English

3 credits

Prerequisite: None

英语九是针对所有没有参加高级英语九的新生.

Reading novels, poetry, drama, and non-fiction are all cornerstones of the English 9 curriculum.  Through discussion and writing, students will examine how texts relate to the human experience and its many aspects: love, conflict, choices, destiny, and society.  Over the course of the year, students will grow in their grammar and writing mechanics with one in-class essay and one summative essay each trimester.  大一新生将有机会阅读广泛的希腊神话文本, Shakespeare, Minnesota author Sandra Benitez, and many more diverse voices. 

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will study and use new vocabulary words.
• 学生将展示撰写正式结论性文章的能力, as well as in-class essays each trimester.
• 学生将阅读和研究主要的文学作品和作家.
• 学生将展示在语法、标点和句子结构方面的能力.
• 学生将学习组织和向同龄人发表演讲.
• 学生将把科技作为一种额外的学习工具.

3 credits

学生必须保持“C”的平均成绩才能继续学习高级英语.

Prerequisites: 学习高级英语9的学生应该精通英语, have a grade of A in English 8, and have a score in the 90th percentile on the placement exam or take the AHA English placement offered in the spring of the eighth grade year.

Advantages: Weighted grade; Advanced Placement tests junior and/or senior year.
This is a class for a student who truly loves to read and enjoys studying literature and writing, possesses analytical skills, 喜欢在具有挑战性的材料上独立和合作工作. 高级英语9提供古典希腊语的深入研究, British, and American novels and plays along with poetry, mythology, and more contemporary texts. Students will work to strengthen their grammar usage and style for greater clarity in their writing. 总的来说，这门课的重点是写作和批判性思维技能. 最后，学生应该在学校的主要假期阅读指定的文本.

Learner Outcomes:

• 学生将写几篇主要的论文，包括文学的批判性分析.
• 学生将阅读、讨论和分析各种体裁的作品.
• Students will deliver oral presentations.
• Students will expand critical thinking skills.
• 学生将把科技作为一种额外的学习工具.
• Students will study and apply new vocabulary.
• 学生将展示在语法、标点和句子结构方面的能力

3 credits

Prerequisite: None

英语10课程适用于非高级英语10课程的大二学生.

英语10是一门以写作和文学为基础的课程，强调词汇, proper writing mechanics, grammar, and literary elements. Students will examine diverse literature including Greek, American, British, and world texts. Students will also write a formal research paper, working on it throughout one trimester. The course lays the foundation for English 11 and 12.

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will review and practice the paragraph structure (argumentative and creative) first trimester, writing different types of paragraphs.
• 学生将展示撰写正式结论性文章的能力 as well as in-class essays each trimester.
• Students will read and study several authors analyzing the perspectives and experiences they bring to their respective texts.
• Students will prepare and give oral presentations.
• Students will study and recognize new vocabulary words.
• 学生将写一篇研究论文，包括初稿和定稿.
• 学生将展示在语法、标点和句子结构方面的能力.

3 credits

学生必须保持“C”的平均成绩才能继续学习高级英语. 

Prerequisites: Advanced English 9 or an A in English 9, teacher recommendation, 需要额外的课外阅读才能过渡到高级课程.

Advantages: Weighted grade; Advanced Placement tests in junior and/or senior year

Advanced English 10 delves into the growth of British Literature and its reflection of the social, economic, religious, and political views of its differing time periods. The course begins with Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon writings; students then study Chaucer and the Medieval Period before learning about the influential poets and writers from the Renaissance. Sophomores continue their studies of British Literature by focusing on arguments from the Age of Reason, reading novels such as Frankenstein and Jane Eyre, and performing the drama Macbeth. These texts invite students to partake in intellectual conversations and written analysis; every trimester students write at least one in-class essay and one formal summative essay. 

学生们应该在学校的主要假期阅读指定的小说. 他们将在阅读的过程中提高口头和书面沟通技巧, discuss, react and support their opinions, write compositions, and work cooperatively with their peers.

Learner Outcomes:

• 学生将写两篇主要的文学分析和批评论文, and several shorter compositions each trimester.
• Students will read and study major authors and literary genres of British history and literature.
• Students will prepare and give oral presentations.
• Students will study and recognize new vocabulary.
• 学生将写一篇主要的研究论文，包括草稿和定稿.
• 学生将展示在语法、标点和句子结构方面的能力. 

3 credits

Prerequisite: None

英语11课程适用于所有未参加AP英语11课程的大三学生.

