Physical+Ed+and+Health

Physical Education and Health

This co-ed course divides time among aerobic activities such as jogging, low impact aerobics and bench aerobics. The goal is to achieve a reasonable level of fitness and maintain that fitness level. This is a great class for anyone interested in a high level of physical activity. || This class is an advanced dance class which focuses on choreography, rehearsal and performance. Dancers must have a strong technical and performance background as well as significant prior training and understanding of dance elements. The class requires a substantial level of discipline, dedication and time. **Students are required to perform in the Dance Company concerts. ** Audition and  teacher approval required for enrollment in this class. (Ms. Hathaway- Dance Room). || $10 fee. || Designed for competitive coed swimmers and advanced water polo skills. This class will be held at Granite High School. Signature required: (Mr. Goffe- 106). || This is a course for student-athletes who play on the school’s competitive sports teams. Athletes should register in their specific team sport listed on the registration card. Teacher signature required: (Coach Ashton, Barnes or Bennett). || This is a physical education class offered to all students with emphasis on both aerobic and anaerobic fitness. ||
 * || Course || Grades || Semester/Year || Fee ||
 * || **Aerobics ** || **10th-12th ** || **Semester ** || $10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Prerequisite: Fitness for Life.
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Body Conditioning - Girls ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This is a physical education class which specializes in building lean muscle mass. This is done through aerobic activities, circuit training, and discussing proper diet. ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Bowling ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">11th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$75 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This is a physical education class consists of bowling at Olympus Hills Lanes 1-2 days per week, with one day in the classroom. Students are responsible to get to the bowling alley. No school transportation. Learn the fundamentals of bowling, scoring, etc. ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Dance 1B– ** Yoga Conditioning || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">11th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| This course is open to all students who are interested in learning fundamental body conditioning including strength training, flexibility, endurance, coordination and agility through the principles of yoga, resistance training and other movement practices. ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Dance 1A ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Semester/Year ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This class is a beginning course for students who have little or no previous dance training and experience. The course introduces students to elements of contemporary dance technique, composition, choreography and performance. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Students are required to perform in the Dance Company Concert. ** ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Dance 2A ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Semester/Year ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This class is for beginning-intermediate students who have had some previous dance training and experience. Students will further their development of contemporary dance technique elements and deepen their understanding of compositional and choreographic ideas. **<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Students are required to perform in the Dance Company Concert. ** ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Dance 3 ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || ** Year ** || $20 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This class is for intermediate to intermediate-advanced students with substantial prior training and experience. Students are expected to have background knowledge of dance technique as they are challenged to improve their skills and engage in increasingly difficult movement combinations and compositional assignments. Students are required to perform in Dance Company concerts. Audition and/or <span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">teacher approval is required for enrollment in this class. (Ms. Hathaway- Dance Room-140) ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Dance Company ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">11th-12th ** || ** Year ** || $20 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Prerequisite: Dance 3 is **<span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">strongly **<span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> advised.
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Drill Team ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || ** Year ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Fee: $600 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This class explores the various elements of dance form the team point of view. This involves performing at football and basketball games throughout the year as well as participating in various competitions. This class is geared toward advanced dancers with previous ballet and jazz experience **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. ****<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Auditions held in the Spring. ** <span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Signature required: (Ms. Hathaway 140). ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Fitness for Life ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th- 12th ** || ** Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * Required P. E. credit |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This one-semester coed course helps each student's adopt a personal life-style that will achieve physical fitness. Specifically, students will identify and understand all of the components of fitness, such as cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility, endurance, weight control, nutrition and stress management. ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Football Power Training ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** ||  ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This class is for football players only. The course emphasizes strength, power and speed, not body building. <span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Teacher signature required: (Coach Whitehead). ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Health ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** ||  ||
 * Required health credit. |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">School health education provides knowledge for healthful living of the individual, family and community that aims at improving the quality of life. The emphasis is on the student as a consumer of health information in relationship to the physical, social and mental dimensions of man. Content of this required course is based upon materials adopted by the State Board of Education. ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Lifetime Sports ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Bowling $25.
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This is a coed physical education class organized to teach several lifetime sports. Students participate in activities from the following: golf, bowling, weight training, running and badminton. Coed team sports are also taught including softball, volleyball and basketball. ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Social Dance - Beginning ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This class is an introductory level course for various kinds of ballroom and social dances. These may include waltz, foxtrot, salsa, swing, tango, cha-cha, contemporary line dances and more. Students will be introduced to some elements of choreography and performance. **<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Students may be required to perform in the Dance Department Concert. ** ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Social Dance – ** Intermediate/Advanced || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This class refines intermediate/advanced skills of social and ballroom dances. Longer and more difficult dance combinations are covered without introduction or emphasis of the basics. Specific emphasis is given to the dance style and technique of each dance which may include Waltz, East and West Coast Swing, Cha Cha Cha, Rumba, Foxtrot, Merengue and Tango. **<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Students are required to perform in the Dance Department Concert. ** ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Dance 2B – Hip Hop ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This course explores the cultural and historical context of contemporary dance technique, focusing on urban dance forms such as Hip-Hop, Funk, Street Dance and more. Students will gain an appreciation and understanding of dance as a means of self-expression and cultural identity. **<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Students may be required to perform in the Dance Department Concert. ** **<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Elective Credit. ** ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Sports Activities ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This course is offered to any student who enjoys playing basketball. Students play competitive basketball games each class period. Tournaments take place daily. If you enjoy basketball, this is the class for you! ||
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Swim Team ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Year ** || $10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Prerequisite: Swimming 1.
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Team Sports- Boys/Girls ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester ** ||  ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Prerequisite: Prior completion of or concurrent enrollment in Fitness for Life.
 * || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Weight Training ** || **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10th-12th ** || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Semester/Year ** || <span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">$10 ||
 * |||||||| <span style="color: #cc6600; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Prerequisite: Prior completion of Fitness for Life.

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