Course information
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Core classes are the same as those offered in a traditional high school setting. Course descriptions can be found by clicking on the class titles below. Electives are offered based on current availability.
Anoka-Hennepin Online serves grades 9 through 12. Students in grades 11 and 12 have an opportunity to earn college credit with advanced classes.
Course Descriptions
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English Language Arts [ELA]
English 9
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Reading and responding to literature and informational texts
- Close reading skills
- Academic writing skills
- Research skills
- Argumentative speaking
Projects, Activities, etc.: Essays, seminars, speeches and presentations, and independent reading
Instructional Focus: Writing and language exploration, critical thinking
English 10
Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 9 or Honors English 9
Intended Audience: Grade 10
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Critical literacy and thinking skills
- Supporting ideas with textual evidence
- Research skills
- Speaking and presentation skills
- Academic writing skills
- Literary analysis
Projects, Activities, etc.: Close readings, essays, research, presentations, seminars, and independent reading
Instructional Focus: Writing and language exploration, critical thinking
English 11
Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 10 or Honors English 10
Intended Audience: Grade 11
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Analysis of American literature and informational texts
- Argumentation - reading, writing, speaking
- Academic writing skills
- Research skills
- Supporting ideas with textual evidence
- Speaking and presentation skills
Projects, Activities, etc.: Close readings, essays, research, presentations, seminars, and independent reading
Instructional Focus: Writing and language exploration, critical thinking
English 12
Prerequisite/Selection Process: English 11 or AP English Language and Composition
Intended Audience: Grade 12
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Critical reading of literature and informational texts
- Study of advertising, propaganda, and news bias
- Academic writing
- Research
Projects, Activities, etc.: Essays, research, seminars, and presentations
Instructional Focus: Writing and language exploration, critical thinking
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Health
Health
Intended Audience: Grade 10 [grade 10 preferred]
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Examine how today’s choices affect present and future quality of life in the following areas: mental health, chemical health, sexuality, fitness and nutrition, lifestyle diseases and prevention
- CPR instruction - Students will have the opportunity to be certified in CPR
Instructional Focus: Discussion, lecture, small/large group activities, guest speaker and research projects
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Mathematics
HS Intermediate Algebra
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: **Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes: This course continues the extensive, connected, and applied study of Mathematics from previous courses. Emphasis is on the development of multiple strategies to solve problems and to recognize multiple ways of understanding concepts, especially as it pertains to quadratic and exponential functions. It has strong threads woven throughout the course focusing on multiple representations, justifying thinking, and communicating the meaning of a solution. The topics covered in the course are:
- Functions, Linear Relationships
- Simplifying and Solving
- Sequences
- Modeling Two-Variable Data
- Exponential Functions
- Quadratic Functions
- Solving Quadratic and Inequalities
Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; some hands-on activities and the use of a graphing calculator.
** Students may be placed in an additional trimester of math based on a variety of achievement scores and teacher recommendation. Students passing this additional trimester course would receive an additional 0.5 elective credit.
HS Geometry with College Foundations
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Intermediate Algebra with College Foundations or Honors Intermediate Algebra
Intended Audience: Grade 10
Credit: Three trimesters = 1.0 math credit and 0.5 elective credit
Major Outcomes: This course continues the extensive, connected, and applied study of Mathematics from previous courses. It has strong threads woven throughout the course focusing on multiple representations, justifying thinking, and communicating the meaning of a solution. The topics covered in the course are:
- Shapes and Transformations
- Angles and Measurement
- Justification and Similarity
- Trigonometry and Probability
- Congruent Triangles
- Proof and Quadrilaterals
- Polygons and Circles
- Solids and Constructions
- Circles and Conditional Probability
- Solids and Circles
Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways; some hands-on activities
Honors Precalculus
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Honors Advanced Algebra or Coll Honors College Algebra [Advanced Algebra with teacher recommendation]
Intended Audience: Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12
Credit: Two terms = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Extension of algebraic and geometric concepts of relations, functions and graphing into trigonometric functions
- Applications of trigonometry
Projects, Activities, etc.: Varies by teacher
Instructional Focus: Instruction presented in a variety of ways, use of graphic calculator
Alg II A/B
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Physical Education
Physical Education I
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Fundamentals of individual physical fitness
- Instruction in varied physical activities
Instructional Focus: Physical activities designed to meet student interests
Physical Education II
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Education I
Intended Audience: Grade 10
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Development and implementation of personal fitness plan
- Instruction in varied physical activities
Projects, Activities, etc.: Fitness plan
Instructional Focus: Physical activity
Strength Training I/II/III
Str Tng I
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical
Education I and II
Intended Audience: Grades 10, 11 and 12
Credit: One trimester = .5 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Knowledge and application of basic strength and conditioning principles
