9^th grade Physical Education is a full year course from September to June with multiple 5 week units.  The units of emphasis include dance and aesthetic activities, fitness activities, personal performance, team passing sports/activities, and net/wall sports/ activities.  Throughout the course of the year, students will participate in a variety of activities that promote teamwork, cooperation, enhance personal performance, fitness and wellness concepts.  Students will be assessed on their physical activity, personal and social responsibility, content knowledge, strategy, movement and skill application.  Students will become aware of their own comprehensive fitness needs and able to develop an appropriate plan that addresses all fitness components. Emphasis is placed on students developing personal and social responsibility for the positive and safe experience of others.  The importance of fitness concepts and the acquisition of motor skills for a healthy life-style will be emphasized in each unit.  9^th grade Physical Education grades are numerical and included in students’ grade point average.

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