English 9 – S1

Course Code: OEN002/202
State Code: 01001
Grades: 9-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: English for grade 9 is an integrated curriculum. Each unit contains thematically related lessons in five domains: reading and the study of literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening, and language study, which includes word knowledge and grammar skills. Topics are presented in ways that help young adolescents relate literacy skills to other aspects of their lives. Writing assignments include narrative, expository, and persuasive/argumentative modes and emphasize the use of details and reasoning to support ideas. Speaking and listening lessons in Semester A emphasize collaborative discussion skills and peer review. Vocabulary development instruction is integrated into literature and informational text lessons. Each unit ends with an authentic assessment that presents students with a real-world scenario requiring some of the skills they learned in the unit.

English 9 – S2

Course Code: OEN002/202
State Code: 01001
Grades: 9-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: Like semester A, semester B consists of integrated units focused on a theme or mode of study. Literature study in semester B focuses on the analysis of different forms of literature and on comparative studies of world literature and literature delivered in different media. Writing and informational text lessons guide students through the stages of research and demonstrate how to evaluate, integrate, and share the information gathered during research. Students are required to share their ideas and analysis using several different modes, including oral and multimedia presentations.

Honors English 9 – S1

Course Code: OEN003/203
State Code: 01001
Grades: 9-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: English Honors for grade 9 is an integrated curriculum with challenging assignments aimed at preparing Honors-level students for advanced work in the study of literature and language arts. Each unit contains thematically related lessons in five domains: reading and the study of literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening, and language study, which includes word knowledge and grammar skills. Topics are presented in ways that help young adolescents relate literacy skills to other aspects of their lives. Writing assignments include narrative, expository, and persuasive/argumentative modes and emphasize the use of details and reasoning to support ideas. Speaking and listening lessons in Semester A emphasize collaborative discussion skills and peer review. Vocabulary development instruction is integrated into literature and informational text lessons. Each unit ends with an authentic assessment that presents students with a real-world scenario requiring some of the skills they learned in the unit. Assignments that are specific to the Honors level of this course ask students to apply advanced skills earlier in the course and more often than students in the regular version of English 9. For example, students move immediately beyond the identification of literary elements or aspects of informational text to the analysis of these components. Likewise, Honors students don’t simply recognize and describe rhetorical strategies—they also use these strategies to create specific effects. Some Honors assignments require students to go one step farther in developing an assignment—for instance, writing an essay after generating ideas for the essay using the worksheet provided to students in the regular course. Clear and extensive guidelines are provided for each Honors assignment along with a detailed rubric for evaluation.

Honors English 9 – S2

Course Code: OEN003/203
State Code: 01001
Grades: 9-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: Like semester A, semester B consists of integrated units focused on a theme or mode of study. Literature study in semester B focuses on the analysis of different forms of literature and on comparative studies of world literature and literature delivered in different media. Writing and informational text lessons guide students through the stages of research and demonstrate how to evaluate, integrate, and share the information gathered during research. Students are required to share their ideas and analysis using several different modes, including oral and multimedia presentations. Honors students are expected to complete additional assignments throughout the course that build on the content provided. These assignments, like an essay that analyzes the literature of a culture, makes these students go above and beyond the curriculum content in creativity and application.

English 10 – S1

Course Code: OEN073/273
State Code: 01002
Grades: 10th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: Language Arts 9
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: In English 10 semester 1, students learn how to express their thoughts and feelings in writing. Emphasis is placed on the specific traits of the 6- Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. Students also review the 5-step writing process as they practice the skills of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each unit also includes instruction in the Greek roots of common English words. In English 10A students are guided through the 5-step writing process for each of the major types of writing: expository, persuasive, expressive, research, and functional. The writing projects center on each of the five major types. Students will receive comprehensive instruction on the various structures and styles of writing. Students are expected to produce original high quality examples of each of the major types of writing. Writing samples are graded against the 6-Traits of Writing.

English 10 – S2

Course Code: OEN073/273
State Code: 01002
Grades: 10th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: Language Arts 9
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: In English 10B, students broaden their reading experience with exposure to literature from around the world. Students are given vast exposure to a variety of reading samples, and are encouraged to connect and relate to the various authors and cultures within the contexts of the passages and works Reading strategies, the literary elements, and new vocabulary and Latin roots are introduced. In addition, students are guided through an active reading process in preparation to prepare them for high-stakes testing which will assess their abilities to make inferences, comprehend, and analyze a variety of reading materials. Students are expected to respond to assigned reading materials in a variety of activities and manners. Students will be graded on their abilities to review, summarize, analyze, connect, and respond to reading materials. Additionally, students will practice important reading strategies such as determining the meaning of unfamiliar words. They will produce an independent vocabulary assignment as evidence of their familiarity with these strategies. Students are also expected to create original materials in an effort to grasp the complexity of the genres.