• Development of associated skills and techniquesInstructional Focus: Individualized instruction and physical activity
Str Tng II
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Strength Training and Conditioning I
Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12
Credit: One trimester = .5 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Further development in training techniques and skills
• Emphasis on fitness-related issues
Instructional Focus: Individualized instruction and physical activityStr Tng III
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Strength Training and Conditioning II
Intended Audience: Grades 11 and 12
Credit: One trimester = .5 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Improvement of skills learned in Strength Training and Conditioning I and II
• Development of personal fitness program
Instructional Focus: Individualized instruction and physical activity -
Science
Chemistry I A/B
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Physical Science 9, or Honors Physical Science 9 or Honors Physics 9
Intended Audience: Grade 10g
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
Build understanding of:
- Composition, structure, interactions between substances
- Measurement
- Compounds
- Atoms
- Chemical reactions
- Kinetic theory
Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work
Instructional Focus: Rigorous high school-level concepts through small and large group lecture and lab activities; high school text is used
Biology I A/B
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Chemistry I or Honors Chemistry I or AP Chemistry [AndHS]
Intended Audience: Grade 11
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Describe cycles and interactions in the natural world
- Understand structure and function of cells
- Understand principles and applications of genetics
- Knowledge of biological change over time
- Understand life processes and diversity of life on Earth
Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work
Instructional Focus: Small and large group lecture and lab activities
Earth Sci A/B
Earth Sci A
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Apply Science and Engineering Practices to explain phenomena in Earth and Space Science
• Knowledge of Earth systems and processes
• Analyze human impacts on Earth systems and processes
• Knowledge of astronomical structures and phenomena
Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work
Instructional Focus: Small and large group lecture and lab activities and demonstrationsEarth Sci B
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
• Apply Science and Engineering Practices to explain phenomena in Earth and Space Science
• Knowledge of Earth systems and processes
• Analyze human impacts on Earth systems and processes
• Knowledge of astronomical structures and phenomena
Projects, Activities, etc.: Lab work
Instructional Focus: Small and large group lecture and lab activities and demonstrations -
Social Studies
Civics 9
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Provide students with practical knowledge and understanding of American government
- Connect with the democratic process as citizens of the United States
- Apply knowledge of early founding documents including the US Constitution
- Demonstrate an understanding of how the American system of government functions
- Demonstrate an understanding that US citizens have both rights and responsibilities in order for the government to maintain order in society.
- Understand the election process in the United States
- Differentiate views on the political spectrum
Geography 9
Intended Audience: Grade 9
Credit: One Trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Review locations of physical features, climatic regions, and cultural icons
- Practice reading maps and charts.
- Types of maps, when to use and how to analyze
- Effects of migration and population countries and cultures
- Types of boundaries and governments
- Global climate changes
- Human effects on the environment Projects, Activities, etc.: Creating Maps, develop the where the next should be located [e.g. determine where the next supermarket should be located in your city]
Instructional Focus: Use of maps, charts, Geographic Information Systems, population pyramids
US History 10
[AP exam is in May each year]
Prerequisite/Selection Process: Civics or Honors Civics and Geography
Intended Audience: Grade 10
Credit: Two Trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Study of major events in U.S. history [emphasis on 19th and 20th centuries]
- Awareness of the experiences of ordinary women, men, and children as well as those of our leaders
- Study of diverse peoples who created the American story
World History 11
Prerequisite/Selection Process: US History or AP US History
Intended Audience: Grade 11
Credit: Two trimesters = 1.0 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Study of significant events, people, issues, and perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East
- A balance of cultural, economic, geographic, political, and social history are presented
- Gain an appreciation and understanding of diverse perspectives
Economics 12
Prerequisite/Selection Process: World History or AP World History
Intended Audience: Grade 12
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Concept of scarcity and its impact on choices of individuals, organizations, businesses, and government
- Market structures
- Supply and demand
- Personal Finance
- Macroeconomics
- Global Economy
Projects, Activities, etc.: Investigation of public issues, identification of problems and proposed solutions
US Government and Politics 12
Prerequisite/Selection Process: World History or AP World History
Intended Audience: Grade 12
Credit: One trimester = 0.5 credit
Major Outcomes:
- Examines the political system of the American government
- Focuses on the political processes of local, state, and national government, the three branches of government, as well as applying Constitutional principles to the American legal system
- Learn how to be active citizens
- Debate and analyze public policy issues, including foreign policy
- Understand how the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches work together
- Understand the importance of the American Legal system including criminal, civil, and constitutional law
- Analyze public policy issues including foreign policy
- Investigate state and local government and politics
- Analyze primary sources and court cases to understand the role of government during major periods of social and political change
Instructional Focus: State/Local Public Issue Project [5 Youth Service Hours], Constitutional Law Project
