English Department Overview

The Bartlesville English Department's most vital jobs are to help students understand literature's relevance to their world and to use literature to contemplate the world around them and their innermost selves and to help them articulate their thoughts clearly, both orally and in composition.

Curriculum

The English department curriculum for grades 6-12 is a curriculum solidly based in modern and classical literature; each year, the English Department discusses changes and implements innovative lessons that adhere to the latest revisions of the Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS).

We offer Pre-AP English/Language Arts from grades 6-10 and Advanced Placement Language at the junior level and AP English Literature at the senior level. Our AP classes are approved by the most recent AP Course Audit set forth by the College Board.

Local Power Standards

The English Department developed Power Standards (local objectives) that align with the state PASS standards.  These standards reveal what a student enrolled in a Language Arts course in the Bartlesville Public Schools should know at the culmination of the year.

Local Quarterly Assessments

A local mandate set forth in 2003 was all classes taught by more than one teacher give quarterly assessments (QAs).  These quarterly assessments mirror the state-mandated CRT (Criterion Reference Tests) and the EOI (End of Instruction) tests.  The QAs assist teachers with remediation and aid in horizontal and vertical alignment of curriculum.  Benchmark results are available for each grade level upon request.

State Assessments

At the end of 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade, all students in Oklahoma take a Reading CRT.  This involves reading a passage and answering questions pertaining to that selection.  In addition to the 8^th grade Reading CRT, a Writing Test is administered to all 8^th graders every February.  Our sophomores take an English II EOI at the end of their year, and our juniors take an English III EOI in May.  We encourage all students enrolled in an AP course to take the AP Language test their junior year and the AP Literature test their senior year.

Textbook Information

Grammar Textbooks

Publisher: Glencoe

 Representative: Kim Gillert

Literature Books

Publisher: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston

Local Sales Representative: Cindy Dronyk

Representative: Andrea Sagely

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Representative: Carolyn Bradshaw

Oklahoma Textbook Adoption Schedule

Standards-Based Textbook Evaluation