2021-2022 | Course Bulletin

THE SJA EXPERIENCE Our Mission Academic Contacts Kendra Brazeau Nikki Krysak English as a Second Language Library Director (802) 748-2361 (802) 751-2100 This is the mission of St. Johnsbury Academy, a [email protected] [email protected] diverse, comprehensive, and independent educational Elia Desjardins Liz Laverty community grounded by our traditions, our deep optimism Science Computer Science regarding young people, and our commitment to academic (802) 751-2245 (802) 751-2082 excellence: [email protected] [email protected] Henry Eaton Ellen Meranze CHARACTER Capstone Language To teach good character by modeling and fostering compassion, (802) 751-2355 (802) 748-4674 respect, responsibility, and integrity. [email protected] [email protected] David Eckhardt Sean Murphy ‘86 INQUIRY Social Studies Guidance To foster a love for learning by challenging individuals (802) 751-2081 (802) 751-2402 to pursue knowledge, creativity, and intellectual [email protected] [email protected] self-reliance. Mathew Forest Roseanna Prevost '84 Special Services Fine Arts COMMUNITY (802) 751-2394 (802) 751-2036 To encourage each individual to understand his or [email protected] [email protected] her relationships, rights, and responsibilities within Patrick Guckin Denise Scavitto a community that is itself part of the larger world. Career and Technical Education Freshman Humanities (802) 751-2320 (802) 751-2414 [email protected] [email protected] Steven Jolliffe Dale Urie '86 English Health and Wellness (802) 751-2070 (802) 751-2342 [email protected] [email protected] Patrick Kinsella Contents Mathematics (802) 751-2372 Course Selection Guide...... 3 [email protected] Courses of Study...... 6 Freshman Humanities...... 6 Other Contacts Freshman Immersion ...... 6 Senior Capstone...... 6 Sharon Howell John Lenzini Headmaster Athletic Director English...... 6 (802) 751-2033 (802) 751-2121 Social Studies...... 8 [email protected] [email protected] Mathematics...... 10 Nicole Biggie '92 Carol Lyon Science...... 12 Director of Admission Assistant Headmaster (802) 751-2440 for Business Services Biomedical and Health Sciences Certificate Program . . . . 15 [email protected] (802) 748-7703 [email protected] Engineering Design and Development Program...... 15 Tammi Cady ’88 Environmental Studies Field Semester ...... 16 Assistant Headmaster James Mazzonna for Advancement Chief Information Computer Science...... 16 (802) 751-2010 Technology Officer Languages...... 17 [email protected] (802) 751-2371 [email protected] English as a Second Language ...... 20 Beth Choiniere Health and Wellness ...... 20 Assistant Headmaster John Robillard '83 for Campus Life Dean of Resident Students Fine Arts...... 22 (802) 751-2024 (802) 751-2357 Performing Arts...... 23 [email protected] [email protected] Visual Arts...... 24 John Cummings James Ryan ’89 Associate Headmaster Director of Resident Life Driver Education...... 26 (802) 751-2131 (802) 751-2007 Career and Technical Education...... 26 [email protected] [email protected] Appendix...... 31 John Driscoll Procedure for Course Selection ...... 31 Dean of Students (802) 751-2472 Faculty...... 32 [email protected] Colleges Attending ...... 34 Henry Eaton Sample Course Schedules...... 35 Interim Academic Dean (802) 751-2050 Board of Trustees...... 37 [email protected] Accreditation...... 38

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St. Johnsbury Academy is a comprehensive, co-educational St. Johnsbury Academy will not accelerate graduation. Students must secondary school serving students in grades 9 through 12 and a achieve four calendar years of study at the secondary level in order to post-graduate year. In describing itself as comprehensive, the qualify for graduation from the Academy. Academy intends that its curriculum will meet the needs of all of our students. We offer a wide range of subjects and sequences at Levels of Instruction different levels of difficulty. A careful reading of this curriculum As a comprehensive school, we admit students with a wide range guide will help ensure that parents and students make the best of skills, interests and backgrounds. We believe that students learn choices from the extensive options available. best when the material that they experience is presented in a form and at a degree of difficulty matched to their previous achievement. In nearly all of our academic departments, Grade Progression students are homogeneously grouped; that is, they are placed in St. Johnsbury Academy is a four-year institution. Students normally instructional sections with students of similar previous achievement progress from the ninth through the twelfth grades and graduate by and academic preparation. accumulating credits through successfully passing courses of study. As long as a student has acquired sufficient credits so that they can make All of our academic departments offer courses at four levels up missed credits and graduate with their current class, even if they of instruction: basic, standard, accelerated, and Advanced have fallen behind in their required courses, they will advance from Placement™ (AP). grade to grade with their class. • Students who are placed at the basic level have demonstrated a need Graduation Requirements for instruction in the foundational skills required to learn the material of the course. They benefit from a more gradual introduction to the In order to be granted a diploma by St. Johnsbury Academy, subject material that allows them to master the content of the course a student must complete four years of study at the secondary with the supports that will help them achieve success. level and accumulate 26 credits. (See the chart “Graduation Requirements”.) • Students who are placed at the standard level of a course have demonstrated levels of achievement and background typical of The decisions that students and parents make in their choice of most high school students. They possess the skills and the requisite courses and in the sequence of courses are extremely important. information that enable them to be successful in this college The choices made for the freshman and sophomore years will strongly preparatory curriculum. affect the options available for the junior and senior years. To help visualize several options, we have included model paths that typical • Students who are placed in the accelerated level of a course students might follow at the Academy. They can be found starting on have demonstrated high levels of achievement and demonstrate page 35. deep background knowledge in the subject. They possess skills and information that enable them to master material at an Please refer to the individual departmental sections for further accelerated pace. explanation of graduation requirements. Students new to the Academy are placed in various levels of instruction after careful study of standardized and placement tests they have taken, transcripts from previous schools, recommendations of teachers and guidance personnel, parental and student wishes, and GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS consultations with the appropriate department chair. Students are not placed automatically at a given level of instruction in any department COURSE CREDITS simply because they are in that level of instruction in another department. It is quite common for students at the Academy to be Senior Capstone...... 1 credit placed at different levels of instruction in different departments. English...... 4 credits Furthermore, if students experience success at a specific level, we encourage students to move to a higher level. In particular, it is the Science ...... 3 credits aim of the basic courses at the Academy to equip students to move Mathematics...... 3 credits to the standard levels of instruction as soon as possible. In each department, personnel meet regularly to make sure that students Social Studies...... 3 credits are appropriately placed.

Many of our non-academic and some of our academic courses are Physical Education...... 1 ½ credits heterogeneously grouped; that is, a student will be placed in them Health...... 1 credit without reference to already acquired skills and knowledge. Some Electives...... 9 ½ credits of these courses are Senior Capstone, Physical Education, Health, and some technical courses.

Total Needed ...... 26 credits After courses have been assigned, level changes are made only by the relevant Department Chair or the Academic Dean.

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Advanced Placement Program Advanced Placement Capstone DiplomaTM The Advanced Placement program of the College Board is offered to and CertificateTM Program students who have demonstrated a superior understanding of the The AP Capstone Program is a two-course sequence consisting subject matter and have signified their desire to achieve college credit of AP Seminar and AP Research that allows students to explore for courses taken while they are still in high school (sophomores, real-world issues while developing the analytic, research, juniors, and seniors only). Successful completion of an AP exam is problem solving, and communication skills that colleges look recognized by many major colleges and universities for advanced for in an applicant. placement or credit, at their discretion. The Academy offers 30 Advanced Placement courses including: English Language and Students typically take AP Seminar in the 10th or 11th grade, followed Composition, English Literature and Composition, United States by AP Research in 12th grade. Students who earn scores of 3 or higher History, European History, World History, United States Government in the AP Seminar and AP Research courses and on four additional AP and Politics, Microeconomics, Psychology, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Exams of their choosing will receive the AP Capstone Diploma. This Statistics, Computer Science A, Computer Science Principles, Biology, signifies their outstanding academic achievement and attainment of Chemistry, Physics 1, Physics 2, Physics C: Mechanics, Physics C: college-level academic and research skills. Electricity and Magnetism, Environmental Science, Studio Art: Alternatively, students who earn scores of 3 or higher on the Drawing and Painting, Studio Art: 2D, Studio Art: 3D, Music Theory, AP Seminar and Research Exams only will receive the AP Seminar French Language and Culture, Spanish Language and Culture, and Research Certificate. Japanese Language and Culture, Latin, and the AP Capstone Program (AP Seminar and AP Research). Students who take Advanced Placement courses are required to take the nationally administered Advanced Placement exam at the end of each course. Payment for the Advanced Placement exam is due prior to the exam.

SNHU in the High School Dual Enrollment Program Southern New Hampshire University in the High School’s dual enrollment program with Current St. Johnsbury Academy courses offered for dual credit include: St. Johnsbury Academy allows qualified high school students (sophomores, juniors St. Johnsbury Academy Course SNHU Course or seniors) the opportunity to earn college credits while in high school. At St. Johnsbury Rhetoric and Composition ACC College Composition I Academy, designated courses have been Literature and Composition ACC Introduction to Literature aligned to meet the same content, rigor, and Creative Writing ACC Introduction to Creative Writing learning outcomes as that of the University. Advanced Creative Writing The high school teachers instructing these United States History ACC U.S. History II: 1865-Present courses meet the University’s adjunct faculty World Civilization Post 1500 ACC World Civilizations: 1500-Present requirements and have been approved by AP European History Western Civilization Since 1500 the University. Students will have the AP Microeconomics Microeconomics 201 opportunity to take advantage of the dual credit opportunities at the beginning of the Applied Statistics ACC Applied Statistics courses by completing an application and Applied Calculus ACC Calculus I: Single Variable submitting the course registration fee for AP Biology General Biology I each class. Once the registration period AP Biology Prep General Biology II closes, students will not be allowed to AP Physics C: E & M Physics I with Lab register for college credit. Since these Anatomy & Physiology ACC Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology with Lab courses are college courses, credit will be Chemistry ACC Fundamentals of Chemistry with Lab awarded by St. Johnsbury Academy and French I ACC Beginning French I Southern New Hampshire University. *French II ACC *Beginning French II SNHU credit portability and transferability *French III ACC *Intermediate French I rests solely with individual colleges and *French IV ACC *Intermediate French II universities as they have varying policies on accepting transfer credits; thus, it is Spanish I ACC Beginning Spanish I the student’s responsibility to obtain a *Spanish II ACC *Beginning Spanish II transcript from SNHU and to consult *Spanish III ACC *Intermediate Spanish I with higher educational institutions to *Spanish IV ACC *Intermediate Spanish II determine whether the SNHU course(s) can be transferred. Additional information *SNHU dual enrollment in French and Spanish language courses, requires beginning regarding the program can be directed to with Beginning French I/Beginning Spanish I. the Director of Guidance. In order for a dual enrollment course to run, a minimum of Additional course are being considered for the 21-22 school year. six students must enrolled.

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The Academic Support and Enrichment the grades for the period being reported. After the name of each Services Center course there is a parenthetical abbreviation which signifies the level of instruction at which the course was offered. There are The Academic Support and Enrichment Center (also known as the five abbreviations: IS (Individualized Services), BA (Basic), Learning Center) is professionally staffed with faculty representing ST (Standard), ACC (Accelerated), and AP (Advanced Placement). core disciplines. The Center offers a resource for students to seek Students will earn credit in all courses that they have successfully support or enrichment in their studies as they pursue their academic completed after each semester of work. interests and realize their potential. Students can access the Center during their unscheduled blocks or study halls. The Academy acknowledges superior student achievement with two published lists, the high honor roll and the honor roll. Honor rolls are Grade Reporting determined by mid-semester and semester grades. To achieve high Grades are reported to students and parents four times a year: honor roll status, a student must achieve an overall average of 90 or mid-semester and at the end of each academic term. Report cards better. To achieve honor roll status, students must achieve an overall consist of a list of courses taken, the teacher of each course, and average of 85 or better.

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student expectations, learn responsibility While the vast majority of seniors satisfy their regarding digital citizenship, explore capstone requirement in the 7701 course, FRESHMAN Academy traditions, learn how to balance other courses that satisfy the Capstone HUMANITIES student commitments and the importance graduation requirement are: of involvement in extra-curricular activities, 1062 – AP Research (English Department) All freshmen are required to take this enhance time management skills and course which satisfies 1 English and 1 executive functioning skill sets, and learn 7705 – Visual Arts Capstone (Fine Arts Social Studies credit. how to be a global citizen on an independent Department) boarding school campus through the lens of 7703 – ESL Capstone (ESL Department) Freshman Humanities (Basic) cultural awareness, diversity, and inclusion. 2 CREDITS/FULL YEAR (1911/1912) In addition, class time is devoted to the use of 4853 – Engineering Design and Development Capstone (Science Department) Freshman Humanities technology to enhance educational outcomes (Standard) including in-depth coverage of our learning 7706/Spring Semester – CTE Field Studies 2 CREDITS/FULL YEAR (1913/1914) management system, Canvas, and the Google Capstone applications used by our teachers. Must be combined with 4999/Fall Semester – Freshman Humanities Environmental Studies Field Semester. Meets (Accelerated) every other day. (Science Department) 2 CREDITS/FULL YEAR (1915/1916) 7707 – CTE Capstone (Career and Technical This cross-disciplinary, writing-intensive SENIOR CAPSTONE Education Department) course will introduce students to the skills For more information on these offerings, see necessary for their future success at the 1 credit required for graduation. the entry for these courses in the appropriate Academy. Students will apply the skills they All seniors are required to complete a Senior department sections of the course bulletin. learn in the areas of composition, critical Capstone investigation. The Academy sees thinking, and problem solving to the study the Capstone course as a culmination of all of the human condition. Students will previous learning; it serves as an opportunity examine a variety of texts, both historical for students to demonstrate their mastery of and contemporary, as a means of building our standards as they head to college, careers, ENGLISH connections to the course’s guiding themes. and carry their overall Academy experience 4 credits are required for graduation. For into their personal and professional lives. On The course culminates in the Freshman those students who have taken Freshman Senior Capstone Day, in early December and Inquiry Project which allows students to Humanities, 3 additional core credits are early May, seniors present their Capstone partner with local institutions as a means required for graduation. All students are projects to their peers, faculty members, of building connections to the course’s required to complete one core English course trustees, and members of the community. guiding themes. each academic year. Senior Capstone (Accelerated) The English Department recognizes a double 1 CREDIT (7701) responsibility to its students. On the one FRESHMAN This required, one-semester, heterogeneously hand, students need to master specific skills grouped, interdisciplinary course will serve essential to the proper use of language. On IMMERSION as an opportunity for seniors to demonstrate the other hand, students growing quickly into their ability to meet Academy standards as adulthood need to know how to write, how Freshman Immersion a culmination of all of their previous course to read, how to create, and how to be critical thinkers in a world that demands increasingly ALL LEVELS/FALL SEMESTER (7590) work and a springboard into their post- secondary careers. The domain of the course complex choices. These are talents whose All freshmen are required to take the will include three main components: developments are interconnected, often Freshman Immersion program in their simultaneous, and never completed in a first semester at St. Johnsbury Academy. 1. Problem-solving: Discipline-specific lifetime. The English curriculum is designed The course is anchored in the Academy’s research methods, field research, and to help students continue to improve their commitment to success for each student critical inquiry language skills and further expand their by introducing mission-based curriculum 2. Communication: Discipline-specific developing talents. designed to address our core values of writing formats, editing, revision, and character, community, and inquiry. As part public speaking of our transition program and commitment to our freshman families, all students 3. Citizenship: Defining the characteristics are introduced to various aspects of St. of a professional and acting and producing to Johnsbury Academy in an intentional way. that definition. Students learn about the school mission and core values, understand and commit to

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Technical Communications I supplement its core readings with poetry Core Courses (Standard) and fiction drawn from the major periods of 1 CREDIT (1063) American literature. Literary Perspectives Prerequisite: Literary Perspectives or equivalent (Basic) Open to Juniors Technical Communications II 1 CREDIT (1031) This standard-level course is open to juniors (Standard) Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities or equivalent 1 CREDIT (1083) who are enrolled in a technical education Open to Sophomores course and who anticipate continuing Prerequisite: Technical Communications I or with departmental approval Literary Perspectives their education at a technical college or This course is open to seniors who are (Standard) institute. Students will be introduced to the enrolled in a minimum of two blocks of 1 CREDIT (1033) principles of effective communication in the technical education and who anticipate Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities or equivalent workplace. Special attention will be given continuing their education at a technical Open to Sophomores to workplace ethics. Students will research college or institute. Students will research topics of personal and vocational interest, Literary Perspectives topics of personal and vocational interest, explore career plans and opportunities, and (Accelerated) explore career plans and opportunities, and present information and opinions to various 1 CREDIT (1035) present information and opinions to various audiences. In class projects, students will Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities or equivalent audiences. In class projects, students will solve realistic problems using critical thinking Open to Sophomores; with departmental approval solve realistic problems using critical thinking and decision-making skills. This Sophomore course emphasizes the and decision-making skills. importance of inquiry while supporting skills Rhetoric and Composition in reading, analysis, and research. Students (Standard) Literature and Composition will identify main ideas and arguments in 1 CREDIT (1053) (Standard) texts; identify ways in which writers develop Prerequisite: Literary Perspectives or equivalent 1 CREDIT (1073) these ideas through characterization, plot, Open to Juniors Prerequisite: Rhetoric and Composition or equivalent structure, and other literary devices and Open to Seniors strategies; reflect on the effectiveness of Rhetoric and Composition (Accelerated) Literature and Composition literary arguments; and consider how context (Accelerated) and occasion influence authorial decisions 1 CREDIT (1055) 1 CREDIT (1075) and literary works. College credit is available through Southern New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment College credit is available through Southern Students will also be required to develop course College Composition I. New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment their own perspectives and communicate Prerequisite: Literary Perspectives or equivalent course Introduction to Literature. via written, oral, and visual mediums, both Open to Juniors Prerequisite: Rhetoric and Composition or equivalent Open to Seniors independently and collaboratively, and Through this Junior course, students immerse synthesize a variety of genres and texts. themselves in argumentative and persuasive This senior course teaches college- writing. They will then refine academic preparatory logic and analysis through Upon completion of this course, students will writing and research skills through the Area reading, writing, speaking, and listening. be able to analyze and evaluate a variety of of Inquiry research project. Thematic units The course examines significant works of texts and have the ability to communicate provide a platform for critical thinking world literature that reveal the diversity ideas, using a variety of methods, supported about American ideals and individual self- of human experience and the mandate by evidence. understanding. to make the world a more humane place. Students write a variety of essays that build AP Seminar AP English Language and upon modes introduced in Rhetoric and 1 ½ CREDITS (1060/1064) Composition Composition. Open to Sophomores and Juniors; with departmental approval 1 ½ CREDITS (1058/1059) Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment with AP English Literature and In the first year of the two-year AP Capstone AP Seminar Composition Program sequence, students will develop and Open to Juniors; with departmental approval 1 CREDIT (1079) strengthen their analytic and inquiry skills, This two-semester course leads directly Prerequisites: concurrent enrollment in AP Research exploring in detail three to five relevant issues to the taking of the Advanced Placement Open to Seniors; with departmental approval selected by the instructor. They will learn to examination in English Language and This course leads directly to the taking of the consider an issue from multiple perspectives, Composition in the spring. The course Advanced Placement examination in English evaluate the strength of an argument, prepares students for the AP examination, Literature and Composition in the spring. and make logical, fact-based decisions. including critical reading, rhetorical and The course introduces and reinforces skills During the course, students will complete a stylistic analysis, and argumentation. that will allow students to do well on the AP team project and presentation, an individual Students will refine their academic writing exam. It engages students in a wealth of reflection, and an individual paper and and research skills through the Area of literature and a range of genres, reading both presentation. Students are required to take Inquiry research project. The class process widely and deeply; students also write critical the AP Seminar written exam. will feature seminar discussions of the analysis, including expository, analytical, and assigned readings. Although primarily a argumentative essays. Students will refine study of nonfiction texts, the course will college-level critical thinking skills through

