ENGLISH

ENGLISH 9 (Fundamental)

Grade - 9TH     Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000208 000209             Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students needing review and reinforcement in the basic skills of reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary development, speaking, and language arts skills as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. This course is geared toward students who are either below or near grade level in reading and who need direct reading instruction and intervention. The course will emphasize the development of specific reading comprehension skills, practical reading applications, content area reading skills, and study skills. While focusing on reading, this course will also provide the necessary skills and framework in grade-level writing instruction. These will include narrative, expository, argumentative, and research writing. Students will be recommended for this course based on reading scores and academic performance.

ENGLISH 9

Grade - 9TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000210 000211         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students with average abilities in English. The course emphasizes writing skills, usage and grammar, vocabulary development, non-fiction, and literature, with a continuing emphasis on developing reading skills as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. This course includes a study of short stories, novels, poetry, non-fiction and informational texts, and mythology.

HONORS ENGLISH 9 - W

Grade - 9TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000212 000213       Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students with high proficiency in the language skills of reading, writing, editing, listening, and speaking. It will further develop and refine skills in usage, grammar, vocabulary, and multi-paragraph composition. Students should have strong critical reading, writing, and research skills. Literature study will include classic works and Shakespeare, as well as drama, poetry, and non-fiction. Considerable independent work and numerous projects are required. The course follows the guidelines that are outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. This course has a summer reading requirement.

ENGLISH 10 (Fundamental)

Grade - 10TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000219 000220         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students needing review and reinforcement in the basic skills of reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary development, speaking, and language arts skills as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. Students who are reading and writing below grade level and who need direct reading instruction, as well as students who need intervention, should take this course. Development of specific reading comprehension skills, practical reading applications, content area reading skills, and study skills are emphasized. A research paper will be required. Students will be recommended for this course based on reading scores and academic performance.

ENGLISH 10

Grade - 10TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000221 000222       Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite Teacher recommendation

This literature and composition course is structured for students with average proficiency in language skills as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. It emphasizes the critical reading of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. In addition, writing skills, grammar, and vocabulary development will be stressed. The student will continue to develop general English proficiencies. A variety of composition styles – including personal narrative, argumentative, and expository writing – are emphasized. A typed research paper is required.

HONORS ENGLISH 10 - W

Grade - 10TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000223 000224         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for the student who has high proficiency in English skills and who can work well independently. It emphasizes a concentrated approach to the critical analysis and interpretation of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Contemporary and classic literature, including Shakespeare, will be studied. The course reinforces and expands the process of writing through extensive essay assignments and projects. The principles of exposition are also emphasized as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. A focus on grammar and vocabulary development will be included, and advanced research skills will be reinforced. A typed research paper will be required.

This course has a summer reading requirement.

ENGLISH 11(Fundamental)

Grade - 11TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000229 000230         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students needing review and reinforcement in language skills. Students who are reading and writing below grade level and who need direct reading instruction, as well as students who need intervention, should take this course. Development of specific reading comprehension skills, practical reading applications, content area reading skills, communicative skills and study skills are emphasized using a data driven reading program outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. A typed research paper will be required.

ENGLISH 11

Grade - 11TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000231 000232         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students with average proficiency in language skills as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. The student will continue to develop general English proficiency. A variety of composition styles – including personal narrative, argumentative, and expository writing – are emphasized. The literary focus is American literature, and non-fiction, poetry, and drama. A typed research paper will be required.

HONORS ENGLISH 11 - W

Grade - 11TH Credit - 1.00 credit

     Course Number - 000234 000235              Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for the student with high proficiency in language skills who can work and read independently. It emphasizes the critical analysis and interpretation of American literature--including fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction--as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. This course expands the writing process through extensive essay assignments, as well as a formal research paper.

AP LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION - W

Grade - 11TH - 12TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000236A 000236B      Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed to engage students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Through reading and writing, students will become aware of the interactions among writers’ purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. This course has a summer reading requirement.

ENGLISH 12 (Fundamental)

Grade - 12TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000240 000241         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students needing review and reinforcement of English skills for entrance into the work world immediately after graduation. Students who are reading and writing below grade level and who need direct reading instruction, as well as students who need intervention, should take this course. Development of specific reading comprehension skills, practical reading applications, content area reading skills, and study skills are emphasized using a data-driven reading program outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts

ENGLISH 12

Grade - 12TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000242 000243         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students who have achieved average grades in past English courses. It emphasizes a study of how writers use different styles to deal with various universal themes in literature. As part of the literature study, students refine critical reading skills and review composition skills as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. British and world authors will be studied and the historical background of important literary periods will be considered. The course prepares students for college work as well as for life and the pursuit of a career.

