2015-2016 Registration

Process

• Jan 16-23: Academic Success teachers will assist students in completion of the registration form. Academic Success teachers will collect and keep completed registration forms.

– Signature Blitz Week – students should actively work on getting signatures for courses they want to take.

– Counselors will be available during all lunches to assist and answer questions.

• Jan 23: Course request forms are due to Academic Success teachers.

• Jan 26: All outstanding course request sheets are due to the counseling office. After this day course requests are considered late and will be marked with a late symbol that indicates lower registration priority.

• Feb 2: Counselors will start assigning courses to any student who has not turned in a course request form.

Registration schedule

Registration Materials:

• Course Catalog– Write your name on it– This is the only one you will receive

• Transcript– Includes fall semester classes– Updated GPA and rank

• Credit check sheet– Check off courses already taken– Put a * by classes currently taking.– Courses that are not checked off are the ones

you still need to take!

• Course Cheat sheet– Lists all courses available for request– Lists needed signatures and course info.

• 5-yr plan sheet– Required by law– Required for transfers

• Course request form

Pages 4 – 21: read about school and state requirements and see important dates

Pages 22 – 78: read course descriptions and see flowcharts for sequencing of courses.

Pages 44 – 72: See the CATE courses, read about careers, see flowcharts for Career Clusters .

Be sure to check out the Course Description Book!

How do I know what

to take?

Graduation Requirements

(page 12)

Current 10th - 11th

grade

Current

9th grade

Recommended High School

Plan • English – 4 credits• Math – 4 credits• Science – 4 credits• Social Studies – 4 credits• Foreign Language – 2 credits

(same language)• Fine Arts – 1 credit• Speech - .5 credit• PE – 1 credit• Electives – 5.5 credits

Total of 26 credits

Current 10th - 11th

grade

4 English (Eng 1, Eng 2, Eng 3, *Eng 4)

4 Math (must include Alg I, Geom)

4 Science (must include Biology)

3 Social Studies (W. Geog OR W. Hist, US History, Gov’t, and Econ)*

2 Foreign Language (same language)

1 PE

1 Fine Art

7 electives*If you plan to go to a

4 year university, 4 Social Studies credits

should be taken.

Foundation with

Endorsement Plan

(26 credits required)

Current

9th grade

How many credits will you have at the end of this year?

In order to move to the next grade level, high school students must earn enough credits.

You must have:

5.5 credits to be a sophomore

11 credits to be a junior

17 credits to be a senior

We determine your classification in July every year. So, if you don’t have enough credits to move up with your class,

GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL!

• You will pick up your schedule next year according to your classification. If you are a freshman this year and only earn 5 credits by mid-July – you will still be a freshman next year.

• you will pick up your schedule with the freshmen• your ID will be the freshman color and say grade 9

Why should you care?

If you are in 10th grade this year and don’t get 11 credits by July, you will be 10th again next year…..Forget about the prom invitation! Only 11th and 12th graders get those!

How do I complete the 5-year plan and Course

Request Form?

Course Planning

Worksheet

Mark the credits you have earned from your transcript

to your course planning worksheet.

Look at the Course Cheat sheet

½ credit course, offered in fall or spring.

+ - application/tryout process

@ - takes up 2 class periods

course only offered at CSHS

* teacher signature required

Available for 11th-12th only

Course information you need to know…

Current 10th and 11th graders are required to have Physics to graduate on the Recommended Plan.

Teen Living is a 9th-10th grade class.

Dual Credit English / Government / Economics must have SAT/ACT/TSIA qualifying scores by June 30th, other wise you will be placed in on-level Eng/Govt/Econ.

Senior “no-class” can only be at the beginning or end of the day, not between other classes and only as it fits in your requested schedule.

New courses and changes…

MMA and AQR may have different names when school begins – they will be the same course just new names.

Astronomy – can count as your 4th science.

Video Game Design – be sure to read the pre-requisites, 11th and 12th grade only.

AP Music Theory – 11th and 12th grade only

Art II, Sculpture

AP Studio Art

Dance II, III, IV

Look at your 5-year plan (pink paper)

5-year plan (continued)

Using your course planning sheet and transcript, fill out the bottom half of your 5-year plan.

1.Fill in any courses you took before your 9th grade year.

