Arizona Online Schools
Offer Numerous Elective Options
Hope High School Online is pleased to offer our online students a wide variety of elective options. We also have a number of field trips and have social outings as well. We believe Arizona online schools can and should be fun!
Our students also enjoy the collaborative relationship we have with West-Mec, offering career training programs for high school students including architecture and construction, health sciences, and information technology. Arizona online schools like Hope High School Online can offer a safe, supportive learning environment with personalized attention and numerous elective options to help our students succeed in life!
Electives
Electives
This course prepares students for the Science sections of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Each subject includes multiples strands, each with its own diagnostic pretest—allowing students to focus their study only on their areas of weakness. Personalized study plans based on the diagnostic results include video-based instruction, assignments and practice, and assessment to ensure that students have mastered material.
This course prepares students for the Math sections of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Each subject includes multiples strands, each with its own diagnostic pretest—allowing students to focus their study only on their areas of weakness. Personalized study plans based on the diagnostic results include video-based instruction, assignments and practice, and assessment to ensure that students have mastered material.
This course prepares students for the Verbal sections of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Each subject includes multiples strands, each with its own diagnostic pretest—allowing students to focus their study only on their areas of weakness. Personalized study plans based on the diagnostic results include video-based instruction, assignments and practice, and assessment to ensure that students have mastered material
Developing Purpose is a course designed to increase a student’s success in school, at work, and in their personal life. Instead of starting with what we want to do and how we choose to accomplish it, this course helps students unearth the purpose: why do we want to do it. When we start with our purpose, we discover the underlying factors, beliefs, and values that motivate us and drive our lives–ultimately enhancing self-awareness and self-esteem. Upon completing this course, students will understand how to live with intention in everything they do, and how to experience more happiness and fulfillment in their lives.
Units in this course:
Happiness Vs. Success
Making a Difference
Thoughts, Words and Silence
Develop Yourself
Self-Esteem
Complete Health
In this course students will learn what it takes to hone their leadership styles and develop personal qualities that will enhance their ability to grow and sustain healthy relationships. By using critical thinking, good decision making, and hard work, students will begin to find both success and significance. The course begins with providing students the opportunity to identify and write out their life vision, mission, and purpose and begin to understand the value of making memories, having adventures, and creating meaningful experiences. Upon completion of this course, students will have a clear understanding of what it takes to have an impact on their family, friends, and peers, as well as a personal action plan of practical steps they can take to reach their goals.
Units in this course:
Mission, Vision, Purpose
Strategic Planning
Relationships
Mindfulness
Identity
Transformation
This one-semester elective prepares students to navigate personal finance with confidence. The course opens with a study of what it means to be financially responsible, engaging students in budgeting, planning, and being a smart consumer. Students learn about the relationship between education, employment, income, and net worth, and they plan for the cost of college. Students then broaden their study to include banking, spending, investing, and other money management concepts before exploring credit and debt. In the final unit of the course, students study microeconomics and entrepreneurship, with an overview of economic systems, supply and demand, consumer behavior and incentives, and profit principles. The course concludes with an in-depth case study about starting a business.
Personal Finance covers concepts in…
Unit 1: Financial Responsibility and Budgeting
Unit 2: Relating Income and Careers Understanding
Unit 3: Managing Money
Unit 4: Credit and Debt Unit 5: Microeconomics and Entrepreneurship
By participating in this course, students learn how to prevent, recognize, and identify different mental health issues; how to navigate the emotions involved; how to seek resources for help with mental health; and how to help others in need do the same. Students are challenged to reflect on and learn more about their inner selves and what they want out of their lives and relationships, as well as take the perspective of others into consideration to build better, healthier, and more supportive environments.
Units in this course:
Personal Wellness
Health and Safety
Living with Trauma
Mental Health Awareness and Assistance
Suicide Prevention
Relationship Support
The A Portion of this course is designed for students who have completed a middle school mathematics sequence but are not yet algebra ready. Students will review key algebra readiness skills from the middle grades and be introduced to basic Algebra I work with appropriate support.
