This course is designed to give students a solid foundation in understanding visual art and to improve basic art production skills. Students will explore how they and artists past and present use basic visual symbols of line, space, color, and value to create illusion and meaning in an artwork. Artistic talent is NOT a prerequisite; only a willing and open mind and an industrious nature are needed. This course will focus on art elements, language, and perspective. Students will learn about artistic styles and media while developing their own art skills. Class time will include lectures and studio work in a variety of media with an emphasis on drawing.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9-12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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The class will work in collaboration on a single large public sculpture to be installed on the Yorkville High School grounds.  In addition, students will have opportunities for individual smaller projects of various media including life casting, ceramics, and glass casting.  For the public sculpture, students will be involved in design, presentation to administration, construction, and installation.  Join the legacy of students who left a mark here at Yorkville.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9-12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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The Field Experience Program will provide students with the opportunity to prepare for career success outside high school through personalized, realistic learning experiences. Students will gain valuable work experience in an area of their interest, create a network of contacts, and learn valuable, transferable, self-management, and job-related skills while earning school credit towards graduation. This unique program allows for supervised field experience which will help students with post-secondary decision-making and successful matriculation into student’s post secondary experience.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: None
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 11-12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates: June 11 - July 25 
  
  
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Interrelated Cooperative Education targets two groups of students: students who are undecided about a career path and who would benefit from a work-based experience in the community, and students who have a career plan and would like to explore their options in a field relating to Business, Family and Consumer Science, Trade and Industrial Technology, Health, or Agriculture. I.C.E. Class provides instruction in a variety of areas: developing career awareness and related skills necessary to make viable career choices; interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills; and good employee skills. Students must work a minimum of 15 hours per week. Students must meet every Monday from 8 am - 9 am for a mandatory synchronous virtual classroom meeting.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: Must have already secured paid employment
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 11-12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 - 9 am
• Dates: June 11 - July 25  
  
  
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Creative Writing is a semester-long course designed to help students explore their writing voices in a creative, engaging environment.  Each unit is designed to introduce and develop different aspects of a writers’ voice.  Students will produce pieces in a number of different forms and genres.  As a class, we will work together as a writing community to support one another through sharing, editing, and discussing.  Students are encouraged to submit their work for consideration in the annual literary festival held in the spring and the school’s literary magazine. **Successful completion of one English IV elective option is required for graduation.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: None
• Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 11 & 12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Successful completion of English I is required for graduation. This is a writing-intensive course. Content of course study includes the fundamentals of English as a language: its grammar, usage, and traditional modes of the written language, as well as reading and analysis of various genres of literature, and basic composition skills specifically directed at the development of the paragraph and essay.

Next Course: English II

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: None
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9 - 12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Successful completion of English II is required for graduation. This is a writing intensive course. Content of course study includes emphasis in two major areas: composition techniques - the essay, report and research writing - and the development of formal writing based on the study of major literary texts.

Next Course: English III or English III Honors

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: Successful completion English I
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 10
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
  
   Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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One year of required study in English III, AP Language, or AP Literature is required for graduation. This is a reading and writing-intensive course. Content of course study is a concentration on the major contributions to literature written by American authors. Selections which span the styles of colonial through modern times will be read and analyzed by means of discussion, written assignments, and a speech. Next course: English IV, English 101, AP Literature or AP Language

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: Successful completion of English I and II
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 11
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Concentrating on American literature post WWII-present, students study authors, the historical contexts for the literature, and the literature itself. Units include the Beat Generation, the Civil Rights Movement, and literature of the Vietnam War. Writing assignments focus primarily on literary analysis and help to develop a strong writing style through sentence revision, quotation integration, and transitioning.

**Successful completion of English IV is required for graduation.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: Successful completion of English I, II, and III
• Remediation & Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Course content will include topics such as expressions, real numbers, linear equations and inequalities, graphing relations and functions, systems of linear equations, polynomials and factoring, radical and rational expressions, and as time allows, rational equations and other real-world applications. Some sections of this course will receive extended time during the day to accommodate the mathematical needs of the students. This course is typically the first high school mathematics course.

