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Course Description
This course entails the study of concepts of web site design and maintenance using HTML and software such as Dreamweaver, or Frontpage. This course also covers text styles, images, Web-based database access concepts using MySQL or other relational databases. Students encounter an introduction to PHP, Javascript, and relational database concepts.
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This course is a World Literature study focusing on: short stories, poetry selections, including at least one Shakespearean play and several novels. Vocabulary study will include verbal analogies generated primarily from the readings. Students will strengthen writing skills in paragraph writing, emphasizing correct grammar, word choice, and organization. Writing projects will center on reading selections as well as expository and persuasive essays of two-three pages in length. A research paper of 5-7 pages in length is an expectation using MLA format.
Students in this course will acquire the algebraic skills necessary for success in future math courses. Topics covered include: solving and graphing (one and two variable) linear equations and inequalities, problem solving, factoring, solving systems of linear equations, simplifying rational expressions, simplifying radicals, and an introduction to linear and quadratic functions. This course provides the foundation for further mathematical understanding and success.
This course surveys the history of the United States from colonial times through the modern period. Students will examine the economic, political, and cultural development of early America. The course continues with the events that lead America into the Civil War and our recovery and modernization after the war. The final part of this course emphasizes the emergence of the United States as a world power and the crises faced as a modern nation both at home and abroad.
