11th Grade - Typical
Course of Study
· Age of exploration and discovery
· Colonization of America
· A new nation is born
· Constitution of the United States
· Development of a new nation
· Period of nationalism
· Sectionalism
· American Civil War and Reconstruction
· United States as a world power
· Struggle for women's rights
· World War I
· The Great Depression
· World War II
· The Cold War
· The nuclear era
· Civil rights
· Delinquency and crime
· Psychology
· Problems of mental health
· Urbanization
· Public education
· Role of women in today's society
· Matter and its behavior
· Carbon and its compounds
· Formulas and chemical equations
· Acids, bases, salts
· Atomic theory
· Periodic law
· Water and solutions
· Chemical bonding
· Molecular theory
· Equilibrium and kinetics
· Spontaneous reactions
· Titrations
· Ionization and ionic solutions
· Colloids, suspensoids, and emulsoids
· Oxidation-reduction
· Nonmetals
· Metals and alloys
· Electrochemistry
· Energy: forms, chemical changes, and measurement
· Nuclear reactions and radioactivity
· American literature
· Cross-cultural literature
· Analysis of plays
· Vocabulary of poetry
· Critical and evaluative reading
· Propaganda techniques
· Mass communication
· Advertising
· Music and painting
· Architecture and sculpture
· Listening skills
· Vocabulary development
· Grammar
· Story writing
· Editorial writing
· Journalistic writing
· Writing term papers
· Proofreading symbols
· Use of Reader's Guide and other reference aids, both print and electronic
· Relations and functions
· Square roots, surds, radicals
· Rational roots
· Linear equations and analytic geometry
· Quadratic equations
· Binomial theorem
· Imaginary numbers
· Exponents and radicals
· Logarithms
· Progressions
· Higher-degree equations
· Vectors
· Solutions of right triangles
· Use of table and interpolation
· Measurement of angles
· Properties of trigonometric functions
· Complex numbers and vectors
· Concept of a limit
· Graphs of functions
· Solutions of oblique triangles
· Logarithms
· Identities and equations
· General triangle solutions
· Permutations, combinations, and simple probability
· Estimation and approximation
· Determinants