Students will learn to analyze the business behind the scenes of the movies they so often enjoy. They will develop a thorough understanding of the Hollywood studio system, the importance and implications of box-office performances, the five steps crucial to the filmmaking process, and how to schedule and budget a feature-length motion picture. Students will learn how the process is both similar and different to that of producing modern-day television. Students will also explore theater from a behind-the-scenes perspective. They will learn how an idea is transformed from a concept into a fully-realized Broadway show, with a thorough understanding of each step within the process. Students will not only learn the “language” and lingo of the entertainment business, they will also learn about various (yet specific) careers and jobs that might be of interest for them to pursue as future ambitions.

This course is recommended for students interested a business major in college. This course provides a student with an understanding of and experience in financial records and the effect of transactions upon a business using a double-entry accounting. It includes the complete accounting cycle and the preparation and analysis of financial statements. Students will complete problems both manually and with software applications (Microsoft Excel).

This course is for advanced theater students. Theater students will expand on improvisation and acting skills through comedic and dramatic selections; explore major playwrights and theatrical periods (Classical Greek –Twentieth Century American.) Students will also be able to explore advanced technical theater components, playwriting and directing. Students will attend a professional theatrical play. *Students will be required to perform or be on stage crew for school performance*

This course is designed to reinforce skills previously learned in Algebra I while continuing to cover more aspects of Algebra including matrices, solving simultaneous equations, and factoring/quadratic equations. The student will also be introduced to probability and some topics of Pre-Calculus, including the conic sections, exponential and logarithmic functions, and Trigonometry.

American Literature incorporates the reading and production of various types of writing, expanding the use of the five paragraph essay to include persuasive, interpretative, and informative modes. Against the backdrop of the American literary experience, students will assert their mastery of language mechanics, develop oral presentation skills, and complete a biographical research paper by engaging the writing process.

American Society at War is a Social Studies elective with a focus of major American wars and the impact on the country’s history, specifically the majority of the population away from the war. Within this course, students will be examining the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I and II, and Vietnam. Throughout the study of each conflict students will study the major battles of the war, the key figures of each conflict and tactics and technology that made the war what it was. Within each unit students will explore the effects of the war on the home front, specifically social changes to everyday life, whether the exposure to the news from the war, the changes to manufacturing, the concentration of war effort, or even the organized protests to conflicts.

This course provides the student with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of matter and energy. Some of the principles studied are force, momentum, energy and work, electricity, and thermodynamics. In addition, there is a strong emphasis on the scientific process as well as a laboratory component.

This introductory elective course will launch students into the multifaceted field of Anthropology and ask them to investigate subtopics from prehistoric archaeology to modern forensic anthropology. The course will be divided into four main subsections: cultural anthropology, biological/ physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. This course incorporates basic biology and physiology, history, geography, sociology, and evolution, in order to gain insights into the dynamics of the human condition.

This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year. AP Biology includes the topics regularly covered in a college biology course for majors, and the labs done by AP students are equivalent of those done by college students. The course is designed to be taken by students after the successful completion of a first course in high school biology and one in high school chemistry. It aims to provide students with the conceptual framework, factual knowledge, and analytical skills necessary to deal critically with the rapidly changing science of biology. The two main goals of AP Biology are to help students develop a conceptual framework for modern biology and to help students gain an appreciation of science as a process. Primary emphasis is on developing an understanding of concepts rather than on memorizing terms and technical details.