This course is designed to help students read literacy texts, vocabulary and language skills, both oral and written. In addition, the student will write an autobiographical essay and will respond with personal connections to literacy selections.

This course is designed to help students develop grammar mechanics, reading, writing, and comprehension skills. Students will read texts of various literary genres: poetry, novel, drama, and non fiction, and will be able to understand the importance of text structure and understand how authors lives and historical events impact literature. This course also includes instruction on writing argumentative essays as well as strategies in writing research papers, cite sources, do oral presentation, and use proper reference materials for research. In addition, students will also understand the use of euphemism and oxymoron and other literary elements. Also, instructions on proper style formatting following the Modern Language Association Chicago Manual of Style.

This course is designed to help students develop writing and reading skills. Course topics include: Context Clues, Key Vocabulary, Connotation and Denotation, Foreign Words, Recurrent Themes in World Literature, Develop a PromptAudience and Purpose, Analyze Author's Style and Diction, Argumentative Writing.

This course is designed to help students develop grammar mechanics and writing skills. Course topics include: Review Parts of Speech, Pronouns, Modifiers, Sentence Structure, Punctuation, Style Tone and Language, Writing Process.

This freshman-year course is designed to help students develop grammar mechanics, reading, writing, and comprehension skills. Students will have the opportunity to learn across the curriculum as key vocabulary words in this course contain words relevant to Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Arts. In addition, students will read texts of various literary genres: poetry, novel, drama, and non fiction. By this, the students will be able to analyze texts across genres. Emphasis will also be given to the research process, source collection, and the different types of writing: narrative, argumentative, and expository.

The sophomore course, English II, reinforces the skills learned in English I and previous Language Arts courses. Students will also be able to make connections within texts, identify fallacies, and write narrative, argumentative, and expository essays. In addition, students will read texts of various literary genres: poetry, novel, drama, and non-fiction. English II contains the instructions and strategies required in writing research papers. This also includes instruction on proper style formatting following the Modern Language Association and Chicago Manual of Style.

This junior-year English course reinforces the skills learned in English I, English II, and previous Language Arts courses. Students will be able to identify text structure and make inferences about how author's lives and historical events impact literature. This course also includes the instruction and strategies necessary for writing argumentative essays, writing research papers, properly citing sources, preparing oral presentations, and proper use of reference materials. Additionally, students will demonstrate their ability to use euphemisms, oxymorons, and other literary elements.

This is an advanced, senior level course in English designed to provide students the special attention to the analysis of literature and learning different essay formats. In the analysis of literature, students will understand the recurrent themes prevalent in literature and multiple themes that lead to richness in a text. In addition, students will read and analyze the renown themes in US documents and understand how organizational strategies help understand texts better. In grammar and conventions, emphasis will be given on the use of modifiers, sentence structure, and how punctuation marks like parentheses help in clarity.