SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL COURSE CATALOG 2021-2022
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SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
COURSE CATALOG
2021-2022DANCE Art Foundations 2
HEALTHY LIFESTYLES Semester – 2105
Styles of Dance Grade: 9
Semester – 1041 Lab Fee: $15.00
Health Education Grades: 7, 8, 9 Prerequisite: Successful completion of Art
Semester – 1000 Foundations 1
The intent of this course is to give students an
Grade: 8 – Required awareness and reverence for the physical This class introduces the skill of printmaking,
Students will develop skills needed to improve watercolor, and acrylic painting. Printmaking
body and its athletic and expressive
their quality of life. They will study problem capabilities. Students will experience these teaches how to make fine art prints using
solving and coping skills; stages of growth and elements through the study of various styles studio processes such as relief, collagraph and
development and maturation; positive healthy of dance (Polynesian dance, line dancing, and intaglio. This class will also teach painting skills
lifestyles; high risk lifestyles; disease social dance). using water media. With an emphasis on studio
prevention; sex respect values; emergency production, this course is designed to develop
procedures and first aid care. higher-level thinking and the development and
understanding of how to critique and analyses
PE 7 current and historical pieces of art.
Semester – 1020 FINE ARTS
Grade: 7 Painting/Printmaking (ADV Art Found 2)
Students learn to develop positive attitudes Semester – 2106
regarding physical activity and healthy Visual Arts Grade: 9
lifestyles. They will improve flexibility, Lab Fee: $20.00
strength, agility, balance, speed and Art Foundations 1 Prerequisite: Successful completion of Art
endurance. They will develop skills in Semester – 2101 Foundations 1 AND 2D Art
volleyball, basketball, soccer, flag football, and Grades: 7, 8, 9 This class in an introduction to painting with
other team sports. Lab Fee: $10.00 watercolors and acrylics and beginning skills in
This class is designed as an introduction to the printmaking. Painting includes wet media with
PE 8 Visual Arts with an emphasis on the different the process such as transparent and opaque
Semester – 1021 methods of drawing. Other topics include painting with some focus on color. The
Grade: 8 shading, color theory, and art history. This class printmaking part of this class teaches how to
Students learn to develop positive attitudes is a prerequisite to the next level of art classes make fine art prints using the studio process of
regarding physical activity and healthy at the junior high level. Students must pass relief, etching, stencil and mono printing. This
lifestyles. They will improve flexibility, two consecutive terms of Art Foundations 1 course encourages students to create and
strength, agility, balance, speed and for “successful completion,” allowing learn about composition and the steps to
endurance. They will continue to develop skills advancement to the next-level art classes. completing a work of fine art.
in volleyball, basketball, soccer, flag football,
and other team sports. 2D Art Ceramics
Semester – 2102 Semester – 2112
PE 9
Grade: 8 Grade: 9
Semester – 1022
Grade: 9 Lab Fee: $15.00 Lab Fee: $20.00
Students will develop skills and techniques in a Prerequisite: Successful completion of Art Prerequisite: Successful completion of Art
variety of sports, games and fitness activities Foundations 1 Foundations 2 OR 2D Art OR 3D Art
with an emphasis on individual sports. This class continues the development of skills This class is an introduction to basic ceramic
Emphasis is also placed on leadership, and concepts introduced in Art Foundations 1. art. This studio course teaches students how to
courtesy, respect, sportsmanship, and physical The different drawing methods will continue to build pottery using the pinch, slab, and coil
fitness. be emphasized (freehand, mechanical, grids, techniques. All ware will be kiln-fired and
imagination, and still-life), with an introduction glazed. This course will challenge student’s
Yoga to painting, including watercolor and acrylics. imaginations as well as their ability to create
Semester – 1040 functioning and aesthetically pleasing works.
Grades: 8, 9 3D Art
This course will introduce the basic postures, 3D Design
Semester – 2104
stretches, breathing techniques, and Semester – 2118
Grade: 8
relaxation methods of yoga. Yoga seeks to Grade: 9
Lab Fee: $15.00
improve mental health through activities such Lab Fee: $15.00
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Art
as meditation, progressive relaxation and Prerequisite: Successful completion of Art
Foundations 1
other stress management activities. Foundations 1
This class introduces the skills and
craftsmanship of creating three-dimensional This class introduces the skills and
Fitness – Zumba/Kickboxing craftsmanship of creating three-dimensional
works of art. A variety of media is introduced
Semester – 1040 including optic art, the use of mixed media works of art. A variety of media will be used
Grades: 7, 8, 9 including paper, cardboard, wood, linoleum,
such as cardboard, wood, nylon, lino-cut relief
This class utilizes fun exercise programs to wire, paper-mache, as well as other mixed
printing, wire and paper-mache sculpture, as
increase fitness. Zumba uses easy steps and media possibilities. The primary focus of this
well as other mixed media constructions. The
high energy Latin and international music. class will be to encourage students to create
primary focus of this class will be to encourage
Kickboxing is a non-contact, martial arts-based works of art in a three-dimensional format.
students to see the possibilities for creating
aerobic workout. Other aerobic workouts may
works of art other than using paper and pencil.
be introduced.Commercial Art 1 Beginning Band – Percussion Band Level 3 – Percussion
Semester – 2123 Full Year – 2206 Full Year – 2224
Grade: 9 Grade: 7 Grade: 9
Lab Fee: $15.00 Fee: $65 Instrument Use Audition Only
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Art Beginning instruction on percussion Prerequisite: Successful completion of
Foundations 2 OR 2D Art instruments, including bells, snare drum, and Intermediate Percussion
This class is designed for those who are timpani. Space in percussion class is very Fee: $95 Instrument Use
interested and enthusiastic about art, limited. Two or more years of piano All percussionists who have successfully
including those who are considering a career in background are recommended. Preference is completed the Intermediate Band/ Percussion
the Visual Arts. Projects will be given in the given to students who complete a percussion class should register for this course. Continuing
areas of drawing, painting, and illustration with instruction on drums, mallets, timpani,
pretest and return registration materials
the purpose of developing skills for use in a auxiliary percussion, Latin percussion, drum set
promptly. Students provide their own
and percussion ensemble music. Students pay
career in art. Students will able to use pencil, percussion kit, and book, and pay a $65 District a $95 district use fee to use school
colored pencil, ink, drawing, colored chalk and Instrument use fee to use school percussion instruments.
