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Support Services. What is available?. AT (acceleration, advising, academics) Math lab Writers workshop Homework Club Individual teacher help after school Parent Portal. What is available?. Dual Enrollment Online Courses Outside of the traditional school day

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  1. Support Services

  2. What is available? AT (acceleration, advising, academics) Math lab Writers workshop Homework Club Individual teacher help after school Parent Portal

  3. What is available? Dual Enrollment Online Courses Outside of the traditional school day Educational Support Team

  4. Guidance 3 Domains: Academic planning Career planning Social and Emotional

  5. Electives at CHS

  6. Colchester High SchoolElectives • Art • Business • Health • Music • PE • World Languages

  7. CHS Art Department CHS Art Teachers Vito Cannizzaro Anne Cummings

  8. Art Department Requirements • All CHS students are required to take 1 credit (2 semesters) of Fine Art - Visual Art or Music. • All Art classes, except AP Studio Art, are one semester classes, earning ½ credit per class. • Learn, Think, Act, Create!/ Art 1 is a prerequisite • for all other art courses. • After LTAC/ Art 1, Freshmen may take Mad Mark-Making(Drawing), Clay Arts, The Laker Brush-off(Painting), and Exploring the 3rd Dimension(Sculpture).

  9. Art Course Sequence Learn, Think, Act, Create! Mad Mark Making The Laker Brushoff Exploring the 3rd Dimension Clay Arts Pixography (11th or 12th grade, and ONE other Art course after LTAC) Clay Arts 2 The 3rd Dimension and Beyond Dynamic Design (Mad Mark Making, or The Laker Brushoff CHS Art Warrior: A. P. Studio Art (11th or 12th grade, LTAC, and TWO other Art courses.)

  10. CHSBusiness & Technology Department

  11. Business Offerings

  12. Business & Technology Skills • Keyboarding • Basic Operations of Microsoft Office Suite • Word • Excel • Access • PowerPoint • Publisher • Business Communications/Entrepreneurship

  13. Accounting (1 credit) Basic Accounting Concepts Manual Accounting Practice Automated Accounting Job Shadow

  14. Personal Finance (.5 credit) Major Themes: • Setting Financial Goals • Managing Your Money • Earnings • Savings & Investing • Spending: Identity Theft, Credit Cards

  15. CHS Health Department

  16. Health Requirements One semester class is required. Students may elect to take Food! From Soil to Stomach as an elective. Student can choose either Human Ecology or Life 101 Both of these courses meet the graduation requirement. Human Ecology is designed for grades 9 & 10. Life 101 is designed for grades 11 & 12. Food! From Soil to Stomach is designed for grades 9-12 and is an elective credit.

  17. Human Ecology Topics to be covered: Personal Health; Prevention/Healthy Lifestyles, Stress Management Communication, Goal Setting, Decision Making and Refusal Skills Nutrition Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Human Sexuality

  18. Food! From Soil to Stomach Topics to be covered: Sustainability Food systems: global, local, organic, conventional Explores the many facets of food: growing, cooking and eating. Gardening

  19. CHS Music Department Evan Peltier– Melissa Towle These courses fit into the Fine Arts requirement.

  20. Instrumental Colchester Concert Band • year long course / 1.0 credit Colchester Jazz Orchestra • year long course / 1.0 credit Basic Guitar • Semester course / 0.5 credits • For the beginning guitarist

  21. Beginning Piano Semester course / 0.5 credits For the beginning pianist Intermediate Piano Semester course/0.5 credits Designed to build on beginner piano Music Technology Semester course / 0.5 credits Compose, create, and record music

  22. Choir Chorus • year long • 1.0 credit • open to all students and abilities Concert Choir • year long • 1.0 credit • teacher recommendation required Chamber Singers • year long • 1.0 credit • by audition

  23. Physical Education

  24. Physical Education Tom Perry, Morgan Samler & Courtney Goetz

  25. All students are required to complete 1.5 credits of PE for graduation. PE is offered each semester. CHS offers 25 different units.

  26. PE Units Skiing/Snowshoeing Table Tennis (ping-pong) In-line skating Archery Dance Crossfit Team Sports Personal Fitness • Racquetball • Badminton • Fencing • Mountain Biking • Orienteering • Climbing wall • Ropes Course • Canoeing

  27. World Languages at CHS French and Spanish Bienvenue Hola

  28. World Language Requirements • There is NO language graduation requirement at CHS. • All students are encouraged to enroll in a language. • College bound students should plan to take a minimum of two years of a language. • Competitive colleges are looking for three to four consecutive years.

  29. World Language Offerings • French I through French IV • Spanish I through Spanish IV • Level V is not offered annually in either language. It will be offered as enrollment and staffing allow.

  30. Next Steps Thank you for coming!

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