BEST Academy High School

Available courses

• World Literature & Composition

  • Teacher: JENNIFER TANNER

  World Literature & Composition is designed to expose students to perspectives that differ from their own culture, ultimately leading them to a deeper understanding of other cultures and the works that represent them. An emphasis will be placed on writing, speaking, and research elements corresponding to Georgia Performance Standards.   Therefore, students will thematically study, analyze, interpret, & critique various genres of literature and other media based on the historical and cultural context of the author and his/her culture. This course offers one credit toward the English requirement for graduation.

• Banking and Investment

  • Teacher: ALISHA FOOTS

  Using project-based instruction, students are introduced to the basics of the banking system, bank operating   procedures, negotiable instruments, and the deposit and credit functions of banks. Methods used for measuring the financial performance of banks are analyzed. Current issues and future trends in banking are examined. Students explore the major functions of bank employees by completing a flow-of-work simulation. Students formulate business and individual investment decisions by comparing and contrasting a variety of investment options. Students analyze annual reports, predict growth rates, and chart trend lines.  Partnerships with community banks and investment firms enrich instruction as well as stock market simulations, guest speakers, and field trips.  

   

• Business Essentials

  • Teacher: ALISHA FOOTS

   

  Business Essentials is a foundations course for the Small Business Development Career Pathway. It is also appropriate for students enrolled in any Career Pathway who plan to own and operate their own businesses. The course will help students build a strong knowledge base and develop management skills as they study forms of business ownership, functions of management, budgeting and finance, technology, communications, legislation, leadership and teamwork, marketing, and economics. Mastery of these standards through project-based learning and leadership development activities of the Career and Technical Student Organizations will help prepare students with a competitive edge for the global marketplace.

• Am. Government/Civics

  • Teacher: WILLIAM MCFARLIN

  The government course provides students with a background in the philosophy, functions, and structure of the United States government. Students examine the philosophical foundations of the United States government and how that philosophy developed. Students also examine the structure and function of the United States government and its relationship to states and citizens.

   

• World History

   

  World history seeks a global perspective on the past, one that acknowledges and integrates the historical experiences of all of the world's people. Only by examining humanity's shared past is it possible to view today's world in meaningful historical context.

  

• AP World History

  • Teacher: MICHAEL ALLIGOOD

  The breadth of world history has always posed challenges for AP teachers to create opportunities for deep conceptual understanding for students while addressing a syllabus largely driven by sheer scope. The AP World History course outlined in this course and exam description addresses these challenges by providing a clear framework of six chronological periods viewed through the lens of related key concepts and course themes, accompanied by a set of skills that clearly define what it means to think historically.

  The course’s organization around a limited number of key concepts instead of a perceived list of facts, events, and dates makes teaching each historical period more manageable. The three to four key concepts per period define what is most essential to know about each period based upon the most current historical research in world history. This approach enables students to spend less time on factual recall, more time on learning essential concepts, and helps them develop historical thinking skills necessary to explore the broad trends and global processes involved in their study of AP World History.

  To foster a deeper level of learning, the framework distinguishes content that is essential to support the understanding of key concepts from content examples that are not required. Throughout the framework, possible examples of historical content are provided in the right-hand column as an illustration of the key concept, but these illustrative examples are not required features of the course or required knowledge for the exam. Instead, the illustrative examples are provided to offer students a variety of optional instructional contexts that will help them achieve deeper understanding. The themes and key concepts are intended to provide foundational knowledge for future college-level course work in history. Command of these course themes and key concepts requires sufficient knowledge of detailed and specific relevant historical developments and processes — including names, chronology, facts, and events — to exemplify the themes and key concepts. However, the specific historical developments and processes taught in an AP World History course will vary by teacher according to theinstructional choices each teacher makes to provide opportunities for student investigation and learning for each key concept and theme.

