Course

Student required to provide

INFINITY Online will provide

Accounting

Microsoft Excel - any version (can substitute with Open Office free download).

OpenOffice Calc (link to this free download can be accessed within the course)

American Literature

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

American Short Stories Anthology

Anthropology

Students should have access to Microsoft Office software (can substitute with Open Office free download) including but not limited to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Students should have access to free Adobe Reader software.

OpenOffice Calc, Writer, and Viewer (link to this free download can be accessed within the course)

Astronomy

Binoculars, Digital Camera (optional)

Biology

Module 1: Start Pedaling!

2 or 3 inch notebook

SCION Image Processing Software (link to download can be accessed within course)

Module 2: Cellular City

Raw egg, string/thread, ruler, white vinegar, mayonnaise jar with lid, apply, 2 jar lids, plastic wrap

Module 6: Fungus Farm, Spore Print Lab

1 whole mushroom, ¼ piece of white paper, magnifying lens, active dry yeast, 2 – 14 oz. soda bottles, flat coke/diet coke/sprite, sugar, 5 latex balloons, string, yarn, ruler

Module 7: Animal Safari, Chromatography Lab

Goggles, leaves, 5 small jars with covers (or aluminum foil), rubbing alcohol, paper coffee filters, shallow pan, hot tap water, tape, pen or marker, plastic knife or spoon, clock or timer, ruler, Red/Blue 3-D glasses

Career & Job Skills

MCIS Online Website Subscription (info will be provided within course)

Chemistry

1 graduated cylinder, 5 test tubes, safety goggles, 1 immersion thermometer

ChemLab & Graphical Analysis Software (link to download can be accessed within course)

Safety Contract

Concurrent Enrollment Form

Computer Animation

Blender, Quicktime, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player (links to download all free, open-source software can be accessed within the course)

Creative Writing

Microsoft Word - any version (can substitute with Open Office free download).

OpenOffice Writer (link to this free download can be accessed within the course)

Criminal Justice

Pearson Education Interactive Website Subscription (access code provided to students via email)

Digital Photography

Digital Camera

Digital Video Camera

Photoshop Express Online Account

(link to downloads can be accessed within course)

Ecology

Microsoft Word - any version (can substitute with Open Office free download).

OpenOffice Writer (link to this free download can be accessed within the course)

English 9

Semester B

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

English 10

Semester A

Night by Elie Weisel

French 1,2,3

A microphone will be needed so that oral communication assignments can be handed in.

Students will also need to have sound recording software.

A webcam is desirable, but not mandatory.

Links to free open source recording software can be accessed within the course.

Geometry

Protractor, compass, tape measure, tissue paper or wax paper, index cards

Geometer’s Sketchpad Software (link to download can be accessed within course)

Health & Wellness

Students should have access to Microsoft Office software (can substitute with Open Office free download) including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Students should have access to either a digital video camera or digital camera.

OpenOffice Writer and Viewer (link to this free download can be accessed within the course)

Interior Design

Pencils/pens, colored pencils, ruler/tape measure, ¼” graph paper, several sheets of tagboard (neutral colors), construction paper in assorted neutral colors, glue/glue sticks, access to a digital camera

Marine Biology

Module 1

Digital Camera, baby food jars, water, food coloring, index card

Module 2

Digital Camera, crustacean from store (crab, lobster, crayfish, shrimp – substitutions may be made), ruler, protractor, string, quarter, pencil

Module 3

Digital Camera, various materials to create an oil spill and clean up

(more info provided within the course)

Module 4

Household materials to create a phytoplankton (more info provided within the course)

Module 5

4 ziplock baggies, shortening, large containers, ice water

Module 6

Squid, oyster (substitutions may be made), knife, newspaper

Module 7

Uncleaned fish

Module 8

Household products containing kelp

Medical Terminology

A microphone will be needed so that oral communication assignments can be handed in.

Audacity sound recording software

LAME plugin

(link to these free, open-source downloads can be accessed within course)

Building a Medical Vocabulary Textbook and CD (will be mailed to student)

Concurrent Enrollment Form

Money Management

Many readings will be taken from booklets available from the MN Attorney General's Office. These will be embedded in the course content. However, students may wish to print or order hard copies of the following to have on hand. This is especially true of the Landlords and Tenants booklet, which students will use in its entirety.

The Car Handbook
Minnesota's Car Laws
The Home Buyer's Handbook
The Credit Handbook
Landlords and Tenants: Rights and Responsibilities
Guarding Your Privacy

The above materials from the Attorney General's Office may be accessed from their website. They may also be ordered free hard copies of the booklets from the following website: www.ag.state.mn.us

Personal Fitness

Stopwatch, fax machine or scanner for fitness log submission (can use local school)

PreCalculus

TI-83 Calculator (or Emulator)

PreCalculus Online Textbook Subscription

(link to access will be emailed to student)

Graphmatica Software (link to download can be accessed within course)

Mathtype Software (link to download can be accessed within course)

Concurrent Enrollment Form

Spanish 1,2,3

A microphone will be needed so that oral communication assignments can be handed in.

Students will also need to have sound recording software.

A webcam is desirable, but not mandatory.

Links to free open source recording software can be accessed within the course.

Web Design

Notepad (PC), or TextEdit (Mac), or other text editor.

NVU Web Page Editor (link to free download can be accessed within course).

Women in Literature

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelo

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather

“The Telephone Call” by Dorothy Parker

“The Singing Lesson” by Katherine Mansfield

World History

Students should have access to Microsoft Office software (can substitute with Open Office free download) including but not limited to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Students should have access to free Adobe Reader software.

OpenOffice Calc, Writer, and Viewer (link to this free download can be accessed within the course)

World Literature

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Young Adult Literature

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

The First Part Last – Angela Johnson

Whale Talk – Chris Crutcher

Make Lemonade – Virginia Euwer Wolff

Bleachers – John Grisham

The Giver – Lois Lowry

April Morning – Howard Fast