2.Fill in the courses you passed since beginning 9th grade.

3.Fill in the courses you plan/need/want to take to graduate from high school until the rest of your columns are completed.

5-year Plan sheet (sample)

Sample Course Request Form

Use Pen Do NOT use pencil!

Directions for Information Section

1. Write your last and first name.2. Write your Student ID number and the grade

you will be in next year.3. Address, Gender, Parent’s name, phone,

email and your email (just in case we have questions about your course requests).

Please NOTICE:Any changes must be made before June 12th.

Write the course number and name of your requested English, Math Science, and Social Studies classes and get the teachers’ signatures.

Then write the course number and name of 3 more periods of classes (pay attention – some courses are full year and some are half).

Writing your

selected courses

1420 English 4 Hon JS

6430 Animation II BK

Write in your Academic Success Class numbers:

10th 0510AS

11th 0520AS

12th 0530AS

•All students MUST list alternates.

•Alternates should include any combination of semester and year long courses, but there must be at least 2 single semester courses listed.

•Alternates CANNOT be the same as the course requests.

•If alternates are not listed, counselors will fill in courses of their choosing and changes will not be allowed.

Teacher SignaturesStudents will be getting signatures from teachers today through Friday (January 16th-23rd). We are calling this “Signature Blitz Week.”

BE SURE TO TAKE YOUR REGISTRATION FORM TO ALL OF YOUR CLASSES! Teachers will be asking for them.

Any course on the course cheat sheet that has an asterisk (*) requires a teacher signature to request it.

Parent SignaturesBefore turning in your registration form, you MUST have a parent’s signature and all appropriate teacher signatures or your form will not be accepted.

Parent Waiver

If the teacher does not sign for a course you are wishing to take, you may not sign up for that course.

Your course selection will be changed if/when your parent applies for a waiver into the higher course.

**Please note that a student CANNOT drop a class that he/she was waived into until the second semester. Choose carefully!!

Parent Waiver Meeting Dates:

• Wednesday, March 25th at 12:00 and 5:30. • Tuesday, March 31st at 12:00 and 5:30.

• THERE WILL BE NO MAKE UP MEETINGS THIS SPRING OR THIS SUMMER. PLEASE MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOUR PARENTS TO ATTEND ONE OF THESE DATES.

What about courses that I am trying out for or applying to be in?

If there is a “+” then it will require an application or tryout.

Write any application/tryout courses in the upper part of your course request form.

Be sure to have alternates for it just in case.

Coaches/Sponsors/Teachers will send out information after registration is complete.

What if I fail a required course this year?

If you failed any semester of a required course, you must retake that semester before moving on to the next course!

Example: If you failed Algebra I, you must sign up for Algebra I next year and pass before you can move on to Geometry!

Have you considered summer school so you won’t be a year behind?

What if I am taking Government and Economics in summer school?(or some other required course)

You still have to sign up for the required course(s) on your registration sheet!

Once you have completed the course in summer school, you must talk to the summer school counselor about changing your course(s) for next year!

Reminders:• Seniors can only have 2 no-credit

classes (combination of study hall, off periods, or office aide).

• Seniors who take 2 no-credit classes CANNOT drop a course. (Be careful!)

• Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors can only have one period of no credit (study hall or aide).

Deadline to change course selection is June 12th!

After this date, the only altering of courses will be due to errors, failure, summer school completion, enrollment at TAMU or Blinn, or tryouts.

Please note: when you pick up your schedule in August, it is your final schedule! Remember the deadline was June 12th!

Right now is the time to figure out what you want to take next year!

Need Help?

• Read the Course Description Book – many answers are there.

• Ask your teachers – they know you and they know what courses should be best for you.

• Ask your Academic Success Teacher – they have access to ask the counselors questions from the classroom.

• Ask older students who have been in the courses previously.

• Ask Department Heads – they will know the best course sequencing for you.

• Ask Counselors – they will be in all lunches January 20th-23rd. Be ready with your questions.

Deadlines:• January 23rd – Deadline to turn in your

course request form to advocate teacher.

• January 26th – Deadline to turn in your course request form to counseling office.

• March 25th and March 31st – Waiver meetings.

• June 12th – Deadline to change your course requests and/or alternates.

These are deadlines! Don’t miss them!

Have a TIGERIFIC Day!!