Study Materials for the Academic Team

Poetry:

  1. "February" by Marilyn Shepperson
  2. "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
  3. "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost
  4. "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W. H. Auden
  5. "The Song of Mehitabel" by Don Marquis
  6. "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

 

Humanities:

  1. Shakespeare's The Tempest
  2. Ibsen's A Doll's House

 

Speeches / Short Stories / Books:

  1. "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  2. "A Modern Cinderella, or The Little Old Shoe" by Louisa May Alcott
  3. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  4. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  5. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorrain Hansberry
  6. "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst

 

Geography: 

This year's focus will be the Middle East.  You need to study the economy and culture of each country.  Also, you need to know the major land formations and bodies of water.  All the information will come from the CIA factbook.  Study the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan                                          
  2. Bahrain
  3. Iran
  4. Iraq
  5. Israel
  6. Jordan
  7. Kuwait
  8. Kyrgyzstan
  9. Lebanon
  10. Oman
  11. Pakistan
  12. Qatar
  13. Saudi Arabia
  14. Syria
  15. Tajikistan
  16. Turkey
  17. Turkmenistan
  18. United Arab Emirates
  19. Uzbekistan
  20. Yemen

 

History:

This year's focus will be the Civil War.  Study the following chapters in America: Pathways to the Present

  • Chapter 10  The Coming of the Civil War
  • Chapter 11  The Civil War
  • Chapter 12  Reconstruction

Science:

Holt Earth Science:  Unit 3  The Restless Earth

  • Chapter 7  Plate Tectonics
  • Chapter 8  Earthquakes
  • Chapter 9  Volcanoes

Chemistry

  • Chapter 5  Atomic Structure (Structure of atom, distinguishing between atoms, organizing  the elements)
  • Chapter 13 Electrons in Atoms
  • Chapter 14 The Periodic Table

Holt Biology (Genetics)

  • Chapter 7 Mendel and Heredity (origin of genetics, Mendel's theory on Heredity, complex patterns)
  • Chapter 8 DNA
  • Chapter 9

Glencoe Physics: Quantum Theory and Atoms 

  • Chapter 27
  • Chapter 28

 

Current Events:

We will use the following papers:

  • Kingsport Times News
  • Bristol Herald Courier
  • Coalfield Progress