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the interpretation of prose, poetry, and skills required to successfully manage a College Writing (Standard) drama, with a focus on British literature. The professional newsroom. 1 CREDIT (1003) Senior Capstone experience required for Open to Juniors and Seniors graduation is also embedded in the course. Creative Writing (Accelerated) 1 CREDIT (1007) College Writing (Accelerated) AP Research College credit is available through Southern 1 CREDIT (1004) 1 CREDIT (1061) New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment Open to Juniors and Seniors; with departmental course Introduction to Creative Writing. approval Prerequisite: AP Seminar and concurrent enrollment with Accelerated English Literature and Composition Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors This course is designed to enhance the or AP English Literature and Composition Students will create portfolios of their language and writing of skilled college-bound Open to Seniors; with departmental approval own work in the genres of short fiction, students. It will examine strategies for Students will work on an independent poetry, and playwriting; the portfolio will writing effective college admissions essays research project on a topic of interest. At the contain selections from their daily writing and will study the SAT with a particular end of the research project, they will submit journal as well as finished and revised emphasis on vocabulary, timed-writing, an academic paper of about 5,000 words and pieces. Students will read widely in these and reading comprehension. defend their research through a presentation. genres from selections of both older and Additionally, students will present the contemporary works chosen by the class, and application of their research at our spring achieve a sophisticated understanding of the Capstone day. fundamental elements of those genres. The SOCIAL STUDIES course will include field trips to attend writing festivals and poetry slams as well as trips to 3 credits are required for graduation. For Elective Courses local colleges for readings. those students who have taken Freshman Humanities, 2 additional core credits are Media Studies and Production I Advanced Creative Writing (Accelerated) required for graduation. All Students are (Accelerated) required to complete Freshman Humanities 1 CREDIT (1005) 1 CREDIT (1008) or the equivalent; World Civilization, Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities Prerequisite: Creative Writing (Accelerated) Post-1500, AP European History, or AP Media Studies and Production I examines Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors; with World History; and United States History. the intricacies of journalism’s new frontier departmental approval and explores what it means to allow words, Seniors who wish to pursue intensive study of One of the stated objectives of education is to images, and sound to interplay for effective creative writing may take Creative Writing a produce good citizens. In a democracy, this communication with an audience of both the second time for credit. In consultation with means informed, involved citizens—persons Academy community and the world at large. the instructor, the students in this course will who are willing and able to understand and Students will explore the interplay of various embark on a demanding course of study in act upon the critical issues of their times. The means of communication and compose audio two genres of his/her choice, one per quarter. Social Studies are replete with controversy: and video podcasts, visual narratives, and These may include poetry, short fiction, script questions of power, decision-making, written articles. They will ultimately create writing, the novella, and children’s literature. leadership, duties of citizens, goals for the multi-layered media projects through the Students taking Advanced Creative Writing nation, freedoms for individuals, equity use of multimedia authoring software for will have class with Creative Writing students. of opportunity, distribution of wealth, online publication and digital storytelling. Admission will be reserved for those students war and peace; these are issues that must Students will investigate 21st Century media who have demonstrated a sincere, significant be studied in their historical context, to evaluate how messages are delivered with interest in pursuing creative excellence and re-examined, and acted upon by each lasting impact and effectiveness. whose post-secondary plans include creative new generation of Americans. Divisions writing study. of opinion are inevitable but an informed, Media Studies and Production II involved, critical thinker is better able to (Accelerated) Public Speaking (Accelerated) pursue their task of citizenship. 1 CREDIT (1001) 1 CREDIT (1006) All Academy students are required to Prerequisite: Media Studies and Production I Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors successfully complete Freshman Humanities, Media Studies and Production II further This course enables students to speak and World Civilization, Post-1500, and United examines the intricacies of journalism’s write effectively for a wide variety of purposes States History. These courses must be taken new frontier and the ways in which words, and audiences. Through the study of form sequentially and elective courses may also images, and sound interplay for effective and communication, students learn to use be inserted into a student’s curriculum. AP communication with an audience—both the storytelling, personal statements, persuasion European History and AP World History may Academy community and the world at large. and vocal techniques to express their ideas be substituted for World Civilization, Post- Students will continue their exploration at formal, informal and social events. 1500 and AP United States History may be of various means of communication and Students will leave this class able to speak substituted for United States History. compose nuanced audio and video podcasts, confidently and comfortably in front of Acceptance into AP courses requires the visual narratives, and written articles for almost any audience. recommendation of the department. publication. Additionally, students will learn and practice the mechanical, decision- making, interpersonal, and supervisory

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beginning with the late Middle Ages and Core Courses continuing through the Cold War, including a Elective Courses demanding reading schedule and the practice World Civilization, Post-1500 of AP testing elements. AP European History Vermont History and the (Basic) meets for the entire year. The class will be Identity of the Northeast 1 CREDIT (2911) held every other day in the first semester Kingdom Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities and will meet every day in the second 1 CREDIT (2920) semester. It fulfills the World Civilization, Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities World Civilization, Post-1500 Post-1500 requirement. This class will be (Standard) If history focuses on understanding our held every other day in the first semester and place in the world, then history starts in our 1 CREDIT (2913) will meet every day in the second semester. own backyard. Vermont and the Northeast Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities Kingdom share a long and storied history. World Civilization, Post-1500 United States History (Basic) Students will learn local history from primary (Accelerated) 1 CREDIT (2151) sources, and the award-winning book, 1 CREDIT (2915) Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities and World Hands on the Land, which will serve as a Civilization, Post-1500 supplementary text. Students will participate College credit is available through Southern Open to Juniors New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment in a variety of learning experiences, including course World Civilizations: 1500-Present. United States History field trips, investigation of primary sources, Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities (Standard) and self-directed research projects. This course will explore the major themes 1 CREDIT (2153) of historical change in the world from 1500 Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities and World Sociology and Criminology to 1800. Citizenship, government, and Civilization, Post-1500 (Standard) Open to Juniors revolution are key strands of the course. 1 CREDIT (2949) It will also enable students to work on those United States History Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities Social Studies department standards that (Accelerated) This semester-long course is designed as have not yet been mastered. 1 CREDIT (2155) a compliment to both our Psychology and College credit is available through Southern Career Awareness Curriculum. It provides AP World History New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment students with a general overview of Sociology 1 ½ CREDIT (2916/2917) course U.S. History II: 1865-Present. while looking specifically at Criminology Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities or with Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities and World with a concentration on deviance and social departmental approval Civilization, Post-1500 Open to Juniors control. Along with the topics such as, social This college-level course prepares students structure/socialization, sex and gender, race This survey course will expose students to the for the Advanced Placement examination. and ethnicity, the family, crime, punishment, history of the United States in a chronological This course focuses on developing students’ theories of deviance, recidivism and approach from the founding of the United understanding of world history from rehabilitation, this course will allow for an States to the present. The course will focus on approximately 1200 CE to the present. individual concentration relative to a social active citizenship and will highlight the study Students will investigate the content of world group of the student’s choice. Each student of United States history through political and history for significant events, individuals, will be responsible for content knowledge economic lenses. developments, and processes in six historical and individual research on this social group periods while they develop essential AP United States History throughout the semester. historical thinking skills. The course focuses 1 ½ CREDITS (2158/2159) on five interconnected themes, encouraging Economics and Public Policy Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities and World students to make connections between Civilization, Post-1500, AP World History, or AP (Standard) different eras in regions, including Africa, European History; with departmental approval 1 CREDIT (2947) Open to Juniors the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion or current This course fulfills the World Civilization, This Junior college-level course is taught enrollment in U.S. History and Algebra II or with departmental approval Post-1500 requirement. This class will be to prepare students to take the Advanced held every other day in the first semester and Placement United States History exam and Economics and Public Policy will meet every day in the second semester. requires a level of critical thinking and writing (Accelerated) commensurate with college work. This course 1 CREDIT (2948) meets for the entire year. The class will be AP European History Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion or current 1 ½ CREDITS (2918/2919) held every other day in the first semester and enrollment in U.S. History and Algebra II or with College credit is available through Southern will meet every day in the second semester. departmental approval New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment This course is meant for students who course Western Civilization Since 1500. have an interest in economics, public Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities or with policy, and finance. Students will explore departmental approval the fundamental principles of economics This college-level course prepares students with an emphasis on practical applications for the Advanced Placement examination through behavioral economics and game in European History. The course includes theory. Students will examine the social a profound study of European history

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and economic impacts of government Modern East Asia (Accelerated) cultural approach by reading original works of policy through case studies from various 1 CREDIT (2922) thinkers of all regions and periods, from Plato administrations from the 1960s to the Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities and World to Rumi, Axial-Age China to modern day present. Students will also design and Civilization, Post-1500 or with departmental England, and beyond. Students will examine execute behavioral economics experiments, approval issues such as free will, justice, religion, explore personal finance strategies, and This course will examine the rich and individual responsibility, and the quest to write policy papers. complex history of East Asia, particularly find meaning and fulfillment in the living of the modern nations of China, Japan, and one’s own life. AP United States Government Korea and will focus on the post-1945 period. and Politics The growth of China into a world leader, 1 ½ CREDITS (2178/2179) the dynamism of Japanese culture, and the Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities and United ongoing struggle between the north and the MATHEMATICS States History south in Korea will be explored. The course Open to Seniors or with departmental approval will take the form of a seminar, in which 3 credits required for graduation This college-level course prepares students students will be expected to actively engage The sequence of courses will permit students to take the AP United States Government with course content in classroom discussion, to have the following experiences in math: and Politics examination. It further prepares as well as out of the classroom in writing. students for roles as community leaders • View math as a blend of patterns instead of a and responsible, active citizens using the Psychology (Standard) set of isolated topics. competitive “We the People…” program, in 1 CREDIT (2923) • Make connections; construct models and order to strengthen their critical thinking Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities; open to theories that order their understanding of and extemporaneous speaking skills. The Sophomore, Juniors, and Seniors their environment. “We the People…” program culminates in a State congressional hearing competition in Psychology (Accelerated) •Relate mathematical ideas to everyday January. Additionally, students investigate 1 CREDIT (2925) experiences and real-world situations. core concepts of political science: consuming Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors • Discover how to adjust procedures to solve and producing polls, analyzing charts and new problems. graphs, predicting voting behavior, analyzing Students will gain a knowledge of the basic demographic data, and understanding theories of human behavior and interaction • Spend more time on each topic, enabling the essential ideas about political parties, through readings, discussion, multimedia, invention and practice. and field research campaigns, and elections. • Create “real” connections and study those Furthermore, by the end of the course, AP Psychology connections from concrete to abstraction. students will understand influences on the 1½ CREDIT (2928/2929) • Develop communication, reasoning, and policy agenda and the process of policy Open to Juniors and Seniors; with departmental problem-solving skills. making and enactment. The course will approval Three mathematics courses are required close with a study of economic naturalism. This college-level course prepares students for graduation. The mathematics program The class will meet every-other day in for the Advanced Placement examination in includes course offerings designed to the first semester, and every day in the Psychology and includes an in-depth study provide opportunities for all students to second semester. of the biological, cognitive, developmental, learn meaningful mathematics. At several social, and clinical aspects of psychology. points during their academic career, student AP Microeconomics This class will meet every day in the placements are reviewed to ensure that they 1 ½ CREDITS (2218/2219) first semester and every other day in the are working at a level consistent with their College credit is available through Southern second semester. New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment goals and achievement. course Microeconomics 200 level. Contemporary Issues Students who take standard level courses Prerequisites: Freshman Humanities and United acquire a sound preparation to pursue States History (Accelerated) Open to Seniors or with departmental approval ½ CREDIT (2946) four-year college programs, two-year This college-level course prepares students Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities technical programs, on-the-job training, or for the Advanced Placement examination in This course focuses on the study of issues that armed forces experience. Themes that are Microeconomics. Students will investigate are affecting the world today and requires the emphasized throughout include problem- the core concepts of microeconomics. use of newspapers and discussion to enhance solving, applications of the ideas presented, Students taking AP Microeconomics may knowledge of current events. This class will use of the graphing calculator, writing also elect to sit for the Advanced Placement be held every other day. process, and collaboration. exam in Macroeconomics with approval Students who enroll in accelerated from the Social Studies Department Chair Philosophy (Accelerated) math courses will be prepared to pursue and Academic Dean. Additional out of 1 CREDIT (2935) competitive four-year college programs. class work will be required to prepare Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities These are highly motivated students with for the Macroeconomic Exam. This This course will introduce students to the strong mathematical achievement. Themes class will meet every-other day in the study and uses of philosophy, as well as emphasized through this sequence include first semester, and every day during the the history of ideas. Students take a multi- problem solving, applications of the ideas second semester.

10 COURSES OF STUDY presented, theory, and an appreciation Algebra I Full Year (Standard) the number system. The students will of mathematics as a language. Graphing 1 MATH CREDIT/1 ELECTIVE CREDIT be introduced to styles of proving, calculators are used to facilitate the teaching (3216/3217) evaluating, and simplifying algebraic of these courses. One goal of the courses in With departmental approval. The math department expressions. There will be emphasis on this sequence is to prepare students for AP placement test determines placement in the full-year solving complex or unfamiliar problems mathematics courses and beyond. Courses Algebra I course. using appropriate analysis techniques and in this sequence differ from the equivalent Algebra I Full Year (Accelerated) reasonable estimation. The students will standard-level course by the pace of the learn to generalize results from specific 1 MATH CREDIT/1 ELECTIVE CREDIT course, the amount of required homework, applications. Advanced topics of solving (3218/3219) and the level of abstraction and formal proof. rational expressions, transformations, With departmental approval. The math department and exponential growth and decay are Permission to take an accelerated-level placement test determines placement in the full-year Algebra I course. also included. course is normally predicated by maintaining a grade of at least 80 in the previous Algebra I (Accelerated) Geometry (Standard) accelerated-level course or at least 90 in the 1 CREDIT (3215) 1 CREDIT (3253) previous standard-level course. Prerequisites: Above average Placement Test and Prerequisite: Algebra II; with departmental approval recommendation based on prior achievement; with All courses use graphing calculators departmental approval and/ or computers to enhance the learning Geometry (Accelerated) This course consists of the rules of algebra of mathematics. In addition, all students 1 CREDIT (3255) with an emphasis on linear functions. are expected to write about their Prerequisite: Algebra II; with departmental approval Students will learn to evaluate and simplify mathematical processes. This course consists of the principles of algebraic expressions and linear equations. In Euclidean geometry supplemented by logic. addition, students in this course will evaluate, Algebraic Foundations I Areas of study will include basic geometric analyze, and graph functions and relations. 1 CREDIT (3210) figures and relationships among them, Applications of systems of equations will properties of polygons with emphasis on This course is the first part of a two-part be studied using both algebra and analytic triangles and quadrilaterals, properties of foundations of algebra course. The topics of geometry. Data analysis and linear regression circles and related concepts, congruence the course will include the real number line will be explored using the graphing calculator. and similarity, and applications of measure and operations of those numbers. Exponents, This course will also include the language of and area problems. The student will learn powers, and order of operations will be BASIC using the programming functions of right triangle trigonometry and have an explored through problem solving. Equations the graphing calculator. will be identified in the world around, introduction to trigonometric functions. including the workplace, and will be modeled Integrated Math (Basic) through application. Students are taught the 1 CREDIT (3251) Trigonometry (Standard) 1 CREDIT (3273) correct and appropriate use of a graphing Prerequisites: Algebraic Foundations I and II or calculator. Algebra I (Standard) Prerequisite: Geometry or with departmental approval This course provides a bridge to Algebra II. Algebraic Foundations II It includes an intensive review of Algebra I Trigonometry (Accelerated) 1 ELECTIVE CREDIT (3212) skills and concepts. The geometry concepts 1 CREDIT (3275) Prerequisite: Algebraic Foundations I of congruence, symmetry, translations, and Prerequisites: Algebra II and Geometry or with This course completes the two-part reflections are explored. Modeling of area departmental approval foundations of algebra course. The topics of and volume is investigated through two- and This course allows the student to study the course include further investigation of three-dimensional objects. Topics of statistics many different areas within trigonometry. equations and their application in the real and probability are examined using graphing Topics will include angles and rotations, the world. Equations will be developed using and volume, principles of proof and logic, unit circle and right triangle trigonometry, technology. After investigating operations symmetry, and transformations. trigonometric functions, and circular of exponents using manipulatives, students functions and their graphs; trigonometric will learn to apply the concept to scientific Algebra II (Standard) identities; and proofs of identities. Concepts notation. Applications of systems of 1 CREDIT (3233) will be applied in a variety of areas such as equations will be studied using both algebra Prerequisites: Algebraic Foundations I and II, civil engineering and science. Students and analytic geometry. Data analysis and Algebra I, Grade ≥ 75; with departmental approval will make extensive use of graphing linear regression will be explored using the Algebra II (Accelerated) calculators. Arc length and polar coordinates graphing calculator. This course will also 1 CREDIT (3235) are also included. include the language of BASIC using the Prerequisite: Algebra I; with departmental approval programming functions of the graphing Freshmen may start their math sequence with this Precalculus (Standard) calculator. course if a satisfactory score has been earned on the 1 CREDIT (3283) department placement test. Prerequisite: Trigonometry or with departmental This course consists of the rules of algebra approval with an emphasis on linear and quadratic functions. Areas of study will include Precalculus (Accelerated) 1 CREDIT (3285) understanding and using number and operation concepts with emphasis on Prerequisite: Trigonometry or with departmental approval