Next course: Geometry or Geometry Honors

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: None
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9
• Cost $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
      
      
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Course content will include geometrical concepts in both two- and three – dimensions as well as analytical and deductive reasoning along with a study of the nature of proofs, lines, planes, angles, triangles, congruences, geometric inequalities, perpendicularity, and parallelism. Various quadrilaterals, parallel lines and planes, polygonal regions and areas, similarity, and constructions are also studied. Coordinate geometry is introduced as a tool for proving geometric theorems. As time permits some system of finite geometry will be investigated.  Next course: Algebra II or Algebra II Honors

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: Successful completion of Algebra I or Algebra I Honors
• Remediation & Acceleration
• Credits 1.0
• Grades: 9 & 10
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
      
      
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Course content will include geometrical concepts in both two- and three–dimensions, as well as analytical and deductive reasoning, along with a study of the nature of proofs, lines, planes, angles, triangles, congruences, geometric inequalities, perpendicularity, and parallelism. Various quadrilaterals, parallel lines and planes, polygonal regions and areas, similarity, and constructions are also studied. Coordinate geometry is introduced as a tool for proving geometric theorems. As time permits, some systems of finite geometry will be investigated.  Next course: Algebra II or Algebra II Honors

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: Successful completion of Algebra I or Algebra I Honors
• Acceleration
• Credits 1.0
• Grades: 9 & 10
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Throughout the course, there will be a review and expansion of various topics covered in Algebra I. Course content will include the following topics: Algebra Foundations, Graphing Quadratic Functions and Relations, Solving Quadratic Functions and Relations, Operations with Polynomials, Graphs of Polynomials, Simplify and Solve Rational Functions, and Trigonometric Functions (if time). A TI-83+ or TI-84+ is required to complete course content.

Next course: Pre-Calculus, Quantitative Literacy, AP Statistics or MTH 101

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: Geometry or Geometry Honors
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 10 & 11
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
      
      
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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The state law requires that the minimum age for an Illinois driver’s license is eighteen (18) years, except for students who have their parent’s permission and have successfully completed driver's education.  Driver’s education consists of two phases, classroom and behind the wheel. Driver Education Classroom is a minimum of (thirty) 30 hours in length and requires student attendance to satisfy this state requirement. Any student not completing this requirement will have to repeat this phase of driver's education. This class promotes the development of citizens who will learn and follow state traffic regulations and laws. It also cultivates desirable attitudes towards safe driving habits that are necessary to become safe and responsible users of the highway transportation system. 

Driver education is an elective class (parents may elect to have their student wait until their student is emotionally mature and ready for the responsibilities of driving).  The driver’s education course provides a sound foundation of the habits and skills necessary for safe driving. However, a student who successfully completes this course is not an accomplished driver and should be closely supervised for at least one year. 

The classroom portion of Driver Education is offered to students during the sophomore year. In order to be eligible for Driver Education, the student must be fifteen (15) years of age. Students who desire to take driver’s education courses in public schools or nonpublic schools must receive a passing grade in at least six (6) courses in the previous two (2) terms, or eight (8) courses the previous two (2) semesters before enrolling in driver’s education. 

Driver Education Behind-the-Wheel is the practice phase that applies classroom ideas and concepts to the driving phase. Habits and skills are developed for residential, city, and highway driving with special emphasis on specific maneuvers. 

The course will run for 2 weeks (from June 11-18 from 8:00 am– 1 pm. This will meet the state-mandated 30 hours of classroom instruction. It is important to note that you must be in attendance for the duration of the course. Missing a day will result in being dropped from the course. An additional 12 hours of coursework will take place in a vehicle. There will be more flexibility in scheduling these drives and this will be set on the first day of class. 

There will also be an early permit test and a mandatory parents' meeting. Registration for this course is $315. 

Students are scheduled to drive during the summer according to student availability. Each student is expected to master the basic mental and visual tasks required for safe driving. When scheduling behind-the-wheel, consideration will be given to each student’s age. 

Instruction permits are issued through schools and the State of Illinois. The cost of this permit is $20.00 and each student must have a permit in order to take the behind-the-wheel phase of driver's education. This fee also covers the price of a driver’s license issued by the State of Illinois. The money is sent to the Secretary of State and is non-refundable. An additional fee is charged by the school district for this course. All students must complete the State requirements for the “graduated driver’s license program.” This includes documenting a parent/adult riding with their student driver for a minimum of fifty (50) hours of which at least ten (10) hours must be night driving. The school’s behind-the-wheel driving time does not count towards the fifty (50) hour requirement. It is the responsibility of the student and the parent/adult to complete the driving log form correctly before turning it in at the examiner’s station. More information on this is available in the Illinois Rules of the Roadbook.   