pastels, watercolor, acrylic, and oil paint. instruments. 150 minutes of home practice is
required each week. This fun band performs at Band Level 3 – Jazz
MUSIC 3 or 4 concerts per year. Additional Full Year – 2225
information will be sent to those who register. Grades: 8, 9
Music Exploration Prerequisite: By Audition Only
Semester – 2316 Band Level 2 – Concert Focused, accelerated instruction in jazz styles
Grade: 7 Full Year – 2210 and improvisation. Open by audition only to
Lab fee: $3.00 Grades: 8, 9 students playing saxophone (doubling clarinet
This class is an introduction to music, including Eligibility: Teacher Approval or flute), trombone, trumpet, bass, piano, and
history, vocabulary, musical styles, and basic Intermediate instruction on band instruments, percussion. Guitarists are sometimes added
notation/music literacy. We will sing every day, including saxophone, with emphasis on but must play and read music at an
and play instruments (recorders), but only in a independent musicianship and music theory. intermediate level. Students must be
limited way – this is not a performing group. This band performs at school concerts and concurrently enrolled in another large music
assemblies and at district festival. ensemble, preferably Symphonic Band. Jazz
BAND Band meets daily at 7:00 am, and is a “for-
Band Level 2 – Percussion credit” class with an Honors approach.
Beginning Band -- Brass Full Year – 2213 Students learn to compose & improvise music.
Full Year – 2204 Grades: 8, 9 This band performs at school concerts and
Grades: 7, 8, 9 Eligibility: Teacher Approval assemblies, in the community, and at district
Beginning instruction on trumpet, French horn, Fee: $95 Instrument Use and state festivals.
trombone, baritone, and tuba. No experience All percussionists who have successfully
required. Students provide their own completed the Beginning Band/Percussion
class should register for this course. Continuing
CHOIR
instrument and music book; some instruments
are available for rental from the district instruction on drums, mallets, timpani,
auxiliary percussion, drum set, and percussion Choir 1 – Men’s Choir (Tenor/Bass)
($95/year); please reserve an instrument with Semester – 2305
Mr. Poulter before paying. 125 minutes of ensemble music. Students pay a $95 district
use fee to use school instruments Grades: 7, 8, 9 (Boys)
home practice is required each week. This fun Lab Fee: $15.00
band performs at 3 or 4 concerts per year. Focusing on beginning basics for music literacy
Additional information will be sent to those Band Level 3 – Symphonic
Full Year – 2220 and singing techniques, men’s choir is a great
who register. way to get started in the Syracuse Jr. High
Grades: 8, 9
Eligibility: Successful completion of music program. Students will learn proper
Beginning Band – Woodwinds performance posture, rhythmic and melodic
Full Year – 2205 Intermediate Band, or by audition
Advanced instruction on band instruments literacy, intonation, sight-reading basics, and
Grades: 7, 8, 9 technical vocal phonation. Students will
Beginning instruction on flute, oboe, bassoon, with emphasis on interdependent
musicianship and composition. This course participate in singing a variety of choral music
and clarinet. (Students who complete this class every class day. This is a great class for students
may audition to play saxophone and bass satisfies Fine Arts requirements for high school
graduation. This band performs at school of any grade to start building their musical
clarinet during their second year of band.) No vocabulary and understanding.
experience required. Students provide their concerts and assemblies, in the community,
own instrument and music book; some and at district and state festivals. This band
composes the soundtrack for a silent film. Choir 1 – Women’s Choir (Soprano/Alto)
instruments are available for rental from the Semester – 2304 (Girls)
district ($95/year); please reserve an Grades: 7, 8, 9
instrument with Mr. Poulter before paying. 125 Lab Fee: $15.00
minutes of home practice is required each Focusing on beginning basics for music literacy
week. This fun band performs at 3 or 4 concerts and singing techniques, women’s choir is a
per year. Additional information will be sent to great way to get started in the Syracuse Jr. High
those who register. music program. Students will learn proper
performance posture, rhythmic and melodic
3literacy, intonation, sight-reading basics, and ORCHESTRA THEATRE
technical vocal phonation. Students will
participate in singing a variety of choral music Orchestra 1 Theatre 1
every class day. This is a great class for students Full Year – 2405 Semester – 2502
of any grade to start building their musical Grades: 7, 8 Grades: 7, 8, 9
vocabulary and understanding. This class is a continuation of material learned This course will introduce skills in performance
in 6th grade beginning orchestra (includes and the study of drama. Students will also read,
Choir 2 – Singers violin, viola, cello, and bass). Exceptions may view, and analyze theatrical works. Each
Semester or Full Year – 2307 be arranged with the teacher on an individual student MUST perform throughout the
Grades: 8, 9 basis if the student did not participate in semester. Topics include: movement, voice,
Lab Fee: $15.00 elementary orchestra. Students provide their script writing, script analysis, characterization,
Prerequisite: Choir Level 1 OR choir teacher own instrument and Essential Elements Book storytelling, and basic acting skills. This is an
approval 2. A few cellos and basses are available for rent introductory acting course.
