Graduation Requirements

Senior Class of
2010-2011

APPENDIX A-1

SENIORS OF SCHOOL YEAR
 2010-2011
(Entering ninth graders in 2006-2007)

CURRICULUM AREA

CARNEGIE UNITS

REQUIRED SUBJECTS

ENGLISH

41

 

 

MATHEMATICS

4

Algebra I

SCIENCE

3

Biology I

SOCIAL STUDIES

 

  

3

1 World History
1 U.S. History
½ U.S. Government
½ Mississippi Studies4

HEALTH

 

½

Comprehensive Health or
Family and Individual Health

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

 

1

1 Computer Discovery or ½ Keyboarding and
½ Computer Applications

THE ARTS

 

1

Any approved 500.000 course or completion of the 2-course sequence for Computer Graphics Technology I and II

ELECTIVE

5 1/2

 

 

TOTAL UNITS REQUIRED

22

 

 

1  Compensatory Reading and Compensatory Writing courses may not be included in the four English courses required for graduation; however, these courses may be included in the 4 1/2 general electives required for graduation.

2  Compensatory Mathematics and any developmental mathematics course may not be included in the three mathematics courses required for graduation; however, these courses may be included in the 4 1/2 general electives required for graduation.  At least one of the three required mathematics courses must be higher than Algebra I.  The allowable mathematics courses that can be taken which are higher than Algebra I are:  Geometry, Algebra II, Advanced Algebra, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, Discrete Mathematics, Probability and Statistics, and AP Statistics.  One of the three required mathematics units may be in Drafting, if the student completes the 2-course sequence for Drafting I & II.

3 One unit may be in Technology Applications or Introduction to Agriscience or Agriscience I or Concepts of Agriscience or Allied Health or Aquaculture or Science of Agricultural Plants or Science of Agricultural Animals or Science of Agricultural Environment.  Two units may be in the following courses if the student completes the 2-course sequence:  Agriscience I & II; Allied Health I & II; Aquaculture I & II; Forestry I & II; Horticulture I & II; Plastics and Polymer Science I & II; and Technology Applications I & II.  Two units may be earned by completing the following AEST 3-course sequence: one unit in Concepts of Agriscience; one unit in Science of Agricultural Animals or Science of Agricultural Plants or Science of Agricultural Environment; and one unit in Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship.

4  The credit earned for a State/Local Government course in any other state by an out-of-state transfer student who enters after the sophomore year can stand in lieu of Mississippi Studies or Mississippi State and Local Government.  If the transfer student took a State/Local Government course in a grade level that did not award Carnegie unit credit, then any other 1/2 unit social studies course may be accepted.  An out-of-state student who transfers after the junior year may substitute any other 1/2 unit social studies course.

5  Evidence of proficiency in Keyboarding and Computer Applications is accepted in lieu of the required courses if the student earns one unit in any of the courses listed in the Business and Technology Framework (academic and vocational).

6  Elective units in physical education include participation in interscholastic athletic activities that meet the instructional requirements specified in the Fitness through Physical Education Framework and that are sanctioned by the Mississippi High School Activities Association.