Credits
Sophomore Courses
GPA
High School Transcript
10th Grade Electives
100

The number of credits needed to graduate from CPS.

What is 24 credits?

100

This yearlong course surveys the history of the United States from 1600 to the present. Political, social, diplomatic, ethnic, cultural and economic aspects of the American experience are explored.

What is US History?

100

The average of semester grades.

What is GPA - Grade Point Average?

100

The document required for college admissions and scholarship applications.

What is an Official High School Transcript?

100

In this course students explore the worlds of painting, drawing, and sculpture

What do learn in Art 1?

200

Biology, chemistry, physics

What science courses do you need to graduate?

200

First semester students participate in five-week activity blocks of weight training and aerobic fitness, as well as team and individual sports activity. The other semester of PE II involves Driver's Education

What is PE/Drivers Ed?

200

The high school courses that are weighted on a 5.0 scale.

What are the "weight" of honors courses?

200

The Grade Point Average posted on transcript.

What is Cumulative GPA? 

200

In this course You can learn a band instrument

What can You learn in Beginning Band?

300

28 credits

When a student passes every class every year, how many credits will they graduate with?

300

In this subject, you will use mathematics to describe the composition as well as the transformations of substances 

What will you learn in Chemistry?

300

You can earn no F's, and have to have earned at least 2.5 credits the previous semester. If you go below a 2.0, you need to go to tutoring. (Hint: sports)

What do you need grade-wise to be eligible to play sports?

300

The number, in terms of GPA, you fall with your classmates.

What is Class Rank?

300

Acting techniques, auditioning, directing, playwriting, beginning theatre technical skills/stagecraft, and play production

What are the things You can learn in Drama courses?

400

Joining a club and/or sport

What is a TFA goal for all freshmen?

400

In this course You will learn to analyze common geometric shapes and prove conjectures about properties of figures

What will You learn in Integrated Math II?

400

The minimum GPA needed to qualify for a Star Scholarship.

What is a 3.0 GPA?

400

One shows the average of grades, taking into consideration honors, IB, and AP classes; the other is the same, no matter what level classes you take.

What is the difference between the weighted and unweighted GPA?

400

Course that gives students a good overall idea of what Computer Science is like or for.

What is ECS?

500

The amount of credit one semester of a class is worth.

What is 1/2 credit?

500

Spanish, French, and Mandarin

What 3 languages are offered at Taft?

500

The high school courses that are weighted on a 6.0 grading scale.

What GPA "weight" are A's in an IB or AP course?

500

SAT scores, transcript, letters of recommendation from a teacher and counselor, essay

What documents do you have to send to a college when you apply?

500

The purpose of the class is to teach sight-reading/music theory skills and singing technique

What is the purpose of Beginning Chorus?

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