This one-year course will provide the fundamentals of communication skills – reading, writing, speaking, and listening-- using the Nevada Academic Content Standards (NVACS) to guide and focus instruction.

This one-year course, designed for the highly motivated student, has strong compositional and critical thinking demands. Focuses on reading for greater comprehension and pleasure, writing clearly and concisely for different purposes.

This one-year course will continue to develop the fundamentals of communication skills using the Nevada Academic Content Standards. Through close reading of a variety of grade-appropriate works, students will develop reading comprehension skills and strategies.

This one-year course, designed for the highly motivated student, focuses on skills and strategies in reading, writing, speaking, listening, research, vocabulary, grammar, and usage. Students will read at least five literary forms.

This NVACS aligned course strengthens and expands students' skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening for college and career readiness. Through reading contemporary works, seminal U.S. documents, American literature classics, and literary nonfiction.

This course reflects the culmination of skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening necessary for college and career readiness. Reading is primarily focused on British and world authors.

An intensive course designed to parallel introductory literature and composition courses on the university level. Surveys British literature from the Old English period to the 20th century. Prepares students for the AP examination.

College-level course centering on the study of the craft of writing. Students analyze rhetoric and style of various texts, including novels, memoirs, essays, and historical/political texts. Emphasizes argumentative, expository, and analytical writing.

Culmination of skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students learn to understand and appreciate films as literature, stressing visual and verbal literacy.

Explores rhetorical processes, emphasizing audience, purpose and occasion of writing. Students learn to adapt writing in different genres for different audiences.

Continuation of English 101 with exploration of essay forms, interpretation, analysis, and critical thinking.

Explores writing across fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction. Focuses on workshops and peer critiques.