Intro to Lit & Comp concentrates on critical reading of texts from different genres, reflecting themes of identity and self-discovery and focuses on clear and purposeful writing.

World Lit & Comp is a yearlong course where students read international texts. The course concentrates on critically reading how the human experience is expressed in literature from around the world.

American Lit & Comp is a yearlong course that concentrates on critically reading about the American experience with an emphasis on increased sophistication through reading, writing, and speaking.

11th grade option Yearlong course, 0.5 credits per semester (AP Eng Lang Comp 1 & 2) No prerequisites. Students are recommended to read a nonfiction book or memoir during the summer as well as take the AP Language Exam in the spring. This course engages students in becoming skilled reader and writers of prose. Students writing and reading should focus on the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects.

This College in the High School freshman English course is designed to develop students’ college readiness skills by providing students with more in-depth opportunities to acquire and strengthen the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills needed to be successful by college-readiness standards. Students will demonstrate their ability to apply pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading strategies to complex college texts. They will also employ a variety of writing strategies to demonstrate their ability to use the process of writing to develop a coherent, clear, well-supported composition that has been drafted several times before submission. Students may earn college credit through North Seattle College after successfully completing this course.

12th grade core option Yearlong course, 0.5 credits per semester (AP Eng Lit Comp 1 & 2) No prerequisites. Students are recommended to read a novel, either classic or contemporary, during the summer as well as take the AP Literature Exam in the spring. Through close reading, students deepen their understanding of a writer’s use of language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. Students will examine a work’s structure, style, themes, language, imagery, and tone.

Students model and analyze real-world and mathematical situations with linear and exponential functions. In the second semester, students model using exponential/quadratic inequalities and functions. They also interpret categorical/quantitative data.

In this yearlong course, students formalize their understanding of angle relationships and triangle properties, use geometric transformations and formal constructions to study congruence and similarity, and develop formal proofs of angle and triangle properties and relationships using precise language and notation. In the second semester, they establish properties of right triangles (including trigonometric ratios), quadrilaterals, and circles, and use these properties to write formal proofs and solve real-world and mathematical problems. Students further develop probability concepts, focusing on conditional probability, independence, and compound events.

Students model and analyze real-world and mathematical situations using polynomial, radical, exponential, logarithmic, functions, and equations. In the second semester, students model and analyze situations using rational and trigonometric functions and equations. Students use statistical techniques to evaluate linear models for bivariate data and normal models for single variable quantitative data.

This research-based exploration of functions is designed to better prepare students for college-level calculus and provide grounding for other mathematics and science courses. In this course, students study a broad spectrum of function types that are foundational for careers in mathematics, physics, biology, health science, social science, and data science. Furthermore, as AP Precalculus may be the last mathematics course of a student’s secondary education, the course is structured to provide a coherent capstone experience and is not exclusively focused on preparation for future courses

AP Precalculus A is the equivalent to the first half of a one-semester college precalculus course and prepares students for the AP exam in May. This course centers on functions modeling dynamic phenomena.

This second semester focuses on trigonometric and polar functions as well as functions involving parameters, vectors, and matrices.