Curriculum
Central Cambria Curriculum Plan
Here at Central Cambria School District, we strive everyday to offer a curriculum that includes:
- Continuous learning through effective collaboration among the schools of this district
- Continuous access for all students to sufficient programs and services of library/media facility and classroom collection to support the educational programs
- Guidance and counseling services for all students to assist in career and academic planning
- A continuum of educational programs and services for all students with disabilities
- Language Instruction Educational Program for English Learner students, regulation and Board policy
- Compensatory education programs for students
- Equal educational opportunity for all students
- Career awareness and vocational education
- Educational opportunities for identified gifted students
- Regular and continuous instruction in required safety procedures
The Framework for K-12 Program Guidelines can be accessed HERE
High School Curriculum Materials and Resources
English
Enrichment: Course Content
Grade 9-10 -
Novels:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Assorted independent novels from High School Library Collection
Drama:
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare OR Antigone by Sophocles
Poetry:
The Odyssey by Homer (Epic Poem)
Selections from the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade literature books
Harlem Renaissance poetry (part of Gatsby unit: 1920s)
Short Stories:
Selections from the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade lit books including, but not limited to:
Harrison Bergeron-Vonnegut
The Most Dangerous Game-Connell
Poison-Dahl
A Sound of Thunder-Bradbury
The Interlopers-Saki
The Fall of the House of Usher-Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart-Poe
The Cask of Amontillado-Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum-Poe
Non-Fiction:
“Now You Take “Bambi” or “Snow White”—That’s Scary: Essay by Stephen King
Choice of memoir/biography from High School Library Collection
Selections from the Civil Rights Movement collection, “Free at Last”
Scholarly articles regarding a chosen/assigned topic related to the background unit for Mockingbird
Scholarly articles regarding a chosen/assigned topic from the “The 1920s” (2)
Internet resources on a variety of topics for debate preparation
Articles retrieved from Time, Newsweek, and various other publications
Other:
Independent Research, Career Exploration, and Problem-Solution Project Guides: each student will read a variety of resources related to their chosen and approved topic of study.
Assorted articles and projects derived from various sites. Example: brainpickings.org: the 6 Word Illustrated Memoir
Grammar from supplemental resources pulled from internet sites, etc.
Research Skills for Students series from Schlessinger Media: Avoiding Plagiarism, Evaluating Sources, Media Literacy, Organizing Research, Presenting and Communicating Research, Searching the Internet, and a variety of accompanying materials.
Debate and/or discussion and/or close reading strategies and/or active questioning strategies: Articles retrieved from Time, Newsweek, and various other publications, and independent research. PA Bar Association Mock Trial case materials will be used.
CDTs with suggested SAS resources
9th Grade -
Elements of Literature 3rd Course; That Was Then, This is Now; Animal Farm; The Time Machine; Romeo and Juliet; Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens; How To Win Friends and Influence People
Freshman (Comp and Lit I) Course Content
Novels
Animal Farm
Bless the Beasts and Children
Anthem
We the Living
Alas, Babylon
Pygmalion
Good Earth
Bless Me Ultima
That was Then This is Now
The Time Machine
Blood Brothers
Short Story
Sniper
Most Dangerous Game
Sound of Thunder
Interlopers
Snow
The Cask of Amontillado
Poison
Harrison Bergeron
Christmas Memory
Gift of the Magi
The Gift
All Summer in a Day
The Scarlet Ibis
The Necklace
The Lady or the Tiger
Plays
The Miracle Worker
Romeo and Juliet
Epic Poem
The Odyssey
Poems
The Seven Ages of Man
Fire and Ice
My Papa’s Waltz
I Never Saw a Moor
Kidnap Poem
Fifteen
The Road not Taken
Ain’t I a Women?
