Hickory Flat Elementary School

Hickory Flat Elementary School

Mcdonough, Georgia

553 students

Elementary School, Grades KG–5

553

Students

16.5:1

S:T Ratio

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17:1

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Explore 289 courses in the 2025-26 catalog for Hickory Flat Elementary School

Ninth Grade Literature and Composition
9

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. Students at this level can trace the development of a theme or argument through a text and provide an objective summary of the text without editorial bias. Through reading and writing and the use of appropriate reference materials, the student acquires academic and other contextual vocabulary, showing independence in acquisition and usage. In the early high school years, particular focus is brought to world culture and how points of view can vary with cultural experience, as well as how interpretations can vary between artistic mediums. In Grade nine students will create more complex arguments, addressing counter-arguments and using sophisticated structures and formal manuscript styles. Their expository essays will convey increasingly complex ideas, excluding extraneous details and using graphic and digital elements to convey information. Narratives will develop personal experiences employing dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines. Students are proficient in all steps of the writing process editing effectively and using digital publishing options. Research using appropriate formats for citation and evaluating sources is routine. Through repeated exposure students will become confident presenters and participants in discourse with both peers and experts.

World Literature
10

Students in grade 10 are expected to continue 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. Students at this level can trace the development of a theme or argument through a text and provide an objective summary of the text without editorial bias. Through reading and writing and the use of appropriate reference materials, the student acquires academic and other contextual vocabulary, showing independence in acquisition and usage. In the early high school years, particular focus is brought to world culture and how points of view can vary with cultural experience, as well as how interpretations can vary between artistic mediums. In grade10 students will create more complex arguments, addressing counter- arguments and using sophisticated structures and formal manuscript styles. Their expository essays will convey increasingly complex ideas, excluding extraneous details and using graphic and digital elements to convey information. Narratives will develop personal experiences employing dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines. Students are proficient in all steps of the writing process editing effectively and using digital publishing options. Research using appropriate formats for citation and evaluating sources is routine. Through repeated exposure students will become confident presenters and participants in discourse with both peers and experts.

American Literature
11

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. They 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. Eleventh graders have developed a very broad vocabulary that includes content-specific and technical terms along with a fluent and sophisticated grasp of the English language. Their growing understanding of the nuances of language will aid them in analyzing an author’s point of view, recognizing the rhetorical elements of an argument, and in the development of tone and mood in works of literature. Students at this level of development will apply their critical thinking skills to the comparison and analysis of a variety of works in different artistic and digital mediums, and to the transformation of classical source works such as Shakespeare or Homer into modern pieces. By grade eleven students are able to identify and understand the interplay of more than one central idea within a single text, appreciating the way that ideas can build upon one another to achieve a complexity of thought. Students at this level can effectively evaluate primary and secondary source material from a variety of resources including digital resources and historic documents. Students can introduce and support arguments with valid reasoning, use accepted formatting and citation styles with ease, and convey complex ideas effectively using appropriate structures. Sustained research projects should be commonplace by grade eleven and students are comfortable presenting findings to both large and small groups in multi-modal formats.

Advanced Placement English Language and Composition (III)

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. Students continue to develop a very broad vocabulary that includes content-specific and technical terms along with a fluent and sophisticated grasp of the English language. Their growing understanding of the nuances of language will aid them in analyzing an author’s point of view, recognizing the rhetorical elements of an argument, and in the development of tone and mood in works of literature. Students at this level of development will apply their critical thinking skills to the comparison and analysis of a variety of works in different artistic and digital mediums, and to the transformation of classical source works such as Shakespeare or Homer into modern pieces. Students are able to identify and understand the interplay of more than one central idea within a single text, appreciating the way that ideas can build upon one another to achieve a complexity of thought. Students at this level can effectively evaluate primary and secondary source material from a variety of resources including digital resources and historic documents. Students can introduce and support arguments with valid reasoning, use accepted formatting and citation styles with ease, and convey complex ideas effectively using appropriate structures. Sustained research projects are common-place and students are comfortable presenting findings to both large and small groups in multi-modal formats.

British Literature

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. They 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. Students continue to develop a very broad vocabulary that includes content-specific and technical terms along with a fluent and sophisticated grasp of the English language. Their growing understanding of the nuances of language will aid them in analyzing an author’s point of view, recognizing the rhetorical elements of an argument, and in the development of tone and mood in works of literature. Students at this level of development will apply their critical thinking skills to the comparison and analysis of a variety of works in different artistic and digital mediums, and to the transformation of classical source works such as Shakespeare or Homer into modern pieces. Students are able to identify and understand the interplay of more than one central idea within a single text, appreciating the way that ideas can build upon one another to achieve a complexity of thought. Students at this level can effectively evaluate primary and secondary source material from a variety of resources including digital resources and historic documents. Students can introduce and support arguments with valid reasoning, use accepted formatting and citation styles with ease, and convey complex ideas effectively using appropriate structures. Sustained research projects are commonplace, and students are comfortable presenting findings to both large and small groups in multi-modal formats.

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