Program Overview by Year

Year Colors

Complete High School English Packages include
 

1. Composition
2. Literature
3. Vocabulary

Complete High School English 1

OR

Complete High

School English 2

Students may take Years 3, 4, and 5 in any order. One is offered each year on a rotating basis or at the majority request of returning parents and students prior to Fall courses being posted for registration. Students may take one year or all three. Students who begin in 8th grade will have the opportunity to complete all three. Literature courses have NO corequisite.

Complete High School English 1 PLUS

Complete High School English 3/4/5

Complete High School English 3/4/5

Complete High School English 3/4/5

Composition

High School Composition 1 with the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW)

Prerequisite:  None

Credit:             1.0

Covers:

• Stylistic Techniques
• Varied Sentence Openers to Create Sentence Variety      
• Brainstorming & Planning
• Short Story Summary
• Creative Short Story
• Single Reference Summary
• Multiple References Summary
• Creative Essay
• Formal Research Essay
• Intro to MLA & Citations
• Grammar & Punctuation

Prior IEW Student Please Note:  Students are provided original material for source documents.  Thus, if they are reviewing this course, they will be writing from source documents they have not used before.

High School

Composition 2

(The Essay) with IEW

Prerequisite:  High
School Composition 1 

OR

1 PLUS or the Equivalent

Corequisite: High
School Literature 2

Credit:         1.0

Covers: 

• Brainstorming & Generating Ideas
• Organizing
  Thoughts &
  Planning Essays
• Editing Skills
• Grammar &
  Punctuation

• Includes the
  Following Skills/Essays:
• Compelling
  Introductions
• Strong Thesis
  Statements
• Well-Supported
  Logical Proofs &
  Body Paragraphs
• Memorable
  Conclusions
• On-Demand Essays
• Essays
  Answering
  Prompts
• Expository Essy
• Narrative Essay
• Descriptive Essay
• Persuasive Essay
• Compare-Contrast
  Essay
• Rhetorical Analysis
  Essay

…and more

Texts:

NOTE:  See course
description for a
complete list of books
& supplies.

• The Elegant Essay
  by Lesha Myers

• Rhetorical Devices: Handbook and
  Activities for
  Student Writers.
  (Used in Years
  2, 3, 4 in both
  Literature &
  Composition)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

High School Composition 3

Prerequisite: High School Composition 2 

OR the Equivalent

Corequisite:  High School Literature 3

Credit:             1.0    

Reviews Year 2 Topics/Essays & Includes Following Skills/Essays:       

• Formal Argument

• Literary Analysis Essay-Prose
• Literary Analysis Essay-Poetry

• Synthesis Essay
• Rhetorical Analysis Essay

• Research Paper
• College Application Essay
  
  
• Creative Writing

 Texts:

NOTE:  See course description for a complete listing of books & supplies.

• Writing Research Papers (IEW) by Lesha Myers (Used in Years 3 and 5 in both Literature & Composition)

Rhetorical Devices: Handbook and Activities for Student Writers. (Used in Years 2, 3, 4, & 5 in both Literature & Composition)

High School Composition 4

Prerequisite:  High School Composition 2 OR the Equivalent

Corequisite:  High School Literature 4

Credit:             1.0    

Reviews Year 2 Topics/Essays & Includes Following Skills/Essays: 

• Formal Argument

• Literary Analysis Essay-Prose
• Literary Analysis Essay-Poetry

• Synthesis Essay
• Rhetorical Analysis Essay

• Research Paper
• College Application Essay
  
  
• Creative Writing

 Texts:

NOTE:  See course description for a complete listing of books & supplies.

• Windows to The World (IEW)

by Lesha Myers

Rhetorical Devices: Handbook and Activities for Student Writers. (Used in Years 2, 3, 4, & 5 in both Literature & Composition)

High School Composition 5

Prerequisite:  High School Composition 2 OR the Equivalent

Corequisite:  High School Literature 5

Credit:             1.0    

Reviews Year 2 Topics Essays & Includes Following Skills/Essays: 

• Formal Argument

• Literary Analysis Essay-Prose
• Literary Analysis Essay-Poetry

• Synthesis Essay
• Rhetorical Analysis Essay

• Research Paper
• College Application Essay
  
  
• Creative Writing

Texts:

NOTE:  See course description for a complete listing of books & supplies.

