GRADE 10 CURRICULUM *Sample Lesson Request Form at the Bottom of the Page*
Language Arts Grade appropriate vocabulary, reading, writing, and grammar studies, including: • Twelve Angry Men • Animal Farm • To Kill and Mockingbird • Cold Equations • Mr. Parker • Julius Caesar • The Pedestrian • With All Flags Flying • Of Mice and Men • Antigone
Math Geometry • Lines, Line Segments, Rays and Angles • Angle Measures • Classifying Angles • Angle Relationships • Parallel Lines • Triangles • SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS and HL Congruence • Angle Bisectors • Medians and Centroids • Quadrilaterals • Polygons • The Pythagorean Theorem • Solids • Volume and Surface Area: Prisms • Spheres • Circles • Arcs and Central Angles • Transformations • Constructions • History of Geometry
Science Biology • Introduction to Biology • Branches of Biology • The Scientific Method • Matter • Chemical Reactions • Water, Mixtures, Solutions, Suspensions • The Cell Theory • Cells and their Parts • DNA • RNA • Cell Growth • Genetics • Heredity • The Human Organism • Food and Nutrition • Organs • Development
Social Science American History I • The history of the United States from its founding to The Civil War • Themes of American democracy, civil rights, liberties, economic development, technology, cultural diversity and family life
Fine Arts Global Art Connections I • Islamic art • The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright • The Baroque • The Impressionists • Early Renaissance Artists • The Greats of the Renaissance. • Rembrandt • Gainsborough • Ingress • Delacroix • Goya • Blake • David • Turner • Constable • Manet • Degas • Renoir