Honors English 10 – S1

Course Code: OEN074/274
State Code: 01002
Grades: 10th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Language Arts 9 or Honors Language Arts 9
Graduation Requirement: Art/OCCED/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: In English 10 semester 1, students learn how to express their thoughts and feelings in writing. Emphasis is placed on the specific traits of the 6-Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. Students also review the 5-step writing process as they practice the skills of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each unit also includes instruction in the Greek roots of common English words. In English 10A students are guided through the 5-step writing process for each of the major types of writing: expository, persuasive, expressive, research, and functional. The writing projects center on each of the five major types. Students will receive comprehensive instruction on the various structures and styles of writing. Students are expected to produce original high quality examples of each of the major types of writing. Writing samples are graded against the 6-Traits of Writing.

Honors English 10 – S2

Course Code: OEN074/274
State Code: 01002
Grades: 10th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: Language Arts 9 or Honors Language Arts 9
Graduation Requirement: Art/OCCED/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: In English 10 semester 2, students broaden their reading experience with exposure to literature from around the world. Students are given vast exposure to a variety of reading samples, and are encouraged to connect and relate to the various authors and cultures within the contexts of the passages and works Reading strategies, the literary elements, and new vocabulary and Latin roots are introduced. In addition, students are guided through an active reading process in preparation to prepare them for high-stakes testing which will assess their abilities to make inferences, comprehend, and analyze a variety of reading materials. Students are expected to respond to assigned reading materials in a variety of activities and manners. Students will be graded on their abilities to review, summarize, analyze, connect, and respond to reading materials. Additionally, students will practice important reading strategies such as determining the meaning of unfamiliar words. They will produce an independent vocabulary assignment as evidence of their familiarity with these strategies. Students are also expected to create original materials in an effort to grasp the complexity of the genres.

English 11 – S1

Course Code: OEN052/252
State Code: 01003
Grades: 11th
Length: Semesters
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 10
Required Novels: The Scarlet Letter
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: English for grade 11 is an American Literature course, with units organized chronologically according to periods in literary history. As students read foundational works of literature and other historical documents written between 1600 and 1900, they’ll review and extend skills in five domains: analyzing literature, analyzing informational text, writing, speaking and listening, and language study, which includes word knowledge and grammar skills. Each module or unit begins with a lesson that provides historical context for the era and introduces themes that emerged in the literature of that era. Each lesson provides students with an opportunity to review basic analysis skills before applying those skills to works of literature or key historical documents. Lessons focused on more difficult historical documents include activities that help students comprehend the complex ideas in these works. Writing modes addressed in Semester A of this course include narrative, reflective, persuasive, and analytical modes. Assignments emphasize the use of details, evidence, and reasoning to support ideas; writing lessons include model essays that demonstrate key features of each mode. The speaking and listening lessons in Semester A cover rhetoric, the peer review or writing workshop process, and performance skills. Vocabulary development instruction is integrated into literature and informational text lessons. Each unit ends with an authentic assessment that presents students with a real-world scenario requiring some of the skills they learned in the unit.

English 11 – S2

Course Code: OEN052/252
State Code: 01003
Grades: 11th
Length: Semesters
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 10
Required Novels: The Great Gatsby
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: Semester 2 of English 11 consists of units focused on historical eras and literary movements of the 20th and 21st century, such as Naturalism, Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance, and Post- modernism. Literature analysis lessons in semester B focus on the forms of literature that were most commonly written during the Twentieth Century and how the forms, styles, and techniques of that century inform literature written today. Students will also evaluate various modes and forms of language expression, including single media and multimedia messages. Writing and informational text lessons guide students through the stages of a rigorous research process and demonstrate how to evaluate, integrate, and share the information gathered during research. Students are required to share their ideas and analysis using several different modes, including oral and multimedia presentations.

Honors English 11 – S1

Course Code:
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Grades: 11th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 10 or Honors English 10
Required Novels: The Scarlet Letter
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: Honors English for grade 11 is an American Literature course, with units organized chronologically according to periods in literary history. As students read foundational works of literature and other historical documents written between 1600 and 1900, they’ll review and extend skills in five domains: analyzing literature, analyzing informational text, writing, speaking and listening, and language study, which includes word knowledge and grammar skills. Each module or unit begins with a lesson that provides historical context for the era and introduces themes that emerged in the literature of that era. Each lesson provides students with an opportunity to review basic analysis skills before applying those skills to works of literature or key historical documents. Lessons focused on more difficult historical documents include activities that help students comprehend the complex ideas in these works. Writing modes addressed in Semester A of this course include narrative, reflective, persuasive, and analytical modes. Assignments emphasize the use of details, evidence, and reasoning to support ideas; writing lessons include model essays that demonstrate key features of each mode. The speaking and listening lessons in Semester A cover rhetoric, the peer review or writing workshop process, and performance skills. Vocabulary development instruction is integrated into literature and informational text lessons. Each unit ends with an authentic assessment that presents students with a real-world scenario requiring some of the skills they learned in the unit.

