English: Core 1 Full Year (Two Semesters) Prerequisites: None
how authors make reading rewarding, engaging, and thought provoking and how students can do the same in their own written work. Texts: Coursepack, The Great Gatsby, A Raisin in the Sun, The House on Mango Street Honors English: Core 2 Full Year (Two Semesters) Prerequisites: English: Core 1 or equivalent AND completion of honors prerequisites The goal of Core 2 is to build upon the life-long English skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and presenting introduced in Core I. Students explore what poems, stories, essays, speeches, plays, and novels have to say about the story of the United States and of ourselves. The class analyzes literature at a micro level, appreciating beautiful sentences and words, and at a macro level, understanding how arguments are constructed to address real-life problems and effect solutions. Overall, the focus is on examining how authors make reading rewarding, engaging, and thought provoking and how students can do the same in their own written work. As members of an honors class, students will be expected to engage consistently as close readers, spirited discussion leaders, meticulous and insightful writers, and creative thinkers. In addition, students will be expected to contribute positively and collaboratively to an intellectual community that values diverse perspectives, curiosity, and high academic standards. Texts: Coursepack, The Great Gatsby, A Raisin in the Sun, The House on Mango Street, Chevy in the Hole, and a variety of stories, poems, and speeches Electives As juniors and seniors, students select from a variety of one-semester electives in English. Enrollment in advanced electives requires students to successfully complete a series of prerequisites. Please see the department chair for more information.
Students focus on fundamental reading and writing skills to develop as sophisticated thinkers. With careful scaffolding from the teacher, students develop as close readers and annotators; broaden their understanding of literary devices and different genres; study Greek and Latin roots; practice the steps of the writing process; and internalize the essential components of analytical writing. Both the classic and contemporary reading selections explore the class’s essential questions concerning identity, community, good judgment, and living a life of purpose. Texts: Coursepack, The Catcher in the Rye, The Merchant of Venice
Honors English: Core 1 Full Year (Two Semesters) Prerequisites: Completion of honors prerequisites
Students focus on fundamental reading and writing skills to develop as sophisticated thinkers. With careful scaffolding from the teacher, students develop as close readers and annotators; broaden their understanding of literary devices and different genres; study Greek and Latin roots; practice the steps of the writing process; and internalize the essential components of analytical writing. Both the classic and contemporary reading selections explore the class’s essential questions concerning identity, community, conformity, good judgment, and living a life of purpose. As members of an honors class, students will be expected to engage consistently as close readers, spirited discussion leaders, meticulous and insightful writers, and creative thinkers. In addition, students will be expected to contribute positively and collaboratively to an intellectual community that values diverse perspectives, curiosity, and high academic standards. Texts: The Odyssey , Frankenstein , “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” selected poems, T he Catcher in the Rye , The Merchant of Venice English: Core 2 Full Year (Two Semesters) Prerequisites: English: Core 1 or equivalent The goal of Core 2 is to build upon the life-long English skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and presenting introduced in Core I. Students explore what poems, stories, essays, speeches, plays, and novels have to say about the story of the United States and of ourselves. The class analyzes literature at a micro- level, appreciating beautiful sentences and words, and at a macro-level, understanding how arguments are constructed to address real-life problems and effect solutions. Overall, the focus is on examining
Advanced English: Anna Karenina One Semester: (Offered First Semester)
Prerequisites: Completion of advanced elective prerequisites In this course, we will read Tolstoy’s masterpiece from start to finish, stopping to think and write about the fundamental questions it raises: What makes a life meaningful? How can we live authentically? What do we owe to others? What do we owe to ourselves? Can we ever really know other people? Can we ever really know ourselves? As members of an advanced class, students will be expected to engage consistently as close readers, spirited discussion leaders, meticulous and insightful writers, and creative thinkers. In addition,
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