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Middle School Textbooks

ELA

Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync

Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

Math

Envision Mathematics Textbooks for 6-8

Science

StemScopes

Social Studies

Nat’l. GeoWorld Cultures & Geography

Freshman Campus Textbooks

 

Textbooks

ELA

Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync

Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level D) 

Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

Math (Geometry & Algebra I)

Geometry with Data Analysis (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning; Into Geometry/ Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt; & Glencoe Geometry/ McGraw-Hill

Science

Books (Honors): Hot Zone and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Social Studies

Books (Honors World):  A Little History of the World, Animal Farm, The Greatest Generation

AP World History

Textbook: AMSCO World History Coursebook 

High School Textbooks

 

Textbooks

10th

Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync 

VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level E) 

Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

11th

Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync

Additional Literature for Honors 11:

VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level F) 

Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

12th

Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync 

VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level G) 

Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

AP Lang

12th

Textbook: Prentice Hall Literature

VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level G) 

Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

AP Lit

11th

Textbook: Prentice Hall Literature

VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level F) 

Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
 

Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources

Algebra I/w Probability

Textbook - Algebra I with Probability (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning

Algebra II/w Statistics

Textbook - Algebra 2 with Statistics (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning & Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry, 13th ed./Cengage

Precalculus

Textbook - Precalculus, 11th ed./Pearson (authors: Sullivan & Sullivan) & Analytic Geometry, 6th ed./Cengage 

Calculus

Textbook - Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences, 10th ed./Cengage

AP Calculus AB/BC

Textbook - Calculus for the AP Course, 3rd ed./Bedford, Freeman, & Worth

AP Statistics

Textbook - The Practice of Statistics, 6th ed./Bedford, Freeman, & Worth

Finite Math

Textbook - A Survey of Mathematics, 11th ed./Pearson
 

Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources

U.S. History 10

Textbook: The Americans, Vol. I

U.S. History 11

Textbook: The Americans, Vol. II

Government/ Economics

Textbook: United States Government: Principles and Practice, & Economics: Concepts and Choices

AP Government/ Microeconomics

Textbook:  Government in America

AP Government/ Macroeconomics

Textbook: Government in America

(We the People) Government/ Macroeconomics

Textbook: Official We the People Workbook

AP European

Textbook: The Western Experience

AP Human Geography

Textbook: The Cultural Landscape

AP Comparative Government

Textbook: Essentials of Comparative Politics with Cases
 

Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources

Physical Science

TEXTBOOK: CPO Foundations of Physical Science 3rd Edition (2018)

Chemistry

TEXTBOOK: World of Chemistry

Environmental Science

TEXTBOOK: Environmental Science G.T. Miller and S. Spoolman 

Physics

TEXTBOOK: Pearson Physics by James Walker

AP Chemistry

TEXTBOOK: Chemistry A Molecular Approach  AP* Edition (Tro) 

AP Environmental Science

TEXTBOOK: Environmental Science for AP 1st and 2nd Edition. A. Friedland & R. Relyea

AP Physics 1

TEXTBOOK: College Physics by Gay Stewart

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    Textbooks

    10th

    Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync 

    VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level E) 

    Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

    11th

    Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync

    Additional Literature for Honors 11:

    VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level F) 

    Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

    12th

    Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync 

    VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level G) 

    Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

    AP Lang

    12th

    Textbook: Prentice Hall Literature

    VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level G) 

    Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

    AP Lit

    11th

    Textbook: Prentice Hall Literature

    VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level F) 

    Assortment of Novels and Short Stories

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    Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources

    Algebra I/w Probability

    Textbook - Algebra I with Probability (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning

    Algebra II/w Statistics

    Textbook - Algebra 2 with Statistics (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning & Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry, 13th ed./Cengage

    Precalculus

    Textbook - Precalculus, 11th ed./Pearson (authors: Sullivan & Sullivan) & Analytic Geometry, 6th ed./Cengage 

    Calculus

    Textbook - Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences, 10th ed./Cengage

    AP Calculus AB/BC

    Textbook - Calculus for the AP Course, 3rd ed./Bedford, Freeman, & Worth

    AP Statistics

    Textbook - The Practice of Statistics, 6th ed./Bedford, Freeman, & Worth

    Finite Math

    Textbook - A Survey of Mathematics, 11th ed./Pearson

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    Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources

    U.S. History 10

    Textbook: The Americans, Vol. I

    U.S. History 11

    Textbook: The Americans, Vol. II

    Government/ Economics

    Textbook: United States Government: Principles and Practice, & Economics: Concepts and Choices

    AP Government/ Microeconomics

    Textbook:  Government in America

    AP Government/ Macroeconomics

    Textbook: Government in America

    (We the People) Government/ Macroeconomics

    Textbook: Official We the People Workbook

    AP European

    Textbook: The Western Experience

    AP Human Geography

    Textbook: The Cultural Landscape

    AP Comparative Government

    Textbook: Essentials of Comparative Politics with Cases

  •  

    Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources

    Physical Science

    TEXTBOOK: CPO Foundations of Physical Science 3rd Edition (2018)

    Chemistry

    TEXTBOOK: World of Chemistry

    Environmental Science

    TEXTBOOK: Environmental Science G.T. Miller and S. Spoolman 

    Physics

    TEXTBOOK: Pearson Physics by James Walker

    AP Chemistry

    TEXTBOOK: Chemistry A Molecular Approach  AP* Edition (Tro) 

    AP Environmental Science

    TEXTBOOK: Environmental Science for AP 1st and 2nd Edition. A. Friedland & R. Relyea

    AP Physics 1

    TEXTBOOK: College Physics by Gay Stewart