Students will focus on musicianship and from the district on a first come first serve
performance techniques. Students will build basis. This orchestra class performs three times Theatre 2
on skills developed in Choir Level 1, exploring throughout the school year. Semester – 2503
more complex music ideas such as scales, Grades: 8, 9
triads, and arpeggios. Students will participate Orchestra 2A Prerequisite: Theatre 1
in singing a variety of choral music every class Full Year – 2407 This course will continue to introduce skills in
day. This course can be taken for a full year or Grade: 8 performance and the study of drama by
one semester. Prerequisite: Orchestra 1, or two years expanding upon skills learned in Theatre
playing experience 1. Students will also read, view, and analyze
Choir 3 – Belle Voix This class emphasizes rhythm, intonation, and theatrical works. Topics include: movement,
Full Year – 2310 broadening technique for the intermediate script writing, dramatic structure and
Grades: 8, 9 (Girls) violin, viola, cello, or string bass student. At elements, theatre history, Shakespeare and
Audition Only least two years of previous orchestra classical acting, script analysis, one-act plays,
Uniform Fee: $75.00 experience is encouraged. Students provide and improvisation. There is not an outside class
As an elite group of women, Belle Voix will their own instrument and Essential Technique performance, but students may produce a one-
perform to the highest standard in choral Book 3. A few cellos and basses are available act play at the end of the semester. All work is
music. Students will not only sing every class for rent from the district on a first come first done in class, so attendance is critical.
period, but will also continue their education in serve basis. This orchestra performs at school
concerts, assemblies, and in district/state Musical Theatre
music literacy, history, and sight-reading skills.
festivals Semester – 2508
They will learn advanced vocal skills to prepare
them to compete in Solo/Ensemble Festival in Grades: 8, 9
Orchestra 2B Lab Fee: $30.00
the spring. Students will be responsible for Full Year – 2408 This class is designed to orient the student in
purchasing a choir uniform at the beginning of Grade: 9 all aspects of theatre production with an
the school year. Prerequisite: Orchestra 2, or three years emphasis on performance. Students will learn
playing experience the skills of performance as well as production.
Choir 3 – Concert Choir This advanced class is for students that have This class will produce and perform in a school
Full Year – 2310 had at least three years of orchestral playing musical outside of class time. Students will
Grades: 8, 9 experience. Independent musicianship, music audition for roles as part of the class.
Audition Only theory, vocabulary, posture and personal Rehearsals will also be held outside of class,
Uniform Fee: $75.00 growth are emphasized in preparation for high and the student will be required to attend.
As a mixed choir of men and women, students school orchestra. Students provide their own
in this course will perform to the highest instrument and Essential Technique Book 3. A Stage Craft
standard in choral music. Students will not only few cellos and basses are available for rent Semester – 2514
sing every class period, but will also continue from the district on a first come first serve Grades: 8, 9
their education in music literacy, history, and basis. This orchestra performs at school This class will offer classroom instruction as
sight-reading skills. They will learn advanced concerts, assemblies, and in district/state well as hands-on experience in all aspects of
vocal skills to prepare them to compete in festivals. theatre production. Students will learn the
Solo/Ensemble Festival, as well as District Choir basics of set design and construction, costume
Festival in the spring. Students will be design and construction, stage lighting, and
responsible for purchasing a choir uniform at sound. In addition, they will learn about and
the beginning of the school year. ultimately be responsible for proper
maintenance of all backstage work and storage
spaces. These students will serve as “crew” for
school plays and musicals and will also be
available to assist with assemblies and other
school programs.
4Spanish 4 DLI Honors Chinese 3
WORLD LANGUAGES Full Year – 3142 Full Year – 3330
Grade: 8 Grade: 9
Spanish 1 Prerequisite: Spanish 3 DLI Honors and Prerequisite: Chinese 2
Full Year – 3110 heritage speakers This course gives students the opportunity to
Grades: 7, 8, 9 This course continues the development of magnify their communication skills in Chinese
This rigorous introductory course in Spanish speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. by reviewing past material and adding new
emphasizes listening, reading, speaking, and Narratives and dialogues are used to teach vocabulary. Students will also be exposed to
writing. Students will learn how to structure and vocabulary. Culture and more Chinese culture. It emphasizes listening
communicate basic information in Spanish. geography of the native country are taught comprehension, speaking complete sentences,
Hispanic culture is also taught. Students must through reading selections. Students must reading Chinese characters, and writing stories
achieve a novice-mid proficiency level to achieve an intermediate-high proficiency level. in pinyin.
continue to level 2. It is strongly recommended
that students are at grade level in English Spanish 5 DLI Honors Chinese 3 DLI Honors
Language Arts reading and writing. Full Year – 3152 Full Year – 3332
Grade: 9 Grade: 7
Spanish 2 Prerequisite: Spanish 4 DLI Honors and Prerequisite: Immersion Students and/or a
Full Year – 3120 heritage speakers score of I1 on AAPPL test.
Grades: 8, 9 This course not only continues the This course continues the development of
Prerequisite: Spanish 1 development of speaking, listening, reading, speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
This course gives students the opportunity to and writing skills but also culture, history, and Narratives and dialogues are used to teach
magnify their communication skills in Spanish. geography of Spanish speaking countries are structure and vocabulary. Culture and
Reading outside of class is required. Continued taught through reading selections. It leads to geography of the native country are taught
emphasis will be given to listening, reading, the Spanish AP Language & Culture Course and through reading selections.
speaking, and writing. Students will also be test.
exposed to more Hispanic culture. Students Chinese 4 DLI Honors
must achieve a novice-high proficiency level to DLI Spanish Culture & Media Full Year – 3342
continue to level 3. Grades: 7, 8 Grade: 8
Semester – 3135 Prerequisite: Chinese 3 DLI Honors
Spanish 3 Prerequisite: Spanish DLI students only This course continues the development of
Full Year – 3182 The Culture & Media course builds skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
Grade: 9 cultural-linguistic competencies necessary for Narratives and dialogues are used to teach
Prerequisite: Spanish 2 successful communication with native structure and vocabulary. Culture and
This course is an opportunity for students to speakers. Students utilize media and authentic geography of the native country are taught
increase their confidence in communicating texts to learn about the diverse cultural through reading selections.
information and expressing ideas in Spanish. products, practices, and perspectives of
Students will also broaden their understanding countries. The topics and tasks for the 7th and Chinese 5 DLI Honors
of grammar concepts and culture. Continued 8th grade years, along with careful support for Full Year – 3352
emphasis will be given to listening, reading, students to reach proficiency targets, lead Grade: 9
speaking, and writing. Reading, speaking and intentionally to the Spanish AP Language & Prerequisite: Chinese 4 DLI Honors
listening practice outside of class time is Culture course content. This course not only continues the
required. Students must achieve an development of speaking, listening, reading,
intermediate-low proficiency level to continue Chinese 1 and writing skills but also culture, history and
to level 4. Full Year – 3310 geography of the native country are taught
Grades: 7, 8, 9 through reading selections. It leads to the
Spanish 3 DLI Honors This is an introductory course in Chinese Chinese AP Language & Culture Course and
Full Year – 3132 emphasizing listening comprehension, reading test.
