Graduation Requirements
Non-Credit Graduation Requirements
Sophomore Year Classes
Life After High School
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100

Chicago Public Schools requires 24 of these to graduate.

What are credits?

100

This is the non-credit graduation requirement you will earn as part of PE I. 

What is Health? 

100
Name the PE class that all sophomores will take. 

PE II 

100

This is the term for a student's plan for what they will do after high school. 

What is a post-secondary pathway?

100

The person who manages the Counseling Center's front desk.

Who is Ms. Olga Gutierrez?

200

You must take two years of these two graduation requirements. 

What are Fine Arts and Foreign Language? 

200

This test taken junior year is a requirement to graduate.

What is the SAT? 

200

This sophomore year science class is a double block.

What is AP Chemistry? 

200

This is that path that 90% of Jones students take after high school. 

What is going to college? 

200

Name three clubs/organizations offered at Jones.

What are Key Club, JonesPride, ALAS, AAC, NHS etc?

300

You are required to take these classes, but you get to choose from a variety of options.

What are elective courses? 

300

While you may be volunteering outside of school, you must complete this minimum number of service learning classroom projects.

What is two? 

300

This is the name for a course that must be completed prior to enrolling in a more advanced course in the same subject area. (Ex. Math 2 is a (blank) for Math 3).

What is a prerequisite? 

300

This person at JCP is available to students to discuss their post high school plans.

Who is your counselor? 

300

What is the website we used this year to take the StrengthsExplorer survey? 

What is Naviance?

400

These are the two subject areas required all four years of high school.

What is English and PE?

400

These two non-credit graduation requirements are related to senior year. 

What is Learn.Plan.Succeed and filling out FAFSA?

400

This sophomore year class is one of JCP's most rigorous classes. 

What is AP US History? 

400

This is the CPS website where you can learn more about post-secondary pathways. 

What is the Learn Plan Succeed website? 

400

This is where the Counseling Department is located at Jones. 

What is the first floor of the North Building? 

500
JCP students that meet very specific criteria can waive out of these two graduation requirements junior and senior year. 

What is PE and Computer Science? 

500

This document is sent to colleges during your senior year. It includes a list of the credits that you have earned toward graduation, your non credit graduation requirements, as well as your G.P.A. and attendance record.

What is a transcript?

500

These are the AP classes available to most sophomores. 

What is AP US History, AP Chemistry, and possibly AP Computer Science or AP Language?

500

Name the six post secondary pathways.

What are College, Military Service, Gap Year, Apprenticeship, Job Training, and Employment.

500

Name all 6, full-time counselors working in the Counseling Center.

Who are Mrs. Behlke, Mr. Coleman, Ms. Goins, Mrs. Schnatterbeck, Ms. Stimac, and Ms. Syed?