E: English 12 H

English 12 Honors introduces students to several different critical approaches to analyze literature. Students will explore the purpose, assumptions, and strategies that define several types of criticism. In addition to demonstrating an understanding of critical lenses and applying their strategies to analyze and interpret literature, students will demonstrate through close textual analysis and interpretation of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and drama an understanding of the relationship between the form of a literary work and its meaning.


This course offers students regular opportunities to refine personal and critical essay writing skills, employing various strategies to generate and organize their ideas, draft and revise clear, focused, and coherent compositions and evaluate their own writing. All twelfth grade students must complete a comprehensive research project, the Senior Independent Project, as a course requirement.