Students are asked to communicate HS5105B ideas, discuss various topics, and write Two Trimesters/1 credit with greater detail in Spanish. Students Grades 9-12 will read works in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish I A&B or instructor’s consent This course receives honors credit.
This course allows students to further Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B develop the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Previous content is reviewed and new Spanish V A & B* – HS5301A, vocabulary, verb tenses and grammatical HS5301B structures are introduced, practiced and Two Trimesters/1 credit used. Grades 11-12 Prerequisite: Spanish IV A&B or Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B instructor’s consent
This upper level course is tailored to the
needs of the students who have already taken four levels of Spanish or with
instructor’s permission. The purpose of
Spanish V is to expand and reinforce the skills learned in previous Spanish levels.
This course receives honors credit.
Course Standards: WL.2A,B,C, 3D, 4A,B,C,D,E, 5A,B
*Receives Honors Credit
Page 25 Science Courses Course Descriptions The science requirement for BEHS Lab Biology A & B –HS6200A, Lab Chemistry A&B – HS6300A, graduation is three full credits, HS6200B HS6300B although we encourage students One Trimester/.5 credit (each) One Trimester/.5 credit (each) to access all four years of the Grade 10 Grades 11-12 Prerequisite: Lab Earth and Space Prerequisite: Biology, Algebra II or science curriculum. All science Science A&B concurrent courses will meet the following These courses are aligned with the Next These courses use a mathematical and standards: Generation Science Processes. There problem-solving framework to develop SGS 1: Asking Questions and are four life science disciplinary core understanding of the structure and Defining Problems ideas in high school: 1) From Molecules properties of matter and how matter SGS 2: Developing Models to Organisms: Structures and Processes, combines in chemical reactions. They SGS 3: Planning & Conducting 2) Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and follow the NGSS science standards and Investigations Dynamics, 3) Heredity: Inheritance and includes topics including bonding and SGS 4: Collecting, Analyzing and Variation of Traits, 4) Biological atomic theory, stoichiometry, chemical Interpreting Data Evolution: Unity and Diversity. These kinetics and equilibrium, and SGS 5: Using Appropriate courses are designed for students bound thermodynamics. Designed for students Mathematics for college and other post-secondary bound for college and other post- SGS 6: Constructing Explanations SGS 7: Engaging in Argument from pathways. Laboratory based courses secondary pathways. They use the Evidence require students to design experiments laboratory to gather and analyze real SGS 8: Obtaining, Evaluating and and gather and analyze real data. data and roughly 30 minutes of Communicating Information Approximately 30 minutes of homework homework is expected for each class. is expected for each class.
Lab Earth and Space Science A & Honors Lab Chemistry A&B – B – HS6100A, HS6100B Honors Lab Biology A&B – HS6301A, HS6301B One Trimester/.5 credit (each) HS6201A, HS6201B One Trimester/.5 credit (each) Grade 9 One Trimester/.5 credit (each) Grades 11-12 These courses are designed to help Grade 10 Prerequisite: Biology, Algebra II or Prerequisite: Lab Earth and Space concurrent students understand the world around Science A&B These courses use a mathematical and them. Students will explore the fields of These courses are aligned with the Next problem-solving framework to develop geology, hydrology, energy, climate, and Generation Science Processes. There understanding of the structure and astronomy. These required courses are are four life science disciplinary core properties of matter and how matter intended to show students the ideas in high school: 1) From Molecules combines in chemical reactions. They complexities of our environment and how to Organisms: Structures and Processes, follow the NGSS science standards and systems interact in a delicate balance. 2) Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and include topics including bonding and Dynamics, 3) Heredity: Inheritance and They will also introduce concepts of atomic theory, stoichiometry, chemical Variation of Traits, 4) Biological kinetics and equilibrium and sustainability and how humans affect the Evolution: Unity and Diversity. These thermodynamics. Designed for students environment. courses are designed for students bound bound for college and other post- for college and other post-secondary secondary pathways. They use the Honors Lab Earth and Space pathways. These laboratory-based laboratory to gather and analyze real Science A & B – HS6101A, courses require students to design data and roughly 45 minutes of HS6101B experiments and gather and analyze real homework is expected for each class. One Trimester/.5 credit (each) data. Approximately 30 minutes of These courses provide the opportunity for Grade 9 homework is expected for each class. motivated students to further study and These courses are designed to help analyze the concepts, ideas and themes. students understand the world around them. Students will explore the fields of geology, hydrology, energy, climate, and AP Biology A, B & C – HS6500A, astronomy. These required courses are HS6500B, HS6500 intended to show students the Three Trimesters/.5 credit (each) complexities of our environment and how Grades 11-12 systems interact in a delicate balance. Prerequisite: Honors grade in Lab They will also introduce concepts of Chemistry A&B. Required to take sustainability and how humans affect the the AP exam in May. environment. These courses are designed to fulfill the requirement of an introductory biology course at the college level. They are All science students are required to fulfill intended for those students who would their graduation requirement as follows: like to pursue a career in some field of Lab Earth Science - 1 credit science or medicine. AP Biology is Lab Biology - 1 credit offered to juniors and seniors who have Physical Science - 1 credit successfully completed Lab Chemistry. (Consists of: Lab Chemistry A&B, Lab Physics A&B, or Physical Science A&B)
Page 26 Science Courses Course Descriptions AP Chemistry A,B&C – Honors Lab Physics A&B – Physical Science B – HS6304B HS6501A, HS6501B, HS6501C HS6303A, HS6303B One Trimester/.5 credit Three Trimesters/.5 credit (each) One Trimester/.5 credit (each) Grades 11-12 Grades 11-12 Grades 11-12 Prerequisite: Lab Earth ad Space Prerequisite: Honors grade in Lab Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B Science A&B and Lab Biology A&B Chemistry A&B Physics A concentrates on topics of This course is intended for students who Required to take the AP exam in motion, forces, momentum, and energy. are working toward meeting the May. Physics B concentrates on wave admission requirements of two-year These courses require a rigorous mechanics, sound, light duality, and colleges or vocational / technical approach to study and problem solving. gravitation. Both courses have significant programs. This course is not intended to They are taught at the introductory laboratory components that will focus on meet admission requirements for a four- college level. These courses begin with inquiry and the design and execution of year college program. Physical Science B a brief review of topics covered in Lab experimental protocols. Designed for introduces students to topics of Chemistry and continues with gas laws, students bound for college and other mechanics; such as motion, momentum quantum theory, solution chemistry, post-secondary pathways. and collisions, and energy conservation qualitative and quantitative analysis, through a hands-on approach. Students periodicity, advanced chemical bonding, will need to be comfortable with basic thermochemistry, equilibrium, acids and AP Physics C: Mechanics A,B algebra and graphical analysis. bases and nuclear chemistry. Concepts &C – HS6502A, HS6502B, in organic chemistry are introduced. HS6502C These courses are laboratory-oriented Three Trimesters/.5 credit (each) and approached from a mathematical What science course should I take to fulfill Grades 11-12 the physical science requirement? and theoretical point of view. Students Prerequisite: Calculus A&B or should expect one minute of homework concurrent; Honors Lab Physics I want to go to a 4-year college: for every minute of class time. A&B or teacher consent Take Lab Chemistry or Lab Physics. If you Required to take the AP exam in May. are interested in a science career or a This course is designed for college- competitive college, you should take both. Lab Physics A&B – HS6302A, bound students intending to major in I want to go to a 2-year college HS6302B physical science, mathematics, or enter the workforce: One Trimester/.5 credit (each) engineering, or pre-medicine. Students Grades 11-12 Take Physical Science A & B junior year. If with a strong interest and aptitude in you decide to apply to a 4-year college, you Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B math and science, and who plan a Physics A concentrates on topics of can also take Lab Chemistry or Lab Physics motion, forces, momentum, and energy. natural science or liberal arts major senior year. (especially at top academic colleges), are Physics B concentrates on wave also encouraged to take this course. This I want to go to a 4-year college and I am mechanics, sound, light duality, and interested in AP science courses: gravitation. Both courses have significant course covers in depth the subjects of mechanics in physics, such as motion, Take required science courses in your laboratory components that will focus on freshman and sophomore years, and then inquiry and the design and execution of forces, momentum, and energy. There is a heavy emphasis on the use of calculus- take AP courses in your junior and senior experimental protocols. Designed for based mathematics and problem-solving years. Be sure to look at course prerequisites students bound for college and other skills. as you plan your schedule. post-secondary pathways.
