grade 11 guidance

Junior Guidance gives students opportunities to explore their interests and goals as they relate to course selection, post secondary education and career choices. The major units include: Interest, Skills and Values Assessments; Career Exploration; College Entrance Test Preparation and College Search. Students will create a portfolio containing a resume, career plan, and test scores. Completion of the course sets the stage for students to approach their final year of high school with a plan for the future.

Test Preparation

The main goal of this online course is to help juniors develop test-taking skills which they can apply to the PSAT in October and the ACT and SAT later in the school year. Students will become familiar with the format and will practice taking standardized tests within the required time limits. Students will enhance critical reading skills such as determining meanings of words in context, pinpointing main ideas, etc. Math skills, which the students will develop, include reading the problems carefully to determine what is being asked and using math and reasoning to solve the problem. Students will focus on skills in English regarding usage, grammar and rhetoric, and writing. The science section requires attention to skills associated with science such as interpretation and analysis.