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Civics 9
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Provide students with a practical
knowledge and understanding of
American government
• Connect with the democratic process
as citizens of the United States
• Apply knowledge of early founding
documents including the US Constitution
• Demonstrate an understanding of how
the American system of government
functions
• Demonstrate an understanding that US
citizens have both rights and responsibili-
ties in order for government to maintain
order in society.
• Understand the election process in the
United States
• Differentiate views on the political spectrum
Honors Civics
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Middle
school social studies grades may be
considered
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Purpose and principles of government
• Creation of U.S. government institutions
and processes
• Rights and responsibilities of citizens
• Principles of the U.S. Constitution
Instructional Focus: This honors course
requires students to apply higher-order
thinking and communication skills, study
primary source documents and complete
independent and/or group research projects
Geography 9
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credits
Major Outcomes:
• Review locations of physical features,
climatic regions and cultural icons
• Practice reading maps and charts.
• Types of maps, when to use and how to
analyze
• Effects of migration and population
countries and cultures
• Types of boundaries and governments
• Global climate changes
• Human effects on the environment
Projects, Activities, etc.: Creating Maps, de-
velop the where the next should be located
[e.g. determine where the next supermarket
should be located in your city]
Instructional Focus: Use of maps, charts,
Geographic Information Systems, population
pyramids
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AP Human Geography
[AP exam is in May each year]
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Previous
social studies grades may be considered or
recommendation of counselor or teacher
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Introduce students to the systematic study
of patterns and processes that have shaped
human understanding, use, and alteration of
Earth’s surface
• Employ spatial concepts and landscape analy-
sis to examine human socioeconomic organi-
zation and its environmental consequences
• Learn about the methods and tools geogra-
phers use in their research and applications
• Interpret maps and analyze geospatial data
• Understand and explain the implications of
associations and networks among
phenomena in places.
• Recognize and interpret the relationships
among patterns and processes at different
scales of analysis.
• Define regions and evaluate the
regionalization process.
• Characterize and analyze changing
interconnections among places.
• Approach the AP exam with confidence.
Instructional Focus: College-level concepts
through small and large group lecture and
activities; college text is used.
College credit may be earned based on AP
test score and institution.
US History 10
[AP exam is in May each year]
Prerequisite/Selection Process:
Civics or Honors Civics and Geography
Intended Audience: Grade 10
Credit: Two Trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Study of major events in U.S. history
[emphasis on 19th and 20th centuries]
• Awareness of the experiences of ordinary
women, men, and children as well as
those of our leaders
• Study of diverse peoples who created
the American story
AP US History
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Civics or
Honors Civics and Geography
Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Previous
social studies grades may be considered or
recommendation of counselor or teacher
Major Outcomes:
• Students investigate significant events,
individuals, developments, and processes
in nine historical periods from approxi-
mately 1491 to the present.
• Students develop and use the same skills,
practices, and methods employed by his-
torians: analyzing primary and secondary
sources; making historical comparisons;
utilizing reasoning about contextualization,
causation, and continuity and change over
time; and developing historical arguments.
• The course also provides seven themes
that students explore throughout the
course in order to make connections
among historical developments in different
times and places: American and national
identity; migration and settlement; politics
and power; work, exchange, and technol-
ogy; America in the world; geography and
the environment; and culture and society.
• Approach the AP exam with confidence.
Instructional Focus:
College-level concepts through small and
large group lecture and activities; college
text is used.
College credit may be earned based on AP
test score and institution.
US History Seminar
Prerequisite/Selection Process: AP US History
Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11, and 12
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
• The study of major events in U.S. history
• Knowledge necessary to analyze problems,
concepts and primary documents in U.S. History
Instructional Focus: Preparation to take
National Advanced Placement exam
World History 11
Prerequisite/Selection Process: US History
or AP US History
Intended Audience: Grade 11
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Study of significant events, people, issues,
and perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe,
Latin America, and the Middle East
• A balance of cultural, economic, geographic,
political, and social history are presented
• Gain an appreciation and understanding of
diverse perspectives
AP World History
[AP exam is in May each year]
Prerequisites/Selection Process:
US History or AP US History Previous social
studies grades may be considered or
recommendation of counselor or teacher
Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Interaction Between Humans and the
Environment
• Development and Interaction of Cultures
• State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict
• Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of
Economic Systems
• Development and Transformation of
Social Structures
• Approach the AP exam with confidence.
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