General Electives: Curriculum & Outline

  • General Electives
    ALSDE-approved General Electives Curriculum Standards linked HERE.
    Supplemental Resources: General elective courses may utilize the following supplemental resources:                                                                                                                       
    Below are the adopted textbooks for general elective courses as well as the course outline and description.
    Course Title Author Edition Publisher Copyright Year Tentative Course Outline Course Descriptions
    Driver Education Drive Right Crabb, Thiel, Mottola, Weaver 11 Prentice Hall 2011 Driver and Traffic Safety Standards, Course Outline This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge, concepts, and skills needed to assist the student in developing safe and responsible driving habits on the water as well as on our roads. This course provides the student with behind-the-wheel driving experiences and requires a fee of $25 to help cover vehicle costs.
    Safety Drive Right Crabb, Thiel, Mottola, Weaver 11 Prentice Hall 2011 Driver and Traffic Safety Standards, Course Outline This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge, concepts, and skills needed to assist the student in developing safe and responsible driving habits on the water as well as on our roads. This course does not provide the student with behind-the-wheel driving experiences.
    Test Prep (Middle School) N/A            
    ACT/SAT Prep N/A           Reading skills, with an emphasis on reading comprehension, across all subjects, above and beyond instruction provided in required courses.
    AP Research N/A           College-level foundational course following the curriculum established by the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Program; students explore an academic topic, problem, or issue of individual interest and design, plan, and conduct a yearlong mentored, research-based investigation to address a research question. Course culminates in an academic thesis paper and a presentation, performance, or exhibition with an oral defense
    AP Seminar N/A           College-level foundational course following the curriculum established by the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Program; provides students with opportunities to think critically and creatively, research, explore, pose solutions, develop arguments, collaborate, and communicate using various media; facilitates the exploration of real-world issues through cross-curricular lens; considers multiple points of view to develop deep understanding of complex issues and topics as connections are made between issues and students’ own lives
    Contemporary World Issues and Civic Engagement N/A           Current issues from historical and geographical perspectives; knowledge of key contemporary personalities and events that impact lives
    Distance Learning Lab N/A            
    Dual Enrollment Lab N/A            
    General Study Hall N/A           Supervised independent study.
    Hobbies N/A           Opportunity for a student to explore a new interest in a supervised activity. Activities such as reading, creative writing, sports, computer games, chess, music, dance, foreign languages, and art give an extra intellectual challenge.
    Journalism N/A           Newspaper study; newspaper production; news information gathering; proofreading; journalistic writing
    Leadership N/A           Enhanced learning activities.
    Oral Communication N/A           Interpersonal communications; group process; media use; informal speeches; interactive reading
    Peer Helpers N/A           Supervised tutoring services offered by students.
    Student Aide (Office, Teacher, Library) N/A           Supervised student assistance, e.g., Teacher Aide, Office Aide, Lab Assistant.
    Yearbook Production N/A           Assisting in the production/maintenance of school publications, e.g., Yearbook, Newspaper, E-papers, Web site maintenance, and Newsletter.
    Designing Technology, IB IB Design & Technology (DHS) Metcalfe 2nd IBIS Press   IB Designing Technology Course Information DP design technology aims to develop internationally-minded people whose enhanced understanding of design and the technological world can facilitate our shared guardianship of the planet and create a better world.It focuses on analysis, design development, synthesis and evaluation. The creative tension between theory and practice is what characterizes design technology within the DP sciences subject group. Inquiry and problem-solving are at the heart of the subject. DP design technology requires the use of the DP design cycle as a tool, which provides the methodology used to structure the inquiry and analysis of problems, the development of feasible solutions, and the testing and evaluation of the solution. In Diploma Programme design technology, a solution can be defined as a model, prototype, product or system that students have developed independently.
      Course not offered (FPHS)            
    Theory of Knowledge Textbook not used/ InThinking/ MyIB.org (DHS)         Theory of Knowledge Course Information The aim of Theory of Knowledge is not to give students information but to engage in critical reflection on what they think they already know both facts and values. The course considers ways in which we gain our understanding through perception, language, reasoning, and emotion, and considers individual disciplines which arise from different approaches and justifications. It examines the approaches to knowledge taken by mathematics, the natural and human sciences, history, the arts, and ethics, and tries to place them in relationship to each other and to the experiences of the students. The influence on knowledge of culture and personal experience also emerges in the discussions on which the course is based. Theory of Knowledge is the compulsory core course for the International Baccalaureate. 
      Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploa Course Guide Heydorn, Jesudason 3rd Cambridge University Press