Subject: English Language Arts
Using a motif of Innovation, Imagination, and Invention, students in the Middle School Language Arts III course will acquire the reading, writing, language, and speaking/listening skills necessary for success in college, career, and beyond. Students will become critical readers and thinkers as they delve into fiction and informational texts within...
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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...
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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...
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The purpose of Horizons Advanced English I is to train students to notice the critical features of a text so they may “unlock” the nuances of the author’s craft in order to better understand the message, intent, and impact of a text. These nuances will often include analysis of how...
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Horizons Advanced English II builds on the foundation of the Horizons Advanced English I course by utilizing the recurrent OSDE ELA standards of instruction to achieve the continuing goal of developing the critical thinking skills that students will need for success in high school, college, and life. While Advanced English...
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Students should enter this course with a foundation in fiction, drama, poetry, mythology, and nonfiction. This course will provide them with the opportunity to build on that foundation. They will engage in in-depth analysis of more complex literature, view that literature from its historical perspective, and connect it to other...
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English II students will study literature that spans centuries, continents, and genres. Each of the four thematically-integrated units encourages close study of this literature and its context. Students will gain valuable cultural insight as they read and write about works depicting the social, personal, religious, and political struggles and triumphs...
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English III is a survey of American Literature and literary culture from its inception through the twentieth century. Students will explore the major literary forms, themes, authors, and periods of American Literature. They will understand how this literature represents the experiences of people native to America, those who immigrated to...
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By English IV, students have repeatedly peered through the window to humanity that literature has opened for them. Through it, they have gained valuable perspective on their world, past and present. Close-textual interaction with literature should have heightened appreciation for those texts, improved critical and analytical skills in reading and...
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In Language Arts 600, students will delve into texts that span the genres of narrative fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and informational texts to build reading, writing and thinking skills. Students will also develop their writing skills as they focus on the six traits while producing narrative, argumentative, and explanatory compositions,...
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