Secondary Curriculum

On August 2, 2010, the California State Board of Education (SBE) voted unanimously to adopt new standards for both mathematics and English-language arts. The new standards are rigorous, research-based, and designed to prepare every student for success in college and the workforce. The standards are internationally benchmarked to ensure that our students are able to compete with students around the globe. You can find information about the California Common Core Standards, including guides for Students, Parents, and Educators on the California Department of Education website.

Our secondary course catalogues are rich resources for learning about course offerings and guidelines, programs and pathways, graduation requirements, as well as college eligibility. Within the catalogues for each site you are also able to find key staff who are eager to answer your questions, support our students, and partner with our parent and guardians.

2025- 26 Junior High Course Catalog

2025-26 DSHS Course Catalog

2025-26 Da Vinci Charter Academy Course Catalog

Davis Joint Unified School District adopted Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections in the Spring of 2017 for our 7th, 8th and 9th grade courses.

High School:

Grade 10: Language of Literature: World Literature, McDougal Littell

Grade 11: Language of Literature: American Literature, McDougal Littell

Grades 10-11: Language Network, McDougal Littell

Grade 12: Steps to Writing Well, Wadsworth

Grade 10-12 ELD: The Edge, National Geographic/Hampton Brown

Davis Joint Unified School District adopted an integrated common core approach to mathematics. The adopted curriculum is College Preparatory Math (CPM) beginning in 7th grade. Harper Junior High has adopted Big Ideas for their math instruction.

High School:

Statistics: The Practice of Statistics for the AP® Course, Bedford, Freeman & Worth

Consumer Math: Practical Mathematics for Consumers, Globe Fearon

Math 300: Mathematical Ideas, Pearson

Davis Joint Unified School District is committed to the health and wellness of our students. Health instruction at the secondary level includes instruction in 7th grade and a full semester of instruction in 9th grade. Instruction covers healthy relationships, nutrition, stress management, refusal skills, understanding of systems within the body, communicable diseases, information about the impact of drugs and alcohol, as well as sexual reproductive health, consent and HIV prevention. The California Healthy Youth Act informs our instruction and uses FLASH Curriculum to support instruction.

Davis Joint Unified School District has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

High School:

Earth Science: Earth Science, Glencoe

Earth Science: Physical Science, Glencoe

Biology: Miller & Levine Biology for California, 2020, SAVVAS

Biology AP: Campbell Biology 12^th Edition, SAVVAS

Chemistry: Experience Chemistry, SAVVAS

Chemistry AP: Chemistry: The Central Science, Prentice Hall

Chem/Comm: Chemistry in the Community, ACS

Physics: Conceptual Physics, SAVVAS

Physics Honors: Physics, Wiley

Physics AP: Physics: Principles with Applications, SAVVAS

Physiology/Anatomy: Hole’s Physiology and Anatomy, Glencoe

ROP Biotech: DNA Science, Cold Spring Harbor

ROP Environmental Science: Environment: The Science Behind the Stories, SAVVAS

SCIENCE (CONT):

Zoology & Botany: Miller & Levine Biology for California, 2020, SAVVAS

Middle

Grade 7: History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond, Teachers Curriculum Institute (TCI)

Grade 8: History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI)

Grade 9: Human Geography- A Spatial Perspective, National Geographic/Cengage Learning

High School

World Civilization: Modern World History Patterns of Interaction, McDougal Littell

World History: Grade 10 World History, Culture & Geography: The Modern World

McGraw Hill

World History: Grade 12 Principles of Economics & Principles of American Democracy McGraw Hill

United States History: American Vision, Modern Times McGraw Hill

United States History: United States History: The Twentieth Century SAVVAS Learning Company

US History/Social Justice: The American Vision, Glencoe/McGraw; Race Relations in America, Greenwood Press; Different Mirror, Little Brown

United States History AP: Enduring Vision, Houghton Mifflin

US Government/Politics: Marauder’s American Government, Prentice Hall

US Government/Politics AP: American Government Institutions and Policies, Houghton Mifflin

Economics: Economics Principles & Practices, Glencoe-McGraw

Economics: EPACK: K12AE Principles Economics AP ed. + MT National Geographic/Cengage Learning

Macroeconomics AP: Principals and Policies, Southwestern Press INC

Human Geography: Introduction to Human Geography, Prentice Hall

Psychology: Understanding Psychology, McGraw Hill

Psychology: Thinking about Psychology, High School Version, Bedford, Freeman & Worth