Course Description

This senior-year English Language Arts course invites students to explore a diverse collection of texts across 12 units. Students will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of both classic and contemporary literature. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, students will learn and apply comprehension and literary-analysis strategies. Tasks will encourage students to strengthen their oral language skills and produce creative, coherent writing. Students will read a range of classic texts, including the ancient epic Gilgamesh, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. They will also study short but complex texts, including essays by Jonathan Swift and Mary Wollstonecraft, and influential speeches by Queen Elizabeth I and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Contemporary texts by Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and Chinua Achebe round out the course.

Guided Notes

Semester 1

Semester 2

Project Documents

Creating a Brochure

Creating a Resume

Formal Debate

Creating a Movie Poster

Museum Exhibit

Storyboard