Grade: 7 and writing in pinyin, and speaking. Students
Prerequisite: 6th Grade Spanish DLI and will learn how to communicate basic DLI Chinese Culture & Media
heritage speakers information in Chinese. Chinese culture is also Grades: 7, 8
This course continues the development of taught. Semester – 3335
speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Prerequisite: Chinese DLI students only
Narratives and dialogues are used to teach Chinese 2 The Culture & Media course builds skills in
structure and vocabulary. Culture and Full Year – 3320 cultural-linguistic competencies necessary for
geography of the native country are taught Grades: 8, 9 successful communication with native
through reading selections. Students must Prerequisite: Chinese 1 speakers. Students utilize media and authentic
achieve an intermediate-mid proficiency level. This course gives students the opportunity to texts to learn about the diverse cultural
magnify their communication skills in Chinese products, practices, and perspectives of
by reviewing past material and adding new countries. The topics and tasks for the 7th and
vocabulary. Students will also be exposed to 8th grade years, along with careful support for
more Chinese culture. It emphasizes listening students to reach proficiency targets, lead
comprehension, speaking complete sentences, intentionally to the Chinese AP Language &
and reading and writing in pinyin. Culture course content.
5English 9 Literature Survey
LANGUAGE ARTS Full Year – 4055 Semester – 4154
Grade: 9 Grades: 7, 8, 9
This class continues the development of skills This course is designed for students who love
English 7 in reading, writing, speaking, vocabulary, and to read about new places, people, and events.
Full Year – 4000 listening. Students study a variety of literature, This is an opportunity to travel through time to
Grade: 7 including Shakespeare and Homer. There will explore fascinating places, learn how people
The main emphasis is on reading and writing, be much reading expected both in and outside are solving problems and saving lives, and to
both nonfiction and fiction. The class also of class. Students will also improve their library meet some of the people who have helped to
includes grammar, spelling, plays, and public
and research skills as a major research project shape the way we live today. This class is
speaking. Students read short stories, will be required. designed for students who want to dig deep
biographies, and novels in class and out of
into topics that interest them. Students will
class. English 9 Honors experience reading through many perspectives
Full Year – 4060 and opportunities.
English 7 Honors Grade: 9
Full Year – 4005 The main emphasis is on reading and writing,
Grade: 7 both nonfiction and fiction. This course
Honors courses are designed for college prep continues the development of skills in reading,
or pre-AP classes students may take during
writing, speaking, and listening. Writing is SOCIAL STUDIES
their high school years. The main emphasis is emphasized while improving vocabulary and
on reading and writing, both nonfiction and
research skills. The culmination of the course is Utah Studies
fiction. The class also includes grammar, the development and writing of a research Semester – 4500
spelling, plays, and public speaking. Students in paper, using appropriate structure, grammar, Grade: 7
an honors course can expect increased reading citations, and form. Students in an honors The introductory course for social studies in
and more complex texts, less review and course can expect increased reading and more Davis School District. Curricular content
practice, and a higher work completion complex texts, less review and practice, and a consists of key themes and concepts drawn
expectation. If students do not enjoy reading higher work completion expectation. If from the social sciences of geography, history,
or are below grade level, they can expect to students do not enjoy reading or are below economics, and government. Each of the
struggle in honors English. grade level, they can expect to struggle in concepts is explored using Utah-specific
honors English. examples. Literacy, historical thinking, and
English 8
spatial skills are developed through the study
Full Year – 4030 Reading 180 of the concepts in the abstract and real-world
Grade: 8 Semester or Full Year – 4225 Utah examples. The course focuses on the
This class continues to build skills in reading, Grades: 7, 8 reading of both informational text and
writing, speaking and listening. Students work This is a reading class to help students improve authentic, or primary source, material.
with various types of literature including short their comprehension and other reading skills.
stories, plays, and novels. They learn sentence Students spend time working in a computer Utah Studies Honors
and paragraph development, including program that adapts to their individual reading Semester – 4504
grammar, spelling, capitalization and
levels. They explore and read about topics of Grade: 7
punctuation. Students also learn the interest, have access to a wide range of books, The introductory course for social studies in
composing process of prewriting, drafting, eBooks, eReads, short articles, work within Davis School District. Curricular content
revising and editing. small groups, and receive individual help as consists of key themes and concepts drawn
needed. Some students may be pre-selected from the social sciences of geography, history,
English 8 Honors for this class. This class is highly recommended economics, and government. Each of the
Full Year – 4035 for a student with a Lexile reading score of 800 concepts is explored using Utah-specific
Grade: 8 and below. This class is also available for 7th examples. Literacy, historical thinking, and
Honors courses are designed for college prep grade students who read below their grade spatial skills are developed through the study
or pre-AP classes students may take during
level with a Lexile reading score of 970 and of the concepts in the abstract and real-world
their high school years. The main emphasis is below, and for 8th grade students who read Utah examples. The course focuses on the
on reading and writing, both nonfiction and
below their grade level with a Lexile reading reading of both informational text and
fiction. This course continues to build skills in score of 1010 and below. authentic, or primary source, material.
reading, writing, speaking, listening, and the
National and global context are additional
analysis of various types of literature while Creative Writing levels of application of the coursework.
reviewing the basics of sentence and Semester – 4335 Current events are studied as well.
paragraph development. Students in an honors Grades: 7, 8, 9
course can expect increased reading and more Creative Writing explores different types of US History
complex texts, less review and practice, and a
fiction writing. This course is designed with the Full Year – 4510
higher work completion expectation. If goal of inspiring students to develop original Grade: 8
students do not enjoy reading or are below
pieces of work. Students should expect to write United States History covers events and issues
grade level, they can expect to struggle in daily and present their work to their from the Age of Exploration through
honors English. classmates, both by sharing their writing and Reconstruction and the Western movement,
speaking to the class. emphasizing the 18th and 19th centuries.