Honors English 11 – S2

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Grades: 11th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 10 or Honors English 10
Required Novels: The Great Gatsby
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: Semester 2 of Honors English 11 consists of units focused on historical eras and literary movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Naturalism, Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance, and Post-Modernism. Literature analysis lessons in semester B focus on the forms of literature that were most commonly written during the Twentieth Century and how the forms, styles, and techniques of that century inform literature written today. Students will also evaluate various modes and forms of language expression, including single media and multimedia messages. Writing and informational text lessons guide students through the stages of a rigorous research process and demonstrate how to evaluate, integrate, and share the information gathered during research. Students are required to share their ideas and analysis using several different modes, including oral and multimedia presentations. As in Semester A, the second semester of Honors English 11 provides additional challenging assignments aimed at preparing college-bound students for advanced work in the study of literature and language arts.

English 12 - S1

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Grades: 12th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 11
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: English 12, Semester 1 focuses on British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period up to Romanticism. Students will analyze how the English language evolved over time and how events of the time influenced the writings for each period. Epics, short stories, poetry, drama, and essays will be analyzed in depth to enrich students’ comprehension. Each module includes a style of composition for students to explore with the help of student examples to act as a guide.

English 12 - S2

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Grades: 12th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: Honors English 11 or English 11
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Required Novels: The Scarlet Letter
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: Semester 2 continues with the Victorian era to Modernism of British Literature. Students will explore fiction and nonfiction of the Victorian Era in addition to applying what they have learned from the course to the study of a novel. The course ends with students practicing and polishing their public speaking and performance skills.

Honors English 12 - S1

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Grades: 12th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: Honors English 11 or English 11
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Required Novels: The Great Gatsby
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: Semester 1 focuses on British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period up to Romanticism. Students will analyze how the English language evolved over time and how events of the time influenced the writings for each period. Epics, short stories, poetry, drama, and essays will be analyzed in depth to enrich students’ comprehension. Each module includes a style of composition for students to explore with the help of student examples to act as a guide. As an Honors course, emphasis will be placed on additional reading and writing project-based instruction. Students will integrate the 6-Traits of Writing (i.e., ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions) to all of their writing.

Honors English 12 - S2

Course Code:
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Grades: 12th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: Honors English 11 or English 11
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Required Novels: The Great Gatsby
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: Semester 2 continues with the Victorian era to Modernism of British Literature. Students will explore fiction and nonfiction of the Victorian Era in addition to applying what they have learned from the course to the study of a novel. The course ends with students practicing and polishing their public speaking and performance skills. As an Honors course, emphasis will be placed on additional reading and writing project-based instruction. Students will integrate the 6-Traits of Writing (i.e., ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions) to all of their writing.

AP English Language Composition – S1

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Grades: 11-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 9, 10, & 11
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: This course helps students prepare to take the Advanced Placement Language and Composition Exam ™ administered by the College Board. The first semester focuses on the concepts and skills needed to analyze argumentative texts and to build solid arguments—starting with the choices that experienced authors make when they write to persuade an audience. Students learn and apply best practices for constructing, revising, and refining their own arguments. Writing assignments in semester A include rhetorical analyses of straightforward written arguments as well as satirical texts and visual approaches to persuasion. Students will be asked to develop several formal argumentative essays and also to practice new skills by writing less formal journal entries throughout the semester. The pace and level of work required by this course is similar to that required in a college-level composition course, so students should be prepared to work independently and to complete all assignments in a way that makes good use of their time.

AP English Language Composition – S2

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Grades: 11-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 9, 10, & 11
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: The second semester of AP English Language and Composition focuses on writing tasks that require synthesis and documentation. Students will analyze many examples of synthesis essays and apply what they learn as they create their own texts based on multiple sources. They will also take a closer look at the use of visual and multi-modal or multimedia evidence when used as support for an argument, and they’ll consider how to incorporate these unique approaches into their own attempts at persuasion. Semester B will ask students to work toward improving and refining the style with which they deliver arguments, including the use of rhetorical devices, varied syntax, and grammatical concepts essential to academic discourse. Writing assignments in semester B include the analysis and construction of multimedia arguments, studies in style, and research-based projects that require the synthesis of information and ideas. As in semester A, the pace and level of work required by this course is advanced and substantial, so students should be prepared to work independently and thoroughly on all assignments.

