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Course of Study: English
In English class, students learn to read more alertly and comprehensively, write clearly and accurately, and use oral and written language richly and gracefully. Students also refine their learning skills, grasp of grammar, and appreciation of precise expression. Practical objectives are to write essays several times a week, increase functional vocabularies dramatically, and read works in several genres: novels, poems, and essays. Students read and discuss books including The Old Man and the Sea, To Kill a Mockingbird, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Grapes of Wrath. Vocabulary development is considered primary: the accumulation of a vast number of words and their etymologies and connotations is stressed.
English Teacher Dean Conway