2015-2016
Registration
Process
Registration
schedule
• 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.
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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
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Required by law
Required for transfers
Course request form
Be sure to check out the Course
Description Book!
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 .
How do I
know what
to take?
Graduation
Requirements
(page 12)
Current
10th - 11th
grade
Current
9th grade
Recommended
High School
Plan
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Current
10th - 11th
grade
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
Foundation
with
Endorsement
Plan
(26 credits required)
Current
9th 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.
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!
Why should you care?
• 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
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.
Writing
your
selected
courses
1420
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).
English 4 Hon
JS
Write in your
Academic
Success
Class
numbers:
10th 0510AS
11th 0520AS
6430 Animation II
BK
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 Signatures
Students 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 Signatures
Before 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!!