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This course develops the analytic skills Results of sampling and data collection will examination in Statistics in the spring. necessary to describe the behavior of be displayed using statistical representations. The topics discussed in this course include mathematical functions. Topics include Journal articles and published research frequency, distributions and graphs, algebraic expressions, u-substitution, will be analyzed and interpreted from a measures of central tendency, measures higher degree polynomials, rational, statistical perspective. The basic rules of of variability, confidence intervals, and logarithmic, and exponential functions, simple probability, the fundamental counting hypothesis tests. In the first semester, the function composition, inverses of functions, theorem, conditional probability, and course meets daily; in the second semester transformations of functions, and polynomial probability distributions will also be explored. the course meets every-other day. and synthetic division. A review of trigonometric functions and the unit circle is also included. Advanced Placement Post Calculus In this course students will explore broad AP Calculus AB Multivariable Calculus applications of mathematical ideas as they 1 CREDIT (3298) 1 CREDIT (3300) pertain to the field of business, the social Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus (Accelerated) grade ≥ 85; Prerequisite: Calculus BC; with departmental sciences, computer science, and number with departmental approval; AP Calculus AB Prep is approval theory. The goal of this course is to prepare required for students who will not continue to AP Calculus BC This upper-level calculus course is intended students to interpret data, to construct for students with a strong interest in This course is equivalent to the first semester algorithms, and to build mathematical mathematics and a solid foundation in single of college calculus. The topics include limits, models to analyze and solve problems. Topics variable calculus. The topics of this course derivatives, integrals and the Fundamental include probability, data analysis, sequences will include partial derivatives, gradients, Theorem of Calculus. Emphasis will be placed and series, and logic. constrained optimization using Lagrange on conceptual understanding: reasoning multipliers, double and triple integrals with definitions and theorems, connecting Applied Calculus (Standard) with applications, as well as cylindrical and 1 CREDIT (3280) concepts, implementing algebraic/ spherical coordinates, and using Jacobian computational processes, connecting multiple Prerequisites: Trigonometry and Precalculus; with matrices to change coordinate systems. departmental approval representations, building notational fluency, Vector calculus will also be studied including and communicating. This course follows line and surface integrals, divergence and Applied Calculus (Accelerated) the AP curriculum and leads directly to the 1 CREDIT (3286) curl, and the theorems of Green and Stokes. Advanced Placement Calculus AB exam. College credit at the accelerated level, is The use of computer algebra systems will be available through Southern New Hampshire an essential part of the course. University’s dual enrollment course Calculus AP Calculus AB Prep I: Single Variable. ½ CREDIT (3297) Linear Algebra Prerequisite: AP Calculus AB; with departmental Prerequisites: Trigonometry and Precalculus; with ½ CREDIT (3301) departmental approval approval This course is a continuation of AP Calculus Prerequisites: Multivariable Calculus or SNHU dual- This course will serve as an introduction or enrollment math course; with departmental approval AB and will strengthen skills and knowledge survey of the fundamentals of differential and This course builds on the concepts of in preparation for the Advanced Placement integral calculus. Students will be encouraged three-dimensional space developed Calculus AB exam in the spring. AP Calculus to study these concepts in practical tangible in Multivariable Calculus and extends Prep meets every-other day during second applications through hands on projects, discussions of mathematical spaces to semester. classic lectures, and direct research. While include arbitrary dimensions. Topics covered each student will learn the fundamentals of AP Calculus BC in the course will include systems of linear differentiation and integration, this course is equations and how to solve them, the method 1 CREDIT (3299) not intended to be an alternative to the of Gaussian elimination, matrices and linear AP Calculus course. Prerequisite: Calculus AB grade > 90; with departmental approval mappings, determinants and their properties, This course is a continuation of Calculus AB eigenvectors and eigenvalues, and the Applied Statistics (Standard) diagonalization of matrices. The course will 1 CREDIT (3287) and is equivalent to second semester college calculus. In addition to further study of incorporate computer algebra systems and Prerequisite: Trigonometry; with departmental will seek to strike a balance between linear approval techniques of differentiation and integration, topics include sequences and series, algebra’s abstract structures and justifications Applied Statistics (Accelerated) vector and polar functions, and some basic and the rich collection of applications to 1 CREDIT (3282) differential equations. This course follows science and engineering problems that the College credit at the accelerated level, is the AP curriculum and leads directly to the subject affords. available through Southern New Hampshire Advanced Placement Calculus BC exam. University’s dual enrollment course Applied Statistics. Prerequisite: Trigonometry; with departmental AP Statistics approval 1½ CREDIT (3289/3290) This course will give students an opportunity Prerequisite: Trigonometry; with departmental approval to design and conduct surveys and experiments using statistical methods. This two-semester course leads directly to the taking of the Advanced Placement

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courses before the end of their junior year. interest in mathematics and will use abstract SCIENCE Because there are certain math prerequisites reasoning extensively. for some of these core courses, students 3 credits required for graduation, following should carefully plan their math sequence Integrated Science III (Basic) the sequence of Integrated Science I; as well. 1 CREDIT (4358) Integrated Science II; and Integrated Science Prerequisites: Integrated Science II (Basic) and at least concurrent enrollment in Algebra II (Standard) III. Integrated Science I (Basic) 1 CREDIT (4321) In science courses, students participate in a Integrated Science III (Standard) Prerequisite: At least concurrent enrollment in course of study that will enable them to: Algebraic Foundations I or Algebra I 1 CREDIT (4359) Prerequisites: Integrated Science II (Standard) • Master the processes of scientific Integrated Science I (Standard) and at least concurrent enrollment in Algebra II investigation, and to design, and safely (Standard) 1 CREDIT (4322) conduct, evaluate, and communicate about Prerequisite: At least concurrent enrollment in such investigations. Integrated Science III Algebraic Foundations I (Accelerated) • Acquire essential knowledge about the Integrated Science I 1 CREDIT (4360) content of science in the fields of Physical (Accelerated) Prerequisites: Integrated Science II (Accelerated) Science, Life Science, and Earth and Space and at least concurrent enrollment in Geometry 1 CREDIT (4323) Science. (Accelerated) Prerequisite: At least concurrent enrollment in This laboratory course focuses on developing • Be scientifically literate, able to read and Algebraic Foundations I scientific questions and methods for answering analyze scientific information. This laboratory course investigates living them. The study of the environment as an organisms and their relationships with the • Engage in the authentic practice of interdependent system serves as a foundation non-living world. Topics include the anatomy science. They will know and understand for connecting this final core science course to and physiology of organisms, evolution, relationships among science, technology, prior knowledge within the traditional areas genetics, and cellular function. Students learn and human activity and how they affect of biology, chemistry, and physics, as well to explain the interactions of life by drawing the world, and understand that science as introducing students to other scientific on fundamental concepts in chemistry. involves a particular way of knowing, and disciplines. Topics include ecological cycles, Emphasis is placed on developing strong understand common connections among climate, biodiversity, geology, and sustainable science inquiry skills. The accelerated level scientific disciplines. human use. Students will be expected to of this course is intended for those students participate in field-based research and may have • Understand the history of science. who have a strong background and interest opportunities to contribute to ongoing local data in mathematics and will use abstract Basic courses emphasize practical collection efforts. The accelerated level of this reasoning extensively. applications to everyday life. Standard course is intended for students who have a strong and accelerated courses are designed to Integrated Science II (Basic) background and interest in mathematics, and prepare students for college-level science will use abstract reasoning extensively. courses, including Advanced Placement 1 CREDIT (4328) courses. Accelerated courses emphasize the Prerequisites: Integrated Science I and Algebraic Foundations II or Algebra I use of mathematical analysis and explore Elective Courses the topics at a more rapid pace, in a more Integrated Science II (Standard) The following courses are intended for rigorous manner. Permission to take an 1 CREDIT (4329) students who wish to explore particular accelerated course is normally predicated Prerequisites: Integrated Science I and Algebraic scientific topics in more depth than the core on maintaining a grade of at least 85 in the Foundations II or Algebra I courses. Elective courses—with the exception previous accelerated course, or at least 90 in of Advanced Placement courses—cannot the previous standard course. Integrated Science II (Accelerated) be used as a substitute for the core courses 1 CREDIT (4330) as a graduation requirement. An AP course Core Courses Prerequisites: Integrated Science I (Accelerated) can replace a core course in the same area of grade >85 or (Standard) grade >90 and Algebra study (for example, AP Biology for Biology) Three core science courses are required II (Standard) or at least concurrent enrollment in with written departmental permission, Algebra II (Accelerated) for graduation following the sequence of though normally this is not recommended. Integrated Science I; Integrated Science This laboratory course draws on the II; and Integrated Science III. Note that disciplines of chemistry and physics to build AP Biology scientific models of the interactions between college preparatory chemistry topics will 1 ½ CREDITS (4378/4379) matter, motion, and energy. Topics include be integrated in the first two courses. With College credit is available through Southern written departmental permission, a student motion in one dimension, Newton’s Laws, New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment may replace one of these courses with the conservation laws, chemical equations, course General Biology I and General corresponding Advanced Placement course, the periodic table, and electric circuits and Biology II. though it is normally recommended that electrochemistry. Emphasis is placed on Prerequisites: Integrated Science I (Accelerated) developing strong science inquiry skills. The and Integrated Science II (Accelerated) grade >85 or students take AP courses as their second (Standard) grade >90; with departmental approval course in the subject of interest. All students accelerated level of this course is intended for This college-level biology course investigates should plan to complete their three core students who have a strong background and living organisms and their relationship with

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the non-living world at a level appropriate for appropriate for successfully taking the AP Chemistry (Accelerated) successfully taking the Advanced Placement Physics C: Mechanics and AP Physics C: 1 CREDIT (4335) Biology examination. Students must take this Electricity and Magnetism exams. They are College credit is available through Southern course both semesters, with the class meeting equivalent to the first year of college physics New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment every other day in the second semester. taken by students majoring in physics and course Fundamentals of Chemistry with Lab. the engineering disciplines. Topics include Prerequisites: Integrated Science I (Accelerated) AP Chemistry Newtonian mechanics, rotational dynamics, and Integrated Science II grade >85 or (Standard) grade >90 and at least concurrent enrollment 1 ½ CREDITS (4388/4389) oscillations, electrostatics, electromagnetism, in Algebra II (Accelerated); with departmental Prerequisites: Integrated Science I (Accelerated) and circuits. Significant laboratory practical approval and Integrated Science II (Accelerated) grade work is included. Students must take both This course is aimed at students who want >85 or (Standard) grade >90; with departmental approval semesters of the course. more lab-based chemistry after Integrated This college-level chemistry course involves Science II who cannot or do not want to students in the study of matter and its AP Environmental Science take AP Chemistry. This laboratory course 1 ½ CREDITS (4367/4369) changes at a level appropriate for successfully involves students in the study of matter and taking the AP Chemistry examination. Prerequisites: Integrated Science III (Accelerated) its changes. Topics include the relationships grade >85 or (Standard) grade >90 and Algebra II between matter and energy, atomic structure, Topics include the structure of matter, (Accelerated) chemical bonding and reactions, kinetics, This course may be taken instead of Science chemical bonding and reaction types, Research Methods with departmental stoichiometry, the gas laws, solutions, and thermodynamics, and chemical equilibrium. recommendation. Students must take this course both chemical equilibrium. AP Environmental Science is an semesters, with the class meeting every other interdisciplinary, rigorous college-level day in the second semester. Anatomy and Physiology science course that provides students with (Standard) AP Physics 1 (4348) the scientific principles, concepts, and 1 CREDIT (4373) methodologies required to understand the Prerequisites: Integrated Science I (Accelerated) and AP Physics 2 (4349) interrelationships of the natural world, Integrated Science II (Standard) 2 CREDITS to identify and analyze environmental Prerequisites: Integrated Science II (Accelerated) problems both natural and human-made, to Anatomy and Physiology grade >85 or (Standard) grade >90 with evaluate the relative risks associated with (Accelerated) departmental approval and Trigonometry 1 CREDIT (4375) Students may take this sequence as a first physics these problems, and to examine alternative course with department approval. solutions for resolving or preventing College credit is available through Southern New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment them. Students must take this course both This college-level, trigonometry-based course Introduction to Anatomy and Physiol- physics course builds on the core physics semesters, with the class meeting every other ogy with Lab. courses at a level appropriate for successfully day in the second semester. Prerequisites: Integrated Science I (Accelerated) and taking the AP Physics 1 and Physics 2 Integrated Science II (Accelerated) exams. It is equivalent to the first year (two Genetics (Accelerated) Students interested in studying human semesters) of college physics taken by 1 CREDIT (4940) biology in greater depth should consider students majoring in the life sciences and pre- Prerequisites: Integrated Science I (Accelerated) this course. It is appropriate for students medicine. Topics studied include Newtonian and Integrated Science II (Accelerated) grade >85 or (Standard) grade >90 considering advanced study in fields such mechanics, oscillations, fluid dynamics, as medicine, medical technology, dental During the first half of the course, students thermodynamics, optics, electromagnetism, technology, and nursing, exercise sciences, will investigate laboratory techniques and electric circuits, and modern physics. and physical therapy. tools used in genetics. Model organisms will Significant laboratory practical work is include Drosophila melanogaster, Brassica included. Students must take both semesters Astronomy (Standard) rappa, and C. elegans for study of inheritance of the course. 1 CREDIT (4393) patterns beyond those learned in earlier Prerequisite: Integrated Science II AP Physics C: Mechanics (4399) courses. During the second part of the course, students will use polymerase chain reaction This introductory course emphasizes AP Physics C: Electricity and technology and on-line libraries of sequenced observational aspects of astronomy. Students Magnetism (4397) genomes to conduct experiments that can will learn about our place in the universe, 2 CREDITS identify the presence of genes in organisms. always addressing the issue of “How do College credit is available for AP Physics C: Students’ outcomes will include an enhanced we know what we know?” Topics include Electricity and Magnetism through Southern exposure to and understanding of how the the relationship between the earth and the New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment field of genetics influences their lives and sky, short term and long term cycles in the course Physics I with Lab. environments, from genetically-modified celestial sphere, the exploration of the solar Prerequisites: Integrated Science II (Accelerated) system, light, telescopes, and stellar evolution grade >85 or (Standard) grade >90 and at least foods and medicines, to selective breeding concurrent enrollment in Applied Calculus (Acceler- programs of domestic animals, and other cycles. Practical work will be done using ated) or AP Calculus; relevant applications. Treatment will be given portable telescopes on campus and using the with departmental approval Northern Skies Observatory (NSO), located Students may take this sequence as a first physics to ethical and legal considerations as well. course with department approval. in Peacham, Vermont. Students will make These college level, calculus-based physics use of the robotic capabilities of the NSO to courses build on the core physics at a level make their own research grade observations

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and measurements. Professional imaging wide variety of scientific research, design processing software will be used extensively. Biomedical and engineering, programming, mathematical, presentation, and teamwork skills. As the Students will be expected to attend at least Health Sciences students work in teams on weekly projects, one night-time observing session during the they will develop the course’s core skills to semester. Certificate Program solve a variety of challenges. Students will The Biomedical and Health Sciences use Lego and VEX robotics kits to design, Forensics (Standard) Certificate Program consists of a combination fabricate, and program robots that meet 1 CREDIT (4930) of guidance, coursework, clinical experience, project requirements. The accelerated level Prerequisite: Integrated Science I (Standard); with mentoring, and independent research departmental approval of this course is intended for those students to provide students with a pre-university who have a strong background and interest This introductory course will expose students experience in allied health. Students who in mathematics, and will use algebraic to “real life” applications of the life and satisfactorily complete all of the requirements reasoning extensively. physical sciences to criminal investigation. will earn a St. Johnsbury Academy Students will use techniques of biological Certification in Biomedical and Health Introduction to Engineering and chemical tools to analyze evidence Sciences, as well as develop advantageous found at crime scenes, including the use of Design and Development mentoring relationships with regional health (Accelerated) DNA analysis. Students will interact with care providers. law enforcement officials, crime scene 1 CREDIT (4850) technicians, and court officials to explore Students wishing to pursue the certificate Prerequisite: At least concurrent enrollment in Algebra II career opportunities in forensics. Mock trials should complete their core science courses In this projects-based course, students use will play an important role in this laboratory- and meet with the program advisor as early an iterative design cycle to explore a variety based course. in their high school career as possible. See Sample Course Selections beginning of engineering problems. The first half of This course is intended for students, on page 36. the course is focused on developing the primarily sophomores, who find science and tools of design: understanding usability, Students must also take part in an approved mathematics challenging, and who would like identifying needs and analyzing solutions, internship as part of a clinical or patient an intermediate course to prepare for taking working collaboratively, and communicating care experience (either during or outside Integrated Science II. Students who are ideas with sketches and industry-standard of the school day), and complete a related interested in the topic and have completed modeling software (CAD). During the second Senior Capstone project mentored by the Chemistry or Physics, especially at the half of the course, students pursue a series program advisor. accelerated level, should take Biotechnical of independent and team projects that Engineering, which has a forensics unit, expose them to several different types instead of this course. Forensics does not of engineering. qualify as a core course. Engineering Design and Development Digital Electronics (Accelerated) Wildlife Biology (Accelerated) 1 CREDIT (4851) 1 CREDIT (4950) Program Prerequisite: Algebra II (Accelerated) Prerequisite: At least concurrent enrollment in The Engineering Design and Development This course in applied logic encompasses the Research Methods and Environmental Systems (ACC) or (ST) Program is an elective, multi- faceted system application of electronic circuits and devices. Students in the Wildlife Biology course of guidance, coursework, work experience, Students use computer simulation software will engage in an in-depth and hands-on mentoring, and training that provides to design and test digital circuitry prior to the exploration of animal-habitat relationships, students with a pre-university experience actual construction of circuits and devices. illustrated through basic field zoology and in engineering and design. The Academy’s Programming and use of microcontrollers natural history, evolutionary biology, and program aims to increase the number will be included, making this course established natural resource management of students—particularly young women appropriate for students who wish to expand techniques. The course will examine the and other students traditionally under- their understanding of robotics. Offered in dynamics of various habitats in New England, represented in the STeM disciplines— in alternate years from Game Design. North America, and elsewhere through field science and technology programs. visits and use of primary literature. Topics Civil Engineering and explored include plant, tree and animal Introduction to Robotics Architecture (Accelerated) identification, principles of animal behavior, (Standard) 1 CREDIT (4852) 1 CREDIT (4849) and habitat relationships, especially in wild Prerequisites: At least concurrent enrollment in Physics and forested lands. Students will also discuss Open to Freshmen and Sophomores This overview of the fields of civil policy issues related to conservation and Introduction to Robotics engineering and architecture emphasizes the techniques to protect endangered species and (Accelerated) inter-relationship and mutual dependence threatened natural communities. Students 1 CREDIT (4848) of both fields. Students use state-of-the-art will have multiple opportunities to interact Open to Freshmen and Sophomores software to solve real world problems and with professionals who work to utilize and Introduction to Robotics gives students a apply knowledge to hands-on projects and protect such resources and gain insight into cross-disciplinary introduction to robotics, activities. By developing and implementing careers and continuing study in this field. which will involve them in developing a plans for a playground, park, or vacation

