English I is the first step into college and career readiness. In this course, students will read a wide variety of texts over several units to develop their skills in writing, vocabulary, reading, and collaboration. Students will learn effective techniques in communication, such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking, while delving into fiction, nonfiction, poetry, mythology, and drama. English I will prepare students with the necessary skills to achieve success during their high school career, inside and outside of the classroom.

English I Honors is an advanced English class for the more motivated, capable English student. Students who opt for this more challenging course will undertake copious reading and writing throughout the year. Literature studied in this course includes mythology, the novel, drama, non-fiction, and poetry. The course also emphasizes grammar and vocabulary.

This course meets entrance requirements for the University of California and California State University systems and is aligned with Common Core Standards. The course offers a rigorous curriculum that includes a variety of complex, board-approved novels, thematically linked nonfiction, and poetry. Students will be challenged with sophisticated literature that will prepare them for college preparatory English and real world applications. Course work will include the development of evidence-based claims, textual analysis, composition, vocabulary, grammar, digital literacy, interpretation, reflection, and synthesis.

English II Honors is designed for sophomores as a more rigorous alternative to English II College Prep. Students will build upon skills learned in English I/English I Honors in composition and reading. The course consists of extensive reading of a range of texts, including novels, short stories, plays, and poetry from a variety of historical eras and cultural backgrounds, including high level, complex nonfiction selections.

This course meets entrance requirements for the University of California and California State University systems and is aligned with Common Core Standards. The course offers a rigorous curriculum that includes a variety of complex, board-approved fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students will explore universal themes that are present in American literature and apply their newfound insights to the real world.

By studying World Literature throughout the ages, the English program nurtures an understanding of the universal connection among people. Students analyze a variety of literature from different cultures to recognize similar and different thoughts, actions, and emotions. As students analyze various themes, genres and styles, they develop critical thinking skills.

This course offers a rigorous preparation for college level writing and emulates a first-year college composition class. Students will read and analyze a wide range of non-fiction texts—from newspaper editorials, to travel writing, to literary non-fiction, to biography, to sermons. Students will become familiar with rhetorical strategies and the development and analysis of written arguments.

Students in this college–level course read and carefully analyze both English and American literature written in a variety of time periods, from the 16th Century through the contemporary period. The course provides intellectual challenges and workload consistent with a typical sophomore undergraduate English Literature class.

This course is designed to serve as a bridge to mainstream English classes for students at the emerging level of English proficiency. Students read and write across a variety of genres, applying knowledge of language to derive meaning from text, and express themselves appropriately for different audiences and purposes.

This course is designed to serve as a bridge to mainstream English classes for those students who due to limited English proficiency continue to need targeted support in literacy. Students read and write across a variety of genres, applying knowledge of language to derive meaning from text.

Beginning English language learners (ELs) will acquire basic interpersonal communicative skills and academic English instruction. Students will develop the four language domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing by participating in thematically organized, practical, and interactive contexts.

Beginning or early intermediate English language learners (ELs) will continue to acquire basic interpersonal communicative skills and will begin to acquire cognitive-academic language proficiency in English. In the ELD 2 course, adopted curriculum is used to develop students' literacy and writing skills.