This course offers opportunities for students toexplore different writing genres: narrative,descriptive, persuasive, and expository modesof discourse. The students will study differentwriters and their writing styles. The students willhave opportunities to improve writing proficiencythrough a complete study of the components ofsolid writing: fluency, style, diction, mechanics,grammar, imaginative expressions, and details.The course allows students to utilize the writingprocess to write independently to improve theirwriting.

The Journalism I, II, II, and IV courses are aproduction course focused on the Yearbook.Students will learn journalistic writing, the useand mastery of a DSLR camera, as well as theins and outs of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.In addition to these concepts, students will learnproject management, marketing, and large andsmall group communication. This course isclosed to 9th graders.

The Journalism I, II, III, and IV courses are aproduction course focused on the Yearbook.Students will learn journalistic writing, the useand mastery of a DSLR camera, as well as theins and outs of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.In addition to these concepts, students will learnproject management, marketing, and large andsmall group communication. This course isclosed to 9th graders.

This course focuses on the writing process(planning, drafting, and revising). The studentswill focus on different writing genres andorganizational structures: expository,persuasive, narrative, descriptive, comparison-contrast, exemplification, process analysis,classification, cause and effect, and definition.Advanced grammar skills will be a majorcomponent of this class. An emphasis onresearch is also required

The Journalism I, II, II, and IV courses are aproduction course focused on the Yearbook.Students will learn journalistic writing, the useand mastery of a DSLR camera, as well as theins and outs of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.In addition to these concepts, students will learnproject management, marketing, and large andsmall group communication. This course isclosed to 9th graders.

The Journalism I, II, III, and IV courses are aproduction course focused on the Yearbook.Students will learn journalistic writing, the useand mastery of a DSLR camera, as well as theins and outs of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.In addition to these concepts, students will learnproject management, marketing, and large andsmall group communication. This course isclosed to 9th graders.

This course focuses on the study of Americanliterature, writing modes and genres, andessential conventions for reading, writing, andspeaking. The student develops anunderstanding of chronological context and therelevance of period structures in Americanliterature. The students develop anunderstanding of the ways the period ofliterature affects its structure and how thechronology of a work affects its meaning. Thestudents read a variety of informational andliterary texts in all genres and modes ofdiscourse. Reading across the curriculumdevelops students' academic and personalinterests in different subjects. While expositorywriting is the focus in American literature, thestudents will also demonstrate competency in avariety of writing genres: narrative, persuasive,and technical. The student will engage inresearch, timed writing, and the writing process.Instruction in language conventions will occurwithin the context of reading, writing, andspeaking. The students demonstrate anunderstanding of listening, speaking, andviewing skills for a variety of purposes.Students in this course will take the AmericanLiterature End of Course Assessment that willcount for 20% of the semester grade.

This course focuses on the study of Britishliterature, writing modes and genres, andessential conventions for reading, writing, andspeaking. The students develop anunderstanding of chronological context and therelevance of period structures in Britishliterature. The students develop an understanding of the ways the period of literature affects its structure and how the

College Prep World Literature This course focuses on the study of American literature, embracing its rhetorical nature and recognizing the literature as a platform for argument. It also emphasizes a variety of writing modes and genres and the essential conventions of reading, writing, and speaking. The students will develop an understanding of how historical context in American literature affect its structure, meaning, and rhetorical stance. The course will enable students to become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. The students will encounter a variety of informational, literary, and non-print texts from across the curriculum and read texts in all genres and modes of discourse, as well as visual and graphic images. Instruction in

This course focuses on a study of literarygenres; the students develop initialunderstanding of both the structure and themeaning of a literary work. The students explorethe effect of the literary form in regards tointerpretation. The students will read across thecurriculum to develop academic and personalinterests in different subjects. While the focus istechnical writing in ninth grade literature, thestudent will also demonstrate competency in avariety of writing genres: narrative, expository,persuasive, and technical. The students willengage in research, timed writings, and thewriting process. Instruction in languageconventions will occur within the context ofreading, writing, and speaking, rather than inisolation. The students demonstrate anunderstanding of listening, speaking, andviewing skills for a variety of purposes.

This course focuses on a study of WorldLiterature; the students develop anunderstanding of chronological context and therelevance of period structures in literature withinworld cultures. A focus is to explore the waysthe work's place of origin affects its structureand how the chronology of a literary work affectsits meaning. The students develop an

The course focuses on an intensive study ofrepresentative works from various literarygenres and periods. The focus is on thecomplexity and thorough analysis of literaryworks. The students will explore the social andhistorical values that works reflect and embody.The textual detail and historical context providethe foundation for interpretation: the experienceof literature, the interpretation of literature, andthe evaluation of literature. Writing to evaluate aliterary work involves making and explainingjudgments about its artistry and exploring itsunderlying social and cultural values throughanalysis, interpretation, and argument (e.g.expository, analytical, and argumentativeessays). The writers will develop stylisticmaturity: strong vocabulary, sentence variety,and effective use of rhetoric to maintain voice.An AP syllabus will be submitted and approvedby College Board.This course fulfills the same graduationrequirement as British Literature.