Students will have the option to write an AP English exam to earn credit for first year university English.

*Mastery of English 11 outcomes. As this is a course intensive in reading/writing, students should demonstrate a love for the English language and a willingness to commit to quality work.

*This course runs over 2 blocks

Credits: 8 Blocks: 2

Writing Focus:

• Learning ways to demonstrate manipulation of language and to incorporate literary devices in writing
• Personal and narrative essays; synthesis essays
• Persuasive argument essay based on research, including works cited page in MLA format
• Analytical writing done in response to literature
• Creative writing pieces

Reading Focus:

• Short stories, poetry, essays, Hamlet
• Selections from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Camus’ The Outsider, Wagener’s Indian Horse,  Boyden’s Three Day Road,  Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, and possible others
• Text annotation and close reading skills
• Exam prep

Oral Focus:

• Class discussions to develop comprehension and analytical skills
• 30-minute oral seminar presentation on multi-media literacy with focus on powers of persuasion