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23010: English 1 Composition
Grade Level: 9
½ Credit
This course will emphasize the study of various forms of writing, specifically letter writing, poetic forms, open response items, personal expressive
writing (which will include reading the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, and various selected essays). Extensive units on grammar, mechanics,
and usage will be featured in preparation for PLAN testing.
23011: English 1 Literature
Grade Level: 9
½ Credit
This course will emphasize the study of high-quality literature to serve as models for the teaching of reading skills and writing the 3.5 essay.
Featured units will be taught on the short story, the novel, real world reading, and drama (which will include Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet).
Various aspects of vocabulary and open response items will be covered in this course, as well as mini-units concerning grammar, mechanics, and
usage in preparation for PLAN testing.
230165: English 1HONORS A
Grade Level: 9
½ Credit
Similar to the curriculum for English I Literature, this advanced course will emphasize the study of high-quality literature to serve as models for the
teaching of reading and writing skills (including the form of the 3.5 essay and open response items). English I Honors will differ, however, in the
required reading and study of various independent novels (such as The Catcher in the Rye, Anthem, and And Then There Were None). Units will be
taught on the short story, real world reading, and drama (which will include Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet). Various aspects of vocabulary will be
covered in this course, as well as units concerning grammar, mechanics, and usage in preparation for PLAN testing.-----Prerequisite: The student
must successfully complete the required summer assignment. (NO CHANGE)
230175: English 1HONORS B
Grade Level: 9
½ Credit
This advanced course will continue to emphasize the study of high-quality literature to serve as models for the teaching of reading and writing skills
begun in English I Honors A. This subsequent course will additionally feature the study of various forms of writing, specifically letter writing, poetic
forms, and personal expressive writing (which will include reading the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel). Extensive units on grammar, mechanics,
and usage will be featured in preparation for PLAN testing. -----Prerequisite: The student must successfully complete the required summer
assignment. (NO CHANGE)
23020: English 2 Composition
Grade Level: 10
½ Credit
This course will emphasize the study of high-quality literature to serve as models for the teaching of reading skills. Units will be taught on various
forms of fiction and non-fiction, featuring informational reading, real world reading, and the novel. Additional units of intentional review
concerning the short story, poetry, and the 3.5 essay will also be included, as well as mini-units on writing conventions emphasized in ACT testing
and open response items.
23021: English 2 Literature
Grade Level: 10
½ Credit
This course will emphasize the study of various persuasive and poetic forms of writing, which will include the reading of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
and use of open response items. Intensive review units of grammar, mechanics, and usage will be featured in preparation for ACT testing.
230265: English 2HONORS A
Grade Level: 10
½ Credit
This course continues to build upon the skills obtained during the English I courses, offering a more thorough appreciation for various genres of
literature ranging from poetry to drama. This course offers an emphasis on ways of reading and understanding literary texts. This course is
designed to help ambitious students understand and enhance their writing, reading, and thinking abilities through the production and rhetorical
examination of personal and academic texts. Honors II students, in addition to the general English II curriculum, will examine numerous additional
texts of literary merit. These texts may include The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Separate Peace and In Cold Blood. Throughout the
length of this class, emphases on vocabulary development, proper application of grammar and usage, and organization and preparedness are
presented. Also, this course offers students the opportunity to examine and produce compositions of various forms, including the editorial,
memoir, and analytical essay. ------Prerequisite: The student must successfully complete the required summer assignment.
230275: English 2HONORS B
Grade Level: 10
½ Credit
English II Honors B occurs in succession with English II Honors A. This course continues to build upon the skills obtained during the English I courses,
offering a more thorough appreciation for various genres of literature ranging from poetry to drama. This course offers an emphasis on ways of
reading and understanding literary texts. This course is designed to help ambitious students understand and enhance their writing, reading, and
thinking abilities through the production and rhetorical examination of personal and academic texts. Honors II students, in addition to the general
English II curriculum, will examine numerous additional texts of literary merit. These texts may include Lord of the Flies, The Heretic’s Daughter,
Metamorphosis, and The Things They Carried. Throughout the length of this class, emphases on vocabulary development, proper application of
grammar and usage, and organization and preparedness are presented. Also, this course offers students the opportunity to examine and produce
compositions of various forms, including the editorial, memoir, and analytical essay.------Prerequisite: The student must successfully complete the
required summer assignment.
23030: English 3 American Lit: Voice of History
Grade Level: 11
½ Credit
English III: The Voice of History approaches writing as a means of thinking and learning across the curriculum and in true-to-life situations.
Excerpts of high-quality literature will serve as models to teaching reading, writing, usage, and mechanics. This course continues to stress the
elements of good writing and focuses on more advanced composition. Primary instruction will include a concentration on rhetoric, drama, and
content-specific writing assignments. On Demand Writing and ACT Preparatory activities will also be emphasized.
23031: English 3 American Lit: Cultural Impact
Grade Level: 11
½ Credit
English III: The Voice of History approaches writing as a means of thinking and learning across the curriculum and in true-to-life situations.
Excerpts of high-quality literature will serve as models to teaching reading, writing, usage, and mechanics. Primary instruction will include a
concentration on the analysis of the effects of rhetoric in text and application of rhetorical strategies in student writing, the novel, and the
analytical essay. On-Demand Writing and ACT preparatory activities will also be emphasized.