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home for example, students experience first prototype, test the prototype in real life third core science requirement as part of the hand the job responsibilities of architects situations (or simulation), document their experience and earn additional credits for and civil engineers. designs, and present and defend the design to Accelerated coursework in natural resource a panel of experts. This course will satisfy the management, ecological research and Biotechnical Engineering Senior Capstone requirement. monitoring, and upper level humanities. (Accelerated) This intensive experience provides a solid 1 CREDIT (4854) Applied Engineering Immersion foundation for pursuing further education Prerequisites: Biology and Chemistry or Integrated Semester (Accelerated) and careers in environmental engineering, Science II (Accelerated) grade >85 or (Standard) 2 SCIENCE CREDITS, 1 COMPUTER SCIENCE natural resources management, field grade >90 and Algebra II (Accelerated) CREDIT, AND 1 ENGLISH CREDIT (4859) research, and related disciplines. This course, The major focus of the Biotechnical Prerequisite: Algebra 1 or equivalent combined with CTE Field Capstone (7706) Engineering course is to expose students to Open to Sophomores and Juniors will satisfy the Senior Capstone requirement. the diverse fields of biotechnology including One science credit can take the place of Integrated Science II biomedical engineering, biomolecular genetics, bioprocess engineering, and The Applied Engineering Immersion agricultural and environmental engineering. Semester is an interdisciplinary course Lessons engage students in engineering- for Sophomores and Juniors interested in COMPUTER design problems that can be accomplished in concentrated study within the disciplines SCIENCE a high-school setting related to biomechanics, of computer science, engineering, science cardiovascular engineering, genetic modeling, and media studies. This program ½ credit required for graduation draws on the resources of the Sweeney engineering, agricultural biotechnology, The courses in the Computer Science Applied Engineering Center and the tissue engineering, biomedical devices, department focus on the idea that Emerging Technologies Laboratory to human interface, bioprocesses, forensics, students should not simply be consumers support collaborative design work toward and bioethics. of technology, but that students should authentic purposes. The physical sciences be able to create technology. Although will serve as the focus for developing skills Game Design (Accelerated) programming is a major component of in programming, 3D modeling, interaction 1 CREDIT (4855) computer science, computer science study design, and media studies. As part of the Prerequisite: Geometry also includes computational thinking, logic, program, students will begin a professional Students will work through the process of problem-solving, working with algorithms, design portfolio and learn leadership game design from developing a concept collaboration, and creativity. Our course skills in project management and personal to testing a product. The course will begin sequence begins with introductory courses networking. Students may complete their by teaching principles of design via table that work toward demystifying the inner second core science requirement as part of top games, and then progress to the use of workings of computers and the Internet and the experience, and earn additional credits industry-standard game design software. the applications that are integral to the daily for Accelerated coursework in engineering, Throughout the course, students will lives of our students. Advanced coursework computer science, and media studies. This complete a variety of projects that lead to a could include programming in multiple course serves as a prerequisite for upper final, original video game design. Outside languages and for multiple platforms, as well level work in the engineering and computer experts from industry and academia will as introductions to emerging technologies. science programs. give their perspectives on careers in game The Computer Science requirement may be design, and serve as evaluators for student satisfied by either taking the course in the projects. No prior programming experience Freshman year, or by taking Robotics (in is required. Offered in alternate years from Environmental the Science Department) or a higher-level Digital Electronics. Studies Field computer science course, with departmental Engineering Design and Semester approval, before graduation. Development Capstone 2 SCIENCE CREDITS, 1 SOCIAL STUDIES (Accelerated) Introduction to Computer CREDIT, AND 1 ENGLISH CREDIT (4999) Science (Standard) 1 CREDIT (4853) Prerequisites: Two core science courses and 1 CREDIT (3698) Prerequisite: Introduction to Engineering Design and Geometry Development and Trigonometry Offered fall semester only Prerequisite: With departmental approval. This course is intended for Seniors wishing to One science department credit can replace This course is designed for students who complete an engineering design Capstone. Integrated Science III. have little to no experience in programming The Environmental Studies Field Semester is In this course students will expand their computers. Students will learn the basics of an interdisciplinary immersion semester for understanding of engineering design and algorithmic thinking, and design programs juniors and seniors interested in concentrated combine that with principles of engineering to solve simple problems. A number of study within the environmental field. This that will enable them to develop, brainstorm, different programming environments will off-campus, place-based program uses and fabricate a product that is functional, be used including both highly-structured outdoor, field-based projects on a network aesthetically pleasing, and meets weight, languages and high-level programming of local properties to teach fundamental strength of materials, and other applicable languages. Students will learn the basics concepts and technical skills while product specifications. The students will of variables, loops, conditional statements contributing to the collection of long-term investigate possibilities, research current and standard data structures such as arrays, patents and regulations, construct a working ecological data. Students will complete their

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lists, and dictionaries. Students will gain option for more advanced students who take an active role in mastering language familiarity with how computers work and have successfully completed AP Computer skills. The course focuses on all four strands their architecture. Students will use their Science. This course covers the development of language learning: reading, writing, computers to create and manipulate data sets of virtual reality worlds, including motion speaking, and listening with an emphasis on and to automate tasks. and physics in VR worlds, human visual speaking and listening. perception, design practices to enable Programming JAVA immersive experiences for users, and French II (Standard) (Accelerated) development of VR applications. Students 1 CREDIT (5437) 1 CREDIT (3697) will learn how to use the Unity game engine, Prerequisite: One year of high school French Prerequisite: Geometry; with departmental approval the most popular platform for creating French II (Accelerated) This course is an introduction to the immersive applications. A major component 1 CREDIT (5439) structures and methods of higher-level of the course will be a final project where College credit is available through Southern computer programming languages. Problem students develop their own VR worlds based New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment solving using modular design will be an on the design practices discussed during course Beginning French II. Prerequisite: integral part of the course. Students will the course. Meets every other day. SNHU Beginning French I. become familiar with conditional logic, Prerequisite: French I (Accelerated) or with repetition, and program input and output. departmental approval Commonly used algorithms will be studied. This course is a continuation of the work Structured data types will include multi- LANGUAGES of French I. Students continue to work dimensional arrays. Object-oriented toward a proficiency in French which allows programming will also be introduced. Communication is necessary to establish them to: ask and answer questions in areas social ties, to knit people together in of immediate need and on very familiar AP Computer Science Principles relationships, to enhance cooperation, and to topics; pronounce the language well enough 1 CREDIT (3700) develop a global community. Communicative to be understood; read and understand Prerequisites: Introduction to Computer Science or approaches for teaching languages are information in a simple paragraph; and write Programming JAVA; with departmental approval emphasized. The goal is to provide language short paragraphs on familiar topics. Students This course builds on the skills and learners the skills to use the target language continue to explore the Francophone world, understanding from the Introduction to outside of the classroom in authentic settings. with a focus on the more local areas of French Computer Science course. Students follow Language learning is a life-long process, influence. the AP curriculum to explore the themes of and our goal is to provide a foundation creativity, abstraction, data and information, upon which students can build in college French III (Standard) algorithms, programming, the Internet, and and elsewhere. 1 CREDIT (5442) global impact through problem solving and Prerequisite: French II (Standard) or departmental real-world applications. The AP Computer approval Science Principles Assessment consists of French This course is designed for students two parts: a through-course assessment and interested in a third year of language study the end-of-course AP Exam. French I (Standard) but who are not ready for an accelerated 1 CREDIT (5433) French course. Students work to increase AP Computer Science A Prerequisite: Students who score below the 40th their proficiency in all four strands of 1 CREDIT (3699) percentile on standardized reading comprehension language learning: reading, writing, speaking, tests should work on their basic English skills before Prerequisites: Programming in JAVA (Accelerated) beginning the study of French. and listening. Tools used include short grade ≥ 85; with departmental approval; AP stories, music, movies, as well as a number of Computer Science Principles French I (Accelerated) different applications online. This course reinforces concepts in JAVA 1 CREDIT (5435) Programming and leads directly to the College credit is available through Southern French III (Accelerated) Advanced Placement Computer Science New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment 1 CREDIT (5445) course Beginning French I. A examination. Students follow the AP College credit is available through Southern curriculum to become familiar with Prerequisite: 80th percentile or above on New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment standardized reading comprehension tests or application design, classes and hierarchy, course Intermediate French III. Prerequisite: outstanding performance in the previous SNHU Beginning French II. and complex algorithms. Additional topics academic year include software history as well as current Prerequisite: French II (Accelerated) or with This beginning French course is offered at departmental approval trends in software development. This course both the Standard and Accelerated levels. The aim of this course is to continue the is appropriate for students with a strong No prior experience is needed to enroll at student’s linguistic development. Students at interest in mathematics and engineering. either level. Through a variety of learning this level work toward proficiency in French tasks students recognize, react to, and use the that allows them to engage in conversation Advanced Topics in Computer basic structures, grammar, and vocabulary about familiar topics; understand the Science — Virtual Reality of the French language. Students also begin essential points of the spoken language; read (Accelerated) to develop an awareness of the cultures and comprehend such materials as journal ½ CREDIT (3701) of the Francophone world. Students are articles, short stories, and Le Petit Prince; Prerequisite: AP Computer Science encouraged to be creative with the language, and write summaries, descriptions, and Description: This course is designed as an independently expand their vocabulary, and

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social correspondence. They also continue vocabulary is the standard. This course also Students broaden their knowledge of the to develop their cultural awareness and their covers the reading and writing of katakana written system through more extensive understanding of the Francophone world. (one of the three writing systems). Films and reading and polish their oral communication discussions help the students gain a deeper skills through regular conversations in French IV (Accelerated) understanding of Japanese culture. Japanese with the instructor. Interdisciplinary 1 CREDIT (5447) work on aspects of Japanese culture and College credit is available through Southern Japanese II (Accelerated) history is strongly encouraged. New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment 1 CREDIT (5453) course Intermediate French IV. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Japanese I or with departmental SNHU Intermediate French III. approval Latin Prerequisite: French III (Accelerated) or with This course, which is a continuation of departmental approval Knowledge of Latin gives students the Japanese I, focuses primarily on developing This class is conducted entirely in French. opportunity to understand the roots of more sophisticated conversational skills Students review grammar structures English, the Romance languages, and the and a deeper understanding of the language contextually through their study of influence of classical Roman culture on as a structured system of communication. contemporary as well as classic works of today’s world. Important components of this course French literature, journals, films, and music. include reading hiragana and kanji (Chinese Class activities include participating actively Latin I (Accelerated) characters) and learning direct style speech in discussion, often expressing a reaction 1 CREDIT (5471) patterns. Students learn about culture or a point of view on a theme, as well as Prerequisite: 80th percentile or above on through the language. standardized reading comprehension tests or composition, usually done in class. This class an outstanding performance in the previous is designed to help students prepare for AP Japanese III (Accelerated) academic year French, although they are not required to 1 CREDIT (5455) Latin I introduces students to the basic move on to the course. Many of the activities Prerequisite: Japanese II or with departmental elements of Latin grammar through and topics covered mirror activities and approval reading and writing. Vocabulary is presented themes from the AP French curriculum. Japanese III offers students the opportunity to with the aim of showing the direct and further develop the four basic language skills: indirect indebtedness of English to Latin AP French Language and Culture listening, speaking, reading, and writing. and the reliance of the Romance languages 1 CREDIT (5449) Students review and achieve mastery of both upon Latin. Prerequisite: French IV (Accelerated) with a grade katakana and hiragana in addition to further ≥ 85 or with departmental approval study of kanji (Chinese characters). Culture Latin II (Accelerated) This course, conducted entirely in French, is often discussed as it is directly related 1 CREDIT (5473) includes individual speaking practice and to the language of the specific lesson. Prerequisite: Latin I or with departmental approval analysis of more advanced grammatical Observations and reflections of visits to This course involves both review and concepts and structures. Students at this Japan by both students and teachers are continuation of the study of Latin grammar, level work toward a proficiency in French regularly discussed. with emphasis on more complex expression that will prepare them for the AP Language in both reading and writing. The goal of the and Culture exam. Students at this level are Japanese IV (Accelerated) course is for students to prepare for reading able to: support opinions, explain in detail, 1 CREDIT (5457) Latin authors through intermediate readings and hypothesize; sustain understanding Prerequisite: Japanese III or with departmental that include topics such as mythology and the over longer stretches of time; read and approval history of Rome. comprehend more abstract and linguistically This advanced-level course, which is often complex texts; and write about a variety conducted entirely in Japanese, offers Latin Prose (Accelerated) of topics with significant precision and students the opportunity to learn more 1 CREDIT (5475) detail. Discussions, presentations, projects, sophisticated ways of expressing themselves Prerequisite: Latin II or with departmental approval readings, and research are vehicles through in both the spoken and written language. This course involves intensive study of a key which students explore the literature, history, Emphasis is placed on reading kanji (Chinese Latin prose author, Caesar. and culture of the Francophone world. characters). Classroom discussions, readings in the text, and supplementary magazines/ Latin Poetry (Accelerated) Japanese videos allow students to gain deeper 1 CREDIT (5477) understanding of cultural issues. Prerequisite: Latin Prose with departmental approval Japanese I (Accelerated) AP Japanese 1 CREDIT (5451) This course continues with an intensive Language and Culture study of a key Latin Poet, Vergil. Students Prerequisite: 80th percentile or above on standardized reading comprehension tests or 1 CREDIT (5460) who take Latin Prose and Latin Poetry in the outstanding performance in the previous Prerequisite: Japanese IV or with departmental same school year will be prepared to take AP academic year approval Latin exam. Students who elect to take this Students speak Japanese from their first day The goal of this course is to prepare examination will receive credit for AP level in class and the large majority of class time is students for the AP Japanese Language and study. spent speaking and listening to the language. Culture exam as well as prepare students Mastery of basic structures, grammar, and for intermediate-level Japanese in college.

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AP Latin Spanish II (Accelerated) This advanced course, conducted entirely in 1 CREDIT (5479) 1 CREDIT (5419) Spanish, includes a review of basic grammar Prerequisites: Latin I and Latin II College credit is available through Southern and structures, as well as intensive work Students must take Latin Prose and AP Latin during New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment on more complex grammatical concepts. the same academic year. course Beginning Spanish II. Prerequisite: Students at this level work toward proficiency The AP Latin course is designed to help SNHU Beginning Spanish I. in Spanish that allows them to: participate students achieve success on the AP Latin Prerequisite: Successful completion of Spanish I in a wide variety of conversations, including (Accelerated) or with department approval exam. Therefore, it centers on the prose unfamiliar situations; sustain understanding of Caesar (Commentarii De Bello Gallico) This course is a continuation of the work of over longer stretches of time; read and and the poetry of Vergil (The Aeneid), while Spanish I. Students work toward a proficiency comprehend longer prose; and describe and developing the students’ abilities to translate level that allows them to ask and answer narrate in paragraphs. Readings, podcasts, Latin prose and poetry into English literally; questions about familiar topics, read and videos, discussions, and presentations are understand the passages read within their understand information in a simple article vehicles by which students explore the historical, cultural, and literary contexts; or story, and write a short paragraph about literature, history, and culture of the Spanish- engage in effective analysis of passages, a familiar topic, in both the present and past speaking world. including elements of language, style, tenses. Stories, short books, music, and and purpose; better read works of Latin videos are all used to practice the language in AP Spanish Language and aloud; and learn the dactylic hexameter of context and build students’ understanding of Culture Vergil’s poetry. Hispanic countries and culture. 1 CREDIT (5430) Prerequisite: Spanish IV (Accelerated) or with Spanish III (Standard) department approval Spanish 1 CREDIT (5422) This course, conducted entirely in Spanish, Prerequisite: Spanish II (Standard) or with includes individual speaking practice and department approval Spanish I (Standard) analysis of more advanced grammatical 1 CREDIT (5413) This course is designed for students concepts and structures. Students at this Prerequisite: Students who score below the 40th interested in a third year of language study level work toward a proficiency in Spanish percentile on standardized reading comprehension but who are not ready for an accelerated that will prepare them for the AP Spanish tests should work on their basic English skills before Spanish course. Students work to increase beginning the study of Spanish. Language and Culture exam. Students their proficiency in using basic structures, at this level are able to: support opinions, Spanish I (Accelerated) grammar, and vocabulary of Spanish, and explain in detail and hypothesize; sustain 1 CREDIT (5415) engage with authentic resources to continue understanding over longer stretches of time; College credit is available through Southern their exploration of Hispanic cultures. read and comprehend more abstract and New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment linguistically complex texts; and write about course Beginning Spanish I. Spanish III (Accelerated) a variety of topics with significant precision Prerequisite: 80th percentile or above on 1 CREDIT (5425) standardized reading comprehension tests and detail. Exploration of the literature, or outstanding performance in the previous College credit is available through Southern history, and culture of Spanish-speaking academic year New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment course Intermediate Spanish III. Prerequisite: countries continues through engagement This beginning Spanish course is offered at SNHU Beginning Spanish II. with readings, podcasts, videos, discussions, both the Standard and Accelerated levels. Prerequisite: Spanish II (Accelerated) or Spanish III and presentations. In this Spanish course students build a (Standard) or with department approval foundation of vocabulary and language Students at this level advance to a more Spanish V (Accelerated) structures to be able to communicate in complex use of the language. They work 1 CREDIT (5429) simple sentences about basic topics in the toward proficiency in Spanish that allows Prerequisite: AP Spanish or with department approval present tense. Understanding the language them to: engage in conversation about in context is emphasized through a focus on familiar topics; understand the essential This course is designed as an option for reading and listening to stories. The teacher points of intermediate-level spoken language; students who have successfully completed and students use Spanish for the majority of read and comprehend such materials as the AP Spanish course and would like to class time as students participate in a variety newspaper articles and short stories; and continue to develop their language skills and of learning tasks to build their skills in the write summaries, descriptions, and social understanding of the many facets of Hispanic language and develop an awareness of the correspondence using a variety of tenses. culture. Topics of study will vary from year Spanish-speaking world. Students continue to develop their cultural to year. Units may be designed to study awareness and understanding of the Spanish- the literary masters of the Hispanic world, Spanish II (Standard) speaking world. Hispanic artists and their influence, or the 1 CREDIT (5417) diaspora of the Spanish peoples from Spain to Prerequisite: One year of high school Spanish Spanish IV (Accelerated) the Americas. 1 CREDIT (5427) College credit is available through Southern New Hampshire University’s dual enrollment course Intermediate Spanish IV. Prerequisite: SNHU Intermediate Spanish III. Prerequisite: Spanish III (Accelerated) or with department approval

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presentation and practice of English grammar United States History ENGLISH AS through meaningful content. (International) 1 CREDIT (5518) A SECOND Expanding English as a Second Prerequisite: Freshman Humanities LANGUAGE Language (Standard) Open to Juniors 1 CREDIT (5503) International students will develop an ESL courses are designed for a full academic ESL level placement is determined by the department understanding of the culture and history of learning environment in English. They placement test score or equivalent IBT TOEFL score and departmental approval. the United States by critically examining provide direct instruction in the English major historical themes with emphasis on For more advanced language students who language in order to enhance the proficiency improving English in class discussion and may be able to get by in English but who still level of each English language learner. writing. This course satisfies a required need to think and work more easily in English Students are encouraged to use authentic social studies credit. in order to succeed in their academic courses, English in a supportive atmosphere so that this course provides practice in more complex each student can achieve fluency, accuracy, ESL Contemporary Issues grammatical structures. The students work and confidence. English language learners 1 CREDIT (5519) to develop confidence and skills in expressing focus on the integration of all language Departmental approval required their ideas and feelings correctly, both orally skills, including listening comprehension, and in writing. This course introduces upper-level ESL speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and students to major contemporary issues vocabulary development. English language Bridging English as a Second facing the U.S. and the world as it helps learners are asked to apply their newly Language (Standard) students develop fundamental research, acquired or improved language skills to real 1 CREDIT (5504) reading, writing, and public speaking skills. life situations. English language learners that ESL level placement is determined by the department This course utilizes a range of materials and proceed through the program are prepared placement test score or equivalent IBT TOEFL score provides historical context and a variety for college admission, as well as for college and departmental approval. of perspectives on each issue. This course level work. This course is for non-native speakers who satisfies a required social studies credit. are able to function well in high school classes Beginning English as a Second where all instruction is in English, but who ESL Capstone Language (Standard) must still refine and practice their English 1 CREDIT (7703) 1 CREDIT (5501) pronunciation, fluency, grammar, idioms, Departmental approval required ESL level placement is determined by the department and writing. This course is designed to more placement test score or equivalent IBT TOEFL score This course satisfies the same requirements and departmental approval. fully prepare students for the threshold as the regular Senior Capstone course (7701), college admissions standard of 80 or above This course is for students who have studied but in a way that reflects the growing English IBT TOEFL. Admission and release from basic English but are not proficient enough language skills of the participants. this course depend not only upon language to receive most of their academic instruction proficiency but also upon academic ability in English. Using conversations, reading and goals and will be determined by the selections, grammar exercises, and writing department chair. opportunities which provide practice in HEALTH AND grammatical structures, this course enables ESL World Civilizations, WELLNESS students to develop their listening, speaking, Pre-1500 (Standard) reading, and writing skills. Vocabulary 1 CREDIT (5515) 1½ physical education credits are required and oral expression are emphasized, and for graduation. students receive personal attention in this This social studies course is intended small class. to provide English language learners a 1 health credit is required for graduation. curriculum based on the history of early Developing English as a Second world civilizations while also developing Language (Standard) English language skills and vocabulary. Physical Education 1 CREDIT (5502) This course satisfies a required social Normally students start to satisfy the ESL level placement is determined by the department studies credit. physical education requirement by taking placement test score or equivalent IBT TOEFL score Introduction to Physical Education in and departmental approval. ESL United States History their freshman year, which is ½ credit. In This course is for those intermediate 1 CREDIT (5517) certain situations, students may satisfy level students who understand and use English language learners develop an this requirement by taking a dance course. English but need considerable growth in understanding of the culture and history of However, these students must then take at pronunciation and fluency, grammar, reading the United States by critically examining least one, 1-credit course from the Physical comprehension, and writing. This is a major historical themes and political Education offerings to satisfy the Physical communication-based course which requires philosophy. This course satisfies a required Education requirement. the students to become more fluent in both social studies credit. speaking and writing. It unifies both receptive For those students who take Introduction to and productive skills with meaningful Physical Education as Freshmen, another, communication and is grounded in the 1-credit course from the Physical Education

