Academics

IVC Early College Program Overview - Incoming Freshmen 2021-2022

IMPORTANT LINKS:

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM OVERVIEW

DOWNLOAD EARLY COLLEGE APPLICATION PACKET

Important Dates to Remember:

•  Wednesday April 28, 2021:  Application, transcript and 3 teacher recommendations due.
• Wednesday May 5, 2021:  Writing assessment given.  More information to follow after completed application has been received.
• Wednesday May 12, 2021: Registration Packets due
  • Packet Includes:
    • IVC "Authorization to Release Student Information" Form
    • IVC Application confirmation page
    • Student/Parent contract
• Wednesday, May 26, 2021: Acceptance/Denial Letters mailed
• June TBD: IVC Fall Registration

As the end of the semester draw closer, we wanted to share information about what our finals week will look like here at Beckman.  There will still be a culminating assessment, project, or presentation for most of our classes here at Beckman.  Finals will take place via the Distance Learning model unless a student reserves a place in class to take the test in person.  This can be done directly with the teacher.  While finals will look and feel very different than in years past, we as a staff feel it is important for students to have an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of course material prior to closing semester gradebooks and issuing final marks.

1)      Finals start slightly later than normal at 8:30.

2)      Zero period final will be on Tuesday.

3)      Finals will take place in numeric order, not on the “old” schedule.

4)      Monday will be a regular hybrid O1 day.

Summer Courses Outside of TUSD

While it is not necessary or recommended, students wishing to take classes outside of TUSD offerings over the summer are able to take them provided they understand that MOST classes taken outside TUSD WILL NOT be part of the student’s academic record at Beckman.  They will not serve to advance to a higher level or remediate a prior grade.  Outside classes will serve only for ENRICHMENT purposes.  The only classes that may be eligible to be included on the transcript are classes offered at local community colleges such as IVC, OCC, Santiago Canyon, and Saddleback College.  See below for information on Summer Community College courses.

Summer Community College Courses

Students wishing to take Community College classes over the summer must be aware of the following:

• Beckman will add no more than two (2) Community College courses to the high school transcript over the course of a student’s 4-years of high school.  Classes taken above the two class limit will not be added or noted anywhere on the student’s record at Beckman. 
• Courses applied to the transcript must not be a graduation requirement* or for advancement.  (*Exceptions can be made for students wishing to meet the one year VPA requirement)
• Classes such as English, Algebra, Geometry, World History, US History, Government and Economics will not be approved because they are TUSD graduation requirements.
• Math courses and World Language courses taken outside TUSD will not serve to advance students to a higher level and will not be used to meet graduation requirements.  (ie. You cannot take Geometry at IVC to skip Geometry at Beckman)
• An official transcript must be provided to your counselor within 4 weeks of course completion.  Once a grade is posted to the transcript, it cannot be removed or changed.  Transcripts provided after the 4 week window will not be added to the transcript.

2019-2020 High School Course Catalog

2020-2021 Beckman High School core Novels (by Grade)

• Freshman Honors
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • The Odyssey by Homer (Fitzgerald translation)
• Freshman CP
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Anthem by Ayn Rand
  • The Odyssey by Homer (abridged)
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Sophomore Honors
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Sophomore CP
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • Macbeth or A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Junior Honors
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Junior CP
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Senior English Literature AP
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Senior English ERWC
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Othello or Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

DOWNLOAD LIST OF CORE NOVELS (PRINTABLE PDF)

CAASPP - California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress

2019 Testing SCHEDULE

• April 15-19, 2019
• April 22-26, 2019

All 11th & 12th Graders will be testing.  9th & 10th Graders DO NOT test.

• 11th CAASPP English & Math
• 12th CAST Science

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