This course covers a wide range of literature and introduces critical reading skills such as annotation, vocabulary development, and analysis of writing style for theme and tone. Students learn paragraph and essay structure, including personal narrative and analytical writing. Grammar instruction covers parts of speech, punctuation, and subject-verb agreement.

Students build upon critical reading skills and analyze writing style for theme, tone, characterization, and conflict. Requirements include complex analytical, literature-based, and expository essays using MLA guidelines. Grammar instruction focuses on syntactical structures, parallel structure, clauses, and pronoun-antecedent agreement.

This course emphasizes American literature and continues developing advanced critical reading skills including analysis of purpose, context, and audience. Students write complex analytical, literature-based, expository, and persuasive essays using MLA guidelines. Grammar instruction introduces active versus passive voice and syntactical variety.

Students read classic British and American literature to explore universal themes and writing as a craft. The course includes expository, interpretative, and creative writing, as well as poetry performance and film analysis. It serves as college preparedness and prepares students for the AP Literature and Composition test.

Centered on the art of rhetoric and argument, students read fiction and non-fiction to deconstruct rhetorical choices. Topics include foundational principles of argument, civil disobedience, and American issues of modernity. The course offers a weighted GPA and prepares students for the AP English Language and Composition exam.

A college preparatory course focusing on interactive reading and writing processes using a rhetorical approach. It emphasizes non-fiction and informative texts to build academic literacy. Students engage in analytical dialogue over controversial issues and complete a research project to synthesize and analyze varying perspectives.

This course covers the study of literature by English and European writers across genres and time periods. Students engage in class discussions, philosophical inquiry, and writing poetry, journals, and polished essays. Highlights include support for personal statements, film analysis, and Hamlet performances.

This course focuses on writing for the student-run newspaper, Lincoln Log. Students craft news, features, opinions, reviews, and editorials while learning journalistic integrity, interviewing, and industry-standard layout software. The curriculum also covers media responsibility and investigative journalism.

Students work on producing the school yearbook.

Aligned to Common Core State Standards. Offers special sections co-taught with Special Education teachers and sections for English Learners/Newcomer Pathway focusing on language development and writing skills.

Aligned to Common Core State Standards. Offers special sections co-taught with Special Education teachers.

Aligned to Common Core State Standards. Offers special sections co-taught with Special Education teachers.