Environmental Science -HS6510 Physical Science A – HS6304A One Trimester/.5 credit Trimester/.5 credit Grades 11-12 Aquatic Biology: Marine – HS6503 Prerequisites: Successful completion Prerequisite: Lab Earth and Space One Trimester/.5 credit of Earth Science A&B and Biology Science A&B and Lab Biology A&B Grades 11-12 A&B. This course is a chemistry course Prerequisite: Lab Biology A&B, This course will provide students with the intended to meet the needs of students Honors Lab Bio preferred scientific principles and concepts entering the work force or a two-year This advanced science course is offered required to understand how we are college. This course is not intended to at a college preparatory level. It is connected to the natural world. Students meet admission requirements for a four- designed for students who are will get the opportunity to identify and year college program. This chemistry passionate about biology and want an in- analyze environmental issues that impact course introduces students to the modern depth study of marine ecosystems. us locally and globally, and research science of the atom and chemical Students will be expected to read non- ways to resolve or prevent these issues reactions. The study of atomic structure fiction texts and participate in fieldwork. in the future. Students will need to be is applied to the properties and reactions Approximately one hour of homework is ready to take on a variety of field-based of matter. This course uses the laboratory expected for each class. activities that occur within the forest to develop concepts, solve problems and behind the school and other short field investigate types of chemical reactions. trip expeditions to nearby natural areas. Topics include Atoms, Periodic Table, Unit will include: Global population, Bonding and Chemical and Nuclear Pollution, Climate Change, Waste Reactions, and Chemistry of Heat. Management, Species adaptation and Students must also take Physical extinctions, Power Choices (solar, wind, Science B to meet graduation coal, etc.), Tradeoffs: Paper or plastic, requirements. Students will need to be solar or wind, etc. comfortable with basic algebra. Page 27 Science Courses Course Descriptions Aquatic Biology: Freshwater – Astronomy – HS6506 HS6504 One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 10-12 Grades 11-12 Prerequisite: Lab Earth & Space Prerequisite: Lab Biology A&B, Science A&B & Geometry A&B Honors Lab Bio preferred Astronomy is the scientific study of the This advanced science course is offered universe — stars, planets, galaxies, and at a college preparatory level. It is everything in between. In this course, designed for students who are students will learn about passionate about biology and want an in- planetary motion, stars, and how depth study of freshwater ecosystems. scientists explore the universe. Students will be expected to read non- fiction texts and participate in fieldwork on the Bonny Eagle campus. Main topics Survival Science– HS6512 include freshwater ecosystems, chemical One Trimester/.5 credit and geophysical properties of water, Grades 11-12 micro- and macro-invertebrates, Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B or concurrent vertebrates, and plants. Approximately The class is shipwrecked on a deserted one hour of homework is expected for island. Survival is key as well as signaling each class. a ship. Using what is left of the boat, any debris that has washed up on shore, Human Anatomy & students design and build experiments Physiology A&B – HS6505A, that will help survive and signal a ship. HS6505B This is a practical hands-on science class One Trimester/.5 credit (each) in which students learn how to survival a Grades 11-12 shipwreck. Pulleys, compass, fire with a Prerequisite: Lab Biology A&B and bow, parabolic fire dish, hand crank Lab Chemistry A&B generator, saltwater batteries, flashing Students interested in this course are distress beacon, and a raft are a few of probably planning a career in the life the survival challenges covered. Students sciences or the field of medicine. will keep a written journal on their Emphasis will be on anatomical progress. Strong math and science skills terminology, fundamental biochemistry, are needed for this class. and structure and function of the human body.
