SUMMER 2014 MULTIPLE OPTIONS FOR YOUR MANY NEEDS.

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Course Catalog

SUMMER 2014

Redefining the concept of classmate, colleague, and neighbor.

MULTIPLE OPTIONS FOR YOUR MANY NEEDS.

Please note that students MUST receive permission from their school

to enroll in a JVLA summer offering.

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JVLA Summer Offerings

These robust offerings follow our

traditional model of delivery to engage students in a rich learning experience.

Speak with your school administrator regarding the school’s credit policy.

Instructor

JVLA teachers are seasoned Ignatian educators from Jesuit schools throughout the United States.

They are certified in the subject area in which they are teaching, and have gone through extensive training in the development and delivery of online courses.

Format

Courses are designed around a series of learning modules that students complete together.

Though the delivery will be different, just like the traditional classroom, there will be lectures, discussions, projects, reading assignments, and more. Much of the work is done independently on students’ own time utilizing learning tools (discussion boards, blogs, wikis, group projects) that are participative in nature. There will also be occasions when students gather online at the same time for live discussions, teacher instruction or guest lectures.

Time Commitment

These summer courses are designed to be very challenging. Students can expect to commit the same amount of time to a JVLA course as they would any other. Active daily engagement will be required to earn positive results.

Classmates

Your classmates will be young men and women from other Jesuit and Catholic schools around the country. The courses are meant to be interactive experiences. As such it is the shared

responsibility of all of the class’ participants, both students and teacher, to build a rich learning

community.

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The Fundamentals, 16 June– 15 August 2014

Intensive Reading and Writing Skills Development

AVAILABLE TO: Incoming Freshmen, Sophomores COURSE LISTING: English

CREDITS: 0.5

This class has been organized to accelerate acquisition of reading and writing skills. We use many types of activities to build reading and writing skills through innovative projects and activities.

Fast Track Summer Offerings, 16 June – 15 August 2014

The Fast Track is designed for students wanting to accelerate their learning track to access advanced coursework at their brick-and-mortar school. These courses will be quite rigorous. The expectation of the JVLA is that a Fast Track Summer Course will be the student’s exclusive (or principal) academic pursuit of the summer. It is a responsibility that requires commitment from the student and support from teachers, parents, and schools. Daily engagement with one to three hours per day will be the norm and essential for a successful experience. This program is a great opportunity, and a big challenge, for properly motivated and disciplined students who want to complete a major academic project during the summer, and who are willing to do the work. JVLA will facilitate communication among students, teachers, parents, and school administrators to ensure there is sufficient monitoring of daily progress as well as offer moral support during this endeavor.

Mathematics Fast Track Summer Offerings

Geometry

AVAILABLE TO: Freshman and Sophomores COURSE LISTING: Mathematics

CREDITS: 1

The Geometry course includes an in-depth analysis of plane, solid, and coordinate geometry as they relate to both abstract mathematical concepts as well as real-world problem situations.

Topics include logic and proof, parallel lines and polygons, perimeter and area analysis, volume and surface area analysis, similarity and congruence, trigonometry, and analytic geometry.

Emphasis will be placed on developing critical thinking skills as they relate to logical reasoning and argument. Students will be required to use different technological tools and manipulatives to discover and explain course content.

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Social Studies Fast Track Summer Offerings

AP Art History

AVAILABLE TO: Juniors and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Social Studies or Art

This survey course will cover the history of art from prehistory to the present. Students will study historically significant works of art including architecture, painting, sculpture, and mixed media. Through this course, students will learn to identify, analyze, and discuss artworks from a variety of cultures and stylistic periods. Students who complete this course will be prepared to take the AP examination in the spring. Strong organization and time management skills would be helpful. This class will take up a lot of time, so it is recommended students have room in their schedule for it.

AP United States Government and Politics

AVAILABLE TO: Juniors and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Social Studies CREDITS: 0.5

Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics is a one-semester accelerated online course during which students will analyze the contemporary nature and function of the American political system. Students will examine the scope and framework of the United States government's institutions and structures. Also, students will explore the process through which the political system operates, and the factors impacting political participation. Students will understand how public policy is adopted, implemented, and impacts our lives. The students will be prepared to take the AP Government and Politics exam offered Spring of 2015.

