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KHS adds new courses, aligns social studies with literature
By Diane Vance/Gate City Staff Writer

Published: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:44 PM CST
Keokuk High School will offer some new courses next year, is dropping a few others, and aligning literature and social studies classes to correspond better with the subject matter taught.
KHS Principal Dave Keane outlined some of the changes to the school board at the last meeting on Feb. 11.
“Next year, social studies and literature will be blocked as co-requisites,” he said.

Freshmen will take civics and Literature Composition I which covers concepts such as tolerance and age appropriate stories such as Romeo and Juliet; sophomores will study American history and Literature/Composition II; students will have world literature the same year as world geography.
“We ask students to do research projects in both literature class and social studies,” Keane said. “Sometimes, students do two mediocre projects. Now, we'll require one research project spanning the two classes and graded by both teachers. We will demand a higher level of performance.”
KHS will drop special ed classes, MDT, MDE, BD, LD and the Multi-Categorical Resource Program.