This required course uses an historical approach to literature from ancient civilization to early modern time. Literary genres will include fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, and the short story. Students will experience reading, writing, listening, viewing, and speaking in this course. Oral and written communication skills will be developed through vocabulary, spelling, and grammar usage. This humanities approach facilitates closer monitoring of assessment and growth with increased opportunities for acquisition, analysis, and application.

The second year of this required Humanities course blends the study of American history and American literature from the discovery of America to the birth of our nation and through the Civil War. This course examines the impact society has had on writings of specific time periods. Literary genres will include fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, and the short story. Students will experience reading, writing, listening, viewing, and speaking in this course. Oral and written communication skills will continue to be developed through vocabulary, spelling, and grammar usage. This humanities approach facilitates closer monitoring of assessment and growth across two content areas.

This required course will acquaint students with significant literature from the twentieth century. As with all the Humanities classes, this class will work in cooperation with the American History class to coordinate lessons that reflect the philosophical, historical, moral, and social forces that have defined the American way of life. This course will further develop communication skills through both written and oral expression. Literary genres will include fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, and the short story.

This first-semester course is designed for students at the college-prep level with a desire to attend a traditional two- or four-year college. Readings will expose students to a selection of British and world literature classics as well as modern pieces that explore the world of literature through multicultural perspectives. Reading instruction will expand the student's understanding of literature through close reading, discussion, analysis, writing, role-playing, and seminar approaches. Literary works will provide a catalyst for class discussions, literature circles, and personal responses, and promote a better understanding of the reading and meaning-making process. Writing will offer students an opportunity to explore the power of words and their own "voice" of expression as they draft and polish the College Essay and find their narrative voices. Assignments will emphasize traditional rhetorical patterns such as description, narration, comparison/contrast, definition, and argumentation. Process writing is emphasized.

This full-year course is designed for students who need more time to develop reading and writing skills. It will help to prepare them for a world beyond high school, whether that is a traditional two- or four-year college, or the workplace. English 12 Language and Literature—Shorter Forms combines one semester primarily focused on reading and one semester primarily focused on writing. Readings will explore the world of literature through multicultural perspectives. Selected authors mayinclude Amy Tan, Gary Soto, Alice Walker, and Richard Wright. These pieces will provide a catalyst for class discussions, literary circles, and personal responses, and promote a better understanding of the reading and meaning-making process. Writing will reinforce such skills as sentence and paragraph structure as well as the writing process. Communication skills needed to compete in college and in the working world will be an essential component. The skills taught in the writing semester are valuable for students who intend on working while in college or who plan to become active members of the working community upon high school graduation.

This course is designed for students who have proven they have exceptional abilities in English and who have demonstrated the ability to workindependently. The Advanced Placement course will combine reading and composition in various kinds of expository and argumentative prose with college-based literature readings from plays, poetry, and fiction. Course materials will include various types of literature such as the Classics, the Romantic poets, world literature, Shakespeare (with some of his contemporaries) and 20th and 21st century literature. Students will focus their studies on analysis and discussion, working toward being able to present their ideas in Exceptional level essays and papers. Parents and students should be aware that the major themes of Judaic and Christian religions will be studied, as these are an integral part in understanding many pieces of literature. Students will be expected to take the AP English Literature Composition exam (based on teacher recommendation) in May of the school year. There is a fee for this exam which may earn the student college credit.

This is a four-credit UConn course. Students must earn a 73 average or higher in order to earn UConn credit.

*On Beauty* is primarily a writing-intensive course that is designed to develop academic writing through the process of reading, writing, and revising. It consists of both seminar and studio activities. This course will provide a student's first component of UConn's Information Literacy Competency, which is the ability to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively

This course fulfills the English credit requirement OR the applied technology/practical arts credit requirement. Creative Writing is a survey course that involves the study of the characteristics and techniques of various types of writing such as the sketch, short story, poetry, media scripts, and the like. It also introduces students to the relation of content to form. The impetus of this introductory class is not only to be literary, but to develop a willingness to experiment with different writing styles and techniques. This class teaches how to use language that is vivid, passionate, and elaborate while teaching editing skills that increase the accuracy of the writing. Students in Creative Writing are encouraged to submit their writings for written publication. Oral publication is required for each best draft.

This course fulfills the English credit requirement OR the applied technology/practical arts credit requirement. Advanced Creative Writing is a continuation of the work begun in C eative Writing. Advanced CW is a production based course. Students will consider the pieces that they wrote in CW , and work to revise and expand them. Students in AC W will develop their previously written poems, short story, narrative podcast script and one act play/short film script into a full thematic poetry collection, a novella, a full season of a podcast series scripts, and a full play/film script. Students will also be expected to ready their work for publication (poetry and novella), audio production (podcast series) and visual production (one act or one scene from their respective play/short film).

Visual Literature is geared towards those students looking to strengthen their academic writing. Art, print advertisements, commercials, short films and feature length films, much like novels, can be read and understood as reflections of the geographic, economic and social environments that produce them. In Visual Literature students will look at different artistic mediums and consider how these reflect other arts, social & political currents, and how film itself forms a distinct medium of expression. An emphasis in this course will be placed on expository writing; however, students will also participate in shorter responses, active critical viewing, analytic writing, short research writing, and seminar discussion. Students will explore the aesthetics of artwork, print media and narrative features and study major film styles and study major film styles and genres

In our print-oriented culture, most of our exposure to Shakespeare has been through reading the text in class. Shakespeare, however, intended his words to be heard and actualized through stage performance. This course is designed to extend and deepen a student's understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of Shakespeare's work. We will focus on close readings of the text; critical viewing and analysis of live performance and film; and through experimentation with performance. Reading aloud, using film/video to realize short scenes, and recitation of particular speeches will enable students to richly interact with some of the most important work in English literature. This course places greater emphasis upon the teacher and students discovering their connections to the plays than studying critical interpretations of Shakespeare. No prior experience with performance is necessary.

In our print-oriented culture, most of our exposure to Shakespeare has been through reading the text in class. Shakespeare, however, intended his words to be heard and actualized through stage performance. This course is designed to extend and deepen a student's understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of Shakespeare's work. We will focus on close readings of the text; critical viewing and analysis of live performance and film; and through experimentation with performance. Reading aloud, using film/video to realize short scenes, and recitation of particular speeches will enable students to richly interact with some of the most important work in English literature. This course places greater emphasis upon the teacher and students discovering their connections to the plays than studying critical interpretations of Shakespeare. No prior experience with performance is necessary.

Students electing the Communications English course will learn to think critically and communicate clearly and appropriately. The course will address the five modes of language: reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Writing assignments will introduce a number of motives for writing: to explore an idea, to report information, to interpret, to evaluate, to amuse, and to persuade. Assignments will most always be from personal response with each assignment emphasizing traditional rhetorical patterns such as description, narration, comparison/contrast, definition, and argumentation. Students will produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practice essential skills of paragraph organization, and complete exercises and assignments which emphasize the process of editing and revision. Through viewing, reading, and writing, students will develop techniques for discovering their purpose in writing, finding a topic, planning and outlining, and drafting and revising. Students in this course will also spend a great deal of time learning about effective oral communication and developing/delivering effective oral presentations. These will include speech preparation, developing support material, creating visual aids, conducting research, organizing, delivery, use of voice and audience.