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R=Fulfills graduation requirement at grade level.
E=Elective and the year student is eligible for the course.
4 credits of English are required for graduation.
Course #: 100 & 101 Length: 2 Trimesters Grade Level: 9 Credit: 1.0
This course is for freshmen, and it provides the foundation for the quality and rigor of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language skills expected in all Sauk Prairie English classes. Students will explore texts, write literary analysis, argument, and exposition, and speak about issues surrounding identity, family, and social justice.
Course #: 102 & 103 Length: 2 Trimesters Grade Level: 10 Credit: 1.0
This course employs a workshop model. This model treats students as individuals and focuses on authentic, process-based writing. Instructors try to help each student find meaningful writing tasks and progress in their writing skills by providing weekly verbal feedback and targeted mini-lessons. In reading, instructors focus on teaching transferable reading skills, balancing student choice, and maximizing reading volume with exposure to culturally relevant texts.
Course #: 104 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11 Credit: 0.5
This one trimester course focuses on reading. Students strengthen reading strategies to match the rigor of the texts they are reading. This course will include both choice and whole-class reads.
Course #: 105 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11 Credit: 0.5
This course follows a writing workshop model as students write in multiple genres. Students will choose their topics of writing and grow to give and receive constructive criticism.
Course #: 112 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
This course is for students wishing to focus on writing and reading skills for the real world, college, and creative situations. It focuses on the six types of writing: express and reflect, inform and explain, evaluate and judge, inquire and explore, analyze and interpret, and taking a stand and proposing a solution. Evaluation will be based on composition skills in the writing of formal and informal writing projects. Self motivation is essential for this writing workshop course.
Course #: 113 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
This trimester writing course offers continued instruction and guidance for that last push before college. It mirrors a college freshman English course in reading and writing topics, expectations, and pace. We focus on reading and writing exposition -- informative, comparison, classification, process analysis, definition, cause and effect, and research. Half of the trimester focuses on persuasion--how to read it and how to write it, as well as how to synthesize numerous documents to support an argument. Non-fiction readings will form a basis for discussion and serve as models for writing.
Course #: 114 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
This course allows students to experiment with writing creatively. Using the writing process, students will move from a simple idea to a polished piece of writing. Short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction (well-told true stories) are studied and practiced. Students should expect to write extensively each day.
Course #: 127 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
Recommended Course: Creative Writing
This advanced course is designed for students who have completed Creative Writing. Advanced Creative Writing offers students a space to practice managing their own goals and writing process while upholding high expectations for both quantity and quality of work. An emphasis will be placed on sharing written work with a genuine audience to give students an opportunity to see themselves in a new light: that of a published writer.
Course #: 117 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
This course focuses on English used to enter and succeed in the workplace. Students use researching techniques, business applications, and formal writing. Goal setting along with workplace etiquette and survival are also covered. Evaluation is based on discussions, written assignments, and examinations. THIS COURSE MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR ENGLISH CREDIT BY SOME COLLEGES OR THE NCAA CLEARINGHOUSE.
Course #: 128 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 10-12 Credit: 0.5
This course is based on the idea that oral communication "should build, inspire, teach, or in some way motivate others." Students will read, listen to, and prepare speeches that cover multiple topics, purposes and audiences such as demonstrations of expertise and toasts of honor. Students will also have the opportunity to practice live interviews and guide social conversations. This class is for students at any comfort level wishing to increase their oral communication. THIS COURSE MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR ENGLISH CREDIT BY SOME COLLEGES OR THE NCAA CLEARINGHOUSE.
Course #: 110 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
This course is intended to provide background and understanding about the myths and legends of the ancient world and the widespread influence of them in our language today. Several formal papers will be written. Good reading and study skills are essential.
Course #: 125 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
This course will help students analyze the literary, social, and historical aspects of essays, novels, drama, short stories, and poetry written by people of Mexican descent in the United States, revealing the progression of culture in America as interpreted by Mexican American writers who seek to define themselves and their relationship to American society.
Course #: 129 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
In this course, students will have the opportunity to delve into imagined lands and societies through science fiction and fairy tales. This upperclassman course will focus on archetypes, heroes' journeys, cautionary tales, societal critiques, and familiar characters while reading and writing about literature.
Course #: 122 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
Let’s talk drama! The drama of stage and screen, that is. In this one-trimester course, students will study beloved stories from theatre and movies, examining dramatic literature (plays), fiction (short stories/novellas), film, and the relationships among them. Students will read and analyze plays, screenplays, librettos, short stories, and novellas and examine their film counterparts, studying the process of transforming written material to the stage and screen. Additionally, students will create their own screenplay, original or adapted, as a final project.
Course #: 121 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
In this course, students will examine a variety of sports literature, write and converse about issues confronting sports in our society, and discuss connections between sports and society. Themes studied include [but are not limited to and are subject to change—based on current events]: leadership and character, ethics of sport and competition, rivalries, success and failure, heroes, gender in sports, race in sports, purpose of sports, individual and team, etc. Essential questions this course seeks to consider are: How is our culture expressed through the sports we play and in which we participate? How do sports define ourselves and our culture? Students should have an interest in and appreciation of English and athletics, as they will be expected to complete assigned readings, discuss in large and small groups, write short and extended essays, and research and deliver presentations to the class.
Course #: 126 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
This course is designed for students who are pursuing careers (or who are passionate hobbyists) in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. In preparation for the substantial and rigorous writing demanding by post-secondary STEM studies, students will spend the trimester honing their STEM writing and analysis skills by producing writing forms foundational to their field(s) of interest.
Further, students will produce a written work or multimedia project with the purpose of raising the general public's awareness of a STEM concept or issue.
Course #: 120 Length: 1 Trimester Grade Level: 11-12 Credit: 0.5
The typical reading load for colleges is 200-600 pages a week. Strategic Reading Strategies is a course designed to increase reading stamina and expose students to the type of rigorous reading required in colleges. Students will focus on building reading skills and understanding the content and structure of various texts including, but not limited to: textbooks, primary documents, scholarly journals, articles, works of fiction, and student choice for individual reading.
(offered in even graduation years, next offered in 2023-2024)
Course #: 130 & 131 Length: 2 Trimesters Grade Level: 12 Credit: 1.0
This course is designed for students interested in challenging themselves by working at a college freshman level. This course focuses on critical reading and analysis of non-fiction, as well as honing expository and persuasive writing skills. Upon completing this course, students will have the opportunity to take the Advanced Placement English Language Exam. Both juniors and seniors are welcome. This class is offered every other year alternating with Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition.
(offered in odd graduation years, next offered in 2024-2025)
Course #: 132 & 133 Length: 2 Trimesters Grade Level: 12 Credit: 1.0
This course serves as an introductory, college-level literary analysis course. Students cultivate their understanding of literature through reading and analyzing texts as they explore concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, figurative language, comparison, and literary analysis in the context of literary works. Students develop advanced critical thinking, analytical and argumentative writing, and articulate speaking skills that are highly transferable to every college major or program of study. Upon completing the course, students have the opportunity to take the AP English Literature and Composition Exam. Both juniors and seniors are welcome. This class is offered every other year, alternating with Advanced Placement English Language and Composition.
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