The Algebra 1 Course covers the following topics:
Goal: Students will understand and explore the concepts of Algebra in preparation for the NY State Regents Exam.
Book used-Algebra I-Course Workbook by Donny Brusca
Living Environment- Covers all topics required for the New York State Regents examination, as well as the required labs. Topics include organic molecules, basic cell biology, molecular structures, human anatomy, life functions, enzymes, photosynthesis and respiration, human immunity, cell division and human reproduction, genetics, mutations, Human impact on the environment, relationships between organisms, recycling, pollution, as well as basics of scientific theory and experimentation.
Teacher generated booklets for each topic including applicable regent exam questions.
Review of Grammar – Capitalization, Commas, Subject, Verb, What makes up a sentence
Creative writing
Persuasive Argumentative Essays
Tenses in writing, Contractions
How to make transitions between paragraphs
Learning how to spell the commonly misspelled words
What to include in each paragraph of an essay
Differences between homophones
Books Used:
Writing Companion Grade 8 (intro to grade 9)-Perfection Learning
Writing Companion Grade 9-10-Perfection Learning
This is a 2-year course that prepares students to take a Regents’ Examination at the end of year 2.
The course includes 3 portions: A history surveying ancient times to the present, test preparation including critical thinking and essay-construction and the skills and reasoning required to think like a historian. All these are aligned with the requirements of New York State’s framework curriculum.
Dawn of Civilization. The requirements to develop a civilization leads to a study of the first civilizations, located along river valleys, and sharing several characteristics, including beginning belief systems which impact the world today.
Classical Civilizations. The classical societies are next, which developed lasting cultural achievements and make their presence remembered through their contributions to modern art, science, philosophy, mathematics, literature, government, and engineering. The geographic factors influencing civilizations and empires in Greece, Rome, India, and China are discussed, along with the political and economical factors of empires. The role of complex contributors to an empire’s fall rounds out this unit.
Cultural Centers in an Age of Turmoil. The collapse of complex institutions which accompanied the fall of the Roman Empire led to new political and economic realities in Western Europe, including feudalism and the role of the Roman Catholic Church. In so-called Eastern Empires such as Byzantium, the Middle East, India, and China experienced a contrasting height of cultures and Golden Ages, laying the foundations for modern science and mathematics. The unit ends with two events that shook the status quo in feudal Europe, including the Crusades and the Bubonic Plague.
Revival of Europe. Following the encounter with advanced civilizations during the Crusades, European culture experienced a revival of trade and culture, which led to the Italian Renaissance. Additionally, political and economic realities were changed after the Crusades and the Black Death, leading to a collapse of serfdom and rise of mercantile and commercial wealth. Religious and political activities shifted after the Protestant Reformation, leading to religious conflicts between nations and contributing to a growth of absolutism as monarchs consolidated wealth and power.
Birth of the Modern World. Absolute monarchs sponsored the Age of Exploration, contributing to a Scientific Revolution that challenged traditions. The Enlightenment developed partly in consequence of this. Transatlantic exploration and colonization created a worldwide slave trade in the Americas, severely impacting the political structures in Africa. Important empires rose to power, making decisions that impacted historical events in Manchu China, Mughal India, Tokugawa Japan, and the Ottoman Empire.
Students learn how to write essays and answer questions aligned with the New York State regents’ examination.
The students gain and practice important skills that relate to the tasks of a historian. These include the gathering and interpreting of evidence, the analysis of causation and chronological reasoning, understanding the role of geographic reasoning in telling the story of history, understanding the role of economics and economic systems, and recognizing the factors and types of civic participation.
Grammar:
Students will learn to understand and apply proper Grammar rules for writing (including pronoun, apostrophes…). They will learn proper sentence structure like avoiding run on sentences and sentence fragments.
Vocabulary:
A continuous learning and expanding of vocabulary in both oral and written usage. Reading Comprehension: Students will engage with increasingly challenging text and learn to answer questions that include making predictions and deducing information.
Literature: Reading of classical books, short stories and poetry. Students will use literary tools to analyze the text. These include figurative language, simile and metaphor, irony, point of view, conflict, setting and foreshadowing. Students will gain an understanding of plot, climax and characterization. Texts include: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, A Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter, All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, Thumbprint by Eve Merriam and Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Interdisciplinary studies: Instruction on literary and historical documents for the purpose of understanding and using information to reinforce arguments or give validity to document based or academic essay writing.
The students will master the skill of typing accurately and quickly using the entire keyboard.
The Algebra 1 Course covers the following topics:
Goal: Students will understand and explore the concepts of Algebra in preparation for the NY State Regents Exam.
