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Title: Registration for Rising Sophomores


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Registration for Rising Sophomores
  • Class of 2014

2
Mount Tabor High SchoolCounselors
Last Name Counselor
A Col Ms. Corey Daniel
Com Ha Ms. Kristine Doyle
He Ma Mrs. Colleen Santos-Roberts
Mc P Ms. Lin Shropshire
Q Sn Mr. Stan Huck
So Z Mr. David Naff
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Important Registration Datesfor Rising Sophomores
Feb. 10th Registration Overview
March 1st 15th Individual Meetings with your Counselor
March 18th SIGNED REGISTRATION CARDS DUE!
April 21st Deadline to change courses
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Registration Materials
  • High School Registration Handbook
  • Registration Timeline/Guidelines
  • Transcript
  • Registration Card
  • Student/Parent Course Choice Form

5
Making Your Course Selections
  • READ your registration handbook
  • ASK questions
  • Talk with your Teachers, Counselor, Parents
  • Talk with other students who are enrolled in
    courses you are considering

6
How Do I Attain Sophomore Status?
  • 5 credits are needed by the start of school year
    2011-12
  • Pass your classes
  • Summer School opportunities may be available to
    make up credit

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What Information Is On My High School Transcript?
  • Identification information
  • Course history for each grade in high school
  • Final Grades
  • Mid Year Grades
  • Grade Point Averages
  • Weighted (QPA)
  • Unweighted (GPA)
  • Class Rank (you will be ranked in your class
    after 9th grade)
  • Accumulated Credits
  • Attendance for each grade in high school
  • Standardized Test Scores
  • EOG from 8th grade
  • EOC scores

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Grade Point Average (GPA) / Quality Points
Average (QPA)
  • GPA (unweighted)
  • Points earned
  • ?
  • Number of units attempted
  • Only using Standard s

Standard Honors AP
A 4 5 6
B 3 4 5
C 2 3 4
D 1 2 3
F 0 0 0
QPA (weighted) Points earned ? Number of
units attempted Using Standard, Honors, AP s
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Future Ready Course of Study
  • Every public school student will graduate from
    high school, globally competitive for work and
    postsecondary education and prepared for life in
    the 21st century.

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Future-Ready Core Graduation Requirements
  • 4 English
  • (English 1, 2, 3, 4)
  • 4 Math
  • 3 Social Studies
  • (World History, Civics Economics, World
    History)
  • 4 Science
  • (A Physical Science, Biology, Earth/Environmental,
    additional credit)
  • 2 PE/Health/LMS
  • 2 electives (any combination of Career Technical
    Education, Arts Education, or Second Language)
  • 2 additional electives (from CTE, JROTC, Arts
    Education, or any other subject area)
  • Total 21 credits

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Future-Ready Core Math
  • Four mathematics credits are required for
    graduation
  • Algebra I
  • Geometry
  • Algebra II
  • A fourth math course to be aligned with the
    student's after high school plans (e.g. college
    or work)
  • A substitution math sequence is available in rare
    instances

13
Your Registration Card
  • You will select 8 courses and 2 alternate courses
  • English
  • Math
  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • PE 2 or Dance 1B and Health
  • Base additional course selections on Plans Beyond
    High School and Interests
  • Foreign Language
  • Career/ Technical Education Courses
  • Arts Education Courses

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  • Rising Sophomore Registration Cards
  • due signed and delivered to the
  • Counseling Office by March 18th

15
How Will I Select My Sophomore Year Courses?
  • Course Assignment Principles
  • Future Ready Graduation Requirements
  • Post-Secondary Goals and Plans
  • Work
  • Military
  • Community College
  • 4 year College or University
  • Motivation
  • Interests

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WS/FCS Course Assignment Principles
  • Students will be assigned to the most rigorous
    and challenging courses based on previous EOG and
    EOC test scores and grades
  • Students and Parents should discuss course
    options with current teachers
  • Students and Parents choose all courses and
    course levels
  • Course Assignments will be written on your
    registration card
  • Course Choice Request form will be attached to
    registration card to alter the registration card
    assignments

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May I change my course requests after the April
21st deadline?
  • ONLY IF
  • You need a different course to meet your
    graduation requirements.
  • You fail a course that is a prerequisite course
    to a course that you selected.
  • You complete a course in summer school and are
    ready for a different course.
  • You have selected a course that will not be
    offered due to low enrollment.

CHOOSE CAREFULLY WISELY You will be expected to
take the courses that you have chosen on your
registration card. You will also be expected
to remain in the course level chosen through at
least the first grading period.
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Why Is There a Deadline For Changing Course
Requests ?
  • Master Schedule is based on student course
    requests
  • Preparation of student schedules for the
    following school year
  • You will receive your schedule about a week
    before Open House for the 2011-12 school year.

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Courses With Semester Final Grades
  • Life Management Skills
  • PE 1 and PE 2
  • Dance 1A and Dance 1B
  • Health
  • SAT Prep
  • Sociology, African Am Studies, Latino Am Studies
  • Shakespeare

20
Sophomore English Courses
  • English 2 standard
  • English 2 honors
  • Seminar English 2

21
Sophomore Math CoursesConsider your Post
Secondary Plans
  • Algebra 1
  • Algebra 1/Geometry
  • Foundations of Geometry
  • Geometry
  • (Standard, Honors)
  • Algebra 2
  • (Standard or Honors)
  • Pre-Calculus Honors
  • Advanced Functions and Modeling

22
Sophomore Science Courses
  • Biology
  • (Standard or Honors)
  • Chemistry
  • (Standard, Honors, or AP)
  • Physical Science
  • Earth/Environmental Science
  • (Standard, Honors, or AP)

23
Sophomore Social Studies Courses
  • Civics and Economics
  • Civics and Economics Honors
  • Seminar Social Studies 2
  • Electives
  • African-American Studies (honors, semester)
  • Latino-American Studies (honors, semester)
  • Intro to Sociology (honors, semester)
  • Psychology (honors, full year)
  • Semester courses may be paired with SAT Prep

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Foreign Languages
  • French
  • German
  • Latin
  • Spanish
  • Practical Spanish for Native Speakers
  • Chinese (only at the Career Center)
  • Japanese (only at the Career Center)
  • Think about your preparation for the next level
    of a foreign language. The higher your current
    grades, the better you are prepared for the next
    course.
  • Level 3 and higher foreign language courses are
    taught at the honors level.