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offerings is required for graduation, or by an extensive knowledge of physical fitness be pickle ball and other racquet games like doing one of the alternatives listed: training and develop the ability to implement badminton, tennis, and ping pong, Ultimate a plan into a personal fitness program to Frisbee, basketball, etc. Depending on the • Taking a semester of Introduction to Dance, foster intrinsic motivation towards a healthy semester there would also be a unit on the Advanced Dance, or Nutrition and Personal and active lifestyle now and in the future. climbing wall and belaying as an activity Fitness either in the beginning or the end of the class The class will utilize a broad spectrum of • Playing two different Junior Varsity or to help to establish trust, cooperation and activities in order to allow the student to Varsity sports. strong relationships within the class setting. assemble a comprehensive plan to improve • Playing the same sport for two years at the functional fitness and athleticism. The Junior Varsity or Varsity level. activities in the class will include body weight activities, and aerobic and anaerobic Health Introduction to Physical conditioning activities to strengthen the Along with St. Johnsbury Academy’s Education core, improve balance, coordination, dedication to academics, we strongly believe ½ CREDIT (7551) and flexibility. in the importance of one’s physical, mental, Open to Freshmen and emotional well-being. Students gain the The objective of this course is to educate Sports Medicine I (Standard) knowledge and decision-making skills that students in the areas of fitness and health, to 1 CREDIT (7561) they will use throughout their years at SJA. encourage them to engage in active lifestyles, DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD PE CREDIT The programs we offer provide our students REQUIREMENT and to improve their physical fitness. Areas with a base from which to build a lifetime of of focus will include body weight exercises, This course will consist of basic anatomy, healthy living. weight training, agility/speed training, introduction to sports related injuries, and swimming, static/dynamic stretches, yoga, basic treatment protocol. Students will also Health (Standard) utilization of multi-apparatus equipment, complete hands-on labs involving taping and 1 CREDIT (7591) which includes: weight training, kettle bells, wrapping of various injuries. Open to Freshmen bands, plyometric stations, exercise balls, and This course readies freshmen academically jump ropes. Sports Medicine II (Accelerated) and socially for the demands of life during 1 CREDIT (7563) Occasionally, a specific sport such as racquet high school and after. The course orients DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD PE CREDIT students to Academy traditions and prepares games and basketball will be integrated, with REQUIREMENT the expectation that students will learn the students for learning in the 21st century. Prerequisite: Sports Medicine I with ≥ 85 or with motor skills and rules required to compete departmental approval Students are exposed to systems that develop independent learners and communicators. respectfully and effectively. Students will gain certification in American To this end students will foster a positive Red Cross First Aid, adult CPR, and child/ The course has two components which attitude and understanding of fitness in infant CPR. This course will review basic revolve around personal choices and general, with the overall recognition that a anatomy but focus on advanced rehabilitation social obligations by including topics such life regulated by obtainable fitness goals can programs and taping as well as hands-on as personal development, productive benefit one for a lifetime. diagnostic techniques. thinking, Choice Theory, communication Meets every other day. skills, interpersonal awareness, substance Competitive Games (Standard) education and stress control, mature Exercise Science I (Standard) ½ CREDIT (7550) decision-making regarding transitioning from DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD PE CREDIT childhood to adulthood, and community 1 CREDIT (7552) REQUIREMENT health issues. Also presented are learning This elective class will integrate nutrition Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors styles and success strategies for today’s and personal fitness as a cohesive unit in the This elective class will help students to classroom. Students will gain adult CPR development and maintenance of a healthy attain the knowledgeable understanding of certification. lifestyle. Students will gain an understanding recreational games and activities through of and be able to recognize the need for instruction and game play. The students will Life Choices (Accelerated) balance in one’s life, emphasizing the be able to participate in various games for 1 CREDIT (7594) importance of good nutrition and physical fun and enjoyment and be able to carry them Open to Juniors or Seniors fitness. The class will consist of two days over into later life. The course would focus on of classroom instruction and three days of In this Junior/Senior elective course, students examining strategies, proper sportsmanship, will have the opportunity to explore common physical training. Completion of this course refereeing, rules and skills. The games that fulfills one credit of Physical Education but health and wellness topics as they prepare would be focused on are games that are to transition to college, military or employ- may not be substituted for Introduction to played in Winter Carnival, floor hockey, Physical Education. ment. Students will use knowledge gained to volleyball, indoor soccer and also games help them analyze and continue to improve that are considered to be carry-over games. their physical, social and emotional health. Exercise Science II (Accelerated) A carry-over game is a game that can be 1 CREDIT (7553) Emotional Intelligence and the importance played after a student finishes high school or of Positive Psychology in reaching one’s full Prerequisite: Exercise Science I grade >85 or with college. The games and activities that would departmental approval potential and maneuvering through life’s be covered in the carry over units would The purpose of this course is to cultivate challenges will be central themes in this

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course. Strengthening resilience, dealing ranging widely in style and difficulty, with an Guitar I (Standard) with common social and emotional issues emphasis on broadening their knowledge of 1 CREDIT (8805) such as depression, anxiety, and addiction repertoire and developing technical ability. In this introductory course students will learn will help empower students to lead a healthy The band performs at home football games or refine skills such as chord identification and successful life. The course will also and pep rallies, marches in selected parades, and facility, strumming patterns, and finger- investigate effective communication, healthy and performs in four concerts throughout picking styles. The class emphasis is on relationships, goal setting, decision-making, the year. Students are expected to reserve developing the students’ reading of melodic understanding of sexual health/sexuality, all performance dates. Students who have and rhythmic notation to a level that would nutritious meal planning, fitness, and basic achieved a higher level of proficiency are prepare them for Guitar II. financial management. This course fulfills an encouraged to audition for a number of elective requirement for the Biomedical and festivals. Smaller ensembles of students Guitar II (Accelerated) Health Sciences Certificate Program and ful- with similar ability will be allowed to pursue 1 CREDIT (8807) fills the health graduation requirement. more challenging literature. Meets every Prerequisite: Guitar I other day all year. Health (Standard) Students will strengthen their skills in playing 1 CREDIT (7593) Chorus (Standard) guitar-family instruments as they prepare This course is an online class designed 1 CREDIT/ALL YEAR (8814) music in a small ensemble environment. Students will be involved in extracurricular to cover the health material that is in Chorus may be taken multiple times for credit. performances and rehearsals. the Freshman Health class. The class is Chorus provides students with an structured around the Health Triangle, introduction to many styles of choral Music Appreciation and Theory focusing on mental, physical, and social literature. Students will work to develop their (Standard) health. It is vital that the student has good reading and singing skills in an ensemble 1 CREDIT (8815) time management skills as they will need environment. The Chorus will perform four Departmental approval required to complete the course in addition to their concerts per year and participate in other regular course load. To receive a credit, the special performances in the community. The class will expand on students’ final test must be passed. This course fulfills Students are expected to reserve these understanding of music theory and the health requirement for graduation. times for performances. Meets every other harmony through improving their skills in day all year. notation, interval and chord recognition, scale construction, form, harmonic Jazz Band (Accelerated) structure and analysis along with rhythmic FINE ARTS ½ CREDIT (8803) and melodic dictation. Students will apply their understanding by composing, By audition only The mission of the Fine Arts Department Jazz Band may be taken multiple times for credit. with the opportunity to participate in is to offer instruction, resources, and a Students in the Jazz Band will explore the Vermont Midi project. In addition, culture that inspires students to develop the classical and modern jazz repertoire students will explore music literature from artistic awareness and proficiency by in this select ensemble. Development of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and providing a professional environment and musicianship and improvisational skills will Modern periods and its contribution to the a comprehensive curriculum in the visual be encouraged. The Jazz Band will perform development of Western music. Students and performing arts. We believe that the many concerts throughout the year. It is should have some familiarity with notation, exploratory creative process encourages expected that those in the Jazz Band will keep and some experience with keyboard cognitive growth and builds problem current in the concert band’s repertoire and instruments prior to signing up for the course. solving skills that promote resilience and participate in the large ensemble as needed. flexible thinking. The Jazz Band participates in many concerts AP Music Theory throughout the year – students are expected 1 CREDIT (8819) to reserve these times for performances. Prerequisite: Music Appreciation and Theory (Standard); with departmental approval Performing Arts Meets every other day all year. Motivated music students who wish to sign String Ensemble (Accelerated) up for AP Music Theory will explore the ideas Music 1 CREDIT (8806) in the Music Appreciation and Theory course at the college level. The core offerings of the music program at By audition only String ensemble may be taken multiple times for St. Johnsbury Academy are the large credit. ensemble Band and Chorus. In addition, The String Ensemble will provide students Theatre several small ensemble groups, both with the opportunity to develop their skills curricular and extracurricular, are available. St. Johnsbury Academy offers three classes in playing violin-family instruments as in Theatre, all of which include training in Band (Standard) they prepare music in a small ensemble Acting and Musical Theatre. These classes environment. Students will be involved in 1 CREDIT/ALL YEAR (8801) will assist students in attaining crucial skills extracurricular performances and rehearsals. Prerequisite: A year’s experience in band or private not only for the theatrical stage but for the instruction, or with departmental approval. stage of life. Band may be taken multiple times for credit. Students will rehearse and perform music

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Theatre I (Standard) appropriate for dancers familiar with the 1 CREDIT (8824) Dance ideas of Martha Graham and who have mastered introductory skills. An emphasis This introductory course will give students a The curricular dance offerings at the is placed on the recognition of familiar general overview of Theatre. Topics include Academy include a focus on the modern body patterns and executing them with the acting technique, stage movement, vocal dance technique of Martha Graham, as precision the professional dancer or athlete. production, improvisation, script analysis, well as classical ballet. The program can Some evening and afternoon attendance at monologue, and playwriting. A daily physical provide students with a background in the dance performances and rehearsals will be and vocal warmup will work on stretching, technique appropriate for those who wish required. Completion of one credit of Modern articulation, diction, and projection as well to pursue the serious study of dance in any Dance II results in the waiver of one credit of as theatre games and exercises. This course genre. Extracurricular clubs allow students physical education but may not be substituted will also introduce the songs of Broadway to explore other dance styles, including jazz, for Introduction to Physical Education. musicals with a concentration on proper Middle Eastern, and African dance. singing technique and basic choreography Popular Dance (Standard) Training for the Athlete and movement. This class includes a final (Standard) project and/or a public performance. This 1 CREDIT (8830) 1 CREDIT (8835) course will support work with Academy Popular Dance is a survey course on dance Theatre and students are encouraged to trends that reflect styles and popular moves This course is designed to enhance athletes’ audition for Academy Theatre productions. of different cultures and times. Students will agility, physical control, coordination, be introduced to various dance idioms that flexibility, and sense of timing. The course Theatre II (Standard) have evolved over the centuries: including focuses on proper and safe body alignment 1 CREDIT (8825) Tango, Waltz, Square Dancing, Salsa, Jazz, while it develops core strength. Classes are designed to include sport-specific features Prerequisite: Theatre I; with departmental approval Hip Hop, etc. Students will examine the roots for in-season training. The class also provides This course builds upon the foundational of these styles in popular, ritual, and social hardy and essential training for athletes in skills, topics, and concepts introduced evolutionary patterns. Students will gain the off-season. This is not a dance class; it in Theatre I. In addition, we will explore insights into the physicality and mechanics is a class for athletes making use of dance the songs of Broadway musicals, acting of movement, moving through space, and training for complementary cross-training technique, and theatre history at a deeper and partnering. Introduction to Popular Dance purposes. The course allows students to gain more concentrated level. Classes will consist does not result in the waiver of one credit of valuable skills to improve their flexibility, of a vocal and physical warmup concentrating physical education. range of motion, balance control, speed on proper technique and form. Students will and agility. Completion of one credit of learn the repertoire of Broadway show tunes Modern Dance I (Standard) Training for the Athlete results in the waiver from a genre of musical theatre including 1 CREDIT (8831) of one credit of physical education, but may staging, choreography, and scene work Dance I may be taken multiple times for credit. not be substituted for Introduction to Physical culminating in a semester showcase. This The modern dance technique of Martha Education. course will support work with Academy Graham is the basis of this class, which Theatre and students are encouraged to progresses carefully from a basic and Ballet I (Standard) audition for Academy Theatre productions. thorough introduction to an energetic, 1 CREDIT (8837) challenging, and healthful movement Theatre III (Accelerated) experience. Classes are exciting, intense, Ballet I provides training in the fundamentals 1 CREDIT (8826) rigorous, and challenging as they focus on of classical ballet. It focuses on acquiring Prerequisite: Theatre II correct technique as well as proper body basic ballet technique and terminology through the examination and assimilation This course is for the advanced theatre conditioning and toning. The course is of proper body alignment, turn-out, and student who is interested in an accelerated appropriate for novice dancers, as well as muscle awareness. Students will learn level of training and honing of acting and experienced dancers who are unfamiliar ballet positions, terminology, proper use musical theatre skills including vocal with Graham technique. Athletes in any of the arms-legs-feet-back. Instruction will technique, dance, and choreography. sport can benefit dramatically from this concentrate on imparting correct ballet There will be a focus on correct theatre course. Some evening and afternoon training while students gain musicality, terminology/vocabulary, audition technique, attendance at dance performances and flexibility, coordination, agility, improved and resume writing as well as musical rehearsals will be required. Completion of balance, and a sense of space. Completion theatre history and repertoire. This class one credit of Modern Dance results in the of one credit of Ballet I results in the waiver will participate in a semester showcase waiver of one credit of physical education, of one credit of physical education, but including solo material, monologues, scene but may not be substituted for Introduction to may not be substituted for Introduction to work, and musical numbers from Broadway’s Physical Education. Physical Education. biggest hits. This course will support work Modern Dance II (Accelerated) with Academy Theatre and students are Ballet II (Accelerated) encouraged to audition for Academy Theatre 1 CREDIT (8833) 1 CREDIT (8838) productions. Departmental approval required Dance II may be taken multiple times for credit. Ballet II is a continuation of Ballet I on a Modern Dance II builds on the ideas more demanding level. Exercises are more presented in Modern Dance I and is complicated and demanding, involving

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changes of direction, feet, sides, front Anatomy and Figure Drawing II light reflection. The course will finish with a and back. The barre work and center floor (Accelerated) study in egg tempera which is a permanent are more intricate and incorporate more 1 CREDIT (8885) and fast drying painting medium using a use of arm and upper body movement in Prerequisite: Anatomy and Figure Drawing I pigment mixed with a binder (such as egg concert with leg work. Exercises coming yolk). Its use dates back to the 1st century This course will build upon the basics of across the floor and grande allegro are more A.D. and was an easel painting method used human anatomy introduced and practiced in varied, incorporating jumps, turns, jetes, until oil painting was invented in 1500. Anatomy and Figure Drawing I. Students will tour jetes, multiple pirouettes, and beats in The course will cover design, composition, explore more deeply the bone and muscular longer movement phrases and phrases with value and color in landscape, still life, and structures, and use these ideas in the creation rhythmic changes. Use of the upper body portrait painting. of large drawing compositions. and port de bras are incorporated with a focus on creating fluid and well-coordinated Printmaking I (Standard) Water-Based Painting II movement. Ballet II is a continuation of Ballet (Accelerated) 1 CREDIT (8856) I and a preparation for further study of ballet. 1 CREDIT (8853) Prerequisite: Foundations of Drawing Completion of one credit of Ballet II results in and Painting Prerequisite: Water-Based Painting I the waiver of one credit of physical education, This course is an introduction to fine art This class is a continuation of the skills but may not be substituted for Introduction printmaking and an exploration of creative and principles introduced in Water-Based to Physical Education. process through intaglio and relief printing. Painting I, with added emphasis on individual Students will create original compositions painting technique and expression. Students

from life, develop and revise the images on will have the opportunity to explore a Visual Arts copper plates and wood blocks, then print medium of their choice, polish their skills the images by hand or on an etching press. in painting, and create pigments, binders, The extensive visual art courses described Presentation of prints for group critique and and painting substrates. Demonstrations of below are supplemented with extracurricular public exhibition are an important part of water-based mediums will be balanced with activities such as the Art Club, Intaglio this course. Students will maintain a body of lectures and individual projects. Society, and Fashion Club. working proofs and artist proofs that will add breadth and depth to their art portfolios. Oil Painting I (Standard) Foundations of Drawing and 1 CREDIT (8893) Painting (Standard) Printmaking II (Accelerated) Prerequisite: Foundations of Drawing and Painting 1 CREDIT (8851) Materials fee required 1 CREDIT (8857) Drawing utilizes simple material to explore Prerequisite: Printmaking I Using the medium of oil paint, students will both our visual perception, and the structural build upon their observational drawing skills This course is an intermediate level fine art relationships of the world. It is a fundamental to create compositions exploring luminosity, intaglio printmaking experience. The full tool for effective visual communication. color, transparency, and opacity; as well range of intaglio techniques will be explored Drawing builds a repertoire of problem- as form, atmosphere, and other concepts including hard and soft ground etching, solving strategies that can be utilized in all introduced in Foundations of Drawing and aquatint, and open and spit bite, as well as aspects of life and learning. Students may Painting. Gaining knowledge about the all the major engraving techniques. Students also explore basic painting mediums such materials and craft of oil painting will be will explore the creative process as they as ink wash and watercolor. This course central to the course. Students will grind deepen their knowledge and comfort level introduces a foundation of technical and pigment into oil to make their own paints, with revising images from proof to proof in language skills, upon which further visual prepare their own surfaces to paint upon and pursuit of personal voice, and continue to art studies will be built. Weekly homework learn to handle an oil/varnish medium. build their art portfolios. As in Printmaking I, assignments are designed to reinforce the A $50 studio fee will be collected. group critique and the presentation of public principles learned in class. Students should exhibitions are an important part of this expect to pay a small materials fee. Oil Painting II (Accelerated) course. Students registered in this class are 1 CREDIT (8895) eligible to join Intaglio Society, and may apply Anatomy and Figure Drawing I Prerequisite: Oil Painting I (Standard) for our annual workshop in Florence, Italy. Materials fee required 1 CREDIT (8883) Water-Based Painting I Students continue the explorations begun in Prerequisite: Foundations of Drawing and Painting (Standard) Oil Painting I, deepening the knowledge of the medium and techniques. Knowledge of the structure, balance, 1 CREDIT (8852) and movement of the human figure is an Prerequisite: Foundations of Drawing and Painting essential skill in many fields of visual art, Photography I (Standard) Students will learn various techniques and such as fashion design and animation, and 1 CREDIT (8841) effects using water-based paints. They an excellent training in observation and Prerequisite: Seniors and Juniors; materials fee will explore watercolor, gouache, and egg visual problem-solving for any artist. This Students will learn the foundation tempera. Watercolor is transparent and course builds on observational drawing skills principles of photography and the skills and allows light to reflect from the surface of the introduced and practiced in Foundations of techniques of traditional film processing and paper. Gouache is a type of paint consisting of Drawing and Painting. printmaking through a fine-art framework. a pigment suspended in water which is more Composition, elements of design, aesthetics, opaque than watercolor and provides greater visual literacy, and communication will be

