Ninth Grade Critical Thinking and Logical Reasoning Challenges students to demonstrate proficiency in using information to their advantage, classifying information, and drawing conclusions. Students learn how to identify main ideas, analyze verbal analogies, understand cause and effect, and discover how important these strategies are for making decisions. Problem Solving and Comprehension Exposes students to the use of quantitative methods to understand and solve problems. Students learn how to read and interpret data, statistics, patterns and relationships, and figural analogies. Physical Science Introduces students to chemical reactions, acids, bases and salts, organic compounds, energy and motion, physical science methods, and the scientific method.
Students participate in various laboratory experiments.
Utilizes innovative computer software designed to address SAT strategies through diagnostic pre and post- tests as well as ongoing practice drills determined by each student's individual improvement needs. English Composition Provides students with extensive practice in the art of writing on important literary and current events topics. The course challenges students' knowledge of the world around them and, through class discussions, assists them in applying this knowledge to the creative writing process. Eleventh Grade Biology Review Reviews the basic biological principles in preparation for the SAT and the Georgia High School Exit Exam in order to enhance performance on these exams. The class covers the philosophy of science and the basic concepts of life sciences.