Learn and hone techniques for close reading, writing, textual citation, formal and informal speaking, and analysis of text using a variety of selections, both literary and informational, classic and contemporary, representing diverse cultures and viewpoints.

Coursework: Accelerated. Taken with Humanities: Modern World History 9. The humanities approach looks at the sum total of significant ideas and achievements of human kind. Study major world events and movements from the 1700s-present, integrating the study of the seven aspects of culture: History, Literature, Philosophy, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance.

Engage in close reading, writing, textual citation, formal and informal speaking, and analysis of literacy and informational texts from various world cultures, including that of the Americas.

Coursework: Advanced. The humanities approach looks at the sum total of significant ideas and achievements of humankind. Examine the history, literature, and culture of the United States from 1877-present, integrating the study of seven aspects of culture: History, Literature, Philosophy, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance.

Students will analyze a broad range of literary and informational texts that encompass the historical and cultural development of American literature from Native American and Colonial times to the Contemporary period.

GPA: Weighted. Analyze complex texts written in a variety of contexts and push your writing beyond programmatic responses to compose prose with richness and complexity for mature readers. Enhance critical thinking, communication, and composition skills by experimenting with purpose, mode, and stylistic devices in their own writing.

Students experience literary and selections from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, while highlighting British authors and poets, in their historical, social, philosophical, biographical, and canonical contexts. Become more aware of the relationship of the individual to humanity and literature as a reflection of culture.

GPA: Weighted. Engage in critical analysis of imaginative literature, particularly those of recognized literary merit from diverse selections. Use close reading, critical questioning, thoughtful discussion, and analytical writing to deepen your understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for readers.

Study the relationships between quantities, reasoning with equations, linear and exponential relationships, descriptive statistics and quadratic functions and modeling. Create and solve equations, linear inequalities, and systems of equations involving quadratic equations while using technology such as Desmos to aid in solving problems.

Use the languages of set theory to expand your ability to compute and interpret theoretical and experimental probabilities for compound events, attending to mutually exclusive events, independent events, and conditional probability. Use triangle congruence as a familiar foundation for the development of formal and informal proof. Prove theorems - using a variety of formats - and apply them when solving problems about triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons. Apply geometric concepts to solve real-world, design and modeling problems.

Represent and analyze mathematical situations and properties using patterns, relations, functions, and algebraic symbols; analyze and apply various methods to model, graph and solve linear and absolute value equations and inequalities. Use algebraic, graphical, and numerical methods to analyze, compare, translate, and solve quadratic equations with real or imaginary roots. Use algebraic, graphical, and numerical methods to analyze, compare, translate, and solve polynomial and rational equations. Graph exponential functions and relate them to logarithms. Solve real-world problems using exponential functions. Evaluate and interpret data. Make predictions based on data and apply basic understanding of probability to solve real-world problems.

Students will be provided with experiences to use the knowledge acquired in previous math courses to continue studies in mathematical proficiency, problem solving, statistical proficiency, and quantitative literacy through appropriate technologies and real life contexts.