English Classes offered as of 2008

ENGLISH

 

English Grade Level 9 Credit 1

 

English 9 is a course designed for all 9th graders to experience and respond to texts ranging from contemporary works to Shakespeare. There is also a heavy emphasis on developing skills in the writing process to build a strong base for the future. Students will interact, discuss, and explore new material with the ultimate goal of solidifying basic interpretive and critical thinking and writing skills.

 

English Grade Level 10 Credit 1

 

This course is American Literature. Students will read novels, short stories, poems, plays and essays of American writers. Students will also have vocabulary, spelling, and some grammar. Students will do speeches. The students will learn to do term papers and do a term paper on an American or an event of their choice.

 

English Grade Level 11 Credit 1

 

English 11 is the required English course for juniors in high school. Literature, writing, and speaking skills are stressed. All students are prepared for and required to take the Comprehensive English Regents.

 

 

World Heroes Grade Level 10-12 Credit ½

 

World Heroes explores the qualities, values, and lives of ‘The Hero’. The initial focus is a series: ‘10 Who Dared’, which profiles Jediah Smith, Christopher on Columbus, Ronald Amundsen and others. There is a short article each hero and a Time/Life video.

Class Size Limit: 20

 

 

Popular Fiction Grade Level Credit

 

Students will read several works of “popular fiction” and examine the role of “pleasure reading” in our society. Various ways of responding to reading will be discussed and students will keep a personal reading log.

 

 

Poetry Grade Level 11-12 Credit ½

 

An overview is placed on creative, open interpretation of poetry as a medium of self-expression. Books used: ‘Male and Female Under 18’, ‘Pictures That Storm Inside My Head’, ‘Sounds and Silences’. A unit on contemporary music (student selected) as poetry and the author Richard Brautigan are explored as well. Students will write each week using ‘Rose, Where Did Your Get That Red’ for poem ideas.

 

 

Short Stories Grade Level 11-12 Credit ½

 

This course is for all you folks who don’t like to read too much all at one time. The scope of the course is to cover the development of the short story in America from the early 1800’s up through the 1900’s. Primarily students will be reading for pleasure, but also we will keep one eye on the development of the art up to its present state. Students will begin with Washington Irving, creator of ‘Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, etc., and progress through Hawthorne, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Poe, Vonnegut, Brautigan, Melville, Twain and other (not in order). The literary movements students will explore are romanticism, realism, naturalism, and modernism.

 

reat Books Grade Level 10-12 Credit ½

 

 

 

Intro to Literature Grade Level 12 Credit 1

 

The English Literature and Composition Course develops students’ skills in analyzing selected poems and prose passages and their ability to write critical or analytical essays based on poems, prose passages, novels, or plays. Some of the authors read will be William Faulkner, Jane Austin, William Shakespeare, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemmingway, as well as many others. Students may earn college credit by paying Delhi college the tuition fee of approximately $160.00.

 

 

Portfolio Grade Level 11 Credit½

 

Creative Writing is a half-year elective geared toward the production of a writing portfolio at the end of the semester. Students who take this class will have an opportunity to write several different types of creative pieces (profiles, memoirs, reviews, and short stories are just a few), as well as an opportunity to self-edit and edit in groups with other students taking the class.