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Click the course titles below to learn more about our Elective offerings!
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Agricultural Science
6th Grade: Exploring Agricultural Science
Exploring Animal and Plant Science
Students gain an understanding of the fundamentals of the animal and plant science industry. Through hands-on activities, students understand the importance of animal/plant product uses, animal welfare and care practices, and basic plant physiology. Work-based learning opportunities and leadership development engage students in the development of their career development plan.
Fundamentals of the Agricultural Science Program
Explore the importance of stewardship through hands-on experiences. Discover appropriate safety procedures for various agricultural education learning environments. Implement foundational work-based learning experiences and develop leadership skills through agriculture and community settings. Build leadership skills and employability skills through authentic experiences.Each course is 9-weeks long.
7th Grade: Exploring Agricultural Science
Exploring Food and Agricultural Products
Become an informed consumer of agricultural products by experiencing the process to produce safe agricultural products for consumption. Participate in the process to convert agricultural products into food and fiber through hands-on activities. Discover the purpose of marketing and labeling agriculture products to enhance consumption. Build leadership and employability skills through authentic experiences from Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), classroom instruction, and FFA participation. Gain the knowledge and skills for careers in the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources career cluster.Agriculture and Our Social and Economic Well-Being
Analyze the importance of agriculture to social and economic well-being through hands-on activities. Explore how advances in agriculture support life and help society. Establish a connection to agriculture through career exploration. Build knowledge of industrial and environmental biotechnology applications and their global impact. Build leadership and employability skills through authentic experiences.
Courses are paired for the semester, and are taught in 9-week periods.8th Grade: Agricultural Science
Exploring Agricultural Issues
Foster knowledge of the relationship between natural resources and how it supports the environment. Conceptualize the role of alternative energy. Develop environmental stewardship practices through hands-on activities. Connect animal and plant production to best management practices. Build leadership and employability skills through authentic experiences.Exploring Environmental and Natural Resources
Analyze the importance of agriculture to social and economic well-being through hands-on activities. Explore how advances in agriculture support life and help society. Establish a connection to agriculture through career exploration. Build knowledge of industrial and environmental biotechnology applications and their global impact. Build leadership and employability skills through authentic experiences from Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), classroom instruction, and FFA participation. Gain the knowledge and skills for careers in the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources career cluster.
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Art
6th Visual Arts ExploratoryThis course introduces students to the elements of art through a variety of media that may include: drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, pottery, and weaving.7th Visual CompositionStudents will engage in deep study of the elements and principles of art centered on the curriculum set forth in the North Carolina Essential Standards for Visual Art. Two and three dimensional techniques will be taught using a variety of media. Students explore various cultures, art history and learn to think and write critically about master work as well as their own.8th Visual Composition IIStudents will continue to develop their technical and artistic skills as they solve problems
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Band
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6th Beginning Band
Emphasis is on the acquisition of basic musical skills as students learn to play a brass, woodwind, or percussion instrument. Please select Woodwinds or Brass as your Section.
7th Intermediate Band
2nd Year Prerequisite: Beginning Band
Please select Woodwinds or Brass as your Section8th Advanced Band
3rd Year Prerequisite: Intermediate Band
8th Grade Music Exploratory
This is a Beginner Guitar class. Students will learn how to play the guitar, even if they have never touched one before and do not own a guitar. They will learn how to read and play guitar chords, write their own songs, and play music with others.
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Business and Entrepreneurship
6th - Exploring Economic Systems
This course is intended to help students gain a better understanding of how the economy of the 20th century is becoming the economy of the 21st and develop the skills needed to be successful in this new world. They will be introduced to technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and biotech, that will reshape the global economy over the coming decades. Besides learning the basics of how these technologies work and how they’ll influence the economy, students will have the opportunity to consider the ethical dimensions of how they will shape society. Additionally, students will engage with activities that help them explore their own strengths and intelligences while practicing the core skills of: creativity, resilience, adaptability, and quick learning.
7th and 8th - Exploring Business & Entrepreneurship
Exploring Business and Entrepreneurship expands on and deepens the exploration of topics introduced in Exploring Economic Systems while focusing specifically on the experience of founders. Whether students are interested in starting their own business, non-profit, social movement, or community arts event, many of the core skills are the same. As in Exploring Economic Systems, students will practice developing their own creativity, resilience, adaptability, and ability to learn independently. Students will study key emerging technologies in greater depth than in 6th grade, and practice future-casting to anticipate global challenges and opportunities.
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Computer Science Discoveries
Computer Science Discoveries I
Solve a series of puzzles, challenges, and real-world scenarios using problem-solving processes. Explore how computers take input, output, store, and process information to help humans resolve problems. Design original content and share it on a webpage using HTML and CSS. Explore the knowledge and skills for careers in the Computer Science, IT, and Technology pathways.Computer Science Discoveries II
Code program animations, interactive art, and games in the Game Lab. Program various apps, from simple shapes up to sophisticated sprite-base game, using multiple programming concepts. Enhance problem-solving abilities by analyzing the needs of others and develop programs to meet them. Explore the knowledge and skills for careers in the Computer Science, IT, and Technology pathways.Computer Science Discoveries III (A passing grade in CSD I and CSD II is required to take this course)
Utilize the App Lab and Adafruit’s Circuit Playground to develop programs that take advantage of hardware inputs and outputs. Participate in the design process from simple prototype to finished product. Explore the role of hardware platforms in computing and how different sensors can provide more effective input and output than the traditional keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Explore the knowledge and skills for careers in the Computer Science, IT, and Technology pathways.