• Writing Research Papers (IEW) by Lesha Myers (Used in Years 3, and 5 in both Literature & Composition)

• Rhetorical Devices: Handbook and Activities for Student Writers. (Used in Years 2, 3, 4, & 5 in both Literature & Composition)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

High School
Composition 1 PLUS (IEW)

Prerequisite:  The Course Navigator should show this as the right course

Corequisite:  None

Credit:             1.0

Covers:  This course is the approximate equivalent of the Institute for Excellence’s SICC-Level C and uses those materials. 

It covers the same topics as Composition 1 above, except that it assumes students have been through the course at least once and so focuses mostly on the last 4 topics listed in Composition 1 above.

Literature

High School Literature 1 -Enjoying Literature!

Prerequisite:  None

Corequisite:   None

Credits: 1.0

Course Design-

• Focuses on encouraging the habit of reading for pleasure

• Builds active peer reading community with group activities & discussions

• Miminizes disruptions to the reading process by worksheets and notetaking

• Incorporates student choice of reading material

Covers - 

• Signposts that point to meaning in fiction and poetry

• Introduction to analysis of fiction
• Plot / Theme
• Character
• Point of View
• Literary Techniques & Vocabulary
• Worldview

• Introduction to Analysis of Poetry
  
  
• Introduction to Logical Fallacies & Propaganda as relevant to one of our texts Animal Farm

• Introduction to Worldviews & Literary Movements

• Study Skills

• Time- and self-management Skills

• Note-taking Skills

Texts:

(Please see the list of supplies and books with course descriptions for a complete list and exact editions.)   

A variety of classic short stories and poems to teach literary analysis while students read their choice of books.   These are provided in class. 

Assigned reading includes the following:

• Animal Farm

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• Gospel of John

Worldviews / Literary Movements-

• Theism
• Romanticism
• Deism
• Naturalism
• Islamic Theism

High School

Literature 2 –

Read & Analyze Fiction/Nonfiction (Slant, Spin, and Rhetorical Analysis)

Prerequisite:  High
School Literature 1 OR
the equivalent.

Corequisite:   None

Credits:     1.0 Literature

                  0.5 Logic

                  1.5 Total Credits

Covers: 

• Review of Literary
  Analysis Skills
  
  
• Review of Worldview Analysis Skills
  See Year 1
  
  
• Introduction to
  Rhetorical Analysis

• The Rhetorical
  Situation

• Occasion, Context, Purpose

• Rhetorical Triangle

• Rhetorical Appeals-
  Ethos, Logos, Pathos

• Close Reading

• Analyzing Arguments
  for Soundness & Effectiveness

• Logic
  
  
• Recognizing Spin
  & Bias

• Evaluating reliability
  of sources

• Collaboration & Presentation Skills

Texts:

(Please see the list
of supplies and books
with the course
descriptions for a
complete list and exact editions.) 

• A Selection of
  Classic Short
  Stories & Poetry
  Provided in Class

• Macbeth by  Shakespeare                    
• 1984 by Orwell 

• Student Choice in Nonfiction Materials

• A Variety Of
  Famous Or
  Noteworthy Essays, Speeches, And
  Sermons Provided
  in Class
  
  
• 10 Steps to
  Advancing College Reading Skills

• How to Lie with
  Statistics by Huff
  
  
• Bible

Worldviews / Literary Movements-

• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• Deism
• Theism
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

High School Literature 3/4/5

These courses continue to focus on developing a love for reading.  Students read works from around the world, including poetry, short stories, plays, and the "Great Books," or  classics of each literary period. In addition to examining how an author's choices contribute to tone and meaning, students examine and analyze worldview and literature's function as both an agent for change and a mirror of its historical, philosophical, societal, and cultural contexts. As students consider the wisdom to be gleaned wisdom from each text, they explore the reasons works become classics and the relevance of the themes they encounter to their world and lives today. 

High School Literature  3

World Literature:  11^th-17^th Centuries

Prerequisite:  High School Literature 1 or the Equivalent

Corequisite:   None

Credit:             1.0

Texts:

(Please see the list of supplies and books with the course descriptions for a complete list and exact editions.) 

• The Divine Comedy- Inferno ( Purgatorio, Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
  
  
• Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
  
  
• Henry V by Shakespeare
  
  
• Hamlet by Shakespeare
  
  
• Tartuffe by Moliere

• (Paradise Lost by Milton)

• A variety poems by
• Bocaccio
• Dante
• Donne
• Herrick
• Milton
• Petrarch
• Shakespeare
• Sidney
• Spenser

and others.

