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AP ENGLISH 11 - Language and Composition: Words, perspectives and power. How do authors employ language to manipulate and persuade us?
EN30 - 1 English Credit - Full Year
Prerequisite: Completion of English 10 with a final grade of B or higher; recommendation of English 10 teacher, approval of department head and an interest in writing.
Students must take an after school diagnostic writing test to familiarize them with academic expectations of an AP course. Students in this accelerated course will study a variety of texts in preparation for the
Advanced Placement Exam in Language and Composition. Using a number of American classics as a springboard, they will analyze and produce mature prose. Students will explore narrative, descriptive, and analytical modes of discourse, and consider audience and purpose. In addition, students will work on making their own writing more sophisticated.
All students enrolled are required to take the AP exam in May for which there is a fee of $98.00. This will serve as the final exam for the course. Students who score 3 or higher on this exam may receive college credit or advanced college placement in English.
ENGLISH 11H American Literature and the American Identity: How does American literature capture our country’s diverse voices and stories?
EN31 - 1 English Credit - Full Year - Honors
Enrollment is based on the recommendation of 10th grade teachers.
What is American literature, and how has it evolved throughout the history of our country? How has our literature been shaped by our country’s diverse voices and stories? How does American literature express the ideals and paradoxes of the American Dream? In this course, we will explore these questions as we study the literature of our ever-changing society. We will examine the many versions of the American Dream, along with its contrast, the American Nightmare, discovering how American authors have perceived these ideas over the past 400 years. Throughout the course, we will discuss other themes typically found in American literature surrounding ideas such as social identity, the struggle for power, or the desire for a new start. This class is largely discussion-based, where students are engaged in meaningful conversations about the literature and its larger ideas as they participate in in-depth and inquiry-based discussions, form and substantiate arguments, and give presentations. Students in this course should expect a wide range of assignments, including traditional literary analysis essays, Socratic Seminars, and multi-faceted projects along with vocabulary study, grammar practice, and preparation for the SATs. Works studied may include The Crucible, My Antonia, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, The Glass Menagerie, and The Joy Luck Club.
ENGLISH 11A: American Literature and Ourselves : How does American literature test and reflect the ever-changing ideals and contradictions of the American identity?
EN32 - 1 English Credit - Full Year - A Level
Enrollment is based on the recommendation of 10th grade teachers.
What is American literature, and how has it been shaped by our history and the continuous modification of the American identity? How does American literature not only reflect the beliefs and experiences of our early colonial days but also demonstrate the increasing diversity and social complexity characteristic of modern American society? In this course, we will explore these questions as we embark on a literary and historical journey across hundreds of years, beginning with Early Colonial literature and working our way toward the Postmodern Era. As we study renowned authors such as Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Miller, Mark Twain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, we will trace the changes in American literature and the common themes that connect us as human beings and as Americans. Students in this course should expect a wide range of assignments, including not only traditional literary analysis essays, creative writing, and multi-faceted projects but also vocabulary training, grammar review, and preparation for the SATs.
AMERICAN STUDIES ENGLISH SWS: What do democracy and freedom mean in U.S. history and in our society today? How does American literature reflect the nation’s values and multi-ethnic and multi-cultural complexity?
Grade 11
SWS10E / SWS11E - A Level / Honors 1 Credit English
American Studies is a cooperatively taught, two credit integrated U.S. History and American Literature course. Through this interdisciplinary, project-based approach, students will study the Origin of “Race” and Reconstruction, with Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman, Indian “Removal” with Lakota Woman; Robber Barons, Immigration, Spanish-American War, and World War I with Forgotten Fire, and The Jungle; The Twenties and Great Depression with The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath; Harlem Renaissance, World War II, America in the Fifties, Cold War and Vietnam with The Catcher in the Rye and The Things They Carried; Final Four Decades research projects and current events. Students will have many opportunities to refine research and writing skills, and will also prepare for SAT’s.
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