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10th Grade
The ANALYTICAL WRITING course is a small group class that provides instruction in the following areas:
Active Reading (Reading Comprehension): Students will read and understand 2 novels, evaluate the credibility of an author's argument or defense of a claim by critiquing the relationship between generalizations and evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence, and the way in which the author's intent affects the structure and tone of the text. Students will analyze interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text–internal and external conflicts, motivations, relationships, influences–and explain the way those interactions affect the plot, determining characters' traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy. Students will recognize and understand the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language, imagery, allegory, and symbolism and explain their appeal, interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities in a text, and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style, including the impact of diction and figurative language on tone, mood, and theme, using the terminology of literary criticism.
Fundamentals of Effective Writing: Students will be writing clear, coherent, and focused essays that establish a controlling impression or a coherent thesis that conveys a clear and distinctive perspective on the subject and maintain a consistent tone and focus throughout the piece of writing. Students will learn to use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice. In writing expository compositions, including analytical essays, students will learn to marshal evidence in support of a thesis, include information on all relevant perspectives, convey information and ideas from primary and secondary sources accurately, make distinctions between the relative value and significance of specific data, facts, and ideas and use specific rhetorical devices to support assertions (i.e., appeal to logic through reasoning, appeal to emotion or ethical belief, relate a personal anecdote, case study or analogy). Students will be combining the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each.
Vocabulary Development: Students will integrate knowledge of individual words to enhance their writing, distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings of words and interpret the connotative power of words, and identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words and understand word derivations.
Grammar: For the grammar module of the class, students will learn to identify and correctly use clauses–main and subordinate, phrases–gerund, infinitive, and participial, and mechanics of punctuation - semicolons, colons, ellipses, hyphens, understand sentence construction–parallel structure, subordination, proper placement of modifiers, proper English use–consistency of verb tenses, and proper English usage–consistency of verb tenses.
Some book purchases will be necessary. Students can expect homework and weekly quizzes. Grades will be given.
E10A ANALYTICAL WRITING (10th Gr)
June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:20–3:20pm LEE
The AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION course focuses on the development and revision of evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing, the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts, and the decisions writers make as they compose and revise. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Additionally, they read and analyze rhetorical elements and their effects in nonfiction texts–including images as forms of text–from a range of disciplines and historical periods. This is a small group class that provides instruction in the following areas:
Rhetorical Situation: Individuals write within a particular situation and make strategic writing choices based on that situation.
Claims and Evidence: Writers make claims about subjects, rely on evidence that supports the reasoning that justifies the claim, and often acknowledge or respond to other, possibly opposing, arguments.
Reasoning and Organization: Writers guide understanding of a text's lines of reasoning and claims through that text's organization and integration of evidence.
Style: The rhetorical situation informs the strategic stylistic choices that writers make.
Some book purchases will be necessary. Students can expect homework and weekly quizzes. Grades will be given.
E11A AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE
June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:20–3:20pm KYNOR
The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER AP US HISTORY course provides a preview of the 3 major units: 1491-1607, 1607-1754, 1754-1800. In addition to acquiring the necessary content for each topic, students will be applying the reasoning processes that will be required to engage with the historical thinking skills on the AP Exam. The curriculum provides students an opportunity to:
Practice the Short Answer format using primary and secondary source stimuli.
Learn to incorporate seven documents offering varying perspectives in the Document-Based essays (DBQ).
Respond to the Free-Response long essays with a complex understanding demonstrated by a historically defensible thesis, historical analysis, and supporting evidence.
Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given.
P08A AP US HISTORY
June 12–July 7 (4 weeks)*
*July 3–4–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays		 1:50–3:50pm LEE
In ENHANCED MATH 2 at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER, students will learn to reason abstractly and quantitatively, attend to precision, and model with mathematics. Instruction will highlight 4 critical areas:
Algebra: Solve quadratic equations by inspection (e.g., for x2=49), taking square roots, completing the square, the quadratic formula, and factoring, as appropriate to the initial form of the equation. Recognize when the quadratic formula gives complex solutions and write them as a ± bi for real numbers a and b.
Functions: Prove the Pythagorean identity sin2(θ) + cos2(θ) = 1 and use it to find sin(θ), or tan(θ) given sin(θ), cos(θ), or tan(θ) and the quadrant of the angle.
Geometry: Verify experimentally that in a triangle, angles opposite longer sides are larger, sides opposite larger angles are longer, and the sum of any two sides lengths is greater than the remaining side length; apply these relationships to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Statistics and Probability: Apply the Addition Rule, P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B), and interpret the answer in terms of the model.
This group class is for the student enrolled in Enhanced Math 2. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given.
M03A ENHANCED MATH 2
June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays		 1:20–3:20pm KIMES
The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER'S GEOMETRY course provides an excellent foundation for the aspiring math student. The curriculum provides students an opportunity to achieve the following broad instructional goals:
Deductive and inductive reasoning as well as investigative strategies in drawing conclusions. Students will also develop an foundation in understanding proof and logic.
Properties and relationships of geometric objects include the study of:
Points, lines, angles and planes.
Polygons, with a special focus on quadrilaterals, triangles, right triangles.
Circles, Polyhedra and other solids (volumes and surface areas of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, and spheres).
Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given.
M04A GEOMETRY
June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays		 3:30–5:30pm C. KELLY
The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER AP PRE-CALCULUS course provides a preview of the 4 major units: Polynomial and Rational Functions, Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, Trigonometric and Polar Functions, and Functions involving Parameters, Vectors, and Matrices. The curriculum provides students an opportunity to:
Develop a deep understanding of the fundamental concepts and relationships of functions.
Expand their knowledge of quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic functions to include power, polynomial, rational, piece-wise, and trigonometric functions.
Investigate and explore mathematical ideas, develop multiple strategies for analyzing complex situations, and use graphing calculators to test concepts empirically.
Make connections between representations, and provide support in solving problems.
Analyze various representations of functions, sequences, and series.
Analyze bivariate data and distributions.
Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given.
M05A AP PRECALCULUS
June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30–5:30pm CHANG
The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER AP CALCULUS BC course provides an excellent foundation for the aspiring math student. The curriculum provides students an opportunity to:
Analyze graphs through predicting and explaining data.
Understand limit function theory, one-side and two-sided.
Develop a strong foundation in calculus theory, including:
Continuity
Derivatives (conceptually, at a point, as a function, in applications, and second derivatives)
Integrals (interpretation, properties, applications, techniques, numerical approximations)
Fundamental theorem of calculus
Anti-differentiation
Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given.
M06A AP CALCULUS BC
June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays		 3:30–5:30pm P. CHANG
The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER HONORS CHEMISTRY course is designed to prepare students for a college-prep, standards based lab-oriented course which satisfies the UC/CSU lab science requirement. This course provides ample opportunities for investigation and experimentation as well as written and oral communication for an chemistry concepts. Honors Chemistry course content broadly covers the following topics:
Structure of matter: the periodic table, properties of matter, conservation of atoms, kinetic molecular theory.
States of matter: chemical equilibrium, molecular bonding, and nuclear chemistry.
Reactions: acid-base reactions, solutions, energy, chemical reactions.
Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given.
P02B HONORS CHEMISTRY
June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays		 1:20–3:20pm VO