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English 1 [Competency Based] (1st semester)

$250.00
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Course Description How do writers and speakers effectively communicate to their audiences? When is it appropriate to use formal and informal English? When writing or speaking, why are smooth transitions from one idea, event, or concept to another important? Learning to become an effective communicator includes knowing how to receive, evaluate, comprehend, and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. Students learn effective communication in the context of fiction and nonfiction writing as well as in one-on-one and group discussions. Students strengthen their writing skills by varying syntax and sentence types, and through the correct use of colons, semicolons, and conjunctive adverbs. Students learn to keep their audience, task, and purpose in mind while maintaining a formal style and objective tone, and use style manuals and reference materials to appropriately cite sources and ensure that their writing meets the conventions of formal English. Course Breakdown Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes “Cleis” by Sappho “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats “Prologue” by Anne Bradstreet Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol Candide by Voltaire Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Haiku poems by Matsuo Bashō and Issa Kobayashi Course Goals Read and analyze Don Quixote. Explore the elements of plot. Identify key pieces of textual evidence. Write an autobiographical narrative. Read and analyze Romeo and Juliet. Examine the structure and elements of a drama. Write a persuasive literary analysis on Romeo and Juliet.
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English 1 [Competency Based] (2nd semester)

$250.00
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Course Description How do writers and speakers effectively communicate to their audiences? When is it appropriate to use formal and informal English? When writing or speaking, why are smooth transitions from one idea, event, or concept to another important? Learning to become an effective communicator includes knowing how to receive, evaluate, comprehend, and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. Students learn effective communication in the context of fiction and nonfiction writing as well as in one-on-one and group discussions. Students strengthen their writing skills by varying syntax and sentence types, and through the correct use of colons, semicolons, and conjunctive adverbs. Students learn to keep their audience, task, and purpose in mind while maintaining a formal style and objective tone, and use style manuals and reference materials to appropriately cite sources and ensure that their writing meets the conventions of formal English. Course Breakdown “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen “When You Are Old” and “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas “For My People” by Margaret Walker “Changgan Memories” by Li Po “I Am Offering This Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica” by Judith Ortiz Cofer A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges “The True Story of Ah Q” by Lu Hsun Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Molière The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain “Home” by Anton Chekhov The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka “The Circular Ruins” by Jorge Luis Borges Course Goals Analyze elements of poetry and literary nonfiction. Write a compare-and-contrast essay on two poems. Identify the difference between primary and secondary sources. Determine how cultural and historical contexts influence an author's work. Read and analyze The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Investigate the components of a literary work. Explain how culture and history influence a work of literature. Write a cause-and-effect essay.
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English 1 [Credit Recovery]

$250.00
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Course Description How do writers and speakers effectively communicate to their audiences? When is it appropriate to use formal and informal English? When writing or speaking, why are smooth transitions from one idea, event, or concept to another important? Learning to become an effective communicator includes knowing how to receive, evaluate, comprehend, and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. Students learn effective communication in the context of fiction and nonfiction writing as well as in one-on-one and group discussions. Students strengthen their writing skills by varying syntax and sentence types, and through the correct use of colons, semicolons, and conjunctive adverbs. Students learn to keep their audience, task, and purpose in mind while maintaining a formal style and objective tone, and use style manuals and reference materials to appropriately cite sources and ensure that their writing meets the conventions of formal English. Course Breakdown Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare “I Am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes “Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas "For My People" by Margaret Walker "Changgan Memories" by Li Po "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica" by Judith Ortiz Cofer "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden Course Goals Read and analyze Don Quixote. Explore the elements of plot. Read and analyze Romeo and Juliet. Examine the structure and elements of a drama. Write a cause-and-effect essay. Analyze elements of poetry and literary nonfiction. Write a compare-and-contrast essay on two poems. Read and analyze The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Explain how culture and history influence a work of literature.
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English 1 [Honors] (1st semester)

$250.00
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Course Description The honors English track begins with English 1 [Honors], a course which introduces students to great works of literature such as Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, and Voltaire’s satire Candide. Throughout this course, students will learn to actively read, study, and analyze both fiction and nonfiction. Additionally, students will write essays and complete projects that meet a range of purposes in order to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts taught in the course. Course Breakdown "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes "Home" by Anton Chekhov Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Molière "The Circular Ruins" by Jorge Luis Borges "The True Story of Ah Q" by Lu Hsun Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard “Bill the Bloodhound" by P. G. Wodehouse "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin "The Feather Pillow" by Horacio Quiroga Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare "The Fatalist" by Mikhail Lermontov "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson "Marriage is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe "The Book of Sand" by Jorge Luis Borges Course Goals Read and analyze various works of satire and other short stories. Examine elements of drama. Write a story about a significant moment in your life. Create a cartoon panel which employs elements of satire. Complete a webquest on Shakespeare’s life and the culture of Elizabethan England. Analyze conventions of drama in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Write a persuasive essay on Romeo and Juliet. Read and analyze various short stories.
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English 1 [Honors] (2nd semester)

