Education 2020

Designed to provide a foundation for academic reading and writing, students in this advanced course will discover how writer’s purpose, audience expectations, subjects, writing styles and genres contribute to writing effectiveness. Through the study of visual rhetoric, reading primary and secondary sources, synthesizing secondary material in compositions and correctly citing sources using MLA format, students will learn critical college-level skills.

Covering a variety of literature readings, literature analysis and review of author's purpose, students enrolled in this in-depth course will deepen their understanding of English literature and composition. Through the close reading of selected texts, students will closely explore structure, style and themes, rhetorical strategies, diction, figurative language, imagery, selection of detail, vocabulary and semantics and syntax.

An engaging option for students who have completed Chemistry and Biology, this two-semester course will provide advanced students with skills needed to understand interrelationships within the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems and to propose and examine solutions to these issues.

Designed to meet or exceed the experience of a college course, AP Human Geography examines the geographic processes and analyzes the spatial patterns evident in today’s world. Students enrolled in this comprehensive course will explore the factors that have shaped human interaction, use and alteration of the Earth’s surface while employing spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine social organization and its environmental consequences.

Providing a detailed overview of current psychological research methods and theories, students in this course will explore therapies and examine the reasons behind normal human reactions, such as how people learn and think, the process of human development, human aggression and self-reflection.