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Middle School Textbooks
ELA
Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync
Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
Math
Envision Mathematics Textbooks for 6-8
Science
StemScopes
Social Studies
Nat’l. GeoWorld Cultures & Geography
Freshman Campus Textbooks
Textbooks
ELA
Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync
Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level D)
Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
Math (Geometry & Algebra I)
Geometry with Data Analysis (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning; Into Geometry/ HoughtonMifflin-Harcourt; & Glencoe Geometry/ McGraw-Hill
Science
Books (Honors): Hot Zone and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Social Studies
Books (Honors World): A Little History of the World, Animal Farm, The Greatest Generation
AP World History
Textbook: AMSCO World History Coursebook
High School Textbooks
ELA Department
Textbooks
10th
Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync
VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level E)
Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
11th
Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync
Additional Literature for Honors 11:
VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level F)
Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
12th
Textbook: McGraw Hill - StudySync
VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level G)
Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
AP Lang
12th
Textbook: Prentice Hall Literature
VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level G)
Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
AP Lit
11th
Textbook: Prentice Hall Literature
VOCABULARY: Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook (level F)
Assortment of Novels and Short Stories
Math Department
Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources
Algebra I/w Probability
Textbook - Algebra I with Probability (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning
Algebra II/w Statistics
Textbook - Algebra 2 with Statistics (Alabama COS)/Big Ideas Learning & Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry, 13th ed./Cengage
Precalculus
Textbook - Precalculus, 11th ed./Pearson (authors: Sullivan & Sullivan) & Analytic Geometry, 6th ed./Cengage
Calculus
Textbook - Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences, 10th ed./Cengage
AP Calculus AB/BC
Textbook - Calculus for the AP Course, 3rd ed./Bedford, Freeman, & Worth
AP Statistics
Textbook - The Practice of Statistics, 6th ed./Bedford, Freeman, & Worth
Finite Math
Textbook - A Survey of Mathematics, 11th ed./Pearson
History Department
Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources
U.S. History 10
Textbook: The Americans, Vol. I
U.S. History 11
Textbook: The Americans, Vol. II
Government/ Economics
Textbook: United States Government: Principles and Practice, & Economics: Concepts and Choices
AP Government/ Microeconomics
Textbook: Government in America
AP Government/ Macroeconomics
Textbook: Government in America
(We the People) Government/ Macroeconomics
Textbook: Official We the People Workbook
AP European
Textbook: The Western Experience
AP Human Geography
Textbook: The Cultural Landscape
AP Comparative Government
Textbook: Essentials of Comparative Politics with Cases
Science Department
Curriculum, materials, & instructional resources
Physical Science
TEXTBOOK: CPO Foundations of Physical Science 3rd Edition (2018)
Chemistry
TEXTBOOK: World of Chemistry
Environmental Science
TEXTBOOK: Environmental Science G.T. Miller and S. Spoolman
Physics
TEXTBOOK: Pearson Physics by James Walker
AP Chemistry
TEXTBOOK:Chemistry A Molecular Approach AP* Edition (Tro)
AP Environmental Science
TEXTBOOK: Environmental Science for AP 1st and 2nd Edition. A. Friedland & R. Relyea
AP Physics 1
TEXTBOOK: College Physics by Gay Stewart