High School Diploma School

Students will be able to demonstrate they possess the necessary knowledge and skills to enter the workforce or to continue their education at a college.

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate 21st century skills such as the ability to use technology to complete learning tasks and to communicate effectively
• Use critical thinking and reasoning skills to complete learning tasks in English Language Art courses
• Use declarative knowledge and demonstrate understanding to complete learning tasks in English Language Art courses
• Use critical thinking and reasoning skills to complete learning tasks in physical science
• Use declarative knowledge and demonstrate understanding to complete learning tasks in physical science
• Use critical thinking and reasoning skills to complete learning tasks in math courses
• Use declarative knowledge and demonstrate understanding to complete learning tasks in math courses
• Use critical thinking and reasoning skills to complete learning tasks in social studies courses
• Use declarative knowledge and demonstrate understanding to complete learning tasks in social studies courses
• Apply fundamental mathematical skills to solve real world problems
• Utilize writing skills to complete writing assessments

This course studies how human relations works and the part individuals play. Students will learn vertical and horizontal working relationships, understanding leadership and followership, and individual productivity in the workplace. Included in this course is a review of frustration and aggression, the most common human relations mistakes, dealing with injured relationships, and analyzing attitudes.

Previewing; scanning; dictionary usage; context clues; words with multiple meanings; paragraph structure; making inferences; separating fact from opinion; detecting bias; drawing conclusions; imagery; similes and metaphors; the elements of fiction.

Your coursework is comprised of the guide to pronunciation, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. Students learn synonyms and antonyms, the parts of a sentence, noun plurals and possessives, using modifiers effectively, and punctuation. Sentence skills are an important component of proper grammar. Students are instructed in phrases and clauses, sentence structures, punctuation and sentence structure. Assignments include development of writing skills through prewriting, planning, revising and editing, proofreading, presenting, and paragraph structure. The course ends with development of compositions, creative writing, personal writing, workplace writing, letter styles, and factual writing.

Society requires students capable of expressing ideas through written communication. This courses examines the parts of speech, sentence structure, sentence sense, common grammatical problems, punctuation, and capitalization. Also included is a study of effective correspondence, writing with style, shaping paragraphs, conveying an impression, kinds of business correspondence, parts of a letter, letter styles, common business letters, and reports.

In this course you’ll gain insight into the origin of life, the relationships among all living organisms, and discover how your own body works.

This course studies all forms of matter: minerals, and rocks, natural resources and internal phenomena, weathering, erosion and water, glaciers, oceans and time, the atmosphere and climate, and astronomy.

Beginning with whole numbers, this course examines fractions, mixed numbers, as well as subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals. Included in this course is metric measurement and converting between English and Metric systems. Students will also learn ratios, proportion, and percent.

This course reviews factors and multiples, powers and roots, and equations. Student learn signed numbers, basic operations with signed numbers, and monomials and polynomials. Geometry is the study of angles, lines, polygons, circles and circumference. Also included is the study of area and volume.

Students learn about angles and lines, polygons, triangles, drawings and constructions, quadrilaterals and parallelograms, circles, tangents and secants, arc, radians, and areas of circular figures. The course ends with a review of unusual figures: prisms and cylinders, pyramids, cones, and frustums, spheres and cylindrical rings.

This course studies the settling the prairies, the growth of Canadian industries and cities, the social picture, major events of World Wars I and II, the great depression, the United Nations, and how the latter half of the 20th century set the stage for a new Canada.

When thinking about studying the entirety of world history, it’s easy to see how it appears to be a nearly impossible task. One way of making the vast amount of information manageable to learn is to present the information in a way that focuses on the highlights and large-scale trends seen in history. Your World History course begins with a very brief summary of ancient civilizations. You’ll focus most of your studies on events and peoples in world history from 1450 to the present.