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ENGLISH 1000s |
*Advanced English Composition
This course is designed as an intensive study of various styles of writing to include expository, narrative, descriptive, and persuasive. Students will practice elements of style, study advanced grammar concepts, and develop appropriate vocabulary.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills composition requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Non-Fiction Writing, Research Writing, Expository Writing, or Teacher Consent
*‡Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition
This is a study of literature which leads to possible university-level English credit by taking the College Board exam at the end of the year. Students will read a wide range of literature: poetry, prose and drama by both American and World authors in translation. Emphasis will focus on students' abilities to think creatively and analytically as they discuss literature and write numerous analytical/expository essays both in class and outside of class time. Recommended grade level is seniors (with approval - some juniors). Credit of .33 given at the end of each trimester. Exam fee is approximately $88. FEES: Must purchase own books
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 1.0
FEES: See Description LENGTH: Year
PREREQUISITE: Application & Teacher Consent & American Literature
*‡Advanced Placement English Language & Composition
The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course is designed by College Board to help students develop critical thinking and writing skills based on the study of grammar, syntax, linguistics and specific readings of non-fiction texts. Students will study language and grammar, read extensively, and write non-fiction and expository essays in order to clarify and enhance their critical thinking skills. A College Board sponsored exam administered in May, is an option for receiving university credit for this course. Exam fee is approximately $88. FEES: Students will be expected to buy a reading text and grammar text.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills composition requirement) CREDIT: 1.0
FEES: See Description LENGTH: Year
PREREQUISITE: By Application with Communications/American Literature & Teacher Recommendation
npAdvanced Word Power: Vocabulary
This course is designed to help juniors and seniors prepare for college entrance exams and to develop a vocabulary appropriate for the university level. The content of this class will focus on developing and expanding students’ existing vocabulary with a specific focus on ACT and SAT vocabulary.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $17 pending Board approval LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE:
*American Literature-Honors
The purpose of Honors Studies in English is to offer motivated, capable, and interested students an opportunity to enrich their academic experience. This honors course is a more rigorous in-depth approach to the tradition of American Literature with the opportunity for personal exploration of theme, author, style and genre. Students will study fiction and non-fiction including essays, short stories, novels, poetry and drama while developing skills in literacy analysis through discussion and writing.
GRADE LEVEL: 10 CREDIT: 1.0
FEES: Students will purchase some texts LENGTH: Year
PREREQUISITE: Application & teacher consent
*American Literature Survey
This is a traditional, one year American Literature class that will help prepare students for college. It will approach all the genres of American literature in a chronological manner. Credit of .33 given at the end of each trimester.
GRADE LEVEL: 10 (required) CREDIT: 1.0
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Year
PREREQUISITE: Communications
*Autobiography
Students will explore their own backgrounds and personal stories. Students will read an autobiography for discussion and study of autobiographical writing techniques. Students will write short chapters on their life experiences and integrate them into an autobiography-in-progress.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications
*Basic Composition
This writing course is designed to help students review and practice grammar, syntax, mechanics, and language/word choice.
GRADE LEVEL: 9 CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
STUDENT PLACEMENT: Based on faculty evaluation of UHS entrance writing sample
*Communications
Students will identify and practice the criteria of effective oral and written communication. Students will develop reading, writing, and public speaking skills. Additional emphases will be on vocabulary development and critical thinking skills. Credit of .33 given at the end of each trimester.
GRADE LEVEL: 9 required CREDIT: 1.0
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Year
PREREQUISITE:
*Communication-Honors
The purpose of Honors Studies in English is to offer motivated, capable, and interested students an opportunity to enrich their academic experience. This course offers a more rigorous integrated study in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. To enhance further develop the students’ skills in the communication process, the following aspects of language arts will be emphasized: critical reading, literacy terminology and analysis, writing process, grammar and syntax, informative and persuasive speaking and group discussion.
GRADE LEVEL: 9 CREDIT: 1.0
FEES: Students will produce a writer’s handbook LENGTH: Year
PREREQUISITE: Application and teacher’s consent
*Creative Writing
Students will learn to utilize the tools and techniques of creative writing to produce short stories, poetry, and dramas. Students will engage in daily in-class writing as well as produce formal pieces. Students will also read and discuss a variety of published pieces.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12 CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE:
npDevelopmental Reading
This reading course is designed to help incoming freshmen who are on an ILP or who scored at the unsatisfactory level on CSAP in 7th grade move closer to reaching grade level. The focus will be on learning to read as opposed to reading to learn.
