ADVANCED ALGEBRA Note! This class is five weeks long and will start on June 9
Dates: June 9 - July 11

Check your eligibility for this class on or after March 7 at http://www.siprep.org/math/index.cfm. Advanced Algebra is designed for selected current sophomores only. Enrollment in Advanced Algebra represents a request for placement into Precalculus Accelerated or Precalculus Honors.

Course Description: Each week of the course, one topic will be covered with a unit test. The material covered will be those select Algebra 2 topics which fall between Algebra 1 and Precalculus Honors: polynomial functions and their graphs, conic sections, rationals, exponential and log functions, and Sequences and Series, all with an emphasis on graphing calculator use.  Students can expect that approximately 20 minutes of each class period will consist of direct instruction; the rest of the time will be devoted to independent work, since ability to handle a fast pace is required for honors and accelerated courses.  There will be a cumulative final exam. Daily homework equaling roughly 90 minutes will be required.  Tutoring and extra help are discouraged, as this might result in placement in a course beyond the student's true capabilities.

Grades: While students are expected to be thoroughly prepared for class, as well as to participate fully in class, grades and subsequent fall math placement are based solely on performance on the unit tests and the final exam.  Advanced Algebra is strictly an enrichment class and satisfies no graduation or remediation requirements, nor does the grade count in any GPA, so +/- will not be given. The following grading policy will apply:  100-90% = A, 89.9-80% = B, below 80% = no credit.

Criteria for Fall Placement: Students applying for Precalculus Honors must earn an A in Advanced Algebra. Students applying for Precalculus Accelerated must earn a B or higher.  Grades below B will indicate a fall placement in Algebra 2. 

Absence policy for this class only: 1. Student may not miss more than a total of 5 days of class. 2. Of a student's 5 allotted absences, the student may not take more than 4 absences during the last week of the summer session.

Textbook: Fee includes a textbook that will be provided.

Requirements:

• Completion of all tests and quizzes
• Preparedness and participation
• Possession and use of a Graphing Calculator (TI 83 or 84 preferred)
  
  

This course uses problem solving and extensive laboratory work to develop an understanding of the fundamental laws and principals of Chemistry. Topics include measurement, properties and phases of matter, chemical formulas and equations, stoichiometry, atomic structure, thermodynamics, equilibrium, solubility, acids and bases, and an introduction to electrochemistry. Note: Students may not be absent on the last day of summer school and must take the final as scheduled on July 18.

Required textbook:
The Chemistry textbook will be loaned to all students during the summer session. The students will be required to make two payments to the teacher: 1. book deposit that will be returned at the end of the session if the student returns the textbook and 2. $5 for a lab book.

Classroom instruction for High School students. Thirty classroom hours as required by state law to obtain a driver's permit (NOT A LICENSE).

$610

5 credits

Grade Level - 12

Prerequisite - English 100 or 103H; 200 or 203H; 300 or 303H

Photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy writes: "The illiterate of the 20th century will be as ignorant of the camera as of the pen." This single-semester course tries to create conscious and knowledgeable readers and viewers of film and adds a proper balance to the study of fiction and film through the act of writing. Why see the film if you've read the book? Why read the book if you've already seen the film? Fiction into Film seeks to help the student see that literature and film go hand in hand by the nature of their common narrative elements despite the differences in their delivery. To that end, the student will use analytical skills in considering films and apply these skills to their work with literature -- and vice versa. Note: Students may not be absent on the last day of summer school and must take the final as scheduled on July 18.

Required textbook:
Required books will be announced by the teacher in class during the first week of summer school.

$955

10 credits

Grade Level - 10, 11, 12

Prerequisite - Biology, Chemistry, Algebra 1
Criteria for Enrollment - Math GPA 2.0 or higher

Physics is the scientific study of the most fundamental laws of nature. This course aims to further develop students’ appreciation for and competence in the scientific method.  This course also aims to develop students’ conceptual and quantitative understanding of physical principles. Students perform experiments to develop proficiency in laboratory technique in applying physical principles to the analysis of experimental data. Units of study in this course include motion, Newton’s Laws, collisions, energy, thermodynamics, waves, sound, light, fundamental particles of nature, radioactivity, quantum mechanics, and electricity and magnetism. Note: Students may not be absent on the last day of summer school and must take the final as scheduled on July 18.

Required textbook for Summer Physics:
Hewitt, Conceptual Physics, 3rd Edition, with expanded technology , Publisher, Pearson, ISBN: 0-201-33287-6

RELIGIOUS STUDIES 400 - Path to Faith: Inspiring Lives Note! This class is five weeks long and will start on June 16
June 16 - July 18
Time: Class must meet the equivalent of 2 hours and 45 minutes per day for six weeks.
Class Meeting Schedule:
Mondays through Thursdays, 8:30 am to 12:15pm
Monday evenings, 5pm - 9pm (The two classes on Mondays count as TWO days of class)
On Mondays teacher and/or security guard will accompany students to their cars and/or wait with them at the flagpole to be picked up at night. It is recommended that students park directly in front of the school.

Grade Level - 12

“To find God in all things.” St. Ignatius taught that God is present in every aspect of our world and our lives. Each of our experiences unfolds God’s grace at work in the world and in our hearts. This course will help the student open up his/her conscious experience of God’s grace. We study the means by which we come to experience God: personal prayer, journaling, communal and liturgical worship, various spiritualities of the masters of religious experience (with St. Ignatius as our guide) and the human beings we encounter in our modern world. Through the study and analysis of both our own life experiences and “inspiring lives,” we come to deepen our understanding of and relationship to our God, especially in the Catholic tradition.

Required textbooks:
1. Course reader (must be purchased NEW);
2. 8 Spiritual Heroes: Their Search For God by Brennan Hill;
3. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albon;
4. Please have a separate 3-ring binder for the reader, with section dividers, (reader, handouts, notes), and binder paper.
5. Also you are asked to have a separate prayer journal.

WORLD HISTORY II  (Three sections available in 2008)
June 9 - July 18

Pre-requisite: World History I

This course is a study of the political, cultural, geopolitical, economic, intellectual, aesthetic and religious factors involved in human development since the beginning of World War I in 1914. Mastery of basic factual material as well as ability to analyze and interpret that material will be required. Students will develop a formal thesis and write a research paper defending that thesis.

Required textbook:
Students are expected to keep the textbook used in World History I for use in the summer session of World History II. All students must read All Quiet on the Western Front by the first day of class.