Book used-Algebra I-Course Workbook by Donny Brusca
Covers all topics required for the New York State regents examination, as well as the required labs. Topics include the study of earth composition, coordinates, Topographic maps, weather and climate, natural disasters, and energy transfer, water cycle, the motions of sun moon and planets, seasons, solar system and celestial motions, origin of the universe, geologic history, as well as rock and mineral types and compositions.
Teacher generated booklets for each topic including applicable regent exam questions.
This is a 2-year course that prepares students to take a Regents’ Examination at the end of year 2.
The course includes 3 portions: A history surveying ancient times to the present, test preparation including critical thinking and essay-construction, and the skills and reasoning required to think like a historian. All these are aligned with the requirements of New York State’s framework curriculum.
Age of Revolutions. From the 1750s, the Enlightenment led to changes in ideas, including new views on governments and societies by key thinkers like Lock, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, leading to the political phenomenon of Enlightened Despots. Students trace the impacts on 18th and 19th century revolutionary movements in France and Latin America. Simultaneously, new technologies had transformed agriculture and manufacturing in England, leading to the Industrial Revolution, which shifted political, economic, and social realities and led to the rise of rapid urbanization. New ideas and philosophies rose in response to these changes, by thinkers including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, socialist thinkers, and reform movements. Negative historical events, such as the Irish famine, can be connected with industry.
Nations and Empires. Nationalism that resulted from the French Revolution led to revolutions throughout Europe and played a role in the unification of Italy and Germany, as well as the dissolution of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, in addition to reactionary policies in the Russian Empire. From a related set of economic, political, and philosophical factors, European nations and Japan built overseas empires in Asia and Africa.
A World at War. Tensions built up in Europe to result in WWI and WW2, and technological achievements increased the extent of casualties. Ideologies played a role in WW2. Students will examine related historical events such as the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet Union, and the Great Depression contributed to WW2. Atrocities such as the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian Holodomor, and the Holocaust occurred during this era, as well.
Postwar. It examines how WW2 created conditions that impacted global events during the Cold War and the era of Decolonization which gave rise to new movements for nationalism in Asia and Africa, in the former European imperialistic empires. In South Africa, apartheid followed independence. To further understand the Cold War, students will examine the confrontations, attempts at coexistence, and non-alignment that categorized this era, as well as the impact of military alliances and nuclear proliferation. This unit ends with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc.
Enduring Issues. It examines contemporary challenges including the role of urbanization in modifying traditional cultures, the tension between tradition and modernization, the interconnected political and economic realities of globalization factoring into conflict and cooperation, the role of technology in enhancing communication and transportation to impact the exchange and control of information, the continuing problem of human rights violations into the 20th century, the role of the United Nations in conflict and cooperation, the rise of terrorism in the modern era, and the conflicts and interests which form the context for current events.
Students learn how to write essays and answer questions aligned with the New York State regents’ examination.
Students gain and practice important skills that relate to the tasks of a historian. These include the gathering and interpreting of evidence, the analysis of causation and chronological reasoning, understanding the role of geographic reasoning in telling the story of history, understanding the role of economics and economic systems, and recognizing the factors and types of civic participation.
Goals: To increase the students reading comprehension levels by practicing “close reading”.
To help students become familiar with the various writing strategies and the authors use of them. To perfect grammar for essay writing. To prepare the students for the New York State Regents Exam.
Materials:
The Outsiders by; S.E. Hinton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by: Mark Twain
Various short stories & poetry
NYSED Regents website
Review on Grammar – Capitalization, Commas, Subject, Verb, What makes up a sentence
Creative writing
(Debates)
Persuasive, Argumentative Essays
Learning Tenses in writing, Contractions
How to make transitions between paragraphs
Learning how to spell the commonly misspelled words
What to include in an essay in each paragraph
Differences between homophones
Books Used:
Writing Companion Grade 8 (intro to grade 9)-Perfection Learning
Writing Companion Grade 9-10-Perfection Learning
This course covers the following health related topics:
Various articles and online sources are used.
The students will learn the Microsoft Word program. They will create and edit documents.
The curriculum covers everything included in Common Core Geometry. Throughout this course the students are taught the general rules of each topic, including:
Regent examples are printed, and given out to the girls along with note sheets on each topic.
Book Used: Geometry Course Work Book-Donny Brusca
The focus of this course is a review of writing and grammar rules taught in the 9th & 10th grade, with an emphasis on Regent essay writing.
Topics Covered:
Choking Procedures 1.1 Adults – Conscious
1.2 Adults – Unconscious
1.3 Children – Conscious
1.4 Children – Unconscious
1.5 Infants – Conscious
1.6 Infants – Unconscious
CPR
2.1 Adults
2.2 Children
2.3 Infants
Assorted Walking Assists
Lacerations and Open Wounds
Bumps and Closed Wounds
AED Information
Maintaining a Safe Home
Preventing Emergencies
Maintaining a Healthy Body
Lyme Disease and Ticks
Seizures
Diabetes
911 and Hatzoloh Information
We follow the regents curriculum to prepare the girls to take the Chemistry Regent in June. The topics we cover are:
nuclear chemistry.
