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.

The course will provide instructional opportunities for recent immigrant students with limited English proficiency. Through comprehensible input, students will accelerate second language acquisition and will be challenged to apply higher order thinking skills in all four language domains. Emphasis is placed on word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension strategies and fluency in order to provide students opportunities…

The course will provide instructional opportunities for recent immigrant students with limited English proficiency. Through comprehensible input, students will accelerate second language acquisition and will be challenged to apply higher order thinking skills in all four language domains. Emphasis is placed on word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension strategies and fluency in order to provide students opportunities…