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Graduation Requirements Freshman - Grade 9 Sophomore - Grade 10 Junior - Grade 11 Senior - Grade 12
Course Descriptions English 1 - 2- 9th Grade English 1-2 block is a one-period, balanced literacy course required of all grade 9 students, except those enrolled in English 1-2 Block. The course content focuses on teaching students skills and strategies for critical, independent reading and writing of complex expository and narrative texts. The course utilizes balanced literacy instrucitonal approaches.
English 1 - 10th Grade Included on the CAHSEE and also now on the new SAT. English is required class in each of the four high school years. It includes reading and analyzing various genres of literature including poetry, short stories, novels and drama. We also focus on improving writing skill, especially essay writing, which is important.
Accounting 1 - 2 18-week course that provides a basic overview of the Accounting Cycle for a sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation. Students will learn to record and analyze business transactions, prepare and analyze financial statements, and manage a checking account. Students will learn to use the QuickBooks accounting program in addition to learning a manual accounting system. This class is a required Academy of Finance course.
Biology The biology class develops a variety of skills into the search for understanding living things. Students will discover, among other things, what all living things have in common, how the systems of the body work together, how life regenerates, how ecosystems work to keep balance along with other research based topics. This course will incorporate an ongoing multidisciplinary project which will analyze soil and water samples in association with the English, mathematics, computer, and chemistry classes. Topics include: ecology, organ systems, cell biology, microbiology, genetics, physiology, and evolution. Culmination of this course includes a field trip to the San Diego Zoo.
Business & Financial Markets BFM is a year long course that earns college credits if they get an A or B in the course. We cover: Introduction to financial careers, Financial Planning, the Banking Industry, Mortgage Industry, and Insurance Industry. There is a lot of group work, mostly focused on the courses major project: creating and presenting a complete financial plan for a real person.
Business Management & Ownership Year-long course based on the operation of a small business. This course is designed from the perspective that students may want to start and operate their own business or be an effective, valuable employee in any business enterprise. Accordingly, you will be exposed to a combination of theory and real-world applications of how to develop and operate a small business. STUDENT STORE: The Business Management & Ownership class will develop a plan and put it into operation as they become responsible for the operations of “The Rock”, the San Diego High Complex Student Store. This is a unique situation that our students will be responsible for all facets of store operate.
Chemistry The topics that are available are Atomic, Nuclear, Reaction, Organic, Inorganic, and Physically Chemistry. The types of activities that we do are Laboratory experiments such as converting a penny into gold, fireworks lab, model of an atom construction and students are able to design experiments. The student responsibilities are maintaining an activity notebook, weekly quizzes, nightly homework and end of section exams.
International Trade Academy of Finance students will take this course during the fall semester of their senior year. Students will learn international vocabulary and trade skills. Students will demonstrate a basic understanding and application of international economic concepts and their relationship to global economics and the marketplace.
Marketing Students will understanding what marketing is and how it is evident all around us. Students will learn general vocabulary terms intertwined with basic marketing concepts and discover how they are being used in the domestic marketplace to influence us as consumers/customers. Students will gain an understanding of the 4 P's: product, price, place and promotion. A three-step model will be utilized to help in the understanding of these elements: 1) Students will learn what these concepts/ideas are and why they need to be addressed with respect to marketing 2) Students will look into our marketplace to see how these concepts/ideas are being utilized by business' in order to get consumers/customers to buy their products; a determination of the effectiveness of these business' success will be looked at through project-based learning 3) Students will create their own product and take it through the entire process; students will develop a product utilizing the background knowledge they have gained in steps 1 and 2 in order to create a successful marketing campaign of their own invention. Throughout the semester, as School of Business events arise, these students will work on specific projects in order to market the School of Business or upcoming events (i.e.: SOB brochures, SOB course catalog, SOB prize patrol, golf tournament). By the end of the semester, students should be familiar with the 4 P's, what marketing is and how important it is and necessary for a business to have a successful marketing campaign in place in order for the products to survive amongst all the other competition in the marketplace.
