Course Syllabus:

Reading

Weeks 1 – 4 (Unit 1)

Community: Who are we? Where do we come from? How can we become a community of learners? How do we establish habits that will lead to academic success?

 

Weeks 5 – 9 (Unit 2)

Power: How is power structured? Who has power? Who has been historically excluded from power? What are our rights and responsibilities in a democracy?

 

Weeks 10 – 14 (Unit 3)

Culture and Traditions:

What do we value? How do we create legacies? How can we learn from the legacies of the past?

 

Weeks 15 – 18 (Unit 4)

Fears & Goals: What do we strive for? What do we fear? How will we overcome fears to reach goals?

 

Weeks 19 – 27 (Unit 5)

Overcoming: What lessons can we learn from those who fought for civil rights? How can we advocate for ourselves (and others) in the present using lessons from the past?

 

How have women been represented and treated

in history? How have women overcome challenges? How do we overcome our own challenges?

 

 

Weeks 28 – 33 (Unit 6)

Truth: Who do we trust (and how do we know)? What makes something or someone credible? How do we find credible information amid widespread misinformation/disinformation?

 

Weeks 34 – 40 (Unit 7)

Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future: How have industry and technology changed our world from past to present? How do these changes impact me? What changes do we wish to implement in our lives? What specific steps will we take to implement those changes?

 

*** Weekly HiSET reading questions

*** HISET testing pre and posttest on quarterly basis

*** Unit testing at end of each unit in vocabulary

*** Project/presentations at end of each unit

 

Language Arts on a rotating basis

– Noun, subject, and verb recognition

– Commas

– Dependent and independent clauses

– Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions

– Semicolons

 

*** Weekly language arts HiSET questions

*** HiSET testing pre and posttest on quarterly basis

*** Unit testing at end of each unit in grammar

 

Essay Writing

– Paragraph organization (writing paragraphs)

– Parts of essay

– Writing with AI as example

– Writing essay on our own

 

*** Work into essay writing as learn gramamar