GRADE LEVEL: 9 CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE:
*Expository Writing
Students will study and practice writing that is meant to inform. Elements of expository writing include essays of comparison and contrast, cause and effect, as well as problem and solution
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills composition requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications
*Forensics I
This course is designed to support students in their first years of competitive speaking. It will focus on the elements of debate as well as the principles of public speaking as they apply to interpretation and performance. Students will earn grades as a result of interscholastic competition and the NFL point system. All students will be required to compete in 18 rounds of CHSAA sanctioned speech events and must complete a parent approval form before enrolling.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12 (fulfills speech requirement) CREDIT: 0.66
FEES: $0 Students are required to pay the UH Activity fee ($90) and some travel costs. LENGTH: 2 Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications and 9th with a teacher signature
*Forensics II/III
This course is designed to support students as they mature in competitive speaking. It will expand upon the elements of debate and refine the critical thinking skills of analysis and argument as well as continue to polish interpretation and performance skills. Students will be expected to teach Forensics I students about forensic competition. Students will earn grades based on interscholastic competition and the NFL point system. All students are required to compete in 18 rounds of CHSAA sanctioned speech events and must complete a parent approval form before enrolling. Students will be required to conform to UHS Activity Fee requirements.
GRADE LEVEL: 10-12 CREDIT: 0.66
FEES: $0 Students are required to pay the UH Activity fee ($90) and some travel costs. LENGTH: 2 Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Forensics
*Introduction to British Literature
Students will be introduced to some of the masterpieces of British literature. Students will read, discuss and write critically about literature from Britain, including short stories, novels, poetry, and drama. We will explore themes and ideas that are important to the development of British literature in order to gain an appreciation for our own literary history and backgrounds.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications & American Literature
*Non Fiction Reading
Students will read a variety of nonfiction pieces including biographies, autobiographies, historical literature, periodical and news articles. Students will be expected to read, discuss and write in response to the literature studied.
GRADE LEVEL: 10-12 CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $12 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications
*Non Fiction Writing
Students will study different methods of developing and organizing essays and reports. Students will also study standard English grammar and mechanics.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills composition requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications; 10th grade w/teacher consent
*Oral Interpretation
Students will explore, analyze and develop skills for performing various aspects of literary forms. This will include story telling, the oral communication of prose, essay presentation, poetry, drama, and humor, as well as reader’s theatre.
GRADE LEVEL: 10-12 (fulfills speech requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications and 9th grade with teacher permission
*Poetry & the Muse
Students will read and analyze a wide range of poetry. They will assess contemporary poetry and music for traditional poetry values. In addition, students will attempt to write poetry in a wide range of genres.
GRADE LEVEL: 10-12 (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications; 9th grade w/teacher permission
*Public Speaking
This course will further develop the critical thinking skills of research, analysis, organization and delivery for a variety of speaking purposes which will include but not be limited to informative, exploratory, instructional, and persuasive purposes. Audience analysis and personal preparation will round out the focus of this course.
GRADE LEVEL: 10-12 (fulfills speech requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications III
*Research Writing
Students will utilize library and electronic resources to research and write 3 in-depth papers. This is considered a college prep course; students will be expected to have a firm grasp of basic writing and researching skills upon entering the class. Students will be expected to buy a book: Research Smart.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills composition requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $11 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Non Fiction Writing or Teacher Consent
*Shakespeare – The Comedy Plays
In this course, students will explore Shakespeare’s use of comedic elements to reveal the flaws and foibles of humanity. We will look at the ways in which the Bard used cross gender and cross-dressing experiences to create comedic tensions and situations in which the battle of the sexes is played out.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (mature & confident 10 w/ teacher recommendation) (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $10 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications, 10th with teacher recommendation
npShakespeare – The Tragedies
In this course, students will read the plays aloud in class in order to understand and gain confidence in the use of the language of the Elizabethan era. We will read two of the tragedies in addition to Hamlet and reflect on the ways in which Shakespeare explores the human condition.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (mature & confident 10 w/ teacher recommendation) (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $10 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications, 10th with teacher recommendation
*Short Form Literature
Students will read a variety of short form literature including but not limited to popular short stories, and essays written in the last century. Students will discuss and write about the literature as well.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communication/American Literature/10th grade with teacher recommendation
*Women’s Voices in Literature
This course will focus on literature written by and/or about women. After reading and discussing the texts, students will be expected to write critically about them. Students will also have the opportunity to create works of their own that reflect issues found in the texts studied.
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications & American Literature
npWord Power: Vocabulary
This course is designed for students to develop and expand their knowledge and use of vocabulary. Students will read to identify language in context, study root words, prefixes and suffixes, and write to use vocabulary for appropriate uses. The fee is for a workbook.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-10 CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $10 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications
*World Literature
This course will introduce students to a wide range of literature from around the globe. Students will read, discuss and write critically about literature from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, including short stories, short novels, poetry and drama. In the course of our study we will explore themes and ideas that are important to people of various cultures in order to gain a greater understanding and appreciation for the differences and similarities of people from around the world. (fulfills literature requirement)
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12 (fulfills literature requirement) CREDIT: 0.33
FEES: $0 LENGTH: Trimester
PREREQUISITE: Communications/American Literature.