English Proficiency Development: (9th-11th grades)

Prerequisite:  None                          

College Credits: None                       

MHS Credits:  1 Credit

Grade Level:  9 - 11         

Length: One Year

This course provides support and reinforcement of reading skills and strategies taught in the general education curriculum. Students receive additional support in: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. The focus of this course is to help students develop reading skills, learning strategies, and critical thinking tools to overcome difficulties in reading while emphasizing the concepts necessary to be successful in the general English curriculum offered in the high school. This course works in tandem with IRW1, IRW2, and/or US Literature.

Students are placed into English Proficiency Development based on a combination of: NWEA MAPS, Writing Accuplacer, and Reading/Writing PSAT & SAT Scores.  

• Incoming 9th Grade Students: Average MAPS Test Score of 209 and below (30th Percentile & Below).

• Incoming 10th Grade Students: Average MAPS Test Score of 214 & below (33rd Percentile & Below), Writing Accuplacer score below 236.

• Incoming 11th Grade Students: Average MAPS Test Score of 217 & below (40th Percentile & Below), Writing Accuplacer score below 236.

Integrated reading & writing i (irw i): 9th Grade

Prerequisite:  None                          

College Credits: None                       

MHS Credits:  1 Credit

Grade Level:  9-REQUIRED         

Length: One Year

Students apply thinking skills to their reading, speaking, listening, and viewing.  Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, references, and technological sources.  Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.  Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.  Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. (Differentiated instruction).

integrated reading & writing 2 (irw 2): 10th grade

Prerequisite: Integrated Reading and Writing I 

College Credits: None                      

MHS Credits:  1 Credit

Grade Level:  10-REQUIRED       

Length: One Year

 This class will provide the skills necessary to meet and exceed state standards for 10th grade students.  Students read and understand a variety of materials. Students apply skills from IRW1 at a greater depth and greater breath.  Students apply thinking skills to their reading, speaking, listening, and viewing.  Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, references, and technological sources.  Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.  Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.  Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. (Differentiated instruction).

UNITED STATES LITERATURE & COMPOSITION: 11th Grade

Prerequisites:  IRW I AND IRW 2 

College Credits:  None                     

MHS Credit: 1 Credit

Grade Level: 11-REQUIRED        

Length: One Year

This course will include historical documents, speeches, Supreme Court decisions, short stories, poetry, classic literature on film, plays, and novels in association with examination and analysis of cultural constructs associated with multiple genres from diverse time periods and cultural constructs. Students will write analysis papers and complete projects in response to the literature.  Students will also write in a variety of genres in association with models from famous US literature. This course will also include college entrance exam preparation.

Myths, legends & folktales: (9th - 12th grade)

Prerequisites:  None

College Credits:  None      

MHS Credit: 1.0 Credits  

Grade Level:  9-12                    

Length: Full Year

Students of Myths, Legends & Folktales study the various stories from different cultures and time periods that create the patterns of story as we now know them. When students recognize these then they are privileged to layers of meaning when these stories are allusions in other texts that they might have otherwise missed. Though many of the allusions in texts are footnoted, interrupting the story to do the research hinders the enjoyment and comprehension of the work. A course in Myths, Legends & Folktales builds students’ knowledge base, bringing them into the world of the patterns, symbols, and ideas of the ancient storytellers and giving them access to a world of ancient and modern literature and nonfiction.

creative writing: (9th-12th Grades)

Prerequisite:  None                          

College Credits:  None                 

MHS Credit: 1 Credit

 Grade Level:  9-12                       

Length: One Year

 Students learn to organize effectively, develop ideas, use voice effectively, select word choice, develop sentence fluency, use conventions appropriately, and format their presentations in a polished and useful manner.  Students will read, analyze, and discuss examples from a variety of genres to provide creative models for student work.   Students will work in a variety of genres including: micro fiction, flash fiction, triptych fiction, creative non-fiction, creative essays, novellas, and poetry, playwriting, and song lyrics.  Emphasis will be placed on analysis, the creative process, and organization skills.

LIT 1015: INTRO TO LITERATURE (10-12th gradeS)

Prerequisites:  

• Pass Writing Accuplacer with a score of 246+ or Earn Score of 470+ on SAT Reading / Writing

College Credits:  3 Cr Hours        

MHS Credit: 0.5 Credits  

Grade Level:  10-12                     

Length: One Semester—Fall

 WEIGHTED COURSE for 1 Semester

This course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama, while emphasizing active and responsive reading. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.

LIT 2002: world literature after 1600: (10-12th gradeS)

Prerequisites:  

• Pass Writing Accuplacer with a score of 246+ or Earn Score of 470+ on SAT Reading / Writing

College Credits:  3 Cr Hours        

MHS Credit: 0.5 Credits  

Grade Level:  10-12                     

Length: One Semester—Spring

 WEIGHTED COURSE for 1 Semester

Students will examine significant writings in world literature from the seventeenth century to the present. They will learn active reading strategies and gain understanding of the works and their cultural background. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.

com 1150: Public Speaking: (10th-12th grades)

Prerequisite:  

• Pass Writing Accuplacer with a score of 246+ or Earn Score of 470+ on SAT Reading / Writing

College Credits:  3 Cr Hours            

MHS Credit: 0.5 Credits

Grade Level: 10-12                      

Length: One Semester

WEIGHTED COURSE For 1 Semester

Combines the basic theories of communication with public speech performance skills.  Emphasis is on speech preparation, organization, support, audience analysis, and delivery.

ENG 1021: College Composition I - 12th grade

Prerequisites:  Meet TWO of the THREE Requirements

• Pass Writing Accuplacer with a score of 246+

• Earn Score of 470+ on SAT Reading / Writing

• Earn Grade of "A" or "B" in US Literature Class

College Credits:  3 Cr Hours        

MHS Credit: 0.5 Credits  

Grade Level:  12                      

Length: One Semester—Fall

 WEIGHTED COURSE for 1 Semester

This course emphasizes the planning, writing, and revising of academic compositions, including the development of critical and logical thinking skills.  It includes reading analytically, and writing, which may include expressive, informative, analytical, evaluative, and persuasive writing to prepare students to excel in the workplace or higher education setting. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-CO1 category.

ENG 1022: cOLLEGE cOMPOSITION ii - 12th grade

Prerequisite:  ENG 1021

College Credits:  3 Cr Hours            

MHS Credit: 0.5 Credits

Grade Level:  12                            

Length: One Semester: Spring

WEIGHTED COURSE For 1 Semester

 This course expands and refines the objectives of English Composition I.  It emphasis critical and logical thinking, problem definition, research strategies, and writing analytical, evaluative, and/or persuasive papers that incorporate research. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-CO-1 category.