| Approved Site(s): |
| | Site adopted course for Mission Bay High School. Other schools may not offer this course without prior approval from the Interdivisional Curriculum Committee.
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| Grade Range: |
| | 11 |
| Prerequisites: |
| | Advanced or Seminar English 3,4 recommended |
| Course duration: |
| | Two semesters |
| Subject area in which graduation credit will be given: |
| | Elective |
| UC subject area satisfied: |
| | g - College Preparatory Elective |
| Notes: |
| | Co-requisites: Additional IB courses chosen from IB Groups 1-6. |
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| Course Description: |
| | The course emphasizes rhetorical reading, analytical writing, collaborative discussion strategies, tutorial inquiry study groups, preparation for college entrance and placement exams, college study skills, and test-taking strategies, note-taking and research. The eleventh grade AVID Elective course is the first part in a junior/senior seminar course that focuses on writing and critical thinking expected of first- and second-year college students. In additional to the academic focus of the AVID seminar, there are college-bound activities, methodologies and tasks that should be undertaken during the junior year to support students as they apply to four-year universities and confirm their postsecondary plans. Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is a course about critical thinking and inquiring into the process of knowing, rather than about learning a specific body of knowledge. The TOK course examines how we know what we claim to know. It does this by encouraging students to analyze knowledge claims and explore knowledge questions. A knowledge claim is the assertion that “I/we know X” or “I/we know Y” or a statement about knowledge; a knowledge question is an open question about knowledge. |
| State Course Code(s): |
| | 9228 - Non-Core Academic Elective |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: |
| | The AVID High School Libraries and site selected IB materials. |