Course Code: 150110, 150120
Grade Level: 9
Prerequisite: English 8 or English 8
Advanced Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: English 9 P is a comprehensive English language arts program which focuses on responding to literature through reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This course teaches the ELA and ELD standards and provides both integrated and designated ELD for all EL students enrolled in this course who are not enrolled in an additional ELD section.

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Course Code: 150210, 150220
Grade Level: 9
Prerequisite: English 8 A, English 8 ACC, or teacher recommendation
Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: English 9 H is an accelerated English/language arts program which hones competencies in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. English 9 H is a literature-based course, which emphasizes the writing process, both creative and expository. This course is designed to improve students' ability to think critically through interpretation of literature. Career Education objectives will be included in this course.

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Course Code: 151110, 151120
Grade Level: 10
Prerequisite: English 9 P or English 9 H
Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: English 10 P is a world literature survey class. Students will read short stories, nonfiction, novels, drama, and poetry focusing on interpretation of the literature through essay writing and discussion. Speech, creative writing, and research paper units are included. English 10 P emphasizes the writing process and grammar through usage for lifetime communication skills. Career Education objectives will be included in this course. This course teaches the ELA and ELD standards and provides both integrated and designated ELD for all EL students enrolled in this course who are not enrolled in an additional ELD section.

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Course Code: 151210, 151220
Grade Level: 10
Prerequisite: English 9 P, English 9 H
Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: English 10 H is an accelerated world literature class focusing on analysis of literature through writing essays and discussion. Students will apply principles of organization, clarity, purpose, audience, usage, mechanics, diction, and spelling in their compositions. Students will generate original theses supported by evidence. Units on creative writing (short stories and poems), the research paper, and speech are included. Career Education objectives will be included in this course.

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Course Code: 152110, 152120
Grade Level: 11
Prerequisite: English 10 P or English 10 H
Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: English 11 P surveys American literature from 1604 to the present. The course will focus on literary analysis through research, composition, and discussion. Students will write formal and informal essays, conduct research, and participate in oral language activities. This course teaches the ELA and ELD standards and provides both integrated and designated ELD for all EL students enrolled in this course who are not enrolled in an additional ELD section.

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Course Code: 152310, 152320
Grade Level: 11
Prerequisite: English 10 P or English 10 H, teacher recommendation
Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: English Language AP is an advanced class for the high school junior with an emphasis on American literature and composition. Students are involved in both the study and practice of writing and the study of rhetorical and analytical analysis of literature: fiction and nonfiction. Students will learn to use the modes of discourse and to recognize the assumptions underlying various rhetorical strategies. Through speaking, listening, and reading, but chiefly through writing, students will become aware of the resources of language. Each student is expected to take the national Advanced Placement Examination in Language and Composition given in the spring of the school year. Upon successful completion of this test, college credit may be granted.

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Course Code: 153210, 153220
Grade Level: 12
Prerequisite: English 11 P or AP English Language and Composition and teacher recommendation
Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: English Literature AP is an advanced class for the high school senior with an emphasis on British/world literature and composition. Students are involved in both the study and practice of writing and the study of literature. They will learn to use the modes of discourse and to recognize the assumptions underlying various rhetorical strategies. Through speaking, listening, and reading, but chiefly through writing, students will become aware of the resources of language. Each student is encouraged to take the national Advanced Placement Examination given in the spring of the school year. Upon successful completion of this test, college credit may be granted.

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Course Code: 154110, 154120
Grade Level: 12
Prerequisite: English 11 P or AP English Language and Composition and students interested in preparing themselves to pass English placement tests in order to avoid taking remedial English courses in college
Length: Two semesters
College Entrance: Meets one year of UC/CSU (b) English requirement

Description: The goal of this course is to prepare college-bound seniors for the literacy demands of higher education. Through fourteen rigorous instructional modules, students develop advanced proficiency in expository, analytical, and argumentative reading and writing. They are expected to increase their awareness of rhetorical strategies used by writers and apply those strategies to their own writing.

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