Prerequisites: none | Grade: 9
Students use literary interpretation, analysis, comparisons, and evaluation to read and respond to representative works of historical or cultural significance in classic and contemporary literature balanced with nonfiction. Students write responses to literature, expository (informative), narrative, and argumentative compositions, and sustained research assignments. Students deliver grade-appropriate oral presentations with attention to audience and purpose and access, analyze, and evaluate online information.
Prerequisites: none | Grade: 9
While the minimum standards covered remain the same for English 9 and Honors English 9, there are differences in depth, speed, and methodology between the sections. These differences are also reflected in the class structure, amount of independent work required, assignments, and texts used.
Prerequisites: English 9 | Grade: 10
Students use literary interpretation, analysis, comparisons, and evaluation to read and respond to representative works of historical or cultural significance in classic and contemporary literature balanced with nonfiction. Students write responses to literature, expository (informative) and argumentative compositions, and sustained research assignments. Students deliver grade-appropriate oral presentations with attention to audience and purpose and access, analyze, and evaluate online information.
Prerequisites: A in English 9 Honors or teacher recommendation | Grade: 10
While the minimum standards covered remain the same for English 10 and Honors English 10, there are differences in depth, speed, and methodology between the sections. These differences are also reflected in the class structure, amount of independent work required, assignments, and texts used.
Prerequisites: English 9 and 10 | Grade: 11
Students use literary interpretation, analysis, comparisons, and evaluation to read and respond to representative works of historical or cultural significance appropriate in classic and contemporary literature balanced with nonfiction. Students write narratives, responses to literature, academic essays (e.g. analytical, argumentative, informative), and more sustained research assignments incorporating visual information in the form of pictures, graphs, charts and tables. Students write and deliver grade-appropriate multimedia presentations and access, analyze, and evaluate online information.
Prerequisites: A in English 10/10H or teacher recommendation | Grade: 11
AP English Literature and Composition is a course based on the content established and copyrighted by the College Board. The course is not intended to be used as a dual credit course. The course engages students in the close reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature to deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure. As they read, students consider a work's structure, style, and themes, as well as its use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Writing assignments include expository, analytical, and argumentative essays that require students to analyze and interpret literary works.
One Semester Course - Paired with Film Literature | Prerequisites: English 9, 10, and 11 | Grade: 12
Students should be comfortable reading aloud and performing scenes with classmates.
Dramatic Literature, a course based on the Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts, is a study of plays and literary art as different from other literary genres. Students view live, televised, or filmed productions and stage scenes from plays or scripts. Students examine tragedies, comedies, melodramas, musicals or operas created by important playwrights and screenwriters representing the literary movements in dramatic literature. Students analyze how live performance alters interpretation from text and how developments in acting and production have altered the way we interpret plays or scripts. Students analyze the relationship between the development of dramatic literature as entertainment and as a reflection of or an influence on the culture. The course can be offered in conjunction with a composition course, or schools should embed Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts writing standards within the curriculum.
One Semester Course - Paired with Dramatic Literature | Prerequisites: English 9, 10, and 11 | Grade: 12
Film Literature, a course based on the Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts, is a study of how literature is adapted for film or media and includes role playing as film directors for selected screen scenes. Students read about the history of film, the reflection or influence of film on the culture, and issues of interpretation, production and adaptation. Students examine the visual interpretation of literary techniques and auditory language in film and the limitations or special capacities of film versus text to present a literary work. Students analyze how films portray the human condition and the roles of men and women and the various ethnic or cultural minorities in the past and present. The course can be offered in conjunction with a composition course, or schools should embed Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts writing standards within the curriculum.
Prerequisites: English 9, 10, and 11 | Grade: 12
Students use literary interpretation, analysis, comparisons, and evaluation to read and respond to representative works of historical or cultural significance in classic and contemporary literature balanced with nonfiction. Students write narratives, responses to literature, academic essays (e.g. analytical, argumentative, informative), and more sustained research assignments incorporating visual information in the form of pictures, graphs, charts, and tables. Students write and deliver grade-appropriate multimedia presentations and access, analyze, and evaluate online information.
Prerequisites: A in English 11/AP Lit. or teacher recommendation | Grade: 12
AP English Language and Composition is a course based on the content established and copyrighted by the College Board. The course is not intended to be used as a dual credit course. The course focuses on the development and revision of evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing and the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts. The course aligns to an introductory college-level rhetoric and writing curriculum, which requires students to develop evidence-based analytic and argumentative essays that proceed through several stages or drafts. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Throughout the course, students develop a personal style by making appropriate grammatical choices. Additionally, students read and analyze the rhetorical elements and their effects in non-fiction texts, including graphic images as forms of text, from many disciplines and historical periods. There is no prescribed sequence of study.
Prerequisites: none | Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Developmental Reading is a supplemental course that provides students with individualized instruction designed to support success in completing coursework aligned with the Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts focusing on the Reading Standards for Literature and Nonfiction. All students should be concurrently enrolled in an English course in which classwork will address all of the Indiana Academic Standards.