U.S. High School Diploma

In this course, you’ll explore the amazing potential of your personality. The course begins by defining personality and showing its effects on your life. You’ll learn some famous theories about personality and the possible ways that personality is formed. After taking a personality test, you’ll reflect on your results to understand more about yourself and your traits. Finally, you’ll decide how your personality can help you to build better relationships, excel as a leader, benefit your community, and succeed in your High School program and beyond.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Define personality and its effects on your life

• Explain three theories that contribute to the development of your personality

• Describe your own personality type and individual strengths and preferences

• Examine personality characteristics that can be influential to learning, leadership, and career success

In this course, you'll learn how to build your digital literacy skills and become a strong digital citizen. You'll learn to use technology to find information in ways that are ethical and effective. You'll be able to recognize how to protect your digital privacy during online activities and describe why it's important for everyone to have access to technology. You'll also learn to think critically about sources of information and determine the best methods to research and communicate ideas. By the end of the course, you'll be able to identify appropriate methods for using technology in education, the workplace, and daily life.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Recognize how to use digital technology ethically and effectively to obtain information

• Describe the importance of access to digital technology to communicate and perform tasks

• Explain how to protect digital data and safely use digital technology for commerce

• Use effective communication and research skills in education

• Interpret visual information and effective communication in a professional environment

• Carry out research related to personal, local, and global issues

In this course, you’ll learn different reading strategies that can be used to help with comprehension of information, including workplace writing. Organizational structures and reading strategies work together to reveal key details, and to effectively deliver informational texts. You’ll learn different organizational structures, and how these structures are used for writing. You’ll learn how point of view and purpose shape the content and structure of multiple text passages. You’ll analyze information to learn how to distinguish between fact and opinion. You’ll examine the basic conventions of English grammar, usage, and mechanics. This course also discusses how to identify the main themes, key details, and literacy devices in poetry and short stories. You’ll be introduced to drama and learn about different theaters throughout the history of drama, the different genres of plays, and reading strategies that will help you when reading a play.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Identify close reading strategies that can be used to comprehend informational text passages

• Analyze different types of writing including historical, informational, fact, and opinion

• Apply basic grammar rules, punctuation rules, and proper writing practices to workplace writing

• Apply basic conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics in narrative writing

• Identify main points, key details, and literary devices in poems and a short story

• Summarize central themes and supporting evidence in plays

It can be said that the pursuit of knowledge drives humanity to become better. Every day, people subconsciously consume an abundance of information from the environment around them. However, not all of that information is meaningful. Most knowledge consumed daily may not mean anything in the long run. Today’s weather has a very small impact on making plans for tomorrow. How do you sort through all that information you take in around you into what’s meaningful or not? How can you gain new information, even though it may not have been in your environment or part of your experience? In this course, you’ll gain and apply close reading skills to help you sort through all of the information around you.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Apply close reading strategies to make inferences in nonfiction texts

• Apply basic English language conventions in nonfiction texts

• Use evidence from informational texts to support a position on a topic

• Recognize the use of figurative, literal, and non-literal language in poetry and a short story

• Restate details and examples from the text when explaining how characters develop and interact in a novel

• Apply theories and styles of nonfiction writing to create effective personal and professional writing

In this course, you’ll analyze and cite evidence to support analysis of history, social studies, science, and technology-related texts as well as their graphics. Next, you’ll review the use and impact of word choice, tone, and figurative language in a play. You’ll then explore the theme in literary narratives. Finally, you’ll summarize key details, events, and characteristics in a novel and write a structured argument with relevant evidence to support a claim.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Use evidence to support analysis of history or social studies texts and paired graphics

• Cite evidence to support analysis of scientific or technology-related texts and paired graphics

• Analyze the use and impact of word choice, tone, and figurative language in a play

• Infer a clear central idea or theme in somewhat challenging literary narratives or their paragraphs

• Summarize key details, events, and characteristics in a somewhat challenging novel

• Write a structured argument with relevant evidence to support a claim

In this course, you’ll review foundational history texts and conceptual science and technology texts using US primary source documents and multimedia or quantitative formats. Next, you’ll draw simple, logical conclusions about more challenging world literature passages. From those literature passages, you’ll analyze how an author’s word choice and structure shape meaning, style, and tone. You’ll then explore a cultural experience in world literature, citing text to highlight key details and themes. After that, you’ll study one act of Shakespeare, using close-reading strategies to explain character relationships and thematic structure. Finally, you’ll write an informative assignment to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Use multimedia to support academic presentations and writing

• Draw simple, logical conclusions about more challenging world literature passages

• Recognize how an author’s word choice and structure shape meaning, style, and tone in more challenging literature

• Examine one act of Shakespeare, using close reading strategies to explain character relationships and thematic structure

