The English curriculum is a two-year format, focusing on world literature one year and American literature the next. Students will pursue investigations into the nature of man, the nature of society and the historical relationship in the American experience as seen through various genres of literature.
American and World Literature
- Students use a variety of technological and informational resources to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
- Students conduct research on issues and interest by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.
- Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Students plan and present dramatic interpretations of poems, sections of speeches or dramatic soliloquies with attention to performing details to achieve clarity, force and aesthetic effect and to translate the meaning of the selection.