Thumbprint
Facing It
Sketch
I Sing the Battle
From the Grave
The Dawn’s Awake
Sleep
From X
A Lady
The Black Land
Operating Room
Ode Written on the First of December
Lighthouse
10th Grade -
Elements of Literature 4th Course, Of Mice and Men, A Separate Peace, The Catcher in the Rye, Freedom Writers
Sophomore (Comp and Lit II) Course Content
Novels
Of Mice and Men
After the First Death
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Accelerated Reader – Independent Novels
Short Stories
“The Swimmer” John Cheever
“A&P” John Updike
“The Lottery” Shirley Jackson
“Rose for Emily” William Faulkner
“The Bath” Raymond Carver
“A Small Good Thing” Raymond Carver
“Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe
“The Pit and the Pendulum” Edgar Allan Poe
“The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury
“Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Cold Equation” Tom Godwin
“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” W.D Wetherell
"The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Roald Dahl
"Monsters are Due on Maple Street" Rod Serling
"The Veldt" Ray Bradbury
"Button, Button" Richard Matheson
Drama
Antigone Sophocles
A Doll’s House Ibsen
Julius Caesar Shakespeare
Poetry
“The Journey”
“Acquainted With the Night” Robert Frost
“Unknown Citizen”
“Mending Wall”
“The Eagle”
“Mirror”
“Lake Isle of Innisfree”
“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”
“Narrow Fellow”
“Summer Remembered”
“Golden Vanity”
“Meeting at Night”
“My Last Duchess”
Non-Fiction
Literary Criticism
“Perils of Indifference” speech
Speech at the Nuremberg Trials, November 21, 1945
Essay on Scapegoatism
“No News From Auschwitz”
Variety of New York Times Articles
11th Grade -
Elements of Literature 5th Course, The Great Gatsby, The Stranger by Albert Camus, A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
Junior (Comp and Lit III) Course Content
Novels
The Great Gatsby
Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and The Sea
The Stranger
Reality Check (Non Fiction)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Plays
Oedipus Rex
Glass Menagerie
Death of a Salesman
Hamlet
Crucible
Short Stories
Poe – “Hop Frog”
“The Handsomest Drowned Man” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Rip Van Winkle” – Washington Irving
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”-Washington Irving
“The Minister’s Black Veil” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“To Build a Fire” – Jack London
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” – James Thurber
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Ambrose Bierce
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”
“Good Country People”
“A Worn Path” – Eudora Welty
“Soldier’s Home” – Ernest Hemingway
“A Rose For Emily” – William Faulkner
“Speaking of Courage” – Tim O’Brien
“A Pair of Silk Stockings” – Kate Chopin
“The Fall of the House of Usher” - Poe
Poetry
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
William Carlos Williams
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Mushrooms”--Sylvia Plath
Pablo Neruda
Billy Collins
12th Grade -
Elements of Literature 6th Course, 1984 by George Orwell, Macbeth, Gulliver’s Travels, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, Lord of the Flies, Frankenstein
Senior (Comp and Lit IV) Course Content
Novels
Lord of the Flies
A Christmas Carol
1984
Sons and Lovers
Wuthering Heights
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
The Metamorphosis-Novella
Frankenstein
Arrowsmith
Babbit
The Canterbury Tales
Le Morte D’arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Sun Also Rises
Gulliver’s Travel
Drama
Macbeth
Prometheus Bound
Othello
Oedipus Rex
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Second Shepherd’s Play
Epic Poetry
Beowulf
Paradise Lost
The Rape of the Lock
The Aeneid
A Journal of the Plague Year
Short Stories/Essays
Excerpts from “Gulliver’s Travels”
The Demon Lover
A Modest Proposal
Top of the Food Chain
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Mark of the Beast
How Much Land Does a Man Need
The Destructors
In the Shadow of War
Araby
The Rocking Horse Winter
The Doll’s House
My Oedipus Complex
Games at Twilight
A Room of One’s Own
Shooting an Elephant
No Witchcraft for Sale
Once Upon a Time
The Yellow Wallpaper
Marriage is a Private Affair
AP Literature -
Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Math -
Algebra I - Textbook: Algebra I (Common Core Edition) from Holt McDougal; subscription to IXL website for learning and practice
Algebra II - Textbook: Algebra II by McDougal and Littell; copyright 2007: TI 30 Calculators
Calculus - Textbook: Elements of Calculus and Analytic Geometry by Addison - Wesley; copyright 1989: TI 30 Calculators
AP Calculus - Virtual High School Class Curriculum
Geometry - Textbook: Geometry by McDougal and Littell; copyright 2004: TI 30 Calculators
Personal Finance - Textbook: Mathematics For Business and Personal Finance from Glencoe
Social Studies -
Civics- Textbook: Fraga, Luis Ricardo. Holt United States Government : Principles in Practice. Austin, Tex. :Holt McDougal, 2010. Additional: Various primary sources, film clips, digital media, documentaries, and current event articles
Contemporary American HistoryTextbooks:Danzer Gerald A. and others. The Americas. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005., Zinn, Howard. 1990. A people's history of the United States. New York: Harper & Row.
