ENGLISH
Literature is news that stays new. - Ezra Pound

The English curriculum provides a comprehensive program of studies in the areas of literature, vocabulary, grammar, composition, oral, and study skills.  Students will become proficient in expressing themselves through a wide variety of expository and creative writing assignments and speech activities.  Students will begin the study of literature with a genre approach as freshmen and continue their years of study through an acquaintance with and analysis of American, English, and world literature. The department strives to encompass the study of language and literature for both their creative and functional purposes.We provide our students with the literary skills not only to judge and evaluate what they have read and heard but also to help them broaden and deepen their personal experiences of literature.  We approach our students with a confident knowledge that great literature, traditional or contemporary, is always relevant,  is capable of expanding their vistas, helps them to build a scale of values by which they can tell the genuine from the spurious, and always speaks to them about the actual business of living well.Each student will take a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior yearlong English course.  We encourage students to take additional electives for greater depth.  The English curriculum choice provides excellent background for college and for life.

2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Please note: There is mobility between the College Prep, Honors, and IB Levels based on teacher and/or department recommendations.