Topics covered will include, but are not limited
6to: exploration, colonization, Revolutionary surface. Students learn to employ spatial solve problems involving area, surface area,
War, constitutional issues, nation building, Civil concepts and landscape analysis to examine and volume; and (4) drawing inferences about
War, Reconstruction, and western movement. human socioeconomic organization and its populations based on samples.
Emphasis of this course is on the 18th and 19th environmental consequences. They also learn
centuries. about the methods and tools geographers use 7th Grade Math Honors
in their research and applications. The aim of Full Year – 5005
US History Honors the AP course is to provide students with a Grade: 7
Full Year – 4514 learning experience equivalent to that The course instruction will cover the four
Grade: 8 obtained in most college-level introductory critical areas listed in the 7th Grade
United States History covers events and issues human geography courses. Students prepare Mathematics Course and add extra topics that
from the Age of Exploration through to take the AP Human Geography test in May, would interest an advanced middle school
Reconstruction and the Western movement, potentially earning college credit. student. Concepts will be explored to a greater
emphasizing the 18th and 19th centuries. depth with increased use of contextual
Topics covered will include, but are not limited Current Issues situations. This course will have increased rigor
to: exploration, colonization, Revolutionary Semester – 4531 and advanced content that will challenge the
War, constitutional issues, nation building, Civil Grades: 8, 9 minds of high ability students.
War, Reconstruction, and western movement. This class explores current events and issues
Emphasis of this course is on the 18th and 19th and how various regions of the world interact. 7th/8th Grade Math Honors Accelerated
centuries. Viewing historical documents, This class helps to obtain a higher level of Full Year – 5010/5110
writing document-based questions (DBQ), media literacy, differentiating substantive and Prerequisite: Students must meet district
current event exploration and presentation, factual reporting from outlandish reporting. It qualifications through a portfolio or COGAT
and projects are part of the Honors experience. also affords students with an opportunity to test.
There will be seven areas of focus, including
learn the background of various world events
World Geography the four areas of 7th grade math and the three
as they learn about them in real time
Full Year – 4520 areas of 8th grade mathematics. This class will
Grade: 9 Civics – Mock Trial cover material at an accelerated pace but at
World Geography will explore how to use Semester – 4532 the same rigor as the full year classes. This
geography as a tool to better understand the Grades: 8, 9 course is for high ability students that want
world in which we live. Students will learn to This course is designed to help students advanced mathematics courses in high school.
evaluate and question the why and where of understand the American justice system
spatial perceptions that are read, seen, and through the study and performance of “mock 8th Grade Math
heard. Students will understand the world in trials.” Topics included in this course will be, Full Year – 5100
spatial terms, the human and physical “What is Law,” “How Laws are Made,” “Crime Grade: 8
characteristics of places and regions, and how and Punishment,” “Rights of Citizens in the The course instruction will focus on three
physical processes shape the earth's surface. Justice System,” “Criminal vs. Civil Proceedings critical areas: (1) formulating and reasoning
Students will also understand how human in Courts,” and “Trial Procedure.” Students will about expressions and equations, including
activities shape the earth's surface, the be taught questioning procedures for direct modeling an association in bivariate data with
interaction of physical and human systems, examination and cross examinations in our a linear equation, and solving linear equations
and will use geographic knowledge to connect mock trials. Students will take notes, relate and systems of linear equations; (2) grasping
to today's world. The course will include map current events to the law, perform in mock the concept of a function and using functions
skills with physical and human geography trials, participate in classroom discussions and to describe quantitative relationships; (3)
essentials, beginning with North America, debates, and occasionally be quizzed and analyzing two and three-dimensional space
South America, Europe, and their connections tested on course material. and figures using distance, angle, similarity,
to other world regions. and congruence, and understanding and
applying the Pythagorean Theorem.
World Geography Honors
Full Year – 4524 8th Grade Math Honors
Grade: 9 Full Year – 5105
This course covers all the material taught in MATH Grade: 8
World Geography but adds emphasis to The course will cover the three critical areas
developing writing skills and higher levels of listed in 8th Grade Mathematics Course and
thinking. In-depth research, study, and 7th Grade Math add extra topics and concepts that would
problem solving regarding particular regions of Full Year – 5000 interest an advanced middle school student.
the world will be addressed and analyzed. Grade: 7 Concepts will be explored in greater depth with
The course instruction will focus on four critical increased use of contextual situations. This
AP Human Geography areas: (1) developing understanding of and course will have increased rigor and advanced
Full Year – 4590 applying proportional relationships; (2) content that will challenge the minds of high
Grade: 9 developing understanding of operations with ability students.
Lab Fee: $94.00 for AP test rational numbers and working with
The AP Human Geography course introduces expressions and linear equations; (3) solving
students to the systematic study of patterns problems involving scale-drawings and
and processes that have shaped human informal geometric constructions, and working
understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s with two- and three-dimensional shapes to
7Secondary Math 1 to geologic and atmospheric systems. Some
Full Year – 5200 SCIENCE resources form quickly, allowing them to be
Grade: 9 renewable, while other resources are
The course will focus on developing a solid nonrenewable. Evidence reveals that Earth
understanding of function and use that Integrated Science 7 systems change and affect ecosystems and
understanding to explore many examples of Full Year – 6000 organisms in positive and negative ways.
functions, including sequences. It will deepen Grade: 7
and extend understanding of linear Lab Fee: $10.00 Integrated Science 8 Honors
relationships and connect that understanding Seventh grade standards look for relationships Full Year – 6101
to exponential functions. It will build on prior of cause and effect which enable students to Grade: 8
experiences with data to develop formal pinpoint mechanisms of nature and allow them Lab Fee: $10.00
methods of data analysis. Students will use to make predictions. Students will explore how Uses the Integrated Science 8 standards.
