Junior Year English

Juniors have three English classes to choose from:

• Composition and Literature 3

• IB Literature

• IB Language and Literature.

Comp-Lit 3 is a continuation of Comp-Lit 1 and 2, and the course focuses on American literature. Students will read an assortment of both fiction and nonfiction and compose a variety of argumentative, explanatory, and narrative writings.

IB Literature students will:

• Read a range of fiction, including novels, plays, graphic novels, and poetry, and study the relationship between fiction and our reality.

• Write a range of literary analysis papers, comics, poetry, and short stories.

• Develop their literary analysis skills by examining the author’s choices in character development, plot structure, theme, tone, imagery, etc.

IB Language and Literature students will:

• Read a range of nonfiction -- including news articles, editorials, political speeches, advertisements, and memoirs -- as well as some fiction.

• Write a range of editorials, memoirs, creative pieces, and essays.

• Develop their rhetorical analysis skills by examining texts in relation to their audience, purpose, context, and style.

In many respects, the two IB classes are similar.

• Both classes are college-level classes.

• Both classes are two-year classes.

• Either class is appropriate for any students, no matter which sophomore English class they took -- CL2, AP Literature, or AP Language.

• Both classes prepare students for the IB English assessments. Many colleges and universities will give college credit to students who do well on the IB assessments.

• Both classes fulfill the Language A requirements for the IB Diploma, but students do not need to be IB Diploma candidates to take these classes.

• Both classes receive a grade bump.