Academics
Course Description
The Treble Choir is an introductory choir at St. Pius X that gives students a strong foundation for success in a high-school choir setting. We learn repertoire of varying difficulties and learn important musicianship skills such as sight-singing and rhythm. We perform at school Masses, feeder school events, and end-of-semester concerts, and compete in district and regional events. This choir prepares students to enter Sarton Singers (varsity-level choir).
Grade Level Offerings
Course Length
Credits
The first semester will be Introduction to Academic Prose which introduces students to college-level reading, writing, and discourse analysis: it engages students in the analysis and creation of texts that reveal multiple perspectives about specific rhetorical situations and cultural issues. In addition to learning how to revise by analyzing their own writing, students will learn to edit their own work and use proper academic documentation. The second semester will be Introduction to Popular Literature which is designed to help students develop a fuller understanding of the human condition by exploring a range of accessible, bestselling fiction and non-fiction from a variety of periods and places, historic and contemporary. The course may include popular stories, songs and ballads, the scripts of blockbuster plays and films, best-selling novels, and widely distributed nonfictional prose.
Designed for students to acquire basic knowledge of the structure and an understanding of functions of the cells, tissues, organs, and systems of the human body. Scientific methodology is incorporated in the classroom activities along with substantial anatomical names and terminology. These skills are intended to introduce students to general terms and concepts needed as young adults and future parents. These terms and concepts may also serve as an introduction to students interested in biological and health related careers. Units of study include introductory terminology, cytology, histology, and each of the systems (skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, integumentary, and reproductive).
This course will include an intense study of: polygons, congruency and classifications of triangles, deductive proofs, circles and their angles, right triangles, areas and volumes of plane and solid figures, ratio and proportions of similar triangles, and coordinate geometry. In addition, students will develop visual skills, expand their mathematical vocabulary and review algebra skills necessary for success in Honors Algebra II.