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The mission of the Social Studies SOCIAL STUDIES students who like to be challenged to Department is to help students ELECTIVES think independently. Students who select become confident, caring, this course cannot select the “theme” of contributing and responsible instruction for this class, since section citizens in a rapidly changing HS7200B Students will examine the availability will be based on the number world. To ensure that all students American Experience through major of students who enroll in the Honors develop a deeper understanding of figures, events and conflicts that shaped Course. civic responsibility, we the course of U.S. History. Students will Course Standards: "A" Graduation: 1, 6 (A, C, D) recommend that students "B" Graduation: 1, 6 (B, E, G) complete at least four credits of consider the evolving “character” of our nation that was shaped by the historical Social Studies courses (three required credits and one elective). circumstances. Students will analyze and critique major historical ears, enduring Government – HS7300 One Trimester/.5 credit Global Village A & B – themes, turning points, events, consequences and people in the history Grade 11 HS7100A, HS7100B Prerequisite: US History A&B One Trimester/.5 credit (each) of the United States and the world. Students will study the U.S. Constitution Grade 9 Students will analyze multiple and as it defines the roles and responsibilities Students concentrate on in-depth complex causes and effects in the past, of the national, as well as those of geographical, historical, and cultural and they will identify, critique and analyze American citizens in the 21st Century. study of major geographic and political issues characterized by unity and The class will also focus on the historical regions of the world. Common diversity and major turning points and development of the Constitution, modern Assessments will focus on the Tools of events with minority groups in the history public policies, and current events. Geography, Cultural Influences, Human- of the United States and other nations, Environment Interaction, Environmental and describe their effects. Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,2,3
Issues, Influential People, and the Graduation Standards: 1 and 6 (Indicators B, E, and G) Elements of Culture. Honors American Government – Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,5,6 AP U.S. History A, B, & C – HS7301 HS7500A, HS7500B, HS7500C One Trimester/.5 credit Honors Global Village A&B – Three Trimesters/.5 credit (each) Grade 11 Grades 11-12 Prerequisite: US History A&B HS7101A, HS7101B Prerequisite: US History A&B or by In a constitutional democracy, productive One Trimester/.5 credit (each) AP teacher’s permission. Students civic engagement requires knowledge of Grade 9 are required to take the AP exam in Students concentrate on in-depth May. the history, principles, and foundations of geographical, historical, and cultural AP U.S. History is designed to be the our American democracy, and the ability study of major geographic and political equivalent of a two-semester introductory to participate in civic and democratic regions of the world. Common college U.S. history course. The program processes. People demonstrate civic Assessments will focus on the Tools of prepares students for intermediate and engagement when they address public Geography, Cultural Influences, Human- advanced college courses by making problems individually and collaboratively Environment Interaction, Environmental demands upon them equivalent to those and when they maintain, strengthen, and Issues, Influential People, and the made by full-year introductory college improve communities and societies. Elements of Culture. This course courses. Students learn to assess Thus, civics is, in part, the study of how provides the opportunity for motivated historical materials—their relevance to a people participate in governing society. students to further study and analyze the given interpretive problem, reliability, and Students will study the U.S. Constitution, concepts, ideas and themes. importance—and to weigh the evidence the three branches of government, and the techniques available to citizens for Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,5,6 and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. preserving and changing a society.
U.S. History A & B – HS7200A, Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,6 Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,2,3 HS7200B One Trimester/.5 credit (each) Grade 10 AP U.S. Government & Politics Prerequisite: Global Village A&B Honors U.S. History A & B A, B, & C – HS7501A, HS7501B, – HS7201A, HS7201B HS7200A Students will examine the HS7501C One Trimester/.5 credit (each) Three Trimesters/.5 credit (each) American Experience by tracing the Grade 10 development of large scale industry and Grades 11-12 Prerequisite: Global Village A&B Prerequisite: Required to take the the implications for all Americans. Among This course is designed to provide other topics students will consider the AP exam in May. motivated students with an opportunity Students study the U.S. government and effects of industrialization/ technological for an in-depth examination of the advances on the people, and how political system. They will analyze the American experience. Students will begin Constitutional underpinnings of the U.S. industrialization helped the United States doing the real work of historians by government and the political beliefs and become a world power. Students will examining historical documents and behaviors of its citizens from past to examine change and continuity in these artifacts and interpreting them to present in order to evaluate the role of multiple eras and how the changes understand events that shaped United political parties, interest groups, and affected the perspectives of the people. States history. Students will have Students will also explain how evidence is mass media in the development of opportunities for interesting research and American institutions, civil rights, and used to support the varying interpretations dynamic discussions, as well as vigorous liberties. This course fulfills the required of the people, issues and events. debate and challenging written Government .5 credit Graduation Standards: 1 and 6 (Indicators A, C, and D) assessments. This course is open to all Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,2,3
Course Descriptions Social Studies Courses
Economics – HS7302 Psychology – HS7504 Current World Events: One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit Camden Conference in the Grade 11 Grades 10-12 Classroom – HS7215 Prerequisite: US History A&B Students study topics such as the brain, One Trimester/.5 credit Students will develop an understanding learning and memory, personality theory, Grades 10-12 of the ways in which individuals, and deviant behavior. Through the study Prerequisite: Global Vill A&B businesses, governments, and societies of these topics, students will learn about Beyond unrelated current events that make decisions allocate resources why they, as well as others, behave the unfold during the course, students will among alternative uses. The study of way they do. study the current topic of the Camden economics provides students with the Course Standards: BE Grad: 1 Conference, a global issues conference concepts and tools necessary to held in Camden, ME. The course is understand the interaction of buyers and centered on improving research sellers in markets, workings of the Sociology – HS7505 methods, critical thinking, and national economy, and interactions within One Trimester/.5 credit strengthening arguments for authentic the global marketplace. Economic Grades 10-12 audiences. The course asks students to reasoning and skillful use of economic Students study society and social see the world through a different lens, tools draw upon a strong base of behavior through research, discussion, and the goal is for the students to knowledge about human capital, land, and projects. By examining different become global learners, drawing from investments, money, income and cultures, institutions, inequality, and the their experiences from the conference production, taxes, and government individual in a changing world, students and the materials studied to develop expenditures. will develop a greater understanding of ideas on how to improve the world going
Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,4 our society. forward.
