1. Junior Scheduling Meeting

2. First things first….
There are now two ways to meet graduation Requirements
Pass English and Math ISTEP
Demonstrate Post-Secondary competency

3. What is a post-secondary competency?
Earn an academic Honors diploma
Act scores
18 English/22 reading and 22 math/23 science
Sat scores
480 reading and 530 math
Armed services vocational aptitude battery (asvab): 31
3 ap or dual credit courses with a “c” average
Concentrator with a “C” Average

4. What is a concentrator?
Getting 6 credits in a career cluster with a “c” Average
Career Center
Agriculture
Architecture & Construction
Business & Marketing
Health Science
Hospitality & Human Services
Information Technology
Manufacturing & Logistics
STEM – Computer Science or Engineering

5. Graduation Requirements
You will be ed your transcript
Use the worksheet and your transcript to determine what courses you still need to take to graduate with the kind of diploma you want to earn

6. What Kind of Diploma Do You Want?

8. Why Choose Rigorous Courses?

9. Advice from a college admissions officer….
Questions to ask yourself:
Am I taking a well-balanced academic program that will provide me with a good foundation for college?
Am I prepared to take college-level math, writing, and science courses?
Do I feel challenged by the courses that I am taking?
Are my courses among the more rigorous ones available to me at my school?
Am I seeking challenge or avoiding it?

10. Courses All Juniors Have to Take
US History or Dual Credit US History
Both are 2 trimester courses
Should take 2 credits of science to finish core 40 requirements
Make sure you’ve had chemistry or integrated chem/phys
Might postpone this to senior year if you go to the career center next year
All juniors take english 11a and 11b
Take the next math course
Algebra 2 Honors -> Honors Trig/Precalculus
Geometry Honors -> Honors Algebra 2
Algebra 2 -> Geometry

11. Bold & italicized classes are dual credit
Asterisk indicates graduation requirements
Do your best to list classes in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimester given constraints
Leave the # column blank
Be sure to list BOTH PARTS of a 2 Trimester Class
Circle alternates or I will pick 
When you meet with your counselor, be prepared for changes

12. Special Programs – Require application
Cadet Teaching – Interest meeting around spring break time
2 periods
Usually just 1 trimester
Peer Tutoring – at elementary, middle, or even high school
1 period
Can be taken 2 trimesters
Elkhart Area Career Center (EACC) – Get application from counselor during meeting
3 periods
Every trimester

13. What Next? Your transcript will be emailed to you
Complete the Graduation Requirements Checklist
Access the Course Catalog on the Guidance Department website and talk to your teachers
Use the Course Listing sheet to complete your Course Selection Sheet – Get a parent signature
Please select alternatives – you don’t want us picking your courses
An appointment time will be ed to you – don’t miss it!
Do your best to accurately pick your schedule now – this is the last year to impact gpa before college applications
Stay tuned for the process of how to change your tentative schedule