Courses
AP English Language and Composition focuses on the central question, “Why was a text important when it was written?” As we analyze a text from this perspective, considering how the author would have considered their purpose, audience, and situation, we also develop the transfer skills to make those determinations about...
Read More
The AP English Literature and Composition course is designed and taught through a mixture of themes and genres to develop students’ skills of analyzing literature based on genre structures and characteristics and to develop students’ ability to connect related literature under an overarching theme while also engaging with the required...
Read More
The focus of the English 10 course is the writing process. Three writing applications guide the curriculum: persuasive, expository, and narrative writing. Each lesson culminates in a written assignment that lets students demonstrate their developing skill in one of these applications. English 10 follows the model of English 9 by...
Read More
In the English 11 course, students examine the belief systems, events, and literature that have shaped the United States. They begin by studying the language of independence and the system of government developed by Thomas Jefferson and other enlightened thinkers. Next, they explore how the Romantics and Transcendentalists emphasized the...
Read More