Sage Ridge School curriculum is college preparatory at every grade level. Each department has carefully crafted a strong sequence of topics to build both understanding and the skills needed to succeed in college and beyond.
AP = Advanced Placement | CP = College Preparatory
Visual Art 3–5 focuses on creating artworks within a three-year rotation. Coursework contains an added emphasis on exploring aesthetic components of the visual arts. Students engage a multitude of hands-on experiential mediums while working in a...
Theatre 4 offers our fourth graders an introduction to theatre as an art form. Students connect with the basic elements of theatre and the actor-audience...
Theatre 5 offers our fifth graders an intensive training on the beginning elements of vocal techniques through various learning skills, strategies, exercises, and...
This course introduces students to the basic elements of music. Students will learn a foundation of basic rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic skills. The course...
Through direct instruction, games, and a variety of written activities, students will learn to correctly identify and use prefixes, suffixes, compound words, synonyms...
When reading, students engage with realistic fiction, general fiction, non-fiction, historical non-fiction, historical fiction, and more. Each unit begins with a class-guided...
Students read from a variety of literary forms and genres, including folk tales, fairy tales, short stories, poems, news articles, and novels. Through reading...
Students will be exploring U.S. geography, land forms, local, state, and federal governments, American symbols, landmarks, and monuments, U.S. regions...
Students will explore Nevada’s history, geography, economics, and civics through in-depth studies of the people, places, and the environment. Students will...
In Colonial America, students explore the settlement of colonial North America from 1600–1740. Through the use of a standard history text, primary sources...
Third grade math requires students to have a strong foundation in addition and subtraction using numbers up to 3 digits, number facts and operations, as well as...
Fourth grade mathematics will require students to have strong addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. However, students will be...
The fifth grade math course consists of a review of mathematical operations and transitions to algebraic thinking. Students build a solid understanding of the base-ten...
Good health and physical fitness are essential elements that help students to be successful in all other aspects of life, including the academic, social, emotional...
In third grade science students explore space and planets, states of matter, weather and climate, physical and chemical changes, rock cycles and minerals...
In fourth grade science students study earth, life, and physical sciences throughout the year. The first science unit will investigate the scientific method...
This course serves as an introduction to laboratory science with a theme of Our Earth as a Living Earth. The topics in this course include classifying and...
This course serves as an introduction to laboratory science with a theme of Our Earth as a Living Earth. The topics in this course include classifying and...
This course provides a foundation for the broad field of computer programming. 4th graders will start with learning typing skills, gaining comfort with Google...
This course provides a foundation for the broad field of computer programming. 5th graders will start with learning typing skills, gaining comfort with Google...
Visual Art 6–7 focuses on a two-year rotating curriculum, creating art works with an added emphasis on exploring historical, cultural and aesthetic components of the visual arts. Students use creative problem-solving skills to answer...
Visual Art 8 focuses on the use of Design Principles in art making. This course builds upon concepts learned in Visual Art 6–7. National standards in the visual...
Students will work individually as well as collaboratively to combine dramatic play with artistic creation in order to create personalized puppets, original scripts, sets...
Developing Character is designed to strengthen the actor’s role when developing a specific character for the stage. Students will advance in practice through...
Methods of Acting advances the students’ understanding of theatre as a collaborative art form. The elements of independence and teamwork will be...
Music 6–7 is designed to expand upon learned concepts through composition, vocal performance, and performance on guitar as well as on percussion...
Music 8 is a composition-based course, further developing songwriting, recording, and electronic composition skills. Students will have numerous...
In this course, we strive to develop the skills necessary to read for various and specific purposes, to communicate clearly through writing and speech, and to...
In this course, students will come both to understand and to appreciate the vital role that stories play in giving meaning and continuity to the human experience.
This course introduces students to major voices of American literature. Students read prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and literary essays in order to gain a...
Sixth grade Spanish is a semester-long course that introduces students to the Spanish language through song, art, and conversation. The goal of the course is...
Seventh grade Spanish is a year-long course in which we will be learning basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar structures with a focus on developing strong...
Eighth grade Spanish is a year-long course in which we will be continuing to learn more basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar structures with a focus on...
In this course, we will focus on this very relationship which Latin has with our modern world. We shall accomplish this goal by studying the influence of Latin on...
Latin is the basis for many institutions we have today, most notably our own English. In this course students shall begin the study of the Latin language.
In this course students will continue the study of the Latin language. Emphasis will be placed on learning to read and comprehend more advanced Latin...
World Geography introduces students to the wonder that is the Earth and the over 7 billion people who inhabit it. This course emphasizes the interactions...
