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HSVA - Hybrid

Synchronous & Asynchronous online classes 

Distance Learning

Meet once per week with single-subject credentialed teacher for support and direct instruction

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 Edmentum learning management system

all courses are a-g approved

A sections are offered in the Fall & B sections are offered in the Spring

English 9

Monday

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

California English 09 A/B is a completely re-designed course that offers 100% alignment to the California Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. A balance of fiction and nonfiction texts are used throughout the course, and each unit is designed around a thematic concept to provide cohesiveness to the skills-based lessons and activities that make up the unit. The course intertwines the development of reading skills with the development of writing, speaking and listening, and language skills. Students can look forward to a course where the information is delivered in easy-to-digest chunks using student-friendly language, with assessments that are tightly aligned to the concepts and skills learned in the lesson. The course design reflects educator feedback about student engagement by featuring a variety of interactions, videos, and new student resources, such as worksheets and guided notes. 

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Required Novels: To Kill a Mockingbird (9 A) & The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (9 B)

English 12

Thursday

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

California English 12 A/B is a completely re-designed course that offers 100% alignment to the California Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. In keeping with the model established in California English 11, these courses emphasize the study of literature in the context of specific historical periods, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods in Britain in semester A. Each lesson includes tutorials and embedded lesson activities that provide for a more engaging and effective learning experience. Semester B covers the romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. 

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Required Novels: Frankenstein (12 A) & Cry, the Beloved Country (12 B)

Algebra II

Monday 

1:30 - 2:30 pm

Students will learn about the complex number system and its use in the solutions to quadratic and higher-ordered, polynomial functions, in addition to furthering their knowledge of the real number system and solutions. They will expand their knowledge of functions to working with radical and rational functions. Students will learn about exponential functions and their inverses, logarithms. Students will continue the study of trigonometric functions begun in their geometry course, to include working with the unit circle and the modeling of periodic phenomena that commonly occur in nature and science. Students will prove and apply trigonometric identities. Other topics in Algebra 2 course will include sequences and series and the evaluation of data using Statistics and Probability.

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Pre-requisite: Algebra I

Co-requisite: Geometry

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Earth & Space Science

Wednesday

9:00 am - 10:00 am

This inquiry- and lab-based course is designed to support modern science curriculum and teaching practices. It robustly meets NGSS learning standards associated with high school Earth and space science. Content topics include scientific processes and methods, the universe, the Precambrian Earth, the Earth’s materials and tectonics, the hydrosphere and atmosphere, and human interactions with the Earth’s systems and resources.

Each lesson includes one or more inquiry-based activities that can be performed online within the context of the lesson. In addition, the course includes a significant number of hands-on lab activities. Approximately 40% of student time in this course is devoted to true lab experiences.

Physics 

Tuesday

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Physics introduces students to the physics of motion, properties of matter, force, heat, vector, light, and sound. Students learn the history of physics from the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to those of contemporary physicists. The course focuses more on explanation than calculation and prepares students for introductory quantitative physics at the college level. Additional areas of discussion include gases and liquids, atoms, electricity, magnetism, and nuclear physics.

 

Lab materials note: None of the virtual labs require specialized laboratory materials or tools. Some virtual labs do allow students to make use of common, household items—such as paper and a pencil—if they choose.

Government

Monday

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The interactive, problem-centered, and inquiry-based units in U.S. Government emphasize the acquisition, mastery, and processing of information. Semester A units include study of the foundations of American government and the American political culture, with units 2 and 3 covering the U.S. constitution, including its roots in Greek and English law, and the various institutions that impact American politics.

English
Math
Science
Social Science
Spanish
Electives
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