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English 9 – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN002/202
State Code: 01001
Grades: 9th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: This freshman-year English course invites students to explore diverse texts organized into thematic units. Students engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts, both classic and contemporary. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and literary nonfiction, students master comprehension and literary-analysis strategies. Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are activities that encourage students to strengthen their oral language skills and produce clear, coherent writing. Students read a range of classic texts including Homer’s The Odyssey, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” They also study short but complex texts, including influential speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Contemporary texts by Richard Preston, Julia Alvarez, and Maya Angelou round out the course.
Honors English 9 – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN003/203
State Code: 01001
Grades: 9th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: This freshman Honors English course invites students to explore a variety of diverse and complex texts organized into thematic units. Students will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts, both classic and contemporary. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and literary nonfiction, honors students will master comprehension, use evidence to conduct in-depth literary analysis, and examine and critique how authors develop ideas in a variety of genres. Interwoven throughout the lessons are activities that encourage students to strengthen their oral language skills, research and critically analyze sources of information, and produce clear, coherent writing. In addition to activities offered to students in core courses, honors students are given additional opportunities to create and to participate in project-based learning activities, including writing a Shakespearian sonnet and creating an original interpretation of a Shakespearian play. Honors students will read a range of classic texts, including Homer’s The Odyssey, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” Students will also read Sue Macy’s full length nonfiction work Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), and will study a variety of short but complex texts, including influential speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. Contemporary texts by Richard Preston, Julia Alvarez, and Maya Angelou round out the course.
English 10 – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN073/273
State Code: 01002
Grades: 10th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: his sophomore-year English course invites students to explore a diverse selection of world literature organized into thematic units. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, students learn essential reading comprehension strategies and engage in literary analysis and evaluation of both classic and contemporary works. Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are activities that encourage students to strengthen their listening and speaking skills and produce clear, coherent writing. Throughout the course, students read a range of classic and contemporary literary texts including Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. In addition to reading a wide range of literary texts, students read and analyze complex informational and argumentative texts including Sonia Sotomayor’s A Latina Judge’s Voice, Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, and the contemporary informational text Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science.
Honors English 10 – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN074/274
State Code: 01002
Grades: 10th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: Art/OCCED/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: This sophomore-year Honors English course provides engaging and rigorous lessons with a focus on academic inquiry to strengthen knowledge of language arts. Honors reading lessons require analyzing complex texts, while concise mini-lessons advance writing and research skills to craft strong, compelling essays and projects. Students will write argumentative and analytical essays based on literary texts, as well as an informative research paper using MLA style. Throughout the course, students read a range of classic and contemporary literary texts including Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, and Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis.” In addition to reading a wide range of literary texts, students read and analyze complex informational and argumentative texts including Sonia Sotomayor’s “A Latina Judge’s Voice”, Niccolò Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, and the contemporary informational text “Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science.”
English 11 – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN052/252
State Code: 01003
Grades: 11th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: This first semester of a junior-year English course invites students to delve into American literature from early American Indian voices through contemporary works. Students engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts as the centerpieces of this course. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, students master comprehension and literary analysis strategies. Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are tasks that encourage students to strengthen their oral language skills and produce creative, coherent writing. Students read a range of short but complex texts, including works by Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King, Jr., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amy Tan, and
Dave Eggers.
Honors English 11 – S1 & S2
Course Code: DEN047/247
State Code: 01003
Grades: 11th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, Honors, online
Description: his junior-year Honors English course invites students to delve into American literature from early American Indian voices through contemporary works. Students will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts, the centerpieces of this course. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, students will master the comprehension and literary analysis strategies that the Common Core State Standards require. Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are tasks that encourage students to strengthen their oral language skills and produce creative, coherent writing. Students will read a range of short but complex texts, including works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Martin Luther King, Jr., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, and Dave Eggers.
English Language Arts 12 – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN053/253
State Code: 01004
Grades: 12th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: Art/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: This senior-year English Language Arts course invites you to explore a diverse collection of texts organized into thematic units. You will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of both classic and contemporary literature. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, you will learn comprehension and literary-analysis strategies. Tasks will encourage you to strengthen your oral language skills and produce creative, coherent writing. You will read a range of classic texts including the ancient epic “Gilgamesh”, William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” You will study short but complex texts, including essays by Jonathan Swift and Mary Wollstonecraft, and influential speeches by Queen Elizabeth I and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Modern and contemporary texts by Rabindranath Tagore, Seamus Heaney, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Derek Walcott round out the course. This course is designed for students who are interested in continuing the study of English Literature in college.
Expository Reading & Writing – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN128/228
State Code: 01999
Grades: 11th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edmentum
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: This elective English course is designed to develop critical reading and writing skills while preparing high school students to meet the demands of college-level work. While students will explore some critical reading skills in fiction, poetry, and drama the focus of this course will be on expository and persuasive texts and the analytical reading skills that are necessary for college success. Students will read a range of short but complex texts, including works by Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jr., Langston Hughes, Julia Alverez, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Gary Soto.