The goal for this course is to familiarize the student with a fundamental body of history, ideas, and concepts that form the basis for understanding the world in...
Over the course of this school year, we will be tackling a number of major events in the history of our young nation. We will start the year with the forming of the...
This course asks students to approach mathematical thinking from a concrete, a pictorial, and an abstract perspective. The four main topics covered include: ratio...
This course asks students to approach mathematical thinking from a concrete, a pictorial, and an abstract perspective. The four main topics covered include: ratio...
This course is the first level of a college preparatory mathematics sequence, which culminates with Trigonometry, Advanced Placement Calculus, or other...
This class leads students into the college preparatory mathematics sequence, which culminates with Trigonometry, Advanced Placement Calculus or other...
This course completes the second half of Algebra I. This class propels students into the college preparatory mathematics sequence, which culminates with...
Good health and physical fitness are essential elements that help students to be successful in all other aspects of life, including academic, social, emotional and...
This course is the second in the four-year spiral curriculum. It serves as an introduction to major themes in contemporary biology, physics, chemistry...
This course is the third in the four-year spiral curriculum and serves as a continuation of major themes in contemporary biology, physics, chemistry...
This course is the fourth and final in the four-year spiral curriculum and serves as the culmination of major themes in contemporary biology, physics, chemistry, ecology and earth science.
This course provides a foundation for the broad field of computer programming. The Code.org Express Course curriculum introduces students to core...
This course extends the concepts taught in the Code.org curriculum in grades 4-6 and brings them into the physical computing world using micro:bit devices and...
This course builds on foundational programming concepts and transitions students from drag-and-drop programming languages to writing code. Scratch...
Art Foundations is designed to acquaint students with multiple perspectives related to the visual arts and the role the arts play in all cultures. This course...
Upper School Studio Art is designed to engage the student in various aspects of art studio thinking habits. National Standards for visual art appropriate to the...
Upper School Studio Art 2 is designed to follow up on concepts explored in Upper School Studio Art 1. This class may serve as a transitional course from...
Ceramics 1 is a semester-long class in which students explore various methods for working with clay as an art medium. Students will learn to approach ceramic...
Ceramics 2 is a semester-long class in which students continue to expand upon and implement various clay working methods learned in Ceramics 1. Both...
Advanced Ceramics is offered as an elective to the ceramics student who wishes to further explore the use of clay as an art-making material. Students in...
Advanced Placement Studio Art is intended for highly motivated students who are seriously interested in the study and creation of art. The focus of this course...
How can we use the inherent qualities of materials to inspire our working process and the content of our work? How can we create meaning by layering images...
Theatre Foundations is designed to expose students to multiple perspectives related to the theatre arts as an artist and as a scholar as we analyze ourselves...
Advanced Theatre advances students with previous experience to a higher level of performing through the practices and techniques of Sandford Meisner.
Music 8 is a composition-based course, further developing songwriting, recording, and electronic composition skills. Students will have numerous...
This course is designed to teach students necessary skills and knowledge to actively participate in music in social contexts. Students will develop guitar...
Media is the plural of medium, meaning the devices and visuals that comes between those communicating. As face-to-face communication dwindles and our...
Students consider the roots of the English language tradition as they sample some of the greatest stories of the ancient and medieval world. These works...
The Freshman Seminar equips students with the dispositions, skills, and knowledge that set them up for success in our upper school, college, and life.
World Literature investigates the cultural and historical contexts in which modern European literature has developed. Students will read an array of primary texts...
World Literature Honors is designed for students who wish to read and write at an advanced level. It investigates the cultural and historical contexts in which...
Using as its backdrop a survey of American literature from the colonial period to the present, American Literature examines the complex and manifold...
This course is designed for students who wish to read and write at an advanced level. Using as its backdrop a survey of American literature from the colonial...
The course introduces students to British literature, surveying primary and secondary epics, lyric poetry, drama, essays, novels, and short works of fiction.
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition is taught through an in-depth focus on British literature and is designed for students who wish to read and write...
Spanish I is a year-long course in which we will be learning the basics of Spanish vocabulary and grammar structures with a focus on developing strong reading...
Upon finishing the Spanish II course, students are expected to demonstrate proficiency in discussing daily activities, telling others what to do/giving orders...
The goal of Pre-AP Spanish is to prepare students for taking AP Spanish Language in the following year. Therefore, we will focus on improving students’...
The AP Spanish Language and Culture course is designed to help students be successful in advancing their abilities to communicate in Spanish, and more...
This course is an advanced survey of Iberian and Latin American literature. The course will explore the many sub-cultures of the Spanish-speaking world via...
