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sonality, Memory, and  Awareness.  Psychology gives students multiple opportunities to think critically about research and consider different points of views on many issues.  Students also have written articles on various issues relating to Psychology that have been discussed in class.  We have been using the internet to find Psychology related materials that are important to Psychology today.  We will conclude this semester learning about Intelligence, Perception, Learning, Abnormal Behavior, Motivation, and Gender Roles.  We also develop critical thinking skills that are vital to the study of  Psychology.  All you need to do is watch and read the news to see the importance of Psychology in our everyday lives.
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• 9^th Grade Physical Education - Mr. Wanner
•      During the school year 9^th grade physical education students will be learning and participating in various lifetime activities.  They will be taught skills that can be used throughout their lifetime.  Such activities include archery, badminton, golf, bowling, tennis, and circuit training development.  All these activities students will be tested on rules and grades are based on participation.

• American History - 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 students by speaking to individuality, to their possibilities for choice.  By organizing information thematically, students 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 students 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 questions.  Themes that students 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 students 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 related to subject areas.  The first quarter we read Tom Brokaw's Greatest Genera

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