24 COURSES OF STUDY emphasized. Students will need a 35mm Filmmaking II (Accelerated) Fashion Design II (Accelerated) SLR camera with manual focus and exposure 1 CREDIT (8873) 1 CREDIT (8864) controls. A supplies fee is necessary to cover Prerequisite: Filmmaking I Prerequisites: Foundations of Drawing and Painting, a portion of materials. Fashion Design I Students will explore advanced principles Materials fee required of filmmaking. While furthering Photography II (Accelerated) Students build upon the skills and techniques cinematography and editing skills, students 1 CREDIT (8842) attained in Fashion Design I and create a will also study directing and script writing. Prerequisite: Photography I garment from design concept to completion. Typically, the whole class collaborates Materials fee required Learning how to fit a mannequin and a on a single, long-form project. Each Students will engage in a guided discovery live model will be part of the process. The student focuses on one or two areas of film of their visual voice while learning advanced semester will culminate with students production to achieve expertise in those principles of photography. Building upon participating in a professional fashion show roles and explore their own aesthetic. the foundation acquired in Photography and the production of a portfolio. Because of the needs of actors and locations I, topics will include the zone system, on for the films produced by this class, filming camera filters, toning, hand-coloring, and Fashion Studies (Standard) outside of the school is often required. advanced printing techniques. Students ½ CREDIT (8865) will build a portfolio through exploration Digital Graphics and Design I Students will profile prominent designers of different genres. (Standard) and/or design houses by studying early dress. 1 CREDIT (8874) The course will begin a focused study in the Alternative Photographic 1700/1800s then progress to the turn of the Prerequisite: Foundations of Drawing and Painting Processes (Standard) Materials fee required century through the 1900s. Students will 1 CREDIT (8843) This course will expose students to the look at how fashion has changed through Prerequisite: Photography I the decades, post-2000s and then compare Offered fall semester only process of graphic design using computer technology as a tool. Techniques of digital and contrast with the fashion industry This course will be an exploration of historical enhancement of photographs and scanned as it currently stands. Modern dress will processes, techniques and materials. In this images, and the creation of digital images will be studied in depth, focusing on specific lab-oriented, hands-on learning experience, be used to explore the principles of graphic facets of the modern fashion industry. We students may engage with 19th century design. Learning the use of Adobe Illustrator will look at hallmark facets and how they photographic processes such as; Anthotype, and Adobe Photoshop will be major have changed; trends, production, labor, Chlorophyll, Cyanotype, Van Dyke and components of this course. Students will work socioeconomic standing, status through Kallitype. Topics will also include pinhole, toward the production of a portfolio. clothing, and emotional and psychological solography, lumens, photo transfers, liquid factors. Fashion studies will look mostly at emulsion, mordancage, digital negatives, Digital Graphics and Design II Western fashion, specifically in Europe contact printing and handmade emulsions. (Accelerated) and North America. Meets every other day. Alternative processes are an intersection 1 CREDIT (8875) of art, science, the head, heart and most Prerequisite: Digital Graphics and Design I Clay I (Standard) importantly, the hand. It allows for a deep Materials fee required 1 CREDIT (8867) connection to the physical world and engages Students will explore beyond the basics and Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors with photography through a serendipitous, discover the power and versatility of vector Students will be exposed to a wide variety experimental and creative framework with artwork in this intermediate level of Adobe of hand-building techniques and extensive endless expressive possibilities. This course Illustrator. Students will also learn the many work on the potter’s wheel with a strong will ask students to engage and understand capabilities available in Adobe Photoshop and emphasis on both design and functionality. photography on an artistic and creative level will continue to work toward the production Students will learn to make serving bowls, and is well suited for students who like to of their portfolio. pouring vessels, serving trays, coffee mugs experiment. This course may be taken after and tumblers, lidded forms, and a variety of Photo I or any upper level photography class. Fashion Design I (Standard) other pieces using hump and slump molds, Filmmaking I (Standard) 1 CREDIT (8863) coil building, slab construction, and, of Prerequisite: Foundations of Drawing and Painting course, the wheel. Students may also learn 1 CREDIT (8871) Materials fee required decorative carving techniques as well as the Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Students learn the basics of sewing, design use of decorative stamps and sprigs. Students will explore the fundamental and color, and how to create a pattern through Additionally, a wide variety of glazing principles of filmmaking. Focusing on draping techniques. Figure drawing skills will processes will be covered including the use storyboarding, cinematography, and editing, be developed through creating illustrations. of slips, underglazes, engobes, overglazes, students will demonstrate that the primary Students will also learn the basics of jewelry sigillattas, and traditional glazes. Students means of storytelling in film is through visual design, beading, and textile printmaking. will receive initial instruction on the loading, composition. Students work in a collaborative Students will keep abreast of the current firing, and unloading of their work. environment to finish a product, and will and contemporary trends in the fashion have the opportunity to focus on specific industry and will work toward the production areas of the process. Computer literacy is a of a portfolio. helpful skill for those wishing to deepen their knowledge of editing.

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Clay II (Accelerated) artistic traditions within specific content students who have demonstrated a sincere, 1 CREDIT (8868) areas. Visual literacy, critical assessment, significant interest in pursuing artistic Prerequisite: Clay I analytical reading, class discussions, and excellence, and will be by departmental written expression will enable students to recommendation only. Clay has been used as a medium for both decode art, learn from it, and appreciate the utilitarian purposes and artistic expression extraordinary creativity of artists throughout Visual Art Capstone for thousands of years, crossing all cultures, history. Students will complete a final (Accelerated) lands, and groups of people. From the research paper on the approved topic of 1 CREDIT (7702) most primitive pit-fired pot to the most their choosing. Meets every other day. Departmental approval required sophisticated computer-controlled kiln- Satisfies the Senior Capstone requirement fired art work, clay remains a medium of Portfolio (Accelerated) Students who are proficient in one or more infinite fascination. This course focuses 1 CREDIT (8900) visual art mediums may choose to do a on expanding student understanding Prerequisite: Foundation of Drawing and Painting; Visual Art Capstone for their senior capstone of historical, technical, and conceptual with departmental approval requirement. Each student will design processes associated with working in clay. This course is highly recommended for the junior a research-based visual art project to be Students will refine their throwing skills year. presented on Capstone Day. and learn how to create complex forms Students will be expected to do outside such as pouring vessels, lidded vessels, reading, homework, and independent studio and myriad other utilitarian forms. Hand- work as they work toward the production building processes will also be thoroughly of a portfolio to use for application to art examined and students will be free to choose schools or art programs in traditional liberal DRIVER which method(s) they prefer to pursue. arts colleges. It is recommended that this EDUCATION Additional emphasis will be placed on portfolio course be taken only after a student surface embellishment, decorative carving, has taken at least one advanced art course ½ CREDIT (6000) glaze experimentation, and loading, firing, that focuses on a particular medium. Students must be age 15 or above and hold a valid and unloading kilns. Individual aesthetic Learner’s Permit. NEW HAMPSHIRE STUDENTS MUST BE 16 BEFORE THE LAST SCHEDULED CLASS. expression will be highly encouraged. AP Studio Art 1 ½ CREDIT (8899/8896) Driver Education teaches the fundamentals of driving an automobile including proper Sculpture I (Standard) Departmental approval required and safe driving habits. The course consists of 1 CREDIT (8861) Students will be involved in a concentrated 30 hours of classroom instruction, six hours Prerequisite: Foundations of Drawing and Painting studio of drawing, two-dimensional art of observation, and six hours of behind-the- and/or three-dimensional art. Emphasis Students will explore the creation of three- wheel driving time. Enrollments often exceed in each area begins with fundamental dimensional images. The course begins with the capacity of the course. Those not offered a techniques and includes design principles, simple bas-relief sculpture and proceeds to spot in the course will be placed on a waiting the creative process, historical perspective, advanced sculptural forms. Students will also list based on the same criteria. If you request and contemporary trends. All students will explore the casting process by developing to be placed on the waiting list after the be expected to do substantial outside-of- reproductions of original pieces. course has been scheduled and the waiting class work as they complete a portfolio in list created, you will be placed at the end of Sculpture II (Accelerated) one or more of these areas for submission the waiting list without consideration of year 1 CREDIT (8862) to the Advanced Placement program. It is of graduation or date of birth. If openings recommended that this portfolio course be Prerequisite: Sculpture I occur, students will be chosen from the taken only after a student has taken at least Students will explore advanced sculpture waiting list and notified. work such as complex forms and the human one advanced art course that focuses on a form, drawing from the foundational skills particular medium. This course will run acquired in Sculpture I. Students will also be every day first semester and every other day introduced to new mediums such as stone second semester. CAREER AND and wood. Advanced Art (Accelerated) TECHNICAL Art History (Accelerated) 1 CREDIT (8897) EDUCATION ½ CREDIT (8898) Departmental approval required Open to Juniors and Seniors Students who wish to pursue intensive study The Career and Technical Education Exploring history through works of art in a particular medium, within the visual arts, department prepares students for both offers an approach for understanding our beyond that offered in our regular offerings post-secondary education and the world of global community and is an effective way may take Advanced Art in a medium one work. We provide educational opportunities to review significant events from a visual time. In consultation with the instructor, covering industry- specific skill training and perspective. From prehistory to the present, the student in this course will develop a credentialing, general employability skills, artworks will be examined in the context of demanding course of study and artistic academic and career skill integration, and their era’s dominant ideas, political events, production. The student will be scheduled personal enrichment to students from high economic factors, and social structure. This into a regular class section of a course in the schools across the region. Our students are approach, guided by the AP Art History particular medium of interest. Admission prepared for current and future educational model, will examine exemplars of global into this course will be reserved for those and workplace opportunities through

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hands-on learning, authentic workplace programs. These services combine practical and/or careers in natural resources. Students experiences, and classroom instruction. applications in the classroom with skills will spend a majority of their time in the useful in the workplace and for future field studying the principles and methods of Courses are offered in the following career employment. Students have the opportunity timber cruising, management planning, and clusters: to gain career experience, develop self- harvest operations. Students will be provided • Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources confidence, acquire necessary workplace opportunities for hands-on instruction in • Architecture/Construction readiness skills, and in some cases, earn the fundamentals of road layout, design, a wage. and constructions; tree felling, limbing, • Business and Management and bucking; sawmilling; firewood • Hospitality and Tourism processing; maple-syrup production; and value-added marketing. • Human Services Agriculture, • Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Food, and Natural (TDL) Resources Architecture/ These courses provide important benefits Construction to students including career awareness and Introduction to Natural exploration, applied learning of academic Resources Management Bridges, housing, water, sewer, and power skills, and an array of other outcomes, such as (Standard) distribution systems are just a few examples of human-made structures and systems positive habits of mind, strong thinking skills, 1 CREDIT (6100) and the opportunity to learn about oneself 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER connected with our natural environment. and others. Some of these courses also This course is designed to be an introductory All must be designed, engineered, and provide in-depth knowledge and experience course for the Natural Resources cluster, constructed by people with the goals of in a specific career field. Many courses may which includes Forestry. Introduction sustainability and long-term durability as be taken without prerequisites. to Natural Resources Management will driving forces. emphasize the importance of inquiry and community while supporting and enriching Introduction to Woodworking Career Awareness skills in data collection, documentation, (Standard) and presentation within the context of the 1 CREDIT (6200) Career Exploration (Standard) natural resources owned and operated by 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER 1 CREDIT (6010) St. Johnsbury Academy. Upon completion Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Career Exploration is designed to teach of this course, students will be able to use In this introductory course, students will students how to engage in the career- Microsoft Excel to collect, organize, and learn workplace safety by demonstrating planning process, focusing on the exploration interpret data in the context of real-life the proper use of hand and power tools, phase. Students will be involved in hands-on management plans. safely operating powered machinery, and activities across the Career and Technical understanding OSHA standards for small Education’s 16 career clusters to better Forest Resources and Land shops. Students will explore project planning, understand themselves and how they Management I (Standard) basic design, wood selection, joinery and may intersect with the world of work after 2 CREDITS (6101) finishing techniques. This course is project college or immediately after high school. 2 BLOCKS/1 SEMESTER oriented and students are responsible for the Students will partake in demonstrations, Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors purchase of materials for personal projects. shadow different classes, and complete self- This field-based course explores the assessments to explore careers by utilizing ecological, economic, and social connections Advanced Woodworking an online navigation program and a Career between timber, wildlife, soil, and water (Standard) Choices curriculum. They will document resources. In the process students will 1 CREDIT (6201) their learning and career plans by developing learn essential natural resource skills, such 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER a career portfolio. as tree identification, forest inventory, Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors land- management planning, and timber Students will learn more advanced skills in Work-Based Learning harvesting. Students will also have the areas of furniture design, construction, (Standard) multiple opportunities to interact with and finishing. Techniques will include raised 1 CREDIT (6012) professionals who work to utilize and panel construction, dovetail joints, wood 1 BLOCK/1 OR 2 SEMESTERS protect such resources. turning, inlay, and marquetry. Students will 2 CREDITS (6011) be responsible for purchasing much of their 2 BLOCKS/1 OR 2 SEMESTERS Forest Resources and Land own material. Work-Based Learning is a unique plan of Management II (Standard) education, integrating classroom study with 2 CREDITS (6102) Fine Woodworking (Standard) planned and supervised work experience. 2 BLOCKS/1 SEMESTER 2 CREDITS (6202) It is a partnership between St. Johnsbury Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors 2 BLOCKS/1 SEMESTER Academy and community employers that The second level of Forest Resources and OR 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER allows students to participate in related Land Management is recommended for Prerequisites: Beginning Woodworking and career awareness and work-experience students considering post-secondary studies Advanced Woodworking

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Students will learn more advanced Introduction to Construction Sales and Marketing (Standard) woodworking techniques such as mortis and (Standard) 1 CREDIT (6421) tenon, dovetails and veneering. Students 1 CREDIT (6203) 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER will explore working with hand tools and 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors mastering machinery operations. Students In this introductory course, students will will discover woodworking as an art form Sales and Marketing learn the basic skills used in the construction through design, wood selection, carving (Accelerated) industry. Students will be introduced and lathe work. Projects are student 1 CREDIT (6423) to shop safety, hand and power tools, driven or students may choose to take on 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER and construction math. As the semester custom orders. Departmental approval required progresses, students will learn construction techniques and systems such as: floor This course provides a foundation for Introduction to Electricity understanding and applying the functions of (Standard) systems, wall and ceiling framing, roof framing and applications, stair construction, sales and marketing within local and global 1 CREDIT (6211/6212) and basic flooring. This course will focus on economies, with a particular focus on the 1 BLOCK/1 OR 2 SEMESTERS teamwork and developing proper worksite language of marketing, historical and current 2 CREDITS (6214/6215) communication skills. patterns and trends, economic considerations, 2 BLOCKS/1 OR 2 SEMESTERS and technological changes, opportunities, Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Construction Technology I and considerations. Information is presented Students will become familiar with basic (Standard) and explored through a variety of mediums, electrical principles such as Ohm’s Law. 2 CREDITS (6204) including chapter work, daily tasks, and Each student will acquire a basic knowledge 2 BLOCKS/1 SEMESTER small and large scale projects throughout the of D.C. and A.C. circuitry, and design, wire, Open to Juniors and Seniors semester that utilize the skills of multiple and analyze each circuit. Areas of study styles of learning, addresses cultural This course provides students with a field- will include series and parallel circuits, components, and provides for real world based experience which focuses on frame combination circuits, switching circuits, application of content in a context that construction and building renovations. use of meters, use of various power tools, students can relate to. Students will learn how to plan and design residential services, appliance circuits, and building projects. Residential projects will blueprint reading. This course is an excellent Entrepreneurship (Standard) include framing and sheathing, roofing, and course to strengthen skills for students 1 CREDIT (6422) the installation of windows and doors. Basic contemplating entering other craft areas in 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER understanding of floor systems, interior walls, the construction field. It provides a sound Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors and ceilings will be demonstrated on local job foundation for post-secondary study at either sites. Students will experience professionals two or four-year colleges. Entrepreneurship (Accelerated) in the field when new construction sites 1 CREDIT (6424) Residential/Industrial are part of the curriculum. The course 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER Electricity I (Standard) allows students to earn an industry- Departmental approval required recognized credential from the National 4 CREDITS (6217/6218) This course provides a foundation for Center for Construction Education and 2 BLOCKS/2 SEMESTERS students to become knowledgeable about Research (NCCER). Prerequisite: Introduction to Electricity the fundamentals of business ownership, Open to Juniors and Seniors as well as the impact of entrepreneurs on Residential/Industrial Electricity provides society from multiple perspectives: business advanced units of study in A.C. and D.C. Business and owners, politicians, scientists, artists, circuits, motors, motor controls, conduit Management consumers, etc. Students are encouraged bending, advanced blueprint reading, and on to make economic and social connections the job training. Students participate in the Introduction To Business and use the information to explore the State Apprenticeship program and earn credit (Standard) creation of new businesses or additions to toward their journeyman’s license. 1 CREDIT (6410) existing businesses. Utilizing the information 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER gathered students explore phases of Residential/Industrial Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors businesses from product creation through Electricity II (Standard) This course provides students with insight finance to experience the process of writing 4 CREDITS (6231/6232) into the basic foundations of both successful a business plan. 2 BLOCKS/2 SEMESTERS and unsuccessful businesses, allowing Prerequisite: Residential/Industrial Electricity I students to understand the various forms that Personal Finance (Standard) Residential/Industrial Electricity II provides an organization can take. Students examine ½ CREDIT (6425) advanced units of study in A.C. and D.C. the importance of the environmental, 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER circuits, motors, motor controls, conduit social, global, economic, and technological Personal Finance will emphasize the bending, advanced blueprint reading, and influences on business, culture, and the importance of educated financial decisions. on-the-job training. Students participate in economy. Students will participate in This course is intended for all students and the State Apprenticeship program and earn business simulations, outline activities, and will introduce the skills that are necessary for credit toward their journeyman’s license. group projects to enhance problem-solving, financial success. Topics will include saving decision-making, and team-building skills. and budgeting, banking, payment types,