$250.00
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Course Description The honors English track begins with English 1 [Honors], a course which introduces students to great works of literature such as Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, and Voltaire’s satire Candide. Throughout this course, students will learn to actively read, study, and analyze both fiction and nonfiction. Additionally, students will write essays and complete projects that meet a range of purposes in order to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts taught in the course. Course Breakdown "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf "Prologue" by Anne Bradstreet Haiku by Matsuo Basho and Issa Kobayashi "Personal Helicon" by Seamus Heaney "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen "For My People" by Margaret Walker "Changgan Memories" by Li Po "I Am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica" by Judith Ortiz Cofer "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens "Romance Sonumbulo" by Federico García Lorca "Ode to My Suit" by Pablo Neruda "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden "If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda "Poetry" by Pablo Neruda "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats "Cleis" by Sappho "The Black Cat" by Rainer Maria Rilke "The Swan" by Rainer Maria Rilke The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka "The Garden of Forking Paths" by Jorge Luis Borges Frankenstein by Mary Shelley "Any Human to Another" by Countee Cullen "Patterns" by Amy Lowell "The Battle of Agincourt" by William Shakespeare "In Westminster Abbey" by John Betjeman "Devonshire Street W1" by John Betjeman Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare Sonnet 06 by William Shakespeare Sonnet 02 by William Shakespeare Sonnet 141 by William Shakespeare Sonnet 97 by William Shakespeare Course Goals Write a research paper about a career. Write a compare-and-contrast essay. Read and analyze the literary elements of various poems and haiku. Examine elements of various nonfiction texts. Examine the style, structure, and form of various sonnets by William Shakespeare. Read and analyze the plot structure of The Metamorphosis. Read and analyze Frankenstein. Write a persuasive essay that convinces the audience to live in a particular neighborhood or city. Write an essay that focuses on either the causes or effects of a specific environmental or health issue.
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English 2 [Competency Based] (1st semester)

$250.00
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Course Description How can the written language be changed according to context, audience, and purpose? In this course, students explore the evolution of language in fiction and nonfiction, assess rhetorical and narrative techniques, identify and refine claims and counterclaims, and ask and answer questions to aid in their research. Students also evaluate and employ vocabulary and comprehension strategies to determine the literal, figurative, and connotative meanings of technical and content-area words and phrases. Course Breakdown Beowulf by an anonymous author The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Song of Roland by an anonymous author “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley “Soul's Joy, Now I Am Gone” by John Donne “Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne “Go and Catch a Falling Star” by John Donne “Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go” by John Donne “All the World's a Stage” by William Shakespeare “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas “In Westminster Abbey” by John Betjeman Lord of the Flies by William Golding Course Goals Write an original short story. Read and analyze a variety of poems by British authors. Analyze the use of literary devices in various readings. Write a persuasive essay that encourages your audience to take action to fix a problem in your community. Conduct and utilize research to support ideas and counterarguments. Read and analyze Lord of the Flies.
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English 2 [Competency Based] (2nd semester)

$250.00
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Course Description How can the written language be changed according to context, audience, and purpose? In this course, students explore the evolution of language in fiction and nonfiction, assess rhetorical and narrative techniques, identify and refine claims and counterclaims, and ask and answer questions to aid in their research. Students also evaluate and employ vocabulary and comprehension strategies to determine the literal, figurative, and connotative meanings of technical and content-area words and phrases. Course Breakdown Nobel Peace Prize Lecture by the Dalai Lama “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. “Declaration of Conscience” by Margaret Chase Smith “Sonnet 141” by William Shakespeare “Sonnet 97” by William Shakespeare “A Conversation with Jeanne” by Czeslaw Milosz Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by William Faulkner State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant “Any Human to Another” by Countee Cullen “Patterns” by Amy Lowell Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by Mother Teresa Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by Nelson Mandela “And We Shall Be Steeped” by Leopold S. Senghor “Where Stories Come From” by an anonymous author “Why the Cheetah's Cheeks are Stained” by an anonymous author “The Birth of Hawaii” by an anonymous author Chinese Creation Myths by an anonymous author Animal Farm by George Orwell “Just Lather, That's All” by Hernando Téllez “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga “The Rat Trap” by Selma Lagerlöf “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez Course Goals Write a compare-and-contrast essay on two speeches. Read a selection of speeches and analyze rhetorical elements. Analyze literary devices in various readings. Write an essay that examines the causes or effects related to a topic. Read and analyze Animal Farm. Read and analyze literary devices in short stories.
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English 2 [Credit Recovery]

