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Do you want to further your work in the Culinary and Hospitality fields, both in cooking and baking techniques and in management skills? If so, Culinary and Hospitality Management (CP or H) is the class for you. Students will learn fundamental cooking and baking methods, as well as effective ways to manage restaurants, catering businesses, stadiums and arenas.  “The course is designed to giv...

The Culinary and Hospitality Pathway offers basic and complex courses in culinary studies along with a hospitality and an urban gardening component. There are four courses on this pathway: Nutrition and Culinary Arts One and Two, Horticulture and Urban Gardening and Culinary and Hospitality Management. This pathway combines hands-on practice with classes on nutrition and the production of foods, and al...

Learning Through Play (H and CP) is a new course for juniors and seniors which focuses on the psychology behind the way children play.  “This course, Learning through Play, is an extremely hands on and many of the assessments are projects versus tests,.” Applied Arts and Technology teacher Susan Muise said. Students will complete projects like observation journals and making a new toy prot...

Spoken Word and Oral Tradition (CP or H) is a new English elective offered to sophomores through seniors that will teach students the skills and abilities they need to create and perform their own spoken word pieces.  “My hope is that it will draw people who are interested in the dynamism of the spoken word genre as well as folks who are seeking a new challenge with an unfamiliar mode of writi...

 Students interested in an education-based career can take the new Early Childhood Pathway to Certification. Students who follow this pathway will work with the students in the Tiny Tomahawks Preschool learning about curriculum, psychology, teaching and much more.  “Students should expect a well-rounded experience, learning about early human development, ways in which to help children explore...

Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends (CP or H) is a new English elective being offered to juniors and seniors. The class will include reading fairy tales and horror stories as well as many creative writing activities such as students writing their own fairy tales. “The course will appeal to students who grew up reading fairy tales and the Harry Potter books and who are now interested in series like G...

This coming school year, juniors and seniors will have the opportunity to delve into the world of knowledge, reality and the values of existence by taking the Philosophy (H) elective offered by the World Languages department.  While the class has been offered for the last 10 years, World Languages teacher Angela Moll believes it has not run recently because of a lack of information about the cla...

Students of all grades will be able to take Mixed Media (CP or H), a new take on Algonquin’s past sculpture class.  “We revamped all our course offerings to breathe some new life into what students can take,” Fine and Performing Arts teacher Rebecca Duffy said.  According to Duffy, the class will play off of the previous three-dimensional sculpture class while also including two-dimensiona...