Course Descriptions
Our
mission is to provide a challenging and innovative science/mathematics academic curriculum based on the development of critical
thinking skills and project-based learning in all subject areas. Our middle school students are required to complete
several high school level classes and enter the 9th grade with a minimum of one Science Regents credit. Our students
are provided with a unique opportunity to participate in internships at well-renowned hospitals/institutions. Our educational
commitment to every student is to prepare them for successful careers and fulfill their dreams.
English
6th Grade English
7th Grade English
8th Grade English
9th Grade English
10th Grade English
11th Grade English
12th Grade English
AP English Literature and Composition
The AP English
Literature and Composition course is designed to engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative
literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students can deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language
to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students should consider a work's structure, style,
and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.
Creative Writing
Literacy
Foreign Language
French
Spanish
AP Spanish Language
An AP Spanish Language course
is comparable to an advanced level (5th- and 6th-semester or the equivalent) college Spanish language course. Emphasizing
the use of Spanish for active communication, it encompasses aural/oral skills, reading comprehension, grammar, and composition.
AP Spanish Literature
An AP Spanish Literature course is comparable to a third-year college
introduction to Hispanic literature course. It is based on a required reading list. The works on the list are of literary
significance and represent various historical periods, literary movements, genres, geographic areas, and population groups
within the Spanish-speaking world. The objective of the course is to help you interpret and analyze literature in Spanish.
Latin
ESL
Mathematics
6th Grade Math
This two-semester course is designed to help students develop mathematical skills and number sense, as well as
introduce them to basic geometry. Topics include properties of operations, performing operations on numbers (including
fractions), ratio and proportion, using percentages, basic geometry (including perimeter, area, volume, units of measure,
and coordinate geometry), statistics, and probability. Topics are reenforced through verbal problems and problem
solving.
7th Grade Math
This two-semester
course is designed to give students a strong foundation in basic algebra and geometry. Topics include number operations
and patterns, simplifying algebraic expressions, solving equations, analyzing statistical data and constructing graphs, determining
probability, using percentages, solving inequalities, basic geometry, and exploring linear equations. Topics are reenforced
through verbal problems and problem solving.
8th Grade Math
This
two-semester course is designed to prepare students for high school algebra and geometry. Topics include operations
on numbers, simplifying algebraic expressions (including multiplying and dividing polynomials, and factoring), solving equations
and inequalities, geometry (including indentifying angle pair relationships, transformations, and graphing linear and quadratic
equations). Topics are reenforced through verbal problems and problem solving.
Math A
This three-semester course covers number operations,
dimensional analysis, solving equations, simplifying algebraic expressions, angle measure, transformations, ratio and proportion,
probability, statistics, graphing linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, algebraic fractions, radicals, basic trigonometry,
locus, and constructions. Students must take and pass the Math A Regents examination at the conclusion of the course as
a requirement for the Regents Diploma.
Math B
This
three-semester course covers geometric and coordinate proofs, rational expressions, fractional equations, absolute-value equations
and inequalities, radicals, geometry of the circle, functions, transformations, trigonometric applications, trigonometric
equations and identities, exponential and logarithmic functions, complex numbers, statistics, and probability.
Students take the Math B Regents Examination at the conclusion of the course as a requirement for the Advanced Regents Diploma.
Precalculus
This two-semester course is
designed to prepare students to take college-level Calculus and the SAT Mathematics Level II Exam. Topics
include functions and their graphs (including polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions), trigonometry
(including graphs, identities, and vectors), systems of equations, matrices, sequences, series, probability, and analytic
geometry (including conic sections and polar coordinates).
AP Calculus AB
This two-semester college-level Calculus course ends with the AP Calculus AB exam in May.
Topics include analysis of graphs, limits, asymptotic and unbounded behavior, continuity, derivatives, and integrals.
Technology
Science
Earth Science
Living Environment
AP Biology
This course is designed to be
the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year. Some AP students,
as college freshmen, are permitted to undertake upper-level courses in biology or to register for courses for which biology
is a prerequisite. Other students may have fulfilled a basic requirement for a laboratory science course and will be able
to undertake other courses to pursue their majors.
Chemistry
AP Chemistry
This
course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first college year. For some
students, this course enables them to undertake, as freshmen, second-year work in the chemistry sequence at their institution
or to register for courses in other fields where general chemistry is a prerequisite. For other students, the AP Chemistry
course fulfills the laboratory science requirement and frees time for other courses.
Physics
Biomedical
Technology
Social
Studies
Global History
AP World History
The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes
and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination
of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.
U.S. History
Government
Economics
AP Macroeconomics
An AP course in Macroeconomics is designed to give you a thorough
understanding of the principles of economics that apply to an economic system as a whole. Such a course places particular
emphasis on the study of national income and price determination, and also develops your familiarity with economic performance
measures, economic growth, and international economics.
Political Science
Debate
Performing Arts
Band
Chorus
Dance
Music Production
Physical Education
Physical Education
Health