• Bible

Worldviews / Literary Movements-

• Medieval
• Renaissance (English)
• Enlightenment
• Deism
• Theism

Reading for Summer Before Class

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

High School Literature 4

World Literature 4:  18^th-19^th Centuries

Prerequisite:  High School Literature 1 or the Equivalent

Corequisite:   None

Credit:              1.0

Texts:

(Please see the list of supplies and books with the course descriptions for a complete list and exact editions.) 

• Frankenstein by Shelley
  
  
• The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Great Expectations by Dickens

• Pride and Prejudice by Austen

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain
  
  
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

• Short Stories & Poetry are provided. Authors & Poets include:
  
  
• Chekhov
• Chopin
• Coleridge
• de Maupassant
• Dickinson
• Dostoyevsky
• Gogol
• Hawthorne
• Melville
• O‘Henry
• Poe
• Rossetti
• Tolstoy
• Whitman
• Wordsworth
• Bible

Worldviews / Literary Movements-

• Romanticism
• Transcendental Movement
• Victorian Period
• Deism
• Naturalism
• Nihilism
• Realism
• Theism

Reading for Summer Before Class

• How to Read Novels Like a Professor

• The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

High School Literature 5

World Literature:  19^th-21^st  Centuries

Prerequisite:  High School Literature 1 or the Equivalent

Corequisite:   None

Credit:              1.0

Texts:

(Please see the list of supplies and books with the course descriptions for a complete list and exact editions.) 

• The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov

• Metamorphosis by Kafka

• The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
  
  
• The Pearl by Steinbeck
  
  
• The Glass Menagerie by Williams
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury

• The Crucible by Miller
  
• Short Stories & Poetry are provided. Authors & Poets include:

• Cummings
• Elliott
• Faulkner
• Faulkner
• Flannery O’Connor
• Frost
• London
• Plath
• Pound
• The Black Mountan Poets
• The Lost Generation
• Yeats
• Bible

Worldviews & Literary Movements-

• The Bloomsbury Group
• Modernism
• Existentialism
• The Beat Generation
• Eastern Pantheistic Monism
• New Age
• Postmodernism
• Post Postmodern
• Theism
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Vocabulary

College Prep Vocabulary 1

Prerequisite:  None

Credits:             0.5

Covers:

• Greek & Latin Roots
• High-Frequency SAT Words
• Tone Words
• Focus on Encountering & Using Words Orally, in Writing, and in Games

 In addition to group activities and games in class, the course builds a knowledge base using research-based online vocabulary tools.

College Prep

Vocabulary 2

Prerequisite:  College
Prep Vocabulary 1

Credit:             0.5

Covers:

• Review Greek
  & Latin Roots &
  Add New Ones
• Review High-
  Frequency SAT
  Words & Add
  New Ones
• Review Tone
  Words & Add
  New Ones
• Focus on
  Encountering &
  Using Words Orally,
  in Writing, and
  in Games

 In addition to group
activities and games in
class, the course builds
knowledge base using research-based online vocabulary tools.

College Prep Vocabulary 3

Prerequisite:  College Prep Vocabulary 2

Credit:             0.5

Covers:

• Review & add Greek & Latin Roots
• Review & add High-Frequency SAT Words
• Vocabulary from Literature Readings
• Focus on Encountering & Using Words Orally, in Writing, and in Games

 In addition to group activities and games in class, the course builds a knowledge base using research-based online vocabulary tools.

College Prep Vocabulary 4

Prerequisite:  College Prep Vocabulary 2

Credit:             0.5

Covers:

• Review & add Greek & Latin Roots
• Review & add High-Frequency SAT Words
• Vocabulary from Literature Readings
• Focus on Encountering & Using Words Orally, in Writing, and in Games

 In addition to group activities and games in class, the course builds a knowledge base using research-based online  vocabulary tools

College Prep Vocabulary 5

Prerequisite:  College Prep Vocabulary 2

Credit:             0.5

Covers:

• Review & add Greek & Latin Roots
• Review & add High-Frequency SAT Words
• Vocabulary from Literature Readings
• Focus on Encountering & Using Words Orally, in Writing, and in Games

 In addition to group activities and games in class, the course builds a knowledge base using research-based online  vocabulary tools