Those who say that Latin is a dead language are sorely mistaken. It is alive in many aspects of modern life, notably our own English language. This course will...
Latin II is designed to continue and further develop the vocabulary and grammar begun and studied in Latin I or its equivalent. Much of the year will be devoted to...
By the end of Latin III/Pre-AP students will be able to read and interpret the works written by Roman authors in their original form. They will be familiar with poetry...
From the AP Latin Curriculum Framework: AP Latin is designed to provide advanced high school students with a rich and rigorous Latin course...
The purpose of this advanced reading course is to allow students an opportunity to apply the years of effort that they have put into learning Latin towards reading...
Ancient Greek Language and Culture makes available to students an introductory course in Ancient Greek Language (Attic dialect). There are a number of reasons...
Ancient and Medieval History examines human history from the origins of our species to the emergence of a global, early modern world. This course explores...
Modern World History is a college preparatory history survey course. The survey covers maritime expansion in the 1400s and continues through the early...
AP World History is a college preparatory history survey course that prepares students to take the AP exam. The survey begins with maritime expansion in the...
The United States History survey course covers American history from pre-contact to the twentieth century. Using chronological and thematic approaches to...
The Advanced Placement United States History survey course covers American history from pre-contact to the twentieth-century and prepares students to take...
Senior Seminar is a two-semester, college-level course that, together with the Senior Thesis project, marks the culmination of the Sage Ridge humanities...
AP Economics is a college level, full-year course designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the principles of economics. AP Economics will...
U.S. Government and Politics provides a college-level, nonpartisan introduction to key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and...
The geometry course capitalizes on one year of preparatory algebra. This foundation allows for an exploration of Euclidean and non-Euclidean topics,
This course will include advanced topics in algebra and will increase the breadth and depth of understanding of the basic algebraic concepts. It will also build upon...
This course will include advanced topics in algebra, and will increase the breadth and depth of understanding of the basic algebraic concepts. It will also upon the...
This is an intermediate course in mathematics with a focus on trigonometry and a conceptual understanding of introductory calculus. This course will cover the full...
This is an intermediate course in mathematics with a focus on trigonometry and a conceptual understanding of introductory calculus. This course will cover the full...
AP Statistics is the high school equivalent of a one semester, introductory college statistics course. In this course, as they prepare to take the AP Statistics exam...
Using an application and discovery-based approach to learning, this course covers an introduction to limits, differentiation, and integration. A constructivist...
The curriculum for AP Calculus AB is equivalent to that of a first-semester college calculus course. The course is intended to be challenging and demanding, and is...
AP Calculus BC is equivalent to a first-semester college calculus course and the subsequent single-variable calculus course. Calculus BC is an extension of...
Multivariable calculus is an extension of AP calculus BC and is generally the third quarter or semester of college calculus. It is considered a second year university...
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to learn lifelong fitness concepts and conditioning techniques used for obtaining optimal physical fitness.
Conceptual physics introduces students to core physical concepts such as mechanics, waves & sound, electricity & magnetism, light & optics, and atomic...
This course prepares students for the Advanced Placement Physics I Examination and is intended for students who have completed Conceptual...
AP Physics — C is an advanced course intended for students who have completed Conceptual Physics and who are currently enrolled in or have...
This 10th grade course explores major themes in contemporary biology with emphasis on cellular, genetic, evolutionary, ecological, and physiological...
Students in 10th grade Honors Biology complete in-class investigations, research, laboratory and field assignments that are high on Bloom's taxonomic...
This year-long course focuses on the structure and function of the human body, using organ systems to integrate concepts of anatomical location and...
The purpose of this course is to prepare 11th and 12th grade students to pass the College Board's AP Biology examination in May, and to prepare them for...
This course explores major themes in contemporary general chemistry with emphasis on the connection between seemingly abstract molecular interactions...
This course explores major themes in contemporary general chemistry with emphasis on the connection between seemingly abstract molecular interactions...
This course explores major themes in contemporary general chemistry and prepares students to take the AP Chemistry test administered in May by the...
This course prepares students to take the Advanced Placement Environmental Science Examination administered in May by the College Board.
Engineering Design & Robotics introduces students to a variety of skills essential to STEAM innovation. Throughout the year, students learn the proper design...
The Pre-APCS A course (formerly listed as Intro to Coding) bridges the gap between a middle school JavaScript course and the college prep AP Computer...
The AP Computer Science A course introduces students to computer science with fundamental topics that include problem solving, design strategies and...
Sage Ridge Robotics is a hands and mind-on design and physical computing course in which students explore robotics — or mechatronics — through a series...
This course, available to students who successfully complete the College Board's AP Computer Science A course, emphasizes learning effective software...