Students are expected to increase their analytical skills, reading increasingly complex texts across all genres and writing cogent, well-supported analysis and argument essays using evidence from those texts.

Honors English is a college prep course that takes a global and more thematic approach to the study of literature and composition. This is a highly academic course that requires extensive outside reading, writing, and research and may require summer reading.

Students in grade 10 are expected to continue to increase their analytical skill, reading increasingly complex texts across all genres and writing cogent, well-supported analysis and argument essays using evidence from those texts.

This college prep course emphasizes an in-depth analysis of World Literature, personal and expository compositions, vocabulary development, public speaking skill, and utilization of research skills. Extensive reading is required throughout the entire course.

Students in grade eleven are consolidating and internalizing the core skills of the CCGPS as they near the end of their high school careers, fulfilling the vision of a college and career-ready individual with strong twenty-first century literacy skills and the ability to think critically.

In this college prep course students will be introduced to the American experience as shared by a diverse nation. Students will read and analyze a wide array of literature that spans from the Puritan and pre-Puritan (Native American) eras through the 20th Century. Extensive reading is required throughout the entire course. A research paper is required.

Advanced Placement is unique in our high school curriculum. Students undertake close, attentive reading of complex works of literature and informational texts, and are able to navigate confidently through significant amounts of information in a variety of formats.

The overall goal of this class is to interpret, analyze, evaluate, and critique British literature with a concentration on developing writing and analytical reading skills. The literary pieces studied in this course include a variety of short stories, essays, poems, plays, and novels.

Students are consolidating and internalizing the core skills of the ELA HTLS as they near the end of their high school careers, fulfilling the vision of a college-and career-ready individual with strong twenty-first century literacy skills and the ability to think critically.

AP English IV is a college-level course, which gives students the opportunity to analyze, read, discuss, and write about challenging selections in world literature. It provides the practice and guidance needed to fully prepare for the AP examination in English Literature. Students will take the College Board Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition Examination in early May.

Provides fundamental skills development in all areas of English/Language Arts in a language lab setting; includes practice opportunities in writing, organizing, speaking, reading, and critical thinking. This course meets the guidelines for remedial education programming.

Enhances level-one skills in a language lab setting. Provides further application of skills in writing, organizing, speaking, reading, and critical thinking activities. This course meets the guidelines for remedial education programming.