$250.00
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Course Description How can the written language be changed according to context, audience, and purpose? In this course, students explore the evolution of language in fiction and nonfiction, assess rhetorical and narrative techniques, identify and refine claims and counterclaims, and ask and answer questions to aid in their research. Students also evaluate and employ vocabulary and comprehension strategies to determine the literal, figurative, and connotative meanings of technical and content-area words and phrases. Course Breakdown Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by The Dalai Lama Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by William Faulkner "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by Mother Teresa Animal Farm by George Orwell "Sonnet 73" by William Shakespeare Lord of the Flies by William Golding "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant "Any Human to Another" by Amy Lowell "Patterns" by Countee Cullen "Just Lather, That's All" by Hernando Téllez "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan "The Feather Pillow" by Horacio Quiroga "The Rat Trap" by Selma Lagerlöf "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez "Where Stories Come From" by an anonymous author "Why the Cheetah's Cheeks Are Stained" by an anonymous author Course Goals Write a compare-and-contrast essay on two speeches. Read a selection of speeches and analyze their rhetorical elements. Read and analyze Animal Farm. Write an original short story. Read poems and examine their structure. Analyze the use of literary devices in various readings. Read and analyze Lord of the Flies.
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English 2 [Honors] (2nd semester)

$250.00
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Course Description Throughout English 2 [Honors], students will complete a range of tasks that demonstrate their ability to write in different styles and increase their understanding of the texts they will study throughout the course. Students will study and practice speaking and listening, writing, and presentation skills as they complete their coursework. They will also read a variety of texts, including speeches by prominent figures such as Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Animal Farm by George Orwell. Course Breakdown The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams "Great Serpent and the Great Flood" by an anonymous author "Wenebojo and the Wolves" by an anonymous author "The Sculptor's Funeral" by Willa Cather "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty "The Rat Trap" by Selma Lagerlöf "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez "The Feather Pillow" by Horacio Quiroga "Just Lather, That's All" by Hernando Téllez "Where Stories Come From" by an anonymous author "Why the Cheetah's Cheeks are Stained" by an anonymous author "The Birth of Hawaii" by an anonymous author Chinese Creation Myths by an anonymous author "The Story of the Three Genjias" by an anonymous author "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel García Márquez "Rapunzel" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm "Babe the Blue Ox" by S. E. Schlosser "The Ballad of Casey Jones" by Wallace Saunders "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét "The Circular Ruins" by Jorge Luis Borges "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry Animal Farm by George Orwell "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning "Go and Catch a Falling Star" by John Donne "Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go" by John Donne "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne Course Goals Research a vacation destination by finding a variety of credible resources. Write a research paper on a vacation destination. Read and analyze short stories. Write an original short story. Read and analyze poetry. Write a persuasive essay on a program, service, or policy that you would like to be implemented at your school or local community center. Read and analyze Animal Farm. Write a cause-and-effect essay on a social issue.
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English 3 [Competency Based] (1st semseter)

$250.00
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Course Description English 3 gives students the opportunity to explore the American identity by reading American texts that span the period from the late eighteenth century through the late twentieth century. During this journey through American literature, students will examine a variety of texts, including documents, speeches, poems, short stories, and novels. As they read these texts, students learn about the themes, characteristics, and concepts that delineate the American identity and examine how literature both reflects and defines these ideas. This work culminates in a project in which students research the American literary canon throughout history and then choose a modern text that they believe should be part of the literary canon. By the end of the course, students should be able to describe the defining characteristics of American literature and explain how those characteristics have evolved over time. Course Breakdown Common Sense by Thomas Paine The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson The Preamble to the Constitution The Bill of Rights "To His Excellency, General Washington" by Phillis Wheatley "A Political Litany" by Philip Freneau "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson "The Cross of Snow" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass "The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln "The Great Problem to Be Solved" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Course Goals Read and analyze foundational documents and texts from the Revolutionary War period. Examine defining characteristics of nineteenth-century American literary movements, including Romanticism, transcendentalism, and Gothic literature. Write a persuasive essay that convinces the audience to take action to fix a problem in the community. Write an original short story that incorporates components of Gothic literature. Explain how American literature both reflects and defines characteristics of the American identity. Read and analyze nonfiction from the late nineteenth century. Define satire and explain how artists use it to promote change. Lead a discussion on the controversy surrounding Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Examine defining characteristics of Realism and explain how it can be seen in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Write a literary analysis that analyzes a structural component of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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