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PEER FACILITATION AND LEADERSHIP ELECTIVES These are elective courses reserved for seniors who have met the graduation requirements. Course Name: Peer Facilitation 1 (Office Aide)
Course Number: 35.0410001 Available to seniors during the fall semester
Course Number: 35.0410002 Available to seniors during the spring semester
Term: Semester
Grade: 12
Prerequisites: Seniors only; application; excellent attendance and discipline required
Description: Participants assist in the school offices and must be able to interact with students and adults in a variety of settings. Students learn about different business processes and procedures. Course Name: Peer Facilitation 2 (Teacher’s Aide)
Course Number: 35.0420001 Available to seniors during the fall semester
Course Number: 35.0420002 Available to seniors during the spring semester
Term: Semester
Grade: 12
Prerequisites: Seniors only; application; excellent attendance and discipline required
Description: Students in this course work with faculty members and develop mentoring, listening, guidance, and leadership skills. Course Name: Peer Facilitation 3 (Teacher’s Assistant at Creek View E.S.)
Course Number: 35.0430001 Available to seniors during the fall semester
Course Number: 35.0430002 Available to seniors during the spring semester
Term: Semester
Grade: 12
Prerequisites: Seniors only; application; excellent attendance and discipline required
Description: This course provides an opportunity for students to work with elementary school students at a neighboring school. Course Name: Peer Facilitation 4 (Teacher’s Assistant in an AHS Special Needs Classroom)
Course Number: 35.0440001 Available to seniors during the fall semester
Course Number: 35.0440002 Available to seniors during the spring semester
Term: Semester
Grade: 12
Prerequisites: Seniors only; application; excellent attendance and discipline required
Description: This course provides an opportunity for students to work with special needs students in a high school classroom setting. Course Name: Peer Leadership
Course Number: 45.0590001 Available to seniors during the fall semester
Course Number: 45.0590002 Available to seniors during the spring semester
Term: Semester
Grade: 12
Prerequisites: Seniors only; excellent attendance and discipline required; Student Council/Government or teacher recommendation
Description: Students in this course are elected school leaders who work towards implementing school wide student initiatives. STUDY SKILLS/GHSGT/SAT Course Name: Study Skills 1/GHSGT
Course Number: 35.0610007
Term: Semester - SPRING
Grade: 11, 12
Prerequisites: Juniors and seniors
Description: Students receive intense practice and instruction in writing, English, math, science, and social studies in preparation for the Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT). Course Name: Freshman Focus
Course Number: 35.0610001
Term: Semester
Grade: 9
Prerequisites: None; Freshmen; Offered second semester
Description: This class is open to all freshmen, but is required if the student has failed two or more classes in the previous semester. The course will focus on increasing student’s study skills through improving their organizational, note-taking, communication, comprehension, time management, and test taking strategies. Course Name: Academic and Life Skills
Course Number: 35.0510001
Term: Semester
Grade: 10 – 12
Prerequisites: None; sophomores, juniors and seniors; Offered first semester
Description: This class is open to all sophomores, juniors and seniors, but is required if the student has failed two or more classes in the previous semester. The course will focus on implementing some of the same strategies, but will be geared more to preparing our students for post-secondary options. Course Name: SAT Prep
Course Number: 35.0660001
Term: Semester
Grade: 11, 12
Prerequisites: Juniors and seniors, Completed or Enrolled in Integrated Algebra II or higher
Description: Students receive intense practice and instruction in the areas of problem solving and advanced grammar. The course is team taught by a mathematics and a language arts teacher. Highly recommended for seniors for fall semester and juniors for spring semester INTERRELATED RESOURCES Course Name: Study Skills 1, 2, 3, 4
Course Number: 35.8610080, 35.8620080, 35.8630080, 35.8640080
Term: Yearlong
Grade: 9 – 12
Prerequisites: IEP Placement
Description: Study Skills is available to 9th – 12th grade students who have an IEP; students earn elective credit. The Study Skills class provides an opportunity to improve study skills, organizational skills, and test-taking skills. Study Skills teachers work one-on-one with students in all subjects during the second half of their Study Skills classes. Study Skills is recommended for any IRR student who is in a General Education or Team-Taught Class. Course Name: Social Skills 1, 2
Course Number: 35.8510080, 35.8520080
Term: Yearlong
Grade: 9 – 12
Prerequisites: IEP Placement
Description: This elective class is available for students in 9th – 12th grades who have an IEP; students earn elective credit. The Social Skills class provides students with answers to questions about peer and adult relationships and helps students learn and practice appropriate coping and social skill strategies.
DUAL ENROLLMENT The Dual Enrollment Program is for students classified as high school juniors and seniors at accredited public or private high schools in the state of Georgia, and is operated in all school terms except summer. The program allows students to pursue postsecondary study at approved public and private colleges and technical colleges while receiving dual high school and college credit for courses successfully completed. Courses pursued by students under this program must come from the approved course directory which is supplied to high school counselors in the state. Courses are available only in the areas of the core graduation rquirements for college preparatory students: English; Mathematics; Social Studies; Science; World Language. Course Name: College English (Georgia Perimeter College)
Course Number: 23.0630400
Term: Yearlong
Grade: 12
Prerequisites: Seniors; acceptance to GPC
Description: This course includes English 1101 (Fall only), English 1102 (Spring, Fall for students who scored a 3 or above on their AP Language exam), and English 2111 (Spring only).
ENGL 1101/English Composition I: This course focuses on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills.
ENGL 1102/English Composition II: This course develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and incorporates more advanced research methods. A research paper is required. (Prerequisite: ENGL 1101 with a C or better. Or an AP Language score of 3 or better.)
ENGL 2111/World Literature I: This course offers a survey of world literature including the ancient world, classical Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a C or better. Course Name: College Economics (Georgia Perimeter College)
Course Number: 45.0610409
Term: Semester
Grade: 12
Prerequisites: Seniors; acceptance to GPC
Description: This is an introductory course in macroeconomics (ECON 2105/Principles of Macroeconomics). It introduces students to concepts that will enable them to understand and analyze economic aggregate and evaluate economic policies. The areas of fiscal policy, monetary policy, social goals, monetary systems, national income, employment, inflation, and economic growth are included. Prerequisite: Seniors; acceptance to GPC Course Name/Course Number:
College Calculus 2 27.0750405*
College Calculus 3 27.0750406* *co-requisites; students must register for both courses
Term: Semester
Grade: 11 – 12
Prerequisites: Juniors and seniors; AP Calculus AB or BC; Acceptance to Georgia Tech
Description: This course is taught by a Georgia Tech professor through the Distance Learning Lab. Students from several Fulton County High Schools become part of this Georgia Tech classroom through the use of technology. The Calculus 2 course concludes the treatment of single variable calculus, and begins linear algebra—the linear basis of the multivariable theory. The Calculus 3 course involves multivariable calculus: Linear approximation and Taylor’s theorems, Lagrange multiples and constrained optimization, multiple integration and vector analysis including the theorems of Green, Gauss and Stokes.
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