properties and theorems involving congruent forces can cause changes in motion and are Students will work at an accelerated pace, with
figures to deepen and extend understanding of responsible for the transfer of energy and the more in-depth information, to review the
geometric knowledge. Algebraic and cycling of matter. This takes place within and process of obtaining knowledge and analyzing
geometric ideas will be tied together. between a wide variety of systems, from outcomes based on observable evidence.
simple, short-term forces on individual objects Students will gain awareness of the
Secondary Math 1 Honors to the deep, long- term forces that shape our increasingly international context of scientific
Full Year – 5205 planet. In turn, Earth’s environments provide activity, its impact and limitations as well as the
Grade: 8, 9 the conditions for life as we know it. Organisms constant evolution of scientific knowledge and
The course will cover all the concepts in the survive and reproduce only to the extent that understanding. This course is designed to
Secondary Mathematics 1 course. Concepts their own mechanisms and adaptations allow. prepare students for advanced high school
will be explored in greater depth with Evidence for the evolutionary histories of life courses.
increased use of contextual situations. In on Earth is provided through the fossil record,
addition, it will include concepts dealing with similarities in the various structures among Biology
vectors and quantities of vectors and matrix species, organism development, and genetic Full Year – 6200
operations and their applications. This course similarities across all organisms. Additionally, Grade: 9
will include elements that will prepare mechanisms shaping Earth are understood as Lab Fee: $15.00
students to take calculus in high school. This forces affecting the cycling of Earth’s materials. This is a full year rigorous course designed for
course will have increased rigor and advanced students to learn about, examine, and
content that will challenge the minds of high Integrated Science 7 Honors investigate life processes that occur on the
ability students. Full Year – 6001 Earth. These investigations will include
Grade: 7 organisms that are microscopic and multi-
Secondary Math 2 Honors Lab Fee: $10.00 cellular, living and dead. This course will be
Full Year – 5305 Uses the Integrated Science 7 standards. rigorous in nature and pace. Before electing to
Grade: 9 Students will work at an accelerated pace, with take this course, students should consider their
This course is for students with a serious more in-depth information, to further develop individual abilities to work at a fast pace and
commitment to attend college. Students must science as a process of obtaining knowledge comprehend in depth processes and
be enrolled in the Honors level of Secondary and analyzing outcomes based on observable discussions of biological life
Mathematics 2 to eventually take AP Calculus evidence. Students will develop the ability to
and/or AP Statistics, and very likely earn formulate hypotheses, design and carry out Earth Systems
college math credit, before graduating from strategies to test them, and evaluate results. Full Year – 6300
This course is designed to prepare students for Grade: 9
high school. Students will gain a strong
advanced high school courses. Lab Fee: $10.00
foundation in geometry, trigonometry and
This class meets the general science
second year algebra as well as some work Integrated Science 8 requirements for ninth grade and counts for
with statistics. This is a college prep level Full Year – 6100 high school graduation. This course explores
course that will teach students critical thinking Grade: 8 Earth, geologic change, and the interaction of
skills, and strong work ethic, while preparing Lab Fee: $10.00 the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
them for Secondary III Honors and college Eighth grade standards describe the constant This course builds upon student's experience
entrance exams. Students will need a interaction of matter and energy in nature. with integrated science seven and eight and is
graphing calculator for this course. We Students will explore how matter is arranged the springboard to success in biology,
suggest the TI 84 + edition. These are also into either simple or complex substances. The chemistry, geology and physics. The two
available to rent for $20 per semester. strands emphasize how substances store and primary goals associated with the
transfer energy, which can cause them to understanding of how systems work: 1.) use
interact physically and chemically, provide science as a process of obtaining knowledge
energy to living organisms, or be harnessed based on observation and evidence, and 2.)
and used by humans. Matter and energy cycle students' curiosity will be sustained as they
and change in ecosystems through processes develop the abilities associated with the
that occur during photosynthesis and cellular scientific method.
respiration. Additionally, substances that
provide a benefit to organisms, including
humans, are unevenly distributed on Earth due
8Earth Systems Honors understand the value of multiculturalism and
Full Year – 6301 CAREER & TECHNICAL diversity in the classroom and how it enhances
Grade: 9 individual student learning. Students will
Lab Fee: $10.00
EDUCATION identify instructional strategies and
This is a course that explores Earth, space, understand the role of technology and
geological change, the interaction of feedback in student engagement.
atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere College and Career Awareness (CCA)
through the lenses of Science and Engineering Full Year - 7050 FCS Exploration
Practices and Cross-Cutting Concepts. This Grade: 7 – Required Semester – 7403
course builds upon students’ experience with Class Fee: $12.00 Grade: 8
integrated science in grades seven and eight College and Career Awareness offers Lab Fee: $10.00
and is the springboard for success in both exploration and preparation in college and This course provides students the opportunity
Honors and Advanced Placement high school career pathways focusing on jobs that are to develop essential skills in various career
courses of biology, chemistry, geology, and high skill and high demand, as well as pathways related to Family and Consumer
physics. satisfying and financially rewarding. The Sciences (FCS). Students will explore and
College and Career Awareness course is cultivate skills in the areas of food and
AP Environmental Science designed to help students identify their nutrition, childcare, interior design, sewing
Full Year – 6330 construction, entrepreneurship, family
interests, abilities, and skills. With appropriate
Grade: 9 relationships, personal responsibility, and
developmental information related to careers,
Lab Fee: $94.00 for AP test career and job-related tasks. A variety of
educational pathways, and self-knowledge,
This is a full year course designed for science hands-on projects will be incorporated into
students that examines a variety of natural students can begin to make college and career each area.
