Course selection / all grades

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Electives

Every Panther takes a couple of required courses each year, then picks four more classes. Here is what is available in 6th, 7th and 8th grade.

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6th Grade

Required

  • PE/Health (one semester)
  • Keyboarding (one semester)

Plus choose 4 more

  • Art I
  • Band I
  • Choir I
  • Dance/Creative Movement
  • EAST
  • Exp. Foreign Language(French/Spanish, one semester each)
  • GT Seminar*
  • Orchestra
  • Planet Earth

7th Grade

Required

  • PE/Health (one semester)
  • Keycode (one semester)

Plus choose 4 more

  • Art
  • Band
  • Choir
  • Dance/Creative Movement
  • EAST
  • French I
  • GT Seminar*
  • Orchestra
  • Personal Finance & Business Innovations(one semester each)
  • PLTW — Robotics/Design & Modeling(one semester each)
  • Spanish I

8th Grade

Required

  • PE/Health (one semester)
  • Career Orientation (one semester)

Plus choose 4 more

  • Art
  • Band
  • Choir
  • Dance/Creative Movement
  • EAST
  • French I or II
  • GT Seminar*
  • Orchestra
  • Personal Finance & Intro to Business/Marketing(one semester each)
  • PLTW — Robotics/Design & Modeling(one semester each)
  • Spanish I or II

Good to know

*GT Seminar is for GT-identified students only.

**Tiered Literacy Intervention counts as an elective. Strategic Reading (Tier 2) replaces one elective; Academic Reading (Tier 3) replaces two electives.

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