Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 0730
Ohio’s Learning Standards in grade 11 call for students to be able to understand and analyze substantive, complex expository works of literary nonfiction as well as a diverse spectrum of stories, poems, plays, and novels. Students will produce ample amounts of evidence to support inferences. Students will perform a variety of complex reading tasks focused on recurrent themes in American literature and foundational works of American political philosophy, from grasping the subtleties of an author’s point of view to perceiving when a text leaves matters ambiguous. Students will become skilled at determining how multiple themes or ideas combine and intertwine to produce a complex narrative or explanation as well as evaluate the premises, arguments, and rhetoric present in seminal texts from American history. This course will prepare students for college and careers. Students will demonstrate their listening skills by synthesizing the comments and claims of others and exercising outstanding teamwork when functioning in groups. Students will respond thoughtfully when encountering diverse perspectives will present findings both orally and in writing. Students will excel at making oral and written arguments that are logical and well-reasoned, objectively assessing the evidence on all sides of an issue. Students will possess the fluency, flexibility, and focus to produce high-quality drafts under tight deadlines and be equally proficient at editing and revising their written work (over multiple drafts if needed).
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 0735
The goals of an AP English Language and Composition course are diverse because the college composition course is one of the most varied in the curriculum. Although the college course provides students with opportunities to write about a variety of subjects from a variety of disciplines and to demonstrate an awareness of audience and purpose, the overarching objective in most first-year writing courses is to enable students to write effectively and confidently in their
college courses across the curriculum and in their professional and personal lives. Most composition courses emphasize the expository, analytical and argumentative writing that forms the basis of academic and professional communication, as well as the personal and reflective writing that fosters the development of writing facility in any context. In addition, most composition courses teach students that the expository, analytical and argumentative writing they must do in college
is based on reading as well as on personal experience and observation. Composition courses, therefore, teach students to read primary and secondary sources carefully, to synthesize material from these texts in their own compositions, and to cite sources using conventions recommended by professional organizations such as the Modern Language Association (MLA), the University of Chicago Press (The Chicago Manual of Style), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Council of Biology Editors (CBE).
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 0740
In grade 12, Ohio’s Learning Standards call for students to examine an increasingly complex and diverse set of literary genres. Students also perform a variety of complex reading tasks focused on recurrent themes in British and world literature and foundational works of British and world political philosophy, from grasping the subtleties of an author’s point of view to perceiving when a text leaves matters ambiguous. Students hone their abilities in determining how multiple themes or ideas combine and intertwine to produce a complex narrative or explanation as well as evaluating the premises, arguments, and rhetoric present in seminal texts from British and world history. Students will fine tune their listening and speaking skills by synthesizing the comments and claims of others and exercising outstanding teamwork when functioning in groups. Finally, in grade 12, students excel at making oral and written arguments that are logical and well-reasoned, objectively assessing the evidence on all sides of an issue. At this point, the Writing Standards specify that students should possess the fluency, flexibility, and focus to produce high-quality drafts under tight deadlines and be equally proficient at editing and revising their written work (over multiple drafts if needed).
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 0745
An AP English Literature and Composition course engages students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students consider a work’s
structure, style and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism and tone. Reading in an AP course is both wide and deep. This reading necessarily builds upon and complements the reading done in previous English courses so that by the time students complete their AP course, they will have read works from several genres and periods — from the 16th to the 21st century. More importantly, they will have gotten to know a few works well. In the course, they read deliberately and thoroughly, taking time to understand a work’s complexity, to absorb its richness of meaning, and to analyze how that meaning is embodied in literary form. In addition to considering a work’s literary artistry, students reflect on the social and historical values it reflects and embodies. Careful attention to both textual detail and historical context provides a foundation for interpretation, whatever critical perspectives are brought to bear on the literary works studied. Writing is an integral part of the AP English
Literature and Composition course and exam. Writing assignments focus on the critical analysis of literature and include expository, analytical and argumentative essays. Because the AP course depends on the development of interpretive skills as students learn to write and read with increasing complexity and sophistication, the AP English Literature and Composition course is intended to be a full-year course.
*Dual Enrollment college courses are semester long. They require an application & college ready test scores. The classes below are Dual Enrollment courses that CCHS offers for sophomores.
Credit: 1 (1 semester)
Course Code: ENGL1100
English 1100 is a beginning composition course which develops processes for critically reading, writing, and responding to a variety of texts in order to compose clear, concise, expository essays. The course facilitates an awareness of purpose, audience, content, structure and style, while also introducing research and documentation methods. Course reading and writing assignments may be thematically organized.
Lecture: 3 hours
Credit: 1 (1 semester)
Course Code: ENGL2367
This course is an intermediate composition course that extends and refines skills in expository and argumentative writing, critical reading, and critical thinking. This course also refines skills in researching a topic, documenting sources, and working collaboratively. Course reading and writing assignments are organized around the diversity of those who comprise the identities.
Lecture: 3 hours