2021-2022 Course Guide 122120 FINAL (1) - Flipbook - Page 76
English
ENGLISH 11
ENGLISH 11
One-year Course
Grade 11
Prerequisites: None
Course number: EN239
Zero Hour Course number: EN01Z
*THIS COURSE OFFERED ZERO HOUR DEPENDING
ON ENROLLMENT
7:00 AM-7:45 AM (ZERO HOUR)
H AP® LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION
11 *
One-year Course
Grade 11
Prerequisites: H English 10
Course number: EN262
In this year-long American literature course, students will
read several novels (Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and choice novels). They will
also read a play (Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun), and
short stories, as well a good amount of non-fiction. In this
course, we focus on composition, writing persuasive essays
and a five-page research paper. Reading comprehension and
analysis, increasingly sophisticated writing, the application of
grammar skills, the development of power in word choice,
and the ability to discuss, debate, and make presentations—
all of these skills are the focus of this course. Our goal is to
prepare students for the ACT and for the college and career
world.
AP English Language and Composition is an intensive, collegelevel composition course that examines authentic, nonfiction
texts and reading materials. The content, pace, and rigor of
this course challenges students to examine rhetoric by finding
and analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer,
speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that
the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective for
readers or listeners. Students will become mature and
sophisticated consumers and creators of a variety of texts that
are relevant in our world today. Students must be motivated
to become college-level readers and writers; students should
be able to read extensive passages and independently study
readings, vocabulary, and prepare their own responses to
texts.
The course prepares students to take the AP Exam in May as
well as examines the ACT writing prompt.
*Summer reading and assignment is required.
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