sciences (ecology, chemistry, biology, goals for the future. College and Career
geography) and several social sciences Awareness is designed to acquaint students Child Development
(economics, politics, ethics). AP Environmental with the Utah labor market and the Semester – 7410
Science is a college level course for students employment opportunities for which they can Grade: 9
who have above-average study skills and the prepare by defining a College and Career Lab Fee: $5.00
desire to change the world in which they live Readiness Plan. Through application-based This course is designed to help students
in. This course is designed to help students lessons, College and Career Awareness allows understand the normal growth and
understand many topics (local and national) students to utilize technology, develop development of children from infancy to
and subjects within the environmental science foundational skills, and explore careers. The preschool age. Topics taught include
field. This course is designed to promote parenting, heredity, birth defects, human
course provides information regarding
environmental science literacy so that students reproduction, pregnancy, health and safety,
additional courses and training related to each
will be better prepared to make decisions and guidance techniques. Students will have
about issues that impact the environment. student’s career field of interest, as they begin the opportunity to experience hands-on
(Passing the AP exam gives college credit). to prepare for college and career. parenting using a computerized Real Care
Baby.
Robotics Digital Literacy
Semester – 6700 Semester – 7537
Sewing
Grades: 7, 8 Grade: 8 – Required
Semester – 7433
Lab Fee: $10.00 Lab Fee: $7.50
Grade: 9
Students will learn to build and program VEX IQ This course is an introduction to computer
Lab Fee: $10.00. Students
robots. Students will practice mechanical literacy. Students will have opportunities to
are also responsible to pay for consumable
design, construction, programming and use technology and develop skills that
materials
teamwork skills. Using VEX IQ building pieces, encourage creativity, critical thinking,
This course introduces students to basic
motors and sensors, students will build robots productivity, and collaboration in the
apparel design and construction skills. These
that can complete a variety of challenges and classroom and day-to-day life. Skills will be
skills prepare students for the exciting global
obstacles. Students will use a controller to demonstrated by creating a project for a
apparel industry and
drive their robot and a computer to program different content area. This course is aligned
entrepreneurial opportunities. Students will
their robot. In this course, students will work with national and international standards and
sew apparel and accessory projects. Projects
through processes of idea creation, planning, the Utah Core to prepare students across
include a stuffed owl, storage bag, quilted
logical thinking, analysis and computational multiple levels of skills. Students will complete
pillow, pajama pants, and a utility apron. It is
thinking to solve problems and accomplish this course as a prerequisite to move into high
recommended that students have previous
goals. This course is designed for students in school computer literacy courses.
sewing experience.
7th and 8th Grade who are interested in
developing their programming and Teaching as a Profession
Interior Design
engineering skills. Semester – 7215
Semester – 7445
Grade: 9
Grade: 9
This course introduces students to the role and
Lab Fee: $10.00
positive influence of an effective educator.
This course enables students to explore their
Students will explore various careers in
creativity in the field of interior
education and develop employability skills to
design. Identification of the elements and
become a successful professional. Students will
principles of design are emphasized. Other
9topics taught include floor plan evaluation, computing and help students understand why explore the world of work through a variety of
furniture arrangement, kitchen design, color certain tools or languages might be utilized to exciting hands-on-projects. Each student will
schemes, and careers. Students will apply solve particular problems. The goal of build a project of his or her own choice. The
what they learn through a variety of individual Exploring Computer Science is to develop in curriculum is designed around exploration of
projects. students the computational thinking practices these systems.
of algorithm development, problem solving
Food and Nutrition and programming within the context of Construction Tech 1 (Woods)
Semester – 7460 problems that are relevant to the lives of Semester – 7823
Grade: 9 today’s students. Students will also be Grade: 9
Lab Fee: $15.00 introduced to topics such as interface design, Students are also responsible to pay for
This course will focus on culinary and nutrition limits of computers and societal and ethical consumable materials
science. Students will qualify for a UTAH FOOD issues. Exploring Technology is a comprehensive
HANDLERS PERMIT. Students will also gain action-based educational course that
skills and understanding of culinary Python (Coding) introduces students to the technological
technology, food preparation and dietary Semester – 7775 systems: energy-power technologies,
knowledge for a healthy lifestyle. Laboratory Grades: 8, 9 information and communications
experiences will focus on the science behind This is a basic coding class. Python is a technologies, transportation technologies,
food preparation as we learn about dishes such language with a simple syntax, and a powerful manufacturing technologies, and construction
as, Fettuccini Alfredo, quick breads, stir- set of libraries. It is an interpreted language, technologies. The Technology 1 Construction
fry, and Ice Cream Cake Roll with a rich programming environment, class provides an opportunity for students to
including a robust debugger and profiler. explore the world of work through a variety of
Keyboarding While it is easy for beginners to learn, it is exciting hands-on-projects. Each student will
Semester – 7552 widely used in many scientific areas for data build a project of his or her own choice. The
Grade: 7 exploration. This course is an introduction to curriculum is designed around exploration of
In Keyboarding, the student will master touch the Python programming language for these systems.
operation of the computer keyboard. Correct students without prior programming
finger positioning, by touch on the keyboard, experience. Construction Tech 2 (Woods)
and good technique will receive primary Semester – 7824
emphasis. The student will also learn simple Web Development 1 Grade: 9
word processing skills such as formatting Semester – 7795 Students are also responsible to pay for
simple documents in Microsoft Word. Each Grade: 9 consumable materials
student will strive to get 35 WPM with 97% Web Development 1 is a course designed to Construction Tech 2 allows students to move
accuracy on a 2-minute timing as a minimum guide students in a project-based environment in to bigger and more advanced projects. The
goal for the semester. Keyboard covers will be in the development of up-to-date concepts and student’s will use their knowledge and skills
used throughout the semester. This is a good skills that are used in the development of they developed in the Exploring Technology
prerequisite for the required eighth grade today’s websites. Students will learn the class. This class provides an opportunity for
Digital Literacy course. fundamentals of how the Internet works and students to explore the world of work through
use the basic building blocks of the World Wide a variety of exciting hands-on projects. They
Creative Coding Web: HTML5 coding, cascading style sheets will learn the importance of exact
Semester – 7743 (CSS) and JavaScript. Steps to create a website measurements, following written and oral
Grades: 7, 8 by planning, designing, developing, deploying, instruction. They will also be able to apply the
This course is designed to attract and reach a and maintaining of the website projects will be math skills they have been taught in school
broad and diverse range of students, including taught. Students will learn and use different and at home. Prerequisite: Exploring
those who may not have never considered scripting technologies to create more dynamic Technology.