HONORS ENGLISH 12 - W

Grade - 12TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000244 000245         Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students with high proficiency in language skills. It will further develop and refine skills in sentence structure, English usage, mechanics, and paragraph and short-essay construction as outlined in our Course of Study and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts. Emphasis will be on organizing and developing a variety of coherent essays of the type students will be asked to produce in college. Intensive writing will gradually lead into more sophisticated essays based on critical reading of literature. Literature study will include non-fiction, classic works of the world, Shakespeare, and other British writers.

AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION - W

Grade - 11TH - 12TH Credit - 1.00 credit

Course Number - 000248 000249 Length of Course - Year

Prerequisite - 3.5 average in all previous English Classes and teacher recommendation. Advanced Placement Literature and Composition serves the interests of eleventh or twelfth-grade students who wish to pursue college-level study while still in secondary school. Students will be involved in both the study and practice of literature and writing. Through speaking, listening, and reading, but chiefly through their own experience of writing, students will become more aware of the resources of language: connotation, metaphor, imagery, syntax, and tone. Writing assignments will focus on the critical analysis of literature.In addition to rigorous writing assignments, students will be engaged in the careful reading of literary works. They will develop critical standards for the independent appreciation of any literary piece, and they will increase their sensitivity to literature as a shared experience. Students are expected to take the AP exam in May. This course has a summer reading requirement.

COLLEGE COMPOSITION I (CCP ENG 1010) - W

Grade - ALL Credit - 3.00 CCP 1.00 NOHS Credit

Course Number - 000270CCP                     Length of Course - Semester

Prerequisite: Appropriate Accuplacer Test Score and Teacher Recommendation

This will be a College Credit Plus course taught at North Olmsted High School by a North Olmsted teacher. All students will be dual-enrolled at Tri-C. This course focuses on the study and practice of academic writing, reading, and interpretation of selected texts. The course may be thematically organized. Prerequisite(s): Appropriate placement test score (Accuplacer, ACT, SAT). Course Requirements: By the end of their first writing course, students will have written a variety of texts with opportunities for response and revision and a minimum of 5000 total words (roughly 20 total pages of written work). Electronic or other projects of equivalent rigor and substance may be included, but the primary focus of the course must be the composing of formal written work. (3 semester hours).

COLLEGE COMPOSITION II (CCP ENG 1020) - W

Grade - All     Credit - 3.00 CCP 1.00 NOHS Credit

Course Number: - 000271CCP Length of Course - Semester

Prerequisite - CCP ENG 1010 and Teacher Recommendation

This course focuses on the study and practice of persuasive and argumentative writing with emphasis on analysis and research; reading and interpretation of selected texts. Course may be thematically organized. The second course in composition may take several forms. For example, it might be a continuation of the first course (such as the second of two first-year composition courses), an intermediate course in written exposition, or a writing-intensive course that is aligned with a specific discipline. However it is conceived, the course should build on the foundations of the first course, developing and expanding concepts and practices that were introduced in the first writing course. It must be a course that focuses on instruction in writing and must meet the following outcomes. Course Requirements: By the end of their second writing course, students will have written a variety of texts, including at least one researched essay, with opportunities for response and revision, and a minimum of 5000 total words (roughly 20 total pages of written work). Electronic or other projects of equivalent rigor and substance may be included, but the primary focus of the course must be the composing of formal written work. (3 semester hours)

CREATIVE WRITING

Grade - 11TH  - 12TH       Credit - .50 credit

Course Number - 000250     Length of Course - Semester

Prerequisite - Teacher recommendation

This course is designed for students who have an interest in creative writing, whether it be poetry, fiction, or drama. The course guides students in the development of their own unique style and voice, while at the same time focusing on writing polished pieces of work to be shared with their peers and on occasion with the larger school community. This course includes a study of published poets, fiction writers, and dramatists, who will serve as role models to inspire students and to provide examples of what great writing looks like. The course also frequently utilizes peer evaluation, as the course will be structured as a workshop, encouraging students to help each other revise and edit their work.

READING ELECTIVE

Grade - 9TH - 12TH       Credit - .25 credit

Course Number - 000200     Length of Course - Semester

Prerequisite - Scores and teacher recommendation

The objective of the course is to enable students to strengthen their comprehension of instructional-level and grade-level reading materials. Students will achieve this by applying skills and strategies designed to increase decoding skills to improve reading rate, comprehension, and fluency. They will read multiple genres to include American literature, such as reading selected stories, dramas, and poetry. This course focuses on learning and applying comprehension strategies to better understand text.

READING FOUNDATIONS

Grade - 9TH - 12TH       Credit - .50 credit

Course Number - 900207 900208                Length of Course - Semester

Prerequisite - Scores and teacher recommendation

This course is designed to remediate weaknesses in foundational reading skills so that students are able

to decode words and comprehend text effectively. Students will work on developing the following

skills: building phonemic awareness and phonics skills to include identifying and manipulating speech

sounds, attending to sound-symbol relationships, spelling accuracy, accurate letter, word, and text

reading, vocabulary development, and text comprehension strategies through the use of a multisensory

learning education program. Each student works toward mastery of these skills at their own pace.