Course Standards: BE Grad: 1 Course Standards: Social Studies 1, 2, 3 Honors Economics – HS7303 One Trimester/.5 credit Grade 11 Mock Trial – HS7506 Prerequisite: US History A&B Maine Studies – HS7509 (Fall Competition) One Trimester/.5 credit Students will improve critical thinking and One Trimester (1st only)/.5 credit Grades 10-12 writing skills as they study the concepts Grades 10-12 Prerequisite: U.S. History A&B of the American economic system. These Students that enroll in the Mock Trial Students study the geography, history, concepts will focus on economic course will participate in an interactive economics, and government of Maine. fundamentals and the role of the course designed to prepare students to Topics will include Maine’s Native American government in our market compete in the Maine Mock Trial Americans, contributions of immigrants to system. In addition, students will Competition. During the competition, society, famous Mainers in all walks of compare the US system with other students compete against other schools life, and the culture of Maine. Students economics systems worldwide and study and argue a case in a Maine courtroom will have opportunities to do internet- America’s interaction with the world. with legal professionals. Students spend based research, engage in discussions of
Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,4 the trimester learning key concepts of modern Maine issues, and explore what preparing for an actual trial, including: makes Maine unique amongst the fifty Vietnam War – HS7503 legal terminology, debate and discussion United States. strategies and questioning techniques. One Trimester/.5 credit Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,4,5,6 Grades 9-12 Students work with each other frequently Students will study America’s to prepare defense and prosecution roles involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1975 of the case. If you are interested in and compare that involvement with learning about the court system, like Her-Story – HS7508 working with skills, you should consider One Trimester/.5 credit modern U.S. military engagements Grades 11-12 around the world. They will study this course. Enrollment is limited to two Prerequisite - US History A&B Southeast Asian geography and culture, consecutive years. In this course, students learn about the French-Indochina War, American Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,2 American women's history from 1600 to military involvement and the war at home. the present. The numerous
Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,5,6 contributions of women throughout Current World Events: American history briefly touched upon in Crime and Punishment in regular history classes will be examined The World Wars – HS7502B America – HS7507 and discussed. Topics will include One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit women’s roles in the colonization of Grades 10-12 Grades 10-12 America, slavery, the Civil War, Students study the development of Prerequisite: Global Vill A&B immigration, suffrage, work outside the Modern Warfare and the Imperialism, Beyond unrelated current events that home, the World Wars and the fight for in Alliances, International Diplomacy, and unfold during the course, students will equality. The class will be taught in a competing 20th Century philosophies that study the American Criminal Justice college-like format with lectures and help shape the modern world. Topics system focusing on the rights of the activities. Students are expected to write include: European Nationalism, accused, police powers, court papers and complete projects related to Imperialism, the World Wars, Cold War procedures, and the U.S. prison system. the material taught. and Current Events. Using a variety of mediums, students examine the evolution of crime and Course Standards: BE Grad: 1A,B,C, 2, 3, 6A,B,C,D,F Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,6 punishment in America.
Course Standards: BE Grad: 1,2,3
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Financial Awareness – HS7510 Advanced Financial Awareness – AP Human Geography A, B, & C Satisfies the Financial Literacy HS7511 – HS7513A, HS7513B, HS7513C graduation requirement Prerequisite: Financial Awareness Three Trimesters/.5 credit (each) One Trimester/.5 credit OR On Your Own OR JMG Personal Grades 10-12 (firm) Grades 11-12 Finance Prerequisite: Global Village This is a required course that is designed This is an elective course that is Required to take the AP exam in to give students the knowledge and skills designed to give students enhanced May. to make financial decisions that will lead knowledge and skills to make thorough, Students will explore how humans have to success in personal life, education, practical, and thoughtful financial understood, used, and changed the work and citizenship roles. Topics surface of Earth. We will use the tools decisions that will lead to the highest include: Money Management, Borrowing, chance at success in personal life, and thinking processes of geographers to Earning, Power, Financial Services and education, work and citizenship roles. examine patterns of human population, Insurance. Topics include in-depth college and migration, and land use. Skills: Connecting geographic concepts Course Standards: CED 4, Social Studies 4 career planning, comprehensive budgeting techniques, and advanced and processes to real-life scenarios, financial planning strategies. Understanding information shown in maps, tables, charts, graphs, Course Standards: CED 4, Social Studies 4 We encourage students to challenge infographics, images, and themselves by taking: landscapes, Seeing patterns and trends in Grade 9: Honors Global Village data and in visual sources such as maps Grade 10: Honors U.S. History and drawing conclusions from them and Grades 11 or 12: Honors Government understanding spatial relationships using Honors Economics geographic scales AP U.S. Government AP U.S. History
Course Descriptions Technology & Engineering Courses
Material Science – HS3500 Materials Engineering Construction – HS3502 One Trimester/.5 credit Technology – HS3501 One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 9-12 One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 10-12 In this course, students will explore Grades 9-12 This course provides students with an different properties of the basic materials This course is designed for students who introduction to the construction industry. that make up our modern world: metals, may be considering training in the areas Students learn how small buildings and composites, polymers, and ceramics. of Engineering, Material Design, other construction- related projects are Students will learn how each material Woodworking, Metalworking, and produced. Construction covers a wide differs from one another through hands- Machine Safety. This MET course is variety of areas and subject. This course on experimentation and research. We will designed to offer a generic and broad will encompass the five major building view of the way humans change materials found in all things built. consider concepts such as natural versus man-made, strength, molecular structure, materials. This course approach uses Course Standards: Meets BEHS Career/Education Development and heat conduction. Students will also various materials using similar Standards learn how these materials can work processing techniques. This hands-on together, creating different engineering course focuses on and technological pieces. In this section, woodworking, metalworking, CAD/CAM – HS3503 Construction methods, materials, and One Trimester /.5 credit students will focus mainly on wood, Grades 9-12 metal, and polymers. That is not to say safety. All skills and techniques acquired This course uses software which will help that we will not experience the other are considered to be fundamental for the student grasp and understand materials. students pursuing any field of rapid prototyping and Computer Aided engineering or trade related fields. Manufacturing. The course will provide students an opportunity to apply CAD / CAM techniques to the development of a variety of engineering projects. Software usage 3-D printing and CNC routering are the main focus of this course.
