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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This course combines English III course content and skills with Lone Star College-Montgomery 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.

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.

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 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.