2020-2021 Course Selection Incoming Grades 10 2/20/2020
Agenda for today • Overview of registration • Materials for registration • Graduation requirements • How to register online
Registration timeline • Registration Kickoff - February 20, 2020 • Infinite Campus Portal opens for online registration - February 20, 2020 • Curriculum Fair - Thursday February 20,2020 (Open to the public 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) • Registration closes on Friday February 28, 2020 at 3:30 p.m.
Curriculum Fair Today (Thursday, February 20, 2020) • All of your teachers will be available to assist you and your parents between 5:00-8:00 p.m. • Answer specific questions about the courses you will enroll in next year. • Location: Main Office Lobby • This is not a parent/teacher conference.
College Credit Options in High School presentation • Open to students and parents who are interested in what their options are to earn College Credit as a student in high school. • Presented by the CIS (College in the Schools) teachers and Ms. Gordee. • Tonight - 6:00 p.m. Media Center
Materials for Registration - Course Description Guide - Registration Worksheet - Tips for Scheduling Worksheet - Transcript
Course Registration Guide
Registration Worksheet
Tips for Scheduling Worksheet
Planning and Course Description Guide and Worksheets ○ The guide will give you information on the Rockford High School graduation requirements and course descriptions. ○ Registration Worksheet ○ A tool for you when completing your online registration. ○ Tips for Scheduling Worksheet ○ A tool for planning your schedule
Graduation Requirements
Graduation Requirements-page 6 As a sophomore in the graduating class of 2023, you will need: • 8 English Credits • 7 Social Studies Credits • 6 Science Credits • 6 Math Credits • 2 Art Credits • 1 Health Credit • 1 Physical Education • 1 Career and Technical Education course • 18 Electives • Total of 50 required credits
Transcript ● Review it carefully ● The majority of you will have more credits than the required at graduation. ● CIS Courses can count for “1” year of English ● Check to make sure that you do not have any incompletes. ● GPA is cumulative (builds each year). ● Valedictorian/Salutatorian are calculated after 1st semester of your senior year. ● If you are new to Rockford, please plan to come to the Guidance office to review your transcript.
What Happens If You Get an “F” • If you have received an “F” in one of your core classes, you will need to repeat the class take the course in night school, or make it up in summer school. • The “F” stays on your transcript. • Make sure to keep track of your grades and transcript. You don’t want to have to take a freshman level course as a senior.
Registration 2020-2021
10th grade sample schedule Semester 1 Semester 2 MYP English 10 MYP English 10 MYP World History/ Geography 10 MYP World History/ Geography 10 MYP Chemistry 10 MYP Chemistry 10 *Math *Math **Elective **Elective **Elective **Elective **Elective **Elective *Math classes will be selected by your 9th grade math instructor **Can include Band, Choir, Foreign Language, Agriculture, AVID, Engineering & Manufacturing Tech, Phy Ed., etc Check transcript to make sure that you will have completed the graduation requirements Have you scheduled all of the required classes you will need as a sophomore *Honors level courses are replaced with MYP courses
Elective Options • Agriculture • Art • AVID • Business • Engineering and Manufacturing Technology • Music (Band and Choir) • Physical Education • World Language - Spanish
Course Name Changes 2020-2021 Physical Education (Formerly Individual Fitness) #6000 Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 1 Semester/1 Credit This is a course designed for students to put MYP Principles into practice. In addition to units such as Invasive Games, Net Games and Fitness Testing, students will learn strength and conditioning exercises to improve their physical fitness. Students will design SMART goals based on data from fitness assessments and monitor and track their progress throughout the course.
New Courses for 2020-2021 Photography Film Studies #4000 # 7403 Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 1 Semester/1 Credit 1 Semester/1 credit Supply fee - TBD This course introduces students to the study and Students will capture images and explore key analysis of films from a variety of eras, genres, and concepts of multimedia such as aesthetics, change, nationalities. Additionally, students will be communication . Original expression of feeling, introduced to academic terminology within film and mood, and content through inquiry projects will help focus on the specific processes that occur during the develop their personal vision as student media pre production, production, and post production artists. Students will be learning to use elements stages of filmmaking. While students will view and tools of current and emerging technologies to several feature films from variety of diverse create and edit images including Adobe Creative backgrounds, students will spend the bulk of the product software. Connecting skills specific to the course learning how to create analytical essays, creative industry and discipline that engage a scripts, storyboards, lighting diagrams, sound process of creative exploration. Unit study in MYP compositions, and short films. The course is arts have four objectives of equal importance and intended for students who may be interested in value: knowing and understanding, developing skills, continuing on to the IB DP Film course in 11th and thinking creatively, responding. 12th grade in the Diploma or Career Programme, and IB –style models and grading will be used in the class.
New Courses for 2020-2021 Topics of Math # 8400 Grade: 12 1 Semester/1 Credit This course is designed for seniors who want to take a math class, but do not have the prerequisites for other classes. It will cover a variety of topics including but limited to Algebra, Geometry, and Statistics concepts, Accuplacer Prep, ACT Prep, Excel Spreadsheet skills, budget/finance, etc.
New Courses for 2020-2021 Construction Terms, Materials, Methods and Codes General Construction # 2300 # 2200 Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 Grades: 10, 11, 12 1 Semester/1 Credit 1 Semester/1 Credit This is a one semester class that will focus on the use Prerequisite: Construction, Terms, Materials, of common construction systems. In this class, Methods and Codes students will be introduced to proper terminology Fee: TBA and usage of wood, steel concrete, and selected manufactured materials. There will be some hands This is a one semester class that will focus on on projects to acquaint students with tools, different residential construction techniques and equipment and materials. No fee will be assessed applications. In this class, students will learn to for this course. safely utilize different tools and safety fear. There will be required small projects to demonstrate *This course is a pre-requisite for the General proficiency in concrete , framing, wiring , plumbing, Construction Course, which can be taken in 10th insulation, and finish work. Then students will grade. complete a project in a group or individually demonstrating all these skills in a finished unit. The fee, if any will be determined on personal projects based on current material prices.
New Courses for 2020-2021 Woods, Construction Finishing II Woods, Construction Finishing I # 2402 # 2401 Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 1 Semester/1 Credit; *Prerequisite: Woods, Construction 1 Semester/1 Credit Finishing I Fee: TBA Fee: TBA This is a one semester class in which the students will This is a one semester class that will focus on larger focus on fine woodworking techniques in building woodworking projects and/or furniture. In this class, smaller projects. In this class the students will learn to students will learn to safely operate the many different pieces of woodworking equipment. This class is for students safely operate different pieces of woodworking interested in a more advanced study of woodworking and for equipment. The fee will be determined by the projects students who can work independently on these larger built and the materials used based on the current wood projects. They will be required to find plans for their price. project(s). The fee for this class will be based on the materials used for the project at the current wood price. Woods, Construction Finishing III #2403 Grades: 10, 11, 12 1 Semester/1 Credit, *Prerequisite: Woods, Construction Finishing II This is a one semester class that will focus on detailed woodworking projects. In this class, students will learn how to operate a wood lathe. This class is for students interested in producing higher quality pieces and willing to expand on their skills and interests. The fee, if any, will be based on the materials used for extra projects at current market price.
Online Registration
Online registration ○ On the next slide is a video showing how to register for classes via Infinite Campus student portal. The first step will be to login to your account.
Infinite Campus Online Registration Video
Online Registration Directions
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