English I Honors

Course Description

Grade: 9

Credits: 1.0

Prerequisite: None

Course Code: 03220100

Course Number: H087

Honors English I engages students in learning all the essential knowledge and skills of  English I while providing greater depth. This enhanced curriculum builds the tools necessary to succeed in AP Language and Literature classes. Summer reading is recommended as it provides an avenue for Advanced students both to activate academic skills during the summer and to launch academic progress at the beginning of the school year. Independent reading in Advanced courses is structured to support students’  interaction with a text through the application of close reading analysis with Advanced and AP reading strategies, leading to an ability to independently analyze any new text. Students will experience increasingly challenging texts, both classic and contemporary, fiction, and nonfiction, and are challenged by complex writing tasks in exposition, argumentation, literary analysis, and synthesis to build the capacity to write effectively in these rhetorical modes. With exposure to AP strategies, prompts, nonfiction texts, and varied writing tasks, students will exit the program equipped with the kind of higher-order thinking skills, knowledge, and behaviors necessary to be successful in AP classes and post-secondary education. This course will require a  STAAR End of Course Exam.   This course offers 5% additional weight in the GPA calculation.