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Homesteading Through Science Systems & Autos – HS3506 Web Page Design – HS3512 – HS3504 One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester/.5 credit One Trimester /.5 credit Grades 9-12 Grades 9-12 Grades 9-12 This class will provide an introduction to This course introduces effective web Students will be presented with the basic power systems, including the electrical page design concepts including needs of all mankind: shelter, water, and system in a car, solar power and identifying your target audience, effective food. They will begin with an introduction batteries and how they are evolving, and page content, layout & design, and digital turbine systems. This class will develop image enhancement & manipulation, and of hand-drafting, giving them an insight hands-on skills and problem solving how they all play an effective role in into the world of blueprints and shelter based on systems technologies, including doing business on the Internet through building. Throughout the rest of the design, prototyping, and testing/redesign your website (e-commerce). The world of trimester, students will discover what it of prototypes, including 3D printing. We programming will be explored, as this takes to be able to preserve and cook will look at application of systems, course will begin with learning HTML and food using fire, filter and/or desalinate including the systems of an automobile. progress on to Cascading Style Sheets. **University of Maine at Augusta water, and live a lifestyle leaving little to Course Standards: HS.IT.1, 2, 3 no waste. concurrent enrollment agreement - 3 credits available to juniors and seniors. Fundamentals of Programming- HS3510 Course Standards: HS.IT.1, 2
The Homestead and the Kitchen Grade: 10-12 This course serves as an initial – HS0109 App Design – HS3515 One Trimester/.5 credit introduction of programming concepts Grades 10-12 One Trimester/.5 credit and techniques to non-programmers. The Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: Foods for Wellness course will focus on the key concepts This will be a cross-curricular class, with Want to build apps for your mobile common to solving problems by device? Have you ever thought about students spending 6 weeks with the algorithmic thinking, and to the Technology and Engineering Department learning to code, but not sure? If you fundamental concepts and techniques answered yes to either of these and 6 weeks with Family and Consumer common to all high-level programming Sciences. For the T/E component, questions, App Design is for you! This languages. The course will be taught course utilizes Code.org’s App Lab students will learn about the hands-on using a command line version of the applications of homesteading and food environment where you will learn the Python programming language. basics of coding and the design process. production. This could include **University of Maine at Augusta hydroponics, tools for maple syrup In the App Lab, students will code apps in concurrent enrollment agreement - three javaScript, using either drag and drop producing, developing/maintaining a credits available to freshman, garden/plants, designing and building a block coding, or a script editor. This sophomores, juniors and seniors. course allows for lots of creativity while greenhouse, designing and building Course Standards: HS.IT.1, 4 learning the basics of coding. cooking methods, and/or other hands-on projects that will assist in the Course Standards: HS.IT.1, 2
understanding of homestead living and Computer Science – HS3511 producing food and sustainability for daily One Trimester/.5 credit life. During the six weeks in Family Grades 9-12 Survival Science– HS6512 Consumer Sciences, the students will Description: In this course, students will One Trimester/.5 credit explore the need for coding languages Grades 11-12 discuss and perform a variety of Prerequisite: Algebra II A&B or homesteading kitchen ideas, including and logic in the technology concurrent food preservation and meat processing, world. Through exercises in an App Lab The class is shipwrecked on a deserted beekeeping, gardening, foraging, maple environment, students will learn the island. Survival is key as well as signaling syrup production, homemade body care JavaScript Language. The general a ship. Using what is left of the boat, any and cleaning products, and sewing and principles of algorithms and program debris that has washed up on shore, knitting basics. design will be taught in conjunction with students design and build experiments the logic and coding skills necessary to Course standards: TBD that will help survive and signal a ship. write viable code. **University of Maine This is a practical hands-on science class at Augusta concurrent enrollment in which students learn how to survival a Power & Engines – HS3505 agreement - 3 credits available to One Trimester/.5 credit shipwreck. Pulleys, compass, fire with a Grades 9-12 freshman, sophomores, juniors and bow, parabolic fire dish, hand crank seniors. This class provides an introduction to generator, saltwater batteries, flashing powers technology, including steam Course Standards: HS.IT.1, 4 distress beacon, and a raft are a few of
engines, electrical engines, small two- the survival challenges covered. Students stroke engines, and future applications of will keep a written journal on their powers. This class will use the progress. Strong math and science skills engineering process and will focus on are needed for this class. hands-on activities and applications of these topics, including how these items are currently used, such as in automobiles and small engines. This class will include project design and prototyping, including 3D printing.
Course Standards: HS.IT.1, 2, 3
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VEX Robotics Siege 101 Sea, Land & Air– Using the VEX Robotics Design System HS3514 this course offers students an exciting One Trimester/.5 credit platform for learning about areas rich with Grades 9-12 career opportunities spanning science, Seige is a course that encompasses technology, platform for learning about three different areas of study: areas rich with career opportunities engineering, physics and history all spanning science, technology, centered around a theme (land, sea, air). engineering and math (STEM). These are Students are grouped by theme at the just a few of the many fields students can beginning of the course. explore beyond science and engineering principles, a VEX Robotics project Option 1: Sea (Submarine) encourages teamwork, leadership and Prerequisite: Algebra 1 or concurrent problem solving among groups. The This course will be an aligned curriculum, course is designed for the student who is which will include three different subjects interested in applying their classroom over one trimester based around water. abilities to real applications using basic The three classes will be conducted engineering skills. around Submarines:
Course Standards: HS.IT.1,2 Engineering, Designing and Building a Submarine. The physical science of the Due to COVID: Students who took Submarine; The history of the beginning Engineer Design and Build will need to of the Submarine. and the civil war. take Vex 1 before they can take Vex 2. Option 2: Land (Trebuchet) VEX Robotics 1 – HS3507 Prerequisite: Geometry or One Trimester/.5 credit concurrent Grades 9-12 This course will be an aligned curriculum, Students will use a hands-on design which will include three different subjects process to build various VEX robotics over one trimester based around Land. projects. Topics covered are, speed The three classes will be conducted power, torque, gears chains and around the Trebuchet: Engineering, sprockets and friction traction and Designing and Building a Trebuchet. The traction. A final project that will apply all Physical science of the Trebuchet; The the skills and knowledge learned. history of the times of the Trebuchet and Medieval Times
VEX Robotics 2 - HS3508 Option 3: Air (Planes) One Trimester/.5 credit Prerequisite: Algebra 2 or concurrent Grades 9-12 This course will be an aligned curriculum, Prerequisite: VEX Robotics 1 which will include three different subjects Students continue to master the over one trimester based around fundamentals of the engineering design Air. The three classes will be conducted process to build various VEX robots, around the building and flying planes: which include: Drivetrain Design, Object Engineering, Designing and Building a Manipulation, Rotating Joints, Linkage, Plane. The physical science of the Plane; and System Integration. A final project The history of the times of Flight. that will apply all the skills and knowledge learned.
VEX Competition Team- HS3509 One Trimester/.5 credit Grades 10-12 Prerequisite: VEX Robotics 2 Course must be taken both trimesters 1 and 2 In the VEX Robotics Competition, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. Tournaments are held October to February. Teams are scheduled for 2-3 Saturday competitions over the two trimesters.