25
Career/Technical ClustersRegistration Handbook,
pp. 8-9
  • Agricultural and Natural Resources
  • Biological and Chemical
  • Business
  • Commercial and Artistic Production
  • Engineering
  • Health Sciences
  • Industrial
  • Public Service
  • Transport Systems
  • Construction

26
Mount Tabors Career/Technical Courses
  • Business and Marketing
  • Technology
  • Family and Consumer Sciences

27
Business and Marketing Courses
  • Digital Communication Systems
  • Microsoft ITA Word, PowerPoint, Publisher
  • Microsoft ITA Excel Access
  • Multimedia Webpage Design
  • Principles of Business
  • Business Law
  • Accounting 1 2
  • Marketing
  • Fashion Merchandising
  • Business Advanced Studies

28
Family Consumer Science Courses
  • Teen Living
  • Foods
  • Required for Culinary Arts 1 at Career Center
  • Parenting and Child Development
  • Apparel Development 1
  • Housing and Interiors 1

29
Technology Courses
  • Fundamentals of Technology
  • Communications Systems
  • Structural Systems
  • Transportation Systems
  • Drafting 1

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Why Should I Choose a CTE Course?
  • Two or more CTE courses meet Future Ready Course
    of Study requirements
  • One CTE credit is required to earn the NC
    Academic Scholar recognition (see p. 3 of
    registration handbook)
  • National Vocational Honor Society eligibility
  • Learn a practical skill
  • Choose an interesting elective

31
Mt. Tabors Arts Education Coursessome
Colleges/Universities require one arts education
credit for admission
  • Art
  • Band
  • Chorus
  • Dance
  • Orchestra
  • Theatre Arts
  • Two or more Arts Education courses meet
    requirements of the Future Ready Course of Study

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Other Elective Choices For Sophomores
  • Shakespeare 101/102 (semester or all year)
  • Intro to Journalism
  • Newspaper 1- speak with Dr. Gardiner in Room 201
  • Yearbook 1- speak with Mrs. Gallos in Room 205
  • JROTC
  • SAT Prep (semester)
  • Speech Debate (new course!)
  • Humanities (new course!)
  • Theatre Tech (new course!)

33
Can I Earn College Credit in High School?
  • Advanced Placement courses
  • UNCG i School online courses
  • Forsyth Tech dual enrollment courses
  • Other local college/university programs
  • Extensive information about earning college
    credit in high school is found on pages 10-11 in
    the Registration Handbook.

34
May I Take AP Courses During My Sophomore Year?
  • If you meet the prerequisite
  • If you are willing to meet the challenges of
    extensive reading and outside assignments
  • Possible AP course selections
  • AP Chemistry
  • AP Environmental Science

Rising sophomores who want to consider AP course
offerings must meet with AP teachers to discuss
the course requirements and summer enrichment
activities.
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North Carolina Academic Scholar Award
  • English 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Alg 1, Geom, Alg 2, or Int Math 1,2,3 plus an
    advanced math
  • Earth/Env Science, Biology, Chemistry or Physics
  • World History, Civics and Economics, US History
  • Two years of same foreign language
  • One Career/Technical Education course
  • One Arts Education course
  • Five additional courses
  • 3.5 Grade Point Average (unweighted)
  • See description on page 3 of the Registration
    Handbook.

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2011-2012 Schedule
Courses will be PRIMARILY in a 90 minute 4x4
semester block format with specific courses
scheduled on a 90 minute A Day / B Day yearlong
format.
  • A Day/B Day
  • Semester Block
  • Algebra 1
  • Geometry
  • Algebra 2
  • A Day / B Day Courses
  • AP Courses
  • Arts Courses
  • Foreign Language
  • Newspaper/Yearbook
  • Pre-Calculus
  • Integrated Math

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Sample Schedule 1
Block 1st Semester 2nd Semester
1 Civics Economics English 2
2 A Day Spanish 2 B Day Geometry A Day Spanish 2 B Day Geometry
3 Marketing Sports Ent. Marketing
4 PE 2 / Health Biology
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Sample Schedule 2
Block 1st Semester 2nd Semester
1 A Day Algebra 2 B Day Newspaper A Day Algebra 2 B Day Newspaper
2 English 2 PE 2 / Health
3 Civics Economics Chemistry
4 A Day Orchestra B Day French 2 A Day Orchestra B Day French 2
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Be Prepared To Meet With Your School Counselor
  • Mrs. Barnetts classes February 28-March 1
  • Mrs. Bartletts classes March 2-3
  • Mrs. Bowmans classes March 7-8
  • Ms. Mobleys classes March 9-10
  • Ms. Schaefers classes March 11-14
  • Mr. Pungers classes March 11-14

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Will You Be Prepared?
  • READ your Registration Handbook
  • TALK with your parents/guardians
  • THINK about your course choices
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