Instructor: Nina Wilhite Description: In this course, you will get a solid introduction to the basic concepts and applications of chemistry. Why would you bother with chemistry? Believe it or not, you use chemistry everyday. This class will explore this in addition to chemistry’s importance in many other subjects. But most importantly, we will see that chemistry helps us to understand God’s creation in a detailed, meaningful way.Chemistry has a mandatory lab that meets on Fridays. Requirements: Class time will consist of class activities, lectures, and labs. Students will maintain their notebook along with a Chemistry folder where they can…

Instructor: Nina Wilhite Description: This course assumes that God is the creator of all life and will introduce students to the science of biology. Topics to be explored include different classification systems in biology, organic chemistry basics, cell structure, cell functions, genetics fundamentals, ecology, classifying features of organisms, and an introduction of Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution. Latin and Greek Root words will be introduced to enhance scientific studies. This course will have a heavy emphasis on vocabulary and lab work, requiring a significant time commitment from each student. Biology has a mandatory lab that meets on Fridays….

Instructor: Courtney Johnson Description: This two day per week class is geared for beginning high school literature students who are learning to read and write on a deeper level about literature.   The focus of this class will be on analyzing literature and writing the literary analysis essay, but other types of writing will also be taught. This class is writing-intensive, so not only will we be learning about literature, we will also be building our composition skills:  sentence structure, grammar and punctuation, strong paragraphs, pre-writing skills, outlining, MLA formatting, and essay writing.   In addition, we will dive into a variety…

Instructor: Maurine Amend Description: Course covers real numbers and variables, equations, inequalities, applied problems, polynomials, factoring. rational equations, graphing and functions, radicals and quadratic formulas. Requirements: First, students are required to write down all homework assignments in a journal. Assignments will be written on the board at the end of class. It is their responsibility to write them down as we are training them for college. Second, all homework must be neat, legible, written in pencil and all work must be shown. Third, students are graded on 12 quizzes, any additional quizzes given will result in the lowest quiz score…

Instructor: Maurine Amend Description: This course is a continuation of beginning Algebra. It covers linear inequalities, equations with two variables and functions, polynomials, rational expressions, radicals, quadratics, logs and exponential functions, graphing conic and parabolas. Requirements: First, students are required to write down all homework assignments in a journal. Assignments will be written on the board at the end of class. It is their responsibility to write them down as we are training them for college. Second, all homework must be neat, legible, written in pencil and all work must be shown. Third, students are graded on 12 quizzes, any…