Pre-Algebra A
Unit 1: Number Sense
Unit 2: Expressions, Equations and Inequalities
Unit 3: Ratios, Proportional Relationships, and Percents
Unit 4: Number Properties
Unit 5: Analytic Geometry
The B Portion of this course continues from Pre-Algebra A. This course is designed for students who have completed a middle school mathematics sequence but are not yet algebra ready. Students will review key algebra readiness skills from the middle grades and be introduced to basic Algebra I work with appropriate support. By the end of the course, students are ready to begin a more formal high school Algebra I study.
Pre-Algebra B
Unit 1: Geometry Basics
Unit 2: Counting and Probability
Unit 3: Statistics, Square Roots and Right Triangles
Unit 4: Two-Dimensional Geometry
Unit 5: Three-Dimensional Geometry
Social and Emotional Wellness is a course designed to reinforce and empower a student’s overall mental health, especially in times of crisis or trauma. This course is designed to help students cope with difficult situations, self-soothe, and manage conflicting emotions. It seeks to give students the tools they need to keep their mind and well-being safe and sound. Upon completing this course, students will understand how to utilize a framework for working through life challenges, enabling them to lead a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Units in this course:
Upgrade Yourself
Transforming Bullying
Social Impact
Barriers to Success
Redirecting my Life
Overcoming Adversity
Students may earn .5 credit per semester while working. Students must work a minimum of 90 hours, provide the facilitator (teacher) with pay stubs or employer proof of work hours each pay period, must complete an application for employment, receive an employer review or feedback, and maintain employment throughout the semester.
Foreign Language
Foreign Language
Students in high school begin their introduction to French with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major French-speaking areas in Europe and across the globe.
Students in high school begin their introduction to French with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major French-speaking areas in Europe and across the globe.
Students continue their introduction to French in this second-year, high school language course with review of fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and cultural presentations covering major French-speaking areas across the globe, and assessments.
Students continue their introduction to French in this second-year, high school language course with review of fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and cultural presentations covering major French-speaking areas across the globe, and assessments.
In this expanding engagement with French, high school students deepen their focus on four key skills in foreign language acquisition: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, students read significant works of literature in French, and respond orally or in writing to these works. Continuing the pattern, and building on what students encountered in the first two years, each unit consists of a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major French-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
In this expanding engagement with French, high school students deepen their focus on four key skills in foreign language acquisition: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, students read significant works of literature in French, and respond orally or in writing to these works. Continuing the pattern, and building on what students encountered in the first two years, each unit consists of a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major French-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
High school students begin their introduction to German with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and cultural presentations covering major German-speaking areas in Europe.
* This course requires you to prove your ability to adhere to the expectations of HHSO prior to being enrolled into it. Therefore, coach approval is required.
High school students begin their introduction to German with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and cultural presentations covering major German-speaking areas in Europe.
* This course requires you to prove your ability to adhere to the expectations of HHSO prior to being enrolled into it. Therefore, coach approval is required.
Students continue their introduction to high school German in this second-year course with review of fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and cultural presentations covering major German-speaking areas in Europe.
* This course requires you to prove your ability to adhere to the expectations of HHSO prior to being enrolled into it. Therefore, coach approval is required.
Students continue their introduction to high school German in this second-year course with review of fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and cultural presentations covering major German-speaking areas in Europe.
* This course requires you to prove your ability to adhere to the expectations of HHSO prior to being enrolled into it. Therefore, coach approval is required.
Students begin their introduction to high school Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
Students begin their introduction to high school Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
High school students continue their introduction to Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas, and assessments.
High school students continue their introduction to Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas, and assessments.
In this expanding engagement with Spanish, high school students deepen their focus on four key skills in foreign language acquisition: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, students read significant works of literature in Spanish and respond orally or in writing to these works. Continuing the pattern and building on what students encountered in the first two years, each unit consists of a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
In this expanding engagement with Spanish, high school students deepen their focus on four key skills in foreign language acquisition: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, students read significant works of literature in Spanish and respond orally or in writing to these works. Continuing the pattern and building on what students encountered in the first two years, each unit consists of a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
Workplace Readiness
Workplace Readiness
Introducing high school students to the working world, this course provides the knowledge and insight necessary to compete in today’s challenging job market. This course helps students investigate careers as they apply to personal interests and abilities, and develop the skills and job search documents needed to enter the workforce. This course includes lessons in which students create a self-assessment profile, a cover letter, and a résumé that can be used in their educational or career portfolio.
Unit 1: Introduction to Work
Unit 2: Performing a Self-Assessment
Unit 3: Investigating Career Opportunities
Unit 4: The Job Search Process
Unit 5: Writing a Professional Résumé
Unit 6: Writing a Cover Letter
Unit 7: Developing Interview Skills
Introducing high school students to the working world, this course provides the knowledge and insight necessary to compete in today’s challenging job market. This course helps students explore the rights of workers and traits of effective employees, and address the importance of professionalism and responsibility as careers change and evolve.
Unit 1: Starting a New Job
Unit 2: Working With Others
Unit 3: Workplace Ethics and Legalities
Unit 4: Improving Your Professional Skills
Unit 5: Technology and Time Management
Unit 6: Taking Control of Your Career
Unit 7: Your Evolving Career
Now, more than ever, students are told they must be prepared for higher education or a career in a skilled profession. This course introduces students to a variety of educational and vocational opportunities and helps them identify which pathway will help them reach their goals. The content in this course provides instruction on skills essential for students preparing for college and/or a career, including: how to build an effective resume, how to groom and dress in the workplace, the power of networking and how to develop disciplines that lead to success.
Units in this course:
Important Life Skills
Life After High School
College and Career Preparation
Starting School and Getting the Job
Tools for Success
Personal Experience
Health Education
This course examines and analyzes various health topics. It places alcohol use, drug use, physical fitness, healthy relationships, disease prevention, relationships and mental health in the context of the importance of creating a healthy lifestyle.
Unit 1: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Unit 2: Nutrition and Physical Activity
Unit 3: Mental Health, Emotional Health, and Building Healthy Relationships
Unit 4: Personal and Community Health
Technology
Fine Arts / CTE
Fine Arts/CTE
Animal Systems is a semester-long high school course that provides students with a wealth of information on livestock-management practices, animal husbandry, physiological systems, the latest scientific trends, veterinary practice, and innovations in food production. Changes in practices, regulations, and legislation for animal welfare continue as new research provides solutions to medical, ethical, and practical concerns. The course reviews current topics, such as advancements in technology and research, and defines areas of discussion while maintaining focus on best-management practices. A student might use the knowledge gained from the course to further an interest in becoming a chef, researcher, doctor, wildlife-management professional, or any number of applicable careers.
Career Explorations II is a semester-long course designed to give students an opportunity to explore various CTE subjects. Specifically, students learn about careers involving various technical fields from computers to agriculture. Each of the five units introduces one particular field and explains its past, present, and future. These units include: Information Technology, Introduction to Information Support and Services, Introduction to Network Systems, Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, and Introduction to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The goal is to whet students’ appetites for these careers.
Career Explorations I is a semester-long course designed to give students an opportunity to explore various CTE subjects. Specifically, students learn about careers involving human-related services. Each of the five units introduce one particular field and explains its past, present, and future. These units include: Career Management, Introduction to Careers in Health Sciences, Hospitality and Tourism Systems, Human Services, and Consumer Services. The goal is to whet students’ appetites for these careers.
Family and Community Services is a high school semester-long course that introduces applications within professions related to family and community services. Students identify degree and credential requirements for occupations in this pathway and identify individual, social, historical, economic, and cultural context to increase awareness of family and community services. Students develop the abilities necessary to evaluate and identify a range of effective communication strategies and skills for establishing a collaborative relationship with others. Students also complete a variety of projects to apply their skills and knowledge. Units are divided among career fields: Social Workers, Emergency Management and Planners, Therapists and Treatment Specialists, Education and Childcare.
This course introduces high school students to the fundamental concepts of anatomy and physiology—including the organization of the body, cellular functions, and the chemistry of life. As they progress through each unit, students learn about the major body systems, common diseases and disorders, and the career specialties associated with each system. Students investigate basic medical terminology as well as human reproduction and development. Students are introduced to these fundamental health science concepts through direct instruction, interactive tasks, and practice assignments. This course is intended to provide students with a strong base of core knowledge and skills that can be used in a variety of health science career pathways.
Semester A covers:
- The Human Body and Genetics
- Cells
- Tissues, Organs, and Systems
- Disease and Disorders
- Anatomy of the Body
- Musculoskeletal System
This course introduces high school students to the fundamental concepts of anatomy and physiology—including the organization of the body, cellular functions, and the chemistry of life. As they progress through each unit, students learn about the major body systems, common diseases and disorders, and the career specialties associated with each system. Students investigate basic medical terminology as well as human reproduction and development. Students are introduced to these fundamental health science concepts through direct instruction, interactive tasks, and practice assignments. This course is intended to provide students with a strong base of core knowledge and skills that can be used in a variety of health science career pathways.
Semester B covers:
- Nervous and Sensory Systems
- Cardiovascular System
- Respiratory System
- Integumentary, Lymphatic, and Immune Systems
- Digestive, Urinary, and Endocrine Systems
- Human Reproduction and Development
This first semester introductory course, students learn the principles of business using real‐world examples—learning what it takes to plan and launch a product or service in today’s fast‐ paced business environment. This course covers an introduction to economics, costs and profit, and different business types. Students are introduced to techniques for managing money, personally and as a business, and taxes and credit; the basics of financing a business; how a business relates to society both locally and globally; how to identify a business opportunity; and techniques for planning, executing, and marketing a business to respond to that opportunity.
Unit 1: Economics
Unit 2:Cost and Profit
Unit 3:Business Types
Unit 4: Money Management
Unit 5: Taxes and Credit
Unit 6: Business Finance
Unit 7: Business and Society
Unit 8: Business Planning
Unit 9: Marketing
Unit 10: Promotion
In this second semester introductory course, students learn the principles of business using real‐world examples—learning what it takes to plan and launch a product or service in today’s fast‐ paced business environment. This course covers selling and pricing, customers, inventory, and safety as well as workplace skills and career development. Students are introduced to word processing, presentations, and working with data and events.
Unit 1: Selling and Pricing
Unit 2: Customers, Inventory, and Safety
Unit 3: Workplace Skills
Unit 4: Career Development
Unit 5: Using the Internet
Unit 6: Word Processing
Unit 7: Presentations
Unit 8: Working with Data and Events
Personal Care Services introduces high school students to a variety of careers in the following areas: cosmetology (including hairstyling and haircutting, esthetics, manicuring, makeup, and teaching) and barbering (including cutting and styling of hair and facial hair and manicuring for men); massage therapy, teaching body-mind disciplines (yoga, Pilates, and the martial arts), and fitness (general exercise classes and acting as a personal trainer); and mortuary science (embalming and funeral directing). The semester-long course teaches students about what each career entails and the education and training they need to become credentialed in various career specialties. In addition, about half of the course is devoted to teaching knowledge associated with the various professions, so that students can get a feel for what they should learn and whether they would like to learn it.