AP English Language & Composition – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN122/222
State Code: 01005
Grades: 11th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Approval needed
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: In this introductory college-level course
designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement exam, students advance their understanding of rhetoric and writing through the reading, analyzing, and writing of rhetorical texts. Throughout the course, students explore the basic tenets of writing and argumentation, such as rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style. Students will read and analyze a variety of nonfiction genres, including essays, journalism articles, political writings, science writings, nature writings, autobiographies, biographies, diaries, speeches, history writings, and criticisms from multiple perspectives and backgrounds. The primary focus is on writing evidence-based analytical, synthesis, and argumentative essays and analyzing the rhetorical choices of a wide range of nonfiction writers. In addition to explicit instruction and a variety of independent and collaborative learning opportunities, the course offers specific exam preparation lessons and practice.
AP English Literature & Composition – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN035/235
State Code: 01006
Grades: 11th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Approval needed
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: In this introductory college-level course designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement exam, students develop the fundamentals of literary analysis and introductory college compositions. The course focuses on analyzing, evaluating, and interpreting literary fiction, poetry, and drama from a range of literary periods, authors, and perspectives. The diverse canon allows students to explore the function of character, setting, structure, narrator, and figurative language. Through a wide range of instruction and collaborative writing activities, students articulate their interpretation of literature through writing. The course includes exam preparation and practice that anticipates common student misconceptions.
Business English – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN007/207
State Code: 01998
Grades: 12th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edmentum
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: none
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: CADR, online
Description: Business English first semester is designed to strengthen your ability to read and write in the workplace. The first unit introduces the business writing process. In the second unit, you’ll learn about writing emails and instant messages, as well as examining the role that digital media plays in business. The third unit covers how to format and write specific types of business messages. Business English, Semester two is designed to strengthen your ability to read, write, and communicate in the workplace. In the first unit, you’ll learn about different kinds of workplace documents you may need to read or write on the job. The second unit introduces you to the design and visual components of workplace documents along with strategies for giving business presentations. The third unit focuses on the role that professional and interpersonal skills play in the workplace. In the fourth unit, you’ll learn strategies that will help you find and apply for jobs.
Creative Writing – S1 & S2
Course Code: OEN024/224
State Code: 01104
Grades: 11-12th
Length: Year-long
Online Platform: Edmentum
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: English I & II
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: Students will become acquainted with the various devices and techniques writers use in writing poetry, personal essays, and short fiction. This class covers various modes of creative writing, including short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Through extensive reading of corresponding literature, students will analyze the aspects of creative writing including plot development, characterization, utilizing figurative language, imagery, and effective narration. Students will incorporate these skills into their own writing. In this course, students will become acquainted with the various devices and techniques writers use in writing poetry, personal essays, expository writing, argumentative writing, and short fiction; revision and peer review will be taught as key components to the writing process.
Gothic Literature
Course Code: OEN181
State Code: 01065
Grades: 11th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Plato Courseware
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: This one-semester course has 14 lessons, plus five Course Activities. Each lesson contains one or more Lesson Activities. It explores different conventions, themes, and elements of Gothic literature through the analysis of representative literary works, such as Emily Dickinson’s poems about mortality and spirituality, Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short stories, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Robert Browning’s Gothic poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Gothic drama, “The Cenci”, Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel, “Frankenstein”, Gothic parodies and Gothic subgenres, and modern Gothic literature. You will submit documents to your teacher, and you will grade your work in the Lesson Activities by comparing them with sample responses. The Course Activities and the Lesson Activities (self-checked) are the major components of this course. There are other assessment components, namely the mastery test questions that feature along with the lesson and an end-of-semester test. These mastery test questions are a combination of multiple-choice questions and technology enhanced (TE) questions.
Media Literacy
Course Code: OEN081
State Code: 05263
Grades: 12th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Apex Learning
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: Media Literacy teaches students how to build the critical thinking, writing, and reading skills required in a media-rich and increasingly techno-centric world. In a world saturated with media messages, digital environments, and social networking, concepts of literacy must expand to include all forms of media. Today’s students need to be able to read, comprehend, analyze, and respond to non-traditional media with the same skill level they engage with traditional print sources. A major topic in Media Literacy is non-traditional media reading skills, including how to approach, analyze, and respond to advertisements, blogs, websites, social media, news media, and wikis. Students also engage in a variety of writing activities such as blogging and podcast scripting. Students consider their own positions as consumers of media and explore ways to use non-traditional media to become more active and thoughtful citizens. Students learn how to ask critical questions about the intended audience and underlying purpose of media messages, and study factors which can contribute to bias and affect credibility. This course is built to state standards and informed by The National Association for Media Literacy Education’s Core Principles of Media Literacy Education.
Mythology and Folklore
Course Code: OEN110
State Code: 01099
Grades: 12th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Plato Courseware
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: ENG/GE
Course Designation: online
Description: This one-semester course is intended for you to familiarize yourself with various myths, legends, and folklore from around the world. This course has 15 lessons and five Course Activities. Each lesson contains one or more Lesson Activities. In Mythology and Folklore, you will describe myths related to the creation of the world, the natural elements, and the destruction of the world. You will identify the main characters of various dynastic dramas, love myths, and epic legends and describe their journeys. You will trace the evolution of folklore and describe folktales from around the world. Your teacher will grade your work on the Course Activities, and you will grade your work on the Lesson Activities by comparing them with the given sample responses. The Course Activities (submitted to the teacher) and the Lesson Activities (self-checked) are major components of this course. There are other assessment components, namely the mastery test questions that feature along with the lesson and an end-of-semester test. These tests are a combination of simple multiple-choice questions and technology-enhanced (TE) questions.