• Analyze primary and secondary history, science, and technology texts

• Apply content area literacy skills to craft a research paper

This course will provide a solid foundation so you are able to successfully use mathematics in your course, life, and career.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Solve real-world problems involving whole numbers

• Solve real-world problems involving fractions

• Solve real-world problems involving decimals

• Compare the English and metric systems of measurement

• Explain ratios, proportions, and percents

This course will allow you to apply your math knowledge to areas of your everyday life.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Estimate results quickly

• Accurately figure the amount of money involved when discounts are stated in percents

• Make smart consumer decisions

• Calculate yearly interest rates

• Understand the importance of a budget and how to prepare one

• List the factors to consider before buying a new or used car

• Discuss the options available regarding your personal insurance

• Determine when you’ve saved enough money to start investing

• Explain the difference between common stock and preferred stock

• Explain why it’s important for you to plan for your retirement

This course will review the four mathematical operations so you are able to use them at an advanced level.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Use the rules of the order of operations to solve multistep problems

• Solve word problems using equations

• Use the four basic operations with positive and negative numbers

• Give examples of monomials and polynomials

• Simplify polynomials by combining like monomials

• Simplify and solve one-step and multistep equations

• Identify and name various components of geometry

• Identify different types of quadrilaterals and triangles

• Calculate the area of squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles using appropriate formulas

• Apply the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of a missing side in a right triangle

• Compute the volume of cubes, cylinders, and rectangular solids using the correct formulas

• Solve equations using the principles of geometry

The course covers topics in geology, oceanography, meteorology, environmental science, and astronomy.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Explain the basic principles and methods of Earth Science

• Discuss the various surface processes on Earth

• Identify features of Earth's atmosphere and oceans

• Explain the causes of geologic activity

• Describe the impact of human activity on natural resources

• Explain the formation and properties of the solar system and universe

In this course you’ll gain insight into the origin of life, the relationships among all living organisms, and discover how your own body works.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Describe the characteristics, chemistry, and ecology of living things

• Analyze cells and their processes for obtaining energy and reproducing

• Explain how traits are passed on from one generation to the next

• Explain how different species of living things have evolved and are classified

• Identify the characteristics and behavior of plants and animals

• Summarize the anatomy and physiology of the major systems in the human body

This course covers a variety of topics in modern science that affect everyday life, from energy and heat to sound and electricity.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Explain how objects move when forces are applied

• Describe the role of energy transformation in daily life

• Explain how changes in matter can be measured and manipulated

• Analyze waves and radiation

• Apply the principles of chemistry

• Apply the principles of electricity and magnetism in various situations

This course focuses on US history from the earliest human settlers in North America thousands of years ago to the modern-day. You’ll learn the story of the native people who lived in this region long before Europeans came to create colonies. Follow the colonists as they faced the unknown and attempted to make new lives for themselves in North America. Finally, you’ll experience the birth and growth of the United States, a young nation that has managed to pack a wealth of world-changing events into its short history.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Describe settlement of the colonies in America and the events from the American Revolution to the ratification of the United States Constitution

• Explain expansion and industrialization in the United States from 1790 to the 1850s

• Identify the causes and lasting effects of the American Civil War

• Analyze how the events leading up to World War I shaped the United States

• Discuss the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on the United States

• Recognize changes in America from the 1960s through today

This course covers what the basic purposes of government are and how modern governments differ from one another.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Describe the different types of government and give examples of each

• Summarize the process used to ratify the Constitution

• Describe the three main parts of the Constitution and explain what each part includes

• Describe the process for amending the Constitution

• Describe the powers and responsibilities of the three branches of the federal government

• Outline the process by which laws are made

• Summarize some of the landmark cases handled by the Supreme Court

• Briefly describe the ways in which state and local governments operate

• Explain the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democratic nation

• Summarize the process for electing a president of the United States

This course will provide a broad survey of the history of the world, from the earliest humans who emerged from Africa to the modern peoples and nations that exist today. You’ll study how people adapted to live in different environments, developed tools and technology, created political institutions to govern, and spread ideas as they interacted with one another. By following the stories of different peoples and cultures through time, you’ll observe how key developments and events that took place over thousands of years have shaped the world today.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Recognize features and achievements of ancient civilizations

• Recognize features and achievements of the Byzantine Empire, Middle Ages, and Europe during the Renaissance and Age of Exploration

• Compare society and politics of world regions during the period of 1500-1800

• Explain causes of revolution, impacts of industrialization on society, and factors leading to development of global empires during the period of 1750-1914

• Describe how the Great War, Great Depression, and nationalism affected world regions

• Describe how World War II, the Cold War, and economic globalization affected world regions

In this course you’ll learn the key components of nutrition, cardiorespiratory exercise, safety issues, and stress management techniques.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Describe techniques for managing stress and developing healthy habits

• Explain healthy nutrition and digestive processes

• Identify the principles of weight management

• Outline a comprehensive cardiorespiratory fitness routine

• Describe the elements and benefits of resistance training

• Develop personal fitness and nutritional goals

Learn about the automobile repair field, engine parts and operation, and engine types. Includes a practical exercise.