Marketing, Meeting & Event Planning Students will understanding what marketing is and how it is evident all around us. Students will learn general vocabulary terms intertwined with basic marketing concepts and discover how they are being used in the domestic marketplace to influence us as consumers/customers. Students will gain an understanding of the 4 P's: product, price, place and promotion. Throughout the semester, as School of Business events arise, these students will work on specific projects in order to market the School of Business or upcoming events (i.e.: SOB brochures, SOB course catalog, SOB prize patrol). By the end of the semester, students should be familiar with the 4 P's, what marketing is and how important it is and necessary for a business to have a successful marketing campaign in place in order for the products to survive amongst all the other competition in the marketplace.
Culinary Arts & Management This course will provide students with the skills necessary to successfully obtain an entry-level position on a food service job. Skills include front of the house and back of the house operations, basic food preparation, knife skills, table service, table setting, and customer relations.
School Website Design Students will use Macromedia software (Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash) to create, maintain and update websites. Students will use Fireworks to manipulate graphics for use in these websites, while Flash will be used to include more advanced multimedia. In order to become familiar with Dreamweaver and website development, students will create an individual site of their choice in order to learn, practice and investigate all of the features included in the software. Next, students will create the website for the School of Business. Each student will create a template for the school, which will be voted on by students and faculty to determine how the School of Business website should look. Once a template has been selected, students will each become responsible for a certain aspect of the site to create, maintain and update. In addition, students will have the opportunity to assist School of Business staff in creating a webpage to be linked to the website if they wish. By the end of the semester, students should be familiar with the Macromedia interface and software as well as have the ability to create, maintain and update websites.
Spanish 1 - 2 Communication The communication standard stresses the use of communication in “real life” situations. It emphasizes “what students can do whit language” rather than “what they know about language.” Students are asked to communicate in oral and written form, interpret oral and written massages, and show cultural understanding when they communicate and present oral and written information to various audiences for varieties of purposes. Culture Cultural understanding is an important part of the world languages education. Experiencing other cultures develops a better understanding and appreciation of the relationship between languages and othe4r cultures, as well as the student’s native culture. Students became better able to understand others people’s point of view, ways of life, and contributions to the world. Connections World languages instructions must be connected with other subject areas. Content from other subject areas is integrated with world language instructions through lessons that are developed around common themes. Comparisons Students are encouraged to compare and contrast language and culture. They discovered patterns, make prediction, and analyze similarities and differences across language and culture. Students often come to understand their native language and culture better through such comparisons. Communities Extending learning experiences from the world language classroom to the home and multilingual and multicultural community emphasizes living in a global society. Activities may include: field trips, use of e-mail and the World Wide Web, clubs, exchange programs and cultural activities, school to work opportunities, and opportunities to hear speakers of the other languages in the school and classroom. Course description: In addition to providing a basic exposure to the factual narrative, the goals of the World History are to develop: (a) an understanding of some of the principals theme in modern World History, (b) an ability to analyzed historical evidence, an (c) an ability to express that understanding and analysis in writing Questions in intellectual-cultural, political-diplomatic, and social-economic history from the basic of examination. Students are expected to demonstrate a knowledge of basic chronology and of major events and trend from approximately 1450 to the present, that is, from the High Renaissance to the recent past. The entire chronological scope and a range of approaches are incorporated throughout exams.
Spanish for Spanish Speakers Class Description : This class for native and/or near native speakers of Spanish is designed to help students develop and improve their skills in reading, writing, and oral skills, while learning to appreciate the Hispanic culture in the United States and other countries. Special attention will be given to spelling, accents, grammar and vocabulary of standard Spanish. Objectives: By the end of the semester students will be able to:
Statistics College Preparatory Course (P). This course provides students in grades 10- 12 with a third mathematics course option. In this course, students will be introduced to the major concepts of probability, interpretation, interpretation of data, and statistical problem solving. Students will learn the course concept through hands-on experimentation and investigation. They will analyze exciting data as well as data collected through a survey, observational study or experiment. They will then display the data in different ways, analyze it, and draw conclusions based on the results. The four main components of the course are: exploring data, data collection, probability, and inference. *Email Diana Colangelo at dcolangelo@sandi.net for Parent Connect Login Info or for questions / concerns regarding this website.*
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