This writing course is designed especially to challenge the imagination and creativity of the student by encouraging spontaneity of expression by increasing awareness of the power of language, and by refining the individual original characteristics of language style in such literary types as short stories, poetry and nonfiction writing.

This course is designed to increase the student’s ability to use English effectively in practical situations. It emphasizes sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, and different forms of oral and written communication needed to function in the business world. The reading assignments are directed toward the need for clear communication.

This course offers an opportunity to read and explore several literary works by and/or about women. The poems, stories, essays, and novels covered in this course provide valuable insights into the changing role of women in literature and offer a sharply focused perspective on what it means to be a contemporary woman.

This course explores the creative ideas that have shaped our culture from the Ancient Greek Pre- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the twentieth-century existentialists. With the core consisting of Western ideas, time will also be devoted to exploring our parallels with Asian and Middle Eastern philosophies. The student’s thinking skills will be sharpened through lecture…

This is a literature-intensive course aimed at, but not limited to, the college-bound senior. The course offers a comprehensive view of the origins and history of the Elizabethan age, and of the modern English language through a focus on the major literary types of this period, including the ballad, the sonnet, and drama. Extensive study…

This course, a survey of World literature, integrates writing and language concepts and skills as well as literature and reading concepts and skills. This course includes intensive writing instruction and provides the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills necessary for college entrance.

This course concentrates on exposing the student to the creative achievements in literature, art, architecture, music and philosophy (LAMP) throughout Western Civilization. Critical thinking skills are developed through analysis of the relationship of these creative forms of expression through reading, written and oral response, class discussion, and audio/visual presentations. Concert and museum field trips after…

This advanced, college-level course is a chronological study of world and European literature presented from college-level texts. Through analytical, oral, and written examinations of poetry, essays, short stories, drama, and the novel, the student explores the nature of society. After completing this course, students are encouraged to take the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition…

This course requires students to read and deeply analyze a wide variety of genres including fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction texts including informational and argumentative as well as digital/multi-modal texts. Students will utilize their understanding of genres read and the best examples of the author’s craft in a variety of genres to generate written texts…

This one-semester course is an SAT preparation course that emphasizes vocabulary development, writing skills, and comprehension skills needed to excel on the SAT. The curriculum also provides practice in improving reading rate, reading flexibility, and study skills needed for college success.