Special Services
Essentials/Life Skills Pathway
01001X1001 ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 9
Grade 9
This ninth-grade course provides students with a practical knowledge of language and literature. The course also includes the refinement of reading, writing, editing, and speaking skills. It is designed to prepare students for postsecondary education and employment.
01002X1002 ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 10
Grade 10
This tenth-grade course provides students with a practical knowledge of language and literature. The course also includes the refinement of reading, writing, editing, and speaking skills. It is designed to prepare students for postsecondary education and employment.
01003X1003 ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 11
Grade 11
This eleventh-grade course provides students with a practical knowledge of language and literature. The course also includes the refinement of reading, writing, editing, and speaking skills. It is designed to prepare students for postsecondary education and employment.
01004X1004 ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 12
Grade 12
This twelfth-grade course provides students with a practical knowledge of language and literature. The course also includes the refinement of reading, writing, editing, and speaking skills. It is designed to prepare students for postsecondary education and employment.
02051X1001 ALGEBRAIC CONCEPTS
Grades 9-12
This course contains the course content for students following the Essentials/Life Skills Pathway. This course provides students with prerequisite algebra skills identified in the general education math courses. The course includes essential concepts to prepare students for Algebraic Essentials A & B.
02052X1000 ALGEBRAIC ESSENTIALS
Grade 9-12
This course contains the course content for students following the Essentials pathway. This course provides students with foundational skills identified in the general education Algebra I course. The course includes essential concepts to equip students with the algebra skills necessary for employment and independent living.
02072X1000 GEOMETRY ESSENTIALS
Grades 9-12
This course provides students with foundational skills identified in the general education Geometry course. The course includes essential concepts to equip students with the geometry skills necessary for employment and independent living.
02056X1000 ESSENTIALS ALGEBRA II
Grade 11 or 12
This course provides students with the foundational skills identified in the general education Algebra II course. The course includes algebra concepts to equip students with more advanced algebra skills necessary for employment and independent living.
02155X1000 ESSENTIALS ALGEBRA WITH FINANCE
Grade 11-12
This course integrates foundational algebra, probability and statistics, and geometry to solve financial problems that occur in everyday life. The course includes real-world problems in investing, credit, banking, auto insurance, mortgages, employment, income taxes, budgeting, and planning for retirement to equip students with the skills necessary for employment and independent living.
03159X1000 ESSENTIALS: PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Grade 10
This course focuses on Physical Science concepts. The emphasis of the curriculum is on the nature and processes of science, properties, and changes in matter, forces and motions, and interactions of energy and matter.
03051X1000 ESSENTIALS: BIOLOGY
Grade 9
This course focuses on Life Science concepts. The emphasis of the curriculum is on the nature and processes of science, structure, and function of living systems; energy, and organization of living systems; diversity and adaptations; heredity and reproduction; and health, nutrition, and safety.
03003X1000 ESSENTIALS: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Grade 11-12
Fee: $20.00
This course is an integrated course that connects previously taught skills in grades 9-12 to real-life situations. This level extends previously learned skills and enables students to apply skills to practical life activities.
03053X1000 ESSENTIALS: HUMAN ANATOMY
Grade 11-12
Fee: $20.00
This course is designed to provide students with practical knowledge of human anatomy and physiology including scientific process and application skills; anatomical terminology; structure and function of cells, tissues, and body systems; biochemistry, system regulation, and integration.
04051X1000 ESSENTIALS I: WORLD HISTORY
Grade 9
This course is a study of world history from 1500 to the present. Students can apply and utilize their knowledge to develop informed opinions about issues such as the quest for peace, human rights, trade, global ecology and the impact each has on everyday life situations.
04102X1011 ESSENTIALS II: U.S. HISTORY TO 1877
Grade 10
This course follows a chronological study of major events, issues, movements, leaders, and groups of people of the United States through Reconstruction from a national and Alabama perspective.
04103X1011 ESSENTIALS III: U.S. HISTORY FROM 1877
Grade 11
This course begins with the post-Reconstruction United States and its shift into a more industrialized society and continues through the twentieth century to the present.
04201X0511 ESSENTIALS IV: ECONOMICS
Grade 12
This course is a one-semester course that focuses on the functions and institutions of modern-day economic systems and theory. Students gain skills that will enable them to anticipate changes in economic conditions and how to adjust to the changes to improve their lives and their communities.
04151X0511 ESSENTIALS IV: U.S. GOVERNMENT
Grade 12
This course is a one-semester course that focuses on the origins, structure, and functions of government at all levels. It also includes a detailed study of the Constitution of the United States and its provisions.
22152G1002 WORKFORCE READINESS
Grades 11-12
Fee: $20.00
Workforce Readiness standards are designed to provide students with academic and occupational skills that are transferable across jobs and occupational areas. Emphasis is placed on academic foundations for careers, applied technology, career development and employment, entrepreneurship and business economics, social and ethical responsibility, leadership, teamwork, safety, and health.