This course follows the NCSCOS for grade 9 and requires students to demonstrate profi ciency for standards of reading literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening, and language. For students to be college and career ready, they must read from a wide range of high-quality, increasingly challenging texts, refl ecting global perspectives, and comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity. Students learn how to offer and support opinions/arguments, demonstrate understanding of topics of study and convey experiences in writing, clearly and coherently. Teachers provide students ample opportunities to communicate their thinking orally, including effective use of data and evidence. Students use effective and correct language skills in all contexts.

This course provides challenging reading, writing and speaking opportunities designed to develop the students’ abilities in language arts as preparation for education beyond high school. This course follows the NCSCOS for grade 9 and requires students to demonstrate profi ciency for standards of reading literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening and language. For students to be college and career ready, they must read from a wide range of high-quality, increasingly challenging texts, refl ecting global perspectives, and comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity. Students learn how to offer and support opinions/arguments, demonstrate understanding of topics of study and convey experiences in writing, clearly and coherently. Teachers provide students ample opportunities to communicate their thinking orally, including effective use of data and evidence. Students use effective and correct language skills in all contexts.

This course follows the NCSCOS for grade 10 and requires students to demonstrate profi ciency for standards of reading literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening and language. For students to be college and career ready, they must read from a wide range of high-quality, increasingly challenging texts, refl ecting global perspectives, and comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity. Students learn how to offer and support opinions/arguments, demonstrate understanding of topics of study and convey experiences in writing, clearly and coherently. Teachers provide students ample opportunities to communicate their thinking orally, including effective use of data and evidence. Students use effective and correct language skills in all contexts.

This course follows the NCSCOS for grade 11 and requires students to demonstrate profi ciency for standards of reading literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening and language. For students to be college and career ready, they must read from a wide range of high-quality, increasingly challenging texts and comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity. Students learn how to offer and support opinions/arguments, demonstrate understanding of topics of study and convey experiences in writing, clearly and coherently. Teachers provide students ample opportunities to communicate their thinking orally, including effective use of data and evidence. Students use effective and correct language skills in all contexts.

This course follows the NCSCOS for grade 12 and requires students to demonstrate profi ciency for standards of reading literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening and language. For students to be college and career ready, they must read from a wide range of high-quality, increasingly challenging texts and comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity. Students learn how to offer and support opinions/arguments, demonstrate understanding of topics of study and convey experiences in writing, clearly and coherently. Teachers provide students ample opportunities to communicate their thinking orally, including effective use of data and evidence. Students use effective and correct language skills in all contexts. This course provides application of all communication skills and completes the global perspective initiated in English I.

This course provides challenging reading, writing and speaking opportunities designed to develop students’ abilities in language arts as preparation for education beyond high school. This course follows the NCSCOS for grade 12 and requires students to demonstrate profi ciency for standards of reading literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening and language. For students to be college and career ready, they must read from a wide range of high- quality, increasingly challenging texts and comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity. Students learn how to offer and support opinions/arguments, demonstrate understanding of topics of study and convey experiences in writing, clearly and coherently. Teachers provide students ample opportunities to communicate their thinking orally, including effective use of data and evidence. Students use effective and correct language skills in all contexts. This course provides in-depth application of all communication skills and completes the global perspective initiated in English I.

This course focuses on a wide range of competitive public speaking and debate skills and techniques. Students are expected to participate in local forensics tournaments and have opportunities to compete in selected public speaking and debating tournaments. Skill development includes advanced techniques in diction, articulation, enunciations, and projection. Students begin to analyze pieces of literature, create orations, and evaluate performances.

This course further develops skills in communication, logic, and reasoning through participation in scholastic forensics competitions. Students specialize in and demonstrate expertise in at least one of the speaking events, begin to develop a second area and compete at local, regional and state tournaments. Students continue to refi ne diction, articulation, enunciation, and projection skills while applying more advanced techniques of public speaking. Students exhibit team responsibility and develop skills of evaluation and analysis. Honors activities may include required/advanced reading lists, required/advanced writing assignments, special projects, enrichment activities and a portfolio of student activities/performances.

In this honors level course, students study techniques of journalistic writing, layout, the organization of the newspaper staff, and the history of American journalism. Students also survey the mass media, photography, television and radio reporting. Students receive on-the- job training, as they assist in reporting, layout, selling, and circulating each edition of the newspaper.

The primary duties of Journalism II students are to produce a school Newspaper and/or magazine. Students further their knowledge and skills in writing, layouts, and organizing a quality publication. They explore the use of technology in preparing written publications.

The primary duties of students in this honors level course are to produce a school Newspaper and/or magazine. Students further their knowledge and skills in writing, layouts, and organizing a quality publication. They explore the use of technology in preparing written publications.

Journalism III students refi ne their knowledge of journalism basics as well as receive instruction in specialized areas of media. These students write, layout, and publish the newspaper and/or a literary magazine. They learn sales/business management in the sale and preparation of advertising.