Page 33 Career & Technical Courses (Vocational Schools) Course Descriptions Bonny Eagle participates in both the Westbrook Business – HS8102; HS8202 Regional Vocational Center (WRVC) and Portland Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Arts & Technology High School (PATHS) programs Business Education prepares students for many roles in the world and enrolls students in 29 different career technical of business. This program focuses on Office Administration, areas. Management, Accounting, and Entrepreneurship. These components are designed to equip students with the essential skills Student selection is based upon the following: for working in any office setting, managing people, processing • Scheduled visit & interview with instructor business transactions, handling money, and thinking like an • Interest and need of program entrepreneur. The Office Administration component prepares • Past performance in related courses students to work in an office setting in a wide range of industries. • Attitude, ambition and willingness to learn Students become proficient users of Microsoft Office software • Potential to perform skills in program applications including word processing, spreadsheets, and • Parental/guardian permission presentations. The Management U component focuses on three areas. Students develop personal management skills to function Space is limited in each program. Students are encouraged to effectively in their personal lives. They also learn how HR impacts schedule a visit in a timely manner. Students participating in the hiring, training, supporting, and supervising employees. Since many students are, or most likely will be, interested in various programs at WRVC and PATHS are expected to ride the management roles at some point in their career, the main functions transportation provided by the MSAD #6 Board of Directors. of managers, management and leadership styles are examined. Students AND parents/guardians will sign a contract that outlines The Accounting component familiarizes students with the expectations for grades, attendance, and behavior. fundamental theory and principles of accounting. Students will be able to perform the functions of the accounting cycle. Students will WESTBROOK REGIONAL also learn how to use Quickbooks Online to record business transactions. The entrepreneurship component provides students VOCATIONAL CENTER the time and space to create and develop a product or service that solves a problem or meets a need, and gives them the opportunity to pitch their innovative ideas to a panel of judges to win funding (currently a couple thousand dollars) to help turn their wishful Automotive Technology – HS8100; HS8200 thinking into a reality. Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Automotive Technology is a challenging and exciting program that utilizes up to date technology to diagnose and repair complex Commercial Driver’s License – HS8103; HS8203 modern automobiles. Our program is certified by the National Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Automotive Technical Educational Foundation (NATEF) and Commercial Driver's License may be taken as either a one or two- Automotive Youth Education Systems (AYES). The program begins year program. Students who successfully complete this program with a focus on safety and how to operate shop equipment. We will be eligible to earn either a Class B or Class A commercial then progress into learning about electrical systems, brake driver's license. The Class B course is open to both juniors and systems, steering and suspension systems and engine seniors; the Class A course is open only to seniors. Students who performance, which includes ignition, fuel and emission systems. successfully complete Class B training and obtain a Class B license Tech II students are encouraged to take professional ASE will receive preferential admission to the Class A course. This certification exams. Students who complete the program can program follows the state required curriculum for commercial truck continue their education or enter the workforce in a variety of driver training. The course includes classroom, parking, and driving related fields. instruction. Students must also earn a 10-hour OSHA safety certificate. Eligible students must hold a valid Maine driver's license and have a clean driving record. A drug test will be required Building Trades – HS8101; HS8201 following attaining a CDL learner's permit. Additional drug and/or Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year alcohol testing may also be required. This is a vocational program designed for students who are interested in preparing for a career in carpentry or related fields. Students will have access to the latest in building technology and Computer Repair & Networking – HS8104; HS8204 tools. The class will emphasize safety, skill development, and the Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year proper use and care of hand, portable and stationary power tools. WRVC is proud to offer motivated students the opportunity to Students will gain experience in building layout, rough and finish develop skills in the challenging and rewarding field of Information carpentry, estimating, blueprint reading, jobsite safety, quality Technology Support (IT Tech Support). Students enrolled in this workmanship and customer service. Students in the program program will be concurrently enrolled in Cisco Networking construct an energy efficient spec house on site over a two-year Academy, which offers students opportunities in basic network time period. troubleshooting and design. The Computer Repair and Networking program will prepare students for either an entry level IT job or post-secondary educational opportunities.
Page 34 Career & Technical Courses (Vocational Schools) Course Descriptions Computer Science and Multimedia – HS8115; HS8215 Early Childhood Occupations – HS8106; HS8206 Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Computer Science and Multimedia is a vast discipline which spans Early Childhood Occupations Education is designed to prepare from coding to video editing. The computer science domain students for careers involving children. Students should love includes software development, video game design, image editing, children, have good communication skills, be responsible, web development, and computer engineering. Multimedia also dependable, work well independently and read at grade level or covers areas of Photoshop, video editing, 3D building, and video above. First year students will participate in our You N’ Me nursery game design. Students will start with Intro to programming, where school on a rotating basis. While working in the nursery school, students will learn to build code for video games. Students will work students will work in teams to plan and implement activities with breaking code out of the screen with Arduino and MicroBit according to a curriculum theme. Second year students work with 3 controllers. Students will be able to wire and add resistors to year olds in the nursery school and complete field site hours. projects that interact with the environment. Video game design Students who successfully complete the program will satisfy classes test student's ideas about what a game is and how they are requirements for the Certified Early Childhood Associate (CECA) made. Video editing marches into the fields of editing, effects, and certification. streaming.
Electricity – HS8107; HS8207
Cosmetology – HS8116 Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year NEW This program is designed to provide entry-level skills into the Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Cosmetology involves the study and practice of beauty treatments, electrical field. Students learn to install wiring systems from including hairstyling, nail care, skin care and makeup. A blueprints and according to the National Electrical Code. cosmetologist can choose to specialize in one or more of these Participants will learn to wire residential and commercial projects. Students work on safety at all times in the course. Students will areas. Fashion-forward, self-expressive students will be interested in our Cosmetology program, which will train them for licensing and wire splices, low voltage systems, nonmetallic and metallic cables and wiring in conduits. Physics and Ohms Law calculations are employment in related fields. In this program, students learn to apply their technical and interpersonal skills. Instruction in human used frequently. A vast amount of time is spent practicing switching circuits. Students are exposed to real world situations every day. anatomy and physiology provides students with a deeper understanding of the scientific aspects of hair, skin, and nail care. Moral business practices and finances are discussed frequently This two-year program allows students interested in the field of Cosmetology to begin their training by earning approximately 700 hours of the 1500 hours required for a Maine Cosmetology license Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Basic– HS8112 over the two years. These hours will transfer to post-secondary Grades 11-12 One Year 3 credits/year Cosmetology schools and enable students to begin their studies EMT is a one year course of study for mature WRVC juniors and with a portion of the program completed. seniors who want to serve their community in a growing Public Safety field. This course provides students the entry-level knowledge and skills necessary to render basic emergency medical care to the sick and injured. It also provides the foundation for Criminal Justice – HS8111 Grades 11-12 Two Years 3 credits/year advanced training in Para-medicine. Through discussion, practical The Criminal Justice program is an introduction to Law labs and clinical field experience students are introduced to patient Enforcement. You will study subjects such as search and seizure assessment, airway and respiratory problems, cardiopulmonary as they apply to our Constitution, and use of force. Forensic resuscitation, oxygen therapy, bleeding control, shock Science and Crime scene processing are a few of the more than 40 management, soft tissue injuries, fracture care, spinal subject areas of Law Enforcement that you will explore. The immobilization, patient triage, and obstetrical, pediatric, culminating experience for Criminal Justice students is to receive environmental and behavioral emergencies. an introduction to police weaponry. Students receive training from State of Maine certified fire-arms instructors in the identification, uses, and deployment of police weapons and use of force such as Fire Fighting – HS8113 take down techniques and self-defense. Grades 11-12 One Year 3 credits/year Fire Fighter I & II is a one-year course of study based on the latest Standards for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications. Upon Culinary Arts – HS8105; HS8205 successful completion of this program you will qualify to test for Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year State Certification in Fire Fighter I & II. Area colleges that offer Fire In this program, students will learn about and practice food Science programs typically award up to 6 college credit hours for preparation, service and presentation of meals, quantity food this nationally recognized certification. WRVC Students enrolled in production, bakeshop, table service, catering for community this program must be mature and willing to participate in rigorous organizations, and cake decoration. These experiences will physical fitness training. Students are also highly encouraged to prepare students to enter the foodservice industry. Interest, natural become junior firefighters in their local fire departments, allowing ability and food skills are determining factors in the progress of the them to gain insight into the daily roles and responsibilities as well student. Students will practice basic knife skills and utilize a variety as vital field experience of the Fire and EMS Service. of professional tools. Students will learn the preparation of stocks, classical "Grande Sauces", appetizers, hors d’oeuvres, sandwiches, entrees and desserts. Safety and sanitation are stressed throughout. Included within this program are the National Restaurant Association’s ProStart® curriculum proficiencies for secondary education.
