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HONORS
INDIVIDUAL &
SOCIETY
Grade 12
.5 Credit
(5074)
Honors Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5011 or 5012), English 10 (5024 or 5025),
English 11 (5032)
This course gives students the opportunity to work in depth with issues
that affect our lives as well as to examine the forces that shape an
individual within a given society. Several novels will be used to explore
issues such as beauty, gender, race, and justice. Students should be
prepared to read and analyze additional independently read literature.
Reading, sharing insights, working collaboratively, and completing both
oral and written projects will be required.
LITERATURE IN
A COMPETITIVE
SOCIETY
Grade 12
.5 Credit
(5075)
CCP Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5012), English 10 (5025), English 11 (5033)
Students in this course will read a variety of sports related literature and
focus on a variety of sports related issues. Students will take part in daily
discussions and develop writing assignments based on what is studied
throughout the course. Students will examine, through literature, the role
that sports play in society and in life.
THE AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE:
THE ROLE OF
LESSER HEARD
VOICES
Grades 11/12 Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5012), English 10 (5025)
1 Credit:
.5 SS Credit
.5 English Credit
(5076)
CCP
G
WORLD
LITERATURE
Grade 12
.5 Credit
(5081)
CCP
G
The American Experience is a full-year course open to junior and senior
students that examines historically oppressed social and ethnic groups and
analyzes related literature in the United States. This course is split-period
and team-taught between social studies and English. Topics of discussion
include a social and historical overview of these groups and related civil
rights issues in our nation’s history. Analysis of related texts will allow us
to see the ways in which these groups have overcome oppression and
gained agency in our nation. Further, this course will examine the ways in
which literature and social movements have contributed to, been
influenced by, and transformed America, and continue to do so. Students
who successfully complete this course will receive one- half social studies
elective credit and one-half English credit. This course may fulfil the .5
credit literature requirement for seniors.
Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5011 or 5012), English 10 (5024 or 5025),
English 11 (5032 or 5033)
In Survey of World Literature students read the poetry, plays, short stories,
and novels written by some of the world’s greatest authors. Students read
and respond in writing to works that reflect universal themes relevant to
their own lives. Students read works from various cultures in the context
of their history, religion, and philosophy. Students are expected to
participate in discussions based on the literature in order to write to
synthesize, explore, and interpret ideas.
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