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📚 English Electives & Literature Guides
- 1984
- A Farewell to Arms
- AP® English Language and Composition Review Course
- AP® English Language and Composition—Semester A
- AP® English Language and Composition—Semester B
- AP® English Literature and Composition Review Course
- Advanced Creative Writing
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- African American Literature
- Animal Farm
- Argumentative Strategies
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Beowulf
- Brave New World
- Call of the Wild
- Catch-22
- Contemporary Literature
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Critical Thinking and Study Skills
- Dracula
- Dystopian Literature
- ELA 6: Once Upon a Genre—Semester A
- ELA 6: Once Upon a Genre—Semester B
- ELA 7: Around the World—Semester A
- ELA 7: Around the World—Semester B
- ELA 8: American Voices—Semester A
- ELA 8: American Voices—Semester B
- ELA 9: Introduction to Literature—Semester A
- ELA 9: Introduction to Literature—Semester B
- ELA 10: World Literature—Semester A
- ELA 10: World Literature—Semester B
- ELA 11: American Literature—Semester A
- ELA 11: American Literature—Semester B
- ELA 12: British Literature—Semester A
- ELA 12: British Literature—Semester B
- Frankenstein
- Grammar Rules I
- Grammar Rules II
- Grammar Rules III
- Great Expectations
- Hamlet
- Holocaust Literature
- How to Read Well
- How to Write a Great Speech
- Introduction to Shakespeare
- Jane Eyre
- Journalism—Semester A
- Macbeth
- Moby-Dick
- Night
- Number the Stars
- Of Mice and Men
- Pride and Prejudice
- Reading for College Success
- Romeo and Juliet
- Speak
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Crucible
- The Giver
- The Great Gatsby
- The Outsiders
- The Scarlet Letter
- Things Fall Apart
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Young Adult Literature
🌎 Foreign Language
❤️ Health, Physical Education & Counseling
🏛️ History & Social Science
- AP® Comparative Government and Politics
- AP® European History—Semester A
- AP® European History—Semester B
- AP® Macroeconomics
- AP® Psychology—Semester A
- AP® Psychology—Semester B
- AP® U.S. History—Semester A
- AP® U.S. History—Semester B
- African History
- Civics
- Early American History
- Economics
- Middle School History: Age of Empires—Semester A
- Middle School History: Age of Empires—Semester B
- Middle School History: Ancient Civilizations—Semester A
- Middle School History: Ancient Civilizations—Semester B
- Politics and the Media
- Psychology—Semester A
- Sociology
- The Federalist Papers
- U.S. History: 1492–1877—Semester A
- U.S. History: 1492–1877—Semester B
- U.S. History: 1877–Present—Semester A
- U.S. History: 1877–Present—Semester B
- World Geography—Semester A
- World Geography—Semester B
- World War I
- World War II
âž— Math
- Algebra I—Semester A
- Algebra I—Semester B
- Algebra II—Semester A
- Algebra II—Semester B
- Geometry—Semester A
- Geometry—Semester B
- Pre-Algebra I—Semester A
- Pre-Algebra I—Semester B
- Pre-Algebra II—Semester A
- Pre-Algebra II—Semester B
- Pre-Calculus—Semester A
- Pre-Calculus—Semester B
- Advanced Statistics—Semester A
- Advanced Statistics—Semester B
🔬 Science
- AP® Biology—Semester A
- AP® Biology—Semester B
- Astronomy
- Biology—Semester A
- Biology—Semester B
- Chemistry—Semester A
- Chemistry—Semester B
- High School Earth Science—Semester A
- High School Earth Science—Semester B
- High School Physical Science—Semester A
- High School Physical Science—Semester B
- Human Physiology
- Physics—Semester A
- Physics—Semester B
đź’» Technology & Computer Science
- Computer Basics
- Digital Literacy
- Foundations of Programming—Semester A
- Game Programming in Java
- How the Internet Works
- Introduction to HTML and CSS
- Introduction to Java
- Introduction to JavaScript
- Introduction to Microsoft Excel
- Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint
- Introduction to Microsoft Word
- Introduction to Photography
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Introduction to Python
- Media Literacy
📝 Test Preparation
✍️ Writing
- Advanced Creative Writing
- Argumentative Strategies
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Citing Sources
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Five-Paragraph Essay
- Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing
- Middle School-Ready Writing
- The Compare and Contrast Essay
- The Research Paper
- Writing for College Success
- Writing the College Application Essay