28 COURSES OF STUDY credit scores, financing higher education, Culinary Arts II (Standard) student with experience in at least two area renting vs. owning, insurance and taxes, 4 CREDITS (6521/6522) agencies of their choice. May result in three consumer protection, and investing. Upon 2 BLOCKS/2 SEMESTERS college Human Services credits for qualified completion of this course, students will Prerequisite: Culinary Arts I students. May earn three college credits receive a certificate of completion. Meets Open to Juniors and Seniors per course from the Community College every other day. Students build on the skills learned of Vermont. in Culinary I by concentrating on the preparation and service of a range of menus Human and Professional Hospitality and and food styles. Students are immersed in Services II (Standard) Tourism many facets of food service and hospitality 2 CREDITS (6601) management including: menu planning, 2 BLOCKS/1 SEMESTER customer service, ethics, cost analysis, Open to Juniors and Seniors Restaurants and equipment maintenance, purchasing, and Build on skills learned in Human and à la carte cooking. Students will become Professional Services I with an emphasis Food/Beverages acquainted with post-secondary educational on providing services to individuals and options as well as a range of career pathways. families in all development stages. This Services Through our current articulation agreement course expands the exploration of social Introduction to Culinary Arts with a number of colleges, students who issues, ethics, conflict resolution, human (Standard) complete the two-year Culinary Arts program development, criminal justice, and geriatric issues. Students serve internships three 1 CREDIT (6510) are eligible for a number of scholarships and days each week and are in the classroom 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER waived course requirements. Students who pass the NOCTI examination receive the environment two days each week. Internships Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors industry-recognized credential of “Certified are self-selected and longer in length than In this introductory course to the Hospitality Secondary Graduate” from the American Human and Professional Services I. Along and Tourism career cluster, students work in Culinary Federation. St. Johnsbury Academy with skill development, a secondary goal a live professional culinary kitchen to learn is one of 120 secondary programs throughout of these internships is to enhance student what is involved in the culinary trades and the United States accredited by the ACF. preparation for post- secondary life—career the hospitality and tourism cluster in general. or college. May earn three college credits Students are exposed to the production per course from the Community College of a variety of food types, food handling, Human Services of Vermont. safety, sanitation, and presentation. This is an excellent course to acquire knowledge Introduction to Human Services about culinary careers as well as to acquire (Standard) Transportation, useful skills such as kitchen safety, sanitation 1 CREDIT (6610) practices, knife skills, baking techniques, 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER Distribution, and cooking methods, and recipe conversions. Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Logistics (TDL) In this introductory course to the Human Culinary Arts I (Standard) Transportation, distribution, and logistics Services career cluster, students receive an 4 CREDITS (6511/6512) workers move people and products by road, overview of the Human Services profession 2 BLOCKS/2 SEMESTERS air, rail, and water. They work as drivers, including social services, public safety, child Sophomores by permission only; open to Juniors pilots, engineers, or captains; repair, development, early childhood education, and Seniors maintain, design, or build the vehicles, trains, health careers, geriatrics, social issues, career Working in two professional settings, planes, and ships that move people and exploration, communication, goals, and Culinary Arts I students learn the foundations products; or work behind the scene to make decision making. One block each week is of professional food service. Professional sure the products and people get to the right spent visiting area agencies and working on baking and pastry is taught for one semester place on time. projects in the community. in our Streeter Hall bakeshop, where students will be exposed to a broad spectrum of Introduction to Automotive Human and Professional techniques and high-quality products. The Technology (Standard) Services I (Standard) Hilltopper Restaurant is the setting for our 1 CREDIT (6910) 2 CREDITS (6600) Culinary Prep Skills class; students rotate 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER 2 BLOCKS/1 SEMESTER through all the stations of the café, preparing Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors Open to Juniors and Seniors food for our very popular restaurant. Areas In this introductory course, students will This course begins with the exploration of of study include yeast dough production, explore entry level automotive maintenance. self and community, moving into the social à la carte desserts, wedding-cake design, Students will be introduced to workplace issues of other cultures. Students will learn soups, stocks, meat fabrication and sauces, safety, engine diagnostics, exploration about human development, ethics, social employability skills, nutrition, ServSafe, and of suspension and brake systems, and issues, and conflict resolution. Students will more. Students also have the opportunity introduction to electrical systems. Students have internships three days each week and to participate in off-premise catering, fine- will also explore minor body repair. The are in the classroom two days each week. dining dinner, and community service. course is designed to prepare students for Internships are self-selected and provide the Auto Technology I.

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Introduction to Welding interpreting weldment drawing. Students Automotive Technology II (Standard) will also practice creating a welding project (Standard) 1 CREDIT (6806) from estimating to building. This course 4 CREDITS (6931/6932) 1 BLOCK/1 SEMESTER uses both group and individual projects and 2 BLOCKS/2 SEMESTERS Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors problem-based scenarios as instructional Prerequisite: Automotive Technology I tools. Students practice general employability Open to Seniors In this introductory course to the skills such as effective communication, Manufacturing career cluster, students In Automotive Technology II students interpersonal skills, and presentation skills. are introduced to elementary practices of focus their efforts in a specific career welding. Students explore basic welding concentration continuing to build on the Automotive Technology I skills and knowledge learned in Automotive types (SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, CRSW and (Standard) Oxy-fuel welding), two types of metal cutting Technology I while focusing on skills and 4 CREDITS (6911/6912) (Oxy-fuel and Plasma Arc), the basic welding knowledge specific to their choice. Students 2 BLOCKS/2 SEMESTERS symbols, and a weldment drawing, the will be encouraged to pursue further Open to Juniors and Seniors basic techniques for material preparations. education, obtain ASE or ICAR credentials This course uses both group and individual Automotive Technology I offers hands-on and/or seek an apprenticeship program in projects and problem-based scenarios shop experience and problem-based learning the industry. as instructional opportunities. Students in a fully equipped mobile equipment repair practice general employability skills such (mechanics) and/or collision-repair (auto Career and Technical Education as effective communication, interpersonal body and painting) facility. Students will Capstone (Accelerated) skills, and presentation skills. The course learn about areas of the automotive industry 1 CREDIT (7707) is recommended for students interested in as well as transferable skills that apply to Departmental approval required Automotive Technology I. automotive systems, oversee scheduling of This course is designed to allow students appointments, ordering parts, managing in the career and technical education Advanced Welding stock items, assessing collision damage, department the opportunity to develop (Accelerated) and mixing and applying modern a Capstone project in their chosen field. 2 CREDITS (6807) automotive finishes. Students will meet in a classroom every 2 BLOCKS/1 SEMESTER Automotive Technology I provides students other day, where they will gain instruction Prerequisite: Introduction to Welding (Standard) with the knowledge and skills necessary to and practice in research skills, oral Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors make informed decisions about pursuing a communication skills, application of In this advanced course, students are career in the Transportation, Distribution, research to design, and the iterative process introduced to advanced practices of and Logistics career cluster. This course is of prototyping, testing, researching, and welding. Students continue to develop an excellent choice for all students who will redesigning their chosen project. On the competence in SMAW, GMAW, GTAW in need to understand and maintain their own alternative days, students will work with their all positions, develop skills needed for AWS vehicles and equipment or those who wish to CTE mentor/instructor working on their flat certification in SMAW, understand the follow this path to post-secondary education project design, testing, redesigning, metallurgy of common metal for welding, and employment. and completing their project in their chosen explore GTAW for Stainless and Aluminum field. They will present their work on and thin metals, and become competent Capstone Day. understanding welding symbols and

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Procedure for Course Selection During Week 4 and Week 7 of either semester Students may petition to change the level of the course they are in With a wide range of courses and about one thousand students, (to a lower level only) for academic courses during the week after the arranging an overall schedule that enables students to achieve their interim grades and the week after the mid-semester grading period. desired goals within the limits of the daily schedule, available faculty, These changes must be made in coordination with the student’s and facilities is a complex task that requires careful planning. The current teacher of the subject, the appropriate department chair, and guidance office goes to great lengths to facilitate the scheduling by completing the Course Change Procedure form available through process. To help enable this, the following timeline guides the process: the Academic Office.

January After Week 8 of either semester St. Johnsbury Academy begins the course selection process. Current No course changes may be made. If a course is dropped for any reason freshmen will meet with a guidance counselor to discuss course after week 8, the student will be denied credit in that course. selections for the next school year and the options available in the context of their educational plans. Student course selections will be Communication among students, parents and guidance personnel is mailed to parents for signed approval. key to a successful course selection and schedule. Guidance counselors, advisors, students, and parents should be fully aware of February the student’s needs and each other’s responsibilities. Senior year Current sophomores and juniors will meet with a guidance counselor courses can be critical in the college admission process and we to discuss course selections for the next school year and discuss the encourage seniors to take a challenging academic course load. options available in the context of their educational plans. Student course selections will be mailed to parents for signed approval. Scheduling Policies • Freshmen must take eight credits, which must include Freshman May Humanities, Health, a math course, and Integrated Science I. Most An initial schedule is distributed to each student for a final discussion freshmen also take and Physical Education I. with their parents and to ensure that the proper courses are listed. Student schedules produced in May will not contain teachers’ names • Sophomores and juniors must take eight credits of study for or the time at which courses meet. the year. August 10 • Seniors must take at least seven credits, though they may take eight. Teacher course assignments, and meeting times and locations are Seniors who sign up for eight credits will not be allowed to drop to arranged over the summer by mid-August. Student schedules are seven after the August 10 cutoff date. finalized and academic course loads are balanced over the summer. • Students may take a fifth course in a semester if that course is Guided Up until August 10 students have the unlimited ability to change their Studies, Freshman Study Skills, Study Skills, English as a Second course selections. After this date, schedules become increasingly Language, or a Performing Arts (acting, band, chorus, or dance) difficult to change. course. Students will not be allowed to drop the fifth course after the After August 10 August 10 date. Limited course changes and additions may be made after August 10, Teacher/Time Request subject to space availability, fulfillment of prerequisites, and other Requests to change teachers are not honored unless the student has considerations, subject to the constraints and schedule listed below. previously taken a class from that teacher and would prefer a new Between August 10 and the first day of the school year, a course learning experience. Such a request is subject to space availability, change may be considered in these situations: other master schedule constraints, and must be made during the first • The student’s schedule is incomplete or unbalanced; week of school. No changes are allowed solely for a change in the time a course is offered. • The student completed a summer school course, an online course, or had work experience that enables a higher placement; Driver Education Driver Education during the school year is a highly desired option and • Summer experiences lead to a change in career plans; is requested through the course selection process with their guidance • A core academic class is to be replaced by another core class, or an counselor. Previous requests do not carry over to the next year and elective course is to be replaced by an another elective; must be made again each year. Acceptance into Driver Education is • Changing the desired course(s) does not cause a course to exceed based on year of graduation and date of birth. Those not offered a minimum or maximum enrollment requirements. In other words, spot in the course will be placed on a waiting list based on the same no course changes will be made that cause a course to be cancelled criteria. If you request to be placed on the waiting list after the course or that require a new section to be created. has been scheduled and the waiting list created, you will be placed at the end of the waiting list without consideration of year of graduation Once the master schedule has been built (August 10), all students or date of birth. If openings occur, students will be chosen from the enrolled in AP classes are committed to completing the entire year waiting list and notified. of the AP course. Student Schedule Appeal

First day of the semester Occasionally, special situations arise that do not fall under the Students will receive their schedules, which include the course, guidelines above. These may lead a student to make a special request location and teacher name. to appeal a scheduling decision. In that case, the first appeal must be During Weeks 1 and 2 of the first semester made to the Department Chair, the second appeal must be made to Students may change only elective classes, following the Course the Director of Guidance, and the final appeal must be made to the Change Procedure. Reasons that may lead to an approved request Assistant Headmaster for Academics. are listed above.

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Faculty

Academic Support Computer Science English as a Second Guidance and Enrichment Language Elizabeth Laverty Sean Murphy ’86, Chair B .A . SMITH COLLEGE Elizabeth Cummings ’95, Chair Kendra Brazeau, Chair B .S . SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE M .ED . UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT M .ED . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE B .A . BISHOPS UNIVERSITY B .A . HARTWICK COLLEGE M .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE Admira Macedonci M .A . MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Jennifer Anson B .S ., M .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE Elizabeth Cummings ’95 B .S . RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Joseph Grasso M .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE B .S ./M .S T. . UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING B .A . BISHOP’S UNIVERSITY M .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE Michelle McCaffrey ’91 John Mackenzie English Robyn Greenstone B .S . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE B .A . UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER M .A . NORTHERN VERMONT UNIVERSITY M .A . UNIVERSITY OF ST . ANDREWS B .A . WELLESLEY COLLEGE Steven Jolliffe, Chair M .S T. . PACE UNIVERSITY Matthew O’Brien ’09 B .A . DICKINSON COLLEGE Kathryn Smith ’99 B .A . UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE M .A . CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY— B .A . COLGATE UNIVERSITY Capstone NORTHRIDGE Allison Reed B .A . BATES COLLEGE Henry Eaton Annie Angell M .A . BOSTON COLLEGE B .A . YALE UNIVERSITY B .A ., M .A . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE M .A . DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Nicole Begin ’88 Fine Arts B .A . COLBY COLLEGE M .A W. . NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Roseanna Prevost ’84, Chair Health and Career and Technical A .S . ENDICOTT COLLEGE James Bentley B .A . VERMONT COLLEGE Wellness Education B .A . HAMILTON COLLEGE M .A . UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Jason Bergman Dale Urie ‘86, Chair B .S . HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Patrick Guckin, Chair Beth Choiniere B .A . COLGATE UNIVERSITY M .ED . TRINITY COLLEGE B .A . PLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE B .A ., M .ED . ST . MICHAEL’S COLLEGE Emma Charow M .ED . SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE B .A . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE Angela Drew ’00 Chris Despins ‘88 UNIVERSITY B .A . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE B .A . UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Florence Darling M .S . INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Jeff Andre M .A T. . AURORA UNIVERSITY B .F .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE B .P .S . CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Christopher Dussault ’90 Kimberly Darling Tara Hemond B .S . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE Bret Bourgeois ’92 B .A . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE B .F .A . ALFRED UNIVERSITY M .S . U .S . SPORTS ACADEMY M .A . ST . MICHAEL’S COLLEGE Paula Bystrzycki ’80 THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK Jesse Holden A .S . CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Andra Hibbert ‘01 M .F .A . VISUAL ART, VERMONT COLLEGE A .S . WHITE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY B .A . NEW ENGLAND CULINARY INSTITUTE B .A . WILLIAMS COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS COLLEGE M .F .A . UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — Travis Bugbee ‘92 B .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE BOSTON Marianne Handy Hraibi ’65 B .F .A . BOSTON CONSERVATORY Brandon Legendre ‘13 David Hale Sonia Jolliffe B .A . UNIVERSITY OF MAINE M .S DARTMOUTH COLLEGE B .A . COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE B .A . DEPAUW UNIVERSITY A O. .S . NEW ENGLAND CULINARY M .ED . CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY Rodney Reis ’81 Kelly Urie INSTITUTE THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF B .S . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE Jennifer Mackenzie NEW YORK M .ED . TRINITY COLLEGE Suzanne Libbey B .A . DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Johnna Kendall ’96 M .PHIL . UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Alan Rowe ‘72 B .A . PROVIDENCE COLLEGE M .LIT . UNIVERSITY OF ST . ANDREWS B .S . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT M .A . VANDERCOOK COLLEGE Jennifer McGarvin Kristin Mantius Languages B .A . THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT B .A . BATES COLLEGE Alexander Shea B .A . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE M .A . SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE M .A . MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Ellen Meranze, Chair Ray Walker ‘81 B .A . MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE Jason Mitchell Constance Morris B .A . CONNECTICUT COLLEGE FOUNDER, NORTH CAROLINA THEATER M .S ., M L. .A UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVATORY Abigail Murphy ’94 M .ED . UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND James Callanan B .A . MCGILL UNIVERSITY B .A . ST . ANSELM COLLEGE M .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE Kerra Photiades B .A . ST . MICHAEL’S COLLEGE M .A . MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Jeremy Roberts ’90 Rebecca Sasso Sarah Callanan ’90 Matthew Stark ‘96 B.A., M.A. UNIVERSITY OF NEW B .A . YALE UNIVERSITY HAMPSHIRE M .A . DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Gary Thornton B .A . UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Joseph Mesics B .A . KENYON COLLEGE M .A . LESLEY UNIVERSITY M .A . CORNELL UNIVERSITY Angelica Orozco B .A . CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIA M .A . MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

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Catherine Reed B A. . UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Science Social Studies Special Services M .A . MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Alicia Woods Elia Desjardins, Chair David Eckhardt, Chair Mathew Forest ’92, Chair B A. ,. B .S . UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA B .A . EARLHAM COLLEGE B .A . SAINT LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY B .S . PLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE M .A . MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE M .S . INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON M .ED . THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT M .S . SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE PH .D . RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC D .A . FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Scott Beck B .A . UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Frank Bowen Jessica Angell M .ED . THE CITADEL B .S . ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Library B .S . THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT M .A . ST . JOSEPH’S COLLEGE M .A . JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE Sarah Callanan ’90 B .A . YALE UNIVERSITY Lisa Bruzual Nikki Krysak James Baker M .A . DARTMOUTH COLLEGE B .S . UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE B S. . STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT B .S . UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY M .ED . BOSTON COLLEGE Henry Eaton BROCKPORT M .S . UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Dennis Camelio M .L .S . INDIANA UNIVERSITY B .A . YALE UNIVERSITY Jessica Bakowski M .ED . ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY A .B . UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS— B .S ., M .S . SUNY COLLEGE OF OF NEW ENGLAND LOWELL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND FORESTRY M .ED . SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY Glenn Ehrean Mathematics Chris Buhner B .A . KALAMAZOO COLLEGE Aaron Carr B .A . RUTGERS UNIVERSITY M .A . MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE B .S . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT M .A . TEMPLE UNIVERSITY M .ED . SALEM STATE COLLEGE Patrick Kinsella, Chair Stephen Levesque B S. ., M .ED . UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL Rose Dedam ’05 B .A ., M ED. . SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE Grace Bosco FLORIDA A .B . BOWDOIN COLLEGE B .A . PROVIDENCE COLLEGE Kathryn Lemieux’11 Steven Badgley M .S . MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY B .A . ST . MICHAEL’S COLLEGE Elizabeth Davis B S. . KENYON COLLEGE John Driscoll B .S . GREEN MT . COLLEGE M .S . TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY B .S ., M .ED . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT John Lovett ’01 M .ED . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE Daniel Bosco Edwin Eckel B .A . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT M .ED . UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND Tyler Hartshorn B A. . COLGATE UNIVERSITY A .B . BOWDOIN COLLEGE B .A . UNIVERSITY OF MAINE M .A T. . MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE M .S . MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Peter Mantius AT FARMINGTON Elizabeth Breen ’97 Mitchell Jones B .A . TRINITY COLLEGE M .S . JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY M .A . BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY B S. . GORDON COLLEGE B .S . GETTYSBURG COLLEGE Jade Huntington M .S . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Emmet Quinn Susannah Gould ’03 B .S ,. M ED. . VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY M .S . UNIVERSITY OF MAINE B .A . HARVARD UNIVERSITY B A. /B. .S . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Arlan Langmaid ’80 M .A . PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Kimberly Keach ’01 M .A . SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE B .S ,. M ED. . PLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE UNIVERSITY B .A . OBERLIN COLLEGE James Ryan ’89 M .S . UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Karen Stark Fenjens Kwok B .A . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT M .ED . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE B .S . DAEMEN COLLEGE B S. . PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY Terrence Reed M .A . UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX B .S ., M .ED . UNIVERSITY OF NEW Denise Scavitto ’99 Shari Larocque HAMPSHIRE, DURHAM B .A . WELLESLEY COLLEGE A .S . COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT M .A .L .S . DARTMOUTH COLLEGE B S. . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE Dr. John Sayarath B .A . HARVARD UNIVERSITY Lucas Weiss Crystal Meunier M .S . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE B .M . WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE B S. . UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND M .S . ST . JOSEPH’S COLLEGE M .A . COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY M .ED . PLYMOUTH STATE COLLEGE M .D . ST . MATTHEW’S UNIVERSITY Matthew Racenet ’06 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE B A. . LYNDON STATE COLLEGE Thomas Viles M .ED . PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY A .B . HARVARD UNIVERSITY Rachel Slimovitch M .S . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT B S. ./B .A . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Sarah Vorhies Daniel Stapleford B .A . SMITH COLLEGE M .PHIL ., PH .D . YALE UNIVERSITY B A. . TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Peter Wright ’84 B S. . BRYANT UNIVERSITY M .ED . UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

