Accessing the key to your student’s future in high school and beyondMonday, Feb. 27, 2012

Georgia Natural Gasand The Pope Foundation cordially

invite you to join us at the

Fourth AnnualGreyhound Gala

Saturday, March 3, 2012Renaissance Waverly Hotel

6:00 Reception and Silent Auction7:30 Dining

Live Auction and Entertainmentwww.popehighschoolfoundation.

com

Rick Beaulieu – PrincipalLoretta Clune – AP Curriculum (9th A - M)

Steven Craft – AP Testing (12th)Loralee Hill – AP Testing (10th)

Chris Jackson – AP Athletic Director (9th N - Z)Nancy Zarbnisky – AP Attendance (11th)

Students are assigned by grade level as above.The administrator changes with the grade level

each year.

Students are assigned by last name:

A – E Kathryn Sax, Department ChairF – Le Leslie ShearstoneLi – R Angie BruceS – Z Jamie HamrickTesting, Advisement – Janet Callahan

• 8th Graders received registration forms on Tues., Feb 21

• Completed and signed forms are due back to the Middle School on Fri., March 2

• Private/home school registration packets are available after our meeting tonight at the counselor table in Café

• Private/home school registration appointments begin April 9

• Student schedules are created in May

• www.popehigh.com – Click gray “Registration” button• Graduation Requirements• Class of 2016 Freshman Course Guide • Flow Charts (coming soon!)

• Course level placement is based on teacher recommendation.

• Encourage students to challenge themselves but to seek BALANCE in course selection.

• Encourage students to be self advocates with their teachers and be pro-active. Ask if there are questions about placement!!

Please communicate with your child’s current teacher, the Pope department chair of the specific subject, your child’s school counselor, or our administration with questions about placement and scheduling.

Loretta.clune@cobbk12.org – Curriculum APKim.allen@cobbk12.org – Curriculum Clerk

Email contacts for additional Pope personnel can be found on www.popehigh.com.

Units Required

English/Language Arts 4Mathematics 4Science 4Social Studies 3CTAE and/or Fine Arts and/or

Foreign Language 3Health and Physical Education 1Electives 4

Total Units (Minimum) 23

Promotion requirements:

•10th Grade - 5 credits, including 1 unit each of math, science & English

•11th Grade – 10 credits, including 2 units each of math, science & English

•12th Grade - 16 credits

GHSA Athletic Eligibility requires at least 5 classes passed the previous semester.

• Dianne Hagood – English• Diana Lossner– Math• Jan Titolo – Science• Beth Mulling – Social Studies• Rebecca Hauseman – World Languages• Jessica Kelly – Fine Arts & Gifted Instruction• Lynda Brown – Career & Technology• Jim Haskin – Physical Education• Sara Allegood – Media Center• Marion Lister – Special Education• Kathryn Sax – Counseling

• 4 units of English/Language Arts required, including:

• *9th Grade Literature• British Literature in 10th grade • *American Literature in 11th grade• World Literature or Multicultural Literature in 12th

• Honors available each grade level• AP Language/Am. Lit available in 11th grade • AP Literature available in 12th grade

*Specifically required for graduation

• Freshman :• Coordinate Algebra• Coordinate Alg/Geometry

A• Accel Math 2

• Sophomore:• Geometry• Geometry B/Advanced

Alg. • Pre-Calculus• Accel Math 3

• Junior:• Advanced Algebra• Pre-Calculus• Accel Pre-Calculus• AP Calculus AB/BC

• Senior:• Adv. Math. Dec.

Making• Pre-Calculus• AP Stats• AP Calc AB/BC• Multivariable Calculus

Support classes available for students who need extra assistance

4 units of Mathematics required, including:

• 4 units of Science required, including:

• Biology or Honors Biology

• Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, Environmental Science, or an AP course

• Physics, Honors Physics, or AP Physics B

• 4th Science:• AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics B or C• Astronomy, Zoology, Anatomy, H Anatomy• Career Tech science and other options subject to

availability

• 3 units of Social Studies required, including:

• World History• United States History• ½ unit of American Government• ½ unit of Economics

• Honors & AP available for all required SS • Freshman SS electives include Geography, Honors

Geography, or Gifted Psychology/Global World Studies (Pre-AP SS)

• 1 unit of Physical Education required, including:

• ½ unit of Health• ½ unit of Personal Fitness

Note: Team Sports, Weight Training, Body Sculpting, Self-Defense, etc. DO NOT meet the Personal Fitness requirement

7 units required, including:

•3 Units from Career Tech and/or Foreign Language and/or Fine Arts

• Students planning to enter or transfer into a University System of Georgia institution must take two units of the same foreign language

