• English 12 Advanced Placement Literature and Composition

    Advanced Placement (AP) English affords high school students the opportunity to study college-level English. Literary studies include classical and contemporary works from Europe, Great Britain, and the United States. College-level composition studies include both impromptu and researched writing activities. Extensive reading is required, as well as a variety of writing assignments throughout the course. Students are also required to pay the fee for the College Board examination prior to the examination date scheduled in May.

    Students receive 1.0 extra quality point for successfully completing this class. Students must take the College Board’s AP exam for weighted credit.

    Prerequisite: Previous English Course
    Fee: $25 plus AP exam fee
     

     

    English 12 

    This course provides 12th grade students with opportunities to enhance their abilities in written and oral communication through studies of composition and British literature. Students study the works of British authors as a basis for literary analysis. Students improve language skills through research activities, original writing, and critical analysis of literature.

    Prerequisite: Previous English 11 
    Course Fee: None

     English 12 Syllabus
     
     
     
    English 12, Advanced
     

    This course provides advanced 12th grade students with opportunities to enhance their abilities in written and oral communication through studies of composition and British literature. Students study the works of British authors as a basis for literary analysis. Students improve language skills through research activities, original writing, and critical analysis of literature.

    Prerequisite: Previous English 11
    Course Fee: None

     
     
     

    Literature through Film (one credit OR one-half credit)

    Literature through Film will analyze the film industry’s adaptations of literature. The literature studied in the class will range from American to British to world. The different literacy genres studied will include myths and fairy tales, short stories, poetry, dramas, graphic novels, non-fiction, and contemporary and classic novels. Students will learn to critically analyze texts through various literary theories and then apply their understanding of the texts’ literary elements to their analysis of the texts’ cinematic versions. The class will compare and contrast the original texts with their film adaptations and analyze the significance of their findings. The class will further develop students’ advanced literacy and film analysis skills, writing skills, and presentation skills. The class will culminate in a group project in which students will script, film, and produce a cinematic interpretation of a selected piece of literature.

    Prerequisite: None
    Fee: None