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: 15 years old, a passing grade in eight courses in two semesters prior to enrolling in the class.
• Remediation & Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9 - 12
• Cost: $315
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-18
    
    
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This is a state-mandated and required course. A passing grade is necessary for graduation. Students will demonstrate healthy decision-making skills while striving to maintain overall wellness and personal safety. Students will utilize resources to increase health literacy and evaluate personal risk factors involved in sustaining a healthy lifestyle.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Remediation & Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9 & 10
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Chemistry is the study of matter. The course includes units on science measurement, qualitative and quantitative analysis, atomic structure, properties and behavior of matter, interactions of matter and energy, and equilibrium reactions. Special emphasis is placed on the development of laboratory skills, and stresses the use of logic and algebraic analysis. Students who have struggled in math and/or science are advised to take additional coursework prior to enrolling in Chemistry. The course is intended to prepare students for post-secondary science education. This must be taken in two consecutive terms. Next Course: Advanced Biology, Ecology & Field Biology, Earth Science, Physics, Bio-Med, Human Anatomy & Physiology

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: none
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 10, 11, 12
• $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Biology: Foundations of Life is a survey course covering major topics in life science. This course includes lecture and lab activities on scientific methodology, cells and cell processes, interacting systems, genetics, evolution and ecology. This class is a prerequisite for all future science courses. College-bound students and those interested in science-related fields will use this course as a foundation for future science courses. Next Course: Phys/Chem, Chemistry, Bio-Med, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Ecology & Field Biology, Advanced Biology*, Earth Science

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: none
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Biology Honors is an introductory biological science course for the academically motivated, college-bound student. The course content parallels the regular biology course but is presented at an accelerated pace and/or in greater depth. Biology Honors* is an inquiry and lab-based study of life and involves an in-depth look at the fundamental principles that explain the living world. Students should be critical thinkers with good work ethic and high level of motivation. Students must enroll in both semesters of this course.

Next Course: Chemistry, Chemistry Honors, Bio-Med, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Earth Science

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: none
• Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9
• Cost: $330 for both semesters
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
  
  
• Dates:
  • Semesters 1 & 2
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
      
      
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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This course provides students with the necessary knowledge to be responsible consumers in a free-market economy. This course will cover the following primary topics: career planning, money management, credit, consumers’ rights, and responsibilities. Students will be doing a career project, a checking account packet simulation, and other consumer-related activities. This course will also be offered as a Blended and/or Online course. Required for graduation.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Acceleration & Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9-12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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This course provides students with the necessary knowledge to be responsible consumers in a free market economy. This course will cover the following primary topics: career planning, money management, credit, consumers’ rights and responsibilities. Students will be doing a career project, a checking account packet simulation, and other consumer related activities. This course is completely online with no live instruction. Required for graduation.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Acceleration & Remediation
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9-12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates: June 11 - July 25  
  
  
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American Government will be offered as a junior/senior level course. The course will cover Federal, State, County and local government. The course will study government forms, elections, offices, lobbies, functions, and bureaucracy. The State of Illinois Constitution is an integral part of this course and is required for graduation. This course includes a study of the Federal Constitution which is a study of the individuals who occupy the more important positions in a state and federal government such as: The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Members of the President's Cabinet, State Executive Officers, Legislators from this District, etc. An emphasis will be placed upon the citizen involvement in the government process. All students are required to take and pass this course for graduation. This course will be offered as a blended course.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: none
• Remediation & Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 11, 12
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
  
  
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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Students must pass U.S. History for a graduation requirement. United States History is a junior-level course that is developed to study the major political, social, economic, and military events that have shaped this nation. The course covers material from the exploration/colonial period through the Civil War during one term and will focus on Reconstruction through the Modern Era in the second term. The course does not merely trace these events, but is a study to determine the reason for the significance of such events throughout our nation’s history. There is an emphasis on relating these events to our world today. Next Course: American Government and AP American Government.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: none
• Remediation & Acceleration
• Credits .5
• Grades: 11
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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World History traces the development of man from Mesopotamia to the Introduction of WWI. First semester covers the origin of civilizations in Africa and Asia, the Mediterranean Civilizations of Greece and Rome, and the Americas. Second semester covers Western European Civilization from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution, with an introduction to WWI.

• Location: Yorkville High School
• Prerequisite: none
• Remediation & Acceleration
• Credits 0.5
• Grades: 9
• Cost: $165 per semester
• Times: 8 am - 1 pm
• Dates:
  • Semester 1 – June 11-27
    • Week 1 (June 11-14) Tuesday –Friday
    • Week 2 (June 17-21) No School Wednesday, June 19
    • Week 3 (June 24-27) Monday-Thursday
  • Semester 2 – July 8-25 (Monday–Thursday)
    
    
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