Special Services
ESSENTIALS CAREER PREPAREDNESS
Course Number: 19258X1000
Credit: 1
This course is designed to prepare high school students for work-based experiences. Work-based experiences can be an apprenticeship (paid) or an internship(unpaid). The student should have a minimum of 140 successful hours under the supervision of a workplace mentor and the special education teacher and/or a representative of vocational rehabilitation services. This course meets the requirement of the Essentials Pathway.
ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 9
Course Number: 01001X1001
Credit: 1
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.
ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 10
Course Number: 01002X1002
Credit: 1
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.
ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 11
Course Number: 01003X1003
Credit: .5
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.
ENGLISH ESSENTIALS 12
Course Number: 01004X1004
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS: ALGEBRA I WITH PROBABILITY
Course Number: 02052X1000
Grades: 9-12
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS: GEOMETRY WITH DATA ANALYSIS
Course Number: 02072X1000
Grades: 9-12
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS: ALGEBRA II WITH STATISTICS
Course Number: 02056X1000
Grades: 11-12
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS: ALGEBRA WITH FINANCE
Course Number: 02155X1000
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS: PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Course Number: 03159X1000
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS: BIOLOGY 9
Course Number: 03051X1000
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS: EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Course Number: 03008X1000
Grades: 11-12
Credit: 1
This course is designed to provide students with practical knowledge of Earth and Space Science including scientific process and application skills; energy in the Earth system; weather; seasons; theories for origin and age of the universe; stars, pulsars, quasars, black holes, and galaxies; Earth and space scientists; space exploration.
ESSENTIALS: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Course Number: 03003X1000
Grades: 11-12
Credit: 1
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. Fee: $20.00.
ESSENTIALS: HUMAN ANATOMY
Course Number: 03053X1000
Grades: 11-12
Credit: 1
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. Fee: $20.00.
ESSENTIALS I: WORLD HISTORY GR 9
Course Number: 04051X1000
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS II: U.S. HISTORY TO 1877 GR 10
Course Number: 04102X1011
Credit: 1
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.
ESSENTIALS III: U.S. HISTORY FROM 1877 GR 11
Course Number: 04103X1011
Credit: 1
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.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.
ESSENTIALS IV: U.S. GOVERNMENT GR 12
Course Number: 04151X0511
Credit: .5
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.
