The American Academy

This course prepares students to understand the nature, function, and significance of human relationships involving individuals and families. Topics include: family living, parenting, household and money management, decision-making skills, communication skills, self- awareness, crisis management, and the individual’s roles and responsibilities within the family and community.

The Portfolio Project course focuses on preparing students for the "next step" whether that step is college or a career. In this course, students will compile samples of their work at The American Academy and produce artifacts such as cover letters, resumes, and applications for jobs or college.

In this class you will apply technology, science, and mathematics concepts and skills to solve engineering design problems and innovative designs. You will research, develop, test and analyze engineering designs using criteria such as design effectiveness, public safety, human factors, and ethics.

Horse Management is divided into units, each with several assignments and a quiz. There is also a midterm test, and a final. The units cover: Unit 1 - Introduction to the World of Horses Unit 2 - Safety, Equipment and Trailering Unit 3 - Overview of Equine Body Systems Unit 4 - Nutrition and Feeding Unit 5 - Routine Health Care Unit 6 - Conformation and Lameness Unit 7 - Health Problems and First Aid Unit 8 - Life Cycle, Breeding, and Genetics Unit 9 - Breeds of Horses

This semester course provides students with advanced Internet skills and techniques as well as a major emphasis on beginning Web page design. Students will explore resources of the Internet and its tools through the use of e-mail, search engines and browsers. HTML and web publishing software will be used to create, format, illustrate, design and edit webpages.

Along with reading, writing and arithmetic, computer technology is a needed skill in today's technological world. The skills learned in this course will help you with your future education, employment and at home. Realize the more you use computers, the more comfortable you will become and you will find great tools to help you succeed in everyday life.

This is a beginning to intermediate course in Computer Programming. It is an introduction to software design and methodology. This course assumes NO PRIOR computer programming experience. The emphasis of the course will be on proper program design and coding. You will learn to design, test and code your own programs. At the successful conclusion of this course, you will have the background to advance to code in a high level language such as C++, Java, Visual Basic. This course will use the programming language "Java" to teach the introductory concepts. The curriculum is focused on modern program design principles. It illustrates these ideas through a wide range of examples that are interesting and practical, and build a solid base of understanding for higher level concepts in subsequent courses. JAVA was developed by Sun Microsystems and is on the cutting edge of computer programming and a significant part of current PC technology You will enjoy your experience with JAVA.

The purpose of the course is to help students develop problem solving skills and an understanding of basic computer programming concepts. The course includes lessons in computer programming using the C++ programming language.

This course helps students understand and cope with personal, family, and social challenges. Emphasis is paced on communication, decision-making skills, and building stable relationships with family and peers. The course enables students to implement positive coping mechanisms and promotes understanding of self. It addresses issues that impact teenagers: self- concept, family and peer relationships, substance abuse, personal loss, dating and teenage pregnancy, and child abuse.

Business Communications will increase your knowledge and skills in communicating with others. You will examine important concepts and issues relating to daily relationship development and maintenance; using the tools of communications. COMMUNICATING is the most important thing you do each and every day..