ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES

The AP Program gives students the opportunity to pursue college-level studies while still in high school and to receive course credit and advanced placement upon entering college. Over 1200 colleges in the country offer course credit to AP students

who score at a certain level on the AP examinations. An AP course is challenging and stimulating and compared to other high school courses takes more time and requires more homework. It also gives greater opportunity for individual progress and accomplishment and goes into greater depth. The students develop critical thinking skills, fluid writing abilities, problem-solving skills, and expertise in absorbing masses of material. Academic rank in class is determined by a numeric scale of yearly averages, with both AP and honors classes being weighted. Grades for AP courses will be multiplied by 1.1 and grades for honors classes by 1.05.  Grades for weighted courses are not reflected on the report card.  The weight is calculated in the cumulative grade point average.

ADMISSION POLICY FOR ADVANCED PLACEMENT
HONORS ENGLISH CLASS

All students in Honors English I will automatically be enrolled in Honors English II.  Only students who have teacher and parent approval may shift to the lower level of English.  Students desiring to enter the honors program may request a parent/student conference with the Honors English Chairperson at CHS. After that conference, he/she may make a choice about which English is more appropriate.  Any student moving into the district during a school year may enter Honors English only if the student has been enrolled in an honors program at his/her former school. If he/she has not, he may follow the admission procedure for the following year.

 

During their junior year, students may have the option of either Honors English III or AP English III with an emphasis on preparation for the Language and Composition test and the option their senior year for either Honors English IV or AP English IV with an emphasis on preparation for the Literature and Composition test. They may take Honors both years or Honors in the eleventh and AP in the twelfth or AP in the eleventh and Honors in the twelfth or AP in both grades.

 

Once a teacher identifies the need for a student to add or drop an Honors English course, he must confer with the Honors English Chairperson who will then request a conference with the student first, then with the student and his parent before approving the change.

 
A student may only enter and leave the honors program once. He may not, however, move to General English his senior year since Honors English IV offers a viable alternative to Advanced Placement English IV without causing the student to repeat his study of British literature.

 

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District Procedures for Transferring from Honors / Advanced Placement Courses

THESE POLICIES APPLY TO GRADES EIGHT - TWELVE
After the first five days of each school semester, the policy for transferring from an Honors or Advanced Placement course to a lower-level course is as follows: