• English 9^th

This is an intensive grammar and writing course through which students both reinforce and expand grammar school language skills. Students are more formally introduced to the traditional writing genres—fiction and non-fiction—and expected to write in such genres with a certain degree of fluency. This task is achieved through integrating simultaneously grammar skills and reading selections from the literature book. These reading selections comprise all major literary genres, styles and authors as diverse as Poe, Shakespeare, Frost, Connell, Saki, or O.Henry.

• Latin 9^th

This is an introductory course following the Oxford method that is divided into four parts. This first course demands a great deal of memorization of the vocabulary and the morphology (essential in the learning of any language). The syntax is slowly introduced as students translate texts especially designed for beginners.

At the end of the course the student must know: the word-order of the Latin sentence; the five declensions; the basic functions of the six cases; the four verbal conjugations (in present, imperfect, future, past perfect, pluperfect, and the future perfect of indicative in the active voice); the irregular verbs (like: sum, volo, nolo, fero); the present imperative; the adjective and its degrees of comparison; the present participle; the demonstrative pronouns (hic, haec, hoc; ipse, ipsa, ipsum; iste, ista, istud, ille, illa, illud); the relative pronouns (qui, quae, quod); and some basics on the Latin accent.

• Spanish Language 9^th

This course studies the origin and evolution of the Spanish language, as well as its written communication channels, phonetics, spelling and grammar.

We also study Spanish literature based on the comprehension of the different literary genres and on the development from its origin to the XVIII century, through the study of its characteristics, authors and the reading of some important works.

• History of Spain I - 9^th

This course intends to give the students a knowledge of the history of Spain that will permit them to use the biographical, chronological and terminological information of the period. At the end of the course, the student will have to answer short questions on each of the different topics.

This course intends to give the students a knowledge of the history of Spain that will permit them to use the biographical, chronological and terminological information of the period. At the end of the course, the student will have to answer short questions on each of the different topics.

• Mathematics 9^th

This is the second of three steps designated to prepare students for calculus (11th grade). The study of geometry is integrated with the study of algebra: Geometry is present in every problem set. Students focused in 8th grade on concepts of area and volume, now they go on to more complicated area and volume problems and are introduced to abstract geometric concepts. The purpose is to practice, first obtaining problem-solving abilities, then to introduce the students to mathematical proofs, Euclid’s postulates and deductive reasoning.

The concepts covered are: equation of a line, word problems, systems of equations, different applications (chemistry, physics...), graphical solutions, factoring procedures, perpendicularity, trigonometric functions, quadratic equations, imaginary and complex numbers, polar and rectangular coordinates and conversions, inequalities, logarithms and exponential equations, conditions and proofs of congruence, equidistance, locus definitions, inscribed and circumscribed polygons and circles, and some statistics.

• Biology I - 9^th

This course studies cells (the nature of life, cell structure and function, cell processes and cell energy) and heredity (the code of life, what is Genetics? How chromosomes work, human Genetics and applied Genetics).

• Computer Science 9^th

This course reviews the typing skills learned in previous years and the use of an office suite (word processor, database, spreadsheet, publishing documents). It then goes on to teach the skills necessary to introduce the student to the Microsoft Visual Basic® programming language. By the end of the course the student should be able to identify and describe the purpose of various components of the Visual Basic programming environment; build and run a small application; use the code editing tools in the Code Editor window to write conditional statements and other code constructs; declare variables and constants; understand the use of an ActiveX control; and create application interfaces with standard and custom controls.