AP Microeconomics

AVAILABLE TO: Juniors and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Social Studies CREDITS: 0.5

How should faithful Catholics think about economics? This course integrates selected themes from the Neoscholastic School of economics with the content of the Advanced Placement economics syllabus in microeconomics. The course prepares students to do well on the AP Microeconomics exam as well as offer a way to view our redeemed creation through the prism of social science. The economic way of thinking does not begin with Adam Smith. It is based on insights from Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, the Jesuit and Franciscan theologians at the University of Salamanca in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on the Popes’ social encyclicals. We develop our understanding of basic economic concepts and analytic tools by anchoring them to our faith’s moral traditions and foundations.

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Theology Core Courses (See individual courses for dates.)

(Each of the following are designed as rigorous 4-week, .5 credit courses that mirror the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the Development of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age.)

The Revelation of Jesus Christ in Scripture (June 16 – July 18)

AVAILABLE TO: Freshman (Recommended), Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Theology

The purpose of this course is to give students a general knowledge and appreciation of the Sacred Scriptures. Through their study of the Bible they will come to encounter the living Word of God, Jesus Christ. In the course they will learn about the Bible, authored by God through Inspiration, and its value to people throughout the world. If they have not been taught this earlier, they will learn how to read the Bible and will become familiar with the major sections of the Bible and the books included in each section. The students will pay particular attention to the Gospels, where they may grow to know and love Jesus Christ more personally.

Who Is Jesus Christ? (July 21 – August 15)

AVAILABLE TO: Freshman (Recommended), Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Theology

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the mystery of Jesus Christ, the living Word of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. In this course students will understand that Jesus Christ is the ultimate Revelation to us from God. In learning about who he is, the students will also learn who he calls them to be.

The Mission of Jesus Christ (The Paschal Mystery) (June 16 – July 18)

AVAILABLE TO: Sophomores (Recommended), Juniors, and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Theology

The purpose of this course is to help students understand all that God has done for us through his Son, Jesus Christ. Through this course of study, students will learn that for all eternity, God has planned for us to share eternal happiness with him, which is accomplished through the redemption Christ won for us. Students will learn that they share in this redemption only in and through Jesus Christ. They will also be introduced to what it means to be a disciple of Christ and what life as a disciple entails.

Jesus Christ’s Mission Continues in the Church (July 21 – August 15)

VAILABLE TO: Sophomores (Recommended), Juniors, and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Theology

The purpose of this course is to help the students understand that in and through the Church they encounter the living Jesus Christ. They will be introduced to the fact that the Church was founded by Christ through the Apostles and is sustained by him through the Holy Spirit. The students will come to know that the Church is the living Body of Christ today. This Body has both divine and human elements. In this course, students will learn not so much about events in the life of the Church but about the sacred nature of the Church.

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Sacraments as Privileged Encounters with Jesus Christ (June 16 – July 18)

AVAILABLE TO: Juniors (Recommended), and Seniors

COURSE LISTING: Theology

The purpose of this course is to help students understand that they can encounter Christ today in a full and real way in and through the sacraments, and especially through the Eucharist.

Students will examine each of the sacraments in detail so as to learn how they may encounter Christ throughout life.

Life in Jesus Christ (July 21 – August 15)

AVAILABLE TO: Juniors (Recommended), and Seniors COURSE LISTING: Theology

The purpose of this course is to help students understand that it is only through Christ that they can fully live out God’s plans for their lives. Students are to learn the moral concepts and precepts that govern the lives of Christ’s disciples.

Bioethics (June 16 – July 18)

AVAILABLE TO: Seniors (Recommended), and Juniors COURSE LISTING: Theology

This course introduces students to bioethics as an interdisciplinary subject through critical thinking, writing, and discussing contemporary issues. Bioethical thinking is neither biology nor ethics but, rather, a melding of both. Interdisciplinary thinking is solidly rooted in the processes of scientific thinking and, simultaneously, is solidly rooted in the processes of philosophical and theological thinking. As the piers of a suspension bridge stand solidly on firmament to support the span between them, so also do the disciplinary ways of knowing biology and ethics serve as solid foundations to support the interdisciplinary thinking of Bioethics.

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Other JVLA Offering

(Open enrollment beginning June 1, 2014. Courses close August 31, 2014)

Growing Up Healthy

This course is designed as a low-cost solution for JVLA member schools in meeting their state’s health requirements. Students work independently through a series of course modules.

Successful completion of all modules and correlating assessments indicates student competency.