Physicians, Pharmacists, Dentists, Veterinarians, and Other Doctors focuses on preparation for physician-level careers, including dental, veterinary and pharmaceutical, along with a look into the physician assistant and alternative medicine systems. This semester-long course also introduces the topics of diversity and the move toward social and cultural skills in medicine, in addition to academic ability. This course focuses on the preparation for entry to practice, along with navigating the field once you are in it (working as part of a team, dealing with patients, etc.). Students choose their career path by studying different roles, responsibilities, settings, education needs, and amounts of patient contact. Degree and training requirements, working environment, salaries, and the day in the life of that career is also covered in this course. Students explore important aspects that are applicable to the entire health field, such as behaving ethically, keeping patients safe and free from infections and germs, and following laws and policies.
Planning Meetings and Special Events is a semester-long high school course designed as an introduction to the study of planning meetings and special events. Being a meetings and special events planner is both demanding and rewarding. According to The Bureau of Labor Statistics employment of meeting, convention, and event planners is projected to grow 7 percent from 2018 to 2028, faster than the average for all occupations. Job opportunities should be best for candidates with hospitality experience and a bachelor’s degree in meeting and event management, hospitality, or tourism management. It’s not all fun and parties because a meeting coordinator is responsible for every detail of an event. Planners must know how to communicate, be empathetic, and think of their clients. It’s crucial to remember that in some instances the event will be a once-in-a-lifetime occasion, so it’s important to get it right.
Teaching and Training Careers is a semester-long high school course that introduces students to the art and science of teaching. It provides a thorough exploration of pedagogy, curriculum, standards and practices, and the psychological factors shown by research to affect learners. In five units of study, lessons, and projects, students engage with the material through in-depth exploration and hands-on learning, to prepare them for teaching and training careers. Students are given many opportunities to be the teacher or trainer, and to explore the tasks, requirements, teaching strategies, and research- based methods that are effective and high-quality.
Therapeutics: The Art of Restoring and Maintaining Wellness is a semester-long high school course that focuses on careers that help restore and maintain mobility and physical and mental health, such as physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, occupational therapists, athletic trainers, massage therapists, dieticians and dietetic technicians, art therapists, neurotherapists, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and registered dental hygienists. Each career is explored in depth, examining typical job duties, educational and licensure requirements, working conditions, average salary, and job outlook. Key concepts and specific skill sets are introduced in the lessons, allowing students to apply what they have learned to health careers. This course is important because skilled health care workers are in high demand and expected to remain so for the foreseeable future.
The first semester of Visual Arts focuses on artistic techniques as well as two-dimensional art and three dimensional media and architecture. Students will analyze how art is used to express commemoration, documentation, and narration. This is an on hands class where students will be painting a landscape, creating a still-life drawing, creating a relief print as well as an assemblage. Materials needed for this course: paint (acrylic, watercolors, oils, tempera, or other paints of your choice), paintbrushes, sponges, digital camera, camera phone or scanner, variety of found objects and materials that can be recycled (old newspapers, soda cans, wire, cloth, feathers, old bike gears, etc.) Glue, tape, string, or other adhesives.
Unit 1: Introduction to Art
Unit 2:Artistic Techniques and the Language of Art
Unit 3:Art Appreciation: Two-Dimensional Art
Unit 4: Three-Dimensional Media and Architecture
Unit 5: Prehistoric Art and Ancient Art: Art in Ancient Civilizations
The second semester of Visual Arts focuses on World Arts before 1400 as well as art in the Middle Ages and Early Europe. The components include the High Renaissance and Baroque Art, 15th and 16th Century Art In Europe, Art of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific Cultures. This course will also cover the characteristics of Modern Art in America as well as Latin America.
Unit 1: Art History- World Arts Before 1400
Unit 2: Art in the Middle Ages and Early Europe
Unit 3:The Renaissance Period- 15th and 16th Century Art in Europe
Unit 4: The High Renaissance and Baroque Art
Unit 5: Art of Asia Africa, the Americans, and the Pacific Cultures
Unit 6: 18th and 19th Century Art Movements in Europe and the Americas
Unit 7: Modern Art Movements in Europe and the Americas