English Courses
This course begins the students' study of the college-prep English curriculum. Students polish the skills learned in Language Arts 8 and learn to focus in-depth literary analyses through reading logs and responses and asynchronous discussions. Students study the themes of tolerance and acceptance of differences in online short stories, fables and myths, epics (Homer's Odyssey), Shakespearean tragedy (Romeo and Juliet), poetry, non-fiction narratives, and great American speeches.
This course introduces students to major works of world classic literature from early myths and legends through the twentieth century. Students analyze reading texts for literary devices as well as for themes of social customs, universal traits of human behavior, conflict, oppression and the dysfunction of absolute power without personal freedoms. Online works include annotated versions of Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) and Antigone (Sophocles). Throughout the year, students receive teacher feedback on timed practice SAT essays, online practice drills for SAT grammar assessment test, and for the second semester, students will need to purchase paperbacks or check out from the library.
This course provides students experience in analyzing American texts and writers of the historical literary periods including the Puritans, Westward Expansion, the Industrial Revolution, Transcendentalism, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and Civil Rights. Students will continue to improve strategies for writing timed essays for the SAT writing assessment, as well as to use the process approach to research and write a paper about American ideals consistent with the MLA style of documentation. Besides online reading texts, student will study American novels and an American play. |