Advanced Placement - English 12
Advance Placement English is a full-year course for seniors who have demonstrated a high degree of competency in writing and literary analysis. The aims of the program are consistent with those of the college board: to provide the student with the academic equivalent of one year of English literature and composition at the university level; achievement of a 3 or higher on the nationally-administered Advanced Placement English exam. AP English seeks to challenge skills in the arts of reading and writing about literature. This class is intended to put the student in competition with talented students across the country and to see how his/her preparation measures up. If he/she does well on the national AP exam in early May, he/she will receive college-level credit, recognized at many colleges and universities in the U.S. By extension, if the student does well on the test, he/she should be well prepared to be successful in college English courses.

Advanced Placement - Physics
This course is designed to provide a thorough working knowledge of the study of classical and modern physics incorporation lab experiences, projects, contributing scientists and technological advances. The course contains six (6) general topic areas:

I	Mechanics (Newtonian)
II	Heat
III	Electricity & Magnetism
IV	Waves
V	Light & Optics
VI	Modern Nuclear Physics

The overall objective is to provide the student with language of physics, a general understanding of basic physics principles involved in the solution of problems, and the opportunity to take the College Board Physics Advanced Placement examination.

Advanced Placement - Chemistry
"The Properties of Matter Are a Consequence of its Structure" is the central theme of this Chemistry AP course. The course begins with an examination of the entire enterprise of chemistry working into problem solving, measurement principles, mathematical techniques, and a classification system for matter. Course work includes atomic theory, nuclear and atomic structure, the classification of atoms and the mole which prepares students to begin quantitative laboratory work. The periodic table, atomic combinations of molecules and ions of different kinds will be considered as well as concepts of energy, nuclear chemistry, organic compound properties and their reactions.

Adavanced Placement - Calculus
This course is comparable to a course at a college or university. It is expected that students who take AP Calculus will seek credit or placement, or both, from an institution of higher learning. AP Calculus is a challenging and demanding mathematics course concerned with developing the understanding of the concepts of Calculus and providing experience with its methods and applications. The course emphasizesa multirepresentational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, verbally and the connections between the representations. Broad concepts and widely applicable methods are emphasized. The course is neither strictly manipulation nor memorization of an extensive taxonomy of functions, curves, theorems, or problem types. Technology will be used to reinforce the relationships among multiple representations of functions, to confirm written work, to implement experimentation, and to assist in interpreting results. Through the use of the unifying themes of derivatives, intergrals, limits, approximation, and applications and modeling, the course will be a cohesive whole.