Focuses on reading, writing, and language skills that have immediate relevance for students. The course trains the reader to observe small details in a text and the writer to craft complex sentences en route to sophisticated analyses.

Part of the Language Arts department at St. Petersburg High School.

Aims to improve learners' skills in reading, writing, and critical thinking about contemporary issues. Encourages maturity and sensitivity in approaching modern matters.

Focuses on close reading and analysis of complex literary (British and World) and informational texts. Emphasis on reading analytically, speaking, listening, and various modes of writing.

Introductory college-level composition course cultivating understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading and analyzing texts.

Introductory college-level literary analysis course focusing on concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, and figurative language.

Designed to develop composition skills, emphasizing multi-paragraph essays, information retrieval, sentence structure, and literary interpretation.

Develops debate skills through argumentation, problem solving, and the presentation of informative, persuasive, and argumentative speeches.

Improves argumentation and debate skills with emphasis on greater proficiency in critical thinking and research.

Enables students to develop advanced skills for debate and forensic activities, including logic and techniques of public speaking.

Further development of advanced skills for debate and forensic activities, including analysis of debate and judging techniques.

Provides instruction in basic aspects of journalism and workshop experiences in journalistic production.