English - The English curriculum encourages students to become lifelong readers and writers. Students gain a fundamental understanding of grammar and usage while constantly working to improve spelling and vocabulary. Additionally, students develop fundamental skills in writing in a variety of styles and for a variety of purposes. By completing multiple drafts of each writing assignment, students learn the importance of the writing process and of continual self-improvement. Writing portfolios are kept to help students chart their own progress and set individual goals.
Students are free to explore a variety of mediums.
The importance of the process is stressed and the product is presented. Computer class offers students the opportunity to explore the history of computing and the various hardware components of computers and to develop skills with software applications. They can then apply this technology in their classes. They begin with keyboarding skills, learn word processing, and develop skills with databases, spreadsheets and graphs, graphics, publication, scanning, communications, programming, and web page design. The emphasis throughout is to learn tools that they can use.