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CLASS OF 2020 Colleges Attending

Bates College Lynn College Townson College Becker College Manchester Community College Trinity College (4) Bishop’s University (3) Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Troy University Health Science Boston University (3) U.S. Air Force Academy Merrimack College Case Western Reserve University Unity College Middlebury College (2) Castleton University University of California – Berkeley Millikin University Central Maine Community College (2) University of California – Davis Monterrey Center for Higher Learning Chapman University University of California – Irvine (2) of Design (Mexico) Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) University of California – San Diego (3) New York Film Academy Clarion University University of Connecticut (3) New York University – Shanghai Coastal Carolina University (2) University of Hartford New York University (2) Colby-Sawyer College (2) University of Illinois Nichols College Concordia University University of King’s College Northern Vermont University – Johnson De Anza College University of Maine – Farmington Northern Vermont University – Lyndon (6) Dean College University of Maine – Orono (2) Northwestern University DePaul University University of Massachusetts – Boston Norwich University (3) Eastern Maine Community College University of Miami (2) Ontario Tech University Endicott College University of Missouri Pennsylvania State University ESIC Business and Marketing School (Spain) University of New England Plymouth State University (6) Florida International University (2) University of New Hampshire Pratt Institute Florida South Western State College University of Richmond Princeton University Full Sail University University of Roehampton (England) Purdue University George Washington University University of Southern Maine Roger Williams University Guilford Technical Community College University of Utah Rutgers University Haverford College University of Vermont (22) Savannah College of Art and Design Husson University University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Visual Arts IE Business School (Spain) Vanderbilt University Southern Maine Community College International University of Health Vermont Technical College (2) St. Edward’s University (2) and Welfare (Japan) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam St. Lawrence University Ithaca College (2) Wake Forest University St. Michael’s College (2) Johns Hopkins University Washington University in St. Louis Stonehill College Johnson & Wales University (2) Wentworth Institute of Technology Suffolk University Keene State College West Virginia University (4) The Culinary Institute of America Lafayette College White Mountain Community College The University of Ohio Lancaster Bible College WyoTech (2) Thomas College

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SAMPLE 4-Year Course Selection Competitive College Preparatory For those interested in attending highly competitive colleges and universities FRESHMAN YEAR SOPHOMORE YEAR JUNIOR YEAR SENIOR YEAR FRESHMAN HUMANITIES ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Freshman Humanities (Accelerated) AP Seminar or Literary Perspectives AP Seminar or Rhetoric and AP Research, Literature and (Accelerated) Composition (Accelerated) Composition (Accelerated) or SCIENCE or AP English Language AP English Literature Integrated Science I (Accelerated) SOCIAL STUDIES World Civilization Post-1500 SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES MATHEMATICS (Accelerated) or United States History United States Government and Algebra I (Accelerated) AP World History (Accelerated or AP) AP Electives or Microeconomics, Algebra II (Accelerated) AP United States Government SCIENCE SCIENCE and Politics LANGUAGE Integrated Science II (Accelerated) Integrated Science III (Accelerated) First of 4 courses in a single language SCIENCE MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS FRESHMAN IMMERSION Elective: Digital Electronics Geometry (Accelerated) Precalculus (Accelerated) Required Freshman Orientation (Accelerated) or Civil Engineering Trigonometry (Accelerated Course LANGUAGE and Architecture (Accelerated) or LANGUAGE Third of 4 courses in a single language Biotechnical Engineering HEALTH AND WELLNESS Second of 4 courses in a single and Health language Fourth of 4 courses in a single MATHEMATICS Introduction to Physical Education language AP Calculus AB or BC ELECTIVES Combination of courses to make two ELECTIVES ELECTIVES full blocks — chosen to complement Combination of courses to make two Combination of courses to make student’s academic plan or three full blocks — chosen to two or three full blocks — chosen to complement student’s academic plan complement student’s academic plan CAPSTONE Senior Capstone or Engineering Design and Development Capstone (Accelerated)

Students wishing to take AP courses in a given subject area will need to take the appropriate AP Prep courses as electives.

College Preparatory For those interested in attending 4-year colleges and universities FRESHMAN YEAR SOPHOMORE YEAR JUNIOR YEAR SENIOR YEAR FRESHMAN HUMANITIES ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Freshman Humanities (Accelerated/ AP Seminar or Literary Perspectives AP Seminar, AP English Language, or AP Research, AP English Literature or Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) Rhetoric and Composition Literature and Composition (Accelerated/Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES Integrated Science I World Civilization Post-1500 SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES (Accelerated/Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) United States History (Accelerated/ AP or Accelerated Electives Standard) MATHEMATICS SCIENCE SCIENCE Algebra I (Accelerated/Standard) Integrated Science II (Accelerated/ SCIENCE Electives Standard) Integrated Science III (Accelerated/ LANGUAGE Standard) MATHEMATICS First of 3 courses in a single language MATHEMATICS Trigonometry (Accelerated/ Algebra II (Accelerated/Standard) MATHEMATICS Standard) ELECTIVES Geometry (Accelerated/Standard) Chosen to complement academic plan LANGUAGE ELECTIVES Second of 3 courses in a single LANGUAGE Combination of courses to make two FRESHMAN IMMERSION language Third of 3 courses in a single language or three full blocks — chosen to Required Freshman Orientation complement student’s academic plan Course ELECTIVES ELECTIVES Chosen to complement academic plan Chosen to complement academic plan CAPSTONE HEALTH AND WELLNESS Senior Capstone or Engineering Health Combination of courses to make two Combination of courses to make two Introduction to Physical Education full blocks — chosen to complement full blocks — chosen to complement Design and Development Capstone student’s academic plan student’s academic plan (Accelerated)

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SAMPLE 4-Year Course Selection Biomedical and Health Science For those interested in attending Biomedical and Health Sciences programs at 4-year colleges and universities FRESHMAN YEAR SOPHOMORE YEAR JUNIOR YEAR SENIOR YEAR FRESHMAN HUMANITIES ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Freshman Humanities (Accelerated/ AP Seminar or Literary Perspectives AP Seminar, AP English Language and AP Research, AP English Literature Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) Comp (Accelerated), or Rhetoric and and Composition (Accelerated) or Composition Literature and Composition SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES (Accelerated/Standard) Integrated Science I (Accelerated/ World Civilization II Post-1500 SOCIAL STUDIES Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) United States History (Accelerated/ SOCIAL STUDIES Standard) or AP U.S. History Electives or AP U.S. Government and MATHEMATICS SCIENCE Economics or AP Microeconomics Algebra I (Accelerated/Standard) Integrated Science II (Accelerated/ SCIENCE Standard) Integrated Science III (Accelerated/ SCIENCE LANGUAGE Standard) Elective First of 3 courses in a single language MATHEMATICS Algebra II (Accelerated/Standard) MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS ELECTIVE Geometry (Accelerated/Standard) Trigonometry (Accelerated/ Chosen to complement academic plan LANGUAGE Standard) Second of 3 courses in a single LANGUAGE FRESHMAN IMMERSION language Third of 3 courses in a single language ELECTIVES Required Freshman Orientation Combination of courses to make two Course ELECTIVES ELECTIVES or three full blocks — chosen to Chosen to complement academic plan Chosen to complement academic plan HEALTH AND WELLNESS complement student’s academic plan, Health Combination of courses to make two Combination of courses to make two see below Introduction to Physical Education full blocks — chosen to complement or three full blocks — chosen to CAPSTONE student’s academic plan complement student’s academic plan, see sidebar Senior Capstone or Engineering Design and Development Capstone (Accelerated)

To pursue the Academy’s Biomedical and Health Services Certificate program, choose at least two of the following electives: • AP Biology • Genetics • AP Chemistry • Biotechnical Engineering • AP Physics B or C • Psychology • Anatomy and Physiology • Sports Medicine I and II • Forensics • Statistics or AP Statistics Students should also consider making room in their schedules for pursuing an internship or clinical experience through the Human Services courses.

Fine Arts Major or Art School For those interested in attending a 2-year or 4-year art school or majoring in art at a university FRESHMAN YEAR SOPHOMORE YEAR JUNIOR YEAR SENIOR YEAR FRESHMAN HUMANITIES ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Freshman Humanities (Accelerated/ AP Seminar or Literary Perspectives AP Seminar or Rhetoric and AP Research, AP English Literature Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) Composition (Accelerated/Standard) and Composition (Accelerated), or Literature and Composition SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES (Accelerated/Standard) Integrated Science I (Accelerated/ World Civilization Post-1500 United States History (Accelerated/ Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) Standard) SOCIAL STUDIES Electives MATHEMATICS SCIENCE SCIENCE Algebra I Integrated Science II (Accelerated/ Integrated Science III (Accelerated/ SCIENCE (Accelerated/Standard) Standard) Standard) Elective example: Anatomy and Physiology LANGUAGE MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS First of 3 courses in a single language Algebra II (Accelerated/Standard) Geometry (Accelerated/Standard) MATHEMATICS Trigonometry (Accelerated/ FINE ARTS* FINE ARTS* LANGUAGE Standard) Introductory Level Course Second of 3 courses in a single Combination or courses to make four language full blocks — choice based on FINE ARTS* FRESHMAN IMMERSION student’s art concentration Combination of courses to make two Required Freshman Orientation Third of 3 courses or three full blocks — chosen to Course in a single language complement student’s academic plan HEALTH AND WELLNESS ELECTIVES CAPSTONE Health Combination of courses to make two Introduction to Physical Education full blocks — chosen to complement Senior Capstone student’s academic plan

*Students will choose courses based on their desired concentration: Music/Theater or Visual Arts.

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SAMPLE 4-Year Course Selection Career and Technical Education: College Preparatory or Immediate Employment For those interested in attending a 2-year or 4-year technical college or university or seeking employment FRESHMAN YEAR SOPHOMORE YEAR JUNIOR YEAR SENIOR YEAR FRESHMAN HUMANITIES ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Freshman Humanities (Basic, Literary Perspectives (Accelerated/ Rhetoric and Composition Literature and Composition Standard, or Accelerated) Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) (Accelerated/Standard) or Technical Communications II SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES Integrated Science I (Basic, Standard, World Civilization II (Accelerated/ United States History (Basic, SOCIAL STUDIES or Accelerated) Standard) Standard, or Accelerated) Electives MATHEMATICS SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE Algebraic Foundations I (Standard) or Integrated Science II (Basic, Integrated Science III (Basic, Elective Algebra I (Accelerated/Standard) Standard, or Accelerated) Standard, or Accelerated) MATHEMATICS Algebraic Foundations II OR an MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS Algebra III/Trig (Standard) or ELECTIVE from any discipline if Algebra II (Standard) or taking Algebra I (Accelerated/ Geometry (Basic) or Algebra II Trigonometry (Accelerated) (Accelerated/Standard) Geometry (Accelerated/Standard) Standard) TECHNICAL EDUCATION TECHNICAL EDUCATION TECHNICAL EDUCATION Combination of Pathway courses to TECHNICAL EDUCATION Combination or Pathway courses to Career Exploration Cluster Course I make four full blocks — chosen to Cluster Course II make four full blocks — choice based complement student’s academic plan FRESHMAN IMMERSION on student’s academic plan. (may include co-op second semester). Required Freshman Orientation ELECTIVES Course Introduction to Computer Science (Standard) HEALTH AND WELLNESS Exercise Science I or II (Standard) Health Introduction to Physical Education

NOTE: Students may take an approved Learning Support Program, English as a Second Language course, or Performing Arts course as a fifth course each semester. Freshman and Sophomore students not taking a 5th course will be assigned automatically to a Study Block.

Board of Trustees Trustee Emeriti Noble F. Allen Cathy Judd-Stein Samuel E. Bain Kenneth F. Hammer EAST LYME, CONNECTICUT WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ST . JOHNSBURY,VERMONT Bruce E. Buxton Jesse Laflamme Ernest A. Begin James H. Impey SOUTH HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE BARNET, VERMONT ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT Martha D. Cavanaugh Erin P. Mayo Gregory E. Boardman William A. Julian PEACHAM, VERMONT FRYEBURG, MAINE GALISTEO, NEW MEXICO ORLEANS, VERMONT Timothy S. Clouatre Garth B. Moulton Karen K. Christensen Alex P. M. Ko ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA ATHERTON, CALIFORNIA HONG KONG Peter F. Crosby James H. Murphy Marcia D. DeRosia Jean M. Rogers WEST DANVILLE, VERMONT ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT VERO BEACH, FLORIDA Jenis Ellingwood-Cedeno Kimberly A. Silloway Gordon V. DeWitt Ronald W. Steen CHICAGO, ILLINOIS OAKTON, VIRGINIA LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT Frank A. Empsall, III Paul C. Simpson John M. Farmer Roderic B. Vitty ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT NAPLES, FLORIDA STOWE, VERMONT NAPLES, FLORIDA Robert M. Fairbanks Lisa A. Warren John P. Garey Dale R. Wells MONTPELIER, VERMONT WATEFORD, VERMONT ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT Nancy U. Goodrich Jay O. Wright Allan D. Gilmour ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT POTOMAC, MARYLAND BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN John S. Hall Edward R. Zuccaro Susan O. Grayson DANVILLE, VERMONT ST . JOHNSBURY, VERMONT FARMINGTON, CONNECTICUT Peter F. Hammer Lee P. Hackett MIAMI, FLORIDA BROOKFIELD, WISCONSIN

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Accreditation St. Johnsbury Academy is a member of the New England Association (1) On application, the state board shall approve an independent of Schools and Colleges, the National Association of Independent school which offers kindergarten but no other graded education if it Schools, the Independent Schools Association of Northern New finds, after opportunity for hearing, that the school substantially England, and the Vermont Independent Schools Association. complies with the board’s rules for approved independent kindergartens. The state board may delegate to another state agency The Academy is fully accredited by the New England Association of the authority to evaluate the safety and adequacy of the buildings in Schools and Colleges and has been approved by the Vermont State which kindergartens are conducted, but shall consider all findings and Department of Education. In addition, the Academy is a member recommendations of any such agency in making its approval decision. of the College Entrance Examination Board and has been designated by that body as an Examination Center. (2) Approvals under this section shall be for a term established by rule of the board but not greater than five years. St. Johnsbury Academy admits students of any sex, race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, (3) An approved independent school shall provide to the parent or programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to guardian responsible for each of its pupils, prior to accepting any students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of sex, money for that pupil, an accurate statement in writing of its status race, color, religion, handicap, sexual orientation, national or ethnic under this section, and a copy of this section. Failure to comply with origin in the administration of its education policies, admission this provision may create a permissible inference of false advertising policies, scholarship programs, and athletic and other school in violation of 13 VSA 2005. administered programs. (4) Each approved independent school shall provide to the The Academy shall maintain a written policy on student records that commissioner on October 1 of each year the names and addresses is consistent with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. of its enrolled pupils. Within seven days of the termination of a pupil’s enrollment, the approved independent school shall notify The student must be capable of participating in a full-time academic the commissioner of the name and address of the pupil. The program, viz., four academic classes per day, with support classes commissioner shall forthwith notify the appropriate school officials as needed. The student will be satisfactorily promoted by: the public as provided in section 1126 of this title. Local Education Agency or equivalent under state regulations; an approved home school plan; or a recognized or approved independent (5) The state board may revoke or suspend the approval of an approved school or equivalent under state regulations; for other non-approved independent school, after opportunity for hearing, for substantial private schools, we will require additional information regarding the failure to comply with the minimum course of study, for failure to curriculum addressed and student performance. The student will be comply with the board’s rules for approved independent schools, or between the ages of 13 and 19 years of age at the time of enrollment for failure to report under subdivision (b)(4) of this section. Upon or between the ages of 13 and 21 for students who are eligible for revocation or suspension, students required to attend school who are special education. enrolled in that school shall become truant unless they enroll in an approved public school, approved or recognized independent school The Vermont State Department of Education in Montpelier requires or approved home instruction program. Vermont private schools to publish the following statement: (6) This subdivision applies to an independent school located in Vermont which offers a program of elementary or secondary education

16 VSA 166 Approved independent schools through correspondence, electronic mail, satellite communication or (b) Approved independent schools. On application, the state board other means and which, because of its structure, does not meet some shall approve an independent school which offers elementary or or all the rules of the state board for approved independent schools. In secondary education if it finds, after opportunity for hearing, that the order to be approved under this subdivision, a school shall meet the school provides a minimum course of study and that it substantially standards adopted by rule of the state board for approved independent complies with the board’s rules for approved independent schools. schools which can be applied to the applicant school and any other Except as provided in subdivision (6) of this section, the board’s rules standards or rules adopted by the state board regarding these types of must at minimum require that the school has the resources required schools. A school approved under this subdivision shall not be eligible to meet its stated objectives, including financial capacity, faculty who to receive tuition payments from public school districts under chapter are qualified by training and experience in the areas in which they 21 of this title. However, a school district may enter into a contract or are assigned, and physical facilities and special services that are in contracts with a school approved under this subdivision for provisions accordance with any state or federal law or regulation. Approval may of some education services for its students. be granted without state board evaluation in the case of any school accredited by a private, state or regional agency recognized by the state board for accrediting purposes.

Disclaimer The courses and curricula described in this catalog, and the teaching personnel listed herein, are subject to change at any time by official action of St. Johnsbury Academy. The statements in this catalog are for information only and in no way constitute a contract between the student and St. Johnsbury Academy. St. Johnsbury Academy reserves the right to change any regulation or requirement at any time.

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