Though this course is designed to allow individual students to work at their own pace, that doesn’t mean they are completely alone. Technical support is always available through the JVLA. In addition, the JVLA will send regular reports to host schools to help them monitor student progress.

Financial Literacy and Stewardship

This course is designed as a low-cost solution for JVLA member schools in meeting their state’s financial literacy requirements. Students work independently through a series of course modules. Successful completion of all modules and correlating assessments indicates student competency.

Though this course is designed to allow individual students to work at their own pace, that doesn’t mean they are completely alone. Technical support is always available through the JVLA. In addition, the JVLA will send regular reports to host schools to help them monitor student progress.

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General Remediation Courses

The JVLA has contracted with Florida Virtual School for the use of online resources to provide schools, parents, and students cost-effective, flexible remediation options for acquiring basic competency skills in many core subjects. NOTE THAT THESE ARE NOT JVLA COURSES. This curriculum is approved by the NCAA.

Format

Learning content is presented in modular format and is aligned to national standards. Successful completion of all modules and correlating assessments indicates student competency.

Students work independently through the course. Each module includes a pre-assessment which enables students to “test out” of material they already know. This enables students to proceed at their own pace; focusing exclusively on the content they have yet to master.

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Support

Though these courses are designed to help students work at their own pace, that doesn’t mean they

are completely alone. Through the Teacher Tutor Program, a Jesuit school teacher is assigned to each

student to monitor his/her progress and provide individual assistance when needed. Technical support

is always available through the JVLA and Florida Virtual. In addition, the JVLA will send regular reports

to host schools to help them monitor student progress.

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REMEDIATION COURSE LIST

ENGLISH MATH

English I Algebra I

English II Algebra II

English III Geometry

English IV

SOCIAL STUDIES SCIENCE

American Government Physical Science

American History Biology

Economics Chemistry

World Studies Physics

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Latin I

Latin II Spanish I Spanish II

Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy

P.O. Box 4769 Omaha, NE 68104

(877)SAY-JVLA www.jvla.org

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STUDENT REGISTRATION

SUMMER 2014

Completed forms should be mailed along with the necessary payments to: Summer Course Registration, Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy, P.O. Box 4769, Omaha, NE 68104. All checks should be made payable to the Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy.

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SECTION II

JVLA Course Registration

Consult with your school principal regarding your school’s member status.

JVLA Courses

The following courses are being offered provided there are a total of 10 students enrolled. In some cases the student may be responsible for providing

required textbooks and materials that are not included in the course fee. Traditional Cristo Rey

The Fundamentals

Intensive Reading and Writing Skills Development $240 $130

Non-Member Schools $400 $275

Fast Track

AP United States Government and Politics $240 $130

Geometry $335 $175

AP Microeconomics $240 $130

AP Art History $335 $175

Theology*

The Revelation of Jesus Christ in Scripture $240 $130

Who Is Jesus Christ? $240 $130

The Mission of Jesus Christ (The Paschal Mystery) $240 $130

Jesus Christ’s Mission Continues in the Church $240 $130

Sacraments as Privileged Encounters with Jesus Christ $240 $130

Life in Jesus Christ $240 $130

Bioethics $240 $130

*Students from MEMBER SCHOOLS taking more than one THEOLOGY offering receive a 15% discount on ALL Theology course fees.

Other JVLA Offerings – Self Paced

Growing Up Healthy $22 $22

Non-Member Schools Not Available Not Available

Financial Literacy and Stewardship $22 $22

Non-Member Schools Not Available Not Available

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General Remediation Courses

Through Florida Virtual School Supported by Jesuit Teacher Traditional Cristo Rey

English I $275 $210

English II $275 $210

English III $275 $210

English IV $275 $210

Algebra I $275 $210

Algebra II $275 $210

Geometry $275 $210

Physical Science $275 $210

Biology $275 $210

Chemistry $275 $210

Physics $275 $210

American Government $275 $210

American History $275 $210

World Studies $275 $210

Spanish I $275 $210

Spanish II $275 $210

Latin I $275 $210

Latin II $275 $210

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REGISTRATION QUESTIONS?

Call or Email Steve Haessler, (877)729-5852 ext. 102, shaessler@jvla.org

All payments should be made to the Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy Please send all completed registration forms and payments to:

Summer Course Registration Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy

P.O. Box 4769 Omaha, NE 68104