World Geography

This course [High School Credit] is a required high school credit course for all entering eighth grade students. The first quarter concentrates on basic geographic skills such as map reading, graph analysis, and chart interpretation. Also, the student learns the elements of physical and cultural geography. The second quarter places emphasis on the North American continent with special attention given to Louisiana. The third quarter concentrates on Latin America and Western Europe. The fourth quarter is devoted to the study of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Rim. The course is also designed to serve as an introduction to Brother Martin’s technology resources.

World Geography Honors

This course [High School Credit] is taken by students whose academic background indicates the ability to work at an advanced level. The course covers those same topics explored in World Geography but with enrichment activities that encourage analytical thinking. The student enrolled in this course is required to research topics, in depth, outside of the classroom. Also, more advanced writing skills are required; therefore, students placed in World Geography Honors are also placed concurrently in English I Honors.

World History Honors AP

This course investigates significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources, developing historical arguments, making historical connections, and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.

United States History

This course is a chronological survey of the development of the country’s political, social, and economic institutions. In addition to studying the events of America’s past, students are required to evaluate differing interpretations of our nation’s history. While all aspects of American history are introduced, the major emphasis of the instruction is in the area of political and diplomatic history.

United States History Honors/Dual Enrollment

This course is a college-level class affiliated with Louisiana State University, following HIST 205 and HIST 2057, survey studies of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the United States. The course covers the spectrum of American History, from Pre-Columbian contact through the Obama Presidency. Students may elect to dual-enroll at LSU and earn up to six (6) semester hours.

AP United States History

This course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. history. Students learn to assess historical materials – their relevance to a given interpretive problem, reliability, and importance – and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. This course develops the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. The student commits to participate in Advanced Placement testing.