• Some out-of-state colleges require 1.0 unit of Fine Arts for admission

•4 additional elective units• Chosen from any category

French, German & Spanish offered

•Level I for new language

•Level II for rising 9th graders who completed French or Spanish I in 8th grade for high school credit

•Levels III and above is honors

•Advanced Placement (AP) is available in all three languages

• English: Journalism, Speech/Debate, Yearbook

• Social Studies: Sociology, Psychology, Current Issues, Leadership, AP Psychology, Gifted Developmental Psychology (9 and 12), World Geography

• Extra Sciences, Math, & Foreign Languages

• SAT Prep (non-academic elective)

Highly recommended for college!

• Business (including internship)• Computer Science (incl. AP Computer

Science)• Culinary Arts• Graphic Arts• Video Production• JROTC (at Lassiter)• Marketing

• Band – Marching, Symphonic, Percussion• Orchestra- Beginning, Inter, Advanced• Chorus – Girls, Mixed, Beginning,

Intermediate and Advanced• Visual Arts – Drawing, Painting, Photo, AP

Studio Art• AP Music Theory

• High school credits earned in middle school will be put on the students’ transcripts during 9th grade.• Accel Math 1, Spanish 1, French 1, etc.

• These credits are reflected with a “P” for pass and will have no effect on the student’s GPA.

Quality Points:

A = 4.0B = 3.0C = 2.0D = 1.0F = 0.0

• Honors classes for sophomore level and up earn extra ½ quality point

• AP and Foreign Language level IV & up earn extra 1 point.

• GPA determines class rank, honor grads, auto discounts, scholarships, college admissions & certain clubs.

The State of Georgia requires that all students take End of Course tests (EOCTs) at the conclusion of the following courses:

9th LiteratureAmerican LiteratureCoordinate AlgebraAccelerated Math 2

GeometryBiology

US HistoryEconomics

(an additional science EOCT will be added in the future)

The EOCT counts for 20% of the final gradeStudents cannot exempt the EOCT

• PSAT is given to all 9th, 10th & 11th graders• Score reports cost $13, payable at Fall Madness/Orientation

• SAT & ACT – recommended after Adv. Alg./Acc Math 2

• AP Exams – every May for AP courses which are available in 10th, 11th & 12th grades

• ASVAB – career assessment – for interested students

• The HOPE GPA DOES NOT appear on the Pope transcript!!

• The HOPE GPA uses only CORE courses:• English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Foreign Language

• Only AP courses (not honors) receive .5 extra quality point up to a 4.0

• HOPE Scholarship• pays ~ 80-90% tuition (per lottery revenue) at public GA college• 3.0 core GPA, as calculated by HOPE

• Zell Miller Scholarship• Pays 100% tuition at public GA college• 3.7 core GPA, as calculated by HOPE• 1200 SAT (Critical Reading only) or 26 ACT – at one sitting

• HOPE Grant• Pays a portion of tuition at a Technical College• There is no GPA requirement

• A rigor requirement is included for students in Class of 2015 and beyond.

See www.gacollege411.org for the latest HOPE information.

• Summer School, for credit recovery or advancement

• Tuition Night School or NovaNet, for credit recovery

• Cobb Virtual or Georgia Virtual for credit recovery, advancement

• Post Secondary Options/Dual Enrollment, for both HS & college credit

• Internship, apprenticeship• Zero period (11th and 12th only) for Health and

Personal Fitness

• Fall• Football• Volleyball• Softball• Cheerleading• Cross-Country

• Winter• Basketball • Cheerleading• Wrestling• Swim and Dive

Spring Baseball Track and Field Soccer Lacrosse Gymnastics Tennis Golf

All freshmen are eligible the first semester of HS.

They must pass 5 of 6 courses to be eligible the following semester(s).

Rugby, Fencing, Hockey – Club Sports

• Drama

• Foreign Languages of Pope (FLOP)

• FACS, Future Business Leaders

• Literary Magazine

• Math Team

• Interact, Beta, Key, Habitat, NHS

• Model UN, Renaissance

• Student Government

• And more every year!

• Hound Highlights - weekly mail/website• One of the best resources for school information!• You can sign up now at www.popehigh.com!

• Email Distributions - special notices

• Pope Voice - Newsletter mailed 5 times a year

• Programs - Freshman Orientation and Ambassadors are just two of the MANY programs PTSA supports.

• Membership- Applications available at Fall Madness and Open House

Questions??? Contact informationCo-presidents for SY 2011-2012

Kim Smith at kvsmith@bellsouth.net Karin Welte at karin.welte@gmail.com

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