Tenth Grade
COLLEGE PREPARATORY ENGLISH 10
Course: 108 Credit: 1 Grade: 10 NCAA Accepted *Required for Graduation |
This course teaches the college-bound student to engage in the careful reading and analysis of literature through the close reading of complex texts. Students will evaluate the ways writers use language to achieve their purposes. As they read, students will consider a work’s structure, a writer’s style, arguments and themes. In addition to reading literature, students will further develop writing strategies they currently use and build upon those strategies to approach a variety of purposes and audiences. This course will enable students to effectively communicate using both written and verbal skills. Students will participate in interpersonal communication exercises which foster an understanding and appreciation of literary themes and concepts.
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Prerequisite: Successful completion of 9th Grade English
HONORS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ENGLISH 10
Course: 109 Credit: 1 Grade: 10 NCAA Accepted *Required for Graduation |
This course is designed to prepare students to excel in the Advanced Placement English courses during their junior and senior years. Engaging in the careful reading and analysis of literature through the close reading of complex texts, students will become aware of the rhetorical and archetypal strategies writers use to achieve their purposes. As they read, students will consider a work’s structure and a writer’s style, arguments and themes. In addition to reading literature, students will further develop writing strategies they currently use and build upon those strategies to approach a variety of purposes and audiences. This course will enable students to effectively communicate using both written and verbal skills. Students will participate in interpersonal communication exercises which foster an understanding and appreciation of literary themes and concepts. Students who elect to pursue the Honors curriculum must complete a summer reading assignment.
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Prerequisites: Recommendation by 9th grade English teacher AND one of the following:
- 90% final grade average in CP English 9; OR
- 80% final grade average in Honors English 9