Experts explain everything step-by-step: the benefits of child day care, licensing requirements, managing staff, and details on child growth and development. Features Ages and Stages Chart and Student Observation Guide.

Get a look at what it’s like to work side by side with doctors in the rewarding health-care field. Topics include learning strategies, time and stress management, interpersonal communication, and law and medical ethics. Includes supplements on speaking and communication skills.

Provides an introduction on how to prepare to start your own business and learn the basics of a business plan. Discusses market research and business connections.

Start learning the skills you need to become a Veterinary Assistant. Topics include introduction to animal care, animal behavior, handling and restraint, and veterinary terminology. Includes access to an audio CD, pronunciation guides, and flash cards.

A study of basic operations with signed numbers, monomials, and polynomials. Also includes formulas, equations, inequalities, graphing, exponents, roots, quadratic equations, and algebraic fractions.

Fundamental skills of mathematics will be applied to topics such as functions, equations and inequalities, and probability. Algebra 2 teaches skills in manipulating and solving linear, quadratic, exponential, polynomial, radical, rational, and logarithmic equations.

American Literature is designed to help you navigate the works that helped to shape America, particularly some of history's most notable texts and writing. The speeches, poems, and prose that you'll read in these pages helped to shape not only American writing, but also the way we read and think today. As you read through your assignments, consider how these texts are still having an impact on us, from literature to pop culture.

In this course, you will gain an understanding of artistic media, historical periods and artistic movements, the roles of the artist and the viewer, and the principles of art criticism.

A study of the structure and reactions of matter. Discusses elemental symbols, chemical reactions, and the role of energy in those reactions. Also covers organic and nuclear chemistry.

Microsoft® Office allows people to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases. This course will teach you how to use three popular tools from the Microsoft® Office Suite — Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®. In this course, you'll learn how to use Word™ to create and edit text documents, insert figures and tables, and format pages for a variety of uses. You'll then learn how to use Excel® to organize and format data, including charts, formulas, and more complex tables. Next, you'll learn how to use PowerPoint® to create and deliver slide shows. Finally, you'll complete a graded project, which will test the skills acquired in Word™, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.

This course will provide an overview of macroeconomics and the modern market economy. Law of supply and demand, cost of living, monetary systems, international factors, and short run economic fluctuations will be examined and discussed.

This course teaches the skills and techniques of effectively developing, drafting, and revising college-level essays toward a specific purpose and audience: active reading, prewriting strategies, sentence and paragraph structure, thesis statements, varied patterns of development (such as illustration, comparison and contrast, and classification), critical reading toward revision of structure and organization, editing for standard written conventions, and use and documentation of outside sources. Students submit two prewriting assignments and three essays (process analysis, comparison and contrast, and argumentation).

This course covers the psychology of biology and behavior, consciousness, memory, thought and language, intelligence, personality and gender, stress, and community influences.

The course includes a review of basic math functions, including trades-based examples, the metric system, formulas, introductory algebra, applied geometry, financial mathematics, and statistics.

A study of the properties of points, lines, planes, and angles; polygons and triangles; circles; solids

Note: The music text contains references to various aspects of the personal lives of composers; this material may be offensive to some readers. Covers appreciating music; roles of composer and listener; principles of music theory and instrumentation; historical periods; varying styles of music.

Provides an introduction to the roots and the development of modern psychology. Discusses states of consciousness, and theories of intelligence, development, and personality. Also, looks at gender roles, stress, psychological disorders, and social factors that affect people in groups.

Note: Reproductions of paintings in the text and online supplements include nudes; these pictures may be offensive to some students. An introduction to various forms of art throughout history, from prehistoric to modern; also discusses elements of design, symbolism, and purposes of art to enable students to evaluate the meaning and quality of individual works. Learn about the most important artists of each era, as well as the cultural influences that shaped their approaches to painting, sculpture, or architecture.

A review of basic math skills and principles along with a study of various business math topics such as income, maintaining a checking account, interest, installment buying, discounts, and markups.

Compares and contrasts the economic systems that people use in various parts of the world. Discusses the function of money, the law of supply and demand, and the role of banks and government within capitalist economies.

Explains how to avoid grammatical errors when writing sentences and paragraphs; how to make words work for you; and how to improve your image by using the right word in the right place.

An introduction to several branches of science and engineering, including environmental science, agricultural science, oceanography, human anatomy and physiology, biotechnology, and engineering design.

Learn how to use Microsoft® Word™ 2019 to create, edit, and illustrate documents. Learn about the most widely used spreadsheet program, Microsoft® Excel.® Excel® can perform numerical calculations and is also useful for non-numerical applications such as creating charts, organizing lists, accessing data, and automating tasks.