East High School

Course Selection

January 24, 2018

Agenda Welcome

Course Selection Process

Timeline

Student’s role

March 28, 2018

Levels of courses

Blended Learning Courses

Dual Enrollment

GPA (Grade Point Average)

Electives

COURSE SELECTION GUIDE

ONLY available on-line

Excellent Resource

Includes:

Important dates

Credit Requirements

Policies and Guidelines

Course Descriptions

Course selection timeline

Dates Event

Feb. 1-9 Teacher Recommendations

Feb. 12-23 Students/Parents select electives

Feb 26-

Mar 2

Verify selected courses for

accuracy

Mar. 5-9 Course change window

Mar. 12-16 Verify selected courses for

accuracy

Mar. 28 Deadline for elective changes

Teacher Recommendations

Teachers make recommendations for English,

Social Studies, Math, Science, and World Language

Recommendations are based on

performance/potential in the present class

Elective Courses

Explore areas of interest

Art

Business/Marketing

Computer Science

Family/Consumer Sciences

Music

Technology Education

World Languages

English, Science, and Social Studies

Choose two AND select two alternates

Changes to your

original requests???

March 5-9 and March 12-16

Changes need to be made through the counseling office

Types of Changes…

Level Changes

Correcting an Error

Changing Electives

Use the “Course Placement Waiver Form”available online and with your counselor.

Returned to the Counseling Office

MARCH 28

Last day to request schedule changes

for next school year!

Typical 9th Grade Schedule

Homeroom

Period 1: Biology

Period 2. Health and PE

Period 3: African Asian History

Period 4: French 2

Period 5: Lunch

Period 6: English 9

Period 7: Geometry

Period 8: Intro to Business

New Courses!

1. AP Human Geography

2. AP Capstone (10th or 11th –next school

year) (February 7th)

3. Science Dual Enrollment courses here at

East (January 30th)

A. Six university credits and two high

school credits ($100)

Course levels and weighting

Career and College Prep

Honors

Accelerated Honors

Advanced Placement

Numerical

Average

Letter

Grade

Career &

CollegePrep

Honors

Accelerated

Honors/Advanced

Placement

97-100 A+ 4.3 4.73 5.16

93-96 A 4.0 4.4 4.8

90-92 A- 3.7 4.07 4.44

Blended learning

- 4/1 Four days in class and one

day online

- You will have work to do on your

online day- Accounting 1 & 2

- AP Computer Science Principles

- Stocks and Investments

- Computer Programming in C and C++

Dual Enrollment

Options

COURSE SELECTION GUIDE