Program Grade 10

Students in the World Literature II course continue their journey by reading texts from around the world and exploring the roles of storytelling and language in different literary cultures. Throughout the year, they will study a variety of texts: nonfiction, novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and film. Together, students will also read Elie Wiesel’s Night, David Benioff’s City of Thieves, and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Finally, students will finish the year with an inquiry-driven research project that addresses real issues in our community.

The Integrated I course aims to deepen and extend student understanding built in previous courses by focusing on developing fluency with solving linear equations, inequalities, and systems. These skills are extended to solving simple exponential equations, exploring linear and exponential functions graphically, numerically, symbolically, and as sequences, and by using regression techniques to analyze the fit of models to distributions of data.

Based on student performance, teacher recommendation, and standardized test scores in math, students may be placed in the higher level Integrated Math II course.

The Integrated II course aims to formalize and extend the geometry that students have learned in previous courses. It helps students develop the concepts of formal proof, explore the properties of two- and three-dimensional objects, work within the rectangular coordinate system to verify geometric relationships and prove basic theorems about circles. Students also use the language of set theory to compute and interpret probabilities for compound events. Concerning Algebra, students learn the fundamentals of quadratic functions by working with equations in standard, factored, and vertex form. Substantial work is put into real-life applications of quadratics.

This course is divided into two main parts: the study of semantics and linguistics and Catalan literature. Students will be introduced to Catalan literature, from its origins to the end of the twentieth century. Works representative of the most important movements in Catalan literature will be examined. There will be oral presentations and debate, video and oral recordings, as well as written assignments. Students will also have the opportunity to attend a Catalan theater performance. Note: Catalan is the language of instruction in this course and sufficient level of Catalan is required to take the course. Catalan as a Second Language may be offered where scheduling and numbers allow it.

This course exposes students to different lifelong recreational activities and sports, along with developing manipulative, locomotor and non-locomotor skills. Students are also taught basic fundamental fitness skills with proper warm up and cool down routines. Units include activities such as: floor hockey, badminton, softball, and ultimate frisbee.

Various electives and club activities are available to both ninth and tenth graders and are designed as semester courses to develop students’ knowledge and skills in a wide range of areas.

Example Electives:

• Art
• Music
• Model United Nations (MUN)
• Speech and Debate 
• Computational Thinking
• Maker (space)

Example Clubs:

• English tutors at local schools

• Yearbook

• RefugArt

• NESDA

• Model United Nations (MUN)

• Robotics

• Rotary Interact

• Musical Theater

• MOOC

• Elder Companion Activities

• Drumming

• Girl Talk

• HS Choir

• Sport and Fitness

• Math Team