This course is an introduction into the world of literature at a secondary level. Poetry, short stories, drama, novels, and nonfiction will be thoroughly explored during the year. Students will be introduced to authors from Shakespeare to Hemingway. In addition to these topics, writing will play an important part in this course's curriculum. The writing process and different styles and genres of composition will be taught. Students will be encouraged to write frequently in and out of class. This class will begin to prepare students for the rigorous academic challenges in English that await them after high school graduation. Finally, this course will help prepare students to take and successfully pass the reading and writing portion of state assessments.

At this level, literature is focused on writings from all over the world. The Western and Non-Western traditions of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction will be fully explored. Students will spend time analyzing the cultural and theoretical meanings behind some of the classical works of literature. Again, a strong emphasis will be placed on writing, and written proficiency will be a high priority for all students. In preparation for post-secondary education, students will be encouraged to write often in and out of school on various topics. This class will help prepare students to take state assessments

The Cambridge International AS Level English General Paper encourages learners to engage with a variety of topics, including knowledge and understanding gained from study of other subjects. They learn to become confident in analyzing knowledge and opinion from a variety of sources, to build arguments and to communicate through written English. Grade 9 takes this course with Eng Hon 1 to complete the AICE diploma. Grade 11 takes this course to complete year 3 of Florida English graduation requirements.

During a student's final year in high school, the English class focuses on the literature from Great Britain. From this heritage, students will study the beginnings of the English language and Shakespeare to the modem poet laureate of England. Composition skills, grammar, novels, poetry, short stories, and drama will all be covered. The instructor will help provide a smooth transition from high school English into college composition.

The AICE English Language course gives learners the opportunity to study English language and its use in contemporary communication. It aims to encourage a critical response to texts in a range of forms, styles and contexts, and to promote skills of communication, reading, research and analysis. Students who took AICE Eng Gen Paper in grade 9 will take this course in grade 10 to fulfill Florida graduation requirements.

This course is a unique, transformational program that helps students at every stage of school education develop outstanding transferable skills, including critical thinking, research and collaboration. This innovative and stimulating skills-based program places academic study in a practical, real-world context. This curriculum develops the skills of research, analysis, evaluation, reflection, collaboration and communication. It strengthens the links across all the other subjects in the primary program, including English, mathematics and science.

This course will provide learners with the opportunity to gain further knowledge and understanding of international poetry, prose and drama, by studying all genres. Learners will be encouraged to practice their skills in close reading through the study of literary extracts and unseen texts; developing skills of analysis and interpretation of texts, alongside their expression of personal response to the texts studied. Learners will explore the conventions of genres of texts and the contexts in which works have been written, read and received. Students who took AICE Eng Lang in grade 10 will take this course in grade 11 to fulfill Florida graduation requirements.

Thinking Skills develops a set of transferable skills, including critical thinking, reasoning and problem solving, that students can apply across a wide range of subjects and complex real-world issues. Students are enabled to develop their ability to analyze unfamiliar problems, devise problem-solving strategies and evaluate diverse ways a problem may be solved. Students place personal view aside and examine and evaluate the evidence. Students learn to make informed and reasoned decisions and construct evidence-based arguments.

This Dual-Enrollment course offered on campus in conjunction with HCC focuses on the writing process of various rhetorical strategies with consideration of the writer's situation, including purpose, limitations of time, and audience. Students must write unified, coherent, and developed essays that include strong theses as well as introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs. Students must demonstrate effective sentence structure and observe conventions of standard English grammar and usage. Course will be offered during the school day and after school depending on student enrollment and interest.

This Dual-Enrollment course offered on campus in conjunction with HCC is a continuation of ENC1101. Instruction is persuasive and literary based critical and evaluative skills in English composition. Documented research paper required. Course will be offered during the school day and after school depending on student enrollment and interest.

Are you that next great social media influencer? Foundations of Journalism is an overview of journalistic media, its history and applications within the scholastic press. This course offers experiences in photography, graphic design, advertising, typography and media law and writing for a variety of purposes including news, features, entertainment, blogs, and social media pages.

The BHS Yearbook is created by students, from cover to cover. Staff members will learn photography, design, interviewing, copy writing, social media, deadline, advertising and marketing while creating the yearbook.