CourseCatalog-2018-2019 Updated

EXPOSITORY READING AND WRITING (L1550, L1550S)
10 Credits, One Year, Grade 12
This course meets the CSU and UC subject 'b' English college
entrance requirement.
Prerequisite: None.
This college preparatory course was developed by CSU faculty
to help prepare seniors for the reading and writing demands
of their first year in college. Through the integration
of the reading and writing processes, the course fosters critical
thinking and provides a foundation for principled debate
and argument. Course assignments are based mainly on nonfiction
texts and emphasize the in-depth study of narrative,
expository, and argumentative reading and writing. There is
an outside reading requirement for this course. Passage of a
C or better both semesters allows students who have met the
Conditionally Ready Standard on the EAP to not take remedial
college English at CSU’s and many community colleges.
This course may not be repeated for credit.
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION (L1720)
10 Credits, One Year, Grade 12
This course meets the CSU and the UC subject ‘b’ English college
entrance requirement.
Prerequisite: None. However, interested students should
demonstrate strong academic interest, motivation and ability.
Students enrolled in this course are expected to take the
AP test. All students will receive a summer assignment.
This is an advanced and accelerated course in world literature
in which many masterpieces of literature and philosophy
(through novels, poetry, and plays) are discussed and analyzed.
The course provides an opportunity for advanced high
school students to pursue and receive credit for college level
coursework completed at the high school level. Accordingly,
the rigors of the course are intended to be commensurate
with introductory college level composition courses. Students
are trained to be exemplary critical readers, thinkers, interpreters
of literature, effective writers and authors of argument.
Students explore different assumptions and strategies
of literary criticism and are encouraged to formulate their
own theories about literature. Students focus on the writing
skills needed to be successful both in this course and subsequent
college work. Students will use various technologies to
complete coursework and to present their research and conclusions.
This course may not be repeated for credit.
ENGLISH FOR FUTURE TEACHERS (L1570)
10 Credits, One Year, Grade 12
This course has been submitted for CSU and UC subject “b”
English approval.
Prerequisite: None.
This course is designed to provide an introduction to educational
concepts and skills, while also fulfilling the English
graduation requirement. Students will learn about working
with young people, from kindergarten age through high
school, while being exposed to different learning modalities,
how they affect student learning, and how they can best be
used to help students succeed. English content will be covered
through examining literature and how a concept or
theme is studied at elementary, middle, and high school levels,
while also reading nonfiction texts about best classroom
practices. Writing skills will be refined through narrative,
informative/explanatory, and argumentative writing opportunities.
During the course of the year, students will have the
opportunity to work with other students in classrooms at
elementary, middle, and high school levels, along with teaching
lessons of their own design. Students will receive an introduction
to educational pathways at the administrative,
county, and state levels. This course is strongly recommended
for anyone who is entertaining the possibility of working
with young people in the future. This course may not be repeated
for credit.
Elective ELA Courses
These courses may each replace one semester of a required English class,
which a student has previously failed.
These courses may replace one semester of ERWC for any student who graduates
early.
No more than two semester substitutions may be made in the English course
requirements.
Students who have credit for Beginning ELD and Beginning Academic Literacy
may make up to two semester substitutions in the English course requirements.
CREATIVE WRITING (L1520)
5 Credits, One Semester, Grades 10, 11, 12
This course meets the CSU and UC subject 'g' elective college
entrance requirement.
Prerequisite: None. Sophomores should have earned an ‘A’
or ‘B’ in previous Language Arts classes.
This course is designed to improve the writing process of the
committed student writer in the area of creative expression
through short story and poetry. Student work undergoes
extensive peer and teacher response. Expectations are rigorous;
students are expected to write and to read for several
hours per week outside of class. Students are required to
produce a finished original piece of writing every two weeks.
Students will use word processing and e-mail as tools in the
classroom. This course may be repeated for credit.
HUMANITIES (L1510)
5 Credits, One Semester, Grades 11, 12
This course meets the CSU and UC subject 'b' English college
entrance requirement.
Prerequisite: 11th or 12th grade status.
Several masterworks of world literature, visual art, plays,
poems and prose writings form the basis of a program of
discussion and composition. Mini-courses in the appreciation
of painting, sculpture, music and architecture are included.
Homework will be assigned. A project involving an oral and
written report must be completed. Outside of class reading
will be required. Vocabulary development will be an element
of the course. Students will use word processing and e-mail
as tools in the classroom. This course may not be repeated
for credit.
JOURNALISM (L1530)
10 Credits, One Year, Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
This course meets the CSU and UC subject 'g' elective college
entrance requirement.
Prerequisite: None.
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