Page 35 Career & Technical Courses (Vocational Schools) Course Descriptions Heavy Equipment Operation – HS8108; HS8208 Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year PORTLAND ARTS & Prerequisite: A drug test will be required upon acceptance TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL (PATHS) to the program. HEO provides students with the opportunity to learn and practice operation skills on a variety of equipment used in various fields. Auto Collision Technology – HS8150 Topics covered in this program include basic construction safety, Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year introduction to site and road layout, identification of heavy Students will learn the skills necessary to analyze damage and equipment, preventative maintenance and proper operation of write estimates for repairs, use state of the art frame measuring heavy equipment. Basic operator skill development will begin on equipment that relies on ultrasound technology to repair structural excavation simulators and continue with the operation of damage with frame machines capable of 20,000 pounds of pulling machinery. Students will learn basic skid steer, dozer, front end force, mixing and matching paint, HVLP spray guns, painting loader and excavator operation. They can also obtain the 10-hour (waterborne and solvent based), and specialty paintwork like OSHA safety certificate. The student textbook will be from the striping and flaming, non-structural repairs and techniques like National Center for Construction Education and Research. Class adhesive panel replacement, Steel MIG welding, airbags, and lab work will be supplemented with field trips to job sites, local moveable glass and more! mining (gravel) pits and dealerships. Certification Opportunities: I-CAR Platinum Pro Level 1 Paint & Refinishing, I-CAR Platinum Pro Level 1 Non-Structural Repair, I- CAR Steel MIG Welding, ASE Student Paint & Refinishing, ASE Medical Occupations – HS8110, HS8210 Non Structural Repair, SP2 Safety Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Medical Occupations is a program where students are able to investigate different professions within the healthcare system. Students spend a great deal of time applying practical NEW Careers in Education – HS8167 healthcare skills related to subjects such as anatomy, disease Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year process, and medical terminology. Over two years, students have The Careers in Education program is designed for students the opportunity to obtain a certification as a Certified Nursing contemplating a career as a teacher or in any occupational area Assistant. Those that choose to participate in the CNA program will that focuses on children. Students will acquire the knowledge, be required to attend 70 hours of on site training at a local nursing attitude, behaviors and skills required to be effective in a school home, and pass a state exam. For those who are considering a setting or in the wider community. Through partnerships with career in healthcare, Medical Occupations at WRVC provides SMCC and Educators Rising, students will explore careers such as students with a strong foundation. Many graduates return reporting teaching, social work, and specialized therapy (occupational that they felt well prepared and had an advantage over other therapy, speech therapy, and developmental therapy). The incoming college students. program offers practical experience in our on-site, public pre- kindergarten classroom in which classroom instruction is applied in a real situation. Students will also learn about the art and science Social Service – HS8114 of teaching, educational philosophies, stages of development, Grades 11-12 One Year Program 3 credits/year curriculum planning, observation and assessment, and partnering Students participating in this one-year program receive instruction with families. Students will be expected to participate daily in our leading to two professional-level certifications. These certifications on-site pre-kindergarten classroom, complete weekly written prepare students to work with individuals who have developmental performance reflections, perform weekly child observations, create and/or intellectual disabilities. Additional instruction will be given to lesson plans and learning materials, and create a professional make students highly eligible for employment opportunities at portfolio. The program offers students completing the two-year various social service agencies. The program will also provide an sequence of study an opportunity to explore various levels of excellent foundation for continued study and professional teaching through internships. development in this field. Using highly interactive curricula, students will learn information and strategies critical to providing direct care to children and adults with developmental and Commercial Art – HS8151 intellectual disabilities. They will apply those strategies via Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year classroom activities and hands-on experiences with individuals Prerequisite: Art ability assessment test required at time of receiving services through Woodfords Family Services in visit. Westbrook. This program helps students learn how to make and market their art to generate income. Building a strong portfolio and setting up art exhibits to show and sell work is ongoing. Students learn how to effectively create layout and design for posters, logos, illustrations and tee shirts by hand and computer. Each year students will participate in competitions and have their work exhibited at various locations in the community. A weekly sketchbook is mandatory as well as constructive critiques of student work. This class is a great opportunity to learn how to strengthen art and computer skills while demonstrating creativity. The curriculum also provides the opportunity to earn AP Art certification for college.
