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American History:  11^th Grade   Full Year Course - Mr. Wanner
• History is the discipline that can best help them understand and deal with change, and at the same time to identify the deep continuities that link past and present.  History can satisfy young people's longing for a sense of identity and of their time and place in the human story.  Well-taught, history and biography are naturally engaging to student's by speaking to individuality, to their possibilities for choice.  By organizing information thematically, student's are provided with the opportunity to analyze related information over time. 
• At the beginning of each unit, "Themes in American History" are taught.  Written as summaries of main ideas, these themes alert student's  to the significant issues they will encounter throughout each unit.  After each unit themes are reinforced using a time line and critical thinking questions.  The time-line callouts serve as clues to answering the critical thinking question for each theme.  Themes that we will be learning throughout the school year are Economics, The Constitution, Social Change, Geography, Science & Technology, Government & Politics, Ethics & Values, and Conflict.
• During the course of the year we also will be using historical documents  that allow student's to act as historians.  As students read, evaluate, analyze, and interpret different reading passages and images, they utilize the skills of a historian.  Finally during the school year each quarter we will be reading some interesting books.  The first quarter we read Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation.  The second quarter we will read Uncle Tom's Cabin, third quarter will read Unbroken, and finally the fourth quarter will discuss and read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Honors History:  11^th Grade   Full Year Course - Mr. Wanner
• Honors History student's will read and work with historical documents and analyze the documents.  Each quarter student's will write essays on certain topics pertaining to events in American History.  Student's will also think critically and develop their own interpretations of history which is, in large part, what the study of history is all about.  Each quarter will be broken into history units.  Like American History class units will include beginnings to 1789, The Road to Revolution and Victory, The United States begins, The Civil War, World War I, World War II, and present day events.  Also student's will read the same books were reading in American History class.

9^th Grade Health:  1^st Semester - Mr. Wanner
• This semester 9^th grade health student's are learning the importance of health

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