9th Grade
Everything a 9th grader needs for a full year, English, algebra, biology, world geography, health, personal finance, Spanish and PE, with a teacher built into every lesson and a transcript that keeps itself.
Start 30 days freeFive days from the opening week of 9th grade, taken from the lessons themselves rather than written to sound good.
The week opens with a 400 to 500 word excerpt and one question: which sentence tells us who the narrator is talking about? Your child finds and quotes it before the unit ever uses the words 'point of view' out loud.
Algebra I opens with no new math at all, just five minutes on how the course will work all year: daily retrieval questions, immediate feedback, and a branch back to reteaching anything that's missing, so the pattern is set before the first equation shows up.
Biology opens by explaining why carbon runs the whole subject: four bondable spots on every carbon atom, shown next to nitrogen's three and oxygen's two on one simple diagram, the reason carbon-based chemistry gets to be biology's foundation.
World Geography opens by naming the target before teaching toward it, two questions the whole unit is built to answer, can a map ever be neutral, and where does physical geography stop and human decisions start, so your child knows from day one what the final assessment will actually ask.
Personal finance opens with a real, redacted pay stub: the gross pay line next to the take-home pay line, side by side, so the gap between what you earn and what you keep is something your child sees before anyone explains why it exists.
This is a full year of 9th grade English: short stories, a novel, a Shakespeare play, nonfiction and persuasive writing, a research paper, and a final project pulling it all together. Your child learns to read closely and ask "who's telling me this and should I believe them," to argue with real evidence instead of just volume, and to write narrative and persuasive pieces of their own. By June they should be able to pick apart a messy argument, defend a claim with sources that actually hold up, and talk about a book like they've thought about it, not just read it.
This is 9th grade Algebra I, done at home with an adaptive app doing most of the explaining and problem-serving, and you doing the parts that need a real person: talking through why something works, checking whether your kid actually understands or is just pattern-matching, and grading the written justifications. Over the year your child moves from straight-line relationships through systems of equations, inequalities, exponential growth, quadratics (parabolas), a return to solving those quadratics, piecewise/tiered-rate functions, and finally real messy data. By June they should be able to look at a table, a graph, an equation, or a written scenario and move fluently between all four — and explain, in writing, why the method they picked was the right one, not just get the right answer.
This is a full year of high-school biology, built to be taught one-on-one at home with an app doing daily practice questions. It starts at the molecular level — water, sugars, proteins, enzymes — and works up through cells, energy, genetics, evolution, ecology, and finally the human body, ending with a capstone project where your child picks a real biological case and defends an argument about it out loud. Every unit leans on the vocabulary and models from the units before it, so this is not a course where you can teach chapters in any order and expect it to hold together.
This is a year-long geography course built around one question: why does human life look so different from place to place, and what actually causes that — not what's the capital of where. Your child learns a small toolkit of ideas (climate, resources, colonialism, borders, trade) in the first third of the year, then spends the rest of the year using that same toolkit on six real regions of the world: the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia. By the end they should be able to hear a news story about a conflict or an economic crisis somewhere and explain the physical, economic, and political reasons behind it — not just recite facts about the place.
This is a year of health class built for one kid and one parent, not a classroom. It's about how to actually run your own body and make your own calls: what to eat and why, how to train and sleep, what stress is doing to you and when to get help, how alcohol and nicotine actually work on a teenage body, what to do in the first sixty seconds of an emergency, and how to tell a real health claim from a marketing pitch. It skips sex ed entirely — where topics brush up against puberty or body systems, it stays strictly on the factual, non-sexual side. By the end, your kid should be someone who reads a label, judges a claim, and doesn't freeze in a crisis.
This is a course about money decisions, not money facts. Your child will build one imaginary (or real, your call) household budget in week one and then keep adding to that same household all semester — a paycheck, then a budget, then savings that grow over time, then a credit card and some insurance, and finally a full plan where all of it has to work together. By the end they should be able to look at a job offer, a savings goal, a credit card statement, or an insurance decision and actually reason through it instead of guessing. The app grades the calculations automatically. Your job is mostly reading what they write and asking "but why" — that's where the real learning shows up or doesn't.
Most American language classes produce students who can conjugate and can't speak, for one structural reason: one teacher, thirty kids, so nobody gets conversation time. Clareza doesn't have that problem. Clara talks with your child one-to-one, every day, and never sighs. She starts at about 10% Spanish and works up as they cope. She never teaches grammar — when they say it wrong, she simply says it back correctly and keeps talking, which is how you learned your first language. Each week is something they'll be able to do, not a rule they'll be able to recite, and progress is measured by an independent check that only counts what they actually did in conversation.
Physical education without the pretending. Nothing here is taught through a screen and there are no quizzes — each week gives your child a plan of what to actually go do, five sessions of about 30 minutes. The year starts with walking and simple bodyweight moves, moves indoors for strength and conditioning through the winter, spends the spring on sport skills and speed, and finishes with lifetime activities and a training plan your child writes themselves. Four fitness check-ins (weeks 1, 9, 18, 27 and 36) turn 'they did PE' into numbers you can put on a transcript.
Every course above is published in full, every unit, every module, every objective, and you can try a real lesson without an account.
Most states expect English, math, a lab science, social studies, PE and health, plus at least one elective. Our 9th grade covers all of those, and colleges will also want two years of the same world language, Spanish I starts here and Spanish II follows in 10th.
It is the most common 9th grade math, but grade level is a starting label, not a rule. The course is mastery-paced, so a student who needs to shore up pre-algebra slows down automatically, and one who is ready moves on the same day they prove it.