ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
English 6 analyzes informational texts, including biographies, primary documents, instructional documents, film reviews, and persuasive letters. Reading selections demonstrate concepts such as explicit and implicit information, central ideas and key details, and claims and arguments. Students also read and analyze literary texts from a number of genres, including a novel, excerpts from novels, short stories, poems, and plays. The course’s reading selections demonstrate ways to understand characters, plot, explicit and implicit information, theme, poetic techniques, and figurative language, among other ideas and concepts.
ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
English 7 explores informational texts, including biographies, personal accounts of events, presidential speeches, and persuasive letters. Readings include texts about historical figures used to demonstrate concepts such as explicit and implicit information, central ideas and key details, and claims and arguments. These texts demonstrate ways to understand explicit and implicit information, theme, characters, plot, poetic and dramatic techniques, and figurative language, among other ideas and concepts. While reading novels, short stories, poems, and plays in this course, students identify central ideas and themes; make inferences; analyze word choice; identify figurative, connotative, and sensory language; and compare and contrast different text mediums. In addition, they learn about basics in grammar, usage, and punctuation, including correct spelling, misplaced and dangling modifiers, and precise and concise language. Lastly, students learn the elements of narrative writing so that they can plan, create, write, revise, and edit their own personal narrative. Students also learn about different forms of poetry and their characteristics.
ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
In this course, students read and analyze literary and informational texts. These texts will come from a number of genres and sources, including short stories, novels, myths, poems, magazine articles, and autobiographies. As students read the selections in the course, they practice ways to use supporting evidence, identify central ideas, make inferences, analyze word choice, and identify figurative and connotative language in both literary and informational texts. In addition, students learn about basics in grammar, usage, and punctuation. Course content also includes context clues to determine word meaning as well as Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Students complete a narrative writing project, learning the elements of a fictional narrative and use that information to plan, write, revise, and edit their own fictional narrative. Students will explore both literary and informational texts to discover how each communicates its unique message to the audience. Students will deepen their understanding of writing by learning about authors’ tools like figurative language and implied meaning. They will also gain experience with the bigger picture by learning about the works’ central ideas and themes.
ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
CREDIT RECOVERY AVAILABLE
HONORS OPTION
NCAA APPROVED
English 9 is a course that utilizes texts of high complexity to provide an integrated language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language in order to ready students for college and career. Students must think critically while actively reading for explicit and implicit meaning as they examine both literary and informational texts. Students will write for a variety of purposes including developing and supporting argumentative claims, creating informative and expository responses, and crafting narratives that develop real or imagined events. The course places an emphasis on identifying and using textual evidence to support critical analysis whether it be for a written or spoken response. Finally, students will acquire effective listening, viewing, and speaking skills and be able to transfer those specific skills into a collaborative setting.
ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
CREDIT RECOVERY AVAILABLE
HONORS OPTION
NCAA APPROVED
In this course, you will use text evidence to make inferences, determine the author’s purpose, analyze an author’s argument based on ideas presented in the text, and support your thinking using text evidence. You will be able to summarize a text, determine denotations and connotations, analyze the impact of word choice, and compare how mediums affect the tone and mood of a text. You will engage in grammar tasks and craft original writing using proper grammar practices. English 10 is a course that utilizes texts of high complexity to provide an integrated language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language with the goal of college and career readiness. Critical thinking while actively reading for explicit and implicit meaning is a must in examining literary and informational texts. You will write for various purposes, including developing and supporting argumentative claims, creating informative and expository responses, and crafting narratives that develop real or imagined events. The course emphasizes identifying and using textual evidence to support critical analysis, whether for a written or spoken response. Finally, you will acquire effective listening, viewing, and speaking skills and be able to transfer those specific skills into a collaborative setting.
ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
CREDIT RECOVERY AVAILABLE
HONORS OPTION
NCAA APPROVED
In this course, students will think critically while actively reading for explicit and implicit meaning as they examine both literary and informational texts. Texts include a variety of short stories, news articles, foundational U.S. and world documents, as well as a guided reading of a Shakespearean play. Students will write for a variety of purposes including developing and supporting argumentative claims, creating informative and expository responses, and crafting narratives that develop real or imagined events. The course places an emphasis on identifying and using textual evidence to support critical analysis whether it be for a written or spoken response. Finally, students will acquire effective listening and speaking skills and be able to transfer those specific skills into a collaborative setting.
ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
CREDIT RECOVERY AVAILABLE
HONORS OPTION
NCAA APPROVED
In this course, students will embark on a journey to strengthen their language, communication, and critical thinking skills as they prepare for their future endeavors — be that college, career, or alternative paths. Through a variety of engaging modules, students will delve into various literary works, non-fiction texts, foundational U.S. and world documents, and a guided reading of a Shakespearean drama. This unique combination of texts aims to expand students’ perspectives and equip them with the skills needed to thrive in a diverse and complex world. Students will also write for a variety of purposes including professional writing, where students explore nuances in language, grammar, and effective communication techniques, argumentative writing where students use research and evidence to support their claim, narrative writing, where students craft a story based on real or imagined events, and informative writing, where students share their valuable perspectives. Finally, students will acquire effective listening and speaking skills and be able to transfer those specific skills into a collaborative setting.
ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
Business English course designed to strengthen your ability to read and write in the workplace. Students will be introduced to the business writing process, learn about writing emails and instant messages, as well as examine the role that digital media plays in business, and understand how to format and write specific types of business messages. Students will learn about different kinds of workplace documents you may need to read or write on the job, design and visual components of workplace documents, along with strategies for giving business presentations, and investigate the role that professional and interpersonal skills play in the workplace. Students will also learn strategies that will help them find and apply for jobs.
HALF-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
NCAA APPROVED
This course is designed to get students to pursue creative writing as a vocation or as a hobby. To that purpose, it exposes them to different genres and techniques of creative writing, as also the key elements (such as plot and characterization in fiction) in each genre. Great creative writing does not come merely by reading about the craft—one also needs ideas; a process for planning, drafting and revising; and the opportunity to experiment with different forms and genres. The course familiarizes students with the basic structure and elements of different types or genres of writing.
HALF-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
Mythology and Folklore covers discuss myths, legends, and folklore from around the world. This course covers subjects such as Mythology, Legend, Folklore, Gods and the Goddesses, natural events, and wonders of the world.