Economics - Textbook: Meek, Sally and others. Economics: Concepts and Choices. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2011. Additional: Various primary sources, digital media, documentaries, and current event articles
AP European - Textbook: Mckay, John and others. A History of Western Society vol. 1 and 2. New York: Bedford/St.Martin, 2011. Additional: Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Additional: Various primary sources, film clips, digital media, documentaries, and current event articles
Psychology - Textbook: Hasset, James. and others. Understanding Psychology. New York, NY: Random House, 1983.
Travel the Globe- Textbook- World Geography Today-Holt Rinehart and Winston. Additional Resources- youtube, various websites such as Sheppard Software and Lizard Point to review maps, clips of Rick Steves Europe and Anthony Bourdain, projector and Promethean Board
US History- Textbook: Danzer, Gerald A. and others. The Americas. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005.
AP US History - Textbook: Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty! Vol. 1 and 2. New York: W.W.Norton Company, 2012. Additional: Various primary sources, film clips, digital media, documentaries, and current event articles
World History- Textbook: Modern World History from McDougal Littell 2005. Additional - powerpoints provided by the textbook and many supplemental resources such as various documentaries and artifacts from history such as war relics
Science -
Anatomy:
Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology, 6th Edition, Frederic Martini, 2004 Pearson - Specimens - Cats, beef hearts, cow eyes, calf brain, Anatomy and Physiology coloring books, A&P workbooks, colored pencils, dissection tools (scalpels, scissors, probes), vernier lab probes (ekg), lab goggles and aprons, medical tools - stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs and nitrile gloves. Specific chemicals and specific models (Articulated skeleton, disarticulated skeleton, eye, joints,brain and heart models and various human body charts (circulatory system, nervous system, skeletal system, etc.). Lab manuals: cat, brain and heart, Chromebox devices, Chromebooks, Promethean board
Biology- A classroom set of the Book (Biology by Miller and Levine Copyright 2014 by Pearson Education) and an online accessible book. The accompanying Lab book and Study Workbooks for the Miller and Levine Biology book, Keystone Finish Line- Biology - Test prep booklets, 2 different Biology Coloring books, Holt Modern Biology copyright 1981- used for frog dissection, various online resources, and a Site License for:New Path Learning- a DVD series for several topics in Biology
Materials and Kits (Calculators, molecular model kits, microscopes, scales, hot plates, Water Bath. Computers, Chromebooks, Promethean board, glassware, chemicals, gloves, aprons, goggles, a water distiller, and an Autoclave, dissection tools, dissection trays
Hands on Modeling kits from 3D Molecular Designs including: Modeling Toobers, Enzyme Kits, Phospholipid and Membrane transport kit,Water kit and Amino Acid and Protein synthesis kit. Other modeling kits for modeling Photosynthesis, Cellular respiration, mitosis, Meiosis, DNA replication, Transcription, and translation) The Cell Game, DNA Puzzle Kits, Codon the DNA game. Gene Rummy: THe DNA Card Game and other manipulatives on many topics including: organic molecules (Carbohydrates, Lipids and Proteins); Plant and Animal Cell structure; Cell Membrane structure; pH; DNA, RNA and Protein Synthesis; Karyotype; VHS tapes on various topics, posters on various topics, various prepared microscope slides
AP Biology - Book:- AP Edition Campbell Biology 9th edition -Pearson education Supplemental Books:- Study Guide for Campbell Biology 9th edition, Inquiry in Action: Interpreting scientific papers for Campbell Biology 9th edition, Practicing Biology: a student workbook fourth edition for Campbell Biology 9th edition, Active Reading Guide for Campbell Biology, Read primary Literature: A Practical Guide to Evaluation Research Articles in Biology by Christopher M. Gillen, Using Biointeractive resources to teach Mathematics and Statistics in Biology by Paul Strode PhD and Ann Brokaw, AP Biology Quantitative Skills: A Guide for Teachers by the College Board, AP Biology Investigative Labs: An inquiry Approach. Cliffs AP Biology Prep Books 2nd edition.