Page 36 Career & Technical Courses (Vocational Schools) Course Descriptions Biomedical & Health Science – HS8163, HS8263 Music – HS8157 Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Grades 11-12 1 or 2 Yr Sequence 3 credits/year Prerequisite: One year of Biology is preferred. Students Prerequisite: Student audition, essay, and teacher must be at least 16 years old and take an entrance exam. recommendation prior to enrolling. Students must return This program provides students with the opportunity to explore for a second visit for an audition. three different tracks: nursing, dental or veterinary. The first year This program is a two-year music program, you will learn how to introduces the students to careers in health sciences. Students interpret and perform many contemporary musical styles from Rock study anatomy, physiology, nutrition, diet therapy, and complete a to R&B, Pop to Jazz and Funk. There are three aspects of the medical research project through field trips, demonstrations, and program: Performing, Music Theory, Recording Studio. Students classroom instruction. The second year prepares the student in perform four times a year, with one evening Rock Show off basic health science skills, body mechanics, aseptic techniques, campus. Students will record each other to create an Album. You and medical terminology. Students are placed in clinical will also study music theory, arranging, songwriting, and the ins and experiences of their choice during the second semester. This outs of the music business. The audio engineering component of Program also serves as a foundation for further education in a the music program is unique in its’ approach to introducing technical school or college. students to recording, mixing, music production and live sound. Students receive instruction in recording, mixing, editing, a foundation in the physics of sound and electricity, and an in-depth Dance (PM Session Only) – HS8153 survey of popular music fundamentals. Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Prerequisite: After an initial first visit, potential students must participate in an audition/class. The audition class is Plumbing and HVAC Technology – HS8159 scheduled in May or dancers may audition individually by Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year setting up a date with the instructor. Plumbing & Heating is a two- year program providing instruction in This program is a modern dance based program for high school all phases of repair, maintenance, and installation of plumbing and students interested in pursuing a professional experience in the heating equipment. One year of the program is spent in the performing arts. Students take daily technique classes in modern plumbing lab learning to work with all types of pipes, joints, traps, dance and ballet technique as well as hip-hop, choreography, fixtures, tanks, and pumps. In the other year, students study three dance composition, and improvisation. Students are exposed to a types of oil heating systems: warm air, steam, and hot water. wide range of professional guest artists and other styles of dance Students will be involved in the practice of installation, throughout the school year in the form of one day workshops or maintenance, and adjustment of equipment, as well as the wiring of special projects including jazz dance, musical theater, West African the electrical components of oil burners, including trouble shooting, dance and drumming, sculpture and dance, theater, testing, and adjusting. Graduates have basic entry-level skills to yoga, capoeira, salsa. Since the arts academy dance program is a enter the workforce or attend technical schools in HVAC, Plumbing, performance based program, students perform several times and Heating. Certifications Opportunities: OSHA 10-Hour Safety throughout the school year in our black box theater space at PATHS and at other venues and events in the community such as the PATHS annual fashion show. Students attend concerts and Marine Systems – HS8162 workshops with professional touring dance companies each year in Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Portland and Boston. After the initial visit, students of all levels are A willingness to learn, good attendances and a positive attitude are encouraged to visit and apply to the dance program. Successful necessary for success. The primary focus of this program serves candidates are serious, mature individuals who are interested in a as an entry level to many post-secondary education and collaborative, rigorous experience. employment opportunities for marine repair facilities, boat yards, boat builders and yacht services. This course is designed to teach the necessary theoretical and practice skills to prepare and Landscapes and Gardens – HS8155 educate individuals to become competent marine technicians with Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year career readiness skills and an aptitude for the industry. Students This is a supported program, which provides students the will gain the ability to diagnose, repair, install and rebuild multiple opportunity to work in PATHS largest classroom – 40 marine systems, inboard and outboard engines, diesel engines, AC acres. Students get to experience retail and wholesale marketing & DC electrical, marine electronics and composite boat building techniques through the management of our 3,000 sq. ft. and repair. Each section of the program includes a large portion of greenhouse. Students will work in our display beds, gardens, and shop time in order to strengthen the student’s hands-on skills. the extensive grounds of our campus. Students will learn about practical greenhouse, landscape, and garden techniques in a supported environment. Students will work on individual and group New Media – HS8158 projects. Curriculum is delivered via Google Classroom and Quizlet Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Vocabulary. From Adobe Photoshop and Flash to Panasonic and Sony, the New Media program at PATHS introduces students to the basics Masonry – HS8156 that all new media producers need. Students are prepared for Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year career or college with an individualized curriculum designed by our Fireplaces, barbecue pits, steps, planters, and columns for lighting staff. Every student will master the basics of graphic design, applications are only a few of the projects you’ll undertake in this project design and management, shooting and editing video, and exciting program. Design and layout of projects using brick, block, Adobe PhotoShop. Then our staff will work with each student to dry stone (wall construction), decorative pre-cast concrete, and create a customized program for more advanced repair of existing masonry structures are all part of the skills you’ll study. Introductory topics in New Media include Photoshop. acquire. Students are instructed in shop and job safety practices Concepts in Graphic Design, Project Design and Management, and and procedures. Students receive related instruction in blueprint Introduction to Video Creation and Editing. Advanced Topics reading, layout work, measurement, sketching, and estimating. include Broadcast Programming, Concert Sound Production, Script Certification Opportunities: OSHA, Forklift Writing and Animation, and more
Page 37 Career & Technical Courses (Vocational Schools) Course Descriptions Welding Technology & Blacksmithing Basics– Woodworking – HS8161 HS8160 Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Grades 11-12 Two Year Sequence 3 credits/year Woodworking is a supported program where students will learn During the course of this class many performance tests will be about tool safety, tools, joinery, turning, fasteners, abrasives, administered with a focus on welding with 6010 – 6011 – 6013 – finishes, and computerized CNC routing. Students make individual, 7018 – 7024 electrodes in the Shielded Metal Arc (SMAW) welding group, and class projects from a variety of woods. All students will process culminating in the D1.1 structural steel limited plate be exposed to community service, artistic techniques, test. Metal Inert Gas Welding (MIG) and Flux Cored Arc Welding manufacturing, and custom craftsmanship through field trips and (FCAW) will be taught with certification offered in both first and shop projects. second year curriculums. Pipe fitting and pipe welding on Schedule 40 6” pipe in the 2G – 5G – 6G positions will be practiced in the second year. Using Tungsten Inert Gas Welding on carbon, stainless, and aluminum plate, tests will also be practiced for advanced students. Plasma Arc Cutting and Carbon Arc Cutting will be introduced and practiced throughout the two-year program Articulation Agreements and dual enrollments with SMCC and EMCC. Certification Opportunities: American Welding Society, NCCER
Co-Curricular Activities & Athletic Programs
BEHS offers a rich array of co-curricular activities and every student is encouraged to participate in one or more of these programs:
Clubs - Band, Jazz/Pep, BE Gay/Straight/Transgender Alliance (BEGSTA), Bonny Eagle TV, Civil Rights Team, Class Officers (Fresh/Soph/Jr/Sen), Dramatics/Musicals, History Club, Key Club, Model UN, National Honor Society, Natural Helpers, Outing Club, Pi Cone Junior/Senior Math Teams, Reading Club, Robotics Team, Ski Club, Spanish Language Honor Society, French Language Honor Society, Student Council, Yearbook, YMCA Youth in Government
BEHS is a member of the Maine Principals’ Association and competes within the Southwestern Maine Activities Association.
Boys’ Athletic Programs - Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Ice Hockey (Co-Op w Windham/Westbrook), Indoor Track, Lacrosse, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track & Field, Soccer, Tennis, Wrestling
Girls’ Athletic Programs - Basketball, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey (Co-Op w Gorham), Indoor Track, Lacrosse, Outdoor Track & Field, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball
Co-Ed Athletics - Cheering, Golf, Swimming, Unified Basketball
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