Period 3, Room 145
Contact: ddellafera@westfieldnjk12.org
This honors course is an advanced program for the tenth grade student who demonstrates mature motivation and a genuine commitment to learning. Students are expected to demonstrate a love of language and literature, independence as learners, and active engagement in class. English II builds on the English I curriculum, which focuses on forging independent identities of a personal and cultural nature and on the fundamental elements of literature and composition. English II broadens the scope of English I to include a wider variety of literary genres and to examine more closely authors’ language, techniques, and styles. The texts studied in this course draw heavily from the literature of the former and existing nations of the British Commonwealth. The course emphasizes the use of language; authors’ approaches to subject and genre; thematic connections spanning temporal, social, national, and cultural distances; and growth from the personal perspective to the universal one.