Materials and Kits - Calculators, molecular model kits, microscopes, scales, hot plates, Water Bath, Gel Electrophoresis Equipment, Micropipets, Pipetters, centrifuge, Computers, Chromebooks, Promethean board, glassware, chemicals, gloves, aprons goggles, incubators, a water distiller, and an Autoclave
Hands on Modeling kits from 3D Molecular Designs including: Modeling Toobers, Enzyme Kits, Phospholipid and Membrane transport kit,Water kit and Amino Acid and Protein synthesis kit. Other modeling kits for modeling Photosynthesis, Cellular respiration, mitosis, Meiosis, DNA replication, Transcription, translation and Plasmids, The Cell Game, DNA Puzzle Kits, Codon the DNA game, The DNA Card Game
Conservation Biology - depending on topic, daily resources include reading/discussion of such current publication sources as Nature, PBS, NOAA, EPA, DEP, National Geographic, Smithsonian, NASA, etc.
Technology resources include interactives from such websites as HHMI Biointeractive, PhET, tamu PEER, National Environmental Educators Foundation, etc. Also, included are my Chromebook cart and Google family of extensions, printers, and class projector
Chemistry - Book: Prentice Hall Chemistry-2005, Calculators, molecular model kits, Promethean board, Chromebooks, balances, hot plates, assorted glassware, chemicals, safety materials, assorted lab materials
College Chemistry - Book (General Chemistry - 7th edition), TI 30X IIS calculators, molecular models, Promethean board, Chromebooks, scales, glassware, multiple chemicals, safety materials, calorimeters, bunsen burners, TI calculators with CBL’s, and other lab materials
Organic Chemistry - Promethean board, Chromebooks, molecular models, safety materials, multiple chemicals, hot plates, and other lab materials
Physics:
Holt Physics by Serway and Faughn © 2002, Chromebooks, Promethean board, TI 30 calculators, TI 84 calculators with CBL technology, a variety of laboratory equipment and supplies
Advanced Physics: Holt Physics by Serway and Faughn © 2002, Chromebooks, Promethean board, TI 30 calculators, TI 84 calculators with CBL technology, a variety of laboratory equipment and supplies
STEM -
Inventionland -
https://www.iu1.org/partners/inventionland
Project Lead the Way - Engineering
https://www.pltw.org/our-programs/pltw-engineering
Business Education -
Accounting I: Textbook: Glencoe Accounting, First Year Course, 2007 Edition
Eno Board, Microsoft Office: Textbook: Glencoe, iCheck Series. Microsoft Office, 2007 Edition, T-P-U Drives, Eno Board
Accounting II: Textbook: Glencoe Accounting, First Year Course, 2007 Edition.
Eno Board
Web Design: U Drive, Eno Board, Notepad Software http://www.lions-wing.net/lessons/writinghtml/tut/lessons.html
Adobe Software. https://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver-cs4-tutorial-1.shtml
Google Sites
Yearbook: http://yearbookavenue.jostens.com/, Eno Board