Teacher generated booklets are distributed for each topic which includes regent style questions.
Goals: To increase the students reading comprehension levels by practicing “close reading”.
To help students become familiar with the various writing strategies and the authors use of them. To perfect grammar for essay writing. To prepare the students for the New York State Regents Exam.
Materials:
To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
The Wave by: Todd Strasser
Julius Caesar by: William Shakespeare
Various short stories & poetry
NYSED Regents website-Regent Prep
Topics Covered:
Geography and the development of the United States:
Constitutional foundations for the United States Democratic Republic:
Industrialization of the United States:
The progressive Movement:
Responses to challenges brought about by industrialization and urbanization
At home and abroad:
Prosperity and Depression, 1917-1940
The United States in an age of Global Crisis:
Responsibility and cooperation
The World in Uncertain Times, 1950-The Present
Students are prepared to take the NY State Regents Exam in United States History and Government through practice Regents and consistent review of stimulus based questions, document based questions, and essay writing.
Book Used: Amsco-United States History and Government
Units Covered:
The Origins of Art 1.1 Prehistoric
1.2 Ancient Egypt
1.3 Medieval
1.3 Renaissance
1.4 Romanticism
1.5 Modern Art
Techniques Explored 2.1 Still Life
1.2 Pointillism
1.3 Blending with Pastels
1.4 Still Life
1.5 Pointillism
1.6 Blending Techniques
Art Skills and Techniques Introduced:
The students will learn how to create spreadsheets and use the features of Microsoft Excel
An introduction to basic Spanish. Focus in on learning vocabulary and speaking basic Spanish useful in daily life.
An overview of what mental health looks like and how to achieve it, and insight into child development and parenting.
Material for the course comes from multiple sources including books and articles by Richard Carlson, Daniel J Siegel, Sarah Chana Radcliffe, Dina Friedman and Miriam Adahan among others.
Algebra 2 is a curriculum based upon the Algebra 2 Common Core Regents Examination. It takes the knowledge that they have learnt in Algebra 1 and builds upon it in a deeper understanding of the concepts of Algebra.
Topics Included in the curriculum
– Linear Equations
-Inequalities
– Graphs
– Quadratic Equations
-Imaginary numbers
– Polynomials
– Rational Expressions
– Exponential equations including growth and decay
– Logarithmic
– Trigonometric Functions
– Probability
– Sequences and Series
The New York Algebra 2 textbook by Amsco Publication is used in this course along with teacher formulated booklets including past regents questions.
Goals: To increase the students reading comprehension levels by practicing “close reading”.
To help students become familiar with the various writing strategies and the authors use of them. To perfect grammar for essay writing. To prepare the students for the New York State Regents Exam.
Materials:
Farenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury
MCbeth by: William Shakespear
Twelve Angry Men by: Reginald Rose
Various short stories & poetry
NYSED Regents website
Public Speaking class includes rules on how to give a speech.
Each student has to give a speech and include a written outline. Various topics are assigned to the students during the course of the year the students get an opportunity to speak on each topic.
Types of speeches: Informative Speech
Persuasive speech
Entertaining speech
Demonstrative speech
Students are given instructions in how to prepare oneself for an interview for college or job position.
The following topics are covered:
· Types of Economic systems | · Saving and Investing |
· Fundamentals of Economics | · Using Consumer credit wisely |
· The United States Free Enterprise System | · Personal Bankruptcy |
· Demand, Supply, and prices | · Insurance and financial protection |
· Money, Banking, and financial markets | · Social Security |
· Consumers in a market economy | · Business and Labor |
· Selling and advertising to consumers | · Choosing a Career |
· Consumer rights | · Partnership & Franchises |
· Corporations | · Labor & Wages |
· The Labor Force | · Organized Labor/Unions |
· Collective Bargaining | · Stocks and Bonds |
· Mass Production | · Taxes (Federal, State & Local) |
· Inflation | · Economic Growth |
· Unemployment | · Deflation |
· Financing International trade | · Globalization |
· International trade, regulating international trade | · Economic growth & environment |
· Government spending and budgeting/Fiscal Policy Options |
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Text Used: Pearson Economics
Course includes many “real life’ projects and many audio-visual presentations shown and discussed.
As part of our career choice curriculum students are given an extensive view into the fields of interior and fashion design. They are familiarized with the computer programs used in the industry. They also learn the key foundational skills of design, shape, space and value.