2009-2010 Courses

English I: World Literatures (Honors)

COURSE TITLE:                    English I: World Literatures (Honors)
LEVEL:                                 9th Grade (Honors)
LENGTH/CREDITS:               Full Year and 1.5 Credit
PREREQUISITES:                 Placement based on Lexile scores

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course utilizes world literatures to introduce students to various genres and terms of literature; emphasizes further development of reading comprehension skills, while also beginning to develop the processes of effective critical reading and thinking; emphasizes writing in a variety of forms and for a variety of purposes; stresses the fundamentals of grammar and usage and the study of vocabulary and spelling, both for the purpose of improving the student's own reading and writing; introduces research techniques and citation methods; and explores several models of speaking, listening, and viewing. In preparation for English I: World Literatures, over the summer all incoming students will read a work of literature, selected each year by the English Department; an assessment of the summer reading will be part of the first grading period.