This introductory high school course builds on students’ prior knowledge and skills in order to strengthen their listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students will read within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts and demonstrate familiarity with works of American, British, and world literature. Students will engage in the writing of multi-paragraph compositions including literary, informational, argumentative and correspondence and demonstrate organizational structure, a controlling idea or thesis and writing for a variety of audiences.

This Honors course is designed to prepare students for the next advanced course in the subject area. In an Honors course, students gain regular practice in routines and principles to further strengthen their reading, analysis, writing, problem-solving and communications skills to equip them for advanced and/ or college-level work. Students will read within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts and demonstrate familiarity with works of American, British, and world literature. Students will engage in the writing of multi-paragraph compositions including literary, informational, argumentative and correspondence and demonstrate organizational structure, a controlling idea or thesis and writing for a variety of audiences.

This course is available to those new arrival students who have been identified as Emergent Bilinguals. The curriculum emphasizes the academic, social and affective development of English in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Only one credit of ESOL I and one credit of ESOL II may count as English credits for graduation.

English II further expands and refines the skills learned in English I. Students will read within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts and demonstrate familiarity with works of world literature across literary periods. Students will engage in the writing of multiparagraph compositions including literary, informational, argumentative and correspondence and demonstrate organizational structure, a controlling idea or thesis and writing for a variety of audiences.

This Honors course is designed to prepare students for the next advanced course in the subject area. In an Honors course, students gain regular practice in routines and principles to further strengthen their reading, analysis, writing, problem-solving and communications skills to equip them for advanced and/ or college-level work. Students will read within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts and demonstrate familiarity with works of world literature across literary periods. Students will engage in the writing of multi-paragraph compositions including literary, informational, argumentative and correspondence and demonstrate organizational structure, a controlling idea or thesis and writing for a variety of audiences.

English III further expands and refines the concepts and skills learned in both English II and English I. Students will read within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts and demonstrate familiarity with works of American literature across literary periods. Students will engage in the writing of multi-paragraph compositions including literary, informational, argumentative, correspondence, literary analysis and rhetorical analysis and demonstrate organizational structure, a controlling idea or thesis and writing for a variety of audiences.

This Honors course is designed to prepare students for the next advanced course in the subject area. In an Honors course, students gain regular practice in routines and principles to further strengthen their reading, analysis, writing, problemsolving and communications skills to equip them for advanced and/or collegelevel work. Students will read within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts and demonstrate familiarity with works of American literature across literary periods. Students will engage in the writing of multi-paragraph compositions including literary, informational, argumentative, correspondence, literary analysis and rhetorical analysis and demonstrate organizational structure, a controlling idea or thesis and writing for a variety of audiences.

This course prepares students for the AP Language and Composition exam. It trains students to become skilled readers and writers in diverse genres and modes of composition. This focus ultimately enables students to independently read and understand complex texts and write rich, effective prose in response to those texts. As the course progresses, students become aware of their own composition process through self-assessment and evaluations by both peers and the instructor. These skills will allow the student to read critically and write effectively in different modes in the college classroom and beyond. Students are required to take the AP English Language exam.

This course combines English III course content and skills with Lone Star CollegeMontgomery courses 1301 and 1302 Composition and Rhetoric I and II. There is intensive study and practice in writing processes, from invention and researching to drafting, revising and editing, both individually and collaboratively. An emphasis is placed on effective rhetorical choices, including audience, purpose, arrangement, and style. Focus on writing the academic essay as a vehicle for learning, communicating, and critical analysis is stressed. In 1302, the focus shifts to developing research-based expository and persuasive texts, including an emphasis on research methods, critical reading of verbal, visual, and multimedia texts, and critical thinking about evidence and conclusions. Students must earn a 70 overall semester average to earn 3 hours of college credit each semester.

AP Seminar is a foundation course that engages students in cross curricular conversation that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing divergent perspectives. Taking this course and AP Research enables students to earn an AP Seminar and Research Certificate. If students take 4 additional AP courses and earn 3 or higher on corresponding exams students can earn an AP Capstone Diploma.

In English IV the course further expands the concepts and skills learned in earlier English classes. Students will read within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts and demonstrate familiarity with works of British literature across literary periods. Students will engage in the writing of multi-paragraph compositions including literary, informational, argumentative, correspondence, literary analysis and rhetorical analysis and demonstrate organizational structure, a controlling idea or thesis and writing for a variety of audiences.

Students will learn to investigate academic texts, construct supported interpretations and arguments for an authentic audience, and acquire academic habits of thought. Reading instruction will focus on developing critical reading skills for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis. In writing, students will develop skills through composing with specific purpose, situation, genre, and audience in mind. Students will write a variety of effective formal and informal texts. To learn to integrate reading and writing, students will use an inquiry approach to analyze, synthesize, and make value judgments regarding text and writing. This course is designed to prepare students for college-level reading and writing intensive courses.