9th Grade Outcomes 

& Typical Course of Study College Prep

• Basic human communities

• Community, state, and national government

• Political parties and elections

• Comparative cultures and religions

• African American, Hispanic, and other ethnic studies

• Urban studies

• Women in our history

• Conservation, including human conservation

• Resource management

• Elementary economics

• Labor and management

• Taxation

• Foundations of American democracy

• U. S. Constitution

• Rights and responsibilities of good citizenship

• United Nations

• World geography

• Advanced map and globe skills

• Earth’s history

• Earth science

• Ecology and environment

• Weather and climate

• Air and air pressure

• Air masses and fronts

• Water and its uses

• Erosion

• Air and water pollution

• Heats and fuels

• Electricity and electronics skills

• Solar and nuclear energy

• Nature and uses of light

• Simple and complex machines

• Atomic structure

• Chemistry of matter

• Molecular theory

• Nature and use of chemicals

• Metals and plastics

• Space and astronomy

• Space travel

• Nature and causes of disease

 

• Evaluating material for accuracy

• Reading the newspaper

• Analyzing propaganda

• Advertising

• Drama and film

• Analyzing poetry

• Dramatic poetry

• Using poetry anthologies

• Novel and short story

• Folklore and myths

• Structure of a play

• Parable and allegory

• Interpretation of literature

• Listening skills

• Effective discussion techniques and questioning skills

• Preparing a speech

• Public speaking and debate

• The unabridged dictionary

• Vocabulary

• Foreign words used in English

• Grammar

• Fundamentals of composition

• Report writing

• Extended reference skills

• Special indexes

• Ratio and proportion

• Basic concepts of statistics

• Mathematical vocabulary

• Direct and indirect measurement

• Banks and banking

• Investment

• Budgeting

• Insurance

• Taxation

• Graphs and tables

• Informal geometry

• Elementary algebra

• Customary and metric measurement

• Absolute value

• Sets and their relationships

• Properties of polynomial forms

• Equations

• Signed numbers

• Fundamental operations

• Equations of the first degree

• Ratio, proportion, variation

• Relations and functions

• Special products and factoring

• Fractions and fractional equations

• Square roots

• Radicals

• Quadratic equations

• Elements of probability