English 11 CP

This course is designed for all students and is grounded in the college and career readiness anchor standards meant to prepare all students for college and career. This course continues building upon students’ literacy and language development through reading, writing, speaking and listening. The course emphasizes the analysis of literary nonfiction along with increasingly rigorous and complex literature including short stories, poetry, and drama. Reading standards are applied to seminal texts from eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century united states history. The course continues developing student writing in informative, argumentative, and explanatory texts for a variety of audiences.