Course ID: 64C
Recommended for students who took English 9H
This course is designed to prepare students for his or her eleventh and twelfth –grade AP exams. Additional preparation for the Common Core English Regents Examination will also be done. The course will explore challenging, high-quality literature-both fiction and non-fiction-with questions and writing assignments that are parallel to the AP exams.Critical thinking skills are further developed through literary analysis, poetic analysis and, prose analysis. Close reading skills are refined through reading selections that are drawn from British and American literature, including Hamlet, A Tale of Two Cities, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, The Good Earth, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Glass Castle. The study of those selections includes expository texts that examine the historical and literary background of the works. Also included are vocabulary development and a review of grammar.
1 high school credit