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• Sociology:  11^th & 12 Grade   One Semester - Mr. Wanner
•      This semester is Sociology ( The study of human relationships ) we will study various topic's such as social structures, social class, cultural diversity, racial and ethnic relations, deviance and social control, social institution's of education, religion, and the family.  Students research various issues that relate to the study of human relationships in our society and how to deal with them.  Presently, we are studying social structures of foreign countries and how they compare with the United States.  Later this semester we will study the importance of social movements in American History and the impact that they have on our society.  We will conclude the school year with the study of the adult in society, here we look at the world of work, and the later years of our 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.
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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 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 inter

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