Welcome Grizzly Decathletes!
The home of Granite Bay High School's award-winning Academic Decathlon.
2010-2011 Team Roster
Honors: Carter Brown, Chelsey Lee, Moosa Zaidi
Scholastic: Ashley Hilton, Arvind Reddy, Kristi Shinfuku
Varsity: Nick Jones, Katie Rose Lyons, Cat Stabile-Whitney
Competitive events
- SUPER QUIZ: The Super Quiz will focus on the topic of geology and will include a case study on the Dust Bowl. Readings will include information on rock formation, the geological time scale, the hydrologic cycle and groundwater, the causes of the Dust Bowl, plate tectonics, and fossil fuel resources.
- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: The language and literature curriculum will include critical reading, one novel, two interviews, one essay, two short stories, and two poems. The featured novel will be The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
- ART: The art curriculum will cover art fundamentals and will focus on art in the era of the Great Depression.
- MUSIC: The music curriculum will cover basic elements of music theory and will focus on American music of the 1930s.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE: The social science curriculum will focus on the Great Depression and the New Deal.
- ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on the Great Depression.
- MATHEMATICS: The mathematics curriculum will cover topics in the fields of algebra, coordinate geometry, and trigonometry.
Classic Mr. Davis:
Hi Mr. Davis,
My name is Brian Wong and I'm a writer with the Gazette. I'm writing an
article Academic Decathlon.
Can I stop by during the passing period today after 3rd to interview you
for a quick five minutes?
5 minutes during a passing period? We worked for 100's of hours, won 8th
county championship in 9 years, went to state, won 9 medals, placed 4th
in our division.
You can do better than 5 minutes during passing period.
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