Choosing Your Future
Students pick from the large variety of electives that Cypress Ridge offers.
Photo by: Tia Roberts
Rams check out an elective table
February 1, 2018
College specialist, Abbey Bryan, hosts the 2018 Elective Fair on Jan. 29-30 in the main hallway to recruit students for their courses and organizations. Course selection is coming up fast– it starts in the beginning of February and teachers are trying to display how interesting their classes are, and the benefits of taking them. “I advertise AP Physics II because it’s the study of everything in the universe and how it behaves in space and time,” Physics Teacher Tri Duong said.
Electives are required courses students take in addition to the four courses: English, Math, Science, and History. Students take electives based on their chosen endorsements: Arts and Humanities, STEM, Business and Industry, Public Service, or Disciplinary Studies.
“I for sure knew what I wanted to choose during the course selection because I went to the elective fair, I felt reassured that your GPA [would] stay the same,” sophomore Tia Roberts said.
The electives that have participated in this years elective fair were Animation & DIM, Audio/Video Production, Pathophysiology, Anatomy & Physiology, Aquatics, Forensic Science, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics 1&2, AP Biology, AP European History, AF ROTC, Newspaper/Yearbook, Business, Architecture/Engineering, Visual Arts, Dazzlers, Teen Leadership, Culinary, Interpersonal Studies, Fashion Design, Child Development, Interior Design, and Child Guidance.
Students can earn one credit for each course they successfully complete. The students’ grades determine the students’ grade point average (GPA). The students GPA, especially in the junior and senior year, is a factor that is evaluated with college applications.
“AP physics offers the highest credit on the grading scale. If you take this course, the highest you could get is a seven, which is the highest point on the grading scale,” Doung said.
During this time, teachers at the fair are reminded of their high school memories of taking similar courses as students they teach.
“Of course, I enjoy doing physics, I studied it in college, so yes I do enjoy teaching the subject,” Doung said.
“I took Journalism and dance in high school, and I was in orchestra in middle school; I played the violin,” Assistant Dance Teacher Haley McBrayer said.
