9th grade Large Group Advising Sessions

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9th grade Large Group Advising Sessions

• 2015 2016 Sophomore Year

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College and Career Readiness

• What are your plans after high school graduation?

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College? Career?

• What course of study are you on?
• What is your career major pathway?
• Take rigorous course work throughout high school
  to prepare you for college work!
• Pre-AP and AP
• Look at opportunities for earning college credits
  while you are still in high school!
• Dual credit options through Early College
• Advanced Placement pass AP exams
• Articulation agreements complete career majors
  pass KOSSA tests in Career Technical Education
  programs at ACHS and Harrodsburg Area Technical
  Center

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Sample AP College Savings
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Sample Articulation Agreements College Savings
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Industry Certifications
Career Cluster Industry Certifications
Communications Adobe Certified Expert
Construction NCCER AWS
Health Science Medicaid Nurse Aid (MNA)
Information Technology IC3 Certiport, A CompTia
Manufacturing NCCER AWS
Transportation NATEF/ ASE

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Going into the Workforce?

• Armed Forces
• Take the ASVAB in high school
• Meet with recruiter
• Use your time at ACHS to
• Explore your options.
• Develop skills for life.
• Build relationships.
• Increase your opportunities.
• Lets face it the world you will enter today is
  much different than it has ever been.

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College/Career Readiness

• All incoming freshmen choose
• A course of study with advisor
• And a career major
• 9th and 10th grade years devote two classes each
  year for 2 total credits over two years
• ILP will be embedded into career major coursework
  for those students to individualize experience.
• Career majors coursework outside of required
  classes.

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Advanced Kentucky Scholars
Kentucky Scholars
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At the end of the 10th grade year...

• Students may choose to continue and complete
  career major, earning a Career Major Certificate
  upon graduation and potentially completing a
  practicum through Work-Based Learning, among
  other options.
• or students may choose to discontinue chosen
  career major and focus on taking AP classes,
  attending Harrodsburg Area Technical
  Center/Vocational School, exploring dual credit
  options, etc.

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Advanced Kentucky Scholars
Kentucky Scholars
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Workforce?

• Use your time at ACHS to
• Explore your options.
• Develop skills for life.
• Build relationships.
• Increase your opportunities.
• Lets face it the world you will enter today is
  much different than it has ever been.

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ACT Matters!

• EXPLORE 8th grade
• PLAN 10th grade- NEXT FALL
• ACT 11th grade
• CPE Benchmark scores
• English, 18 Math, 19 Reading, 20
• Practice ACT embedded in individual classrooms
• ACHS ACT Online www.ACTpreponline.com
• ACT www.actstudent.org Study Island
• ACHS Boot Camp

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More ACT information

• College scholarships-
• What if I dont meet the ACT benchmarks?
• College take remediation classes
• You pay for class 0 credit
• ACHS tiered interventions in reading and math
  next year for seniors who do not meet benchmarks

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Course of Study

• What course of study are you on?

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Advanced Kentucky Scholars
Kentucky Scholars
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Anderson County High School Requirements (General
Education)

• English 4 credits
• Math 4.5 credits
• Science 3 credits
• Social Studies 3 credits
• Physical Education .5 credit
• Health .5 credit
• Humanities (Music/Dance) .5 credit
• Humanities (Art/Drama) .5 credit
• Electives 9.5 credits
• 16.5 required credits (above) 9.5 elective
  credits
• 26 total credits required for graduation

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Humanities Credit

• To earn the Humanities credit required for
  graduation, students must follow one of the two
  criteria below.
• 1. Students must have completed 3 trimesters of
  a performance based/standards based specialized
  arts courses based on the students individual
  learning plan. (Examples include Band A,B,C
  Advanced Chorus A,B,C AP Music Theory, or AP
  Art.)
• --OR--

• 2. Students must choose at least one class from
  each column.

Art/Drama Music/dance
Art I A Guitar
Art I B Piano Lab
Sculpture Mens choir
Ceramics I Womens choir
Drama General chorus
Humanities Art Drama Humanities Music dance
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Anderson County High School Requirements
(Pre-College Curriculum)

• English 4 credits
• Math 4.5 credits
• Science 3 credits
• Social Studies 3 credits
• Physical Education .5 credit
• Health .5 credit
• Humanities (Music/Dance) .5 credit
• Humanities (Art/Drama) .5 credit
• Foreign Language 2 credits
• Electives 7.5 credits

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Anderson County High School Requirements
(Kentucky Scholars Certificate)

• English 4 credits
• Math 4.5 credits
• Science 4 credits
• Social Studies 4 credits
• Physical Education .5 credit
• Health .5 credit
• Humanities (Music/Dance) .5 credit
• Humanities (Art/Drama) .5 credit
• Foreign Language 2 credits
• Electives 5.5 credits
• No Grade below a C will be accepted as credit.
  Minimum 2.5 GPA required

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Anderson County High School Requirements Advanced
Kentucky Scholars

• English 4 credits
• Math 4.5 credits
• Science 4 credits
• Social Studies 4 credits
• Physical Education .5 credit
• Health .5 credit
• Humanities (Music/Dance) .5 credit
• Humanities (Art/Drama) .5 credit
• Foreign Language 2 credits
• Electives 5.5 credits
• No Grade below a C will be accepted as credit.
  Minimum 2.5 GPA required
• 4 AP Courses AP Eng, AP Science or Math, 2 AP
  Electives

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Pre-Registration Course Selection Sheets
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Completing the Course Selection Sheet

• Circle 15 courses/course numbers.
• Identify 4 courses as Alternates by marking A1,
  A2, A3, and A4 in the space beside the course
  number.
• Any courses that are highlighted require
  teachers signature.
• Courses that are in BOLD are required courses for
  graduation.
• Humanities Credit go ahead and take care of it
  next year, especially if you are going to
  vocational school or taking lots of AP/BCTC
  classes junior and senior year.

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Schedule for 2015-16

• Whatever is on your selection sheet will go into
  the computer and your class schedule will be
  based on those classes. You will not get to
  change classes that are on your selection sheet
  list.

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What are Sophomore Requirements?

• Trimesters Subject
• 2 English
• English II A and B or
• Pre-AP English II A and B
• 3 Math Data Measurement and Algebra
  2A B or Pre AP Data
  Measurement and Pre-AP Algebra II A B
• 2 Science Chemistry A Chemistry B
• or Pre-AP Chemistry A B
• 1 (2 for AP) Social Studies
• Government
• or AP US Politics Government A B
• 7 Electives

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10TH Grade Sample Schedule
TRIMESTER 1 TRIMESTER 2 TRIMESTER 3
ENG II A ENG II B Elective
Algebra 2A Data Measurement Algebra 2B
Humanities Music Dance Chemistry A Chemistry B
ELECTIVE Art 1A (Humanities) Government
ELECTIVE ELECTIVE ELECTIVE
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Pre-Registration Individual Scheduling Conferences

• March 9th 10th 9th grade individual advising
  in SWS homerooms
• March 10th 10th and 11th grade Parent
  Connection night for Scheduling
• Encourage all parents/students to attend.
• March 24th 8th grade Parent Night
• Encourage all parents/students to attend.
• March 27th 8th graders