programming. Students learn how to code by and interactive websites and understand what
working in a real software development it takes for a career in web development as Construction Tech 2 (Shed)
environment to design, program and publish they complete projects and create their own Full Year – 7824
mobile apps and games. Learning to code by website. Grade: 9
creating real products, students discover how Lab Fee: Costs for the projects will vary
to make amazing things and have an impact on Exploring Tech 1 depending on the project chosen.
their world. Semester – 7810 This class allows the students to go beyond the
Grade: 8 Exploring Technology class. The projects they
Exploring Computer Science Students are also responsible to pay for choose can be bigger and have more detail.
Semester – 7760 consumable materials Students will learn the importance of exact
Grade: 9 Exploring Technology is a comprehensive measurements and following written and oral
Lab Fee: $10.00 action-based educational course that instruction. They will also be able to apply the
Exploring Computer Science is designed to introduces students to the technological math skills they have been taught in school and
introduce students to the breadth of the field systems: energy-power technologies, at home. In addition to building cabinets and
of computer science through an exploration of information and communications furniture for themselves, the students will
engaging and accessible topics. Rather than technologies, transportation technologies, build and sell sheds. The students will help the
focusing the entire course on learning software manufacturing technologies, and construction instructor assemble the shed on the owner’s
tools or programming languages, the course is technologies. The Technology 1 Construction property, and enjoy a steak, chicken and
designed to focus the conceptual ideas of class provides an opportunity for students to shrimp party provided by the instructor.
10Manufacturing Technology 1 (Metals) Intro to Public speaking
Semester – 7825 Semester – 4375 ASSISTANTS
Grade: 9 Grades: 7, 8, 9
Students are also responsible to pay for This course will introduce students to the role Office Assistant
consumable materials of effective communication in our world today. Semester – 210
Students will design and build projects that Communication theory and a variety of Grade: 9
will test their abilities using steel. Steel can be methods and mediums will be explored. In Eligibility: 3.0 GPA/no “U” Citizenship marks,
cut using a high-tech plasma CAM (Computer addition, students will have the opportunity to Secretary Permission/Signature
Aided Manufacturing) metal cutter. Students research, prepare and present speeches for Work at the counter in the main office
will learn arc or gas welding, depending upon several different purposes including to answering the telephone and helping at the
the projects. Class work, including quizzes, persuade, to inform, and to entertain. Through attendance window.
these experiences, students will improve
tests and homework will be part of this
public speaking skills and increase self- Teacher Assistant
program. Good reading skills and following
confidence. Semester – 211
instructions are necessary.
Grades: 8, 9
Makerspace (STEM Explorations) Required: Teacher Permission/Signature
Semester – 6609 Class is graded on Pass/Fail. The teacher
Grades: 7, 8 assistant will be under the direction of one
ADDITIONAL ELECTIVES Lab Fee: $10.00 teacher. The teacher will assign duties to the
This class is intended for those who are assistant as needed.
interested and excited about using their hands
Study Skills
and minds to create products. Students will use Counseling Assistant
Semester – 400
supplies provided for them in the classroom, as Semester – 212
Grades: 7, 8, 9
well as incorporating science, math and Grades: 8, 9
This class may only be taken once. The purpose
reading to develop projects by using task cards, Eligibility: 3.0 GPA/no “U” Citizenship marks,
of Study Skills is to teach specific concepts
Counselor Permission/Signature
related to school success, correct study videos, and other types of instruction to be
Counseling Assistants file, answer the
principles for home and school, independence, successful.
telephone, alphabetize, organize and help the
self-motivation, self-discipline, choices and
counselors and secretary. Eligible students are
consequences, and skills for lifelong learning. Released Time 9 (Seminary) expected to respect issues of confidentiality as
Full Year – 850 they arise in the counseling office. *8th grade
National Academic League (NAL) Grade: 9 students will need approval of counseling
1st Semester Only – 408 No credit is given toward high school secretary.
Grades: 7, 8, 9 graduation.
Fee: $32.00
Peer Tutor
The National Academic League (NAL) class is a
Semester – 213
trivia-based curriculum covering all subjects
Grades: 8, 9
through ninth grade (Math, Science, History,
Students are teacher assistants who assist both
English, etc.). Study sessions, presentations, APPLICATION/TRYOUT CLASSES regular and special education teachers. Peer
and matches will be held in class for the
tutors mentor students and assist the teacher,
purpose of learning the rules of the game and Student Government as requested. The peer tutor will not be asked
to foster a competitive edge. This class helps 220 to discipline other students. Duties vary
prepare the NAL team for the competition Grades: 7, 8, 9 according to subject. Students who assist
season, which are November through *Students are selected based on an teachers will not record grades or attendance.
February. Participation in the NAL application and election process during the They may do routine clerical work. Peer tutors
competitions are expected. spring. receive pass/fail grade for their work.
Yearbook Cheerleaders Library/Media Assistant
Full Year – 4365 221 Semester – 215
Grades: 8, 9 Grades: 8, 9 Grade: 8, 9
*Students are selected based on an *Students are selected based on a tryout Required: Librarian Permission/Signature
application process during the spring process during the spring. Library Skills is designed for students who
Yearbook combines elements of photography,
enjoy variety in their daily tasks, who are
graphic design, and journalism to create the Hope Squad computer literate, and like to read. In-class
yearbook for the student body. Students are 409 assignments, checking books in and out,
expected to attend several school events Grades: 7, 8, 9 shelving books, and completing errands and
outside of regular school hours, and the class *Students are selected based on an tasks for the operation of the library.
does require some homework to meet application process during the spring.
deadlines.
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