  

• Test Science 1

  • Teacher: WILLIAM BAGOT

  This is test

• Biology

  • Teacher: LASHONDA PARKER

   

  Biology is the study of life. The course includes the study of the structure and function of living organisms, energy transformations, comparative survey of life processes, diversity of life, and the interdependence of organisms and their environment. Investigations emphasize process skill development and safe manipulation of laboratory equipment and materials in the field and laboratory. The purpose of this course is to present biology content within a pattern of unifying themes that helps students understand the larger significance of the details they are learning. Students will be asked to think critically about concepts and relate them to the world in which they live.

• Chemistry 1 (H)

  • teacher: WILLIAM BAGOT

  Chemistry is a full-year, laboratory-based course which is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills for proficiency in science.  Students will study the properties of matter and energy, the nature of the atom and how elements react and bond, acids and bases, and many other aspects of chemistry. Students also explore real-life applications of chemistry in world industry through various interdisciplinary projects.

• Math I

  • Teacher: Dr. Reginald Johnson

  This is the first in a sequence of mathematics courses designed to prepare students to take Math II.  It includes radical, polynomial and rational expressions; functions and their graphs; quadratic and radical equations; coordinate geometry; probability; statistics; distance and midpoint. (Prerequisite: Successful completion of 8^th Grade Mathematics.)

  

• Accelerated Math II

  • Teacher: ISHAN MALIK

  This is the second in a sequence of mathematics courses designed to prepare students to take AB or BC Advanced Placement Calculus. It includes right triangle trigonometry; exponential, logarithmic, and higher degree polynomial functions; matrices; linear programming; vertex-edge graphs; conic sections; planes and spheres; population means, standard deviations, and normal distributions. (Prerequisite: Accelerated Math 1 or Mathematics 2.)

  

• Accelerated Math 1

  • Teacher: ISHAN MALIK

  This is the first in a sequence of mathematics courses designed to prepare students to take AB or BC Advanced Placement Calculus. It includes radical, polynomial and rational expressions; functions and their graphs; quadratic and radical equations; fundamentals of proof; properties of polygons, circles and spheres; coordinate geometry; sample statistics and curve fitting. (Prerequisite: Successful completion of 8^th Grade Mathematics.)

  

• Math II Support

  • Teacher: ISHAN MALIK

  The purpose of this course is to provide additional support to students in their efforts to meet the standards of more rigorous and relevant mathematics courses. In this course, students will be provided opportunities to learn and review math concepts to be addressed in Math II, including prerequisite skills necessary for those concepts, vocabulary, and definitions. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Mathematics I. It is understood that each student have mastered all standards listed as Georgia Performance Standards for kindergarten through ninth grade. Any gaps in knowledge will be addressed in Math II Support or during after school tutoring sessions

  

• Math II

  • Teacher: ISHAN MALIK

  This is the second course in a sequence of courses designed to provide students with a rigorous program of study in mathematics. It includes complex numbers; quadratic, piecewise, and exponential functions; right triangles, and right triangular trigonometry; properties of circles; and statistical inference. (Prerequisite: Successful completion of Mathematics 1.)

  

• Math 1

• U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps

  • Teacher: KEVIN HENDERSON

  The JROTC program is designed to teach high school students the value of citizenship, leadership, service to the community, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment, while instilling in them self-esteem, teamwork, and self-discipline. This course will review the birth of the JROTC program and its purpose, show them the value of being a productive member of society while at the same time allow cadets to explore how JROTC can help them meet their goals for success.

• 9th Grade Literature

  • Teacher: Dr. T.N. WILLIAMS

  9th Grade Literature is a course that will assist all students, while simultaneously, providing the tool necessary to pass the End of Course Test (EOCT).

   

  The work will be rigorus and deadlines are expected to be met. I geninuely believe that all students have the potential to learn and excel. Therefore, it is my expectation that all students pass the EOCT with a grade of 80% or higher. 

   

  As long as we work together, complete all the assignments on time, respect each other's space and follow the procedures of the classroom and school, then we will all have a GREAT and AMAZING school year!

  

• Technology Professional Development

  This course will provide the teachers at Best  HS with professional development and technology skills for  teaching  kids in the 21st century.