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English as a Second Language (ESL)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Class
Required classes for students who are Multilingual Learners (MLs). MLs need to learn how to speak, read, write, listen, and respond socially and academically in American English. In these classes, the students learn about the vocabulary and skills needed to meet their greatest academic potential in their Science, Math, English Language Arts (ELA), Social Studies, and elective classes. This class helps students find higher academic success in the school community.
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Health & Physical Education
Health and Physical EducationThrough a quality healthful living education program, students will learn the importance of health and physical activity and develop skills to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Students will learn how to apply the concepts of proper exercise in their daily lives, discover ways to handle stress, avoid harmful and illegal drugs, learn about the relationship between nutrition and weight management, develop healthy interpersonal relationships (including conflict resolution skills), develop teamwork and character-building skills, and learn how to achieve positive health and fitness goals. -
Magnet FUSE (STEM)
This elective fuses the cultivation of skills in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. In this course students will participate in collaborative challenges in innovation for social good, coding and robotics, digital art and architecture, 3D design and printing, music-mixing and animation, and more. Students will use and reflect upon the Design Thinking process throughout as they collect artifacts demonstrating progress towards our four competencies.
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Spanish
Spanish Beginning Less Than 1 Year (Beginning)
This course begins the study of the Spanish language and culture and is the first part in the Spanish curriculum series for high school credit. Major topics include greetings, conversation questions, telling time, classroom objects, asking for help, the parts of the body, infinitive verbs, expressing likes and dislikes, definite and indefinite articles, adjectives, subject pronouns, the present tense of –ar verbs, and the plurals of nouns and articles.
Spanish Beginning 1 Year (Intermediate)
Prerequisite: Beginning Spanish. This course continues the study of the Spanish language and culture, refining grammatical and vocabulary topics. Students who successfully complete this course should continue the Spanish curriculum series for high school credit by taking Advanced Spanish.
Spanish 1 (High School Credit)
Prerequisite: Intermediate Spanish. This course continues the study of the Spanish language and culture, refining grammatical and vocabulary topics. Students who complete this course successfully and who pass the exit exam (worth 20% of the overall grade) may take Spanish II at the high school level.
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Career and Technical Education: Engineering and Design
6th Exploring Engineering and Design I
Project Revive (Engineering and Design Project)
Students will gain an understanding of Project Revive. Students will also develop skills in researching information and communicating design information. Students will learn the process of revitalizing a community after a natural disaster.
Exploring Technology
Students learn about the nature of technology and problem-solving. Students are involved in activities and experiences where they learn about brainstorming, visualizing, modeling, constructing, testing, experimenting, and refining designs.
Courses are paired for the semester, and are taught in 9-week periods.7th Exploring Engineering and Design II
Invention and Innovation
Students will gain an understanding of the design world. They learn about the core concepts of technology and the various approaches to solving problems, including engineering design and experimentation.
Design and Engineering
Students will gain an understanding of design and engineering. Students apply the design process in the inventions or innovation of new products, processes, or systems.Courses are paired for the semester, and are taught in 9-week periods.
8th Exploring Engineering and Design III
Design and Creativity
Students will gain an understanding of design and creativity used to help others. Students participate in engineering design activities to understand how criteria, constraints, and processes affect designs.
Exploring Safety and Tools in the Trades
Students will explore key terminology used with common tools and safety associated with working in the various trades. Knowledge gained in this course will help to reinforce basic safety, identify basic tools, and spark interest in the various trades and in the aligned CTSO, SkillsUSA.Courses are paired for the semester, and are taught in 9-week periods.
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Theatre
Students who take theatre classes at Carroll are a part of the school’s overarching program, The Carroll Theatre Company (CTC). The progression of theatre classes is rooted in the program’s Mission Statement: CTC is an inclusive, dynamic program where individual differences are honored and celebrated, and where any student wanting to try theatre is encouraged.
6th Grade Introduction to Theatre
This course is an overview of dramatic techniques. Students develop communication skills through study in dialogue, pantomime, improvisation, speech/diction, and role play
7th Grade Dramatics
Students develop specific skills that allow them to study and create characters for the stage. Activities include stage directions, simple set and costume design, prop collection, and play production.
7th Grade Advanced Dramatics
Students will continue to develop their acting skills through more challenging theater projects. They will work collaboratively to incorporate all the technical elements (lighting, sound, scenery, costumes) into creating a production.
8th Grade Dramatics
Students develop specific skills that allow them to study and create characters for the stage. Activities include stage directions, simple set and costume design, prop collection, and play production.
8th Grade Advanced Dramatics
Students will continue to develop their acting skills through more challenging theater projects. They will work collaboratively to incorporate all the technical elements (lighting, sound, scenery, costumes) into creating a production.
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Magnet Video Production
Have you ever wanted to be on TV or create a masterpiece that will inform, entertain, and amuse your friends? If the answer is yes, then this is the elective for you. This elective equips students with the construction, media creation, and post-production skills of video production. As a member of this class, students will display newly acquired skills by bringing their imagination to life with the use of a green screen, a Podcaster, and video editing software to create a weekly news show. When producing jaw-dropping videos, students will learn to work independently and collaboratively.
