This course serves as a basis for upper-level English courses and AP Language and AP Literature. It is designed to enhance close reading comprehension with increasing text complexity, hone synthesis writing along with documented research skills, build on interdisciplinary informational and literary texts, and prepare students for multimodal presentation skills.

Advanced Placement English is college-level coursework. Students will become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes.

Advanced Placement Literature and Composition is a college-level course. Students will engage in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature.

AP Research, the second course in the AP Capstone experience, allows students to deeply explore the academic topic, problem, issue, or idea of individual interest. Students design, plan and implement a yearlong investigation to address a research question.

AP Seminar is a foundational course that engages students in cross-curricular conversations that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing divergent perspectives.

The Bible will be studied as literature. Course content will include selections from both the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Emphasis is placed on creative writing for those students with a desire to refine these skills and work with others to improve their creative writing. Students will expand on their powers of observation, imagination, and language and will be exposed to various forms of creative writing in the fields of prose, fiction and nonfiction.

The English I course provides a foundational study of genres (novels, short stories, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction). The literature explores cultural perspectives from outside of the United States in addition to historical U.S. documents. Through academic reading, writing, listening, and speaking, students will work independently and collaboratively to use textual evidence to support a critical analysis of how authors develop various themes, central ideas, structures, tones, and arguments.

The English II course extends the standards taught in English I. It furthers a study of genres (novels, short stories, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction). An End-Of-Course test will be administered in English II.

This course is designed to assist students in meeting the English II Exit Standard. The student can take the course first semester as a preparation for the EOC course second semester. A student may take this course a maximum of two times for elective credit.

English III adds complexity to the standards taught in English I and English II. It furthers a study of genres (novels, short stories, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction, and historical U.S. and British documents). Through academic reading, writing, listening, and speaking, students will work independently and collaboratively to use textual evidence to support a critical analysis of how authors develop various themes, central ideas, structures, tones, and arguments.

English III adds complexity to the standards taught in English I and English II. This class prepares students for AP English Language and Composition.