In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.

This course provides students the opportunity to study the beliefs of several of the world’s major religions. It is a lecture and discussionbased class in which students will regularly take notes and participate in class discussions. The class begins with a brief overview of Primal Belief Systems and Ancient Mythologies. Students then spend the rest of the semester learning about Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Bahai. The semester ends with students choosing a religion/philosophy to highlight in a final presentation.

Students in this class learn the art form of creating theatrical or cinematic scripts. Students explore how to write using story arch, character development, and dramatic action. Scripts will be performed for the class so the playwright can see how their written work will be adapted by directors and actors. Students will explore different genres and styles of creation for stage and screen. By applying different techniques, students will explore different genres and styles of creation for stage and screen.

This class allows for students to learn the art form of creating theatrical or cinematic scripts. Students explore how to write story arch, character development, and action. Scripts will be performed for the class so the playwright can see how their written work will be adapted by directors and actors. By applying different techniques. Students will explore different genres and styles of creation for stage and screen. There will be opportunities to partner with students in the video production class or to have scripts performed in the annual Dramafest.

Students will develop into physically literate individuals who have the knowledge, skills and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. In this one semester course, students will have opportunities to learn, improve and analyze their cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, physical skills and performance, social and personal responsibility, and the value of physical activity. Each learning opportunity will be through a variety of activities in fitness and individual and team sports, which may include: badminton, pickleball, basketball, volleyball, flag football, soccer, ultimate frisbee, lacrosse, team handball, and weightlifting. This level one course will provide students the foundation of physical literacy that students must attain to be college- or career-ready. This first level course will provide essential knowledge and skills that physically literate students must attain to be college- or career-ready.

Students will have a variety of opportunities to expand their physical literacy through recreational sports. In this course, students will improve their skills in physical activities, which may include: ultimate frisbee, golf, archery, pickle ball, tennis, table tennis, badminton, outdoor survival skills and bocce ball.

This year-long college-prep course is designed to help students understand the principles of life science with connections to Earth science. Students will use science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to investigate living systems at various scales. Specific topics include structure and function, growth and development of organisms, and matter and energy flow in organisms. Students will also explore cycles of matter and energy in ecosystems as well as ecosystem dynamics, functioning, and resilience and social interactions and group behavior. Students will investigate inheritance and variation of traits, evidence of common ancestry and diversity, natural selection, adaptation, biodiversity, Earth and human activity, and biogeology.

This year-long college-prep course is designed to help students understand the principles of chemistry in the context of Earth science phenomena. Students will use science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to investigate chemical processes within Earth systems. Specific topics include structure and properties of matter, chemical reactions, and chemical processes in everyday life. Students will also explore conservation of energy and energy transfer. Students will investigate the history of planet earth as well as earth materials and systems, including natural resources, natural hazards, the role of water in Earth’s surface processes, and climate.

This year-long college-prep course is designed to help students understand the physics, a fundamental science in our everyday lives, in the context of Earth and Space. Students will explore measurement, motion, forces, momentum, energy, electricity, and waves on Earth, in the solar system, and in the universe. Students will use science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to investigate physical processes within these macroscopic systems. Students in this course will develop proportional, trigonometric, and algebraic thinking while developing their problem-solving abilities.

AP Physics 1 is an algebra-based, introductory college-level physics course. Students cultivate their understanding of physics by developing models of physical phenomena through inquiry-based investigations. Students build their understanding of physical models as they explore and solve problems in these content areas: kinematics, forces and translational dynamics, work/energy/power, linear momentum, torque and rotational dynamics, energy and momentum of rotating systems, oscillations, and fluids.

AP Physics 2 is an algebra-based, introductory college-level physics course. Students cultivate their understanding of physics through inquiry-based investigations as they explore these topics: fluids; thermodynamics; electrical force, field, and potential; electric circuits; magnetism and electromagnetic induction; geometric and physical optics; and quantum, atomic, and nuclear physics.

This semester-long course explores the natural processes and phenomena that take place in the Earth’s atmosphere and how everyday changes in the atmosphere affect people and human societies. This course explores important topics in today’s world, both locally and globally, such as how climate has been affected by humans, global weather patterns, seasons, and some of the unique features that contribute to weather in the Pacific Northwest. Students will make observations, collect and analyze data, and synthesize information to understand weather, climate, and the global system.