Course Delivery: Enrolled Courses
Health and Wellness
New January 2024! This full-year course provides students with a solid understanding of health, wellness, and physical fitness. Students are encouraged to think critically about health-related topics, particularly those about which there is conflicting information in the media, and will practice evaluating the credibility of sources. Course topics include mental health, stress, anatomy, the systems
Continue readingUnited States History: Conflict and Compromise
New January 2024! This full-year course on United States history begins with a brief introduction to the Americas before 1492 and looks closely at the colonial era, imperial conflicts, and the early republic. The first semester continues with westward migration, Indian dispossession, slavery, industrialization, and the Civil War. The second semester looks at the world
Continue readingFundamentals of Physics
New January 2024! This full-year course is an in-depth exploration into introductory physics. In addition to textbook reading and questions, it includes analytical problem solving, research, and hands-on activities and labs. Lessons include math reviews so students are prepared to make the necessary calculations in each lesson. Many lessons include options for students to choose
Continue readingLatin American Literature: Borders & Identity
New January 2024! This course explores the history, geography, and stories of the people whose lives and identities have been influenced by borders. Students have the opportunity to hear voices that have often been marginalized and experience them via literature, film documentaries, podcasts, art, music, and other media. Students will examine borders of all types—physical,
Continue readingEconomics
New January 2024! This single-semester course introduces students to the fundamentals of economics. Economics is important because everyone participates in it every day, and it affects our decisions, large and small. Because economics is a human science, its terms and ideas are tied up with the people who invented them, and so the study of
Continue readingWorld Literature: Africa and Beyond
This course will explore the experience of being at home in the world as well as the experience of losing one’s place. Each of the novels in this course is a unique coming-of-age story set in Africa and beyond. The themes of home, exile, and refuge are woven throughout, and each work of fiction is
Continue readingAmerican Literature: Social Transformations
American culture has undergone countless social transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, new social transformations are underway. In this course, students will study how American literature reflects and contributes to social transformations. Presenting a diverse set of voices, the course centers on the intersection of literature, history, and current events. Students read a
Continue readingGlobal Climate Change in the 21st Century
In this single-semester science course, students are carefully guided through the complex information and systems related to global climate change. They learn to consider multiple ways of knowing that include scientific, data-driven knowledge as well as Traditional Ecological Knowledge that is based on a long-term and profound understanding of the land and surrounding ecosystems. Students
Continue readingAlgebra II (for enrolled students)
In this high school Algebra 2 course, students will expand on the algebraic content introduced in Algebra 1 and develop more complex knowledge and skills. They will practice skills using self-corrected exercise sets in preparation for chapter tests that gauge their grasp of the material. Lessons include exploratory activities to help students connect with their
Continue readingGeometry (for enrolled students)
In this high school Geometry course, students will become familiar with geometric concepts, constructs, and skills. They will practice skills using self-corrected exercise sets in preparation for chapter tests that gauge their grasp of the material. Lessons include exploratory activities to help students connect with their prior knowledge and explore topics in novel ways. Activities
Continue reading