Document 11: GGUSD Grades 7-12 Instructional Sequencing Options
This tool created by Garden Grove is used to guide course sequencing options in History/Social Science, Science, and World
Languages for five different tracks to ensure that students meet graduation and college eligibility requirements.
Garden Grove Unified School District
7-12 Instructional Sequencing Options
The grades these courses are taken in not important except that 7th grade standards are the base for Biology and 8th grade standards are the base
Science
7
High School Graduate
Order of H.S. classes
or year taken if flexible
CSU Graduate
Order of H.S. classes
or year taken if flexible
UC Graduate w/2
required sciences
UC Graduate w/3
sciences
Science 7
All students
heterogeneously
grouped for
science in grade
7.
UC bound w/AP
for Physical (Earth), Chemistry, and Physics.
8
9
10
11
Science 8
Biology AND General of Physical (Earth)
Science 8
Biology AND Physical (Earth)
Science 8
Adv. Science
(based on
objective
criteria)
Adv. Science
(based on
objective
multiple
measure
criteria)
12
Biology
Chemistry or
Physics
Biology
Chemistry or
Physics
Anatomy or
Physics
Order does
not matter
Biology
Chemistry or
Physics
Anatomy or
Physics or AP
Sci
AP Sci
History/Social Science
7
Intensive
CSU/HS grad.
Strategic
CSU or UC
Benchmark
UC or CSU
8
9
10
11
12
Soc Sci 8
World History
U.S. History
Civics/Economics
Soc Sci 8
World History
U.S. History
Civics/Economics
Soc Sci 8
World History
U.S. History
World History
Honors
AP U.S. History
AP European
History OR AP
World History
AP U.S. History
AND
Possibly AP
Psych
Soc Sci 7
AVID
UC or CSU
Challenge
UC, private
Adv. Soc Sci
(based on
objective
multiple
measure
criteria)
World History
Honors
World Languages Sequence
American Government/
Macroeconomics consider
AP European History
or AP World History
AP American
Government/ AP
Macroeconomics AND
AP European History
or AP World History
AP American
Government/ AP
Macroeconomics AND
possibly AP European
or World History
World Language
(Non-Native Speaker)
High School Graduate
CSU Graduate
UC Graduate
9th
No world language
required (though highly
recommended)
Level I language
Level I language
10th
11th
Level I language
Level II language
Level II language
Level III language
(highly recommended)
Level II language
Level III language
12th
AP Language or Viet. IV
(optional)
AP language or Viet. IV
(highly recommended)
World Language
(Native Speaker)
High School Graduate
CSU Graduate
UC Graduate
9th
No world language
required (though highly
recommended)
Spanish for Spanish
Speakers I
Spanish for Spanish
Speakers I
10th
11th
Spanish for Spanish
Speakers I
Spanish for Spanish
Speakers II
Spanish for Spanish
Speakers II
Spanish for Spanish
Speakers II
AP Spanish Language
(highly recommended)
AP Spanish Language
12th
AP Spanish Literature
(optional)
AP Spanish Literature
(highly recommended)
 Enrollment in World Language should not be dependent upon a student’s ELA grade and/or teacher recommendation.
o in many instances the World Language is a student’s primary language, research shows that increasing the fluency in
a student’s L1 increases their fluency in their L2 (i.e. ELA)
th
 All 9 grade students are able to take a World Language unless:
o they are enrolled in one or more intervention courses (i.e. Algebra companion) and their schedule does not permit.
o they are RSP or SDC students whose IEP goals indicate that this course would be inappropriate for them.