23040: English 4A
Grade Level: 12
½ Credit
This course offers a survey of British literature from “Beowulf” through the literary works presented during the Restoration Period, including those
of Jonathan Swift. A comparative study of dramatic, lyric, and narrative literatures of the world will be examined throughout the duration of this
class. This course is designed to provide students with an intensive opportunity to develop college preparatory writing skills of critical importance
— specifically, a heightened ability to read, write, and reason analytically as well as to incorporate and document basic research into one's own
writing. Additionally, this course emphasizes vocabulary development, proper application of grammar and usage, and organization and
preparedness.
23041: English 4B
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Grade Level: 12
½ Credit
This course continues a comparative study of dramatic, lyric, and narrative literatures of the world from the Victorian Era to Modernism, ranging
between the works of Tennyson and T.S. Eliot. This course is designed to provide students with an intensive opportunity to enhance collegiate-level
writing skills of critical importance — specifically, a basic ability to read, write, and reason analytically as well as to incorporate and document basic
research into one's own writing. Additionally, this course emphasizes vocabulary development, proper application of grammar and usage, and
organization and preparedness.
23046, 23047 Transition English 4 A and B
Grade Level: 12
1 Credit
Students with an ACT English subscore less than 18 or an ACT Reading subscore less than 20 will be REQUIRED to take this course. This course is for
students who need additional time and support or for students who may not have attained the benchmark ACT score in English/Language Arts.
This course is an extension of the English 4A/B course and will cover the same material as English 4A/B with specific instruction from the College
and Career Readiness English Language Arts course.
230369: AP English Language
Grade Level: 11
½ Credit
The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods,
disciplines and rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should
make students aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions
and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. -----Taken from The College Board AP English Language and Composition
Course Description-----ENG III AP students will explore many topics in this trimester including rhetoric, modes of persuasion, the development of
thesis statements, shift or contrast, purpose, theme, and organization of writing. Additionally, this course will cover ACT review materials and OnDemand Writing Preparation. Students should expect to spend at least five hours a week outside of class in supplemental work. Reading selections
may include: The Lords of Discipline , How to Read Literature Like a Professor, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, A Lesson Before Dying, Midnight in
the Garden of Good and Evil.
230469: AP English Literature
Grade Level: 12
½ Credit
English IV AP students will read, discuss, and write about some of the world’s greatest literature at a level commensurate with university study.
From Camus’ The Stranger to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment to Shaw’s Pygmalion, the reading is consistently challenging. Writing
assignments are numerous, and a high standard of accuracy and excellence is expected. Logical thinking skills, kinds of reasoning, and the
techniques of argumentation and persuasion will be explored. Appropriate literary and cultural criticism will be read throughout the class and will
serve as the basis for class discussion. Some other required readings for this class will include but not be limited to: Metamorphosis, Tess of the
d’Urbervilles, The Kite Runner, The Jungle, The Things They Carried, In Cold Blood, The Awakening, Pride and Prejudice, and A Thousand Splendid
Suns. Poetry analysis and the study of works of great literary merit will play a major role in preparing students for the Advanced Placement English
Literature Test.
70006, 70007 ENG 100 A and B
DUAL CREDIT w/MSU
Grade Level: 11 and 12
1 Credit
Prerequisite: An ACT subscore of 18 in English for Senior participants. An ACT subscore of 20 or a PLAN subscore of
18 for Junior participants. This course is designed to help students understand and develop their writing, reading, and
thinking abilities through the production and rhetorical examination of personal and academic texts. This course
satisfies the required core-writing I for general education.
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2309: Sci Fi: The Black Hole
Grade Level: 9-12
½ Credit
Star Trek physics? The Three Laws of Robotics? Artificial Intelligences? Parallel Universes? The Abyss of Deep Space? This science fiction course
will figuratively “Go where no man has gone before.” Through short stories, novels, and film, this class will connect scientific thought with the
literature of science fiction that it inspired.
2305: Literature That Goes Bump in the Night
Grade Level: 9-12
½ Credit
Strange occurrences, unexplained events, crazed characters, and things that go bump in the night can all be found in this course. We will survey
some writers’ minds where the unthinkable becomes their realities. Whether it is the delusions of Edgar Allen Poe’s main character in “The Black
Cat” or the supernatural powers of Carrie in Stephen King’s Carrie, or anything between, the absurd will be waiting for you at every turn in this
course. Authors such as Poe, King, Anne Rice, and Thomas Harris will be read and examined in this course. This course is not for the squeamish.
Enroll at your own risk.
2307: Lights, Camera, Fiction: From Books to Hollywood
Grade Level:11-12
½ Credit
This course provides a study of the medium of film and its literary counterparts with a focus on the historical impact and the various literary genres
of movies. Emphasis is placed on an appreciation of film as a form of literature, which demonstrates various elements of fiction (character, setting,
theme, etc.). Upon completion, students should be able to analyze film critically in various literary contexts. This course is designed to improve
students’ knowledge and abilities in describing, analyzing, and interpreting through the use of film and literature.-----Assignments and activities will
include: Film screenings; readings; regular submissions of written questions for class discussions, critical analysis writing and active participation in
discussion of films and written texts.