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, 12
Advanced Composition, a course based on the Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts, is a study and application of the rhetorical writing strategies of exposition and persuasion. Students write expository critiques of nonfiction selections, literary criticism of fiction selections, persuasive compositions, and research reports in addition to other appropriate writing tasks. The course can be offered in conjunction with a literature course, or schools should embed Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts reading 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: Advanced Composition | 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: 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.