PINE BLUFF HIGH SCHOOL COURSE OFFERINGS AND DESCRIPTIONS
All course offerings are TENTATIVE and will be offered in the 2023-2024 master schedule based on DESE standards, district curriculum requirements, personnel availability, and student requests.
LANGUAGE ARTS
411000
ENGLISH 10 (10th Grade) (1 Credit)
English 10 is a communications course for students that develops critical thinking skills and includes the study of several literary genres through selections of world literature. The course will emphasize composition, vocabulary development, and history of the English language. This class concentrates on literary/writing skills.
41100P*
HONORS ENGLISH 10 (10th Grade) (1 Credit)
HONORS ENGLISH 10 is designed for self-motivated, college-bound students. It is a comprehensive study of the English language that promotes higher order thinking skills and offers intensive practice in various writing modes. Student will study techniques and styles of many reputable authors, including several literary genres through selections of world, American, and English Literature. This course also includes advanced vocabulary, research themes, a review of grammar, and a review of grammar.
517030 ●
AP LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION (11th Grade) (1 Credit)
Advanced Placement English Language and Composition emphasizes rhetoric and composition with attention to particular forms--argumentative, analytical, and expository. Classwork will involve lengthy reading assignments that encourage and require close attention to details. Critical reading will focus on narrative structure, audience, purpose, and context, manipulation of language, tone, diction, allusion, and will read widely to gain writing ideas and to obtain models for their writing. The primary focus in reading will be non-fiction texts representative of a variety of time periods and cultures. Students are expected to perform at a college-level and be self-motivated, engaged learners. ENGLISH 11 (11th Grade) (1 Credit) Regular English 11 is designed for all 11 th grade students. The course will focus on a variety of genres in American literature, including fiction and non-fiction texts. It is designed to develop students as high level readers prepared for college or the workplace, as writers able to write fluently in narrative, argumentative, and expository modes, and as analytical thinkers. It will include a cumulate review of English grammar and usage.
412000
517040 ●
AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION (12th grade) (1 Credit)
This course is designed for college-bound students. Emphasizing higher order thinking skills in the study of college level English, it is based on analytical approaches to the study of great works of literature. Due to the extensive reading assignments, students electing to take this course should be self-motivated and have the ability to analyze
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