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. Through the close reading of selected texts, students will deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure to their readers.

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.

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.

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. Students will expand on their powers of observation, imagination, and language in the fields of prose, fiction and nonfiction.

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

Provides a foundational study of genres (novels, short stories, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction). Through academic reading, writing, listening, and speaking, students will work independently and collaboratively to use textual evidence to support a critical analysis.

Provides a foundational study of genres (novels, short stories, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction). Through academic reading, writing, listening, and speaking, students will work independently and collaboratively to use textual evidence to support a critical analysis.

Extends the standards taught in English I. Furthers a study of genres and explores cultural perspectives from outside of the United States in addition to historical U.S. documents.