• American literary heritage
• Cross-cultural literature
• Folklore and ballads
• Regional customs, traditions, folkways, and language
• Literary interpretation and critique
• Novel, short story, and essay
• Understanding poetry: lyric poetry, and the sonnet
• Drama
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion
• Persuasion and argumentation
• Listening skills
• Public speaking and debate
• Extending dictionary skills
• History of the alphabet
• Vocabulary and etymology
• Geographical dialects
• Grammar
• History of writing
• Techniques of writing
• Journal writing
• Writing short stories, poetry, and plays
• Writing term papers
• Constructing footnotes

Social Studies

• • • Prehistoric peoples
    • The earliest civilizations
    • The early Greeks
    • Early India and China
    • The Islamic world
    • The Middle Ages
    • African civilizations
    • Civilization in the Americas
    • The Renaissance
    • The rise and fall of monarchies
    • Birth of modern democracy
    • The French Revolution
    • The Industrial Revolution
    • Nationalism
    • Imperialism
    • Science and industry
    • The world wars
      - World War I
      - Between world wars
      - World War II
    • The Cold War
    • The Vietnam War
    • The search for peace
    • Democratic ideals and values
    • The rise and fall of Communism
    • The collapse of the Soviet Union
    • World interdependence
    • World problems and issues
    • Role of women in today’s societies

  Mathematics

  • • Origins and uses of geometry
    • Terms, postulates, theorems
    • Sets
    • Nature of proof
    • Inductive and deductive reasoning
    • Ratio and proportion
    • Algebra in geometry
    • Angle relationships
    • Parallel and perpendicular lines
    • Congruent triangles
    • Right triangles
    • Pythagorean Theorem
    • Circles
    • Polygons
    • Relationships between circles and polygons
    • Mensuration theory
    • Measurement of geometric figures
    • Simple constructions
    • Loci
    • Transformational geometry
    • Introduction of symbolic logic
    • Coordinate geometry
    • Trigonometric functions of angles greater than 90
    • Degrees
    • Special angle relationships
    • Problem solving with geometry

  Science

  • • Characteristics of life
    • Classification
    • History of plants and animals
    • Microscopic life
    • Simple organisms: algae, bacteria, fungi
    • Vertebrate life
    • Mammals and birds
    • Plant life
    • Photosynthesis
    • Cells
    • Protein synthesis
    • Genetics and heredity
    • DNA-RNA
    • Genetic engineering
    • Reproduction and growth
    • Human biology
    • Nutrition and digestion
    • Behavior
    • Conservation of human resources
    • Environmental issues
    • Energy in ecosystems
    • Scientific method
    • Biology and space travel
    • Disease and disease control