This chronological survey of American literature allows students the opportunity to appreciate and understand their literary heritage as they make connections between the past and present. 第一学期从美国早期文学选段开始 The Scarlet Letter, and continues with poetry and selections from the Literary Nationalist era and America’s Golden Era.

Trimesters two and three cover mid-19th century to the 20th century as students read short stories and novels.

Modern literature includes The Great Gatsby (1925), The Harvest Gypsies (1930s), Death of a Salesman (1940s), Fences (1950s), Fools Crow (1986) and other selections. 学生将在阅读中提高口头和书面沟通能力, discuss, react and support their opinions, write, and work cooperatively with others.

Learner Outcomes:

• 学生将展示撰写正式结论性文章的能力, as well as in-class essays each trimester.
• Students will write various short compositions.
• Students will study American authors.
• Students will analyze American literature and history and read from several genres: non-fiction, novels, short stories, poetry, and plays.
• Students will prepare and give oral presentations.
• 学生将展示在机械和标点符号方面的能力

3 credits

学生必须保持“C”的平均成绩才能继续参加AP英语语言和写作.

Prerequisites: Advanced English 9, Advanced English 10, or an A average in English and teacher recommendation with required outside reading to transition into the AP track.

Advantages: Advanced Placement Exam in Language and Composition offered in May; college credit through PACC; weighted grade.

参加AP课程的学生将准备并参加5月份的AP考试. 任何弃权必须得到导师和校长的批准.

This class is for the serious, dedicated English student. Highly demanding, the course is taught as a college course. The student should be able to work independently on both in-class and out-of-class reading and writing assignments. AP英语语言和写作将主要关注修辞学, a survey of American literature and history, and nonfiction.

这门课将着重于批判性阅读、修辞和文体分析. The goal is to create strong writers. Students will write essays of all types: argumentative, expository, analytical, and personal. 他们将学习各种形式的文学和非小说. 他们将熟悉不同时期的散文, disciplines, and rhetorical situations. 教学内容包括AP语言和写作考试准备. 学生应该在学校的主要假期完成作业.

Learner Outcomes:

• 学生将阅读和学习许多不同类型的文学和非小说类作品.
• Students will write a wide variety of essays, with an emphasis on rhetorical analysis, synthesis, and argument.
• 学生将学习和练习修辞演讲和写作.
• 学生将学习为特定的读者和目的而写作.
• 学生将学习识别和运用修辞策略.
• 学生将分析美国的文学和历史. 

3 credits

Grade Level: 12

For all seniors: this class emphasizes skills that students will need in college courses.

在本课程中，学生将从地理角度阅读世界文学. 我们通过文学发现了人们的文化, while incorporating background information of cultural values and the context of the works.  Students also reflect on how their own cultural beliefs and experiences influence their view of the world today.  Reading selections range from ancient texts (Gilgamesh)到当代作家写的现代短篇小说(戈蒂默).  除了文学之外，本课程还强调各种大学写作技巧.

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will write both critically and creatively, including analysis, comparison and contrast, and narrative.
• 学生将展示撰写正式结论性文章的能力, as well as in-class essays each trimester.
• 学生将区分和应用文学分析的术语.
• Students will be able to identify, examine, 并分析在小说和非小说中发现的普遍主题.
• Students will demonstrate competency in writing mechanics.

3 credits

Students must maintain a "C" average to remain in AP English Literature and Composition.

Prerequisites:  Advanced English 9, Advanced English 10, AP English Language and Composition, and/or teacher recommendation with required outside reading to transition into the AP track.

Advantages: Advanced Placement in Literature and Composition exam offered in May; college credit through PACC; weighted grade

For the serious, dedicated English student. Highly demanding, the course operates as a college course.

参加AP课程的学生将准备并参加5月份的AP考试. 任何弃权必须得到导师和校长的批准.

AP English Literature and Composition examines major pieces of world literature ranging from the classical to the modern. Students will read, discuss and analyze, and write about works by Shakespeare, Voltaire, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, and many others. 此外，学生将学习现代诗歌和短篇小说. Writing will be a major component of study, 学生将接受各种散文风格的指导. 指导将包括AP文学和写作考试准备. 学生们应该在学校的主要假期阅读指定的小说.

Learner Outcomes:

• 学生每学期将写三到四篇主要论文.
• 学生每学期将阅读和讨论三到四部主要文学作品.
• Students will learn to research and use literary criticism.
• Students will teach a literary work to the class.