AP English Literature & Composition – S1

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Grades: 11-12
Length: semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 9 & 10
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: Both semesters of online AP English Literature and Composition have been designed to challenge students to read and interpret a wide range of literary works. This course allows students to explore a variety of genres and literary periods and to write clearly about the literature that they encounter. By the end of the second semester, the student will be well prepared for the AP examination and will have acquired analytical skills that will be used throughout life. The first semester of this course focuses on the elements of fiction. The student will spend a considerable amount of time reading and analyzing a variety of short stories and novels. The student will evaluate how the elements of plot analysis, characterization, theme, point of view, symbolism, allegory, irony, and humor work together to create a story or novel that is worthy of literary acclaim. In addition to reading, the student will complete a wide variety of writing pieces in order to develop better writing skills in the following areas: narrative, exploratory, expository, and argumentative.

AP English Literature & Composition – S2

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Grades: 11-12
Length: semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 9 & 10
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: Both semesters of online AP English Literature and Composition have been designed to challenge students to read and interpret a wide range of literary works. This course allows students to explore a variety of genres and literary periods and to write clearly about the literature that they encounter. By the end of the second semester, the student will be well prepared for the AP examination and will have acquired analytical skills that will be used throughout life. The first semester of this course focuses on the elements of fiction. The student will spend a considerable amount of time reading and analyzing a variety of short stories and novels. The student will evaluate how the elements of plot analysis, characterization, theme, point of view, symbolism, allegory, irony, and humor work together to create a story or novel that is worthy of literary acclaim. In addition to reading, the student will complete a wide variety of writing pieces in order to develop better writing skills in the following areas: narrative, exploratory, expository, and argumentative. Throughout the course, you will meet the following goals:

• Analyze and interpret samples of good writing in a variety of genres, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques.

• Apply effective strategies and techniques in his or her own writing.

• Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience.

• Demonstrate an understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylist maturity by using:

  • a wide-ranging vocabulary with denotative accuracy and connotative resourcefulness.

  • a variety of sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordinate and coordinate constructions.

  • logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques of coherence such as repetition, transition, and emphasis.

  • a balance of generalization with specific illustrative detail.

  • effective rhetoric, consistent voice, and emphasis through parallelism, and antithesis.

• Write in a variety of genres and contexts, both formal and informal, employing the appropriate conventions.

• Produce expository and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate, specific evidence, convincing explanations, and clear transitions.

• Move effectively through the stages of the writing process with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing, and review.

Creative Writing – S1

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Grades: 11-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 9 & 10
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: At the beginning of the semester, students consider the importance of word play exercises in improving their facility with language while building a compelling and creative writing style. Focusing on word nuances and precision, later lessons guide students to write in a variety of short modes—including poetry, song lyrics, prose poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction. There are several opportunities for peer review in this semester, during which students learn best practices for participating in writing workshops, and then revise their work using feedback from their peers.

Creative Writing – S2

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Grades: 11-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 9 & 10
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: This semester focuses on longer works of fiction: short stories, plays, and novels. Students learn basic techniques of plot and character development along with strategies for creating suspense and building a theme, and they have opportunities to write in several different genres. Lessons cover a few special topics as well, including graphic novels, animation, comedy, and improvisation. Students apply what they have learned about writing workshops and revising to the longer pieces of writing they create for this semester.

Contemporary Novels

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Grades: 9-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: none
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: For this course, students will read a set of novels and novellas that were written during the 20th Century and reflect themes common to contemporary literature, such as the ability of the human spirit to rise above seemingly-impossible circumstances. Through creative projects and writing assignments, students will identify and analyze each novel’s themes and also compare and contrast the novels’ treatment of common themes.  Please note that, like most contemporary literature, the novels assigned for this course contain realistic situations and language. In addition to the novels listed, each student will read another contemporary novel of his or her choosing that the instructor must approve. MLA (Modern Language Association) documentation is required on all papers submitted.

Speech

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Grades: 11-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: English 9 & 10
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: This course is an introduction to public speaking that emphasizes the communication process, types of speeches, and argumentation.  The purpose of this course is to prepare students for public speaking situations, decrease speaker anxiety, and provide them with basic principles of research and organization needed for effective speeches.

Journalism

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Grades: 10-12
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Accelerate Education
Credit: .5
Prerequisite: none
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: This course is designed to prepare students for a career in journalism and media. The work in this course will equip students with the critical skills necessary to succeed in high school media, college media, and beyond. Students will read a variety of journalistic material and do a great deal of news writing. Students will also look at journalism from legal, ethical, and historic vantage points. Students can expect to complete numerous writing activities in a variety of styles including editorial, hard news, feature, review, and more. If students participate actively, they will gain tremendous skills that will serve them for the rest of their life. Individual and group projects will also be a part of this class. This course is a project-based course and does not include traditional tests. Unit level understanding is assessed through unit projects.