Electives

This course provides students with the basic skills and knowledge needed to effectively manage their personal finances. The intent is to inform students how individual choices directly influence occupational goals and future earnings potential. Basic economic concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, and cost/benefit analysis are interwoven throughout the standards and objectives.

This is a teacher-directed reading intervention program designed specifically to increase reading performance. This class is conducted using workstations by small group rotations. The class begins with whole group, direct instruction followed by rotations through stations which include READ 180 software, small group direct instruction by the teacher, modeled and independent reading and concludes with whole group wrap-up instruction presented by the teacher. The work is designed to improve the student’s reading skills so that the student may achieve on-grade level reading. The course improves the student’s reading comprehension, use of reading strategies across the curriculum, and enriches the student’s vocabulary. Students are concurrently enrolled in English I or II.