English 11

English 11 Regents

Students improve their writing skills, increase their ability to analyze literature, and develop their listening and speaking skills through intensive study of American literature and oral and written practice in the fundamentals of language. They continue to develop their skills in research technique and language power through vocabulary study. Students practice the four English Language Arts (ELA) writing tasks.

Credit: 1 unit

Time: Full year

Exam: Regents

Prerequisite: English 10 R/H

Possible Texts: The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, The Fault in Our Stars, The Old Man and the Sea

AP English 11 Language & Composition

An AP English Language and Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts, and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations. The course cultivates the rhetorical understanding and use of written language by directing students’ attention to writer/reader interactions in their reading and writing of various formal and informal genres (e.g., memos, letters, advertisements, political satires, personal narratives, scientific arguments, cultural critiques, research reports). Summer work is required prior to the course.

Credit: 1 unit

Time: Full year

Exam: Regents; AP Language & Composition

Prerequisite: English 10 R/H

Literature: Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, Ethan Frome,The Old Man and the Sea

AP English 11 Humanities

The course combines AP U.S. History and AP English Language and integrates the study of American history and American literature. Through an integrated study of American history and literature, students develop insight into the development of America and writers of the time. Students are involved in a variety of research which is presented orally in the first person, with artifacts in a museum setting, and in writing.

Credit: 2 units (One for English/One for US History)

Time: 10 periods per week, full year

Exams: AP Language & Composition/AP US History; English 11 Regents/US History Regents

Prerequisite: English 10 R/H, and Global History & Geography 10R/AP World History

Possible Texts: Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, Ethan Frome, The Old Man and the Sea, Our Town, American Author Study