English 30

Course #030

5 Periods

5 Credits

Prerequisites: Grade 11 only. Students recommended and assigned for this course.

This course is designed for students who need intensive individualized help in the skill areas of reading, vocabulary, writing, spelling, grammar, and dictionary skills with additional emphasis on verbal and written expression.

English 31 CP1

Course # 031

5 Periods

5 Credits

Prerequisites: Grade 11 Students.

This course will further develop those skills taught in English 21. Reading will stress American Literature, with emphasis on comtemporary works. Reading will also include current newspapers and periodicals. Vocabulary studies will be related to students' reading in literature. A variety of writing will be based on their personal expirences, on ideas encountered in their reading, and on issues observed in current affairs. A research project is mandatory during junior year.

English 32 CP2

Course# 032

5 Periods

5 Credits

Prerequisites: A grade of at least 70 in English 22 and teacher recommendation.

This course offers a survey of readings from American Literature as well as an intensive study of Hamlet and Shakespearean tradition. It also provides for serious guided reading in several important modern novels and encourages free reading according to individual capacitites and interests. Exercises in vocabulary building are continued. There are general practices in punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure, grammar and the essay form. A research paper makes use of the basic skills taught in English 22 and goes on to include the research form, integration of quotations, argumentation, effective development, critical study, and overall oragnization. Special attention and individual help are given to students preparing for the SAT's.

English 33H

Course # 033

5 Periods

5 Credits

Prerequisites: A grade of at least 80 in English 23H and teacher recommendation.

English 33H is designed for those students who have achieved satisfactory progess in English 23 and those who have demonstrated markedly superior ability in English 22. The main stress will be a study of American Literature from 1620 to the present. Special attention will be paid to the shifting base of literary thought and literary style as they reflect a shift in basic Ameriacan thought.

Composition work will stress critical essays. Special consideration will be given to arrangement and development of ideas and transition between paragraphs.

In grammar, the basic rules will be discussed individually with students who demonstrate weakness in a given area. Additional concepts such as parallelism, faulty reference, etc., will be taught to the class as a whole.

Vocabulary study in English 33, as in the other two years, will stress word building through use of common prefixes, roots and suffixes.

Special attention and individual help are given to students preparing for the SAT's.